For a few years now, folks in Philadelphia have compared Illvibe Collective with the Skratch Makaniks DJ crew and have even put together little scenarios asking what would happen if this guy battled that guy. “Who would win if Skipmode battled Excel and Jay-Ski battled Statik,” etc… Little did a lot of these folks know, we’ve always been comrads. We are all skilled and accomplished in our own rights, from my world tours with various artists to Aktive rocking MTV and BET stages with Mario and Nas, to Jay-Ski and Lil’ Dave”s legendary contribution to Philadelphia radio and so on. To put it short, beef occurs often when there is insecurity on someone’s part. We’re all super confident and respect each others work so we love hearing each other in the mix. Which is why when we were approached to do a collaboration last summer, we said “Hell yeah, let’s do it!” The night was so powerful and memorable that we were just waiting for another opportunity to present itself. In steps Justin from www.215hiphop.com who asked us all if we’d be down to do something on a monthly basis. We decided that it was a good idea and decided to have Skipmode and Sat-One hold things down on the regular with support from everyone on the respective teams.

Tonight is another edition of ill! Makaniks in which I will be the featured guest with DJs Skipmode and Sat-One. It will also be the listening/album release event for Dave Ghetto’s Hustle Simmons project so come early tonight. Plus there are dumb cheap drinks at The Barbary. Don’t Miss it.