November 14, 2023 • 25 mins
DJ Skee fears that his new studio is haunted by the spirit of convicted murderer and former super-producer Phil Spector. Will he also find bodies in the walls? Then SprngBrk describes the presence of an angry poltergeist in his newly purchased home. Strange occurrences-demented laughter, slamming doors and phantom parties nearly drove him insane. Find out what happened!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
There's a place beyond this place, a middle ground between
the light and the darkness, the native and the zenith.
For some, it's a bridge between the living and the dead.
Yet for others, it's something else entirely, it's the place
where our nightmares dwell. Each one of us has touched
(00:25):
the other side and felt the presence of something beyond
this world.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Faces in the.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
House, I don't recognize looking in emeracy.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The devil's eyes mixing too much.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I mean, I get crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Now, I'm bagalone on my Patrick Swayzey ghost gave it
everything and only took up. Oh, I guess the pair
side is looking for ho bit so demned mind it
does you so then and sign it you I never met.
On today's episode of Hip Hop Horror Stories, DJ Ski
(01:14):
joins us for a tale of terror in his personal
studio that may have been haunted by the spirit of
legendary producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
All right, so around twenty I think it had to
be like twenty ten. There's a studio that I was
driving by for years on my way back home in Hollywood.
It was right in Kwanga. If you live in La
you've probably seen it because it has a big nipsey
hustle murra we put in front of it, and for
years and years wanted to get this face. It's too expensive,
right like, still coming up in the game, and couldn't
(01:54):
do it. And finally, you know, made enough doing enough
that could justify it. We ran out of room in
the spot that we had in Robertson in West la
and made the made the jump and was going to
go in and partner somebody else. He was gonna put
up half of it. The day before we move in.
Like everything's not aligning right, Like dealing with realtors ends up.
(02:15):
The building was in forclosure and some other group took
it over, like the craziest, most messy drama. But unfortunately,
sometimes when you want something, you go a little too
hard for it, right. Yeah, the first time I moved in,
even walked into that studio, right like, it was gated up.
There was like literally wood like fence gates right like.
It looked like a place the place had been abandoned
(02:36):
and hadn't nobody'd been there for years. There'd been there,
a couple of people that were there, but they weren't
using the studio. They were using the upstairs portion of it,
maybe storing things in there. So I remember walking up.
I mean it was an old place. It was run down.
It looked like nobody had been in there, and there
was something that kept people out of there for years.
It was vacant for so long, and there was just
like I told you, getting in the real estate, there
(02:57):
was weird owners and like you know, it was repossessed
and like leans on it and like just this weird
shit that couldn't be done and it needed a lot
of work. So I think everybody else got too scared.
I was just the one that was like, no, I
want this. It's close. I like the building's awesome, Like
we're gonna take it, and you know, push through all that,
maybe against my better judgment. That being said, like every
(03:17):
sign is pointing to me to not take this place right,
like the universe so far has been like everything feels weird.
We walk through it. It's old, it needs a lot
of work. It's not gonna be easy. It's not a
turnkey move in. And when I get there, I'm finally
sign the lease for it, move in, and it ends
up being finding out some of the history. Phil Spector's
old studio. Phil Spector, one of the greatest music producers
(03:40):
of all time, owned the sixties, but then afterwards his
life got a little crazy. Notably, we look it up,
dude went to jail from her. It went crazy, so
lots of craziness around him and in the building. When
we started moving into, we saw like weird things, like
the walls were reinforced with not just soundproofing, but like
(04:03):
ten feet of soundproofing. Like it was ridiculous the amount
of things that were there. But nonetheless we made it
and moved in and it was a success. Started moving
in and getting stuff in and making it work right,
and it was enjoying it getting to the place. But
there's always like weird things that would happen right Like
you go in there at night and Friday night, I
remember coming in and you know, all of a sudden
(04:25):
the lights cut out and form a second then you
walk out and I saw a light coming from downstairs
from one of the rooms. You walk down there and
all of a sudden it shuts off, And there's like
weird little moments. You feel this kind of energy and
sometimes that would just happen in the place and think
nothing of it, but you knew that it was there,
(04:45):
especially in retrospect. So once we pull we got in there,
I mean, we had everybody in the world coming by there.
I think Belly you were probably there. Nipsey was recording
all his stuff out of there at the time we
were managing him. We were having like NBA superstars, Kevin
d Ram pulling up with James Harden, you know, when
they were all on the Thunder and you know, recording
all these records and doing cool things. But there'd always
(05:07):
be weird things that would happen, especially in Studio A,
the main vocal booth, which was kind of like weird.
