*Dj Mo fLaVa*

THIS IS ME... "SIMPLY THE BEST" DJ MO FLAVA

DJ MO FLAVA WAS BORN IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 9, 1987. SHE SPENT MOST OF HER LIFE GROWING UP IN THE SUBURBS OF CLEVELAND, OHIO. THIS BROOKLYN NATIVE IS DOING THE DAMN THING, NOT ONLY IS SHE “YOUNG, FLY, & FLASHY”, BUT THIS MA MA GOT SKILLS ON THE 1S AND 2S. DJ MO FLAVA GOT THE STREETS ON LOCK WITH HER INCREDIBLE MIXTAPES HITTING THE STREETS HARD. WHEN YOU COP A DJ MO FLAVA MIXTAPE, YOU’RE SURE TO HEAR SOMETHING NEW AND EXCLUSIVE. SHE’S GOT THOSE EXCLUSIVES POPPIN’ FOR DAYS.

GROWING UP DJ MO FLAVA LOOKED UP TO PEOPLE SUCH AS AALIYAH, DJ LAZY K, MC LYTE, AND QUEEN LATIFAH, BUT SHE STRONGLY LOOKED UP TO AALIYAH AND DJ LAZY K THE MOST. “AALIYAH AND DJ LAZY K STOOD OUT TO ME THE MOST, I FOUND THEM TO BE VERY UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS” SAYS MO FLAVA. “AALIYAH WAS ROCKIN’ IT ON THE MIC AND LAZY K WAS ROCKIN’ THE 1S AND 2S”, MO FLAVA REPLIED. GROWING UP MO FLAVA WATCHED HER DAD DO HOUSE PARTIES, WHICH MO FLAVA WAS HIGHLY INFLUENCED BY. BEING FROM NEW YORK MO FLAVA ALWAYS KEPT HER EAR TO THE STREETS WHEN IT CAME TO HIP-HOP. “I FELL IN LOVE WITH HIP-HOP AT A VERY YOUNG AGE”, SAYS MO FLAVA.

“HIP HOP INFLUENCED ME TO DO SO MUCH IN MY LIFE SUCH AS WRITE HIP HOP POETRY, BECOME A JOURNALIST, START MY OWN CLOTHING LINE, DJ, AND ETC; WITHOUT HIP HOP I DON’T KNOW WHERE I WOULD BE”, MO FLAVA EXCLAIMED. “HIP HOP IS TRULY THE LOVE OF MY LIFE”, RECALLS MO FLAVA. AS MO FLAVA GREW UP SHE BEGAN TO WATCH HER DAD VERY CLOSLEY WHILE DJING. SHE ALSO PLAYED CLOSE ATTENTION TO AALIYAH AND DJ LAZY K AS HER ROLE MODELS. “ THERE WAS A TIME IN MY LIFE, THAT I WANTED TO BE A R&B SINGER BECAUSE OF AALIYAH, BUT PERFORMING IN FRONT OF MILLIONS WAS ALWAYS AN ISSUE FOR ME”, SAID MO FLAVA. THAT’S WHEN SHE BEGAN TO STUDY DJ TECHNIQUES TO SEE IF IT WAS POSSIBLE SHE COULD BECOME A SUCCESSFUL DJ.

“I FIRST TOUCHED DOWN ON A SET OF TURNTABLES AT THE AGE OF 5”, MO FLAVA SAYS. AT THAT TIME I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE HELL I WAS THINKING, TO BE SCRATCHING ON SOME TURNTABLES, BUT I WAS TERRIBLE” AS SHE LAUGHS. THE MORE MO FLAVA LOVED HIP-HOP THE MORE SHE WANTED TO BECOME A DJ, BUT MO FLAVA HAD DOUBTS OF BECOMING A DJ AT FIRST. HER FIRST LOVE WAS HIP-HOP THEN IT WAS BASKETBALL, BUT MO FLAVA DIDN’T WANT TO LEAVE BASKETBALL BEHIND.

