is an official news provider for .Ĭopyright /CBS Local - Excerpted here with permission. Keith Carter (Febru February 3, 2016), also known as Big Kap and The Wardin, 1 2 was an American hip-hop DJ 1 who was born in New York City and was later based in Atlanta. Tributes from his fellow artists have filled social media. My own memories of Big Kap go all the way back to a time before the Hip Hop world got to know him when he was just starting his career as a DJ, he and DJ Enuff were DJs for a party I used to promote. Kap was 45 years old.Īlthough he was known for DJing with Funkmaster Flex in New York City at the legendary Tunnel nightclub and releasing an album, The Tunnel, on Def Jam in 1999, he was also a DJ for The Notorious B.I.G. Funkmaster Flex posted the news early this morning via his Instagram account. It has been reported that DJ Big Kap, real name Keith Carter, has passed away. Here is the recap: () The Hip-Hop world is in mourning today. Published on The Box Houston Featured Video Footage recently surfaced of Big Kap DJ’ing behind The Notorious B.I.G. On Thursday DJ Big Kap Dead At 45 was a top story. In the summer of '95 Kap headed out to San Francisco with Biggie and some of Junior M.A.F.I.A to perform. Big Kap, pictured here at the 40/40 Club, June 12, 2014, in New York, died at 45 Wednesday morning after reportedly having a heart attack. ATLANTA, GA - OCTOBER 10: Big Kap attends the Music Matters Festival at Alliance Theatre Main Stage on Octoin Atlanta, Georgia. Big is tight! He had a water bottle, he threw the water bottle at me, and just walks off the stage. You know what made Big Kap a great DJ A major fuck up. Then it’s getting bad and Cease is like, “Two hundred dollars!” And then Big, he just stopped everything and was like, “Yo! What the f*ck is going on?!” I’m looking and my records look like a piece of bacon back there. So during the show, Big heard the first womp, and he was like “A hundred dollars!” The record is crumbling up right before my eyes. We had this thing like, every time you make a mistake on stage during the show, you get fined $100. The records is melting! So the records are warping right before me and it’s just like woooommp. The news was first shared by Funkmaster Flex on his Instagram. But it’s so hot the heat is actually warping the records. Iconic New York DJ Big Kap has reportedly passed away. The hip-hop community is mourning after the death of legendary New York DJ Big Kap who died on Wednesday morning (Feb. I got seven MAC-11s, about eight 38s Nine 9s, ten MAC-10s, the shits never ends You cant touch my riches Even if you had MC Hammer and them 357 bitches Biggie. I’m throwing the records and it’s like, alright, cool we’re going through it. Obituaries Legendary DJ Big Kap Dead At Age 45. In a recent interview with The Fader magazine, Kap remembers the incident fondly. The situation frustrated Biggie so much that Big threw a bottle of water at him on stage. The extreme heat caused Kap’s records to warp as he was playing them which led to disastrous results. American rap DJ who has worked with quite a few industry big names, including Funkmaster Flex, Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz, and others. Footage recently surfaced of Big Kap DJ’ing behind The Notorious B.I.G.
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