From '99 to 2003 when we actually got
with the label a lot of stuff changed, we
still were making our Chicago stuff I
say. 
- yeah footwork actually but we didn't have a name for it.
Yeah we didn't call it footwork back then. 
- It was just called tracks, at that time.
We let [DJ Godfather] hear some of them, imma play one of the ones I let him hear.
And he was like, "Nah man."
I really liked that he never stayed, he
never stayed in a box and he you know he
was trailblazing
up until he you know passed away and you
know, it was just it was it was amazing
to witness actually yeah.
Rashad, this is when I really first got to hear him, those tracks that dude was playing
it was like I knew what the tracks was
coming from, the samples that he was
using but he just had his own twist to em
that could nobody touch but him and I
was like, "This dude is just nasty."
A lot of lot of places like are starting to want more at the footwork now and
which is kind of shocking because I
thought they wouldn't be ready for it
but like they come up to us and they
got the phone and they're, "Play this!" Damn, they know the name of it
and everything? Alright cool. So I kind of
feel like I'm at home when I'm going to
these places now like London and everywhere, it's really cool man and we just love it.
What's that 07 we went to Seattle? 07? 
- That was 08.
Yeah 07, 08,  Seattle was like an experience like
that really put us in tune with other music
we didn't know it was coming from across
the water. We thought these guys on the West Coast was making it.
We're like, "Damn this is that skateboard music? Shit. You like this?"
Then we got in touch with people and found out what the real is and we like, "Ah, ok."
We hearing that guys from overseas
is like picking up on the style of
music that we making and we like, "Oh ok
that's cool."
And like the first person I ever heard
to like to openly say it was Addison
Groove in the interviews like, "I listen to
Rashad and Spinn," we like, "What okay, cool."
From there we kinda linked up, so yeah shoutout to Addison Groove.
When Rashad played in London he
played a remix of "Footcrab" that he did.
I didn't even give him the parts for
this you know, I just, he took the
track and just done something with it. I
was amazed that they'd just given me
this appreciation you know. They were
like, "We did that for you, you know we
are aware that part of the reason
we're out here is because you were pushing our stuff.
Rashad was DJing when I walked in, and
Rashad he was wrecking, talk about wrecking
the party, him and Spinn, killing it. And he
was like, "Well get on, I want you to get
on so." I play like four tracks before the
music got turned off at the end of
the party but he's telling everybody
like, "Man, this is the dude!"
It was just naturally assumed that I was a guy and
then when I was, they found that I was a
woman I remember, I'll never forget
Rashad saying to me, he said,
"Well shit out of the 12 men in the
room Jlin knocks 10 of them out by herself."
We got DJ Jana Rush, Jlin coming out on Bangs & Works vol 2,
Nightwave, over there, Nguzunguzu right here. Man, it's...
We want people to be involved and just
do their thing.
How many new tracks do you knock out in like a week?
Countless, this dude right here.
- Yeah it's countless. I don't know.
Like ten per day countless or more like fifty per day countless?
- I won't say fifty a day but like at least
five to six a day at least at the least. And like me and DJ Manny, one of the
other little guys we got in the crew, me and him will just go back to back all day. All
day and then we'll go play it there and
that's how we test the tracks out you
know we'll play the battlegrounds or at
the party and see how they respond to it
and we'll know if it's good or bad.
Yeah I played with Rashad last week actually. Every time he plays he just, I love it,
it's just full of energy and
it's a good energy you know.
- Definitely.
It's like every time I see them it was like
it was a big smile on my face because I
was proud of the success and them going
around the world. So Rashad finally
walks up, he say, "Hey bro it's time for you go."
"What you mean?" He say, "They ready for you," he say,
"We've been telling them now it's time to
for you to go." I say, "Rashad you know I got this job
and you know I can't go," I say, "But if I
do have a chance you have to let me know
six to eight months in advance." He was
like, "Ah I know," he said, "That's what I
told em," so Rashad always had that brain.
You got to keep the events going
like it's up to us to really do it you
know nobody else comes to Chicago and really
does the events. And if they do do it
they really cheat the kids, you know they
cheat em out they money. It's been done
years and years of once something get
popular they see it, come in and it's like money.
They try to capitalize over it and we're not here to take the money from the kids,
like the money they pay it goes back to them.
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