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AIRS MONDAY 3/6/17 AT 9PM (EST) !!!

The first DJ competition I ever attended in person was the 1990 New Music Seminar Battle for World Supremacy. It was a hot summer afternoon in July and I remember standing inside a vacant marque movie theater on 42nd Street, surrounded by DJ legends like Aladdin, Clark Kent, Miz, Pete Rock and Red Alert. I was a NOBODY amongst gods of the Hip Hop DJ Battle scene. No one knew me but I knew everyone. Ice T, Flava Flav, King Sun, Ice Cube, were all there watching the greatest DJs of that era compete for the coveted NMS belt. That day changed the trajectory of my life. For it was watching a dude like DJ Flamboyant from Queens, the borough that raised me, go up against a guy from Italy in Francesco Zappalà, that instilled in me the desire to make my own explicit mark on not just the battle scene, but the genre of DJing as a whole. Eventually, I did that! I just didn't know 26 years later I'd be helping Dan Charnas recreate the 1990 New Music Seminar Battle in episode 3 of his new show The Breaks on VH1 (airing Monday, 3/6/17).

Yup, you read that right. The 1990 NMS Battle for World Supremacy is being recreated on this Monday's episode of The Breaks. If you've competed in a battle, aspire to, are a fan of the genre or you're just curious to know what the energy at DJ battles felt and looked like back then, tune in to the #TheBreaks' #NewMusicSeminar1990 episode on #VH1 Monday night at 9pm (EST).