![]() ![]() “Stop those kids!” somebody screamed behind us. My boys knocked them to the ground as they busted out of the front door and ran up Houston toward Broadway to the train station. The most popular duo in rap, Run-D.M.C, was walking into the building as Hav, Prince A.D., and I came running out. I ran downstairs to catch up with Hav and A.D. “Yo, get off me!” I yanked my arm away from him. Yo, this nigga just shot this muthafucker! I looked down at Perry as he tried to grab on to my shoulder. Hav dropped the gun and ran out of the building with Prince A.D. The gun went off, hitting Perry in the stomach, his shirt catching fire where the bullet hit as he fell onto me. “Nigga, give me them posters,” Hav said, joking. When Perry came back with the posters, Hav pointed the gun at him. “Don’t play with me like that,” I told him. Hav pointed the gun at me, playing around. I asked him for some De La Soul and Slick Rick posters I’d seen lying around, and he went to get them. We walked in behind him and Perry passed it to Hav instead of me. These niggas were screaming, cussing, and waving TEC-9s in their videos, looking like black skinheads!Īs we were leaving Def Jam, I went to get my gun from Perry’s office. Although a month later, they signed this group Onyx from Jamaica, Queens. If they didn’t sign us it was their loss, not ours. We were pissed off but we weren’t that mad because we knew we had some hot shit. They would get in trouble with the law for putting our album out. He said Def Jam couldn’t do anything with us because we were too young to speak like that. ![]() Lyor listened to our best songs and told us that we cursed too much and our music was too violent. He sent us back to the office to meet with Lyor Cohen instead. Nervous and excited, we waited around for fifteen minutes until the assistant said Russell wasn’t going to be able to make it. Oh, so this is what it’s like to have a million dollars and your own record label. ![]() The white carpet had just been shampooed and we had to take our shoes off and step on the soapy stinking carpet in wet socks. There was a big-ass Jacuzzi tub in the floor in the room next to the living room. Perry walked us to Russell’s apartment on Broadway near NYU. I always kept my gun on me, but I didn’t want to disrespect Russell by bringing that type of energy into his home, so this kid Perry at Def Jam let me leave it in his office drawer until we were done. from Queensbridge, and I were scheduled to meet Russell Simmons at his Manhattan condo around the block from Def Jam. The Time Havoc (Mistakenly) Shot An A&R At Def Jam ![]()
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