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In 1989, Ice-T<\/strong> appeared as a guest on the London-based DJ Tim Westwood<\/strong>\u2019s influential Hip-Hop radio show. Westwood<\/strong> asked the Los Angeles gangsta rap pioneer if he could play him a track by Hijack<\/strong>, an ultra-hardcore self-styled \u201cterrorist group\u201d<\/em> from Brixton in South London. The song Westwood<\/strong> played, \u201cHold No Hostage,\u201d<\/em> boomed out like a hyper-aggressive slab of ruckus-inciting rap. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018What the fuck was that?\u2019\u201d<\/em> recalls Ice-T, before remembering quickly visualizing the paramilitary-outfitted crew as \u201clike a British Public Enemy.\u201d The roots of Hijack<\/strong> date to London’s early-’80s Hip-Hop soundsystem circuit. Founding member DJ Supreme<\/strong> says he started honing his skills as a bedroom DJ<\/strong> after being encouraged by Cosmic<\/strong> Jam<\/strong>, a DJ who made a name for himself on the city’s formative Covent<\/strong> Garden<\/strong> scene. Around 1986, Supreme<\/strong> decided to form his own DJ crew. He wound up battling DJ Undercover, another upcoming DJ, in his bedroom. Spinning staple breaks including “Black Grass,” “Funky Drummer”<\/em> and “I Can’t Stop,”<\/em> Supreme<\/strong> remembers a furious back and forth where the DJs “came to a mutual agreement that we both won.”<\/strong><\/p>\n
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