BANG! @southernvangard #radio presents @dj-rob-swift @brolicarm ROB SWIFT interview session! The Queens DJ legend has a new album dropping very soon, and recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to get it down the home stretch. "X-Files: Lost & Deleted” will be Rob’s first album in 6 years, so we sat down to have a chat with him about it, among other things. Rob recounts his first meetings with some of Queens’ finest - Large Professor & Dr. Butcher, as well as the influence his father and older brother had on him growing up in Jackson Heights - which led way to Rob’s DJ/producer/teacher/professor/historian career path. Rob breaks down his recent musings on Grandmaster Flash - and why he feels it’s our duty to speak up when Hip-Hop history is incorrectly revised - even when it may mean course-correcting its elders & pioneers. On some local GA ish - we recount Rob’s appearance at the Savannah Jazz Festival in 2008 and how his relationship with Bob James developed, as well as Rob’s view on the Bob James / Madlib lawsuit. Of course we dredge up some good mid-to-late 90’s stories, like his appearance at the 1995 US DMC Finals with Roc Raida, the introduction and subsequent induction into the X-Men / X-ecutioners and some of Rob’s most memorable battles throughout his career, including the legendary X-men / Invisibl Skratch Piklz battle at Rocksteady in 1996! We keep giving ya’ll that real, please give back by supporting “X-Files: Lost & Deleted” @kickstarter today, the campaign ends June 15th! // southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on @soundcloud & @mixcloud // #hiphop #rap #DJ #mix #interviews #podcast #RIP #ROCRAIDA #ATL #QUEENS #WORLDWIDE
