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DJ Sliink on Racial Inequality in the Dance Industry: 'How Can We Be Legends If They Don’t Give Us a Chance?'

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Aaliyah's "Rock The Boat" and Destiny's Child's "Cater 2 U", then he posted these tracks to Soundcloud under the name "Tinaturnup."In the bio section, he created a quick backstory for this fake producer, making her a 17-year-old Danish woman who was just getting into producing Jersey Club music, the dance sub-genre that boomed out of Newark in the late '90s, taking heavy inspiration from the Baltimore club scene and defining itself with massive kick drums and chopped vocals.Sliink retweeted the Tinaturnup tracks and then saw them go viral, racking up hundreds of thousands of plays.

Comparatively, most of the tracks by Sliink -- the 29 year old producer who's long been considered a leader of the Jersey Club scene -- have gotten plays largely.

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