TOP 5 SCRATCH DJs OF ALL TIME

djsheepdjsheep 3,620 Posts
edited February 2016 in DJ Talk / Mixes

  1. DJ Q-Bert
  2. DJ Supreme (Hi-Jack)
  3. Too Tuff (Tuff Crew)
  4. D-Styles
  5. DJ Alladin (he was ripped off at the DMC)
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  • prof_rockwellprof_rockwell 2,867 Posts
    OK, not all of these are proper 'scratch' DJs, but just my favorite DJs who scratch


    ISP (Qbert, Mixmaster Mike, Disk, Flare, Dstyles, Shortkut)
    Rob Swift
    Premier
    DJ Cheese
    tied: Cut Chemist & Shadow

  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,896 Posts
    All the DJ's above are dope no doubt. But I'd like to see a battle between

    Mr. Mixx VS DJ Magic Mike

  • djsheepdjsheep 3,620 Posts
    All the DJ's above are dope no doubt. But I'd like to see a battle between

    Mr. Mixx VS DJ Magic Mike

    and the winner can battle DJ Mann from MC A.D.E.

    his cuts on "Transformer" were

  • mcdeemcdee 871 Posts
    yeah dont have too much to add, just one previously unmentioned, dj revolution.

    dj q-bert
    dj premier
    mixmaster mike
    dj revolution
    dj supreme

  • El PrezEl Prez NE Ohio 1,141 Posts

    DJ Alladin (he was ripped off at the DMC)


  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,471 Posts

    DJ Alladin (he was ripped off at the DMC)


    Alladin is the shit. Definitely the guy I'd most like to be able to scratch like. I also gotta give it up to Tat Money and DJ Scratch.

  • DelayDelay 4,530 Posts
    DJ Ev
    Cut Chemist
    DJ Revolution
    Spinbad
    Jazzy Jeff

  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts
    Old School

    1. CA$H MONEY
    2. Jazzy Jeff
    3. Miz
    4. Aladdin
    5. Joe Cooley

    New School

    1. ISP
    2. X-ecutioners (X-men)
    3. Beat Junkies
    4. Spinbad
    5. Noize

  • waximilienwaximilien 352 Posts
    largest influences on me personally:

    mr dibbs
    d-styles
    rob swift
    q-bert
    mixmaster mike

    not saying they're the best - these days i'd have to include people like excess, toadstyle, mike boo, ricci rucker, woody etc. but without those 5, i wouldn't make the shit i do make

    - i bite each and every one of em

  • DelayDelay 4,530 Posts
    mr dibbs

    how'd i forget that one.

  • waximilienwaximilien 352 Posts
    tune wise, DJ EQ used to lay it down HARD. props to bomb hip-hop - the return of the dj comps were ill on that front. it was the first place i'd really heard DJ tracks outside of on albums with emcees on em, so to get a whole lp? dayum. i hadn't heard of z-trip or radar before then and i'd never heard proper tracks by spinbad and js-one.

    "press rewind if i haven't blown ya mind"

  • josh can scratch

  • kwalitykwality 620 Posts
    I gotta give it up for my man Dj Bonez. He's an aussie dj who regularly does stuff I've never seen before. Crazy business, although he's not a huge "name".

  • RAW_HAMBURGERRAW_HAMBURGER 1,438 Posts


    lets not forget we all were jockin jazzy jeff in 86.
    not to mention cash moneys incredible cuts in 87 on ugly people be quiet. "turntables t t ta turntables, then the uhhh and the richard pryor cut. 20 YEARS AGO people !!!!

    i truly believe some of the best well rounded djs ever came from philly.

  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts


    lets not forget we all were jockin jazzy jeff in 86.
    not to mention cash moneys incredible cuts in 87 on ugly people be quiet. "turntables t t ta turntables, then the uhhh and the richard pryor cut. 20 YEARS AGO people !!!!

    i truly believe some of the best well rounded djs ever came from philly.

    NO DOUBT! Plaese to see the top 3 on my old school list.

  • mad respect for tipper, bad-ass cutz alongside some serious breakbeat production!

  • MorseCodeMorseCode 1,516 Posts
    Teeko



    D-Styles is the G.O.A.T. imo

  • prof_rockwellprof_rockwell 2,867 Posts
    Old School

    1. CA$H MONEY
    2. Jazzy Jeff
    3. Miz
    4. Aladdin
    5. Joe Cooley

    DUDE!!!

  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts
    I could list dudes forever, here are mine though (dudes that I feel like greatly inspired/influenced me):

    1). DJ Day
    2). DJ Quest
    3). Revoloution
    4). Melo-D
    5). Babu
    6). Teeko
    7). B-Cause
    8). Jazzy Jeff
    9). DJ Scratch
    10). CL Smooth (DID HE DO THE CUTS ON THE CREATOR????)
    11). Rip-One

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    10). CL Smooth (DID HE DO THE CUTS ON THE CREATOR????)

    on the real though, did he?

    showing my new-jack-ness, i gotta say that revolution's cuts on some of the "this or that" interludes blew my mind.

  • waximilienwaximilien 352 Posts
    Teeko



    D-Styles is the G.O.A.T. imo

    can't argue with either of those sentiments.

    i should've mentioned melo-d and babu, they were a major influence. props to dj day - i heard a track he did with exile (who i'm liking more the more i hear) which is damn nice. props to oakland faders - i'm feelin them lately. 89 skratch gangstaz - pone & snayk eyz. ill. i always loved mr things cuts too. astro is ill. shouts to dee swift from back then... sheffield representahhhhh. would've been sick if he wasn't such a hermit

  • theory9theory9 1,128 Posts
    Does Kid Koala count???

  • anasarcasmanasarcasm 365 Posts
    eddie def
    dj marz
    dj quest
    dibbs
    d-styles
    day

  • kennykenny 1,024 Posts
    1. ca$h money
    2. jazzy jeff
    3. q bert
    4. d styles/ the ned hoddings
    5. craze/ a trak

    but CANNOT forget revolution/ spinbad

  • spcspc 534 Posts
    1. d-styles
    2. ricci rucker
    3. qbert
    4. toadstyle
    5. mike boogie

  • djdepositdjdeposit 224 Posts
    we are talking scratching here right

    qbert
    Mixmastermike
    phonospycographdisk
    melo D
    Rob Swift

  • waximilienwaximilien 352 Posts

    lets not forget we all were jockin jazzy jeff in 86.

    hehe - i was 8 yo - the only type of transformers i was into featured optimus prime

  • HawkeyeHawkeye 896 Posts
    I can cosign all the DJs dropped before, so I have not to repeat them.
    The DJ's from the 80s are especialy dope because they scratched in a "musical" way while most of the DJs today scratch in a "technical" way.


    But I have to mention 2 forgotten heros too.

    DJ Icy C of the Miami Boyz is extremly dope.

    Mixmaster Ice of UTFO is also a scracth god, his cuts on "Wanna Rock" are not brilliant and the scratches on that whole LP are






    Peace
    Hawkeye

  • djdepositdjdeposit 224 Posts
    Ya i give it up to the oldschool scratch dj's now that i think about it.
    those mixers were not that great compared to what they have at their disposal nowa-days

  • Ian_DIan_D 120 Posts
    well this is tough but mine are:

    1. DJ Cash Money - man the mighty hard rocker and all his shit THE best
    2. Young Einstein
    3. Mix Master Mike
    4. Scott La Rock
    5. Dj Yoda - UK Cut and Paste dude who makes the funniest mixtapes in history and can really scratch!

    That was tough had to go who i like the best don't mean they are the best so many q-bert, grand wizard...man thats tough!
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