Nominated for First Annual Soul Train Music Awards
Music
THE BEASTIE BOYS, LL COOL J, WHODINI and RUN DMC, JERMAINE JACKSON, MIDNIGHT STAR, THE S.O.S. BAND, NEW EDITION, FORCE MD’s, DOUG E. FRESH, KOOL AND THE GANG, CLUB NOUVEAU, MICHAEL COOPER, MC HAMMER, CONFUNKSHUN, TOO $HORT, E-40, EN VOGUE, CHRISTION, ALLEN ANTHONY, MOFESSIONALS, MIKE MARSHALL, TEST OF TIME, SIMILAR ARTISTS:
The Luniz,
Master P,
Puff Daddy,
Janet Jackson,
Terry Ellis,
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Movies
Matrix Trillogy, Boiler Room, Scarface, Godfather 1 & 2, Goodfellas, Vegas, Hustle & Flow, Seven, Casino, Million Dollar Baby, Training Day, HBO's Pimps Up! Ho's Down!, American Pimp, Friday, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, The Five Heartbeats, American Gigolo, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Cool Hand Luke, Alien, Wall Street, Purple Rain, The Warriors, 007-Diamonds Are Forever.
Television
Cosby Show, Saturday Night Live, Soprano's, Deadwood, Chappelle's Show, Flavor Of Love, Run's House, Making The Band, Surreal Life, Behind The Music, Documentary's, VH-1, MTV2, BET, Comedy Central, Spike TV, Court TV ..
Books
Tha Index: The Insiders Guide to the Sampling Game By: Marcus DJ Marcus T" Thompson,Raising Hell : The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay By: Ronin Ro, Flashbacks to Happiness : Eighties Music Revisited by Randolph Michaels
Heroes
All of the great Bay Area Groups, Rappers and Bands (Too Many to list).
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Formed in: 1983 - Berkeley , CA. Members:Michael Marshall, Marcus Thompson, Alex Hill, Kevin Moore Major Tours: RUN-DMC Raising Hell Tour, New Edition Carefree Curl Summer Fest, Jermain Jackson Precious Moments Tour, Midnight Starr Headlines Tour
Here's a little known factoid, the song RUMORS, was written in 1983 by
Marcus Thompson, Alex Hill, Michael Marshall and recorded as a cassette.
demo tape
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The demo was shopped to various music artists, producers, record labels and
even garnered local airplay at the college radio station of the University
of California at Berkeley: KALX 90.7FM before being heard by producer
Jay King (Club Nouveau)in December of 1985. By January 1986, the group
entered the studio to record RUMORS in a marathon 20+ hour recording session.
Rumors hit the airwaves in April of 1986 and was first shunned by
Urban Radio due to it's brash sound and the fact that it was on an independent
black owned record label: Jay Records . Since the group hailed from the
Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area, they promoted it highly in their hometown
and hoped that the local Urban stations would play their hit, none did.
By May of 1986, a young program director named Terry Avery of KKDA 104FM
in Dallas Fort Worth heard RUMORS and added it to the stations play list
and it caught fire! Other Urban Radio stations across the country took
notice and followed suit by adding RUMORS as well.
Rumors then entered the Billboard HOT BLACK/R&B Singles
Charts, and on July 13th of 1986 reached the number #1 spot and held there
for 2 weeks. Rumors also hit Billboard's Top 40/POP charts and
broke the to 10, by reaching the #8 spot.
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Do you guys know that BAY AREA RADIO PASSED ON RUMORS BACK IN THE DAY. It had to swing back up from TEXAS (KDAY radio), as a CHART CLIMBER, for Bay Radio to play it. Same shit going on now. So I'm rolling with INTERNET RADIO, and you guys. For the rest of the day( til midnite), I'm taking email addy's!! I'll send you a free copy to JUDGE FOR YOUR SELF if it should be played on BAY RADIO. You guys vote! SACTOWNRADIO.COM is playing "DRINKS R ON ME" right now!!! Meezybusiness@aol.com
Thanks for adding me.I hope that you will check out my page and hear my demos sometime.Autism and hiphop really afected my life and helped me to find a way to inspire and humor manny people.take care ok!
Check out the Audio Interview with Unknown DJ - The Mystery Man speaks about the Beginning of West Coast Hip Hop – Techno Hop unite – 8 0 8 Beats from Boss Angeles www.westcoastpioneers.com/artists/unknown-dj.html
Hey we are building our friends list on IM and we want you to be on it! You will be able to chat to the band as well as be updated with future Album/EP and Single release's,gig's etc etc. Add request us and we will add you. Thanks MAYZ
Hey Happy New Year !!! We have got a small list of gigs being sorted for next year, so check it out there are more to be confirmed in the UK and in Europe over this next few months!! So we hope to see you soon! Respect MAYZ..
