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I'm stoked my initial Roc Raida post of the first 17 days in May resonated with so many of you. Raida, although deceased, remains one of the most influential Djs in our genre. However, there seems to be some confusion regarding the origin's of Raida's ‪#‎PeterPiper‬ routine...

IG: "@brolicarm did @djjazzyjeff get that routine from Roc Raida? I always wondered who did this first with the Peter Piper routine..." ~ @reminiss

FB: "yoooo haveent seen that version of peter piper from Roc..." ~ @Jonathan DeVone Davis

But it wasn't until one of my Hip Hop heroes, Breakbeat Lou, called me earlier today and flat out asked "...so WHO WAS IT that did the #PeterPiper routine first Rob?", that I felt compelled to set the record straight for everyone and put together this post. Respectfully, the origins of Jazzy Jeff's #PeterPiper routine, specifically the "There it is" forward spin can be traced back to Jay T. Diamond (X-Men).

Yes, Jay was the first to purposely spin a record forward as a part of a battle routine, NOT Roc Raida or Jazzy Jeff. Jay premiered the technique in front of the world at the 1990 USA DMC finals.

I know this may come as a shock to many of the millennial "Turntablists" out there who think the techniques they employ were birthed post the year 2000, but as the wise Napoleon Hill once said, "Very seldom does anyone create an idea or anything absolutely new."

And so there it is, the truth, clear as a crystal.