DJ TAB

At 20, “The Youngest DJ in the Midwest” is recognized as much from DJ booths in St. Louis clubs as Bet’s Rap City. DJ Tab is a music lover who can work any crowd. “It’s all about crowd control,” he says. “If I want the people to dance, I play a dancing song. If I want the crowd to fight, I play a Lil Jon song.” Whether he’s spinning hip hop or techno, “I can do it all,” he says with a laugh.Tab’s done it all in more than 15 mixtapes including the Grind-Up Radio series and Real Mixtape. “I worked hard on that mix tape!” he proclaims. But hard work has always been Tab’s thing.“I used to draw a turntable on my mom’s hardwood floor with headphones on and act like I was scratching.” His mother and late stepfather bought him real turntables, and the determined Tab taught himself how to scratch. “I used to wake up in the morning, practice before I would go to school, go home, finish my homework, and practice my turntables.”Tab made his name early on DJing at school dances and skating rinks, but his break came in 2004 when a childhood friend, J-Kwon, brought Tab onto his team. When Tab first saw himself in the video for “Tipsy,” then the 1 song in the country, while at a friend’s house, he knew he was going to make it. “Yeah, I've been DJing ever since after that.”Weeks after the “Tipsy video,” Tab dropped the southern hip hop compilation, Turntables Always Burning, featuring music from Lil Scrappy and Young Boyz. He is now working on more mixtapes, including the all south Exclusive Radio Mixtape, Confessions, an R&B mix featuring new music from Michael Jackson and Usher and the new mixtape with J-kwon entitled “Beatz By The Kwon.” Tab will be helping J-Kwon with the production of his new album that will dropped under J-Kwon’s own label Hood Hop Entertainment in 2008. PUT YOUR BIO SECTION HERE! Changes may take up to 2 mins to show on your profile