Kay Slay, whose actual title was once Keith Grayson, was once a DJ at HOT 97. However he have been a celeb of the style because the early Nineties, when mixtapes he produced featured up-and-comers and famous person rappers like Jay-Z and later, Eminem.
His intensity of revel in as a tender artist rising up all the way through the upward push of Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang, and later as a manufacturer in his personal proper, offered him to primary artists. He launched over 500 mixtapes in 10 years since his first in 1994, in keeping with earlier reviews, that includes artists going tit-for-tat with every different on tracks hardly ever discovered at the radio.
His debut album, 2003’s “The Streetsweeper, Vol. 1” was once the primary advertised to a countrywide target audience. It featured 50 Cent, Nas and Eminem, amongst many others, appearing songs basically produced by way of different artists, together with its followup. He additionally labored intently with the artist Papoose, with whom he left Jive Data to file independently.
‘The sport was once uninteresting till I came to visit,” he instructed the Occasions in 2003. “I introduced the debate again. I introduced the sport again to existence.”
For years, Kay Slay hosted “The Drama Hour” on HOT 97, on which he interviewed numerous hip-hop stars and aired out (or infected) red meat between rappers.
“A cultural icon, The Streetsweeper Kay Slay was once greater than only a DJ, to us he was once circle of relatives and an important a part of what made HOT 97 the a hit station it’s nowadays,” the station mentioned.
