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Aside from musical mixmaster and producer DJ Vadim, there isn’t anything particularly Russian about the Russian Percussion...
...murdered when he was 8. By age 12 he had escaped his grandmother's supervision and was selling crack. "I wrote rhymes too," he says. "I loved music, but I never saw a way to break into it." In 1996 he met neighborhood legend Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ from Run-D.M.C. From that point until his shooting death last year, Jay acted as 50's mentor and promoter, with an eye toward a future payday. "He was really patient with me," says 50, who was questioned by police following Jay's murder but is not a suspect...
...DJ VADIM AND THE RUSSIAN PERCUSSION. Led by Vadim, one of Ninja Tune’s most elite sample warriors, the highly touted Russian Percussion aim to funkify body and soul with integrated scratching, beatboxing and rhyming. What’s more, world-renowned breakbeat ninja Hrvatski (from Somerville) will provide the opening DJ set at 9 p.m. Flip out. Friday, February 14 at 10:30 p.m. Tickets $10. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
Though he has become a nationally recognized swing DJ and competes at Lindy Hop competitions through the country, Smith hardly misses a Monday night in Cambridge...
Only a year earlier, Lif says, he had begun to “stake [his] claim as an emcee.” Lif and other up-and-comers—including Mr. Turk, 7L and DJ Sense, who features on Colossus—started putting on shows at the Middle East club in Central Square, which flew the flag for Boston...