I was born May 13, 1973 in Chicago Illinois, the youngest of 3 and the only boy .... so i guess that would make me baby boy. I grew up on the south/west side of Chicago in the Abla homes on 14th and Ashland, and thats where I found my love and talent for music. I always grew up with a music background pretty much like every other black child coming up in the projects you know, barbique's, holidays, or just straight kickin it ... the music was always there. Then at the age of 9 was the first time I'd ever seen a person take two turntables and do what it do to get a party started. Once I observed the reaction of the older people dancing to it ... I knew thats what i wanted to do. Fast forwarding two years ahead, the cats from my area started spinning but it wasn't the same as my uncles music, this was much faster, no dusties ... it was what we all come to know as house music. Once I heard this music ...and saw how ( Larry Harris ) R.I.P ... did his thing on the tables with the back and forth and the tricks, I went bananas and fell in love that day. Being that I was only 11, no one was willing to teach me this shit .... so I got up with this other cat from the hood, he was like 18 working at McDonalds and saving his doe to buy d.j. equipment. I had no job, but I took every piece of change my moms and pops gave me and donated it for the cause. Months later we were "in the mix". As I perfected my craft, these same cats that thought I was to young was now keeping there ears open when they walked pass the crib and heard us doing our thing. Word got back to Larry how hot I was and thus ... you have the youngest d.j. in the fuckin projects yo. 11 years old spinning at parties I would otherwise not been able to get in, how bout dat shit ! As years grew and rap started to take over I slowly transformed with it and left the house music alone. Actually we moved and thats why I left it alone. The cats around my new crib was all about rap music, and thats when i got ahold to the hottest cat I ever heard in my life ...we all know him as Rakim The Great. He was quickly followed by Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap and so on and so forth. I can't even sit here and lie ...
I wasnt thinking about being a producer then, everybody wanted to be an M.C. Then all of a sudden these cats coming from out west ....stepped in and just took shit over, and that did it for me. When N.W.A hit the streets motha fuckas went bananas. Everybodies loving Eazy E, Ice Cube, Ren .... and im like, who the fuck is dat making those tracks, just straight street, gangsta shit ! Thats when I felt that I had found my calling, and now at the age of 33 here I am .... HOLLA !
