CLASSIC - Ozone Magazine

DJ ProstyleWords by Ms. RivercityPhoto by Wuz Good PhotographyFor the Florida Classic you can find a DJ ProstyleParty at Tabu Nightclub on Friday withPower 95.3, Destiny Nightclub on Saturdaywith Juelz Santana, and The Roxy for theSunday finale.What’s new with you?April will be two years that I’ve been backin Orlando from New York and I’m now withPower 95.3 Monday through Friday from 7pm– 11pm and Sunday from 8pm to midnight.All the shows I’m on right now are rated #1through Arbitron. I have a promotion companycalled AllProParties.com. We do Wednesday atRoxy, Fridays at Firestone and Tabu, Saturday atDestiny, and Sunday at Roxy.What about as far as working with artists?I signed a distribution deal with Asylum andWarner Brothers/Atlantic for All Pro Records.We currently have Traffik’s “Hercules” song infull rotation on Power 95.3. We have up to 40stations playing it. We shot the video whichfeatures Pitbull, Jadakiss, and Gorilla Zoe. In afew weeks it will be on BET, MTV, and all themajor media outlets. I recently signed Dropwho’s a real hot artist in Orlando. I also signedan R&B artist named JaShawn. We also haveBig Adept on the roster. We have a reggaetongroup called Mega Kani. They have one of thetop records in Puerto Rico. My artists havedone a ton of features already. I’ve been sittingback and building up my connects, waiting forthe right timing, which is now.about to do a party. Sometimes we pre-recordthe shows.Give us some insider info on what DJs canexpect to get paid.Don’t ever let a promoter or club tell you whatthey’re paying you by the hour. That’s not whatit’s about. But an average DJ might get $300a night. If you just started, I wouldn’t take lessthan $200 a night.What about a more experienced DJ like yourself?What’s the most you can earn?With my manager and booking right now,we’re around the $5,000 range to do anythingout of town, and that’s not including travel.We can work the numbers out – sometimesit’s less than that, sometimes it’s actually morethan that. It depends on what day of the weekit is and what’s going on. I’m a promoter andI do numbers so I know if I’m going to anevent and they’re expecting 100,000 peopleand they’re charging a certain amount perperson, I can hit ‘em for $6,000 or $7,000. Anda Wednesday is going to be a different pricethan a Saturday, so it depends.Is there anything else you’d like to add?Yeah, I just signed a deal with Diddy. I’m anofficial Ciroc DJ, which is a new group of DJs,strictly big dawgs across the country. I’m goingto be doing a lot of his campaigning and a lotof his parties. I just signed a deal with XBoxand in December I have my own global showcoming out called Hip Hop 360. It’s gonna beshown on Xbox, but I really can’t go into toomuch more detail than that yet.Do you have other DJs that spin in the clubsfor your parties?Yeah, I’ve tried to build an empire where Idon’t really have to DJ anymore. All Pro Partiesisn’t about DJ Prostyle, it’s about throwing bigparties. We have DJ Nice, DJ Element, DJ Quest,and DJ Eric. We just started a crew called All ProDJs and we already have 3 DJs in New York, 1in Boston. Within the next year or two you’rereally gonna see that branch out into anotherbig league of DJs.How’s everything going with the BET show?I still fly to New York every week for 106th &Park on Friday. A lot of people don’t know thatI syndicate my radio show. A lot of times I’mlive from New York but on the air in Orlando.Sometimes I’ll be on the radio in Orlando, on106th & Park in New York, and sometimes doingradio in another state, while in another city12 // OZONE MAG