​As the clubs and music of the 80’s gave us diversity, the early 90’s would define itself as the decade of too many genre’s ….but many urban DJs, producers and hungry young talent in the studios would test and find a sound with a feel that would last well beyond the diminished club scene.  It would solidify itself as the last of the club genres in America.   House Music would explode onto the music world and start to pick at it’s competition in all of America’s major airwaves.  A man would take his talents of hip hop and freestyle to new levels, giving his long awaited lyrics and communication skills as a blast to the general public becoming a Latino Rapper and messenger to be heard, asking you personally "Do you want to dance? and telling you he'll put you in a trance.  Finally emerging as House Music’s never forgotten son.
              
This is my ONE On ONE with Brother Makes 3 / Joe”Shock”Lopez  on Unidos Magazine​  

​​*by John Rosario* 

 Joe, let’s go back to the beginning - Tell us about you and where you are from?

Well, it all started back in my old neighborhood in Washington Heights, when a young Joe Lopez attended George Washington H.S..My neighborhood in the early to mid 80’s had it’s hard times as did many urban latino neighborhoods back then and the crime rate as well as the drugs were evident. I wanted to keep myself away from all that, so I was happy to find that the hip hop culture was keeping many of us very busy.  Needless to say I would be fascinated by the music as well as the  style of dancing (break dancing /Electric boogie) and trying to perfect it would consume my time. My friends and I would practice, practice, practice and eventually got a crew together. We battled all over the city and people would come out and see us represent Washington Heights….Those were some great childhood moments for me. The hip hop culture would define my love for music and I would be hooked on it and the entire movement.  
​Being a Old-School B-Boy myself I was a part of all that and can relate hermano……I know that so much great talent came from your area (Washington Heights) did you know any?
 Yes!!! The great legend herself Nayobe was in my homeroom class,  Cutting Record’s Aldo Marin who put out all the Legendary freestyle songs from everyone back in the day like Coro, Corina, Saphire etc….Cutting still exist today but is more into the latin music side of things.  My boys from the neighborhood like Dose (Raphael Vargas- who is part of "Two In A Room" and now has formed the Grammy nominated “Fulanito” and Rog Nice (Roger Pauletta also of "Two In A Room") who was also an editor mixer and produc.  , Elvis Nolasco who became an actor and best known for some movies like Spike Lee’s “Clockers”,”I like It Like That”,”NYPD Blues”,”& “Law & Order” etc…,Chep Nunez (RIP) who was a great and talented editor and mixer who worked on over 100 projects and is very legendary on the scene, etc…….yes brother , the list goes on and on.

 When did you get discovered?
 Oh…..Let me see, I used to show up at the old Riverside jams back then.  Two guys Hector and Julio “Ton” Rodriguez would put those big jams together and for many years I was hitting up those jams. I would also be "called by the music" to great and now legendary clubs like The Red Zone, The Tunnel etc…  I would hang out with great musical geniuses like Dose & Rog Nice.  Chep Nunez was working with the likes of Joyce Sims and collaborating with The Latin Rascals when I was told that they were working on a project that they were interested in me trying out for.  After several auditions, it was clear that they were becoming more interested in me so we cut a demo and the project began.  Originally we were using the musical concept of Rod Stewart’s “If You Think I’m Sexy” for the track but it was for a short period of time as we had already contacted Rod Stewart’s attorneys but after several weeks they declined and we had to go another route .