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My Music: DJ Matty

May 1, 2014 by: Cate Czarnecki

I’m from a small town, so people listened to country. Also I went to high school before rap music, so white kids mostly listened to country or ’70s rock. Black kids listened to “We Are Family” by the Sisters Sledge and “Le Freak,” disco stuff. It’s hard to imagine that world now. I went to high school from 1981-85 and rap and punk were still underground. At the time, stuff from the ’60s like the Rolling Stones and

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