Before he went solo, Grand Agent aka Jared Talyor was in a hiphop group called NAME out of Philly with DJ Mr Cisum and Ozzie Jones.
Every record these guys would drop, I would pick up.
Around 2000 or so I managed to acquire the holy grail: NAME’s full length album, Lost Page Of The B-Boy Document from HipHopSite.com as a promo. It was never officially released. Suffice to say the album is a treasure: find it by all means necessary.
Coincidentally, Mr. Cisum worked at 3rd Story Recordings which is where Tajai and I mixed and mastered Projecto: 2501. Mr. Cisum was in on those sessions as an engineer on the periphery. We are talking ’98 or ’99.
Mark Sarisky was the main engineer on Projecto and he maintains the same title on this NAME track shared below.
Just to reinforce that this is all in the family, recording Projecto at 3rd Story Recordings was also the first time I met Mike “Lowbeezy” of Hollertronix fame who did scratches on the Projecto album and would go on to become a great friend.
Philly, man…I love ya’ll.