DJ RHETTMATIC - WORLD FAMOUS BEAT JUNKIES/VISIONARIES
A major force behind the creation of Southern California's first turntable band, the Beat Junkies, is a multi-faceted musician known to the world as DJ Rhettmatic. Born Nazareth Nirza, his artistic contributions to the music industry have placed him, along with his fellow members of the Beat Junkie crew, at the top of the DJ universe. Possessing unstoppable visions of excelling in this art form, Rhettmatic unites music enthusiasts around the world by sharing his unparalleled skills and talent. His personal discography of musical achievements presents a host of successful accomplishments, and by applying his creativity and dedication, his record of ingenious masterworks will continue to grow.
Rhettmatic began his DJ career in 1983, with Double Platinum, a DJ group based out of Cerritos, CA. As one of the original members of the Beat Junkie crew, he played a major role in introducing Southern California's first turntable band to global audiences. Rhettmatic's unique style encompasses the many elements of a multifaceted Hip Hop DJ. As an accomplished scratch musician, as well as an explosive party/club DJ, Rhettmatic demonstrates his versatility by using the turntable as his musical instrument. His talent and musical expertise also extends into the realm of producing beats that helped him earn recognition and rewards well deserved. Citing a number of distinguished influences, Rhettmatic credits those individuals that greatly impacted the Hip Hop/DJ culture as honorable talent who helped shape his musical style. Inspiration derives from a spectrum of legends, including Grandmaster Flash, Jazzy Jeff, Joe Cooley, the now defunct Invisibl Skratch Piklz, and the X-ecutioners. Rhettmatic highly acknowledges fellow Beat Junkie member, DJ Curse, as his leading mentor. As Curse shared his turntable exhibition, involving scratches and other DJ techniques, Rhettmatic's interest in the DJ art form leaped, allowing him to take hold of his musical passion and succeed. Viewing a live performance of "Rock It" by Herbie Hancock featuring Grandmixer DST on Saturday Night Live also serves as a major driving factor in motivating Rhettmatic to set his place in music history. Rhettmatic not only applies the skills and techniques of his DJ influences to his individual compositions, but he also dives into a pool of other musical genres, which feed him valuable sources of motivation. His collection of Soul and old school R&B, including James Brown and Prince, exemplify Rhettmatic's draw towards funky grooves. Jazz supremes such as John Coltrane and Bob James, as well as masterful Rock composers, including The Beatles and Steely Dan, also enrich his musical style and creative arrangements.
Rhettmatic seized numerous triumphs both as a musical performer and as a creative genius. He claimed the titles of Disco Mixing Club (DMC) West Coast Champion (1996), International Turntablist Federation (ITF) Team USA Champion (1997), Rhettmatic's innovations produce a boundless list of prized accomplishments. His musical masterpieces include "E=MC5" by Key Kool and Rhettmatic featuring Ras Kass, LMNO, Voodoo, and Meen Green, "Peace Mic" by The Visionaries, "From The Ground Up" b/w "Ubiquity" by The Associates featuring LMNO & Key Kool of the Visionaries, Rakaa Iriscience & Evidence of Dilated Peoples, and Divine Styler. Just recently of Dec. 05, Rhettmatic had the honor of being the late great J Dilla's tour show DJ in Europe, for his last tour ever, along with fellow Detroiters, Frank N Dank & Phat Kat. Currently, he is working on several projects, which he plans to release this year. Rhettmatic ended up doing half of the production on the new Visionaries album titled "We Are The Ones", on Up Above Records. He did scratches for Talib Kweli's new album, "Eardrum", and has also finished producing some tracks for OhNo & Roc C (Stones Throw), Aloe Blacc (Stones Throw) , Prince Po (Organized Konfusion), Pigeon John (Quanuum), RBX (The Dogg Pound), Noelle Scaggs of The Rebirth & the legendary Percee P. He will be also working on a producers' album with J-Rawls of the Lone Catalysts, which will combine both their talents as producers and will featured guests like Rene Neufville of Zhane, Trek Life, and Supastition, and hopefully, an official Beat Junkie Crew recorded album by 2008.
As with each passing year, not does only his skill and reputation as a Dj grows, but Rhettmatic's reputation as an up and coming producer and his passion for musical knowledge and musicianship tends to grow as well. With all these components, hopefully one day Rhettmatic will be acknowledge along with the greats in Hip Hop music history.