To get into, you'd have to walk into the main studio,
you'd have to walk through the sides. It was like
a small awning. And the one thing that I always
remembered though, is that the lights would always cut out
in there, and no matter what we did, we'd bring
in electricians and things like, there always be something weird
(05:30):
with that light. Something that goes back to when I
first moved in there, right like I said, Hey, you'd
see lights from this room that cut out. It's almost
like something was happening that was that was weird.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
There.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Then I remember one morning getting a call like, yo,
you're not gonna believe you know what happened last night.
I saw it because I was already asleep and somebody,
you know, we had our engineers in there all night
mixing record and doing some stuff and they're like, I'll
tell you when when they're tomorrow and come in the
office and they start telling me the story and like, YO,
last night, weird this shit happened, like the lights cut out.
(06:01):
We went in the room and everything was moved around
from where it was so like the microphone was on
the other side, like we had I think we had
a keyboarding there on one side, and it was like
moved around, like stuff was placed in different ways. And
they were freaked out. Like one of the kids didn't
come back, like you literally quit and was like you
know what. He was an intern and he was like
you know what, like he just got too scared from
(06:22):
those things. And I'm like, whatever, they're probably you know,
late at night. You never know, somebody could have come
in and did those things. And all of a sudden
like that started happening more and more often, like right
every time we'd go into the studio, there'd be something
weird that would happen. Usually in the vocal booth. We
had this giant vocal booth on the other side, and
there'd always be issues, but it would always boil down
(06:43):
to something with the light and then things would be
in there. And I remember even like Knit being in
there recording and being like freaked out one night over
something that was there. He's like, dude, the light cut
out and I felt like it got really cold all
of a sudden, and we're like, this is weird. So
after like a time, you start putting two and two together,
like this is this is more than just a coincidence.
(07:04):
This is something that really seems to be happening. And
man like, as time went on, like things didn't get better,
Like that room there was some energy in it and
something would just always go wrong with it. And then
one of the weirdest things ever happened. I remember after
our session after night were recording with all that, we
(07:26):
came back and the files were gone. The pro tool
session was was fully gone, but there was old files
that we hadn't recorded in that studio, that I'd recorded
in my old studio that would have never been on
that drive, and we didn't even use that computer because
it was a new computer that were sitting on the
desktop that we pulled up. So I'm like, what the
hell is going on? I thought somebody was messing with
(07:47):
me at this point, and like this room just got
weirder and weirder and weirder. So one day we pulled
it apart and we started noticing, you know how there
were all these like hidden compartments, and we actually found
this like little hidden kind of room that was adjacent.
There was always this dead area in the studio that
(08:07):
we never really know what it was. It was like
a weird kind of closet space. Then there was like
the vocal booth, but there was nothing between that, so
we wondered what that was, and we ended up like
kind of pulling apart and realizing that through all these
layerings there were these these doors there. And when we
got in there they found like I remember, there's like
a piece of paper with some writing. I didn't say
(08:28):
anything like notable, but then there was like a candle
that was blown out, but it spelled it. You know,
it was weird. When we walked in it fell it
smelled like it had just been blown out recently. And
when one thing that other people had said all night
is that like, hey, there was like this candle light
and this glare that kept going on in the studio.
So over time, like this studio just became this mecha
(08:50):
to the point where some of our engineers and artists's
studios either would have the best experience ever and they'd
feel this energy and go in into crazy or they'd
get shared shit, listen, get out of there. And as
we moved on, we ended up actually remodeling the entire
place and tearing the studio down. And when we tore
it down, they actually found all these candles. They had
(09:12):
been burned behind one of these other walls that nobody
had ever opened up. So there was like a little
dead area and like kind of a crawl space going
to the window. And we never know what happened, We
never know what energy took place. We don't even know
if there's like bodies buried in there, like you look
at Phil Specter SIXU. We were like, there're con Ben
some crazy shit in there. But I didn't know it
(09:32):
was Phills until after we moved in there. And that's
where I was like, oh shit, is there gonna be
like some bodies in the wall, like we didn't know
like these walls, like, dude, the like wall you like,
these walls are probably maybe a foot thick here, right,
Like I don't know, I'm just guessing soundproofing normal. These
other ones were ten x whatever that was, Like it
was insane when we did the demo of it. When
(09:54):
we remodeled it, it took the I think they underestimated
by like tenx the amount of trucks that it took
just to take all the wood and take all the
things out there. Like it was gnarly. There was never
a place that probably had that much like soundproofing and
crazy shit in the wall, So who knows what happened
in there. And that's where we found all these candles
that would lit that felt there that was so like
(10:16):
that's what kind of freaked everybody out because they were new.
