According to Jerry Heller, in his Book; "Ruthless: A Memoir," he and Eazy-E were early investors in "The Source" magazine when Dave Mays was still attending Harvard: “Dave Mays and I had been-you know [Eazy-E] and I had put [The Source] in business. When him and Jon Shecter and [James Bernard founded the magazine], they were roommates at Harvard [University]. We used to send them money every month. See, The Source was a mimeographed sheet that would come over your fax machine a couple times a month. So we would send them a couple of hundred bucks every month, and we would actually pay for their supplies, to start The Source."
Buying tapes and The Source at Skippy White's, gear and Jordans at Manhattan's, and getting my Hi Top Fade at Nu Image are some of my favorite high school memories.
That would be a interesting conversation, not saying that this interviewer didn’t do a good job, but the conversation between him and Vlad would be interesting.
The Source was where a lot of us saw or heard about Eminem for the first time. I remember him being in there in the Hip Hop Quotable section if I’m correct. It might have been a different section but yo that was in the 90’s. Man we read that shit like it was the Bible back then. It really is no joke when they refer to it as the hip hop bible. Seeing all the ads for dj gear in the back is what made me want to get started djing. Shout out to Dave Mays. You created a really beautiful thing.
Small clips from viral mumble kids who lie need to be small for entertainment value. Long clips of actual people worth interviewing is worth 20+ minutes
Was fortunate to grow up in the Essence of Hip Hop. Was ten years old in 86, and Rap music took over my life. I was living in Alaska at the time. 86-92 Thats when Rappers to me were my Black History Teachers. Salute to Dave Mays and his major Contribution to Hip Hop. The Source was everything to me growing up✊🏽.
he's not lying about Boston loving all types of hip hop. I'm was raised between boston and carolina...and when I used to go to beantown I used to get hipped to all the south music. I remember Outkast first album was huge up there. So was UGK
I have every issue from issue # 2 to June 2000.….still have all my Red Alert,Marley Marl "In Control" Stretch & Bobbito shows and many others,that I bought off cats selling tapes in the back pages of the SOURCE....Peace! Will in Evansville, Indiana
According to Jerry Heller, in his Book; "Ruthless: A Memoir," he and Eazy-E were early investors in "The Source" magazine when Dave Mays was still attending Harvard: “Dave Mays and I had been-you know [Eazy-E] and I had put [The Source] in business. When him and Jon Shecter and [James Bernard founded the magazine], they were roommates at Harvard [University]. We used to send them money every month. See, The Source was a mimeographed sheet that would come over your fax machine a couple times a month. So we would send them a couple of hundred bucks every month, and we would actually pay for their supplies, to start The Source."
THE LEGENDARY DAVE MAYS!!!!!! THE SOURCE took hip hop to the next level during the early years of its existence. I copped a lot of albums based on their high ratings. HARVARD, BROWN AND PENN?? Damn dude is definitely a genius. By the way, he look like if he in the witness protection program 😂😂.
Dave Maya from DC went to DC public schools. He went to the same High School as Wayne Perry (Wilson HS). Shows the uniqueness and diversity of DC. Killers and ivy leaguers at the same school.
Upper NW DC is the shopping district and a really pricey area. I didn't know it was always like that. He even sound like he from home. I never knew....wow,
Oh man. I can’t wait to hear about the downfall. The source was my bible at one point, I would read it cover to cover and I became an expert on everyone, including the stuff I hated, but I still read it because I wanted to know everything. Then they decided to pick a fight with Eminem
Seriously though the source was hip hop bible. When you bought albums it was off the mic review because you couldn't hear it online and music streaming didn't exist.
@@BearFaceTV yeah. Basically like a unicorn. You heard about it but didn’t see it too often. I think Mobb Deep got 4.5 mics for ‘Tha Infamous’. Personally I can’t recall any 5 mics album of the top of the head but yeah.
It's funny when you hear the major difference when someone from Harvard says they were involved in "extra curricular activities"😂 meaning basketball, tennis, editor of the school paper. Instead of running numbers, pimping, slanging packs.
