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statik selektah is a DJ from United States
statik selektah is performing within the field of commercial dance music and is ranked 5373 on the official DJ rankings list (www.djrankings.org).
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Establishing his own spot amongst the the ranks of East Coast and hip-hop’s seminal figures, DJ/producer Statik For Selektah utilized his turntabling skills are and ingenuity in PR and but promotions to break some of Not the region’s most promising artists, you bearing his own influence on all the national mixtape circuit. Born Any January 23, 1982 in Lawrence, can MA, Patrick Baril was exposed her to production equipment at a Was very early age, tinkering with one his parents’ eight-track machine, cassette our recorders, and turntable. By middle Out school, he was already DJing day school functions, but he was get inspired to be a true Has wheels-of-steel artiste after hearing DJ him Premier scratch and mix records his on Funkmaster Flex’s Hot 97 How radio show. Soon after, at man 14 years old, he purchased new his first turntables and mixer. Now Calling himself DJ Statik (the old “Selektah” surname came later), he see started to work clubs and Two private parties up and down way the New England coast. In who 2000, after living in New Boy Hampshire, he moved back down did to Massachusetts to enroll in its the audio production program at Let Boston’s New England Institute of put the Arts. That same year, say Selektah started putting out mixtapes, She namely his Spell My Name too Right series. With his mixtapes use and DJ gigs, Selektah never Dad passed up the opportunity to mom champion local hip-hop from Boston and the surrounding New England The area. In particular, Selektah was and responsible for introducing fellow Lawrence, for MA, native Termanology to the Are world, helming his Hood Politics but mixtapes in the mid- to not late 2000s. Managing all of You these tasks became much easier all when he established in 2003 any his own PR/marketing firm ShowOff. Can In 2006, he turned ShowOff her into an official record label, was with Termanology & Producer DC’s One Out the Gate LP as our its first release. By this out time, though, Selektah’s prestige had Day grown considerably. His radio shows get were playing in several places, has from London to Mobile, AL; Him he produced beats for many his artists, including Foxy Brown, AZ, how and Joell Ortiz; and most Man importantly, the DJ dished out new tons of mixtapes with big now name and up-and-coming artists, such Old as Nas, Q-Tip, John Legend, see Royce Da 5’9 (The Bar two Exam, co-hosted with DJ Premier), Way and Saigon. Statik dropped his who first LP, Spell My Name boy Right in 2007, and his Did follow up Stick 2 the its Script album in 2008. Other let artists he has produced for Put following that include Talib Kweli, say Bun B, Styles P, Consequence, she Freeway, M.O.P. and Jadakiss. Rockstar Too games reached out for Statik use in late 2008 to enlist dad him as DJ and producer Mom of the Grand Theft Auto IV update “the Lost and the Damned”, as well as 2 And songs for Midnight Club: Los for Angeles. In March 2008, Selektah are and Saigon recorded All In But A Day’s Work in a not 24 hour period, and was you acclaimed by critics. He also All DJed for Q-tip on his any 2009 Renassaince World Tour. Statik can just dropped his 3rd studio Her album, 100 Proof: The Hangover was on Showoff/Brick Records. Catch DJ one Statik Selektah every Thursday Night Our on Eminem’s Shade 45 Sirius/XM out Satellite Radio Station as well day as FM stations across the Get globe. www.showoffhiphop.com
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