I'm an old school hip hop DJ who is a rapper as well, I am the Dj Steppa G from the '90s Junglist. I'm an old school hip hop Dj who starts back in the '80s when it was still called electro hip hop, Me and my friend " PHD " use to practice on my brother's decks when he went out. With the help of my brother and some other DJs learned to cut & scratch, but the big break came when I went to DJ classes
hosted by Dj Red Alert & Africa Bambaataa where I learned my real knowledge about being a DJ. This was all so the first time I would meet Bambaataa, I was sitting in front of him, not really pay any notice of what Red Alert was saying on stage at the Hammersmith Apollo. Bambaataa hit my side and told me to pay attention, well I told no notice of him. So when Red Alert said " do we have any volunteers" Bambaataa pointed start to me. So I went on stage and made a real ass of myself, I sat back down, & Bambaataa turns to me and said " I told you to listen, now listen" big man we will meet again!
With the new style, I have found I and some of the other DJs I knew start doing our own parties, give the people the music that they really wanted to hear. I did use to do a little MC-ing, some people might know my name from Nottinghill Carnival. Where I what MCed over reggae for any sound system that would let me on the mic. I called "Steppa" by my family & family friends, I got the name because I would walk all over London on my own. Then because I was a really go dancer, which helps me when I'm selecting tunes. I was playing a mix of soul and hip hop right up to the '90s when it all went gangster rapper, but I still stay in it because I love my hip hop! This is the second time I would meet Bambaataa, we were doing a gig a Brixton Academy with Big Daddy Kane! and Bambaataa were there we meet again! I stopped doing the dance and went back to the music, now this was right at the start of the Drum & Bass when most people were still calling it rave music. Yes, Drum & Bass did come from the rave music, but it was more about the beats and basslines than just having noises all over the tune. My friend and I all got more into the D & B than the rave, it all starts with my friend MC Conrad he was the first one. Then PHD & Conrad got me into the music, we use to go to a club call the Milk bar in London where you could find ( Goldie, Chemistry & Storm, Fabio & Grooverider, Roni Size.etc.) this was before they all big stars. We all went there to listen to the music because D & B hadn't really got going yet! Then we got another event in London Blue-note, an underground club that looks like it was in somebody's house. Some of the Dj started their own labels e.g. Hospital, Metalheads, Moving Shadows, etc. Conrad & PHD signed to a Label this where I would meet some of the other artists like Blame, Blu-Mar-Ten, Big Budd etc. Now being fully armed up I went off, still not signing to any Label just dropping the heaviest & phattest tunes ripping up dance floors all over the southeast. Near the end of the 90's my not sign any label started to give me problems because some of the labels would only give tunes to DJs that played only their music. The whole thing was starting to slow down because I was still a hip hop DJ I went straight back to the music. In the 2000's I give DJ-in a rest because everything was getting too political for me. All I want to do is play a couple of tunes! music can be political like Public Enemy, but not like if you don't play this music you're a sell-out. About 4 years ago some of my new DJ friends called me out of retirement to do some gigs with them " Audio_AD, Furney, DJ Juan, Mark Preest etc." My big launch came when Blame let me do an Official Mega Mix of his tunes and post it online. With the hits, I was on mydjspace.net and my Twitter Coast2Coast invited me to join as one of their DJs and the rest well we're still writing?
Thanks to all My DJ Friends
Blame, Nookie, Furney, Paul SG, Blu-Mar-Ten, Fabio, Physics, DJ Concrete, Audio-Ad, DJ GAS, Vince Robinson, DJ Juan, Mark Preest, DJ Lolly, Tony-G, Micky-P & Nate B, Stu Messenger, Lloyd Williams, D'loose, DJ Turner, etc
Who the Hell is Steppa G
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