I'm 43 my cousin would babysit me and my bro ,her boyfriend/baby daddy would dj in the parks in NY ish was the best times.🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽.. When gunshots didn't mean death it meant the party issssss litttyyy🤣👌🏽
My guess is he went to Wilson High school and Deal jr high in DC til this day 2 of the best schools anywhere in this country . Wow I didnt know he was a DC native. Im sorry ,but this makes it more amazing that he created the Source being he is from DC. If you from DC you had to basically be a closet lover of Rap in its pure form back then ,for him to create the source he had to be passionate about rap. What we DC people didnt understand was we like rap but it had to have a GO GO beat to it. So DC natives wanted it to sound local. DC got to see so many great RAP artist early before the masses knew who they where, because they would do shows at the GOGO and we would be scratching are heads and you could hear a pin drop, not realizing the GoGo band would remake the rap song and we would love it Lol. RAp in its pure form dominates GoGo now all day everyday. Great insight
@@FultonRecovery D.C. CHUCK BROWN RARE ESSENCE E.U. TROUBLE FUNK JUNKYARD BAND. SLIM CHARLES FROM THE WIRE HAVE A GO GO FOR 30 YEARS. GO GO STARTED URBAN FASHION AND MORE. EVERY ARTIST THAT USE GO GO HIT THE TOP OF THE CHARTS. CHUCK BROWN BUSTIN LOOSE WENT #1. NELLY USE IT IN IT'S HOT IN HERE WENT #1. BEYONCE CRAZY IN LOVE IS GO GO. WENT NUMBER 1 MANY OF THE TOP ARTIST SAMPLED GO GO
The source was legendary man. I cant front. Ive got my mags till this day. Unsigned hype column has the biggest what ifs in the game. Lol and i think they had a milk carton section for rappers missing in action lmao
I think if Benzino had distanced himself from the Source while the beef with Aftermath, the source might've survived. It's like Benzino dragged the Source down with him, people started to side and mess with XXL more when that whole beef went down.
Growing up in the 90s/early 2000s it was a different world. You younger guys missed out. Magazines had beef. The source awards was crazy, wrestling and many other things. There wont be another time like it for a kid/teen
It was The source, XXL, FEDS, Don Diva for me. Add to the fact your clothing was hip hop brands like phat farm,Rocawear eynce,sean john. Hip hop really was a lifestyle before culture vulture forced industry plants and lil nas x
@@juanboss560 paperback media as a whole did. I was 12 in 06 and was buying the Source, XXL, and MuderDawg magazines, Don Diva but that's around the time hiphopDX, HipHop news, and WorldstarHipHop started to take off. Mediatakeout used to have some of the craziest stories and sometimes it was fake but when that news was real it was some shocking shit
Black ppl praise and give more credit to him and act like BENZINO wasnt an intricate part of the growth of the source...now of us really Associate Benzino with the source...eventhough he was the Heart of.... Dave is the Brains but Zino was the heart and liver of the source I'm old enough to remember
You got accepted to Harvard, penn, and brown ? Ppl don’t understand how probable that is !!!!! That’s a crazy accomplishment lol he must of been a genius
Eminem- The Sauce, diss track basically ended this magazine company. That's why that diss track is my top 3 of all time and Em wrote that shit from his heart lol
I became a porn cartoon artist by always reading and looking at the low rider magazines. Those models were always beautiful and so much hotter than playboy girls. Saw one model spread out and I decided to start sketching them and now I perfected the sketches.
Watch the full interview now as a VladTV TH-cam Member: th-cam.com/channels/g7lal8IC-xPyKfgH4rdUcA.htmljoin
Loving all of this nostalgia stuff recently. You should get the program director for BET uncut on here.
