D-Nice’s True Hip-Hop Stories: Great vid about Masta Ace and Marley Marl’s “The Symphony”

I've know D-Nice since the 80's, always the nice guy, and a good rapper, he had one minor hit "My Name Is D-Nice", MTV and the whole sha-bang, and eventually came to be an adult, now he makes movies, websites, and has been a photographer and a photography fan for a long time. Here's a nice pice I found on DangerousMinds a few days ago.

This culture always seems to conflate hip-hop’s artists-turned-marketing-moguls—Diddy, 50, Jay-Z—with its true renaissance people, those who are truly hands-on in many of the disciplines inside hip-hop. People like Bronx-raised Derrick Jones a.k.a. D-Nice, who for the past couple of years has put together the excellent short video series True Hip-Hop Stories.

Starting as a teen in the mid-‘80s Jones was the third original member along with KRS-ONE of Boogie Down Productions, and he put out a couple good but undersung albums as part of that crew. Since then, he’s become one of hip-hop’s original go-to guys for web design, and he’s also made his name via his photography and video work, along with getting back into DJing.

Basically he’s pushing culture rather than colored water or a clothing line. That’s refreshing. Here’s one of his first videos for the True Hip Hop Stories series—it’s Masta Ace talking about how he got in on one of hip-hop’s quintessential posse cuts, the Juice Crew’s fantastic “The Symphony” from 1988. It’s recommended you check out the rest of his vids.

True Hip-Hop Stories: Masta Ace from D-Nice on Vimeo.

Here’s the damn funny official video for “The Symphony.” Classic!

here's a few bonus tracks that i love from this crew:

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