DJTY

DjTy(born Tyrone Lumpkins) fell in love with the idea of becoming a mixologist at the tender age of seven years old. Growing up in the Henry Horner Projects on the West Side of Chicago in the early 70’s music was the escape from everyday life. Greg a well known DJ who also lived in the “Hornets” (nickname for the Projects) would DJ every Saturday night in the playground in the back of Tyrone’s building. Tyrone would sit in the window and would be mesmerized and astonished at how Greg moved the crowd with the music he played. It was then that Tyrone decided that he wanted to be a DJ.
At the age of twelve Tyrone had become the neighborhood DJ were he was nicked named “DJ Terrible TY”. By the time DJ Ty was fourteen years old he was the DJ for School events, Hotweels Roller Rink, and various Night Clubs on the West Side of Chicago. As years passed on, and DJ Ty became one of the hottest DJ’s on the Westside he along with other DJ’s such as Big Paul, Traxman, X Ray, Slick Rick and a multitude of other DJ’s decided to form a group called Geto DJ’s Inc.While being apart of the group DJ Ty began producing Ghetto House Tracks and released several mix CD’s and Albums under Dance Mania Records.
DJ TY has worked with various DJ’s throughout the Chicago land and Detroit area. DJ Slugo who introduced him to the underground “RAVE” Parties under Tekno Mafia and DJ Godfather of Detroit, which later he produced several more Ghetto House Tracks and they were later released under Juke Trax Records. Currently DJ TY is a member of Violator Juke Squad DJ’s and continues to produce music sold on ITunes and Myspace.com/djty2. He in addition still produces Ghetto mix CD’s and DJ’s at Night Clubs throughout Chicago.