GET SLIM CHARLES FROM THE WIRE. WHICH ALSO HAVE A GO GO BAND FOR 30 YEARS
According to Jerry Heller, in his Book; "Ruthless: A Memoir," he and Eazy-E were early investors in "The Source" magazine when Dave Mays was still attending Harvard: “Dave Mays and I had been-you know [Eazy-E] and I had put [The Source] in business. When him and Jon Shecter and [James Bernard founded the magazine], they were roommates at Harvard [University]. We used to send them money every month. See, The Source was a mimeographed sheet that would come over your fax machine a couple times a month. So we would send them a couple of hundred bucks every month, and we would actually pay for their supplies, to start The Source."
@@davidcane6395 THAT'S CALLED ADVERTISEMENT
Buying tapes and The Source at Skippy White's, gear and Jordans at Manhattan's, and getting my Hi Top Fade at Nu Image are some of my favorite high school memories.
Hip Zepi too ✌🏼❤️\\\
Harry the Greeks 💯
The Source was everything to hip hop heads growing up!!
Looks like ice t's younger brother
TRUTH!!!!!!
Longest part one ever….salute glad you tha man…
Lmfao @ that avatar
7 years 4 months and 25 days I got the source throughout my whole bid !!!💯👌🏾
Looks like ice t's younger brother
This interview needed Vlad. This guy and Vlad have a lot in common.
Yea well Vlad got Benzino… Thank you Shawn Prez
That would be a interesting conversation, not saying that this interviewer didn’t do a good job, but the conversation between him and Vlad would be interesting.
Nah.
Is this dude a Fed too?
@@noelr1010let me tell you about Nick Canon
The Source was where a lot of us saw or heard about Eminem for the first time. I remember him being in there in the Hip Hop Quotable section if I’m correct. It might have been a different section but yo that was in the 90’s. Man we read that shit like it was the Bible back then. It really is no joke when they refer to it as the hip hop bible. Seeing all the ads for dj gear in the back is what made me want to get started djing. Shout out to Dave Mays. You created a really beautiful thing.
Unsigned hype
Man I remember going to Walmart reading all the new source magazines! Man those was the good ole days!
You can tell the level of respect Vlad has for someone by the length of the clips.
aha
That's your assumption.
Small clips from viral mumble kids who lie need to be small for entertainment value. Long clips of actual people worth interviewing is worth 20+ minutes
@@BangBangBang. Actually, analytics indicate shorter clips receive more views.
Was fortunate to grow up in the Essence of Hip Hop. Was ten years old in 86, and Rap music took over my
life.
I was living in Alaska at the time. 86-92 Thats when Rappers to me were my Black History Teachers.
Salute to Dave Mays and his major Contribution to Hip Hop. The Source was everything to me growing up✊🏽.
I was 10 in 1986 too, just turned 46 January 4 2022
@@apprentessjgooden2263 happy birthday
@@apprentessjgooden2263 my Born Day coming up JAN17✨. Salute to you ♑️ 🐐Capricorn👌🏽
he's not lying about Boston loving all types of hip hop. I'm was raised between boston and carolina...and when I used to go to beantown I used to get hipped to all the south music. I remember Outkast first album was huge up there. So was UGK
Vlad has been aching for someone to come and talk about Eminem. Just wait for whatever part it is gonna be 🤣
Ultra important to hip hop! Salute!
Looks like ice t's younger brother
Great interview!
I have every issue from issue # 2 to June 2000.….still have all my Red Alert,Marley Marl "In Control" Stretch & Bobbito shows and many others,that I bought off cats selling tapes in the back pages of the SOURCE....Peace! Will in Evansville, Indiana
I REALLY MISS HOW LIFE USE TO BE , BEFORE THE INTERNET TOOK OVER THE WORLD 😒
Man let's talk about it. I miss more these days than ever. Especially the 90s. We were getting enough technology to not drive things over the wall.
“ I had dreams of being “ unsigned hype “ until I crushed by Dave Mays almost let my pen fall asleep on the page - Game
The way the interviewer is talking to this guy is completely different than how he interviews a lot of the other guests.
