Mark Ronson

And you just get this, like, crazy, like, blowback, this charge from the crowd all going like, oh, at the same time, you know.

They call it the scream, the chant, whatever it is.

And it's like...

Clay or Play-Doh, like the whole crowd is this thing that you're able to mold together.

It's incredible.

It's kind of why I can't stop DJing.

It's like still a feeling that I only get from this one thing, no matter sort of what else I do in my work as a producer.

Yes.

Yes, of course, when I started off DJing, coming from this nice family uptown with a stepdad who was a rock star and my mom who was just larger than life.

She was out in the parties, out in the scene in New York, sort of amazing rock and roll artist mom.

i was horribly embarrassed of all of it but it's probably like more in a teenage way when you're just like oh mom like do you have to come to the club when i'm djing meanwhile everybody thought it was the coolest thing that my mom came to these like hole in the wall basements and clubs but yes i think in this kind of immature way um i thought that that would make me like quote unquote other in this scene uh where we're really like the scene was just about

showing improving i remember funk master flex in an early article in in the new york times and it was like it was i just remember being like this is the nicest thing anyone's ever said i mean it's like he knows it doesn't matter who his family is where he's from he knows how to rock a room like blah blah blah and that was like you know obviously flex at the time is the absolute biggest figure in new york hip-hop but yes i did have advantages that other people

really didn't have, of course, my mom bought me the turntables for graduation.

I had a stepdad who was a musician who nurtured my musical, what I wanted to do as a kid.

So I had to really deal with that and address that really out in the open in the book because of course I had advantages and stuff like that.

But I also worked my ass off and that's kind of like the two sides of the book.

Well, I absolutely didn't know it would work.

So obviously just listening to that song now, it's like anybody with a pulse knows it's pretty undeniable, that record.

It had been sampled by Rick Rubin for the BC Boys.

KRS had sampled it for Boogie Down Production.