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DJ Kazzeo has been in the music game for 25 years, and can't stop and won't stop.
When you've been a radio DJ in one spot, for as long as DJ Kazzeo has, some of your most memorable career moments happen in public. Like his hour-long interview with DMC of Run-DMC. Or taking live calls the night Tupac Shakur died. Or broadcasting the day after the 9/11 attacks.
This Wednesday, Sept. 19, DJ Kazzeo celebrates his 25th year on the air at Salinas' 90.9FM KHDC, otherwise known as Radio Bilingue.
Through his show, Wednesday Wreck, which he hosts with a crew of musically minded compadres, he's been pumping real hip-hop over the airwaves from Chualar to Salinas to Santa Cruz (as well as online at wednesdaywreck.com) since September 1993. Kazzeo's show is almost entirely in English (though at the moment he is giving shine to Spanishlanguage rapper Jota Effectus), and has been religiously focused on the most authentic portions of the music and culture, sometimes referred to as "underground" or "real" hip-hop.
"[In my 25 years], radio, moreso commercial radio, has changed by becoming a follower instead of a leader," he writes by email. "When I started in radio in 1991, the goal was to...take time and discover unheard of music and expose it. Commercial radio now just plays whatever musical acts...