Funny Biz Markie stories and appreciation thread!
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I saw Biz DJ a couple years ago in Vegas for some private party.
It was some company party held inside what is now Body English. Open Bar, VIP Tables, blah blah blah.
So I roll in there just getting off work and proceed to get Gin & Tonic trashed. Biz is on the decks (rocking CDR's to my dismay) and I was dancing and singing up a storm.
Pretty standard to all your stories so far. "Just A Friend", TV Theme Songs, Belly Fader tricks, etc..
Then the lights come on.
So the party is over and they clearing out the place. Biz is packing up his CD's and he starts walking out of the booth. In a drunken' moment, I rush the booth and call to him "Take Me to the Mardi Gras, Take me to the Mardi Gras" and he stops and looks right at me.
Now mind you the dancefloor is cleared and the majority of people left are all zombie walking to the exits.
Again I yell at him "Take me to the Mardi Gras!", except this time I say "You aint got it. It dont exist. You ain't got it."
At this point he looks right at me and knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Biz gives me a sly smile and turns right around and goes back in to the booth, opens up his CD binder, turns everything back on and proceeds to CUT THE SHIT out of the intro for 5 minutes straight.
The whole time I'm dancing and jumping like a fool and theres maybe 20 left in the club.
Biz finishes, gives me a smile and some daps and is out.
Biz played a song for me.
It was some company party held inside what is now Body English. Open Bar, VIP Tables, blah blah blah.
So I roll in there just getting off work and proceed to get Gin & Tonic trashed. Biz is on the decks (rocking CDR's to my dismay) and I was dancing and singing up a storm.
Pretty standard to all your stories so far. "Just A Friend", TV Theme Songs, Belly Fader tricks, etc..
Then the lights come on.
So the party is over and they clearing out the place. Biz is packing up his CD's and he starts walking out of the booth. In a drunken' moment, I rush the booth and call to him "Take Me to the Mardi Gras, Take me to the Mardi Gras" and he stops and looks right at me.
Now mind you the dancefloor is cleared and the majority of people left are all zombie walking to the exits.
Again I yell at him "Take me to the Mardi Gras!", except this time I say "You aint got it. It dont exist. You ain't got it."
At this point he looks right at me and knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Biz gives me a sly smile and turns right around and goes back in to the booth, opens up his CD binder, turns everything back on and proceeds to CUT THE SHIT out of the intro for 5 minutes straight.
The whole time I'm dancing and jumping like a fool and theres maybe 20 left in the club.
Biz finishes, gives me a smile and some daps and is out.
Biz played a song for me.
were there bells?Again I yell at him "Take me to the Mardi Gras!", except this time I say "You aint got it. It dont exist. You ain't got it."
Well I just wanted to see if there was a 12" of the song.
Like I said, he pulled out a CDR but it was the standard LP version recorded. Bells intact.
I ain't mad though.
Bump to one of the greatest threads about one of the greatest dudes ever.
Forward to the future, Soul Strut.
Forward to the future, Soul Strut.
This is time-capsule shit.
Just remembered I was at the London festival show Thes mentions at the top, although I never caught PUTS that day - I think we got in a little too late. I remember Jeru throwing a tantrum and storming offstage, though. De La, PE and Ice-T were good, but Biz was just off the hinges. My girl's adored him ever since - she still talks about that show.
Just remembered I was at the London festival show Thes mentions at the top, although I never caught PUTS that day - I think we got in a little too late. I remember Jeru throwing a tantrum and storming offstage, though. De La, PE and Ice-T were good, but Biz was just off the hinges. My girl's adored him ever since - she still talks about that show.
that story ended up in another thread didn't it? shame, that made me laugh my ass off. find it and repost chan!What up Preme! What chu know about shopping for gear at the downtown Seattle Army Navy store with Biz and Big Chan? Remember how funny that day was!!!!!! LOL
I also met biz that day, briefly - we had a 40 minute discussion about breaks - everything i named he just went "I WAS THE FIRST TO SAMPLE THAT". what even the skull snaps? I WAS THE FIRST. He said many hella funny things. He showed how to make a tom-tom noise by hitting your head and stretching the skin of your neck. I think the suitcase came up too.
I tried to find the thread where Hawkeye interviews Questlove about the Mardi Gras without the bells to bump it, but no luck. If you haven't seen Questlove go into great detail about this, it's here:
Questlove interview
(including a pretty decent Biz impersonation)
Questlove interview
(including a pretty decent Biz impersonation)
Consider this a semi-bump.
I'm excited to see what Sheep has to say.
I get a random phone call from a couple of excited young white friends. They tell me they got the hookup for a Biz show here in Vegas at the RIO... OF COURSE they ironically want to see Biz. They don't know Biz like I do, but of course I gotta go. Free Biz Markie is an opportunity I can't just skip out on.
The place is this big empty showfloor in the RIO Casino, a theater that used to be Prince's private showroom, but now it's just another waste of space in a Casino. The Biz is up there spinning a boring drakey chingy jeezy rappy serato set.
For some odd reason Biz is spinning at about 9:00 for Vegas this is really really early. He's got the whole mouth open / disinterested facial expression staring into a laptop screen. We take a couple pictures, and he lazily puts his hands up to signify he's in the same room with us.
His Djing sounds exactly like him going through his Ipod on shuffle looking for a song he wants to hear. Not exactly blending or listening to the tracks. Just kind of skipping through tracks. So then he walks off stage for a bit into the audience gives a couple people daps while somebody else gets on the decks and then he just walks out the entrance of the club and leaves.
The elusive Biz Markie strikes again.
- spidey
I'm excited to see what Sheep has to say.
I get a random phone call from a couple of excited young white friends. They tell me they got the hookup for a Biz show here in Vegas at the RIO... OF COURSE they ironically want to see Biz. They don't know Biz like I do, but of course I gotta go. Free Biz Markie is an opportunity I can't just skip out on.
The place is this big empty showfloor in the RIO Casino, a theater that used to be Prince's private showroom, but now it's just another waste of space in a Casino. The Biz is up there spinning a boring drakey chingy jeezy rappy serato set.
For some odd reason Biz is spinning at about 9:00 for Vegas this is really really early. He's got the whole mouth open / disinterested facial expression staring into a laptop screen. We take a couple pictures, and he lazily puts his hands up to signify he's in the same room with us.
His Djing sounds exactly like him going through his Ipod on shuffle looking for a song he wants to hear. Not exactly blending or listening to the tracks. Just kind of skipping through tracks. So then he walks off stage for a bit into the audience gives a couple people daps while somebody else gets on the decks and then he just walks out the entrance of the club and leaves.
The elusive Biz Markie strikes again.
- spidey
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