Deep on the dancefloor with Marley Marl – WXPN

John Morrison: To start back at the beginning, I take it you started with DJing, before production? How did you get into that? Marley Marl: I was a DJ first, ’cause my brother had a crew called High Fidelity in Queensbridge. It was like a DJ crew and they kept the equipment up in my house sometimes. So, you know, I would be able to like, touch the equipment sometimes or see what it was or be near it. Get the energy from it. [laughs] And that’s how it started for me. Then he went to the service and he left his shit at the crib. I think it was like a few crates of records they left and I started going through the records. He left a little thing that was like a mixer in the crib. So me and the little brothers from the crew got our own crew together. JM: Okay. What kind of records was your brother and them playing? MM: They was playing records like Cymande’s “Bra”. Herman Kelly and Life’s “Dance To The Drummer’s Beat”. Even before that they was rocking like Edwin Birdsong records. It was like a DJ dance crew. Everybody was...