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| DJ D.vize |
|  | | Country: | United States |
| Website: | http://www.myspace.com/dvize813 |
| Info: | DJ D.vize grew up in Newport Beach, California. He was
mostly raised by his grandparents and he has been involved
in music all his life: "I've played many different
instruments and have been apart of my old high school
marching and jazz band. I've always wanted to do something
big in the music biz."
Dark Path
The DJ continues: "But like some people do, I started
hanging around the wrong crowd and got involved in partying
and drinking and into the drug scene. Soon I was headed down
a dark path full of unkown and fear. I started with the
light drugs like smoking pot, but soon accelerated far
beyond that. By the time I was 14 I was already free basing
cocaine. Needless to say I started off very young and in
full effect. I ran away from home a bunch of times. Then I
tried staying with my father in Utah. That didn't work out
so I ran away to Florida, where my sister lived."
DJ
"By this time I'm 16 and didn't care about nothing, but
getting high. I dropped out of high school and became a full
time addict. I was introduced to the art form of DJing by a
friend of mine who was a DJ. I would spend a lot of time at
her house playing on the tables. I would always look at them
and think to myself that I could do this stuff, it looked
easy, since I knew that I had a musical history. I picked up
the talent pretty easy and decided this is what I wanted to
do. I practiced everyday, eventually got my own Technics SL
1200's and became pretty good. By then I started DJing in
the local club scene in Ybor and down town Tampa."
Parties
He continues "So my life was just a bunch of endless
parties, one after the other, that's the life of a club DJ.
One night I was coming home from a gig and I was very drunk,
not paying attention to what was going on a rearended
someone doing about 40 mph. By the grace of God I was not
hurt and didn't kill anybody. The person I hit just took
off, so I know that His hand was involved in the whole
thing. As I sat there with my car all banged up, I started
thinking to myself what was really going on in my life.
Getting into an accident will do that to a person. I decided
that this life of mine had no real purpose and that I was
going nowhere, but in an endless cycle of drugs, women, and
more drugs. I finally decided to get sober."
Rehab
"I got involved in a rehab program at my mother's church
and gave my life to Jesus Christ. I finally realized that my
life was completely empty without Him and I was just trying
to fill it up with women and drugs, but nothing would ever
satisfy."
Crossover Community Church
DJ D.vize says "By this time I was introduced to Urban D's
Crossover Community Church, christian hip hop. Just that
thought alone, I thought was wack! But that first night I
went I was blown away at the idea that church could be like
this. It was great!"
Dedication
"At this time in my life I was still DJ-ing in the clubs
and going to church at the same time, but that night I went
to Crossover Community Church I made a decision to dedicate
my talents soley for His name sake. At first I had to put
the turntables away for awhile so I could get my heart in
the right area, serving God, whole heartedly. After about 4
months the Lord brought it back into my life and I've been
using it ever since to spread the good news."
Worship
The DJ now serves on the worship team of Crossover Church as
one of their DJ's and he is a part of Urban D's
organization Fla.vor Alliance. A local group of artists and
ministers that travel the world spreading the truth of
Christ to the hip hop culture. As D.vide says: "All in all
Christ is the answer to everything you've ever needed or
wanted. Loose your life for Him and make you a new
creature."
Albums
In 2006 DJ D.vize released his first mixtape entitled
"Still Waiting?!?" in a pressing of 500 copies. These were
given away for free as the DJ states "The purpose of that
mixtape was to introduce Christ to the main stream hip hop
culture."
New Project
The DJ is currently working to extend his mixtape project
for 2007. |
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| Release: | Still Waiting?!? Mixtape |
|  | | MyHHHdb | |
| Media: | [Audio CD] | | Released: | 2006 [ Listen to HHH from this era on Spotify ] |
| Recordlabel: | Fla.vor Alliance |
| Info: | The album was given away for free in a pressing of 500
copies. |
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