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Daddy Jaes
interview 0047 added 12.02.01 words Hercules
Me-God's Mike Check in conversation with Café Recordings’ Daddy Jaes
Note: Mike Check is a fictional character, but daddy Jaes is for real!
Hey! I’m Mike Check, as culture correspondent for ‘Me-God’ comic I’m used to reporting on hip hop scenes that ya never damn well heard of. But here I am in the depths of southwest London, on a mission for ukhh. I’m here in this production studio above an SW16 halal butchers for a natter with DJ/producer Daddy Jaes...
So Dadio, what’s this term i keep hearin’ ‘daddyfied’; is it some sort of macho mummification ceremony or just happens when wack deejays step to ya good self?
people do refer to me as a deejay, but that’s a bit of a misconception. I class myself as a beatmaker so any deejay that wants to step is gonna be disappointed, any beatmakers wanna step then that’s a different story. It would be nice to have a set-up whereby beatmakers can battle head to head, it would encourage producers to step up their game. The term ‘daddyfied’ comes more from a bedroom ceremony than anywhere else though!
well look out for ukhh.com’s production competition in conjunction with Big Dada...coming soon! Alright, you produced the café recordings sampler 1 ep and the cranium stadium ep on café/mofu, what’s next and how long ya been doin’ this anyway?
at the moment we are recording the next café release entitled ‘set menu no. 2' which is already setting peeps ears alight even though it aint finished yet! That one is a definate bomber and I’m hoping it’s going to go some way to establish me & the boys as one of the big hitters on the uk scene. Timewise I’ve been making beats for 10 years and before that i was an emcee, so i knew my shit inside out well before i ever got to wax.
so ya used to rhyme, who was the first uk emcee ya remember hearing? Don’t be shy my man- if it was Derek B then so be it, and what emcees would ya most like to work with?
i think the first uk track i heard was either Hard Rock Soul Movement’s ‘eloweezer you’re a skeezer’ or maybe a Faze 1 track on the electro compilations, fuck me i don’t know...could have been ‘14 days in may’ by overlord x, it’s all so long ago and my memory aint what it used to be. Saying that, who could forget Derek B eh!! Any of you youngsters out there wondering why its taken so long for the uk scene to mature, then check some of that old shit out. There were plenty of gems back then but unfortunately they mostly got buried in shite! I would like to get Schooly D on some of my beats along with emcees like Kool Keith, mc mello, Rakim big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Kobalt 60, Tempa from Out Da Ville, T.O.P from Hardnoise, it would be nice to see the Demon Boys do some hip hop again...there’s plenty of talent out there, old and new!
word-fucking-up, there sure is! So Overlord x versus Duke or Big daddy Kane- which was the greatest rivalry? As it goes did’nt Duke used to model himself on rakim, what with the MCM and Luis Vitton tracksuit and hat sets and gold chains. Maybe Duke engineered the whole beef with the overlord to align himself with the ‘R’. What say you?
around that time it would have to be the bridge wars, as for Duke modelling himself on rakim, well i can’t remember a Rakim cover with him in harris tweed, jodhpurs and a riding crop.
what about Kool G Rap in his full tweeds and DJ Polo with authentic polo stick and riding hat? i used to love them covers, hip hop artists just don’t seem to like ‘dressing up’ as much as much as they used to do they?
the difference is ‘Road to the Riches’ is a top fucking notch album, Kool G Rap & Polo could have been in full drag for all i care cos some of the tracks on that still get me like nodding dog. Your right about the covers back then, artists knew how to rock an album cover, ya didn’t get none of this shitty fake looking airbrush style shite you get these days....
recently i was out at strong island, in the JVC Force’s retirement pet shop. The animals inside had their own scene goin’ on, but they had trouble gettin’ their shit played. What d’ya think of the airplay situation in the uk?
airplay in this country is still non-existent, the most artists can hope for is getting their track plugged 2 or 3 times, that’s just not good enough...DJs need to take responsibility, they always say that the quality aint there or that there aint enough artists or some other shit but it just aint true. If Westwood(for example) was serious about this industry then he would plug this shit proper. How can a uk artist build when he only gets a token amount of airtime, ya need your track played over a period of weeks at primetime, not played once at 2 in the morning. For me, the state of radio in this country has been one of the major factors keeping this music back and those that have been in a position to advance this music have chosen not to. Good example is the café promo 1, when i was putting it in the shops, they were cool, but they blatantly said most sales come from people hearin’ tunes on the radio and seeking ‘em out in the shops. Anyway big up Shortee Blitz, Big Ted, Jenny Francis, Disorda and any other DJ prepared to play from the uk.
and what about the web, d’ya think that’s made a difference to the scene? Does it give the impression that british hip hop is boomin’ when really aint or d’ya think the scene really has moved forward?
i think the net is one of the reasons why uk hip hop has managed to survive and grow over the last couple of years or so, it gives real lovers of the music a chance to communicate and it seems to be more fan-based, less corporate jiggy based. I’ve learnt about a lot of artists on the net and the benefits that any business can enjoy can apply to hip hop. Whether it gives a false impression that the scene is bigger than it is don’t matter cos that shit goes on in any scene that is remotely business based, that’s how things hit the big time, a few people get creative, the media latches on and the sheep follow...
on a lighter note, did ya know that when Walt Disney kicked the bucket, his head was put into cryogenic suspension. What could the old man’s dome be used for now that we have the technology to wake the geezer up?
we could make our own monster, get together some other celebrity body parts, link it all up, I’ll make some beats, write some lyrics for it, teach it a few dance steps and program it to hunt down the weak-skilled ones- seek and destroy style! Better idea would be top program all the classic hip hop tracks into it so it can give ya an on the spot rendition of ‘ease back’ or ‘set it off’ while rampaging through jiggydom!
i heard a whisper that Gerry Anderson never really destroyed all his puppets, and that infact ya made him an offer he couldn’t refuse....ythen ya carved their heads into crude likenesses of the café recordings emcees and ya planning to produce ya own tv show set to revolutionize not just hip hop video, but children’s programming also. Apart from that, watcha got planned for the future, baby?
you need to keep that under ya hat mike Check cos that shit’s still in developement, but basically me n’ Gerry is doing a ting to rival the tweenies and Bob da Builder. Gerry’s doing a kids tv show of all the café artists living in a studio deep underground. We’re all gonna be mute apart from when we have our special mics and decks, then we go overground and spread the word- I’m doing the soundtrack so we will be pushing for the xmas 2001 no.1 spot....it’s gonna be dope!! Apart from that we’re plugging ‘live from the cranium stadium’ which is out in good record shops and also from our website, check it people cos it’s a phat ep of loveliness. I’m also knocking up the next ep as we speak for an April 2001 release...I’ve also got other projects cooking away so expect my mug everywhere over the next couple of years!
okay, big up ya ugly mug, my son!
Daddy Jaes productions can be heard on the Café Recordings EP and the 'Live From The Cranium Stadium' EP on Mofu Heavy Industries.
Mike Check can be found in Me-God comic, available from Hercules. Any similarity between Hercules and the bloke in the Ty track of the same name is purely accidental.
 
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