Episode 13: DJ Rap, Part 1 - Saved by rave, jungle proposals & Ratpack performing in the living room

[@Erayzor76]

No way 52 !!!! Looks amazing. Much respect on all levels- great interview.

[@DeleteTheWeak]

52!!!! Fifty fucking two!!!! Jesus wept. I’m 40 and I look older than DJ Rap. Quality interview. Always had massive love for DJ Rap and it was ace to hear her speak so candidly. Well done Tom and Team

[@angusdeuchars2152]

nothing like a hit of nostalgia. what an influencer! rap’s a legend. looking forward to part 2

[@shingo74]

“like a poker game with dubs” love it 😊

[@lovedeluxx2090]

Loved this, the format is getting better and the interviews getting slicker, DJ Raps a true pioneer. been there done it and got the T-shirt Keep em coming

[@streck0486]

Propa interview. Much respect to the ROAR team and to Rap!

[@thewebsiteisdown7720]

People like Rap are the reason people like us still spin and live in the culture

[@qbass00]

These last 2 episodes are great. Love this format

[@Jusgigg]

Awesome episode !! DJ RAP is a straight LEGEND !!.. 👽❤️🕺🏾🤸🏿‍♂️👽

[@TakeMeBackPirateRadio]

33:01 finally explains why she was called DJ Rap. I always was baffled why she was called DJ Rap.

[@rsrrecordings5583]

Great interview. Really looking forward to the Scorpio interview

[@joes9314]

Just discovered the chanel the 90s jungle time has so many stories to tell I can't wait

[@Gavaldo]

Charissa not one male or female in the early rave days didn’t really fancy DJ Rap. First though Everybody in the scene DJs All the bands that were around always had huge respect for your DJ skills & whall what a proper DJ you are with many great skills on the decks. None of this just because she’s good looking like the many women DJs around today. DJ Rap was always a great DJ First & foremost with her looks made her even more attractive. Loved some sets I saw from her in 91/93 at Rezerection & Amnesia. A true respected pioneer of the scene & and real raver at heart. Still your absolutely gorgeous & your DJ & Producing skills have never been in doubt. Gorgeous & a very talented woman. Massive Respect due had the ultimate experience of meeting you being in the same event with you backstage in August 1993 @ Rezerection event 1 outdoor party Edinburgh. 👍🕊️👍. ❤️✊❤️

[@TakeMeBackPirateRadio]

Such a great interview with some insightful comments about the real essence of having a real music community and the longevity of her career being self employed. Much love to the Music House crew!! RIP Leon Chue.

[@Frankcapobianco]

Absolute legend. Also, congratulations on moving to video! Fantastic!

[@brianlord2]

Cracking interview, I love it how she has the balls to defend herself aswell, especially about the best DJs and mixmag top 100’s . Top work mate 👌

[@PaullyRobots]

I love that She's still at it.

[@sigh909]

Already listened on audio boom. Good first half of the interview. 👍

[@abelmanmoth1]

DJ Rap is a don. Up there with all the greats

[@djnickytlondon]

Love this channel, great interviews from the pioneers of the rave scene.

[@KevGee]

Great stuff ROAR team & great insight into someone whos tapes I used to collect growing up!

[@hobokeegan]

Another great one!!

[@TakeMeBackPirateRadio]

Raving at The Dungeons was a great experience. Proper rave up!!! Miss those days!!!

[@NextSound170]

She’s a lovely woman and you know what, what’s kept her happy is being with Music. Good on her and good on ROAR, please do Bukem

[@AdamTheAd-vanc3d]

Well she said it Musical Therapist 👌🏾👌🏾

[@virtual-adam]

Solid interview! Started my journey going to Goldiggers in Chippenham Wiltshire. Used to visit the various traveler sites in the UK and get clear capsules of MDMA, then it was Blue Dolphins. So smooth those pills, felt really at ease at Goldgiggers on them. After that I found the stuff I got started to get a bit messy/trippy. Think I just caught the end of the best days of it. Went to the jungle nights at The Brunel Rooms many times, was real fun but my god the pills I was getting were so damn messy and a bit rough. Still felt amazing but not like the early days for me.

[@hiddentechno8266]

Only managed to see her DJ once in Edinburgh, remember her and her pal jumping about behind the decks all the way through the set. Its a wonder the needles didnt skip!

[@SlapDashVideos]

Great interview covering so many aspects of Rap's life and career. 👏 She's very fiery and determined with all aspects of her life I see, and never doubted herself (apart from in her book). 😉 Proper legend in the game! 💥 Glad Tom covered the MCMC engagement story. Had to be done. 😀 I wonder whatever did happen to her cat... 😸

[@MITCHBR0WN]

Heard her for the first time in 1991 at a small rave in Desborough of all places... At the Ritz 🙌

[@backintheday3307]

Another great interview. I prefer this new video format over the podcasts. Keep them coming 👍

[@ROARUKPods]

That’s great to hear. Share it will all your mates please!

