Hey hey this is day 8 of me and @imodelbooth 30 day challenge. We are highlighting one person and their business. Today we wanted to highlight @victoryornothingapparel @marcuswbrewster and to wish him a happy birthday
Day 7 of @imodelbooth and I 30 day challenge where every day we highlight a person and their business. Today we would like to highlight @nappyscales @nappyroots @atlantucky
A. I’ve always been a DJ to my family and friends. I’ve always been the one to trust with the aux cord. I have loved music my entire life, so I just decided to buy equipment one day and create an opportunity for myself.
Q. What differentiates you from the rest of the DJ’S?
A. My ability to adapt to different crowds is an advantage because I can take more gigs and get the chance to become more creative.
Q. How would you define your “Style” pr approach to providing DJ Entertainment?
A. I feel like my style is pretty open. I feel I can adapt to any crowd. I love a lot of different genres of music so it’s always fun to create different vibes.
Q. Who or What influenced you to be a DJ?
A. My Dad is a huge music lover and has collected tons of classic albums! He is definitely a big part of me knowing music and becoming a DJ!
Q. Can you give any advice to upcoming DJs?
A. Don’t be scared just go for it! You can practice at home, but you learn the most while in the moment! Take the next upcoming DJ opportunity and prove to yourself that “YOU GOT THIS”!
A. I have collected music since I was very little (8 years old) and I was like a weird little girl who doesn’t play with dolls. I was playing with tapes, Walkman, and headphones all day. When someone introduced me to a mixer it was a completely new world for me and I can’t stop, I remember my mother said stop with this bull mess you would never be someone if you don’t study and continue with this stupid music, I literally followed my dream and now I’m here living the American Dream and making a living from what I love.
Q. What differentiate you from the rest of the DJ’s?
A. I’m a warrior naturally of where I come from, always trying to survive and I never stop to push, hustling daily and always thinking how I can help the brands and the companies that I work with grow and have more business, for me if I win, you win, we all win teamwork.
Q. How would you define your “Style” or approach to providing DJ Entertainment?
A. My style is hype. Energetic full of love here to make you happy and make your business make money, as a mobile DJ I want to create memories in the clients and providing the best sound, beautiful and clean set up to the venue.
Q. Who or What influenced you to be a DJ?
A. 100% the Hip-Hop culture and general; the freestyle, the lyrics with contents one of them was Public Enemy.
Q. Can you give any advice to upcoming DJ’s?
A. Follow the heart beats, work hard and evaluate how much you love the music, if you just do it for the money or fame this is not your career, in this game one day you have everything and the next you don’t know it’s a constant war and just the strongest survive.
The most important conversations you will ever have are the ones you have internally. What you say to yourself becomes your truth.
Praise yourself often and share your successes with others. Speak about yourself with patience, forgiveness, and love. Humility and pride are not at odds with each other; you can be humble and still be proud of your accomplishments.
Be kind with your words to yourself, because they are incredibly powerful.
It’s day 6 of me and @imodelbooth 30 day challenge where we are highlighting one person a day and their business. Today we are highlighting 2 into one video. We would like to highlight @hoststaceyl & @hostladytl
Make sure to follow them and see what they have going on.
It’s day 5 of me @Imodelbooth booth 30 day challenge where we highlight one person a day and their business. Today we want to highlight @insideglyniskitchen. Make sure to check her out and her products.
A. Really just trying to boss up like these guys out here, it’s more than just being a Dj, you have to be rounded across hosting, djing and spinning.
Q. How would you define your “Style” or approach to providing DJ entertainment?
A. I’m trying to be the female DJ Khaled of the game period.
Q. Who or what influenced you to be a DJ?
A. The love for music and then she syndicated radio shows like Steve Harvey Morning Show, Tom Joyner Morning show, DJ Khaled, Rickey Smiley morning show, DJ Envy and The Breakfast Club.
Q. Can you give any advice to upcoming DJs?
A. Stay consistent, stay down, and don’t give up. I mean you will have thoughts but stay focus on the end result and you can’t do it for the money because it’s not going to come right away.
A. My best friend Alton Lucas back in Durham NC, where I am from had started calling me Nabs. I was like what is Nabs? They were skinny Briscoe Cookies in 6th grade. I hated it, but it stuck. I started Djing 4 years later in 10th grade I became DJ Nabs the Briscoe Disco.
Q. What made you want to become a DJ?
A. It was the early 80’s I never had any interest in rapping. I did try to break dance, but it did not work out and I became a DJ.
Q. How did you get in with being a DJ for So So Def?
A. With So So Def I started it with Jermaine with him making mixtapes and at that time. I was on Radio and V103. When Jermaine finally got a deal with So So Def this was after Kris Kross. For Kris Kross which I ended up Djing for in 1992 which was Jermaine group was not on So So Def they were on Rough House Records out of Philly. Then Jermaine got So So Def recording that we now know, and that first group was Xscape with 1 DJ for them before at that time. I ended up meeting Jermaine through my friends Arrested Development who had a hit that same year as Kris Kross called Tennessee. Hot 97.5 same thing. I known Jerry Smokin B who is a radio legend and he called me in 95 that we had a new rap station and wanted me to come on over. I was at V103 at the time. A year later they asked me again and I decided to go to Hot 97.5 in 1996 they were a year old at the time.
Q. What differentiate you from the rest of the DJ’s?
A. We all are different, it’s just tapping into your own personal superpower that’s how I describe it. I haven’t always felt like I wasn’t good enough but that’s what made me practice a lot. I know I am a really good DJ and that I am passionate about it and the more that I draw from my own individual vibe that’s how I create things like Old School Sundays at Clyde that people still talk about when I repost my videos. People repost it because they still feel it. Most of all I just try to be me.
Q. Can you give any advice to upcoming DJ’s?
A. Stay true to your craft whatever that may be and then if you are the type that can master more than one craft then do that. Master that craft, master the next one that’s how you become a prince to me. Prince was a genius, a writer, ranger, musician, performer. Djing is not one thing you can produce being on the radio is different being a music director on stage is different like production not just producing music but producing the show producing the event. I can produce at Las Vegas shows then produce Atl Crunk music fest, I can produce something on Tom Joyner family reunion. As a DJ we have the ability to master that craft.
Autumn transitions into winter. The young get older. Caterpillars change into butterflies. This is life. Everything shifts. And each experience is temporary.
Enjoy what is, individual and fleeting as it may be. Avoid clinging. Surrender gracefully when change comes, because it will. And when it does, know that you, too, will shift, but you will always be ok.