DJ AG has built a huge audience by inviting performers such as Skepta to join
him in London and elsewhere
DJ AG knew he was on to something after Daddy Freddy’s performance.
The DJ, real name Ashley Gordon, has garnered more than 385,000 followers by
doing something incredibly simple: playing music outside and allowing people to
perform alongside him while he livestreams the results.
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Tag - Rap
Marking the anniversary, the creators of the rap beef beat-em-up sequel share
memories of transforming Flavor Flav and Snoop Dogg into legendary video game
characters
‘I remember we visited Ghostface Killah [of the Wu-Tang Clan] and he was mad at
us!” recalls Daryl Anselmo, former EA employee and art director for 2004’s
landmark hip-hop-fused beat-em-up, Def Jam: Fight for NY. “Ghostface had a
four-pound solid gold eagle bracelet and he insisted his character’s finishing
move should be this bird coming to life and pecking out all the other rappers’
eyeballs. The limitations of the PlayStation 2 technology and our violence
restrictions meant we couldn’t pull it off. It was impossible.”
The game’s producer Josh Holmes interjects: “When Ghostface first asked me about
the eagle, Lauren [Wirtzer Seawood, another one of the game’s producers] told me
just to nod along and smile. When we saw him again in the studio for the sequel,
I apologised [for misleading him] and we quickly moved on to recording his
character’s expanded insults for the new game. I remember one was: ‘Go home and
cry to your momma. And, while you’re at it, tell her I’m hungry!’”
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