venue

Club No Name

Active
1987–1995
Type
Venue
Address
4069 Lamar Ave, Memphis, TN
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History & Significance

Memphis's first club to regularly play rap (mid-1980s). Owner Bud Chittom hired DJ Spanish Fly as house DJ from 1987. Spanish Fly transitioned the sound from disco to bass-heavy 808-driven rap here. Sonny D and Ray The Jay preceded him. Tapes were sold at the front window. The birthplace of Memphis rap as a live scene.

Relationships
collaboration
DJ Spanish Fly
Spanish Fly's residency at Club No Name; birthplace of the 'buck jump' via Triggerman experiments
collaboration
Crunchy Black
Black refined the 'gangsta walk' at Club No Name before joining Three 6 Mafia