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Mad Linx and DJ Q45, both former<br />
hosts of Rap City, are known<br />
as hot commodities in the<br />
Florida club circuit and beyond.<br />
Recently they’ve come together<br />
as a duo called “Face Off.” No,<br />
it’s not a beef, it’s a joint effort<br />
to see just how hype they can<br />
get the crowd with not one, but<br />
two DJs.<br />
Tell me about this “Face Off” concept and<br />
how it came about.<br />
Mad Linx: Before the BET thing popped off<br />
for myself and then Q, me and him were cool.<br />
We’re both from Florida and we both hosted<br />
Rap City and we’ve always wanted to do<br />
something together. Both of our teams finally<br />
sat down and decided to start doing some shit<br />
together as far as DJing. We put our powers<br />
together and came up with something crazy.<br />
Q45: Linx had been doing his different DJ gigs<br />
across the country and I DJ a lot of different<br />
places. He’s a good friend of mine. A lot of<br />
people thought me and him weren’t cool but<br />
it’s not like that. I work real well with him. He’s<br />
real seasoned in his music knowledge and I’m<br />
a real aggressive DJ, it just works.<br />
Where did the name come from<br />
Linx: To be honest, I have no idea where the<br />
name came from. It’s like a marketing tool<br />
– we don’t have beef or nothing like that,<br />
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some people think it’s like we’re gonna<br />
fight in the club or something. It’s nothing<br />
like that. We’re basically bringing both our<br />
DJing shows together.<br />
Do you do parties together<br />
Q45: Not all the time. We have to make it a<br />
point to let promoters know they can get<br />
us both together to DJ a party. Our teams<br />
keep us booked a lot and it was just coming<br />
to the point where people would call<br />
me for a gig and then call Linx or vice versa.<br />
We were like, why don’t we both just put<br />
a gig together and split it to keep getting<br />
that money.<br />
If you were in a DJ battle, who would win<br />
and why<br />
Linx: (laughs) I’ve never been the DJ battle<br />
type, but if it were on some who could rock<br />
the crowd type of battle it would be interesting.<br />
I’d have to say it’s a toss-up. One of<br />
the things I’ve always liked and respected<br />
about Q is he really loves to DJ as much as<br />
I do. With a lot of people, their heart really
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