DJ Prostyle Words by Ms. Rivercity Photo by Wuz Good Photography
For the Florida Classic you can find a DJ Prostyle Party at Tabu Nightclub on Friday with Power 95.3, Destiny Nightclub on Saturday with Juelz Santana, and The Roxy for the Sunday finale. What’s new with you? April will be two years that I’ve been back in Orlando from New York and I’m now with Power 95.3 Monday through Friday from 7pm – 11pm and Sunday from 8pm to midnight. All the shows I’m on right now are rated #1 through Arbitron. I have a promotion company called AllProParties.com. We do Wednesday at Roxy, Fridays at Firestone and Tabu, Saturday at Destiny, and Sunday at Roxy. What about as far as working with artists? I signed a distribution deal with Asylum and Warner Brothers/Atlantic for All Pro Records. We currently have Traffik’s “Hercules” song in full rotation on Power 95.3. We have up to 40 stations playing it. We shot the video which features Pitbull, Jadakiss, and Gorilla Zoe. In a few weeks it will be on BET, MTV, and all the major media outlets. I recently signed Drop who’s a real hot artist in Orlando. I also signed an R&B artist named JaShawn. We also have Big Adept on the roster. We have a reggaeton group called Mega Kani. They have one of the top records in Puerto Rico. My artists have done a ton of features already. I’ve been sitting back and building up my connects, waiting for the right timing, which is now. Do you have other DJs that spin in the clubs for your parties? Yeah, I’ve tried to build an empire where I don’t really have to DJ anymore. All Pro Parties isn’t about DJ Prostyle, it’s about throwing big parties. We have DJ Nice, DJ Element, DJ Quest, and DJ Eric. We just started a crew called All Pro DJs and we already have 3 DJs in New York, 1 in Boston. Within the next year or two you’re really gonna see that branch out into another big 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 that I syndicate my radio show. A lot of times I’m live from New York but on the air in Orlando. Sometimes I’ll be on the radio in Orlando, on 106th & Park in New York, and sometimes doing radio in another state, while in another city 12 // OZONE MAG
about to do a party. Sometimes we pre-record the shows. Give us some insider info on what DJs can expect to get paid. Don’t ever let a promoter or club tell you what they’re paying you by the hour. That’s not what it’s about. But an average DJ might get $300 a night. If you just started, I wouldn’t take less than $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 anything out of town, and that’s not including travel. We can work the numbers out – sometimes it’s less than that, sometimes it’s actually more than that. It depends on what day of the week it is and what’s going on. I’m a promoter and I do numbers so I know if I’m going to an event and they’re expecting 100,000 people and they’re charging a certain amount per person, I can hit ‘em for $6,000 or $7,000. And a Wednesday is going to be a different price than a Saturday, so it depends. Is there anything else you’d like to add? Yeah, I just signed a deal with Diddy. I’m an official Ciroc DJ, which is a new group of DJs, strictly big dawgs across the country. I’m going to be doing a lot of his campaigning and a lot of his parties. I just signed a deal with XBox and in December I have my own global show coming out called Hip Hop 360. It’s gonna be shown on Xbox, but I really can’t go into too much more detail than that yet.