“One day, we got the opportunity to shop our demo to [Hank] Shocklee," Buckshot recalled in 2015. "So we hurried up over to MCA and we went to give him our demo, and he was like, ‘I can’t check your demo right now. I can’t listen to it, but come back later and I’ll check it out.’
On our way out, there was a door open, so I walked inside the room and I sat down. I said, ‘Hey, how you doin’, I’m here for the job.’ And she looked at me like, ‘what are you talking about?’ She goes, ‘We’re not hiring. Do you mean the internship.’ So I was like, ‘yeah, yeah!’”
Buckshot landing an internship with Hank Shocklee helped Black Moon get signed. Once they were signed, Dru-Ha, then an aspiring rapper himself, set about connecting the group to the established NYC Hip-Hop scene. Duck Down Music was founded as a management brand to help facilitate Black Moon's career, as well as the duo of Steele and Tek, known as Smif-N-Wessun, who would guest on Enta Da Stage.
"We met Black Moon through mutual family friends," Tek shared. "We attended night school together. And yup, that feature was the jump off of everything to follow."