6. DJ Krust
I’m about 14 now, in secondary school, and we’re listening to a lot of drum & bass on the radio. Kool FM and stuff like that. I had a friend in school that bought records, he had decks and he was an aspiring DJ. So that made me think that I wanted to start MCing. By now, I was so into writing out songs and learning them that I was always messing about with lyrics. When my friend bought decks and actually started to buy drum & bass records, I remember he said, "I’ll teach you how to mix, I’ll teach you how to DJ" and I said, "Okay, yes please." I bought this song and Shy FX’s ‘This Style’. I used to mix these two into each other religiously. They were my favourites, and I just learnt them inside out so that I could mix them. I blame these two songs because they are iconic in their respective scenes and they are the first two vinyls that I thought I mastered DJing with.
I only DJed in his bedroom after school, but I learnt a lot and I consider myself capable; I can DJ, I just don’t have records.
