_Everybody remembers their first time. Especially when it involves Honey. “The first record I remember actually buying was Ohio Players’ Honey,” says Carl Craig, the legendary techno DJ, recording artist, and label head of Planet E Communications, who was 6 years old when that racy LP came out in 1975. “On the cover there was a woman pouring honey all over her body, and for some reason when I asked my dad, ‘Can I have that record?’ he said, ‘Yeah.’ So, I ended up with this record that my mom was definitely not happy about.”

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