INET 6: THE STAR: January 2018

Keeping these Rap A Lot interviews coming i catch up with Domo who is coming fresh out the studio.......

TB: Being a producer/ DJ , who influenced you?

Domo: If i had to pick one DJ of all time..it would be Jam Master Jay. He was one of the illest i've seen to ever do it. It's weird though because i don't actually know what made me become a DJ. It's just something doing in the summer around 1982 or 1983. Picking up on it i could do it the first day i tried. Nobody had to teach nothing..

TB:How did you hook up with the Geto Boys

Domo: I hooked up with them in 1989. Around '89 or '90 there used to be a club on the Northside ..i forget the name of it.. Damn, well anyways, me and one of my homies used to DJ at that club..When the Geto Boys Grip It On The Other Level came out..Face, Bushwick & DJ Ready Red all used to live around the area of the club. From then on, me and Scarface used to always kick it in that club and he said to me "When i drop my solo album you can be my DJ". That was right around the time DJ Ready Red quit. I still talk Ready Red to this day.. Long story short, i went on tour with the Geto Boys as their DJ.

TB: On the road with the Geto Boys, is that where you met Devin The Dude?

Domo: I met Devin when i was first signed to Rap-A-Lot like in '92 or '93. Just being a DJ back then i didn't start start making beats until after i met Devin and Blind Rob of the Odd Squad. Working on their first Odd Squad album, they was all over at Blind Rob's spot making songs in his room and shit. I used to go over there daily and make music. We clicked from day one..

TB: That first album from Odd Squad..i still listen to this day..Did the Coughee Brothaz concept come from that?

Domo: It was a concept that had already been there that was built off of the Odd Squad...

TB: What happened with Rap-A-Lot?

Domo: Nothing really, we did our time with them and now it's on to bigger and better things

TB: I know you make beats, but producing is a whole other thing. Who influenced you to produce?

Domo: I'd have to say Blind Rob, Face, Mike Dean, Bido & N.O. Joe..Just hanging around the recording studios i watched Mike Dean all the time. N.O. Joe showed me a lot. When he first started with Rap A Lot he was living with me. N.O. Joe made a ton of songs..He worked with Ice Cube, UGK, LL Cool J, Bahamadia etc.. Everybody around us wanted to learn how to produce.

( we pause for a second, he tells Scarface in the elevator he's doing an interview with me and Face listens in..)

TB: What's in the future for the Coughee Brothaz?

Domo: We're going to just work and make music. That's all we can do is make good funky music for our Coughee folks to make the Coughee Brothaz movement bigger like we did with the Odd Squad back in the day.. Coughee 4 life baby, H-Town we in here..AWREADY

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*BONUS*

TB: Big up to J-Zone for being an Odd Squad & Too Much Trouble fan..

J-Zone: Bringin Hell On Earth was a work of art. That album is amazing. That white midget Bar-None tried to out do Bushwick Bill and succeeded. Although, i gotta say Bushwick's performance on "Murder Avenue" might be on of the greatest things to come out of the 90's...