DJ Kay Slay tragically handed away on the age of 55 final 12 months, however his reminiscence continues to burn vivid within the Hip Hop neighborhood, as a brand new tribute reveals.
On Friday (November 3), 200 of the tradition’s most interesting MCs hopped on an hour-long joint to honor his legacy. The nearly-endless listing of contributors contains names resembling Snoop Dogg, Bun B, Ice-T, Paul Wall and Raekwon, to call just a few.
Whereas the video launch of Rolling Deep 200 bundles each contribution into one prolonged section, the report drop has been chopped up into 16 cuts.
Watch the audio-visual package deal under:
The handfuls-of-rappers-on-one-song conceit was one thing Kay Slay did repeatedly all through his life. He went from 25 MCs in 2010 (one thing he really did twice) to 50 a decade later to a mind-blowing 110 in 2021.
The brand new homage has been launched a 12 months and a half after Kay Slay succumbed to issues stemming from COVID-19. Quickly after his loss of life, DJ Vlad expressed remorse over not pushing Slay to get vaccinated, opining that it might have saved his life.
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The media persona interviewed actor Michael Jai White late final 12 months, throughout which the 2 started speaking about well being and maintenance. Amid a dialogue on weight problems and the meals consumed in America, Vlad introduced up a dialog he’d had with the Drama King only one week earlier than the latter caught the virus that might in the end take his life.
“To at the present time, it nonetheless bothers me,” the YouTube host started. “DJ Kay Slay, who had been my pal for like 20 years – my final textual content message with him, we had been speaking about some interview stuff. He was serving to me e book any individual. And I’m like, ‘The way you been?’ He’s like, ‘I’m good, simply attempting to remain out of the best way of this COVID factor.’ I’m like, ‘Okay! Are you vaccinated?’ He stated, ‘Nah, the vaccine don’t work for the variants. I’m gonna wait till all of the variants are executed and I’m gonna take the vaccine then. Possibly.’
The 50-year-old defined that he needed to say one thing however determined to not as a result of he’d tried convincing others earlier than and it didn’t work. He additionally felt that it was Slay’s determination to make.
“One week later, he acquired COVID,” Vlad continued. “Went to the hospital. He was within the hospital on life assist for months; in the end died. And it’s like, if I had stated one thing, would it not have modified? Would he have been like, ‘I respect Vlad. Let me go forward and get vaccinated.’ That vaccine would have saved his life.”
