Papoose can be taking up for the late DJ Kay Slay on his Sirius XM present The Drama Hour – and it’s due to the station’s proprietor, LL COOL J.
Forward of his radio premiere on the Rock The Bells station on Friday evening (August 11) at 9pm ET, Pap smoke to TMZ concerning the main footwear he’s filling and the way it took place.
“I’d be a liar if I sat right here and mentioned I do know the place my life could be with out Hip Hop, as a result of Hip Hop saved my life and so many others,” the Brooklyn rapper informed the outlet. “And Kay Slay – he had that very same testimony. Hip Hop saved his life. And the platform that he created is so great! You gotta perceive, so many careers began on The Drama Hour.”
He continued: “The primary time I ever heard Nipsey Hussle was on The Drama Hour. The primary time I ever heard Kendrick Lamar was on The Drama Hour. That Dip Set motion began on The Drama Hour. I may maintain going. Even the G-Unit motion! All of those actions, even when it didn’t precisely begin on The Drama Hour, that’s the place it lived at.”
“That’s the place you continuously seen it and also you heard it constantly. Not simply the radio joints, the favored hits, however that content material that we wanna hear. You recognize what I imply? that genuine Hip Hop. That genuine really feel that we love. My profession positively born on The Drama Hour, bro.”
“Me as a youthful brother, I really feel prefer it’s one thing that wanted to be carried on,” Papoose defined. “So many individuals from all completely different corners of the planet have been like, upset, like, ‘Rattling. It’s over now for Hip Hop, Slay not right here no extra.’ So I’m like you already know what? His platform gotta stay on.”
“So I had that dialog with LL and he’s simply an opened minded particular person. He’s a large within the sport, the primary one to ever use the terminology GOAT. That’s the place that got here from,” Pap famous. “That got here from LL. He understood. As a result of LL and Kay Slay – don’t get it twisted, that they had a really tight relationship as properly. He was on the funeral. He was one of many few who got here by and confirmed love, who really sat by the service and confirmed like to Slay.”
He concluded: “So I knew he would perceive. And I knew how him and Slay rocked with one another and me and him had a dialog and inside that dialog, he understood. He seen the imaginative and prescient. He understands what Kay Slay means to the tradition.”
DJ Kay Slay (actual identify Keith Grayson) died on the age of 55 in April 2022 following a months-long battle with COVID-19. He was laid to relaxation at a memorial service at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater precisely one week later. Fats Joe, LL COOL J, Busta Rhymes, Kool DJ Purple Alert, Papoose, Melle Mel and Remy Ma have been among the many many who confirmed as much as pay their respects.
On Sunday (August 13), a day shy of what would have been his 57th birthday, the DJ Kay Slat is ready to be honored along with his personal road at East a hundred and fifth Road and 1st Ave. in East Harlem. The occasion can be hosted by Papoose, Slay’s supervisor Jarrod “Basic” Whitaker and his niece, Ladi Kutz.
