DJ Kay Slay, was an American disc jockey and record executive from New York City.
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As a youth, DJ Kay Slay was involved in New York’s flourishing hip-hop scene, and he witnessed firsthand the ascent of legendary disc jockeys such as Grandmaster Flash, Grand Wizzard Theodore and Kool DJ Red Alert, in the late 1970s and into the 1980s.
With the decline of the graffiti movement in the late 1980s, DJ Kay Slay began dealing with narcotics and consequently ended up in jail by the late 1980s but he was released from jail in 1990, and claims to have abstained from using drugs ever since.
DJ Kay Slay is referred to by The New York Times as “Hip Hop’s One-Man Ministry of Insults”.
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DJ Kay Slay released four studio albums, The Streetsweeper, Vol. 1, The Streetsweeper, Vol. 2, The Champions: North Meets South (with Greg Street), and More Than Just a DJ.
DJ Kay Slay was originally a prominent graffiti artist, having been featured in the 1983 hip hop documentary, Style Wars.
Sadly, DJ Kay Slay died of complications from covid-19, on April 17, 2022, at the age of 55.
DJ Kay Slay leaves behind his wife Buffie Carruth. However, there is no information regarding whether the couple children or not.
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