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Transcription: [[background talking, can faintly hear crowd asking questions]]
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
What was that?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
No, I don't, I--

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
When do you practice?

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I really never practice. I've been rapping for, since, phew, a good 5 years.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
How about you Money Man?

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[unknown speaker}
Three.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The answer was three. You need to get a mike, man.
Any other questions? If not, we'll go onto the music here. One more question, right there.

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[[inaudible]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I think they're better on the--

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The question was whether the rappers are better on the east or the west coast.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Really, really I say I don't like to say who's better and who's not better, and in my opinion everybody is good, cause there's just so much talent in the world.

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[[applause]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
One more question, very insistent at the back of the stage, there. What?

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[[inaudible]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I think it's, I think eventually it's going to turn into something as a new music type form because a lot of people are liking it and getting into it, young and old wanna see it performed. It's going to have its stay but eventually, like all things, it's going to come to an end.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Now a real important part of rapping, or I should say adjunct or rapping, of course, is the work of the DJs. Over here on both sides of me, I have 2 DJs.
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One, Grand Wizard Sly, who is the DJ with the scanner voice. The dance group that we've got here at the festival.
[[applause in the background]]
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The other side of Grand Masters of Funk, the partner of these two rappers, we have Cosmic Kev on the Wheels of Steel.
[[applause in the background]]
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We've got about 15 minutes to talk to them about what it is to work the tables, you know a lot of people when they go into clubs or they see rappers and see breakdancers work and know that somebody's over there with two turntables going and they don't really understand exactly what's going into those turntables.

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They see the record spinning, they see a record go on and they're thinking well maybe he runs that record through and lets that record go off and puts another one on. The fact is that what really happens with a good DJ is as much an art as the dancing or the rapping that goes along with it.
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It's an incredible amount of skill that goes into manipulating those turntables to get the exact sounds you want. There's an entire vocabulary built up to explain the ways to mix, to blend, to scratch the records. What we'll do now is first talk a little bit about the equipment, the basic equipment that a DJ must have and why he must have it.
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And then we'll talk with both Sly and Kev and get some examples of the different types of things you do with the turntables. Kev, why don't you start by explaining what equipment a DJ must have.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Well, what equipment a DJ must have is two turntables. Well, you know, well, better meaning is two phonograms. Reason why because of two turn tables, a disk jockey makes sure that the public has nonstop music constantly, no matter what the conditions are or records are, supposed to have nonstop music.
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If, if you have one turntable, and the record player's off, you have to take time out to take the record off and then put another one on, which is not nonstop music. You're supposed to have two turntables. Along with them two turntables, you're supposed to have a mixer.
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A mixer is for, when, for each side of the turntable, for each turntable you operate, it's for the mixed records, scratch mix, or any type of rhythm sound you want to, um, to come out your turntables. Your turntable is really supposed to be used as an instrument for the DJ, for him to make sounds come out and be pleasing to the public, and so forth, and so on.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Now, there are a couple different types of DJ. What Kev is is often called a mixologist. What, uh, we've got over here with Grand Wizard Sly, who'll need to have the mic turned on by the way--

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{unknown speaker}
I'm right here, I'm right here, so.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Okay, okay fine. Grand Wizard Sly is called a broadcaster, and I'll hand my mic to Sly and let him explain what the difference is.