They weren't like dusty like they had just been there
and there was nobody that had access. And I mean
we made so much history on the on the flip
side with that, that whole building, not just the studio, right,
it's like where NIP where we recorded you know TMC
or you know the second except right after that and
it's where you know, so much content was generated. We
(10:38):
had the TV show and based it out of there, right,
We had almost like Motown in LA and Hollywood, So
there was some magic energy there. There was also dark
forces just like feeling that energy, which I'm I really
didn't like. Everybody talks about what you can really feel
it in certain areas. So yeah, man, there's so many
crazy moments that happened in that in that space throughout
the course of it, And I think, you know, the
(10:58):
magical if you look at what happened with like Phil Spector,
Wall of Sound, all that stuff, like all that energy
in one space combined and created whatever the hell was there.
That's our horror story that lasted probably about like a
good three or four years in that studio where just
the weirdest shit would happen all the time with all
these people, and there were multiple witnesses to it. And
(11:20):
I'm just lucky that I made it out a live belly.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Who knows what evil lurks in the dark places between
life and death? Did the evil spirit of Phil Spector
haunt the walls of DJ Ski's studio. The energy we
leave behind can reside in the places we once dwelled,
and if that energy is dark, it can manifest in
frightening ways. I think what's interesting. DJ Ski felt an
(11:52):
energy that could have been good or bad depending on
who was in the room and what energy they were tapping.
Into hip hop horror Stories, I'm your host.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Belly next on hip Hop Horror Stories, A dead Man's
Laughter and the Sounds of Terror, spring Break takes us
into his very own haunted house nightmare.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Yo, what up is your boy? Spring Break? And here's
my hip hop horror story. So about like four years ago,
me and my ex we were living together, and I
had just got a new house in Glendale, nice big
(12:54):
house in the Coda Sac. It was a nice house,
like it was a modern house, three stories in Glendale,
like in the Hill area. And yeah, it was pretty nice.
It had nice pool jacuzzi. It was really really the
house looked amazing. Everything was good, like, you know, and
(13:18):
and me and me and my girl, though, we was
having problems. So we end up we was arguing a
lot more there than ever. And she just she was
just telling me how she didn't like the energy in
the house. And I was just like, whatever, you just
just exaggerating, you know, And she ends up, she can't
(13:42):
take it. So after some months she just moves out,
and so we we pretty much broke up for that moment.
And then she's like, she starts trying to scare me, like,
I think it's like a bad a bad spirit in
the house. And I'm like, no bad spirit in the house.
(14:06):
And then so she she's like, no, I went and
saw a psychic lady and uh, I did a reading
and they they told me that the house that your
your your your man is is living in has a
bad spirit in the house. It's a it's a fifty five.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Year old man that died in the house. My ex.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Reading reading psychic lady told her that the man was
very very a very very angry man. He used to
he used to like abuse his his his wife, and
she left him. She left him there and he ended
(14:58):
up dying there. But he was an angry, angry man,
like he was mean to everyone. So at that point
she's telling me this, I'm like, you would be telling
me this knowing I'm living here by myself.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You know.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
And shortly after that, now I'm aware and I'm like,
all right, let me erasing from my head. And so
I'm chilling. I'm watching TV by myself, just me and
my dog. I had a French bulldog. I had him
for like seven years. And I look over to my
(15:41):
staircase and my lights just cut on, and I'm like, okay,
all right, maybe I'm tripping.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Maybe I didn't flip the switch all the way.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
So I turned it off and just tried to excuse it,
and then I ended up falling asleep.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I wake up and the light.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Is back on, so I'm like, okay, no, I'm not
tripping now now I'm spooked. So my dog, I'm like,
I don't want even leave the living room, so I'm
calling my dog. My dog usually always just comes soon
as I call his name, calling his name nothing, So
(16:31):
then I go downstairs get I get enough courage to
go downstairs and and the dog is just staring at
the wall. My dog was fucking freaked out, like just
staring at the wall, but like looking scared, and he
scared me, and like, yo, you know, you call a
(16:54):
dog name, they always look. He wasn't even looking at me,
he was just staring at the wall, looking scared. I'm like,
you're scaring me, And I'm like, dude, what are you
doing like yo. And he wouldn't even move to look
at me. He's just staring at the wall. So I'm like, yo, okay,
(17:14):
I gotta get out of here.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
So I leave. I leave. I end up calling a friend.
