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Trotter, who moved to Jamaica in 1969, remembers Jamaica as a beautiful neighborhood with manicured lawns that worsened with a rise in gangs, shootings, and drugs by the mid-1980s. Trotter recalls being interested in music and electronics at a young age, which led to building a homemade audio mixer and becoming a disc jockey in 1975.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTrotter describes connecting with rappers, emcees, and other disc jockeys starting in the late 1970s to perform at local parks and clubs. Trotter, who performed with the group Atomic Sounds, recalls the highly competitive music battles they had at local parks with rival groups. Trotter credits these competitive music battles with elevating the work of Queens rappers in the 1980s such as LL Cool J, Sweet Tee, Salt-N-Pepa, and Big Daddy Kane. Trotter explains that although rap music was being performed at Queens parks as early as 1977, radio stations did not acknowledge rap music until 1983. Trotter has continued disc jockeying and estimates having performed at hundreds if not over 1,000 parties. Trotter speaks about the decline in quality of rap music since circa 2002, Trotter's longtime working relationship with Ervin Evans (also known as Bugsy; they first played together in 1978), and Trotter's recent adoption of an iPad tablet for disc jockeying.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Dennis Trotter (Interviewee)","Richard Lee (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2018-04-02 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["1969-2018 (temporal)","Jamaica, Queens, NY (spatial)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/search/browse/40466"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Dennis Trotter recalls using a homemade audio mixer as a disc jockey at a birthday party in 1975, which ultimately led to subsequent equipment upgrades and Trotter performing with the group Atomic Sounds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Dennis Trotter reflects on the evolution of rap music from 1983, when it was first aired on the radio, to the time of this interview in 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full Interview:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDennis Trotter, a longtime disc jockey who later became an electrician and electrical engineer, discusses the history of rap music and disc jockeying in Jamaica, Queens from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s. 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