About DJ A to the L
Monie Love, EPMD, PE, Run DMC, Spoonie Gee, Cold Crush, Sha-Rock, Kurtis Blow, Jazzy Jay, Molly Moll, Kid Capri, Mr Magic, BDP before KRS turned into a knobcheese, Fab 5 Freddy, Lord Finesse & DITC, Monie Love, Biz Markie, Monie Love, The Grand Imperial Diamond Shell, Redman, Gang Starr, Double XX Posse, Monie Love, Count Bass D, The Beastie Boys, Tone Loc, Young MC, Bambaataa, The Beatnuts, NWA, Stretch & Bob, Lord Sear, De La Soul, Monie Love, A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, Black Sheep, Big Daddy Kane, Master Ace, Grand Daddy IU, Monie Love, Kool G Rap, Jahah, Teddy Riley, Young Buck, 2 Live Crew, DJ Scratch, DJ Premier, Jazzy Jeff, Ice-T, The Meters, Monie Love, Redhead Kingpin & The FBI, Teddy Riley, Funkadelic, Parliament, Roger Troutman, the 2nd Jodeci album, Shinehead, The Ruthless Rap Assassins, The She-Rockers, Monie Love, Westwood, Jeff Young, Mark Tonderai, Clark Kent, Funkmaster Flex, Pete Rock, Ready For The World's 'Ceramic Girl', Toots & The Maytals, Aswad, Errol Dunkley, Shut Up & Dance, N-Joi, Adamski, Joey Beltram, Cola Boy, The 49ers, Lil Jon, Three 6 Mafia, DJ Screw, Michael Watts, Monie Love, Bernard King, Patrick Ewing, Charles Oakley, Alex English, Rick Mahorn, John Starks, Robert Parish, Sam Cassell's neck muscles, Greg Kite, Michael Adams' 3-point shooting technique, Ernest Byner, Webster Slaughter, Bernie Kosar, Eric Cantona, Paul Scholes, George Best, Bryan Robson, Gary Pallister, Steve Bruce, Martin Buchan, Gordon McQueen, Steve Coppell, Mark Hughes, Ralph Milne, "...and Smith must score!", Eder, Socrates, Monie Love, the RMHH posse (even the ones with Phds)
Contact info
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Short story
I be A to the L. I like tomato soup. I like Lord Finesse and other assorted Hiphop artists. I have very bad knees. I think midgets are great inventions.
Long story
A native of Northern Ireland, A to the L was brainwashed by Hiphop around 1984 starting as a regular fan, before moving onto success as a DJ, and later, as a bitter and twisted website scribe and general nose-thumbing Hiphop snob. Raised on old school artists like Run DMC, Spoonie Gee and Kurtis Blow, he quickly made the step from listener to DJ... at first through making pause tapes and mixtapes for a small crowd of likeminded friends on a regular tape deck, and then stepping up into the standard 'frustrated bedroom DJ' position. For a long time, there were few other avenues to share his ideas - the Hiphop scene in Northern Ireland was extremely small... but gradually through both his own perseverance and the commercial explosion of Hiphop in general, A to the L started to make appearances in the DJ booth at several Belfast clubs.
Before long, warm-up slots turned into residencies, and small crowds turned into packed venues each week, due to his ability to break new music alongside classic Hiphop tracks while still keeping the dancefloor live. Long residencies in major Belfast clubs Skye and Thompsons resulted in a reasonably nice bank balance and a rise in exposure to the point where he was invited to become the resident mix show DJ on local radio station Cool FM's weekly Hiphop & R'n'B show. This in turn resulted in support DJ slots on the Irish stops of many stars' tours ranging from Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and 50 Cent, to Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera amongst others.
Alongside this, he cultivated a love/hate relationship with writing about Hiphop - setting up Altrap.com in early 1999 as a news and reviews site that promised to pull no punches when it came to informing fans of REAL opinions on artists and albums from all areas of the culture. It rapidly grew, earning praise and coverage in editions of URB, Vibe, Elemental, and Hip Hop Connection due to its brutally honest reviews and extensive interview archive.
In the summer of 2004, A to the L moved to Tallahassee, Florida for six months to lay the groundwork for a permanent move in 2005. During this short period of time, he DJed several times at Firestone in Orlando, and also began working more closely with record label Beezee70 and their main artist Jahah, churning out several remixes of his tracks, and producing artist mixtapes.
Now in Tallahassee permanently (and happily married to the multi-talented supermodel and DJ Miss Kini Carter) he continues to DJ at several local spots repping LORD GANG DJs while he does so, and has had his mixes featured regularly on Thrill Da Playa's Ghetto Fabolous Live radio show - one of the most popular shows on (dearly departed) 100.7 The Beat. You can also find him holding down a mixslot on Florida State University's WVFS 89.7 radio station on Saturday nights during their Underground Railroad show, and popping up on the first Sunday of each month on Blazin' 102.3's Sunday night 'Diggin' In The Crates' show.
Almost 10 years on, Altrap.com continues to grow (when he can be arsed to update it), and when its really crackin' can pull around 100,000 visitors per month to its pages, and its here where you'll be able to read his fervent scribblings, peep rubbish YouTube videos, worship at the altar of Eric Cantona, and pick up A to the L's unique brand of mix cds.
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Hope you're doing just awesome! Wanted to stop by to say hi, and wish you and yours the absolute best! Have a great week and thanks for letting me be a friend!
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PEACE...I hope all is 10/10 with you! I just wanted to remind you about my latest release "The Plague" which also features Beretta 9 of Killarmy (Wu-Tang), Pitch Black of G.O.D., Tonedeff and more. I hope you take the chance to check it out and if you like what you hear you can cop it at www.cdbaby.com/cd/biglo3. Thanks for your time, 1one, Big Lo
What up, just droppin by to let you know the new mixtape is up for free download. Just click on the cd cover to download. Check it out and let me know what you think. Much love
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