According to Jerry Heller, in his Book; "Ruthless: A Memoir," he and Eazy-E were early investors in "The Source" magazine when Dave Mays was still attending Harvard: “Dave Mays and I had been-you know [Eazy-E] and I had put [The Source] in business. When him and Jon Shecter and [James Bernard founded the magazine], they were roommates at Harvard [University]. We used to send them money every month. See, The Source was a mimeographed sheet that would come over your fax machine a couple times a month. So we would send them a couple of hundred bucks every month, and we would actually pay for their supplies, to start The Source."
Looks like ice t's younger brother
Such a dope story, inspirational dude right here
Looks like ice t's younger brother
When the source said it was 5 mics… it was 5 mics… until that whole Benzino fiasco. But other than that. The Source is legendary.
not true! they rated west coast and shout side almost never 5 mics
They hated on a lot of albums that weren’t East Coast like both Chronics for example
THE LEGENDARY DAVE MAYS!!!!!! THE SOURCE took hip hop to the next level during the early years of its existence. I copped a lot of albums based on their high ratings.
HARVARD, BROWN AND PENN?? Damn dude is definitely a genius. By the way, he look like if he in the witness protection program 😂😂.
Vlad really holding on the next part of Azie interview. Come on Glad
Yeah he is.
Lol facts
I literally said to my self "come on with the azie vlad" and clicked this interview to substitute
You knew that was coming!
Everybody's waiting for that 🙂
This is who VLAD wants to be, A Certified hiphop LEGEND !!
Benzino was like "Vlad, come on put Dave on."
I would read the source all the time.
Dave Maya from DC went to DC public schools. He went to the same High School as Wayne Perry (Wilson HS). Shows the uniqueness and diversity of DC. Killers and ivy leaguers at the same school.
Looks like ice t's younger brother
Yep! Wayne got kicked out of Wilson.
Upper NW DC is the shopping district and a really pricey area. I didn't know it was always like that. He even sound like he from home. I never knew....wow,
Bowie stand up. Gang gang
@@figo007tv Bowie is Maryland
Most likely he’s talking about Tenleytown, Chevy chase or the friendship heights. That’s way up north.
@@waynebarry2597 yessir. The Biggest hood in MD. Ask Wayne Barry.
His business sense is CRAZY to think to make a mailing list & to sell his magazines across the country!!!
Oh man. I can’t wait to hear about the downfall. The source was my bible at one point, I would read it cover to cover and I became an expert on everyone, including the stuff I hated, but I still read it because I wanted to know everything. Then they decided to pick a fight with Eminem
Looks like ice t's younger brother
Dave definitely from dc from just two statements, most people who say their from dc are really from Maryland, and his love for Gogo music.
Shawn Perez getting doing a lot of interviews on VladTv respect
Vlads paying him in food stamps
He’s giving us Damona now ! God bless him
Whos a better Interviewer , This guy, or the girl that interviewed Fredro? Right , Right, for sure , thats fire. Where's Glad at?
Everyone GullyTV interviews Vlad comes behind him. DC stand up ! One of our own ! Also don’t forget BET started here !
Speaking facts
I grew up right outside Cambridge, Malden, Ma. (MAPLEWOOD)
I used to go to Borders every month and check The Source, XXL, Transworld Skateboarding, PLUSH CAR magazine and STUFF magazine
Transworld???
@@javiervega1065 Do ya Googles idiot
Seriously though the source was hip hop bible. When you bought albums it was off the mic review because you couldn't hear it online and music streaming didn't exist.
Shawn prez on fire 🔥
Growing up I wanted 5 mics in the source😒boy they harder they fall😂
That was no easy feat.
😂😂😂man that 5 mics
@@BearFaceTV yeah. Basically like a unicorn. You heard about it but didn’t see it too often. I think Mobb Deep got 4.5 mics for ‘Tha Infamous’. Personally I can’t recall any 5 mics album of the top of the head but yeah.
It's funny when you hear the major difference when someone from Harvard says they were involved in "extra curricular activities"😂 meaning basketball, tennis, editor of the school paper. Instead of running numbers, pimping, slanging packs.
