After more than three decades in the hip-hop game, the Bay Area’s own DJ Platurn understands how it’s all connected. East Coast or West Coast, lyrical-miracle emcee or gully gangsta rapper, the intersection of community and creativity in hip-hop runs deep.

Ahead of this Sunday’s Native Tongues Appreciation Night, a semi-regular event in San Francisco honoring the legendary East Coast-based boom-bap rap collective of Queen Latifah, The Jungle Brothers, Monie Love, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes and others from hip-hop’s “golden era,” Platurn makes those connections clear.

As a founding member of the Oakland Faders DJ collective and originator of the live series The 45 Sessions, Platurn’s work in the Bay has often overlapped with members of Native Tongues on the East Coast.

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