[@grahamseddon2155]

Love her djing style, keep the great interviews going Tom

[@mathewmeehan5553]

This interview is,boss was done well big up dj rap

[@CraigCairney83]

Great stuff! Love the new video format. Keep ‘em coming. Hopefully one day you guys can get Sharkey. Seems to be on the road to recovery! That would be epic!!

[@ROARUKPods]

We would love to.

[@CraigCairney83]

@@ROARUKPods Hixxy would be cool as well.

[@jonnyretro3128]

Defo get sharkey on!

[@ROARUKPods]

On it.

[@johnwoodcock6468]

Great stuff. Brilliant dj rap. Get Top buzz mad p and jason on here

[@KhameleonOne]

One of the Queens. Max Respect.

[@Davehiphop]

Legend!

[@snax_oldskool]

I remember watching her DJ in 1991 when I was 15 years old in Birmingham. She looked great then and she still looks great now. Man, I really fancy her.

[@felixdoylehammond2497]

Same

[@mathewmeehan5553]

@@felixdoylehammond2497 she is still fit as she was years ago

[@felixdoylehammond2497]

@@mathewmeehan5553 trust

[@ORGPPL1]

Legend! Btw Bret from Telepathy mentioned that stabbing in an interview and said "she didn't know someone got stabbed".

[@colingram8785]

THAT was fucking awesome!!!! I knew it would be good, but not THAT good. Can't wait for Part 2. Rap is a true pioneer, a brilliant artist outright (forget gender..), a strong personality and a fighter/suceeder. Great DJ, unbelievable producer (Spiritual Aura is arguably one of the best Jungle tunes of all time and certainly one of my favs..) and all round good person. Well done Tom, these podcasts and interviews are the nuts, but this one has really been so enjoyable and I love Rap's cheekiness. She even got you blushing ahaha! Thank you Rap for your time - you are a legend of the Scene, no question. Superb job guys. I'm gonna donate something in early 2021, because money has been tight and things are turning that corner, I wanna contribute to keeping this going; I bloody love them! :D

[@ROARUKPods]

Thanks Col, these sort of comments mean a huge amount.

[@colingram8785]

@@ROARUKPods you are very welcome; I am loving these fun and insightful interviews and features being a long time Rave fanatic and I am keen to see it keep going. I think an interesting one/s if possible would be M-Zone or Fergus, guys who were predominately booked around Hardcore/Happier DJs at various events but were more your Hard Trance/Techno - Loftgroover, Mark EG (the mentalist!) and maybe 3 Dom & Dolphin, these sorts of guys too. Also a few of the unheralded producers from back then too like Dave Charlesworth, Nookie, The Good 2 Bad & Hugly, Sacred, A-Sides; Kev Bird & Waxdoctor etc and definitely Manix and the Reinforced crew! So not too many then lol!

[@breakerbreaker292]

17m50s making music for all the right reasons. Big respect.

[@stevewoodrow2011]

One of the best DJ👍

[@ROARUKPods]

Glad you enjoyed it mate. If you can support us with an ongoing donation to keep us going that’d be great! Patreon.com/ROARUKPods x

[@ashtray314]

Imagine if your claim to fame was I went to School Dinners and got smacked by DJ Rap 😂😂 Wicked interview, she really is a pioneer and not just for jungle, but what she represents.

[@bb-lp1ym]

brilliant podcast guys. thanks

[@jamiebruce4924]

Great woman! I saw her DJing twice when i was 17 and she would of been 22.I completely fell in love! She's right, the DJ's were fellow ravers which was wicked!

[@williamjay8715]

Great interview.... She seems like a really lovely gal. But interview was very in depth especially the early years. Great podcast. Subbed.

[@ROARUKPods]

Cheers dude. And do chuck us a few quid if you can! gofundme.com/the90sravepodcast

[@williamjay8715]

@@ROARUKPods will do... Great channel

[@TheOnlyCathyCat]

I remember seeing Rap walk up to the decks at Helter Skelter The Final Countdown and thinking that she was the coolest lady I had ever seen, in my fuzzed memory she is walking down some steps(but I don't think that is true recall tbh), and she had this long coat on and there was a confidence to her that stuck with me.

[@antjmi]

She is cool as man....more women like DJ Rap we need not these fake bloody Instagram models we get these days...

[@elliotjohnson4685]

She's proper amazing 💖

[@rjnagle]

"Married to music." Well-said. I'm married to literature

[@bb-lp1ym]

queen of jungle for sure , Quest Wolverhampton regular in the early 1990s

[@dannywholuv]

He only blushed once. Fair fucks man!

[@wellraverofficial2190]

Hi everyone at ROAR! I'm not sure if this might be of interest to anyone or not but I did a follow up interview to this video with with the aim of exploring further into how DJ Rap keeps herself well. . I've also asked DJ Rap what she has been doing since this ROAR interview and the interview ended up going down a number of paths I wasn't expecting. Credit to Tom and everyone at ROAR for their great interviews and without watching this I probably wouldn't have thought to approach DJ Rap. And thanks DJ Rap for allowing me to share the interview to the wider public. Not sure if I'm quite up to Tom's standards of interviewing but had a go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJDGopZ5p9V8eZY

[@hearmenow909]

Rap sounds so different. There's a German documentary from back in the mid-90s and Rap has a strong cockney accent in that video. All these years later that accent has completely gone.

