In 1995, Flex recorded Funkmaster Flex The Mix Tape:Volume 1, which sold over 300,000 copies. In addition to the 2000+ cutting-edge club kids, the club also draws the most influential crowd in New York City, including record producers, label heads, breaking artists, and superstars–all going to get to the pulse point of new music. A year later, his club fate would take him through to The Tunnel, where Flex had made a home for himself on Sunday for the past seven years. By 1993, Flex was commanding attention at The Palladium, the city's hottest spot, where he was instrumental in breaking the Wu-Tang Clan, Naughty By Nature, 2Pac, SWV, and Mary J. Flex now commands an unprecedented 31 hours, six nights a week in the top two markets in the country. Two hours turned into two nights, which turned into four four nights turned into five. The following year, in 1992, Flex was offered his own late night mix show on Fridays on Hot 97, New York's number one station. When Chuck moved to WBLS, Flex followed and became a full-fledged radio DJ in New York City. As legend has it, 1 fateful day, Chuck was late for work and the Program Director let Flex spin for five minutes, which turned into three hours. in The Bronx, New York, New York, the son of a part-time DJ, DJ Funkmaster Flex got his professional start at 19, carrying crates for DJ Chuck Chillout at KISS-FM. Flex provides two songs players can manipulate.īorn Aston Taylor, Jr. Players can create original soundtracks by utilizing countless pre-recorded beats and samples from eight different musical styles featuring rock, garage, trance, house, and R&B. Flex is also the official US spokesperson behind video game publisher Codemasters' MTV Music Generator 2 for Sony's PlayStation 2. After completing a year as the host/house DJ on MTV's Direct Effect, Flex decided to continue his relationship with MTV by appearing throughout the year as their "celebrity DJ" at special events. He is also preparing for his second celebrity car show, with cars from Busta Rhymes, Ca$h Money Millionaires, Nelly, Missy Elliot, and Puffy. He has a celebrity car club with members like Russell Simmons, Moby, and Faith Evans. He is acting as a car consultant to all the major players in both the music and sports industries. Flex is also creating yet another empire. Flex is currently compiling the best of all his records with tracks from a number of hot artists, old and new. With five gold records to date, Flex is busy working on his highly anticipated sixth albsum: Funkmaster Flex 60 Minutes of Funk,Volume V: The Mix Tape. This year, Funkmaster Flex is extremely busy with radio, film, a new albsum, and the car ventures. Funkmaster Flex has quite simply done it all and shows no signs of slowing down. He is a multiple-gold recording artist, a top-rated DJ at the number one and two radio markets in the country (Hot 97 in New York City and Power 106 in Los Angeles), the hottest club DJ, an MTV VJ, an on-air personality, a film personality, the founder and CEO of his own record label (Franchise Records), the founder and CEO of Franchise Marketing, a manager to numerous DJs, a chart-topping record producer, and a player in the automobile industry. You never know what life has in store for you you have to charish time friends and family you never know……Gone but not forgotten.DJ Funkmaster Flex has quickly become a one-man entertainment conglomerate. “If i known this was the last time I was going to speak to him I would have told him so so much more…. “I am really at a lost of words I just spoke to him at 1am recapping our week And plans,” Traxx wrote. Traxx had also taken to Instagram to mourn the loss of his friend and business partner. He’s an artist based out of Florida we was actually workin’ on.” and then I got the phone call at 4 in the morning from the artist he stays with, Bank Boy Drop. “Last night when I talked to him, he was fine,” Traxx told Billboard magazine. Big Kap was not known to have had any prior existing heart conditions. Traxx revealed that though Big Kap had diabetes, it is unlikely that it had anything to do with his death. His death was confirmed by his road manager Ab Traxx. Kap died of an apparent heart attack, Billboard reported. DJ Big Kap, the 90s hip-hop icon, died early Wednesday morning in Atlanta.
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