Video: DJ Red Alert – 30 Years of “The Bridge is Over”

Three decades ago DJ Scott LaRock and the Blastmaster KRS-ONE delivered the killing blow over a dancehall-flavored track The Bridge is Over and the hierarchy of Hip Hop changed forever. Mass Appeal reached out to Kool DJ Red Alert, who actually made a cameo appearance on the record, to break down the roots of the conflict, going all the way back to when BDP was known as 12:41. “The whole thing was fun”, Red Alert stresses. “It was all about the microphone and who demolished who”.