I was born in Seoul, South Korea in the winter of 1982. I grew up in the neighborhoods of Yonhi Dong and Shinchon; there is this hot little music shop called hyang that you should hit up if you’re ever in that area. The school I went to was taught in English, so I grew up speaking it fluently. I remember when I first heard hip hop in 2nd grade and was immediately hooked. I have developed an almost obsessive passion for the music and culture since, I was always entranced by DJs, something about the way that they could speak volumes without saying a single word inspired me to try it some day. Growing up in Korea though, I didn’t really have many role models or even places where I could get my hands on some turntables.

Sometime around 7th grade a friend’s older brother decided to put me on and let me tag along during one of his gigs. He showed me how to work a mixer, but back then we were just rocking a pair of shitty sony Discmans instead of turntables. He was my first and only mentor, and when he graduated, he left me with a beat up and dying Atus-100 mixer(the same mixer that Omar Epps uses in Juice… it’s actually a REALLY shitty mixer, especially by today’s standards), a horrible Gemini Belt Drive (BDL-40 I think? It’s been discontinued for a while), a Pickering stylus and cart (not that bad, actually) and a few records. I bought a funkmaster flex cd and started listening really closely, trying to wrap my head around how he blended between songs so smoothly, and trying to understand how he scratched. I spent countless hours experimenting with different ways of approaching the (shitty) turntable and (shitty) mixer and looked on the internet for tips on how to scratch, and thanks to DJ Doc Rice’s immensely useful (and now sadly offline) website,

 I started to figure out the basic fader scratches – transform, chirp, tear, flare, orbit. I picked up some more (mostly shitty) gear here and there from working to buy all my gear, and when I went to college at Oberlin Conservatory, I finally picked up a pair of Technics 1200s. Since then, I’ve just been working to expand my abilities in battling, scratching, turntable compositions, beat production, rhyming, and audio recording/mastering. Currently I’m in Pittsburgh spinning at a club here once in a while. I am also now a member of the new Frescatribe Artist Management group, a small group of hip hop heads that are dedicated to bringing high-quality and forward thinking music and culture to the masses. Frescatribe Represent, baby!