I go to the studio.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I don't I purposely don't come back until in the
morning time. I come back in the morning, I check
around the house.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
I'm like, this is where cool? All right? Maybe I
was tripping.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
A couple days later, I'm in the living room it's daytime,
and then downstairs I hear I hear one of my doors.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Slam so hard.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
So I'm like, what the he I it's me and
my dog in the living room at this point, who
could slam a door And there's no when going. So
I'm like, oh no, uh uh. I call my cousin like, yo,
what are you doing? Like yo, come over.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I didn't even tell him why. I was like, yo,
just come over.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
I'm telling me. It took him like an hour to come.
I was so spooked, I had to pee so bad.
So what I did was I ended up peeing in
a cup until we got there. He gets there. I
see him walking up to the door, and so I
hurry up, go answer the door.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
But as I go downstairs, all of my room doors
are open. So what door shut? And slammed? That hard?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
I was so confused, and I still didn't even tell
my cousin, but I was looking like, Okay, something's really
going on every door.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I had a uh my studio room.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I had a dance rehearsal room, and then I had
a a closet, which the closet can't slam like it's
it's already been shut. So out of these two rooms,
which doors slammed and why is it open?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
It slams shut? Why is it open?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
So I was like, okay, I gotta get to have
out this house. I'm not staying in this big house.
It's a three story house by myself.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
And so.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
I'm just fast forward, fast forward, like a couple of
weeks later, I'm I'm I'm chilling. I'm chilling in the
in my room. And then I just I hear I
hear voices downstairs, like in the kitchen, like conversation.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And I'm like, damn, I know I need a TV on.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
So I go down. I go down to the second floor.
Nothing's on. I don't hear the voices, No more and
it was a guy's voice. Guy's voice. I'm like, now
I'm thinking about this fifty five year old man. It's
a It was a deep voice, deep voice.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
So I'm like, hell, I don't.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Have nobody to call, so I just like, you know what,
I'm just go go up through my room, lock my door,
go to sleep.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I fall asleep, and then I hear another slam. I'm like,
oh no, uh uh, I'm not even.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Finna even try to go look and see what it is.
I'm'a just stay stay in the room. And then I
hear I hear stomping and and laughing in the kitchen.
A guy's voice laughing in the kitchen. So oh, I'm like,
I gotta get out this. And now I'm like I
(21:05):
have to move. I have to move. And I ended
up the next day. I called the uh the realtor,
and I was like, because I remember her saying that
she had it rented out to somebody. They put down
the deposit and then they just never showed like they came,
(21:31):
seen the house, liked it, put the deposit down. They
moved in for like a couple of days and moved
right out. And I was like, Yo, why did they.
It made me call her like why did they move out?
And she was just like, I gotta call you back.
She never called me back, and like another week went by,
(21:54):
so I'm like, dude, she know something like that, you know,
So I'm like, all right, I I I was immediately
looking for another place. And then and then then the
light staircase did the same thing flicked on, and I
watched it flick on. I said, oh no, I'm out
(22:15):
of here. I got a hotel until I found a place.
I got a hotel for a month. I found another place,
and I literally left THEMN there, everything there cause I
didn't want I didn't want the whatever it was. I
didn't want to following me. I didn't want to following
(22:36):
me at all. So but I did get my studio
equipment and all that stuff. And then when I was
there doing that, I heard laughing, like laughing in my
uh rehearsal room, like you scary, you scary, get out
of here like type of laugh.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
It was real, like I could.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Evil evil laugh and and and it's just it was
a when I say scary, I was that's probably like
out of in my whole life. The scariest moment I've
ever had, And then I I now, as I think
about it, I'm look, I look back at the house,
(23:18):
and it looks spooky as hell as nice as it looked,
it just started looking spooky to me. One night, I leave,
I go to the studio I was in. I had
a studio session with Usher.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I leave at.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Eleven PM. I get home by two am.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Three latest.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
I locked all my doors. I get back home and
I'm like, why is it? Red cups in the kitchen
I'm talking about My floors were sticky.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I look back on my camera.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
There was a whole bunch of kids in the house, partying,
set up everything. I got back home, there was nobody
in sight.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Did spring Break really hear the sounds of a dead
man laughing?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Who could he be?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
What did he want?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And who were those kids partying inside his house? Where
did they really come from? Finally, what was that realtor hiding?
