I've been Deejaying for 17 years. To be honest, as a kid I wasn't fascinated with DJs at all, I never even thought for a second to make it a career. It's really funny, cause I knew these two kids who were sweet 16/wedding DJs and I wanted them to make me a mix tape and so I went to their place and watched them do all these weird things with the mixer and scratch the turntables and man, when I tell you they were off... (laughs)
So after awhile they had made one side of the tape and they went to get something to eat. Back then I had absolutely no background in Deejaying and the only little I knew about music was from band class that I attended at school. So after they showed me how to operate their equipment, they left me there to make the second side of the tape and when they came back I was done.
Apparently, they were very impressed with my mixes and requested me to start doing work with them. Not that I wanted to, but I was a little curious and of course could use the money, so I did. And that's how it started.

So it all started pretty much as an experiment? Did you even listen to dance music?

Yes, of course. Back then I loved the old school Todd Terry joints as well as Kenny Dope and some freestyle.

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