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D.c. ScorpioI Hear Ya! Records was an offshoot entrepreneurial project of G. Street Productions and the brain child of its founders Darrel Brooks and Carol Kirkendall. I Hear Ya! Records was the first truly viable urban record company to develop from the streets of Washington, DC, and as stated, was a direct result of G. Street Productions (D. Brooks & C. Kirkendalls) need for a vehicle for the development of retail products to compliment the growing income that was being generated from the local Go Go Shows sponsored, promoted and produced by G. Street. At the start I Hear Ya! Records was not only extremely well conceived and soundly constructed within its corporate structure, its initial development took root as a means of responding to the growing Black on Black violence on the streets of DC. With the murder rates rising, the local Washington, D.C. media; instead of providing reasonable and responsible commentating on the root causes of the violence i.e. poverty, lack of jobs, D.C.s Failing Public Education System, lack of constrictive outlets for youth in the inner city; the media focused its attention negatively towards Go Go music as being somehow a cause for the growing urban violence. The medias general position was not only ridiculous, unfounded and somewhat suspect, it was also bad for the local Go Go Music Industry, which for all intent was G. Street Productions. The music production team of Jonathan R. Smith and John M. Bebbs (Square One, Inc.) was recruited to design what would not only be the first reasonable (musical) response to the growing violence as well as a retort to the medias misdirected commentaries, Smith & Bebbs were enlisted as the vehicles that would change the Clink Clank back yard sound of DCs home grown music genre into what we know as Go Go today. Their first musical response was D.C. Dont Stand For Doge City which startled the media into reevaluating its position on Go Go music. The song brought together for the first time ever on one record all of the well known Go Go groups of Washington, DC under the allegiance of one Go Go Posse which would be the title of their following creation. Fine tuning their production efforts even further, the team of Smith and Bebbs whent on to produce Chuck Browns Thatll Woork, 2001, The Emmy Award Winning sound tracks for D.C. Scorpios Stone Cold Hussler Part II and a string of productions that would become apparent as Go Go Musics redefining moment. The invisible hands of the talented duo like master puppeteers undoubtably were key influences in the development of the music released by the early Go Go acts (Salt -n- Pepper, Chuck Brown, Rear Essence, E.U - Experience Unlimited, Little Bennie and The Maters, D.C. Scorpio and many others to follow). The production team of Smith & Bebbs were the first to record and produce Go Go music in a totally digital environment and produced the first Go Go project to be released on a new medium (at that time) called Compact Disk. The song writing, production team of were the men behind the curtain.
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