Did something terrible happen inside that house? A vicious murder
or maybe something far worse? For now, spring Break has
no answers, and neither do we. Sometimes the best thing
(24:56):
to do is just mind your fucking business.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Do it can never pain the well?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Do we can never pain the well.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Do.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
We can never pain of well do. It can never
pain a wlls the bost
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
There's a place beyond this place, a middle ground between
the light and the darkness, the native and the zenith.
For some, it's a bridge between the living and the dead.
Yet for others, it's something else entirely, it's the place
where our nightmares dwell. Each one of us has touched
(00:25):
the other side and felt the presence of something beyond
this world.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Faces in the.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
House, I don't recognize looking in emeracy.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The devil's eyes mixing too much.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I mean, I get crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Now, I'm bagalone on my Patrick Swayzey ghost gave it
everything and only took up. Oh, I guess the pair
side is looking for ho bit so demned mind it
does you so then and sign it you I never met.
On today's episode of Hip Hop Horror Stories, DJ Ski
(01:14):
joins us for a tale of terror in his personal
studio that may have been haunted by the spirit of
legendary producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
All right, so around twenty I think it had to
be like twenty ten. There's a studio that I was
driving by for years on my way back home in Hollywood.
It was right in Kwanga. If you live in La
you've probably seen it because it has a big nipsey
hustle murra we put in front of it, and for
years and years wanted to get this face. It's too expensive,
right like, still coming up in the game, and couldn't
(01:54):
do it. And finally, you know, made enough doing enough
that could justify it. We ran out of room in
the spot that we had in Robertson in West la
and made the made the jump and was going to
go in and partner somebody else. He was gonna put
up half of it. The day before we move in.
Like everything's not aligning right, Like dealing with realtors ends up.
(02:15):
The building was in forclosure and some other group took
it over, like the craziest, most messy drama. But unfortunately,
sometimes when you want something, you go a little too
hard for it, right. Yeah, the first time I moved in,
even walked into that studio, right like, it was gated up.
There was like literally wood like fence gates right like.
It looked like a place the place had been abandoned
(02:36):
and hadn't nobody'd been there for years. There'd been there,
a couple of people that were there, but they weren't
using the studio. They were using the upstairs portion of it,
maybe storing things in there. So I remember walking up.
I mean it was an old place. It was run down.
It looked like nobody had been in there, and there
was something that kept people out of there for years.
It was vacant for so long, and there was just
like I told you, getting in the real estate, there
(02:57):
was weird owners and like you know, it was repossessed
and like leans on it and like just this weird
shit that couldn't be done and it needed a lot
of work. So I think everybody else got too scared.
I was just the one that was like, no, I
want this. It's close. I like the building's awesome, Like
we're gonna take it, and you know, push through all that,
maybe against my better judgment. That being said, like every
(03:17):
sign is pointing to me to not take this place right,
like the universe so far has been like everything feels weird.
We walk through it. It's old, it needs a lot
of work. It's not gonna be easy. It's not a
turnkey move in. And when I get there, I'm finally
sign the lease for it, move in, and it ends
up being finding out some of the history. Phil Spector's
old studio. Phil Spector, one of the greatest music producers
(03:40):
of all time, owned the sixties, but then afterwards his
life got a little crazy. Notably, we look it up,
dude went to jail from her. It went crazy, so
lots of craziness around him and in the building. When
we started moving into, we saw like weird things, like
the walls were reinforced with not just soundproofing, but like
(04:03):
ten feet of soundproofing. Like it was ridiculous the amount
of things that were there. But nonetheless we made it
and moved in and it was a success. Started moving
in and getting stuff in and making it work right,
and it was enjoying it getting to the place. But
there's always like weird things that would happen right Like
you go in there at night and Friday night, I
remember coming in and you know, all of a sudden
(04:25):
the lights cut out and form a second then you
walk out and I saw a light coming from downstairs
from one of the rooms. You walk down there and
all of a sudden it shuts off, And there's like
weird little moments. You feel this kind of energy and
sometimes that would just happen in the place and think
nothing of it, but you knew that it was there,
(04:45):
especially in retrospect. So once we pull we got in there,
I mean, we had everybody in the world coming by there.
I think Belly you were probably there. Nipsey was recording
all his stuff out of there at the time we
were managing him. We were having like NBA superstars, Kevin
d Ram pulling up with James Harden, you know, when
they were all on the Thunder and you know, recording
all these records and doing cool things. But there'd always
(05:07):
be weird things that would happen, especially in Studio A,
the main vocal booth, which was kind of like weird.
