Started at 13 with flyers and a dream
I started DJing by plastering flyers across my neighborhood in Greensboro, North Carolina, offering a few free gigs to get started. I expected it to take months to land something. I was booked within a week.
What began as a middle school hustle turned into a real business almost overnight. By the time I was a freshman in high school, I was DJing every other weekend—birthday parties, school dances, house parties, bar mitzvahs, you name it. Word of mouth did all the heavy lifting. Every dollar I made went right back into better equipment.
That's when I learned two things that have stuck with me ever since: how to shake hands, and how to read a crowd.
















