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Among New York’s leading mixtape purveyors, DJ Envy climbed in the rates quickly and, by the first 2000s, was peddling the most recent exclusives and freestyles by big-name rappers want Jay-Z, 50 Cent, as well as the L.O.X. Actually, his status was therefore esteemed that Sony authorized him and his …

Initially just one single among countless other mixtape DJs in NY, DJ Whookid rose to prominence together with fellow Queens native 50 Cent and his G-Unit posse, whose freestyles he featured thoroughly and exclusively in his mixes. By enough time 50 blew up in early 2003, Whookid (delivered Yves Mondesire) …

Among the couple of DJs to help make the leap from mixtapes towards the main labels, DJ Hint? installed with Jay-Z’s Roc-a-Fella Information camp for a little bit in the later ’90s, then shifted to his very own camp, Desert Surprise Information. The Queens indigenous built his popularity with street-level …

Referred to as the Play Ruler (aka Slap YOUR PREFERRED DJ), DJ Kayslay rose to the very best of his field by refereeing a few of the most talked-about MC fights of the first 2000s, especially Jay-Z versus Nas and 50 Cent versus Ja Guideline, in his Streetsweeper mixtape series …

Not because the early ’80s when DJs such as for example Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa were known as two of rap’s most widely used numbers had a hip-hop DJ attained such prominent position among the people as Fresh York’s Funkmaster Flex. Through the entire 1990s he reigned over New …

While without doubt among Fresh York’s top notch mixtape DJs, Cutmaster C didn’t limit himself to simply the East Coast, growing his reach towards the country wide rap video game while still retaining his ties to N.Con.C.’s finest. He especially garnered a whole lot of see for his Live From …