BABU

BABU

DJ Babu, is a Filipino-American DJ and record producer from Los Angeles, California. He is best known as a member of the hip hop trio Dilated Peoples with Rakaa Iriscience and Evidence. He is also a member of the Los Angeles based DJ crew The Beat Junkies. Babu has won multiple competition titles as a DJ including DMC and multiple ITF titles. As a revered battle DJ, he has appeared in and hosted numerable videos. Babu is renowned for redefining the art of beat juggling during the 1997 ITF beat juggling category competition. Under the name “The Turntablist”, he produced the genre’s most popular battle record, 1996’s Super Duck Breaks. As of 2017, DJ Babu alongside fellow crew members Mr. Choc, Melo-D, DJ Rhettmatic, D-Styles and J.Rocc opened their very own DJ school, The Beat Junkie Institute of Sound where they continue to “Build Better DJ’s”.