DJ Slugo (Thomas Kendricks)

CTL-E-0558 · Person · 1990

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DJ Slugo, who grew up at 49 South State Street in the Robert Taylor Homes, taught RP Boo to produce and was a mentor figure in the ghetto house scene; he bought doubles of drum-heavy tracks at Dance Mania-era shops.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-036; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

Bandcamp Daily, 'A Journey Through Ghetto House and Juke' (2026-09-21); Red Bull Music Academy (2016)

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