DJ B-Girl crashed into the music world almost by accident, circa 1994. She started with a college radio show and then moved on to deejaying at parties. A few years later she ended up going to school for audio recording. While in school, DJ B-Girl started teaching herself how to make beats.
Moving to Seattle in 2001, she began a journey to fulfill her destiny. She started breaking, and also got some regular gigs out at the clubs deejaying. She got known for playing both hip hop and drum and bass, and put out 2 hip-step mix CD’s titles Ghetto Fabulous and Ghetto Rebel Rise. B-Girl had her first track put out in 2003 on Urabon Records, called Girls in Space. It was a CD compilation featuring all female producers in electronic music genres including notables, Shroombab and DJ Sol.
From there B-Girl released The Human Collective EP in 2004 featuring special guests Spyc-E, Wiseproof, Mia and MC Squared. Due to a change of heart in creative direction, B-Girl decided to cut out over half the album, sizing it down considerably before releasing the digital version. Why? Because she wanted to highlight the vocal tracks and leave all of the instrumental tracks. If you were one of the few to get a physical copy of this album, hold on to it. There are only a handful in circulation.
After 2004 DJ B-Girl took a break from the electronic music world, saying “farewell” to drum and bass. She focused all of her attention on hip hop, and ending up making a full-length album called Love or Fate, released in the spring of 2008. It features 11 Seattle emcees, 2 musicians and 1 deejay. B-Girl made all of the beats, recorded everyone at her studio and mixed the album down herself. Steve Turnidge from Ultraviolet studios mastered the album for her.
An eclectic album, Love or Fate pushed DJ B-Girl into the media’s attention. She was did interviews with the Seattle Weekly, Venuszine and Davey D. of Breakdown FM. She had songs with all women including “Murder She Wrote feat. Sista Hailstorm and Julie C.,” and “Life feat. Piece and Toni Hill.” The album also had battle beats that she had played in the Big Tune beat battle, getting 2nd place next to Seattle producer Sabzi (Blue Scholars and Common Market), including “No More Beef feat. Inkubiz” and “Identity Theft feat. Phreewil and DJ WD4D.” But that’s not all, showcasing her many styles, listen to “Need the Game feat. Jerm and Cyreeta,” “Get Low feat. Julie C. and Asun,” or “Livin It feat. Khanfidenz and Toni Hill.”
After Love or Fate, DJ B-Girl went right back into the lab to start working on a new project with Seattle emcees, Julie C. and Jerm of Alpha-P. The result was phenomenal. The Knox Family is a strong and cohesively themed project, boasting slappin’ beats and lyrics that murder on the m-i-c. Gangster political music that makes you dance. Conscious and street mesh together seamlessly while remaining brutally honest, with a revolutionary pulse. These South End to C.D. emcees have been bringing it to you for decades, only now they have a global audience.
DJ B-Girl is a hip hop teaching artist, heading up a drop-in recording program for teens in the International District at Wapifasa called “Katalyst.” This program teaches youth how to record using pro-tools and culminates with a certification test that allows them to record independently after taking the 3-month program. There are also opportunities for youth to DJ, produce, break, do graffiti art, and learn the business side of the industry as well. For more information please visit www.wapiseattle.org.
DJ B-Girl founded a community organization called B-Girl Bench, that focuses on educating, supporting and networking with women in hip hop. It is an ongoing project involving workshops, shows, videos and interviews. For more information please visit bgirlbench.com or youtube.com/bgirlbench.
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