What Happened #1

I was 14 years old, and was just getting started with my rapping career. I had just rocked the mic at a local club in Pico Rivera in front of about 200 people. They loved it. My name was MC Shatter. I got some respect on my way off the stage and then one of my crew members approaches me and says, "hey man, there's a DJ out here who wants to meet you. I went outside to talk to this guy, and He introduced himself. He said, "Whassup, I'm DJ Phix. But, My name is Rhett. I like what you do. For being so young you got a lot of talent and skill. I'd like to get together with you sometime and work on some tracks." I was in the market for a DJ at the time, so I agreed to meet up with him. We met up at some guy named Tito's house where they had most of their equipment and the most room to move around. Since most DJ set ups are in someone's garage, or at best... Someone's bedroom, which makes for some tight skeezes and some uncomfortable moments. So, We pull out the beat machine, DJ Phix (Rhett) pulls out some old records and starts scratching, and I recite some lyrics that I wrote a while back to a song I hadn't yet come together according to my vision. It seemed as though this was when it might. The end result was a track called "My Method" that we wound up recording in a local home studio in Long Beach. The track didn't seem to go anywhere because we had no management at the time, but what it did was stir up our love for hip hop music even more. It was in such a way that we saw it as a way to actually be able to materialize the music we wanted to make with no boundaries or limitations. It was no holds barred! So we went for it! We played at UCLA, CSFU, Houses, Backyards, small venues, and any club we could get into. And pretty soon we had to come up with a name for this group. We called it "ShatterPhix". Pretty catching, but oxymoron-ish. people were loving our concept and our music and started coming out to see what we were doing. After a while something had to come through right? Well, this is all taking place in the years 1987 and 1988. I'm sure you were probably thinking this was probably another decade, but this was when it all started. At least for me. I had been an up and coming MC/producer since 1985, and it was during this time that it seemed that things might work out for me. Or... So I thought.