To get into, you'd have to walk into the main studio,
you'd have to walk through the sides. It was like
a small awning. And the one thing that I always
remembered though, is that the lights would always cut out
in there, and no matter what we did, we'd bring
in electricians and things like, there always be something weird
(05:30):
with that light. Something that goes back to when I
first moved in there, right like I said, Hey, you'd
see lights from this room that cut out. It's almost
like something was happening that was that was weird.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
There.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Then I remember one morning getting a call like, yo,
you're not gonna believe you know what happened last night.
I saw it because I was already asleep and somebody,
you know, we had our engineers in there all night
mixing record and doing some stuff and they're like, I'll
tell you when when they're tomorrow and come in the
office and they start telling me the story and like, YO,
last night, weird this shit happened, like the lights cut out.
(06:01):
We went in the room and everything was moved around
from where it was so like the microphone was on
the other side, like we had I think we had
a keyboarding there on one side, and it was like
moved around, like stuff was placed in different ways. And
they were freaked out. Like one of the kids didn't
come back, like you literally quit and was like you
know what. He was an intern and he was like
you know what, like he just got too scared from
(06:22):
those things. And I'm like, whatever, they're probably you know,
late at night. You never know, somebody could have come
in and did those things. And all of a sudden
like that started happening more and more often, like right
every time we'd go into the studio, there'd be something
weird that would happen. Usually in the vocal booth. We
had this giant vocal booth on the other side, and
there'd always be issues, but it would always boil down
(06:43):
to something with the light and then things would be
in there. And I remember even like Knit being in
there recording and being like freaked out one night over
something that was there. He's like, dude, the light cut
out and I felt like it got really cold all
of a sudden, and we're like, this is weird. So
after like a time, you start putting two and two together,
like this is this is more than just a coincidence.
(07:04):
This is something that really seems to be happening. And
man like, as time went on, like things didn't get better,
Like that room there was some energy in it and
something would just always go wrong with it. And then
one of the weirdest things ever happened. I remember after
our session after night were recording with all that, we
(07:26):
came back and the files were gone. The pro tool
session was was fully gone, but there was old files
that we hadn't recorded in that studio, that I'd recorded
in my old studio that would have never been on
that drive, and we didn't even use that computer because
it was a new computer that were sitting on the
desktop that we pulled up. So I'm like, what the
hell is going on? I thought somebody was messing with
(07:47):
me at this point, and like this room just got
weirder and weirder and weirder. So one day we pulled
it apart and we started noticing, you know how there
were all these like hidden compartments, and we actually found
this like little hidden kind of room that was adjacent.
There was always this dead area in the studio that
(08:07):
we never really know what it was. It was like
a weird kind of closet space. Then there was like
the vocal booth, but there was nothing between that, so
we wondered what that was, and we ended up like
kind of pulling apart and realizing that through all these
layerings there were these these doors there. And when we
got in there they found like I remember, there's like
a piece of paper with some writing. I didn't say
(08:28):
anything like notable, but then there was like a candle
that was blown out, but it spelled it. You know,
it was weird. When we walked in it fell it
smelled like it had just been blown out recently. And
when one thing that other people had said all night
is that like, hey, there was like this candle light
and this glare that kept going on in the studio.
So over time, like this studio just became this mecha
(08:50):
to the point where some of our engineers and artists's
studios either would have the best experience ever and they'd
feel this energy and go in into crazy or they'd
get shared shit, listen, get out of there. And as
we moved on, we ended up actually remodeling the entire
place and tearing the studio down. And when we tore
it down, they actually found all these candles. They had
(09:12):
been burned behind one of these other walls that nobody
had ever opened up. So there was like a little
dead area and like kind of a crawl space going
to the window. And we never know what happened, We
never know what energy took place. We don't even know
if there's like bodies buried in there, like you look
at Phil Specter SIXU. We were like, there're con Ben
some crazy shit in there. But I didn't know it
(09:32):
was Phills until after we moved in there. And that's
where I was like, oh shit, is there gonna be
like some bodies in the wall, like we didn't know
like these walls, like, dude, the like wall you like,
these walls are probably maybe a foot thick here, right,
Like I don't know, I'm just guessing soundproofing normal. These
other ones were ten x whatever that was, Like it
was insane when we did the demo of it. When
(09:54):
we remodeled it, it took the I think they underestimated
by like tenx the amount of trucks that it took
just to take all the wood and take all the
things out there. Like it was gnarly. There was never
a place that probably had that much like soundproofing and
crazy shit in the wall, So who knows what happened
in there. And that's where we found all these candles
that would lit that felt there that was so like
(10:16):
that's what kind of freaked everybody out because they were new.
