<p>Hip-hop history is important. We&#8217;ve come to love so many of these legendary figures, and value the intricacies of their come-up stories. Earlier today, an interview was brought to my attention by the Murder Master Music Show, in which they linked up with iconic West Coast figure Tony &#8220;The Wizard&#8221; A, DJ for Hi-C and the west coast establishment The Roadium. Now, the interview originally ran in April, but it felt important enough to share a few months down the line, especially for those of you who value tales of this nature. </p>
<p>Speaking with the Murder Master Music Show, Tony reflects on both his own mixtape run <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/why-dr-dre-is-one-of-the-greatest-of-all-time-news.45725.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">and that of Dr. Dre</a>, who both spent time making tapes at iconic West Coast Flea Market The Roadium. &#8220;<a href="/profile/DoctorDre" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Dr. Dre</a> was doing them from 84 to 87, and I took over around 87 to 91,&#8221; explains Tony. &#8220;As a matter of fact, in 1990 when I released my last one, one of the songs that was on <em>[</em>DJ Quik&#8217;s homemade mixtape<em> The Red Tape], </em>the infamous song that dissed MC Eiht, that song was on my tape from The Rodeo.&#8221; </p>
<p>As it happens, many of Da Wizard&#8217;s early tapes featured appearances from a pre-fame Eazy E and Dr. Dre. &#8220;Even though they weren&#8217;t to the magnitude they are now, those guys were real professionals,&#8221; reflects Tony. &#8220;Me being from the streets, and hearing some street shit, I knew this was something the world had never heard of. I didn&#8217;t know it would blow up all over the world, but I knew it would blow in my neighborhood&#8230;I remember asking Dre if he knew it would take off the way it did. He said &#8216;no, but I knew controversy sells, so we went controversial with it.&#8221; </p>
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<h6><em>Tony A speaking on Dr. Dre with The Murder Master Music Show</em></h6>
<p>&#8220;Dre was a very very smart dude, even then when he was just doing mixtapes,&#8221; says Tony. &#8220;He knew the business already. Ten steps ahead of everyone. Every time I went to Sir Jinx&#8217;s house, I never saw Dr. Dre sitting around eating a bag of chips watching TV. He was always on the phone, always on the drum machine, he was always making moves. Eazy E was the same way. He was always showing people his music, his demos.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Dre loved east coast music,&#8221; continues Da Wizard. &#8220;A lot of their beats were sampled from east coast artists. I&#8217;ll take it further, east coast artists love Dre&#8217;s production. I was in the studio when EPMD went there, and Chuck D went there. They wanted Dre to produce some of their songs. The east coast was definitely influenced by Dre. <a href="/profile/Madonna" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Madonna</a>, Michael Jackson, wanted Dre to produce tracks for them. Let me tell you why he didn&#8217;t. Not only because he was signed exclusive to Eazy, but he had so many projects, he couldn&#8217;t. He didn&#8217;t have the time. It was only one goose to lay the golden eggs.&#8221; </p>
<p>Imagine a world where Dr. Dre had linked up with Madonna and MJ? What might have changed? </p>
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