MO FLAVA HAD DREAMS OF BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL WNBA BASKETBALL PLAYER, BUT HER DREAMS WERE CHATTERED HER SENIOR YEAR IN HIGHSCHOOL WHEN SHE GOT CUT. “ WHEN I GOT CUT MY LOVE FOR BASKETBALL WENT OUT THE WINDOW, I HAD THOUGHTS I’D NEVER BECOME A WNBA STAR”, SAYS MO FLAVA. “NOT TO SOUND COCKY BUT I WAS ONE OF THE BEST PLAYERS ON THE TEAM, AND THEY COULDN’T HANDLE THAT” MO FLAVA REPLIED. WHEN SHE WAS CUT SHE REALIZED SHE NEEDED TO FIND OUT WHAT OTHER TALENTS SHE MAY HAVE. AFTER MO FLAVA GRADUATED FROM HIGHSCHOOL IN 2005, SHE DEDCIDED TO BE COME A DJ OFFICALLY. “ I NEVER WANTED TO BE A DJ, I WANTED TO BE A PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER, AND A WRITER” SAYS, MO FLAVA. HIP-HOP KEPT CALLING HER AND SHE COULDN’T SAY NO, SO SHE OFFICIALLY DECIDED TO BECOME A DJ LATE 2005 AND EARLY 2006. THROUGHOUT HER SENIOR YEAR SHE BEGAN TO INTERVIEW DJS SUCH AS, DJ CHELA, MICK BOOGIE, DJ SLIQUE, DJ CAMILO, DJ CHINO, AND MANY MORE. MO FLAVA STARTED INTERVIEWING DJS FOR HER SENIOR PROJECT.

HER SENIOR PROJECT WAS ON THE BIRTH OF HIP-HOP. SHE HAD A LOT OF FUN INTERVIEWING THE DJS, MO FLAVA REALLY ENJOYED INTERVIEWING DJ CHELA. DJ CHELA WAS THE FIRST FEMALE DJ MO FLAVA INTERVIEWED. “INTERVIEWING DJ CHELA WAS COOL, I COULD RELATED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT TOPICS SHE WAS ADDRESSING. SHE HAD A LOT OF GOOD POINTS ON HER ASPECT OF HIP-HOP NOW A DAYS” SAYS MO FLAVA. MO FLAVA ALSO HAD SMALLS TALKS WITH PEOPLE SUCH AS FUNK MASTER FLEX, HOLLOW “106&PARK CHAMP”, DJ COOL KEV, DJ CIPHA SOUNDS, SUNNY, MICK BOOGIE, DJ LAZY K AND MANY MORE. “TALKING TO LAZY K WAS CRAZY, I WAS NERVOUS JUST DIALING HER NUMBER, SHE’S DEFINITELY COOL PEOPLES AND A BIG INSPIRATION TO ME; TALKING TO A LEGEND LIKE HER IN THE HIP-HOP INDUSTRY REALLY MEANT A LOT TO ME”, SAYS MO FLAVA. THE MORE SHE INTERVIEWED DJS, THE MORE SHE REALLY WANTED TO BE A DJ.

MAY 2006 MO FLAVA TEAMED UP WITH AFRICAN MAFIA; A CREW BASED OUT OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. MAZI O. WHO IS THE BOSS OF AFRICAN MAFIA WELCOMED MO FLAVA TO THE CREW AS A NEW MEMBER AS WELL AS DYLAN DILINJAH, FROM MTV’S MAKING THE BAND 2.“ WHEN I HEARD ABOUT AFRICAN MAFIA IM LIKE DAMN THIS IS A CLICK I GOTTA BE DOWN WITH”, SAYS MO FLAVA. AND SHE SURE IS, AND REPPIN THE SQUAD TO THE FULLEST. “ ITS CRAZY HOW THINGS JUST CHANGE IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME, ONE MINUTE I WAS ROLLIN’ WITH OUT A CREW NEXT MINUTE IM DOWN WIT AFRICAN MAFIA, IT’S CRAZY, SAYS MO FLAVA. “ I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE IM ON THE SAME TEAM AS DYLAN DILINJAH, IM STILL A FAN”, SHE EXCLAIMED. DYLAN IS COOL PEOPLES AS WELL, HE’S PRETTY MUCH MY BIG BROTHER IN THIS INDUSTRY THING.MO FLAVA SAYS SHE’S TRULY BLESSED TO BE DOWN WITH A CREW THAT DOES NOTHING BUT SUPPORT HER.

