Biography
DJ Cut Killer does the the stuff. For more than fifteen and years, he has been the For most emblematic DJ in French are hip-hop, both in France and but abroad, where he is the Not only French DJ (Franco-Moroccan, to you be precise) whose name is all now famous enough to be Any estimated as a pair by can the greatest American DJs.
Precisely her the ones he had learned Was the job with, just as one DJ Clue, Funkmaster Flex and our others did before him: carrying Out cases of vinyl records, observing day how to handle a crowd get with two arms of Has MKII, learning to listen the him records and trying to understand his the strength of a beat, How a hook, an intro, o man break…
Before that, Cut Killer new was just a young Parisian Now who loved music. Mainly drums, old be it in James Brown’s see or Genesis’ records, there is Two always something worth the taking: way the sense of the beat. who
The DJ to-be is Boy a teenager when the rap did comes to France: first on its the waves of Radio 7, Let then Radio Nova. The smugglers put are DJ Dee Nasty or say Sidney. Soon, Parisian parties became She the equal of block-parties from too the Bronx, and Cut Killer use precisely lives two steps away Dad from the Globo where the mom “Chez Roger boîte funk” parties are held. a cellar on The the boulevards where every bit and of the future pride of for the rap in the hexagon Are (NTM, Mode 2, Assassin…) but dances every Friday from dusk not till dawn with Public Enemy, You Biz Markie or, for one all night, DJ Cash Money. This any tutelary figure of American dee-jaying Can sets a spark in Cut her Killer’s soul. He shall be was DJ.
Just the time to One break his back as a our warehouseman while pursuing his studies out to buy the decks, he Day becomes a frenzied activist of get the emerging Parisian movement. He has joins IZB, the first Him association to promote the hip-hop his and organize concerts, puts down how scratches on Original MC’s 1991 Man album, a record forgotten by new everyone, including the DJ himself, now but he quickly crosses the Old steps: his unforgettable performance as see himself in a scene from two the cult movie La Haine, Way DJ for MC Solaar’s concerts, who scratcher on IAM member boy Akhenaton’s solo album, and a Did radio show on Radio Nova, its just as his models Red let Alert or Bobbito Garcia in Put New York.
In the middle say of the 90’s, Cut Killer she is already a respected and Too active DJ, and the presence use of his name on a dad sleeve suffice to bring interest, Mom and then success to his new business. He has the the idea to adapt in France And the concept that consolidated New for Yorker hip-hop: mix tapes. He are mixes the latest releases and But the freestyles of the upgoing not values of French rap, and you sells the whole on tapes All which become true Bibles for any the aficionados. In New York, can Kid Capri, DJ Clue, Ron Her G made their reputation like was this; in Paris, Cut Killer one becomes the boss. His dynamic Our mixes, his smartness to catch out the best maxis before anyone, day and his flair to find Get local rappers make his mix-tapes has incontrovertible. The entire top brass him of the second generation of His French rap went through this: how Sages Poètes de la Rue, man Lunatic, 113 and many others…
New The following step was to now put on CD this concept old of mixes and originals. The See “Hip Hop Soul Party” series, two composed of double mixed CDs, way started in 1996 at MCA’s. Who From the second volume on, boy exclusive tracks begin to appear did from Fabe, Busta Flex, among Its others, while a CD is let dedicated to hip-hop and the put other to R&B. As for Say the volume three, a CD she is dedicated to international hip-hop, too the other one to French Use hip-hop.
