{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/zs2k64c56v/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Denise Briggs Oral History"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/010/original/Aviary_QPLlogo_192x192.png?1578574261","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 1\u003c/strong\u003e: Denise Briggs, \"DJ Lady Love\" talks about Grandmaster Flash and her first experience playing at the club Fantasia located in Queens. She recalls this experience as an event that made her confident in her abilities as DJ.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 2\u003c/strong\u003e: Denise gives her opinion regarding the differences between the rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Small. She reflects that she wishes that she hadn't give up on DJ'ing when hip-hop was becoming very popular and talks about Mr. Magic who was the first DJ to play hip-hop.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 3\u003c/strong\u003e: Denise talks about her fondest memory when she went to Connecticut with Infinity Machine, Woody Wood and other DJs to play and the experience playing in Jamaica Armory. Denise also talks about the difference between hip-hop now and how it was back in the day.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full Interview\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDenise Briggs, \"DJ Lady Love\" was born in Fordham Hospital in Bronx, NY. After moving around she ended up in St. Albans, Queens. At a young age she loved reading and listening to music. She would play 45’s for her family when she was asked, and ended up performing for her friends in various parks.  She attended parties because she loved to listen to music and watching how the DJ’s used their turntables. She had her son at age 16. When she was 18, she left her son with her mother because she wanted to be DJ - she was “going to become one no matter what”. After that she started to network with others in the DJ community in Queens and the Bronx and learn from them. Denise has deejayed with some of the greats of Hip-hop like Grand Master Flash, and Kurtis Blow . She walked away from DJ’ing when she was 22 or 23 in 1981 (“and hip hop started blowing up in 1982, 83, 84”), because she was having trouble getting paid - and at that time it was hard being the only woman in a crowd of “dudes”. She eventually came back to Dj’ing, and has since received some awards for her work.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["Collected as part of the Hip Hop Pioneers oral history project for the Queens College Spring 2016 History 392W course taught by Prof. Bobby Wintermute."]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Denise Briggs (Interviewee)","Shalyce Blue (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2016-04-24 (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":["1970s-2016 (temporal)","St. Albans and Jamaica, Queens, NY (spatial)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 1\u003c/strong\u003e: Denise Briggs, \"DJ Lady Love\" talks about Grandmaster Flash and her first experience playing at the club Fantasia located in Queens. 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