Get Right is celebrating it’s 7th Year Anniversary Saturday with another Gallery Hop party at Skully’s. Initially, Get Right was a dance party that took great shape on First Fridays with the combined forces of promoter/social engineer/entrepreneur on the rise Kareem Jackson and two of Columbus’ best deejay’s Detox and Johnny Cashola.

Get Right built a nomadic synergy of the burgeoning fashion, BMX, Hip Hop and skate cultures mixed with the existing Hip Hop cultures: Trap or Die club community, and the Campus/Short North Daymon Dodson/DJ Przm bred Hip Hop kids.

The progressive return was that it had a large cross-section of people frequenting the usually black clubs like Icon, the Red Zone and what was Club Ice.

Eventually Get Right took an on and off home at Skully’s where it will be this Saturday.

The success of Get Right was catapulted by a good sense of what is actually poppin’ musically, a good sense of humor, edgy flyers, savvy promotion and an understanding of how to use social media whether it be twitter, myspace and facebook or now-defunct blogs like Weedsteeler, Donewaiting, and the Grip.

Get Right is fun.

Get Right buzzed so hard that the Knitting Factory in New York City booked a few Get Rights in 2010. The logistics of travel stopped that but the actual crowd turn-out went. There are plenty of Ohio ex-pats in Brooklyn.

I road with Detox and Cashola on those weekend trips. It was a blast but exhausting.

Last fall Get Right’s resident DJ’s Johnny Cashola, and DJ Detox moved away. Detox relocated to San Diego. Cashola became an Ohio ex-pat in Brooklyn.

Power 107.5’s DJ Giovanny joined on as Get Right’s resident DJ and Kareem Jackson remained the promoter.

DJ Johnny Cashola is returning Saturday to celebrate the Get Right 7 Year anniversary with DJ Giovanny and Kareem Jackson.

I chopped it up with Cashola about his time with Get Right via email.

Get Right started out at Lotus which is now Double Happiness now. How did it end up in the Downtown bars?

Get Right moved around a lot for long time, mostly because venues would always end up shutting down after a few months from us starting our night. It kept it really fresh too. It was always nice to have a new venue to go to, especially because people were getting sick of going to the same old places week after week after week. At one point I think we had exhausted our options because of lack of venues. I forget if it was Kareem’s idea or what but we eventually ended up in talks with Spice Bar. That place was great. We had it worked out were there was no dress code and free, as long as you were in the right line and knew about the party. It’s funny to think about all the venues we ran through; Lotus, Cove, Boma, Spice, Karma (old Red Zone), Icon, Long Street, Skully’s…

How did moving venues so often affect the crowds?

It’s kind of strange because you would think moving a night around so much it would just fizzle out but it never did. In the beginning we had a really loyal crowd and that definitely helped. I think it was one of those things like if you knew the right people, you knew about Get Right, kinda exclusive without truly being exclusive. I think every month there would be at least a handful of people that would be like “how have I never been to Get Right or known about it?” I think in the end it really helped let people know about it. There were a lot of people that found out about it because they frequented the venue that we had it at, then started attending Get Right even after it moved from that venue.

This was the “mash-up era” why did you choose to keep it mostly rap?

The very first Get Right I wasn’t even the real DJ. I was actually just suppose to fill in for this guy named Jarrel. I didn’t even get paid that night actually. He mixed in some electro or whatever and people enjoyed it, so when I went on I made sure to play straight bangers. I was still rocking vinyl so I made sure my crates were staked with bangers and stuff people knew and wanted to enjoy. At the time there were enough electro nights and not any real rap nights unless you wanted to venture to a black club. I think after that first Get Right it was pretty apparent the avenue we wanted take. Jarrel moved away and that’s when I got Detox involved. I never fucked with electro or that shit anyway so it was never really a question of whether we should play it or not. Really my mentality was “what would I wanna here or see people go crazy to?”

There has always been a sense of humor and idea performance within the night? Can you elaborate on the Ski masks, foreign money and Gummo?

Other than the performance aspect of it I think it was just an added detail to the night that helped make it a success. It was almost like a new theme every other month, and we never really went out and said what it was, but the fliers always hinted at what was going to go down. It also made it memorable and something to talk about. After a while those nights can start to run together so it really differentiates the night and make it special. I always wanted people to leave and the next day say “fucking Get Right was crazy”, and people wearing ski masks (at a black club which made all the staff very uncomfortable I may add), or making it rain foreign currency, or playing Gummo all added to the “what a crazy night” spectacle. At one of the first Get Right’s I remember there were these 2 black chicks that stumbled upon the night and they were like “oh shit, white people go crazy!” That kinda stuck with us so Gummo feels appropriate in that way as well. The duality of it is cool, like rowdy club rap with people going crazy while rural weird white people are on the big screen. Small little anomaly’s that compound and eventually makes you stop and say “what the fuck?!?” Makes things surreal.

Get Right’s 7th BDAY Party with DJ Johnny Cashola and DJ Giovanny will take place Saturday June 7th at Skully’s Music Diner 1151 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43201

Admission is 5 dollars.