Friday, 10/7
$ MONEYTOWN $
Little Miss Whiskey's Golden Dollar (1104 H St., NE DC)
10pm-3am, no cover
lots and lots of drink options and a killer soundsystem for the serious dancers
w/ DJ Nitekrawler and special guest:
DJ Cash Money
About our guest:
DJ Cash Money (born Jerome Hewlett) is a Philadelphia-based American turntablist, hip-hop artist, and record producer. He was the first inductee into the DJ Hall of Fame.
Hewlett studied engineering at college, but soon shifted his focus to the turntables. He adopted his DJ moniker from the phrase "there's the money shot", which people would yell whenever he threw the ball into the net while playing basketball. Among his inspirations Cash Money lists Grandmaster Flash and Grand Wizzard Theodore, whom he saw in the early 1980s, while artists who count him among their own inspirations include British DJ Fatboy Slim.
He and Jazzy Jeff both emerged from the Philadelphia hip hop scene in the late 1980s. They shared a friendly rivalry and DJ'd parties together as the Kings of Spin. Cash Money perfected the Transformers scratch (along with Jazzy Jeff) which mimicked the robotic sound effects from the mid-80s television cartoon series of the same name. He is also credited with creating the Pee Wee Herman scratch and pioneering the Chirp scratch (aka the Babuggamas scratch).
In 1988, he partnered with MC Marvelous (born Marvin Barrymen) and released the single, "Ugly People be Quiet" (co-produced by Herbie "Love Bug" Azor) and the album, Where's The Party At? on Sleeping Bag Records. Cash Money has also produced and remixed tracks for artists such as Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and Public Enemy.
Cash Money won the New Music Seminar Supermen DJ Battle in 1987 and the DMC World DJ Championships in 1988. He was banned from ever competing again in the DMC World DJ Championships in order to allow other competitors a chance at the title.
Aside from his obvious mixing skills and a love for hip hop, Cash Money has a love for funk & soul. Especially, it turns out, those tunes cut on 45s. In 2005 he made a great mix of some of those gems. Get it here:
http://www.amazon.com/Head-Bangin-Funk-Cash-Money/dp/B001CK1D1C....By now, if you don't believe that this man will tear up Moneytown, I'm sorry......... but you are just wrong. Oh and, come anyways.