They weren't like dusty like they had just been there
and there was nobody that had access. And I mean
we made so much history on the on the flip
side with that, that whole building, not just the studio, right,
it's like where NIP where we recorded you know TMC
or you know the second except right after that and
it's where you know, so much content was generated. We
(10:38):
had the TV show and based it out of there, right,
We had almost like Motown in LA and Hollywood, So
there was some magic energy there. There was also dark
forces just like feeling that energy, which I'm I really
didn't like. Everybody talks about what you can really feel
it in certain areas. So yeah, man, there's so many
crazy moments that happened in that in that space throughout
the course of it, And I think, you know, the
(10:58):
magical if you look at what happened with like Phil Spector,
Wall of Sound, all that stuff, like all that energy
in one space combined and created whatever the hell was there.
That's our horror story that lasted probably about like a
good three or four years in that studio where just
the weirdest shit would happen all the time with all
these people, and there were multiple witnesses to it. And
(11:20):
I'm just lucky that I made it out a live belly.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Who knows what evil lurks in the dark places between
life and death? Did the evil spirit of Phil Spector
haunt the walls of DJ Ski's studio. The energy we
leave behind can reside in the places we once dwelled,
and if that energy is dark, it can manifest in
frightening ways. I think what's interesting. DJ Ski felt an
(11:52):
energy that could have been good or bad depending on
who was in the room and what energy they were tapping.
Into hip hop horror Stories, I'm your host.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Belly next on hip Hop Horror Stories, A dead Man's
Laughter and the Sounds of Terror, spring Break takes us
into his very own haunted house nightmare.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Yo, what up is your boy? Spring Break? And here's
my hip hop horror story. So about like four years ago,
me and my ex we were living together, and I
had just got a new house in Glendale, nice big
(12:54):
house in the Coda Sac. It was a nice house,
like it was a modern house, three stories in Glendale,
like in the Hill area. And yeah, it was pretty nice.
It had nice pool jacuzzi. It was really really the
house looked amazing. Everything was good, like, you know, and
(13:18):
and me and me and my girl, though, we was
having problems. So we end up we was arguing a
lot more there than ever. And she just she was
just telling me how she didn't like the energy in
the house. And I was just like, whatever, you just
just exaggerating, you know, And she ends up, she can't
(13:42):
take it. So after some months she just moves out,
and so we we pretty much broke up for that moment.
And then she's like, she starts trying to scare me, like,
I think it's like a bad a bad spirit in
the house. And I'm like, no bad spirit in the house.
(14:06):
And then so she she's like, no, I went and
saw a psychic lady and uh, I did a reading
and they they told me that the house that your
your your your man is is living in has a
bad spirit in the house. It's a it's a fifty five.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Year old man that died in the house. My ex.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Reading reading psychic lady told her that the man was
very very a very very angry man. He used to
he used to like abuse his his his wife, and
she left him. She left him there and he ended
(14:58):
up dying there. But he was an angry, angry man,
like he was mean to everyone. So at that point
she's telling me this, I'm like, you would be telling
me this knowing I'm living here by myself.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You know.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
And shortly after that, now I'm aware and I'm like,
all right, let me erasing from my head. And so
I'm chilling. I'm watching TV by myself, just me and
my dog. I had a French bulldog. I had him
for like seven years. And I look over to my
(15:41):
staircase and my lights just cut on, and I'm like, okay,
all right, maybe I'm tripping.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Maybe I didn't flip the switch all the way.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
So I turned it off and just tried to excuse it,
and then I ended up falling asleep.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I wake up and the light.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Is back on, so I'm like, okay, no, I'm not
tripping now now I'm spooked. So my dog, I'm like,
I don't want even leave the living room, so I'm
calling my dog. My dog usually always just comes soon
as I call his name, calling his name nothing, So
(16:31):
then I go downstairs get I get enough courage to
go downstairs and and the dog is just staring at
the wall. My dog was fucking freaked out, like just
staring at the wall, but like looking scared, and he
scared me, and like, yo, you know, you call a
(16:54):
dog name, they always look. He wasn't even looking at me,
he was just staring at the wall, looking scared. I'm like,
you're scaring me, And I'm like, dude, what are you
doing like yo. And he wouldn't even move to look
at me. He's just staring at the wall. So I'm like, yo, okay,
(17:14):
I gotta get out of here.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
So I leave. I leave. I end up calling a friend.