MO FLAVA DOESN’T STOP THERE; SHE BECAME VERY SUCCESSFUL WITH THE DJING THING. MO FLAVA HAS DROPPED OVER 8 MIXTAPES SUCH AS; STREET HUSTLAZ VOL 1&2, THUG LOVE 1&2, “SIMPLY THE BEST” HITZ 1, 2, AND 3, AND THAT’S ONLY TO NAME A FEW. SHES GOT A COUPLE OF MIXTAPES IN THE WORKS NOW SUCH AS THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MIXTAPE “STREET HUSTLAZ VOL. 3”, THUG LOVE VOL 3, SO GROWN & SO SEXY, ANY MANY MORE ON THE WAY. SO BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR THOSE HOT MIXTAPES FROM YOUR GIRL DJ MO FLAVA.

“2007 I PLAN TO WORK REALLY HARD WITHIN THAT YEAR, ITS TIME TO PUT THAT MONEY IN THE BANK,”SAYS MO FLAVA. MO FLAVA PLANS TO COLLAB WITH MORE ARTISTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, TO GET MORE EXPOSURE. “2007 IS GOING TO BE CRAZY AS HELL, IM MOS DEF GOING TO PUT IN A LOT OF WORK, MORE OF MY MIXTAPES ARE GOING TO BE RUNNING OFF THE SHELF IN THE CLEVELAND AREA”, MO FLAVA REPLIES. MO FLAVA IS NOT PLAYING AROUND WHEN IT COMES TO HER MIXTAPES, SHE’S MOST DEFINITELY ON THE GRIND. “ 2006 WAS MOS DEF A GOOD LOOK FOR ME, THE BEST THING THAT HAPPEN WAS TEAMING UP WIT AFRICAN MAFIA”, SAYS MO FLAVA. “I FELT IN 2006 I DIDN’T DO MY HARDEST TO SOME EXTENT, I COULD OF PUT OUT A LOT MORE MIXTAPES, AT TIMES I WAS SLACKING, BUT 2007 IM MOS DEF GOIN TO MAKE UP FA IT FA SHO” MO FLAVA EXCLAIMED.

NOT ONLY IS MO FLAVA DOING HER THING ON THE MUSIC SCENE SHES ALSO DOING HER THING AS A YOUNG ENTERPURNER. “IN A FEW YEARS OR SO I PLAN ON OPENING MY OWN HIP-HOP STORE, WITH NOTHIN BUT HIP-HOP CLOTHING, ME AND MY FAM ARE WORKING ON IT NOW” SAYS MO FLAVA. SHE GOT BIG DREAMS AND SURELY MAKING THEM HAPPEN. HER CLOTHING STORE WON’T BE OUT ANYTIME SOON, BUT IT IS DEFINITELY IN THE WORKS NOW. “I LOVE HIP-HOP SO WHY NOT OPEN A STORE WIT THE LOVE OF HIP-HOP, ITS BEEN ONE OF MY DREAMS TO OWN MY OWN BUSINESS, SO IM DEFINITELY GONNA MAKE IT HAPPEN”, SAID MO FLAVA

“MY BIGGEST INSPIRATION IS MY FANS, WHEN I WAS GOING TO QUIT DJING, THEY REACHED OUT TO ME,” SAYS MO FLAVA. SHE SHOWS HER FANS A LOT OF LOVE AS WELL AS THEY SHOW HER LOVE. “THE ONE PERSON THAT MADE ME FEEL LIKE I CAN STILL DO MY DJ THING, WAS FORMER HOT 97 HOST SUNNY; SUNNY GAVE ME HOPE AGAIN, AND SHE MADE ME REALIZE I SHOULDN’T GIVE UP ON MY DJ THING. I THINK IT MEANT SO MUCH MORE THAN OTHERS BECAUSE I REALLY LOOK UP TO SUNNY, AS A ROLE MODEL IN THIS HIP- HOP INDUSTRY, SO THANK YOU SUNNY” AS MO FLAVA REPLIED. “MY FANS SHOW ME A LOT OF LOVE AND SUPPORT, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE IT A LOT”, SAID MO FLAVA.

