bonniegrrl | Droid and Bass: RJD2

When you hear the name RJD2 it's easy to imagine this master turntablist playing with the Max Rebo Band, perhaps standing right next to Droopy McCool. "The very first rapper I ever worked with was this guy named Gomer who would freestyle while I was spinning records," RJD2 recalls. "He just started calling me RJD2 because my first name is RJ. And the name stuck."

The intergalactic moniker makes sense considering the saga's impact on his youth. "The Empire Strikes Back was one of the first movies I saw in a movie theater, so various scenes of that movie are still pretty vivid to me," RJD2 says. "I remember being mildly confused by A New Hope, but Empire really sucked me in. Of course, Star Wars was just inextricably linked to my generation. Everybody I knew was into it. In hindsight, I would guess it was because they were great stories, and well produced. Even when I got older and realized the limitations of the original special effects, the films were still uniquely quirky."

Full my interview with RJD2 here:
Droid and Bass: RJD2