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Master Gee (musician)
American hip hop artist and DJ
Musical artist
Guy Anthony O'Brien (born June 15, 1962), known by his stage nameMaster Gee, is an American hip hop recording artist and DJ. He is a founding member of the hip hop group the Sugarhill Gang. On the band's signature song, "Rapper's Delight", he raps, "I said M-A-S, T-E-R, a G with a double E, I said I go by the unforgettable name of the man they call the Master Gee". He was 17 at the time of recording the song, alluded to by the lyric, "I guess by now you can take a hunch, and find that I am the baby of the bunch".
Biography
[edit]O'Brien grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, where at an early age he was exposed to a steady stream of doo wop and rhythm and blues, and established himself as an energetic emcee in the pioneering Phase 2 hip-hop crew.[1] During the early infancy of the commercial hip-hop movement in 1979, Master Gee, Big Bank Hank and Wonder Mike were discovered by producer Sylvia Robinson[2] and brought together to form The Sugarhill Gang.[3] He is the older brother of Leo O'Brien, who portrayed "Richie Green" in The Last Dragon.
O'Brien stepped away from Sugar Hill Records in 1984, and established himself as a successful entrepreneur in the magazine indust
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Music is in My DNA
In high school, Guy O’Brien started DJing to earn some extra cash. Money was tight, and he knew his mom needed him to help make ends meet where he could. As he got older, he was covering his clothing and personal expenses and was relying on his mother only for food and shelter. This allowed her to spend more money for her bills and his younger siblings, Celeste and Leo.
It was the late 1970s, and rap music was a young, as-yet-little-known art form coming up in New York City. Although Guy lived in New Jersey, a short bus ride from the City, at the time it felt like two different worlds. One night at a party, he watched another DJ, Mark, talking over the music. “I went up to him and said, ‘Why are you talking over the record?’” recalls Guy. “Mark said, ‘Listen man, it’s rap. It’s what they do in New York.’ I thought, I better learn this so I can keep up. Since I was a drummer, I could hear the beat in my head. I heard it as beats, and I heard it as poetry. I thought of it as rhythmic poetry.”
Pretty soon, Guy found he had a natural talent for rapping. He began writing lyrics and performing a little around town. Then one day, fate intervened. He was walking with a friend out of a local pizza place when they noticed a car out front. In the car were a few acqu