BE SURE TO LOOK OUT FOR DJ MO FLAVA THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, DOING PARTIES, MIXTAPES, HOSTING MIXTAPES, WRITING HER FIRST HIP-HOP POETRY BOOK WHICH IS IN THE WORKS NOW, DOIN’ BIG BUSINESS DON’T SLEEP ON YA GIRL DJ MO FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVA!!!!

“2007 TO I PLAN TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO BE ON TOP; CUZ IMA BE ON THE GRIND TO THE FULLEST” 2007 HAS ALREADY BEEN A GOOD LOOK FOR MO FLAVA SO FAR. JANURAY 2007 MO FLAVA CREATED HER OWN MOVEMENT CALLED, “STREET HUSTLAZ”. I’M FROM THE HOOD, SO ALL WE SEE IS THE STREET LIFE, YOU KNOW, LIKE THERE’S NO ESPACING IT. SO I CREATED A MOVEMENT FOR MY PEOPLES IN THE STREET GRINDIN TO THE FULLEST, AND TRYING TO BECOME SOMETHING. STREET HUSTLAZ IS ABOUT GOING ALL OUT, TO BE ON TOP, WE ABOUT MAKING THINGS HAPPEN, AND ACCOMPLISHING OUR GOALS”, MO FLAVA REPLIED. EARLY MARCH 2007 MO FLAVA STARTED RELEASING STREET HUSTLAZ CLOTHING.

“STREET HUSTLAZ CLOTHING” WAS A GOOD MOVE FOR ME IN MY EYES; I ADAPTED FAST AND HAD IDEAS TO MAKE SOME MOVES ON MY OWN, SO THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I DID” MO FLAVA EXCLAIMED. MO FLAVA GOT A LOT OF GOOD FEEDBACK ON THE CLOTHING. “HONESTLY, I DID RUSH TO DO IT, IT WAS UNEXPECTED AND A SHOCK TO EVERYONE AROUND ME, THEY COULDN’T BELIEVE HOW HOT AND EXCLUSIVE IT CAME OUT, AS MO FLAVA LAUGHS. MO FLAVA PUT A STOP TO THE CLOTHING, BUT NOT PERMANELTY; SHE JUST THOUGHT SHE SHOULD TAKE HER TIME WITH THINGS AND NOT RUSH. “YEA MY MOM LIKED THE CLOTHING, BUT SHE JUST CONSTANTLY SAW ME JUMPING FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHER. SO SHE SUGGESTED I SLOW THINGS DOWN, AND SHE WAS RIGHT”, AS MO FLAVA REPLIED.

MO FLAVA WILL DEFINITELY GET BACK TO MAKING CLOTHES SOON, WHEN SHE FIGURES OUT AN EASIER WAY TO GET CLOTHES OUT QUICKER. “I DIDN’T THINK HOW HARD IT WAS ACTUALLY BE TO PRODUCING CLOTHES TO THE PUBLIC, BUT LIKE I SAID BEFORE I WAS IN A RUSH WHEN I FIRST STARTED. MO FLAVA CONITUOUSLY EMPHASIZES THAT SHE IS TRULY BLESSED, TO HAVE NOTHING BUT GOOD PEOPLE BEHIND HER EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. “I’M A REAL HARD WORKER AT EVERYTHING I DO, SO I’M DEFITNELY GOING TO BE VERY SUCCESSFUL WHEN I GET OLDER” SAYS MO FLAVA