Mr. Len, best known as the DJ for the seminal New York City underground hip hop group Company Flow, is now producing a Matador album that will sum up his view of hip hop at the turn of the millennium. [...]

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09/07/01 — Mr. Len is currently working on commissioning a video for a track from ‘Pity The Fool....’ It will definitely NOT be the initial proposal that was based around getting busted having a party in his parents’ house. I think we’ll leave that one to Kid ’n’ Play. Watch the Matador site for copius free MP3’s from ‘Pity The Fool’ in the upcoming weeks, including luminary MC’s like Chubb Rock, Jean Grae, Massinfluence, Mr. Live and Kice of Course. Other MC’s on the album will include D-stroy, Q-Unique, Steady Roc, Lord Sear, Murs and Amplifire. ‘Pity The Fool: Experiments in Therapy Behind the Mask of Music While Handing Out Dummy Smacks.’ In stores October 23.

12/06/00 — Mr Len = Peavey Power
Mr. Len has secured a sponsorship deal with the Peavey corporation. To kick this relationship off, he will be spinning records in the Peavey booth at the Winter NAMM (National Assoc of Music Merchants) Trade Show at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA from January 18-21.

I had never heard of NAMM before, but this is what it says on their website:

“Twice a year, the International Music Products Association hosts the NAMM Show, the premier trade show for the music industry. The NAMM trade show welcomes retail music store buyers, manufacturers, manufacturers’ representatives, distributors and publishers of the music products industry, professional audio, sound and lighting companies and commercial recording studios. NAMM is a 100-year-old organization with over 6000 members. NAMM’s winter and summer shows regularly feature over 1100 exhibitors and over 60,000 attendees at each show.”

One of our label presidents has attended NAMM before, and says the vibe is “very Bill & Ted,” though presumably it will be less so with Mr. Len doing his thing.

Len will also be demonstrating the new Peavey mixer at the American DJ Awards show in Anaheim that same week.

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