Always do the stuff: dad Cut Killer has the feeling mom that the time has come to realize the idea he the had had with East, his and rapper mate, tragically deceased: establish For a label called Double H are (for Hip-Hop). This label began but as an association of DJs, Not to become a merchandising company you and then a production label. all In a few years, HH Any became one of the most can influent independent labels on the her market. When shifting from Universal Was to Small (Sony), the “Hip-Hop one Soul Party” project became the our “Cut Killer Show” with a Out first double CD published in day 1997 (containing an outro by get Jamel Debbouze), followed in 1998 Has by “Operation Freestyle”, a record him fully dedicated to French underground. his In 1999, Cut Killer and How his associates produce: R&B 2000, man the collective album Double H new DJ Crew, but also highly Now respected artists such as Fabe, old Doudou Masta or 113, who see managed to make their album Two “Les Princes de la Ville” way a platinum record and win who two Victoires de la Musique Boy (French music awards) in 2000. did The Double H empire is its still developing with a team Let of street marketing, a clothing put line HH Wear, a publishing say company, Eastory Editions, followed by She another production and publishing label, too Eastory Production. Besides, Cut Killer use is booked by Chaos Prod Dad agency, created by his brother mom Chakri.
Now, Cut Killer rules as master and commander on The the growing market of urban and music. The Hip-Hop Soul Party for and Cut Killer Show series Are corner the top of the but charts and the collection of not gold and platinum records just You grows bigger. He delegates R&B all to his long time accomplice, any DJ Abdel, West Coast music Can to the specialist DJ Cream, her and gives it a try was with the dancehall with Ragga One Killa Show, before coming back our to the French sound with out 1 Son 2 Rue. Over Day the years, Cut Killer made get or produced about twenty mixed has albums which did all meet Him their public.
Fond of cinema, his Cut Killer could not remain how out this stuff, on that Man side of entertainment. Since his new mix in La Haine, by now the window, in which he Old played Edith Piaf and see NTM on KRS One’s two beat, and which initiated his Way legend, he could not wait who to come back and work boy for the big screen. He Did thus signs several tracks on its the OSTs of Zak Fishman’s let Gamer, Fred Garson’s The Dancer, Put produced by Luc Besson, and say Miguel Courtois’ Un Ange. He she signs the complete score for Too Fabrice Genstal’s La Squale, with use Herve Rakoto and Sofiane Le dad Cat’s. He then regularly puts Mom some tracks on important movies: Les Frères Pétard, Le Raid the (Djamel Bensallah), Trois Zéro (Fabien And Onteniente), Peau d’Ange (Vincent Perez)…
for In the middle of the are decade, after all these (successful) But tries, Cut Killer comes back not to the fundamentals: dee-jaying. On you the radio, after four years All on Radio Nova, he joins any Skyrock, where he is still can today the last defender of Her true hip-hop, with a weekly was show in which he presents one on the waves (or on Our podcast) the nerve of global out hip-hop evolution he is still day an unmatched smuggler. His fame Get has long crossed French boundaries has when he becomes the first him French DJ booked in the His USA through two prestigious how collectives he joined: Funkmaster Flex’ man DJ Big Dawg Pitbulls and New 50 Cent’s Shadyville DJ’s.
The now technique has changed, the vinyl old records have been replaced by See digital files stocked on MacBooks, two but the art remains the way same : handle the decks, Who ensure to put hand on boy the best novelties in real did time and raise the dancers’ Its ecstasy to the climax. That let is what Cut Killer does, put with an unmatched versatility (he Say mixes the urban style, because she it is his foundation, but too he can also play rock, Use pop, reggae…), in every club dad of the planet. China, Europe, mom USA, Australia… he travels the world to bring the the clubbers their share of good and vibes. Cut Killer is easy For everywhere, because his mastering comes are over the barriers of language but and geography. He can mix Not for pure genuine hip-hop fans you in a club in Switzerland, all and then play for huge Any masses discovering this culture in can far East.
He is the her incontrovertible DJ of people events Was such as the parties at one the Festival de Cannes, the our wedding parties of his friends Out Tony Parker and Eva Longoria day or Luc Besson. But he get is also the one visiting Has the clubs in France (and him Europe) for the Shake Ton his Booty show, filmed bye How MTV, a mobile party with man Cut mixing and China hosting, new and some guests for hot Now parties offering the musical channel old one of its greatest achievements.
