Hailing
from the Bronx, Kay Gee Supernova™
was first introduced to what is known today as Hip Hop,
in 1971 when he witnessed a DJ Smokey party where he first
saw b-boys, graffiti writers and D Jing. Still in third
grade, Kay Gee Supernova™ couldn’t afford equipment
to be a DJ and his parents would kill him if they caught
him writing graffiti. His only option at that point was
to break dance. Kay Gee Supernova™ learned to break
dance from the original “Mr Freeze” and “Crip.”
Kay Gee Supernova™ learned to rap in 1974 after he
heard GrandMaster Flash and the Furious 3’s. During
this time Kay Gee Supernova™ became a member of the
all Jamaican “Cheeba Crew.” While with the Cheeba
Crew, he learned to emcee and DJ simultaneously. He met
DJ Charlie Chase in 1978 at an emcee convention and in
1979, after practice, became a part of the Cold Crush
Brothers.
Highlights
in Kay Gee Supernova™’s career were going to
Japan in 1982 on the Wild Style Tour. They were also the
first group signed to CBS Records, through the Tuff City
label. Kay Gee Supernova™ influenced Chuck D, who
he considers a “powerful emcee” as well as Kool
Keith, who Kay Gee Supernova™ met in the third grade.
He has collaborated with such artists as C&C Music
Factory, KRS-1, Funk Master Flex, Doug E Fresh and more.
Kay Gee Supernova™ has produced “Flesh not Bone”
on the Spooks first album and wrote a score for the HBO
movie “Disapeering Acts.”
Kay Gee Supernova™ has also performed with the Cold Crush Brothers at
the grand opening of the “Experience Music Project”
in Seattle. The Cold Crush Brothers are also on exhibit
within the museum as one of the groups that contributed
significantly to Hip Hop history. They also brought down
the house, along with LL Cool J during the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame and the museum’s “Hip-Hop Nation:
Roots, Thyme and Rage” exhibit when it opened at
the Brooklyn Museum of art.
Kay
Gee Supernova’s™ new projects are “The
Voices of Hip Hop” which focuses on reaching the
youth and donating proceeds to charitable causes. The
project educates the youth on issues including Aids, police
brutality, teen pregnancy, youth in prison, among others.
He has a compilation album titled “Super Nova Proclamation
1” with artists featured such as KRS-1, Kool Keith,
Cold Crush Brothers and Super Natural as well as his solo
album titled, “The Big Bang Theory.”
Contact
info:
www.HiporHop.com
www.ColdCrushBrothers.com
Killergroove_inc@yahoo.com
