Mark Ronson

It wasn't completely foreign to hip-hop, but nobody played that record in the clubs at that time.

I was at this club called Spy Bar one night, which was one of the first super trendy, exclusive, ultra VIP lounges.

I remember being at the door sometimes and watching Trump get turned away.

It was this place, Leonardo DiCaprio, whatever, the 90s.

It was the place everybody wanted to be.

The DJs there played a lot of rock and roll.

Half of the time I tried to get in and I couldn't get in, but one night I'm in there and

And they play the song, and everybody just starts going crazy and dancing on the couches like it's the fall of Rome.

And I just remember being hit by how powerful that record was.

And this was a crowd that was dancing.

It was very unlike the crowd that I DJed for.

But I remember starting to think, God, I really want to play this at Cheetah, which was the big party on the Monday night, which is where Mike Tyson and Janet Jackson and Missy Elliott, it really was the place.

So I worked out this mix all week where I could play The Benjamins by Lil' Kim and Puff Daddy, which was the biggest song of the time, and go into this rock and roll remix as a transition of that song and then write on the one as soon as Biggie's verse ended, play Back in Black.

And, you know, obviously, like, it was the kind of club that if I played and fallen on my face, like...

it's the kind of place something could get a bottle could be thrown at the booth like you don't really know like it wasn't it wasn't a place where you really wanted to mess around too much so i played the thing and i dropped the record and it's a split second where it's like the crowd is just kind of like huh but it's it's on beat everybody's still dancing and there's no chance to kind of be too judgmental when your body's still moving right and it feels good and by the second time the riff came around

the club just kind of erupted.

Like there was this incredible feeling, like the crowd, like just everyone knowing they were doing something they kind of weren't supposed to be doing.

Like this song that we weren't supposed to be hearing at Cheetah, I was supposed to be playing it.

They weren't supposed to be dancing to it.

And it was just this great moment.