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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Mark Ronson Reflects on One His Favorite DJing Memories of All Time · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest before he became a
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  Speaker 1: Grammy winning producer and hit maker in his own right.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Ronson was the premiere DJ in the nineties New
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  Speaker 1: York club scene, and he's decided to share his stories
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  Speaker 1: from that particular era, or at least the ones he
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  Speaker 1: can remember, in a new memoir. There's no doubt in
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  Speaker 1: Notrri's Big was the king of hip hop back then
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  Speaker 1: and of New York, which is why one of Mark's
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  Speaker 1: favorite memories involved Biggie and his music, Mark Tell's Rolling Stone.
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  Speaker 1: Biggie would sometimes hang at parties he was djaying, but
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  Speaker 1: one night a promo guy from his label came as
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  Speaker 1: well with something special, an acetate vinyl record, a demo
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  Speaker 1: pressed fresh from the studio, which is only good for
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  Speaker 1: about ten listens before it starts to fall apart on
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  Speaker 1: It was an unreleased song what would become Biggie's defining hit, Hypnotize.
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  Speaker 1: Mark says, I put it on, I heard a tiny
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  Speaker 1: bit in the headphones and then just dropped it. The
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  Speaker 1: whole club reacted like we've been hit by a meteor.
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  Speaker 1: It was something so sacred and special, Four or five
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  Speaker 1: hundred people all here in that song for the very
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  Speaker 1: first time. When it's an incredible song like that, you
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  Speaker 1: can feel the molecules in the room change, the words
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  Speaker 1: of Mark ronson his brand new memoir Knights People Got
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  Speaker 1: to be a DJ in nineties. New York City is
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  Speaker 1: out now. That's direct from Hollywood,