I really wanna thank ya for Beat Junkies, your pioneering UG-work with all those beat/break twistin` Dj`s, Mc`s & great vocalists.!! Sending respect biig time from snowy Finland!! By the way I just bought Guilty S.`s "Gettin Bitches" and Percee P`s "No Time for Jokes" both 12" vinyls - D.O.P.E.!
Rhet! whats good... cant wait to chill VIP at Paid Dues... get to chill wit you and Babu... hope to see yall there, hopefully smoke yall out well see whats good, and keep doing it up! Dielekt:.
SUPERSTAR & STAR HERE . BIG HUGS AND TRUE LOVE HERE . PLEASE STOP BY AND GIVE ME A VOTE PLEASE THANK SO MUCH . TELL YOUR LOVELY FAMILY WE SEND OUR LOVE HAVE A WONDERFULL WEEKEND.
Yo Rhett! I need your Help Spreading the Word about my Entry into this Music Competition here on Uber Could use help collecting the votes :) Miss you and Love you Dearly! ME
Rhett, EAST COAST WEST COAST LOVE BABY ! Sounds like you are havin a blast in the N.Y.C son...great reading about it on your blog. Try and drop by and see my man Burkina on Houston for some NYC threads!
o Rhett!! Definitely good seeing u out East!! WOW I am still exhausted from all the on goings... Stay up my Brother! Always Bless John Robinson (Lil Sci is gone!! Lol!!!)
2 OF THE GREATEST HIP HOP PRODUCERS OF ALL TIME ON ONE STAGE!!
Pete Rock & Dj Premier @ Crash Mansion - LA! Pt. 1
This past Friday, the city of Los Angeles got to witness something unbelievable....2 of the greatest Hip Hop Dj/Producers of all time on the same stage together, Djing.....Soul Brother #1, Pete Rock & the legendary Dj Premier!!!! Everybody thought it was a big Dj battle (due to the faulty advertisement), it was really a big party jam!!!
All I can say is this......"BANANAS!!!!". The place was packed to the rim, and almost everybody from LA was in the house. And believe me when I say this.....this was a Hip Hop fan's dream come true! I was a fan that night, and still is when the night was over......I felt like I was back in 89!
Met up with J.Rocc, Babu, & our manager Big Kid Dru at the spot. Placed was already packed and there was still a long line outside. We missed Pacific Division and Inka 1....no disrespect to the homies, but we were there to see Peter Philipps and Christopher Martin. Also in the house that night: Evidence, Dj Revolution, Dave New York, OhNo, MED, Bishop Lamont, Dae One, West Coast Kam, Killah Priest, Blu (i saw you brah gettin wild!), Corey Smith (Blacksmith), and B Plus.....i'm sure there were other cats in the house but it was soo packed, it was too crazy to even walk around.
It's even so surreal when 2 of the greatest Hip Hop producers of all time shout out your name before they start their set. Premo shouted out Babs, Ev, Revolution, & yours truly and Pete shouts out J's name and the Beat Junkies.....both J and I were hella trippin. Who would've thought that we would be friends with people we both looked up to and had a big influence on us. We just both looked at each other and started laughing in disbelief.....
Both Pete & Premo started off playing classic rock, funk, disco, and soul records to warm up the crowd, trading off back forth....
Pete Rock & Dj Premier - Live In LA pt. 2!
It was so dope just to see both Pete & Premo djing live together on stage, going back and forth playing joints. But it really gets crazy when they both started to play Hip Hop....just when you thought it couldn't get any crazier, they both started to play their own "classics"; material that they produced over the years. And it was even more crazier to even see them playing their own material and seeing the crowd reacting to it....Classics like "Come Clean", "Shut Em Down Remix", "Nas Is Like", "The Game", "Full Clip" and this classic joint.....
Pete Rock playing "T.R.O.Y."!!!
I wish I had taken pictures but unfortunately the security guards were sweatin me. But all i can say is that the memory of this particular night is something I will never forget. And something like this to happen is only a once in a lifetime moment....Los Angeles, consider yourself lucky!!!
Shout outs to Gordon (Year Round Records), C. Smyth (BlackSmith Ent), Jeff Williams, the Soled Out crew, Johnny Juice & Soup for the hook ups.
