Famed deejay drops beats in Music City
Jasmine Lewis
Contributing Reporter
Issue date: 9/15/08 Section: Arts & Culture
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The party was hosted by The Lovenoise Group and 92Q at Limelight, formerly known as Club 615.
The event not only wrapped up the game day's events, but also a month-long series of events for Lovenoise's five-year anniversary celebration.
"When we first started we didn't have the idea for it to be this way," said LaSalle Chapman, Lovenoise's marketing and promotions partner. "It dawned on us that there was a lack of cultured events.
"Jazzy Jeff came two years ago for a block party at Cummings Station,
Chatman continued. "It's hard to get artists like that here because this is considered a 'C' market and people are not familiar with him outside of Fresh Prince."
Despite a star-studded gala being hosted by Young Buck a few blocks over, The Lovenoise Group's event managed to bring in a crowd of 650 Hip Hop Lovers.
"The Magnificent" DJ Jazzy Jeff proved that there is room in this southern city for northern influenced music and mixing.
At 12:16 a.m., Jazzy Jeff took the Limelight stage following DJ Sound Bwoi.
The crowd that had been laid back immediately stepped on the dance floor for two hours of a 'Touch of Jazz,' which traveled into listening ears.
"It felt so good to hear good music," said recent TSU graduate Myisa Plancq from San Francisco. "Jazzy Jeff brought back the art of DJing.
"Nowadays it's just about playing music," she added. "He brought back the skill."
Jeff - who's not only a DJ but an executive producer for artists such as fellow West Philly resident Jill Scott and Michael Jackson - brings back the old, spinning music from the early 80's to late 90's.
He also incorporated his infamous 'transformer scratch' along with other techniques. Jeff continuously excites his crowd with tracks that every true Hip Hop, R&B or House fan would have memorized.
Along with his hype man, Skillz - a popular rapper and ghostwriter out of the Northeast - the duo continuously reminisces and connects with the young adult to adult crowd through Jeff's deejaying and Skillz's comic relief and commentary.
"I didn't know what to expect," said Grammy award-winning producer Craig King of Nashville. "But I think the turnout was great! Everyone who needed to be there was there!"
As the trendsetting, urban intellect fan base grows large in size and appreciation, Nashville could see a lot more acts such as DJ Jazzy Jeff coming to the area.
"Yeah we've been to Nashville before," Skillz said. "Nashville is definitely hot!" Chatman added, "This is what we wanted to see; 600 plus partying to an old school DJ, without leaving the dance floor."•
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