my beef? my beef is he had the chance to fuck christina applegate and never did, so im mad at him
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Bud Bundy, Original Gangsta
David Faustino parlayed his Married ... With Children fame into a hugely influential hip-hop party. Now he wants back into the scene.
On Thursdays, the joint was recast with army nets on the ceiling, massive graffiti canvases, fog machines and laser lights. Rappers performed behind a chain-link fence; hot girls danced in cages. It was a teenage male's fantasy from top to bottom.
Thirteen bucks got you in the door, and the line went down the street as far as the Roxy. It wasn't the first hip-hop party in L.A., but it was likely the first all-ages rap soiree anywhere, and minivans and station wagons dropped off kids along Sunset Boulevard. The guys rocked high-tops, silk shirts and even backward duds a la Atlanta child rappers Kris Kross. The young ladies sported leotards and K-Swiss, or overalls with one strap down and their underwear showing. "There were amazing-looking girls there, and they were having fun," remembers partygoer Jensen Karp, who was then 14 and a pint-sized MC himself. "Balistyx brought hip-hop to the West Coast for those who were fiending to learn about it."
PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLON
David Faustino
PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLON
Bringewatt, left, Faustino and rapper Patience Price are the core of Old Scratch Records.
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To promote the party, Faustino and his crew enlisted kids on bikes to distribute fliers, the most notable of whom were Alan Maman and Scott Caan, who later formed hip-hop group The Whooliganz. "If you wanted to be anti-establishment, you could be a punk rocker or a B-boy," says Caan, son of The Godfather's James Caan and star of Hawaii Five-0. "I think a lot of people found their identities there."
Maman and Caan told all their friends, while Faustino's fame allowed him to reach a wider audience by promoting the show on national television talk shows. Kids came from Orange County, Ventura County and beyond, and celebrities swarmed the place as well. A pre-megafame Leonardo DiCaprio attended seemingly every week, his buddy Tobey Maguire in tow. Bobby Brown came occasionally. There was debate about whether just he or his giant entourage should be comped. And no party was complete until N.W.A rapper Eazy-E pulled up in his white 650 BMW. Ignoring the parking signs, he parked next to the red curb and dared the authorities to ticket him. (They did.)
Inside, Faustino hosted the festivities, which featured both prerecorded hip-hop, spun by folks like N.W.A-affiliated DJ Speed, and live performances. Freestyle battles closed out the night; the final rappers standing always seemed to be a young will.i.am and Xzibit, long before his MTV show Pimp My Ride.
"Will was nobody back then. He was just a guy who showed up with a backpack, who wanted to get on the mic," says Dan Eisenstein, who, along with another child actor, Robert Gavin, was one of the party's founders.
Will.i.am then was known as Will 1X, and attendees remember him emerging victorious almost every week. But when he wasn't improvising rhymes off the top of his head, he was networking with people like Stacy Ferguson, a child actor herself, who later helped propel the Black Eyed Peas into the stratosphere under her stage name, Fergie.
How the hell did all of this come together? Adler met Faustino through their mutual friend Eisenstein, who played a member of Screech's nerd crew in Saved by the Bell. Eisenstein also appeared in Pump Up the Volume, where he met Gavin. These four wealthy white kids were all voracious consumers of hip-hop.
It was a budding genre but, a year before Dr. Dre's game-changing album, The Chronic, it was still centered largely on the East Coast. The four teenagers found themselves unsatisfied with the scene at the Alphy's Soda Pop Club parties, which were private soirees catering to young celebs. And they were tired of depending on Faustino's star power to get them past the velvet ropes at 21-and-older hip-hop clubs. In the waning months of the 1991 high school year, when Faustino was 17, they quickly laid out the blueprints for Balistyx, though it's fair to say their business plan was not particularly thought out.
"I wanted to throw the greatest party, not necessarily to make a budget work," says Nic Adler, who did Balistyx's booking. "I would call a [rapper's] manager and they would be, like, 'It's five grand cash,' and I would be, like, 'OK, no problem.' "
Hip-hop artists had mad respect for this unlikely crew, believe it or not, largely buoyed by their love for Married ... With Children. "I think rappers liked the show because the Bundys just told it like it is," Faustino says. "It wasn't this super-sterile white family that people couldn't relate to."
A fairly starstruck Eazy-E became Faustino's close friend; the actor even brought Ice Cube to The Arsenio Hall Show for the first time.
As odd as these couplings seem, Faustino's love for rap music was genuine. "Hip-hop touched my soul," he asserts, adding that he was prepped for the rap revolution by the jazz records his dad constantly played when he was little. And who could forget his alter ego on Married ... With Children, Grandmaster B, who wore a backward ball cap, shades and a black Starter jacket?
Meanwhile, revered rappers like Nas and Ice Cube were psyched to see their posters lining Bud Bundy's walls. "My album poster being on Bud's wall was one of the illest moments for me," Nas says via email. "My whole projects went crazy. It was a sign that I'd made it in a lot of ways. Great times."
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Really enjoyed the Faustino profile. In fact, I gotta give general props to LA Weekly for its profiles. They're well written and almost always reveal something new and interesting about the subjects. Keep up the great work!
"he's actually an influential figure in the history of West Coast rap, as responsible as anyone for bringing a then niche genre to the masses here "
hey Ben Westhoff, you gotta leave that crack alone..He threw a party for some spoiled, under aged rich kids. End of Story..
Agreed. This reporter got spun hard by faustino, and ended up producing a story that is stunning. I don't know much about hiphop, but I know this story is straight up ignorant.
not to say he's not an original fan and that it's bad that he got some artists paid but if you are gonna do a cover story about L.A. folks who brought West Coast then maybe feature 1580 Kday or Freestyle Fellowship (the Ramones of WC Hip Hop) . And If you wanna actually talk "West Coast" and peeps who were pioneers in the beginning then you had better locate your nearest Born To Mack album and listen to it. Maybe do a feature on Freddie B...There is an amazing history to our Coast, let's make sure we get it right
Get back to me when you read the story, which you clearly didn't if you think Balistyx was only for young rich kids. Oh, and read our recent big story on Freestyle Fellowship while you're at it.
never saw FF on your cover..Never saw a headline about them starting a movement...missed that..and according to your article that party was for rich kids and people who got paid to show. That's called a Rich Kid Party.... Do your research young buck. Learn your history. West Coast was started by a lot of folks that never got covers..LA WEEKLY should be celebrating them
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Faustino used to come to our record store in pomona and come to the open mics. Yes he is a real rapper and got serious skills. Its a bit shocking cause people have stereo types of what a rapper should look like but this guy has been rapping since the 90's.
He seems like a very nice guy, but boy did this article depress me about LA! Like every other mega-insecure, talentless wanna-be "entertainer" in LA, born in BH or not, he is "addicted" to the attention he gets from the tour buses and promoting his new "rapper" - I use quotes 'cause they still had to mention Married w/ Children before taking a crappy stage for 10 whole minutes...just sad, like Vegas sad...
Seriously?David Faustino is awesome but to attribute him to being the catalyst for West Coast rap is ridiculous. The Hiphop Nation was well established by 91 when his club night started. Also Will.i.am as seminal figure, please.
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i really hope this guy doesnt put out an album. way too many rappers popping up and they all suck badly. especially this lil scrub
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