Official Subway Car by DJ KAYSLAY aka Dez (7" Single Sided) Train
 
Features:
The National Hip-Hop Shop and Definitive Projects
Single-sided train w/ rare Original Artwork by Style Wars "Dez"
Comes with Limited Edition DJ KAYSLAY aka Dez Poster
Alloy subway car has a pull back and go function
Lights and Sounds
Limited Edition of 100 Made
1:100 scale die-cast NYC MTA subway car
 
 
DJ Kay Slay:
DJ Kay Slay is indeed the embodiment of Hip-Hop. Kay started as a graffiti artist who originally tagged as "Spade," and he was featured in the seminal 1983 Hip-Hop documentary, Style Wars. “My main name is 'Dez TFA'" the young graf artist explains in the doc. "But the name I started out with was 'Spade 429.' After awhile, you get tired of writing the same name, and you want to expand." Even as a 17-year old Graffiti artist, the warrior spirit was evident in Kay Slay. “I never go (to the train yard) and doone piece and leave, I feel like that’s being a toy. If you gonna go, you go out to bomb and do four or five cars in one night. That’s where it shows a king. A king will go out to the yard with 30 or 40 cans (of spray paint). A toy will go to the yard with two cans."
 
After a prison stint in the late 80s, Slay was released in 1990, and credits DJs Kid Capri and the late Lovebug Starski for motivating him to take his DJ career seriously. On "Intro" from Kay Slay’s 2021 release Soul Controller, he gives a glimpse into what it took to build himself; from his late prison stint to becoming The Drama King as New York City's Top DJ and Producer.
 
By 2000, Slay was so hot that the late Chris Lighty of Violator Management and Steve Rifkin reached out to him too with an offer from Loud Records. Funkmaster Flex started to play freestyles from Kay’s tapes on the air. “Flex was playing my tapes, with my name shouted on them on the air, and he wanted to know 'Who is DJ Kay Slay? I’m hearing his name from every car that passes me on the highway.'” Kay was offered a job at Hot 97. In 2003, Slay released his first major label project, the highly acclaimed and successful Streetsweepers Vol. 1 on Columbia Records. In 2004, ...Vol. 2 was released. In 2004, Slay became head of Shaquille O'Neal's DEJA34 label, where he released The Champions. He signed Papoose and co-founded Straight Stuntin' Magazine in 2005; and he hosted "The Drama Hour" on Hot 97 for twenty years. More recently, Kay Slay pulled off the incredible task of assembling what started as twenty-five MCs for 2005's "Rollin' 25 Deep"—which morphed into "Rolling 50 Deep," andfinally, "Rolling 110 Deep" in 2021.
Written by The National Hip-Hop Museum’s Historian, Jay Quan