Grandwizzard Theodore breaks it down

Grandwizzard Theodore breaks down

Cueing, Cutting and Scratching and addresses the claims of others that they were scratching before him:

"When you are moving the record back and forth over the headphones you
are "cueing" the record - you are not scratching.
When you are scratching you are doing it for the crowd - not through a
pair of headphones.
When you are scratching, you are scratching with the crossfader.
What I was doing when I came up with the scratch: I was moving the
record back and forth, with both up and down faders all the way up -
out loud - you could hear both records at the same time. Using the up &
down fader to further the scratch was added in hours later.

Flash came up with cutting the record - you cut to the right and cut to
the left. That's not scratching. When you are scratching, you are
letting one record play and interjecting with the next record that you
are scratching with. Not cutting. Cutting and Scratching are two
different things. When you cue the record you are getting the record
ready to be played.

Some legends are mixing all the definitions up - confusing everyone and
themselves. It takes no skill to cue. How can the word "cueing" be
synonymous with the word "scratching"?

I created something so phenomenal and now everyone wants to take credit
for it when I was the only one who was doing it. I was the only one
with a style that no one could match. Flash did not sit me down and say
'This is how you cut and this is how you scratch.'" If you had someone
teach you something, both of your styles would be identical at first.
Flash and I are like night and day.

I never heard any of the Disco DJs say, back in the day "I'm scratching
the record in the earphones.” Now several are claiming this
accomplishment to journalists who don't have a technical understanding
of DJing, therefore attempting to re-write history in their favor. If
someone was to claim that they created something, they should still be
doing it and be more advanced then everyone else around them."

Credit: Zulu Nation.com

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