Sacha Jenkins— much like rap great KRS-One—is hip hip. Sachy-Sach, his sister Dominiqe, and their artistically inclined, Haitian-born mom-dukes, Monart, moved to Astoria, Queens, NY from Silver Springs, MD in the summer of 1977. Their Philadelphia, PA-reared, filmmaking/Emmy Award-winning pop-dukes, Horace, was already living up in NYC at the time (100th Street & Central Park West, to be exact... blocks away from the infamous Rock Steady Park). During the school week, young Sacha spent his post three o’clock days playing stickball and skelly. Then... 1980 : Sacha was blessed by an elder with an instrument of destruction that would forever change his life. ‘PK,’ a local subway scrawler with some inter-borough celebrity, handed the young boy a very juiced-up Pilot magic marker. 1988 : Inspired by a the International Graffiti Times (a rag published by aerosol legend Phase 2 and David Schmidlap), Sacha would put together Graphic Scenes & X-plicit Language—a zine dedicated to, yep, graf. And poetry. And anti-Gulf War rants. And humor. And towards the end, in 1991, music. 1992 : Beat Down, America’s first hip hop newspaper, is launched by Sacha and a childhood friend. Ten issues in, Sacha and childhood friend have a falling out. Bye bye, Black bird. June, 1994 : ego trip magazine is born. 1996 : Sacha writes for Vibe, Rolling Stone and Spin. He gets a Writer-At-Large then Music Editor gig at Vibe. Present : In his spare time, Sacha likes to play guitar, collect Planet of the Apes action figures and listen to rap that isn’t wack. He’s a Leo.
