The D-Nice Method Of How Not To Receive A Speeding Ticket

I was driving home last Friday night around 5 am, doing 65 mph in a 35 mph zone when I encountered a New Jersey police officer sitting in his patrol vehicle on the side of the road. My first thought was the hit the brakes, but then I realized that would be too obvious and there would be no way for me to talk my way out of getting the ticket. I decided to keep speeding and let him catch up to me. Less than a minute later, I could hear the wailing sound of the police sirens nearing me. I had to think fast or risk receiving a speeding ticket and the one thing we all hate the most, points on my driver's license.

I got it! As I pulled my car over on the side of the road, I started to make myself cough uncontrollably in order to give the perception that I wasn't feeling well. As he approached my car, I rolled down the driver side window, and before he could get a word in, I handed him my license and registration and said to him "(cough, cough, argh, cough, cough) I know why you are (cough, cough) stopping me. There's a (cough, cough, argh, cough, cough) reason why I was speeding." Now this is when it gets comical. I coughed so much that I really started to believe I was sick.

I explained to him that I was a dj and I that I was on my way home from an event. He asked me if I was djing at a rave party. I looked at him and said "HELL (cough, cough, argh, cough, cough) NO! I am using Theraflu, not Ecstasy!" Just when he was about to respond, I said, "I have to (cough, cough, argh, cough, cough) throw up! Do you (cough, cough) mind if I step out of the car?" He said, "Go right ahead and as a matter of fact sir, here's your license and registration back. Hurry home!" I thanked him and laughed all the way home. Who said rappers (cough, cough, argh, cough, cough) can't act?

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Safer Sex In The City

Safer Sex In The City will be a delightful and engaging evening of music and entertainment that will showcase ASC's expertise in safer sex education and HIV risk reduction.

The event will feature two celebrated New York DJ's D-Nice and DJ Red Alert, along with rousing entertainment, safer sex presentations, raffles, beverages, hors d’oeuvres, and more. The entire Museum of Sex will be open for this event, so guests can enjoy the exhibits on the history and cultural significance of human sexuality.

Tickets are $20.00 in advance / $25.00 at the door
(includes 1 drink and hors d'oeuvres).

For more info or to buy tickets log onto http://www.ascnyc.org/safersex.htm

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The Air Nice

The folks at Cornerstone asked me to participate in a Nike sneaker design contest for bloggers. The D-Nice Journal is 1 of 20 websites that designed a custom Nike sneaker and the winner of this contest will receive 50 pairs to give away on their site.

So, I designed a basketball sneaker called the Air Nice, based on my favorite web colors and complete with the number 808 (my other moniker) on the back. I need your help to win!

Go to http://www.nikeid.com/blogcontest to VOTE NICE!

DJ

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"What Have You Done? What Have You Done?"

One night I was driving on a highway around 3 am, on my way home from a friend's house. I noticed that my gas tank was empty so I decided to pull over at one of the gas stations to refuel. When the slim fellow walked over to the driver-side window, I remotely opened the gas tank and asked him to give me $20 worth of fuel. After he started refueling my car, he walked inside of the store to talk to a co-worker. At this point I was feeling a bit bored so I decided to turn up the music to keep myself occupied.

When he returned to my car a few minutes later, he asked me for payment and with the music still blasting, I opened the window and handed him a $20 bill and started to drive off. After driving less than 10 feet, I heard a loud bang. I stopped my car and immediately looked into the review mirror and didn't see the attendant. I quickly turned off the radio, rolled down the window and looked back and there he was, lying on the ground next to my car.

I then realized that he was not done refueling my vehicle and the nozzle must have still been connected to my car. When I pulled off, the hose expanded like a giant rubber band. The nozzle was released from my car and hit him in the head, leaving him unconscious.

I jumped out of my car thinking that I had just killed a man with a nozzle. His coworker ran towards me yelling, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" And I started yelling back at him, "NOTHING! NOTHING!" Fortunately, he recovered a few minutes later and walked away with a severe headache.

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The TR 808 Is Coming

I remember being put on the spot in 1987 while in the recording studio with DJ Scott La Rock. Scott had just completed a track using a sample from an old Three Dog Night record called “Mama Told Me Not To Come” and decided that the track would be used as my DJ Red Alert radio promo. Now imagine this, I was 16 years old at the time and I had never written a lyric in my life and here I am being put to the test. How’s that for pressure. I sat in the studio for 1 hour and came up with a song called “The TR 808 Is Coming”, which at the time I thought was cool but listening back to it now, I sound absolutely ridiculous!

Most people never understood what the TR 808 was and why that became my moniker. Well, initially I started out as the human beat box for the group on a song called “The P is Free”. The TR 808 was an old drum machine that produced the 808 kick drum which is still one of the most widely used drum sounds to date. Being that the 808 kick drum was so powerful, Scott felt that the name was suitable for me. I became D-Nice The Human TR 808. To be honest with you, I hated it! It reminded me of an unknown Marvel Comic superhero.

Anyway, after doing some research on the web, I found a copy of the original version of “The TR 808 Is Coming”, featuring the intro by DJ Scott La Rock & KRS-ONE straight from the Red Alert radio show. How crazy is it that my very first demo became a staple on the Red Alert radio show for almost 2 years?

Click here to listen to The Tr 808 Is Coming.

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