I go to the studio.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I don't I purposely don't come back until in the
morning time. I come back in the morning, I check
around the house.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
I'm like, this is where cool? All right? Maybe I
was tripping.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
A couple days later, I'm in the living room it's daytime,
and then downstairs I hear I hear one of my doors.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Slam so hard.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
So I'm like, what the he I it's me and
my dog in the living room at this point, who
could slam a door And there's no when going. So
I'm like, oh no, uh uh. I call my cousin like, yo,
what are you doing? Like yo, come over.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I didn't even tell him why. I was like, yo,
just come over.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
I'm telling me. It took him like an hour to come.
I was so spooked, I had to pee so bad.
So what I did was I ended up peeing in
a cup until we got there. He gets there. I
see him walking up to the door, and so I
hurry up, go answer the door.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
But as I go downstairs, all of my room doors
are open. So what door shut? And slammed? That hard?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
I was so confused, and I still didn't even tell
my cousin, but I was looking like, Okay, something's really
going on every door.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I had a uh my studio room.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I had a dance rehearsal room, and then I had
a a closet, which the closet can't slam like it's
it's already been shut. So out of these two rooms,
which doors slammed and why is it open?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
It slams shut? Why is it open?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
So I was like, okay, I gotta get to have
out this house. I'm not staying in this big house.
It's a three story house by myself.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
And so.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
I'm just fast forward, fast forward, like a couple of
weeks later, I'm I'm I'm chilling. I'm chilling in the
in my room. And then I just I hear I
hear voices downstairs, like in the kitchen, like conversation.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And I'm like, damn, I know I need a TV on.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
So I go down. I go down to the second floor.
Nothing's on. I don't hear the voices, No more and
it was a guy's voice. Guy's voice. I'm like, now
I'm thinking about this fifty five year old man. It's
a It was a deep voice, deep voice.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
So I'm like, hell, I don't.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Have nobody to call, so I just like, you know what,
I'm just go go up through my room, lock my door,
go to sleep.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I fall asleep, and then I hear another slam. I'm like,
oh no, uh uh, I'm not even.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Finna even try to go look and see what it is.
I'm'a just stay stay in the room. And then I
hear I hear stomping and and laughing in the kitchen.
A guy's voice laughing in the kitchen. So oh, I'm like,
I gotta get out this. And now I'm like I
(21:05):
have to move. I have to move. And I ended
up the next day. I called the uh the realtor,
and I was like, because I remember her saying that
she had it rented out to somebody. They put down
the deposit and then they just never showed like they came,
(21:31):
seen the house, liked it, put the deposit down. They
moved in for like a couple of days and moved
right out. And I was like, Yo, why did they.
It made me call her like why did they move out?
And she was just like, I gotta call you back.
She never called me back, and like another week went by,
(21:54):
so I'm like, dude, she know something like that, you know,
So I'm like, all right, I I I was immediately
looking for another place. And then and then then the
light staircase did the same thing flicked on, and I
watched it flick on. I said, oh no, I'm out
(22:15):
of here. I got a hotel until I found a place.
I got a hotel for a month. I found another place,
and I literally left THEMN there, everything there cause I
didn't want I didn't want the whatever it was. I
didn't want to following me. I didn't want to following
(22:36):
me at all. So but I did get my studio
equipment and all that stuff. And then when I was
there doing that, I heard laughing, like laughing in my
uh rehearsal room, like you scary, you scary, get out
of here like type of laugh.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
It was real, like I could.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Evil evil laugh and and and it's just it was
a when I say scary, I was that's probably like
out of in my whole life. The scariest moment I've
ever had, And then I I now, as I think
about it, I'm look, I look back at the house,
(23:18):
and it looks spooky as hell as nice as it looked,
it just started looking spooky to me. One night, I leave,
I go to the studio I was in. I had
a studio session with Usher.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I leave at.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Eleven PM. I get home by two am.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Three latest.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
I locked all my doors. I get back home and
I'm like, why is it? Red cups in the kitchen
I'm talking about My floors were sticky.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I look back on my camera.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
There was a whole bunch of kids in the house, partying,
set up everything. I got back home, there was nobody
in sight.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Did spring Break really hear the sounds of a dead
man laughing?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Who could he be?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
What did he want?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And who were those kids partying inside his house? Where
did they really come from? Finally, what was that realtor hiding?
Did something terrible happen inside that house? A vicious murder
or maybe something far worse? For now, spring Break has
no answers, and neither do we. Sometimes the best thing
(24:56):
to do is just mind your fucking business.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Do it can never pain the well?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Do we can never pain the well.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Do.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
We can never pain of well do. It can never
pain a wlls the bost
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