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Q-Ball & Curt Cazal
12+ albums
East Coastunderground hip-hoprapHip-Hopunderground rap
about
Q-Ball & Curt Cazal (a.k.a. QNC) hip hop duo. They first met at high school in Central Islip, Long Island, but it wasn't until around 1992 that they met creatively. Q was shipping a bunch of demo tapes of his joints to radio stations and labels at Central Islip Post Office and after talking they exchanged phone numbers with the idea that Curt might throw him some beats. Curt by that time was already a local rap celebrity. He'd been recording with J.V.C.F.O.R.C.E since the mid 80s and recently, since the group had started to wind down, had been producing tracks for the up n coming Keith Murray and local LI hero K-Solo (originally known as K.V aka Kevin). K-Solo had attended the same elementary school as Q, Mulvey Elementary and years later Q-Ball had seen him battle kids from other boroughs in the streets of Central Islip and knew then that he wanted to study the art of MC'ing. Curt discovered his passion for production as a DJ in the early 80s. He and B-Luv (from J.V.C.F.O.R.C.E) would DJ at local house and school parties and make pause-button mixes for fun which would lead on to his dad buying him his first drum machine. That drum machine just didn't do what he needed it to do so he bought himself an Alesis MMT8. That piece of gear was followed by an EMU Emax rack and keyboard which he bought cause that was what he'd use day to day working at Charlie Marotta's studio aka the Hit Squad studio. It was at this studio that Q and Curt would write the majority of their first 2 r