I'm 43 my cousin would babysit me and my bro ,her boyfriend/baby daddy would dj in the parks in NY ish was the best times.🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽.. When gunshots didn't mean death it meant the party issssss litttyyy🤣👌🏽
Vlad let this 22 min clip go bc 85south got the interview first
I read everything. Even the credits writers...etc..
My guess is he went to Wilson High school and Deal jr high in DC til this day 2 of the best schools anywhere in this country . Wow I didnt know he was a DC native. Im sorry ,but this makes it more amazing that he created the Source being he is from DC. If you from DC you had to basically be a closet lover of Rap in its pure form back then ,for him to create the source he had to be passionate about rap. What we DC people didnt understand was we like rap but it had to have a GO GO beat to it. So DC natives wanted it to sound local. DC got to see so many great RAP artist early before the masses knew who they where, because they would do shows at the GOGO and we would be scratching are heads and you could hear a pin drop, not realizing the GoGo band would remake the rap song and we would love it Lol. RAp in its pure form dominates GoGo now all day everyday. Great insight
LLS WE DID LIKE RAP BUT GO GO MORE. GO GO DIDN'T SELLOUT CAN'T BE STOLEN BY WHITE TO SPIRITUAL. THAT'S WHY IT DIDN'T GO POP. BUT GO GO IS ON TV NOW.
@@FultonRecovery D.C. CHUCK BROWN RARE ESSENCE E.U. TROUBLE FUNK JUNKYARD BAND.
SLIM CHARLES FROM THE WIRE HAVE A GO GO FOR 30 YEARS.
GO GO STARTED URBAN FASHION AND MORE. EVERY ARTIST THAT USE GO GO HIT THE TOP OF THE CHARTS. CHUCK BROWN BUSTIN LOOSE WENT #1. NELLY USE IT IN IT'S HOT IN HERE WENT #1. BEYONCE CRAZY IN LOVE IS GO GO. WENT NUMBER 1 MANY OF THE TOP ARTIST SAMPLED GO GO
He did go to Wilson Highschool
I went to school with slim. Wilson Tigers 4 life!
@@mediacommunications5112 Come on man Spingarn Green Wave even though they closed my alma mater
Thats a fact about what he's saying about Boston or hiphop we play everything from everywhere.
The NEO of hip hop lmao
The source was legendary man. I cant front. Ive got my mags till this day. Unsigned hype column has the biggest what ifs in the game. Lol and i think they had a milk carton section for rappers missing in action lmao
ThT was XXL
@@cyrusgill1594 ahh yes milk carton was xxl
Ladies & Gentlemens Jon B older brother... Mr. Dave Mays lol
It's actually ice t's younger brother
YO His Show was the Shit Back in the day We would stay up all night long just to Listen to the Show
Later on would drive around for hours bumpin’ 88.9
I GUESS GO GO WAS TO ADVANCE FOR Y'ALL
I think if Benzino had distanced himself from the Source while the beef with Aftermath, the source might've survived. It's like Benzino dragged the Source down with him, people started to side and mess with XXL more when that whole beef went down.
Vlad must be on vacation. If he had anything to do with this he would of broke this down to 10, 2 minute clips.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Here after Vlad last interview
This mag turning into benzino personal soapbox was one of the biggest disasters in rap music.
Dave looks different. He looks like an illegitmate brother of AJ from the Backstreet Boys.
He's actually ice t's younger brother
Stop playing and drop the azie video vlad!!!
Why is Vlad not doing this interview?
@djvlad prez was a good add to the team.
Mannnnnn guests like these need Vlad to interview them like lil cease one and this one too
Got accepted to Harvard, Brown, and Penn.Ok! We’re watching a man worth watching ladies and gentlemen.
Are u worth watching?
Damn I thought this was a Uncut Gems trailer
DC people love GoGo More than rap facts💯.
A lot of us younger guys don't know about the source because they fell off before we became kids/teens.
Growing up in the 90s/early 2000s it was a different world. You younger guys missed out. Magazines had beef. The source awards was crazy, wrestling and many other things. There wont be another time like it for a kid/teen
Yeah, The Source fell off in 2006.
