DJ Drama Discusses His Three Biggest Influences With VEVO
by Karen
Regardless how successful a person is, there happens to be someone or some people who have always served as inspiration. And for DJ Drama, such a logic is no different. The mixtape’s game most recognizable co-signer at the moment chopped it up with the good people at VEVO to break down his top three choices for influences.
They range from those who came before him and those who Dram currently works very closely with. Here, take this one for example. The legendary DJ Clue.
“Clue is another one. You know, I was just really excited to be a mixtape DJ, [and] the popularity and the attraction to his status really pushed me to really pursue mixtapes as my calling. There’s a lot of ways of being a professional DJ, from parties to radio to mixtapes to producing and so forth, so i guess it was somebody like Clue who really inspired me to want to go in that direction.
A lot of the stuff I was doing was based upon building on top of what [someone] had already laid the groundwork for, so without a DJ Clue, there probably wouldn’t be a DJ Drama. He laid out that legacy of what could be accomplished from mixtapes.”
Who the other two are, you’ll just have to click here and find out for yourself. After you’re done doing that, head over to iTunes to scoop Drama’s new album, Third Power.