KeyKool

Kikuo Nishi aka Key-Kool is a third generation Japanese-American that got involved in hip-hop in the early 1980s when he began pop-locking and breakdancing and picked up DJing in 1983. Key-Kool lived behind the Roadium Swapmeet in Torrance, CA where a record stand owned by Steve Yano had a wide selection of vinyl records from both the East and West Coast. As a young hip-hop fiend, Key-Kool hung out at the Roadium record stand every weekend, and witnessed the forming and explosion of N.W.A., (Steve Yano is credited for introducing Eazy E to Dr. Dre, which spawned N.W.A.), which would later influence Key-Kool in releasing records independently. Key-Kool gained recognition as an up and coming DJ and by the young age of 15, Key was DJing...