"Hey, not for anything, but who the fuck kills Jam Master Jay? I'm positive it's an industry-motivated killing (what other reason would someone have for busting into a recording studio and whacking him in the head, then walking out? I'm not saying it's an East/West thing, probably just some ass who couldn't get a record deal). But this guy was a hip-hop pioneer. On a list of names of people who did a lot for rap, Jay's comes pretty close to the top. And a turntabilist pioneer, right up there with Afrika Bambatta. If I'm right, and this was somebody in the industry, wtf?
I just saw Jay when he presided over the National DMC tournament this year, just a month or so ago at the Roxy. We'll miss you, Jay.
SEAN'S NOTE: Amen, Kennyb. And how annoying is it that MSNBC is calling him a ""rapper""? He's a DJ! How hard is that to get right? There's only three guys in the band, after all. This is not GusGus. This is not a nine-person Icelandic trip-hop collective. This is like calling Kurt Cobain ""drummer for Nirvana."" You're a major news organization. Get your goddamn facts straight. "