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Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
Published: September 2002
Story: Jeff Royer
Photo: press photo

When you've got a room full of people ready to party, there's no time to waste on no sucka emcees. It takes just two people to make your party go right, two old-school party rappers to make it outta sight: Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock.

It's been nearly 15 years since Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock erupted onto the hip-hop scene with the monstrous dance track, "It Takes Two." While the song barely broke into the Top-40 radio charts, massive club airplay made an underground sensation of the Harlem-based duo. Their follow-up single, "Joy and Pain," helped to solidify Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock's place in hip-hop history. The group sold several million copies and was propelled from near-anonymity to the heights of fame in less than one year.

While the dynamic duo's fame has dwindled over the past decade, "It Takes Two" remains one of the most requested dance tracks in the club scene. "This one record, I don't know what it is with it. It just keeps going and going," exclaims DJ E-Z Rock during a recent interview with the Fly. "Some party records never die. You can put some records on at a club or at a party, you know, and people will just get up and dance because they remember the good times they were having when the record was first introduced to the world. ... I feel that party music is never going to go away, because people always want to go somewhere to have a good time."

Base and Rock are currently touring the country in anticipation of releasing their first album in over eight years. "We have an album ready right now that we just finished doing, and we're shopping a deal. Or, we're going to put it out ourselves, put it out there and just see what response that we get back from it," Rock explains. "Basically, we're going to try to keep [our music] up-to-date, but still party, still stay in that type of groove. We ain't no street people, we ain't no hardcore, we're not like that at all, you understand? We just like to have fun. You'll see it in our show. You definitely see it."

You really can see it when the tour swings through Harrisburg later this month. "Expect the hype, a fast-moving show," Rock says. "I mean, 'cause we really go through the show real quick. We also get the people involved. Like, one part of the show we have people come aboard and get on the stage and do little dance contests. And we gonna have people come on stage and do 'It Takes Two' with us. ... Just come on out and have a good time. Bring your party shoes, your dancing shoes."

 

 

 

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