My dad bought me the starter DJ kit, and I tried it out for a little while. I loved it. I worked at a record store, and I saved up all my money to buy Technics. Technics are a better brand of turntable than I had. I had belt drive turntables – they’re not really good ones. So I saved up for Technics.

I started hanging out at the local record store. After school, I would take the bus downtown and I would go through records and ask people that worked there about particular artists, really getting to know the history and the background of music.

One of the employees, his name was Fat Cat and he was a DJ. He took me under his wing. He said, “You know what? I want to teach you how to blend and we’d start there. Come to my house once a week.” And I would go to his house, and he would teach me how to blend.

And that’s how I really got into it; just hanging out with a lot of the local DJs. They used to DJ in the park out here in Philadelphia, so I would go to the park and DJ with them and DJ at the store.  That’s how I really got my start, really DJing and learning the basics of it.

When I got into radio, I started learning from a DJ named Cosmic Cat. I beat match. I scratch, I blend. I do everything.

Here’s a clip of her DJing:

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