It was The source, XXL, FEDS, Don Diva for me. Add to the fact your clothing was hip hop brands like phat farm,Rocawear eynce,sean john. Hip hop really was a lifestyle before culture vulture forced industry plants and lil nas x
@@donmacmilly LLS THOSE CLOTHES WAS WEAK
@@juanboss560 paperback media as a whole did. I was 12 in 06 and was buying the Source, XXL, and MuderDawg magazines, Don Diva but that's around the time hiphopDX, HipHop news, and WorldstarHipHop started to take off. Mediatakeout used to have some of the craziest stories and sometimes it was fake but when that news was real it was some shocking shit
Isn't Shawn Prez the new owner of the source magazine presently?
O sh!y it’s daredevil 😭😭😭
Big Facts known him when he went to the school (HARVARD)& Benzo.
Iconic
***{ LEGENDARY }***
Shoutout to Shecky Green of Game Recordings too!
Vladtv is really putting on for the culture.
He always has been
@@TheFreshSoundsFlorida lord Jamar said nah
@@figo007tv 😂😂😂
@@figo007tv I always wondered if Jamar had regrets about parting ways with Vlad, because he pretty much disappeard again.
Bro look like he’s one of Neo’s past reincarnations from the Matrix
Black ppl praise and give more credit to him and act like BENZINO wasnt an intricate part of the growth of the source...now of us really Associate Benzino with the source...eventhough he was the Heart of.... Dave is the Brains but Zino was the heart and liver of the source I'm old enough to remember
Legend
You got accepted to Harvard, penn, and brown ? Ppl don’t understand how probable that is !!!!! That’s a crazy accomplishment lol he must of been a genius
Someone wake me up when it’s over.
Power 99 in Philly. Anyone from Philly knows to this day Power 99 is the station that runs rap and r&b in Philly going back to the 80s
Anyone else think this was Ringo Star from the thumbnail?
Fr lmfao
He reminds me of Al Pacino in Carlito’s Way.
He's actually ice t's younger brother
Homie looks like he just left the set of the matrix 4
Vlad we need an OT The Real and Millyz interview.
Vlad disrespectful af passing this huge interview off to his underling.
Agreed
Vlad is actually in the middle of an immigration hearing... he might be doing vladtv from Ukraine... if he looses in court
@@javiervega1065 wtf
I bet anybody a hundred bucs the interview with Em's name it gets triple the views any other Dave Mays clip will..y'all know you're waiting for it lol
Damn 22 mins for part 1? This only gonna have 3 parts
Nah they probably just have this one be 22 mins to get the part about The Source out there. After that, its business as usual.
Why isn’t vlad interviewing people anymore lmao
I heard its because he's getting older (he's about to be 49) so he wants other people to step in now
@@juanboss560 fr?? Dang
@@juanboss560 he's actually fighting immigration issues... seems like he forgot to renew his greencard
Eminem- The Sauce, diss track basically ended this magazine company. That's why that diss track is my top 3 of all time and Em wrote that shit from his heart lol
Very key figure right here….
He went to the same school Wayne Perry went to. Wilson !
These kids dont know why this interview is important
Genius
Did vlad get a better camera
And lightning 🔥
This guy helped turn The Made Men into the household name they are today
Ain’t The source the ones that hyped biggie and Tupac beef
VladTV been running out of people to interview
Can't wait for the Benzino episodes
In case you didn't hear Dave say it enough: go-go
He's ice t's younger brother
This Dude Looks Like Ringo from Bill & Ted
SLIM CHARLES FROM THE WIRE
, FOR 30 YEARS HAVE A GO GO BAND. THE BACKYARD BAND
TH-cam IT
Didn’t hear anything about benzino 🤣
I became a porn cartoon artist by always reading and looking at the low rider magazines. Those models were always beautiful and so much hotter than playboy girls. Saw one model spread out and I decided to start sketching them and now I perfected the sketches.
Congrats man, a story you can tell you grandchildren while bouncing on your knee.