Consider this interview a gem. It’s rare when one of the grittiest duos in the game Onyx open up about their feelings. Fredro Starr and Sticky Fingaz recently sat down to talk about their friendship with the late, Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell. Not only were all three of them close, but Jay helped boost their careers termendously and included them in his overall success. Check out what they had to say about the legendary DJ after the jump!
Onyx sat down with Vlad TV to talk about their working relationship with Jam Master Jay before his murder in 2002. Fredro Starr and Sticky Fingaz were mentored by Run DMC’s official DJ and had a record deal with his label, Jam Master Jay Records, in the early ’90s. They spent hours in the studio together working on Onyx’s debut album Bacdafucup and their follow-up All We Got Iz Us . Before his death, they said Jay had made them a promise that was never able to come to fruition.
“When we first met him, [on] the first day he was like, ‘Yo, I got a label and when shit pop off, I’ma put y’all on,’” said Fredro Starr. “When he got his label, it popped off, he put us on and we rocked with [Jam Master] Jay and Jay became a brother. An older brother, a mentor, teaching us how to do everything… So losing Jay, we lost a lot. That was a big loss for Onyx just as far as an executive holding us down.”
“That was a big loss for fucking humanity,” Sticky Fingaz said.
The Queens duo also mentioned that they think things would have been a lot different if he were still alive today. Starr got a little personal and explained how Jay was “the general of our army.” Their career would have gone in a alternate direction had he not been shot at a recording studio in Queens. Watch what he had to say in the video below.
Source: HHDX
