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In photos: Sasquatch

June 09th, 2010

The day after Detroit Movement festival I hopped on a plane and headed to the gorge in Quincy, Washington to play Sasquatch festival. This is one of the most beautiful sites that I’ve ever performed on. Check this photos… first of the road from Seattle to Quincy and then of the festival itself.

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I’m playing Sasquatch

February 16th, 2010

The line-up for this year’s Sasquatch! festival has been announced! Go check their website. I’m playing on Sunday May 30th. Tickets go on sale Feb 20th.

Here’s an anecdote about Sasquatch: back when I was DJing for Kanye we played this festival in May of 2005. Kanye was just a few weeks away from finishing Late Registration. I hadn’t seen him in a while because he had been in the studio for so long. He was working on “Golddigger” and felt like testing it out live that day even though it wasn’t quite finished. I knew the song before it was recorded. Now that it was coming together, I told him I wanted to lay some scratches. I said “I want to scratch on ‘Get down!’ in that part where you say ‘get down girl, go ‘head get down’.” To prove my point, when we performed the song live (for the first time, with no rehearsal) I grabbed the sample and tried that scratch in front of this festival crowd of thousands. Kanye liked it, we flew to LA a few days later and the rest is history. Check my post from 2005 that shows a pic of the festival followed by a pic of me, Ye and Jon Brion in the studio.

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Common album, Sasquatch & Montreal

June 02nd, 2005

First of all party people while I’ve got your attention, here’s a few things I forgot to mention. (I’m working on a 16.) Common’s album! Cop it. Why, you ask? Because I’m on it, I say. I did the jigga-jiggas on “Chi City” and on “Go”, which is the new single and video. I guess the fact that it’s Common’s best album ever would also be a good reason to buy it. (Oh no you didn’t!)

Second thing: my Dipset song played on Hot97… twice! DJ Enuff played it and frankly I’m not even sure where he got it. But I’m lovin’ it like McDonald’s. I couldn’t believe it.

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