OG Ron C Spitting Game

Dallas TX, Music Conference

July 1st, 2006. Downtown Dallas, I was staying at the Hyatt Regency hotel, for the Mike Mood Swing’s music conference. I was scheduled to interview TI’s longtime producer DJ Toomp for a now-defunct New York-based magazine. Upon my journey for the producer, I see OG Ron C standing in the halls. I had previously seen him earlier that day.

He was on a panel that featured other esteemed DJs and radio personalities including DJ Toomp. I stopped him and asked if he saw Toomp, he said “no” but agreed to do the interview instead and also share some of Dallas’s finest “Corn.”

This is Part One. Of that exclusive sit down:

Black Truth News: The first thing I want to ask you. The role of the DJ, because you guys have been the backbone of hip hop since day one, has that changed? I mean has the role increased or decreased etc..?

OG Ron C: I’m gone start by saying the game don’t change! Nigger’s do, and that’s just plain and simple! The role of the DJ, niggas is forgetting their role, because they letting other obstacles frustrate them, you know what I’m saying? The role of the DJ is to provide that avenue to get heard, by anybody. That is what a DJ does he provides a way for the artist to get heard.

Black Truth News: At the panel, you guys made a point. It was something I talked to other DJs about frequently. The creative line between breaking a record and your obligation to move the party, it’s that a dilemma for you?

OG Ron C: It’s your creativity you know what I’m saying? Your creativity can also come from breaking records too. Take for instance the conference, when the guy asked what should do, I give the DJ, the instrumental, a cappella, etc. That is done for various reasons because the DJ can be more creative with more tools he got, say for instance your song is not what he wants to hear, but he has you’re a cappella and can put it over one of the hottest beats that are out now, that can still keep his crowd going!

You got your minute and thirty seconds, but if he is good, he can still keep his crowd going, but also have them wondering, who was that? Over such and such beat, so when they see me on the street and asked, who was that you were playing over Jay-Z beat?.. And vice versa, if your lyrics are not that hot, but you got a hot beat, I may slide a Jay-Z verse under there. Just different ways of being creative, but it depends on the DJ.

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