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CATASHSTAPHE - Tash from the Alkaholiks shows us it’s better to fly on busters than MODELS: fight them. Page 14

MURDER DOG - Former Mid West Editor Scott Bejda clarifies why the mag closed and where you can find his team. Page 23 Andrea Page 5

THE OC CAR SCENE - Throughout the pandemic Mac’s Speed Shop presents essential car shows. Auto enthusiasts in Orange County can attend Big Wednesdays and Donuts & Dipsticks. See Placentia, California’s high rollers. Page 26

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Words by Charles Purnell ing T’s birthday was the previous day. Tash posted a pic of King T on Instagram and wished him a happy birthday. King T sent a direct message saying he was having a good time. Tha Alkaholiks will celebrate King T’s birthday tonight, Dec. 15. Tash will be in Southern California for two days. Currently he’s in Orange County. It’s 10:30 a.m. He flew into LAX from Vegas and landed half an hour ago. “We thought it was going to take us 45 minutes to get out here,” Tash says.” It only took us 15 minutes. We on Beach Blvd. We right by Metro Sound and the Jeep Dealership.” They’re scheduled for a podcast with High Times. They’re early. Instead of getting in the mix, Tash says, they’re stalling. Tha Alkaholiks will talk to High Times about the new Likwit Crew clothesline “Live Victoreus.” And they’ll discuss their brand of marijuana products called “Smoke-a-holics.” It’s eighty degrees and Tash talks with zeal; even about his early life that was filled with drama. Tash and E-Swift were born in Columbus, Ohio. Between five and seven years old Tash traveled the world on tours with Al Green. “On the tour bus city to city and everything,” Tash says. “My mother worked with Al Green when he was super popular. He was like Michael Jackson and shit.” Al Green’s wife ran his fan club. She was Tash’s mother’s best friend. Tash and Al Green’s son were on home school. “That’s where I got the funk in my style,” Tash says. “Al Green the soul singer is one thing, but he was on tour with Con Funk Shun, Ohio Players, all these different groups. So that’s what influenced me to really keep the funk in my blood. “I think my style is funky but it’s a different kind of funk. That’s me being musical at a young age.” At a young age he liked watching rap acts including Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Roxanne Shante and LL Cool J. “Run DMC were like super heroes to me. They were my idols back then,” he says. “Run was cool. And I was like, ooh, if ahma do it ahma do it like him.” At 12 years old Tash was himself in, did time and represented ESP for a couple ready to rap. He relentlessly returned. Tash and E-Swift of months and then wanted thought of rap names that stayed in California while to change their name. They would differentiate him. their family moved back to welcomed ideas. One evening, Before he settled, however, his Columbus. Tash and E-Swift in the VIP section of a club, father was killed. “Tash-hell!” lived with E-Swift’s father Tash lolled with girls and his mind spat into his inner whom Tash calls Uncle Robert. gangster-rappers. A woman ear. At that moment he’d found “So I was kind of on my sputtered at Tash: “Yawl just his name. own. But I had a lot of family look like some drunks! Yawl “That’s what Tash meant. in L.A.,” Tash says. “I lived look like some alcoholics!” No clue how it popped in my all over the place. After I “T-LA took that and a head. But I thought it sounded moved out and got my own couple of days later was like, good. Tash.” shit I was living in L.A., ‘Remember what that girl Tash, the name, adopted two Hollywood, Inglewood, Hyde said to us? Ahma call yawl the abbreviations: the Tasmanian Park, Midtown off Wilshire – Alkaholiks,’” Tash says. devil and Catastrophe. apartments everywhere.” Tash was officially “in” His father’s catastrophic At sixteen he moved so fast with King T. They were the complement led Tash to live he didn’t attend a high school Likwit Crew. Tash recorded with his grandfather. At the more than two semesters. That three songs with King T and same time the Ohio Police were didn’t stop him from emceeing. the Alkaholiks. They were searching for Tash’s stepfather. He met J-Ro through E-Swift performing and Tash was “He had to get up outta and they formed a group called getting paid. there. So he disappeared for “Everyday Street Poets” or Before laying his verse on a year or two,” Tash says. “My ESP. the Alkaholiks’ debut single mom was still in love with him. “I met E-Swift at his house “Got It Bad Y’all”, featured on She talked to him every once in and he introduced Tash and me King T’s “Tha Triflin’ Album”, a while. But after a year of him a little later,” J-Ro says. “I was Tash went to Ohio; something being away my mother packed in a crew with King T before I he did every summer to visit our shit and we were on our met them. We just all