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1/30/2006
KING OF QUEENS 'Clockers' Actor, Hip-Hop Activist Honor 'Greatest DJ of All Time'
Queens/Toronto -- Rap legend and acclaimed actor
Sticky Fingaz has recorded a new radio PSA with
Canadian music personality Raoul Juneja (a.k.a. Deejay
Ra), commemorating what would have been the 41st
birthday of the hip-hop founder responsible for
Sticky's big break - Jam Master Jay.
The 'JMJ' tribute PSA was recorded for Deejay Ra's
'Hip-Hop Literacy' campaign to encourage reading of
Jam Master Jay's "Heart of Hip-Hop" biography book
amongst students, in the hopes more youth will
continue learning about the 'greatest DJ of all time'
known as Jazon Mizell to close friends Joseph 'Run'
Simmons and Daryl 'DMC' McDaniels, with whom Mizell
formed a mid 80's music group which would soon after
spread a new art called hip-hop around the world.
Run-DMC were responsible for rap's first top-ten
single, multi-platinum album and music video on MTV,
not to mention their personal accolades of the first
emcees to receive a Grammy nomination, be on the cover
of Rolling Stone and act in their own feature film, as
well as Run-DMC signing the first known shoe deal
designed specifically for non-athletes.
Sticky Fingaz, whose rap group Onyx with Fredro Starr
and Sonee Seeza has often been described as a harsher
version of Run-DMC, credits Onyx signing to Jason
Mizell's 'JMJ' Records in 1991 as the jump-off for
their now 15 years in the hip-hop game and over 10
years of movie roles.
The critically praised appearance of Sticky and Fredro
in Spike Lee's 1995 "Clockers" film is often credited
as what opened the door to today's flood of rappers
turned actors, and both Sticky and Fredro have since
gone on to star alongside such Hollywood heavyweights
as Tiny Lister, N'Bushe Wright, Dennis Quaid, Julia
Stiles, Robert Forster and Rosario Dawson among
others.
Deejay Ra, who launched a November 2003 Run-DMC
tribute with the support of Adidas Canada, has since
continued setting up giveaways of Run-DMC "Together
Forever" greatest hits CDs and DVDs across campus
radio stations along with biographies of Run, DMC and
JMJ to give students "a dose of hip-hop history and a
love of reading at once," as Juneja described it to
KPFK 90.7 FM California radio personality Fidel
Rodriguez during a live radio vigil they held the same
year for the Jam Master.
More details about Jason Mizell's Scratch Academy or
Deejay Ra are available via Scratch.com and
LyricalKnockout.com respectively. And be sure to check
out "Karma, Confessions and Holi," the latest film of
Sticky Fingaz co-starring global supermodel Naomi
Campbell and Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen.
Sticky Fingaz has recorded a new radio PSA with
Canadian music personality Raoul Juneja (a.k.a. Deejay
Ra), commemorating what would have been the 41st
birthday of the hip-hop founder responsible for
Sticky's big break - Jam Master Jay.
The 'JMJ' tribute PSA was recorded for Deejay Ra's
'Hip-Hop Literacy' campaign to encourage reading of
Jam Master Jay's "Heart of Hip-Hop" biography book
amongst students, in the hopes more youth will
continue learning about the 'greatest DJ of all time'
known as Jazon Mizell to close friends Joseph 'Run'
Simmons and Daryl 'DMC' McDaniels, with whom Mizell
formed a mid 80's music group which would soon after
spread a new art called hip-hop around the world.
Run-DMC were responsible for rap's first top-ten
single, multi-platinum album and music video on MTV,
not to mention their personal accolades of the first
emcees to receive a Grammy nomination, be on the cover
of Rolling Stone and act in their own feature film, as
well as Run-DMC signing the first known shoe deal
designed specifically for non-athletes.
Sticky Fingaz, whose rap group Onyx with Fredro Starr
and Sonee Seeza has often been described as a harsher
version of Run-DMC, credits Onyx signing to Jason
Mizell's 'JMJ' Records in 1991 as the jump-off for
their now 15 years in the hip-hop game and over 10
years of movie roles.
The critically praised appearance of Sticky and Fredro
in Spike Lee's 1995 "Clockers" film is often credited
as what opened the door to today's flood of rappers
turned actors, and both Sticky and Fredro have since
gone on to star alongside such Hollywood heavyweights
as Tiny Lister, N'Bushe Wright, Dennis Quaid, Julia
Stiles, Robert Forster and Rosario Dawson among
others.
Deejay Ra, who launched a November 2003 Run-DMC
tribute with the support of Adidas Canada, has since
continued setting up giveaways of Run-DMC "Together
Forever" greatest hits CDs and DVDs across campus
radio stations along with biographies of Run, DMC and
JMJ to give students "a dose of hip-hop history and a
love of reading at once," as Juneja described it to
KPFK 90.7 FM California radio personality Fidel
Rodriguez during a live radio vigil they held the same
year for the Jam Master.
More details about Jason Mizell's Scratch Academy or
Deejay Ra are available via Scratch.com and
LyricalKnockout.com respectively. And be sure to check
out "Karma, Confessions and Holi," the latest film of
Sticky Fingaz co-starring global supermodel Naomi
Campbell and Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen.
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