Finally, any words of wisdom for those wanting to get into the industry or wanting to become a DJ? You know what, what I’ m about to say will probably be cliché, you sieka dik of hearing it from your mother, your father, your older brother, teachers, sisters, aunty, uncle, but man‘ Education’ is key. Unfortunately if you want to survive in the industry there’ s no shortcut for you,‘ harties’. People have tried it, and it just didn’ t work. It’ s an industry that’ s not for the fainthearted number one. If you want to be a DJ, you want to get into broadcasting master the skills and get a deep understanding of what it’ s about, in order for you to make a clear decision and then you decide if this is for you or not. You know for different people it kind of worked for different reasons, and for someone like myself, I came in from a completely different era in time, but we’ re in very over saturated industry at the moment, so the opportunities are scarce. That however does not mean that the opportunities don’ t exist, so if you don’ t get in at a Goodhope FM or a 5 FM or a mainstream radio or TV platform, you have the internet and you can create and build your own style. I just freaking love music, I love the sound of the day and I love what DJ’ s are brining to the table today. I think it’ s awesome!
How much time does Ready D put aside to practice? You know what, I try to practice as often as I can. Whenever I put a mix together I use that as an opportunity to practice, and when I come to do my show in the evenings, I at least get 10-20 minutes, but if life and my schedule would allow it, I would love to at least get about 3- 5 hours a day to practice. I would love to be in that space, because when I came up in the game, I used to spend like 7 hours a day practicing. You know from the time that my mom got up for work at 5 in the morning, the minute she was out by the door I was on the decks, until it was time to go to school. When I came from school, I was back on the decks. I would only get time to have supper then it was back on the decks with the headphones on my ears, just freaking gooi’ ing. Ja so that is my take.
Who of the local DJ’ s you rate highly and consider to be the next‘ Big Thing’? Man there’ s so many people that have the potential to be the next‘ Big Thing’, you know there’ s so many that have unfortunately left the scene because the industry just wasn’ t that friendly to them for many different reasons, and when you speak about Big Thing, I think it’ s a very broad question though, you know, because there’ s people that have no skills, but yet they’ re the big things, because they have a good business / management team behind them and they can hustle and flow. I would say that is the one thing, but on a Hip-Hop, turntablist level, I’ m always going to acknowledge the likes of“ DJ E20” you know. This guy just