started his grandmother. He went to way. We moved to California in hanging out. I introduced a nightclub across the street ’83? I was (he pauses) 12?” Swift and Tash to King T.” from housing projects. His stepfather turned Tash, J-Ro and E-Swift “I had a Cadillac rent-a-car. A big Ice Cube jacket. Bottom line I was breeding hatred,” Tash says. “So I was walking out this club and this drug dealer I heard about, named Terry - and they say he’s supposed to be a straight killer - he just tripped out on me one time. We got into a fight and I fucked him up. “I slammed him on the car. Busted him up. Chipped his tooth off with my knuckles. And I can’t even fight that good. He must’ve been drunk or something but I won this one.” The police arrived. Tash and his cousin Aaron walked with it,” he says. “The strap I When he was released, right across the street to the projects got caught with was stolen in a away he flew to L.A. The day where Tash yakked, “I fucked home invasion.” he arrived Tha Alkaholiks shot up. I fucked up Terry.” Tash went to jail. Police their video for “Got It Bad Out of the hospital Terry trumped the charges. Y’all.” combed Tash’s neighborhood “You blew your whole Tash made his debut on Tha and broadcasted he was going career. Your chance to pop and Alkaholiks’ ”21 & Over.” Then to kill Tash. all that,” Tash said to himself he struggled with alcoholism. “They was like, ‘If Terry say everyday in jail. “I thought I His favorite drink was Vodka. he gawn kill you, best thing to was over with.” “I’d get some Vodka and mix Changes it with anything. I can take a were whole fifth to the neck.” happening in “I was at the Too Short the Alkaholiks. concert at San Jose State in The two songs 1993 when he (Tash) fell off Tash was on the stage,” said Joel Price, a didn’t make beatmaker in Diamond Bar, “Tha Triflin’ Calif. He thought Tash was Album.” He was probably drunk. “First time I locked up and met Tash was at an Xzibit show couldn’t say his in Downtown Disney around verse for “Got 1998. He just came into a circle It Bad Y’all”. of my homies and chilled. Therefore Passed the blunt. All that.” King T said a Tash made five albums verse in Tash’s with Tha Alkaholiks and two place. King T solo albums. His peak year, presented the financially, was 2003. That year single to Capitol Records. They he received a lot of checks do is get back on a plane and loved it and picked it for the for all his projects; did three go back to California. Because first single from “Tha Triflin’ tours and averaged $15,000 per he gawn kill you.’” Album.” show; and sold a house in Las Tash procured a gun. A strap Tash started getting out of Vegas for $130,000 profit. to protect his grandmother’s legal trouble soon after “Tha After selling his home in doorstep. “And I got caught Triflin Album” was released. Las Vegas he moved into a condo in Miami Fla. A hurricane struck while Sahara and Paradise, Tash says. he was home. He tells the story this way: “The Tash is a recovered alcoholic. They aren’t whole city of Miami was evacuating. My building Tha Alkaholiks any more. They’re the Smoke- evacuated. I tried to stick it out. I was the only a-holiks. The name stands for their group and dumbass who tried to stay and wait it out. brand of marijuana products. “Me and a couple friends just out here from “It’s a weed company but we got 200 pounds California. We chillin’. We so high up here can’t of all these different strains and pre-rolls,” Tash nothing really happen up here. We bought some says. “We about to be in all the Dr. Green Thumbs food. The hurricane hit! The food was gone in and L.A. Originals dispensaries. And we got a two days. The first night the electricity went! soundtrack with the weed. Our brand will have a The power was off. A little fishing boat, with code that will give you three or four songs free.” the motor on its back, flew threw my neighbors Tha Smoke-a-holiks have a twenty-song window. album to give out with their weed products. Tash “My window busted. We had to move the is releasing a solo EP in January 2021. He also couch and board it up. We were starving so I saw has a clothing line called “Live Victoreus.” a mirage. I walked out the front door and wind “We definitely made Vegas our second home,” swooshed me off my feet. I’m getting carried Tash says. “King T out here right now. They visit down the street on my ass! I grab a tree. Fight my me when they want to get away from L.A. and way back to the crib. Still no food. We drinking vacate. Everyone I had visit me ended up moving cat water now. It was a nightmare dude.” down here dude. That’s why I never moved back. Tash moved back to Las Vegas in a suburb My closest people – my kids, my baby momma, and next to a golf course. His brother owns a my girlfriend, all that shit. Everybody out here tattoo parlor in Vegas called Tat Life. E-Swift and now.” J-Ro have homes in Vegas too. Their studio is off ELITE MODEL DANIELLE

MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE FORMER EDITOR TELLS ALL Interview by #43 BANE Murder Dog Release: episodes featuring interviews with legends, pioneers, and underground talent from around the globe. “I do my best to book guests that I know Hip Hop fans just as myself would want to listen to. I wrote for Murder dog Magazine for 15 of the 20 years the publication was around, I connected with many people and always stayed in tune with the underground rap scene. It has been a blessing to be able to provide these artists with a platform and to give our n 2012 the legendary 20 year members of Three 6 Mafia, listeners with something they run of Murder Dog was Bone, Geto Boys, and many can appreciate and enjoy!”: about to come to an end and others. I The show has been featured Prez knew in order to do the In 2016 after an appearance on many media outlets as well kinds of interviews he wanted form MC Shan, the show as in books, documentaries, and to do it was time to bring back accidentally reignited the mentioned on albums. the show. After a 4 year hiatus, infamous Bridge Wars with Just as the show tells the the Murder Master Music Show KRS-One. Shan spit some battle history of many, it also needs to was back. Right away the show bars aimed at his old foe which be recognized for its hard work started to generate a buzz with resulted in responses from KRS in preserving the culture and some legendary interviews that that led to a back and forth remembering the forgotten! sparked controversy in the rap barrage of diss tracks and music community. videos. Interview with Scott Bejda: EM: You interviewed a lot of Some of the more notable Over the course of the last 8 celebrities for the magazine and guests included a series of rare years, the Murder Master Music radio station. What’s your most interviews with Jerry Heller, Show has aired almost 700 DMC, MC Shan, as well as memorable experience? For Murder Dog Magazine I cations and it turned into more EM: Do you and Eric Cope dis- would say Danny Trejo. He told opportunities. A couple of years cuss bringing Murder Dog back? me about all the times he was later I turned them onto the mu- incarcerated. Hearing about how sic of Esham and helped them I talk to Eric rarely, whenever he he overcame a life of crime and with an article by doing his dis- replies to my emails. But when- addiction to become successful cography. After that Black Dog ever we do talk we pick up right was an inspiration. Also, from (Eric Cope) asked me if I wanted where we left off. He opened Murder Dog, I always had fun to do reviews? I had no degrees doors for me when I was a kid. talking to Ice-T. He was always or special training. Just my love More than two decades later I’m humble and took time to talk to for music and Black Dog recog- still here providing a platform my family. My favorite cover is- nized that in me. Soon after I for many artists. So the lega- sue I did with Murder Dog was was doing interviews. It was nice cy of what he envisioned years The Game. At the time he had a to get paid doing what I loved to ago continues. We had our back 3-year-old son and I had a 3-year- do. But, in all honesty, the money and forths but we were always - old daughter and we were talking was not the best all of the time. and will always - be brothers. I about how much we cared about So I wrote for other magazines learned so much from him and our kids. On the Murder Master and started one of rap’s first will always be grateful. The last Music Show, I would say DMC podcasts in 2004, the Murder I heard he returned to his Punk because Run DMC is what got Master Music Show. Rock roots and started doing me into Hip Hop in the early 80s shows as an artist under the as a kid. Also, from my podcast, EM: Do you think it’s possible name Coffin Boy Crow. He goes I would have to say DJ Ready for a startup Hip-hop magazine back in the Punk scenes to the Red of the Geto Boys and Fresh to blow and grow now like you early 80s with various groups. Kid Ice of the 2 Live Crew. It was guys did? He tried to bring back an online a true honor to pay homage to version of the magazine a few Yes. I think it’s possible because them while they were still alive. years back, but I think he ulti- of one thing, nostalgia. Right All they wanted was the oppor- mately chose to perform music. now these fuckin’ hipsters are tunity to tell their story. To give As far as the Murder Master Mu- literally bringing back vinyl so them that is priceless to me. sic Show you can check out over it’s definitely possible. Some 670 episodes at www.ugs4life. EM: Tell us about getting hired people still like physical copies. com. at Murder Dog? I myself prefer physical copies. But the flip side to that coin is I first found Murder Dog down the over-saturation on the In- in Kentucky at my friend LG’s - ternet. Any motherfucker with him and his two sons Keith and a phone can have a podcast, just Tim Jones (RIP) - record shop. like any rapper with a program They sold Cds and had the mag- on their computer can make a azine on the counter. I liked it song and immediately post it because it contained all of the to sound cloud. You have to try artists I listened to from the to stand out. I admit my pod- underground. This was 95-96. cast could be much bigger and When I got home I immediate- it should be. It’s one of the first. ly called Murder Dog and spoke But then again I don’t have the with Mary Downs. After getting backing that others might have. to know them Eric called me I’m not bitter though. The ma- one day and asked me if I want- jority of the artists I interview ed to sell the magazine? I said should be much bigger as well. A sure! Next thing I know a semi- lot of talent is overlooked in an truck delivered several boxes of oversaturated market. But if you the magazine to my house. I hit can find a way to make it stand the streets, sold them, gave them out it could definitely work. away, placed them in strategic lo- Scott Bejda was Mid West Editor of Murder Dog Magazine Placentia Players Perform Albeit Pandemic

