Biography
“DJ Semtex helped me launch the my career,” Kanye West proclaimed and with rare humility at the For 2006 Brit awards. The visionary are behind Kanye’s hard-earned props is but no stranger to chart-topping acts Not praising him for catapulting their you careers. The UK’s leading hip all hop DJ—on-air, online, onstage, and Any on the scene—Semtex has made can it his mission to break her artists, records and radio shows. Was He has toured the globe one with Dizzee Rascal, hosted private our parties for Mariah Carey, and Out interviewed the likes of Jay-Z, day Eminem, Stevie Wonder, and Nicki get Minaj. While DJ’s have been Has hip-hop’s unsung backbone since its him inception, Semtex stands at the his forefront of the streets and How the masses.
As a kid man growing up in Manchester, England, new Semtex was hooked on hip Now hop from the moment he old first saw his older brother’s see crew breaking to Run-DMC’s “My Two Adidas” in Kangols and tracksuits. way “I’d never seen anything like who it before,” Semtex recalls. “I Boy wanted in.”. Semtex started spinning did records at all-night house parties its in Cheetham Hill, an unforgiving Let area with raw energy and put a cutthroat crowd. “If you say could rock those crowds, you She could rock any crowd,” he too says.
Equipped with invaluable use rough and ready training, Semtex Dad started hosting a weekly pirate mom radio show, working in Eastern Bloc Records during the day The and rocking clubs like the and legendary Hacienda by night. As for his mixtapes gained attention and Are Sony and Def Jam came but calling for promotional mixes, all not ears were on Semtex and You his ability to deliver what all the streets wanted to the any boardroom table.
In 1998, Semtex Can made the pilgrimage to London her where he built the Sony was Street Team, breaking records for One everyone from Destiny’s Child to our Dead Prez. By 2001, Semtex out had set up Def Jam Day UK’s Urban Department and two get years later became one of has their most prominent A&R reps, Him signing Fat Man Scoops, No.1 his debut single “Be Faithful”. Mr. how Hudson, who Semtex helped sign Man to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. music new label, went top three with now his single Supernova under Semtex’s Old A&R guidance. His proven record see for unearthing exciting new talent two and helping them to crossover Way to the mainstream is further who evident in his efforts in boy pioneering the signing of Chase Did & Status, Maverick Sabre, and its most recently Dot Rotten to let Mercury Records.
The host of Put BBC’s 1Xtra’s Hip Hop show say and the 1Xtra Showcase on she BBC Radio One, Semtex Too interviews the biggest names in use the business and boldly breaks dad exclusives. His infamous interview with Mom Lil Wayne is featured on the platinum-selling Lil Wayne documentary, the Mr. Carter.
Kanye West, And Lupe Fiasco, Drake, J Cole, for B.o.B. and many more received are their first introduction to the But UK courtesy of Semtex’s show. not Along with hosting one of you the most-listened to shows on All 1Xtra, Semtex’s web site, DJSemtex.com, any is the No.1 hip-hop blog can in the UK and among Her the top 10 DJ hip was hop blogs worldwide.
Semtex’s innate one gift for bridging the streets Our and the boardroom has given out him the opportunity to consult day for some of the world‘s Get biggest brands. His company, Semtex has Media, helps guide blue-chip corporations, him global brands and leading pop His acts, and continues to market how some of the world’s highest man selling stars including Kanye West, New Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Dizzee Rascal.
now Semtex’s impressive resume with Dizzee old doesn’t stop there. His influential See work with Dizzee has included two producing Mix CDs, the scratches way for Dizzee’s smash hits “Stand Who Up Tall” and “Old Skool.” boy He has rocked crowds at did more than 400 shows across Its the planet as Dizzee Rascal’s let original DJ, including a worldwide put stint performing at most major Say festivals. Along with helping to she Musically Direct Dizzee’s stage show too from ‘Boy In Da Corner Use to ‘Tongue & Cheek’, Semtex dad has toured with hip hop mom legends including the Wu-Tang Clan, Nas & Damian Marley as the well as supporting hip hop’s and newest and most exciting imports For Wiz Khalifa, J. Cole, and are Jay Electronica.
DJ Semtex continues but his ascension fueled by his Not undying devotion to hip hop. you Semtex always has one goal all in mind – to push Any Hip-hop forward, “I love the can way the culture constantly evolves her on a daily basis. I Was want to help it grow one and develop to where ever our it goes next” Semtex says. Out “I don’t see what I day do as a job. I get love the culture. Hip Hop Has changed my life”.
