I honestly forgot about his acting career he told me about. Dude the STORIES he had about his college days, he could have wrote a best seller about bro. The people he met and partied with was like watching Charlie Murphy explain about Rick James.Damn...thanks OP. This shit hurts! I was hoping that this was a typo when I just saw this. I met John when I was in high school. He had come to my school as a substitute teacher fresh out of NYU Grad and we immediately hit it off. I was a Junior and dude came in and bagged the baddest teacher in the school at the time. He was a mentor to me and my crew but more so to myself. John was a trained actor and appeared as an extra in some major films at the time which was super star status to a bunch of kids in the hood. I was trying to get at some broad at the time and he schooled the Youngin' on some game that basically changed my life and how I dealt with women going forward. Some years ago I heard John left NJ and went back to his native Chicago and fell ill with diabetes and needed to get his legs amputated. We reconnected a few years ago and I couldn't wait to tell him that I had been inspired by being in his Drama club in HS and pursued a career in acting as well. We had a conversation a couple of years ago about this cool site that I was a member of. I thought I was schooling HIM on something as he just laughed at me and said "You Bone head. Who do you think Dadirty DJ is?" That was a cool moment. I lost my uncle Saturday who was another mentor of mine and thought about calling John to check in on him as I did every now and again only to get the news here. I always wondered that since I didn't have his family's direct info how would I know if anything happened to him. Thank god for this forum and kdubbtha1 for posting it. Ironically we've never met or spoken yet we have similar experiences and memories of a great brother. The DJ community lost a great DJ, the Alpha's lost a good brother and BGOL lost a great member and OG. R.I.P John.