Story and photos by Charles was on my camera! I sped home, Purnell retrieved my 35 mm lens and made it back within 30 minutes. he drive in my Chrysler The event is presented by from my crib to Mac’s Speed Shop, an auto TPlacentia’s semiweekly customization and repair shop. car show was stress-free. It There were about thirty cars. took ten minutes. No police Three trophies were given out. harassment. “An they are very nice trophies I swerved into Cobblestone too,” the host said on the phone. Village, 2093 E. Orangethorpe “Not little ones. We didn’t get Ave., Placentia, Calif., at 5:30 lazy because it’s Thanksgiving.” p.m. The show started at five. A blue 1957 Camaro won The community car show, first place. Second place was called Big Wednesday’s, is a red buggy with a homemade special because it continued all Christmas ornament hanging year. There weren’t any other from its roof. An emerald green custom car shows in town. 1980’s Corvette won third. This day is Wednesday before The host also passed out Thanksgiving. I hurry out of my several gifts in a raffle. Everyone car and take a picture of a singer was festive and welcoming. named Ken. The chorus of the The event went from 5 p.m. song he’s singing is: “God bless to 7:30 p.m. On Saturdays it’s the red white and blue…” called Donuts & Dipsticks and Then I turned to shoot a 1960 from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Cadillac. The wrong camera lens Nineteen-fifty Bel Air.

Nineteen-sixty Cadillac.

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Nineteen-eighties Corvette. Third place winner.

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Buggy that won second place. American Muscle

Bob’s Mustang GT

First place winner, 1967 Camaro Donuts & Dipsticks Saturday Nov. 28, 2020

Another dope buggy.

Another dope 1950’s Bel Air

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