Royalty Magazine: What's good? How's life treating you?
DJ J-Ronin: Life is good! The bills are paid and things are looking up. Lots of projects coming, tours and moves being made. I can't complain. I just gotta keep grinding and building up the movement.
Royalty Magazine: Well 2012 crept in, out and is damn near gone! What are some of your greatest accomplishments or memories from this year? Tell us one thing that you will do differently next year than you did this year?
DJ J-Ronin: This year was great, rocked penthouses to basement parties. Lots of memories. I feel like the media is showing myself and my team more love than ever between blogs, websites and DJs playing our records. It's always beautiful to hear records i worked on played on Hot 97 - Shout out to Peter Rosenberg! One thing i did different starting this year was put my name on records i put together. DJ J-Ronin featuring so and so. Several OGs in the game been told me to do that but i felt if i wasn't making the beat it wasn't the right thing to do. However if DJ Khaled and other DJs who dont make beats can do it why can't I? Especially if im picking the beat , getting the features and the concept together. Anyway as far as next year i will be less focused on mixtapes and more on albums. I'm taking my company All Elements Music Group to the next level with Distribution for the label. I'm an A&R on a lot of projects including Sav Killz, Ras Kass and my own album . It's time for me to step it up and really get my feet wet on the business side of things. I've been in the streets for years making moves in Hip-Hop but I'm ready for the office!
Royalty Magazine: Speaking of next year...what can we expect to hear or see from you in 2013? Any upcoming projects, tours or tracks should we be checking for?
DJ J-Ronin: Yes 2013 will be the biggest year yet for myself and All Elements. I'm almost done working with my Co-Ceo Sav Killz on his debut album entitled "Still Determined" We've sold over 45,000 Sav mixtapes and its long over due. Everyone has been asking for an album from fans to DJs. The production is crazy. Brothers like Khrysis from North Carolina, Bronze Nazareth from Detroit and of course my team Super Produer Beat Butcha, DJ Snips, Vokab and this brand new producer Chuck Lawayne who i will be working with a whole lot more. Feature wise M.O.P. , Inspectah Deck and Killah Priest of Wu-Tang, Steele of Smif N Wessun , DV Alias Khryst , Maya Azucena (very talented female vocalist) and a bunch more. I don't want to give it all away to soon. Besides that