DJ Envy Reveals Why He Was First NY DJ To Play Tupac’s “Hit Em Up” Diss

DJ Envy recalled how he upset Diddy and The Infamous B.I.G. in an interview with AllHipHop’s Chuck Creekmur. The Breakfast Membership host defined why he was the primary New York DJ to play Tupac Shakur’s diss monitor “Hit Em Up” on a mixtape through the East Coast vs. West Coast feud.

“I obtained that document first, and on the time, it was like I do know quite a lot of DJs weren’t going to play it,” DJ Envy mentioned. “On the time, I used to be behind all people. While you discuss DJs, it was SNS, it was Craig G, it was [DJ] Clue, it was Child Capri, simply within the New York space. And I used to be like, ‘I must get my foot within the door.’ And I used to be like I’m gonna play this document after which we’ll go from there. We’ll see what occurs. So, they gave me the document and I mentioned, ‘That is going to be one of many greatest mixtapes ever.’ And it went loopy. On the time, I do know Huge and Puff was mad, however I used to be getting my foot within the door and it was music. And that’s the place it began.”

DJ Envy is likely one of the govt producers behind a brand new documentary titled Story of the Tape. The movie explores mixtapes’ position in Hip-Hop’s historical past.

“Rising up for us, music was every little thing,” DJ Envy mentioned. “And I feel that was a part of the peak of the mixtape sport. Everyone was a mixtape DJ. We are able to undergo it from Clue to Whoo Child to Drama to you title it, Tony Contact … There was so many mixtape DJs however that was our soundtrack. That was after we began listening to blends and began listening to reducing and began listening to scratching. And we had automobiles. So, we needed these tapes to be for the experience of the automobiles. And I simply thought it was a misplaced artwork the place folks didn’t essentially perceive that.”

He continued, “Proper now … anyone might be a DJ. So long as you should purchase a laptop computer, you is usually a DJ. And that’s what you’re seeing. You’re seeing quite a lot of trash DJs. So, with this documentary, they recount the place the mixtape DJs got here from and the significance of a DJ. And it goes by means of all people from Brucie B to Child Capri to Clue to myself to Drama, to so many. It’s so many DJs, you’ll be able to’t title ’em all. Nevertheless it begins the story of that.”

Story of the Tape is out there to hire on Amazon Prime Video.

Try AllHipHop’s full dialog with DJ Envy under.