[@grahamseddon2155]

great interviw with DJ Rap, she's very sweet, stunned she's shy, can't believe she lives in Reading, not far from me, wasn't she a model before djing? if so ask about that when you do part 2

[@marcp3788]

She did page 3 in The Sun apparently

[@BunkerMonkeyUK]

I thought that she was still in LA!

[@amoxdnb]

What a leg end!!!! 🤩😍

[@NextSound170]

Proper. No pun intended. Beautiful soul

[@mrscruff238]

Leytonstone my Manor, and I remember that flyer 😂😂

[@ROARUKPods]

Ha, really?

[@mrscruff238]

@@ROARUKPods if I had of known about that party I would have gone down there me self

[@TonySayers]

Intelligent woman. What a legend!

[@lornawillockify]

Rap is right, I loved raves because it took me out of reality. The music told stories. I didn't want to be connected to this planet nor this body and raves gave me that 😎 And the eclipse was my local. 👍

[@TheOnlyCathyCat]

That's how I felt....Dancing in the rave where everyone is looking towards someone hidden behind the decks, it allowed me to escape my body for a few hours, and thus also escape the dysphoria. Jungle literally saved my life.

[@TheOnlyCathyCat]

...and now I think about it, that is what people look for in meditation, the loss of self, of identity and just being...but you get to do it to some hypnotic bass and with loads of others who have accidentally shed their selves too....

[@ninjasrose1653]

She's beautiful inside and out. She's had a tough life and shone through despite all the hardships. I can really identify with a lot of what's happebed to her.

[@RunOfTheHind]

Played at Seduction at the Lido Margate in '92. It was so hot she took her trousers off. The MC got VERY excited about it.

[@MemoryLaneCinema]

LIDL? No way. They tried to set up in Norway but we did not want it :)

[@felixdoylehammond2497]

She's perfect

[@swiftcee266]

*I'm here for DJ Rap, and she's 💯 correct on the early years*

[@jonzaremba]

Great interview. Love the video format. Got me thinking it would be cool to get a brief tour of the room/studio where you interview. Would love to see Rap pull out some of her favorite records. Discuss what is on those tapes on the shelf. Talk about the articles/clippings hung on her wall....etc....

[@ROARUKPods]

Good idea.

[@djunclephill422]

❤️❤️❤️

[@chevyatkins558]

Should interview mc Robbie dee

[@keithy363]

Fit as beeny

[@djunclephill422]

I wish I knew her when I was 19 and took her for a Nando’s

[@AW-Services]

Discovery channel's new host. "HOW IT'S MADE" with your host DJ Rap. 30 years later and we the followers fans and nutcases are still here supporting with love affection and feet on the floor

[@livinghere1972]

Comes across a lovely woman.

[@saturn1returns]

A proper powerful woman.

[@leolicursi3536]

Every rave going

[@armixmotorsport2247]

52??????? No way!!! PROPA babyfacE :P

[@nathanielf48]

Not only is rap is a fantastic dj and producer and a big inspiration' sadly the only top less picture of a female inbetween all my flyers above my decks in my bedroom growing up was a picture of dj rap b4 she was a dj. I'm sure it was. It's a sad thing to say now lol but I'm sure rap did a few pictures at some point.

[@leolicursi3536]

She used to have a cockney accent.. Didnt realise she a trip head brilliant on a level

[@johnboy19842657]

Only 52!? If I look that good at 40 I'd be happy

[@benashford]

Unpopular opinion? I love the old guard, Fabio, JJ Frost, Ray Keith etc to bits and they are undoubtedly the pioneers of the sound and the heroes of my youth. But very few of them were especially good as pure DJs. The likes of Andy C, Friction, AMC etc have taken the technical side to a whole other level. Discuss!

[@dom6251]

Yawn 🥱

[@awall7635]

Cos no one gave a fuck back then, can't say i've ever been at a do off chops and thought "This mixings a bit shit", too engulfed in the tunes and the moment. Listening to tapes straight was a different matter.

[@johnwoodcock6468]

Why no one ever mention...top buzz

[@oldskoolordie]

The Mr kirk story is terrible. Feel like she was scapegoated there. Massive fan of rap, bought all her tunes with Aston and then the proper talent stuff.

[@livinghere1972]

DJ Pigbag says 'how could you'. Isn't he in jail now?

[@ROARUKPods]

Yup

[@leolicursi3536]

D m t in u s a

[@BunkerMonkeyUK]

She's said for years that she'd never have kids given pressure from society. You didn't need to ask that question early on. Anyone who followed her knew this.

[@ROARUKPods]

If you watch other episodes, we ask everyone. Not everyone knows everything about those we interview. And she didn't mind at all.

[@BunkerMonkeyUK]

@@ROARUKPods yeah been watching some others. My apologies for jumping to conclusions.

[@jasonvickerz]

Rap I live in Reading hit me up girl