I was in one of the 90s’ biggest groups before jacking it in to run an emu farm | The Sun
HE co-founded one of the most important rap groups of all time.
But after 13 years mixing and scratching for Public Enemy, DJ Terminator X, 57, temporarily turned his back on the music business to work on an emu farm.
The unlikely career switch saw Terminator – real name Norman Rogers – decamp to a 15 acre plot in South Carolina to stud the fast birds.
Public Enemy frontman Chuck D lamented being unable to escape the bizarre piece of the group's lore in an interview with the Guardian.
Explaining how often he speaks to his bandmates, he says: Public Enemy does a conference Zoom call every two weeks, so, yeah, I still speak to him once in a while.
"I’ve eaten ostrich in South Africa years ago. But, no. It wasn’t an ostrich farm anyway, it was an emu farm, and it was destroyed by a hurricane in the late 90s or early 00s.
"This just shows you how digital news never goes away. It’s like radiation. That’s why we have to watch it with news, because they’re still saying Terminator X has his ostrich farm, and no matter how many times we refute it, this same dumb-ass question comes up. It’s no one’s fault: it just shows how far we’ve got [to go] to get the space junk out of orbit, bro."
Terminator is now once again behind the decks playing all manner of events from hip hop cruises to festivals and after-parties.
It's little surprise that the scene legend is getting booked up though.
His credits include classic albums It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back and Fear Of A Black Planet, which sold 2 million copies in the US alone.
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