Did you know that DJ Rasp wears our DJ t-shirts? Well you do now. If you don’t know who DJ Rasp is where have you been? Born in Merseyside, DJ Rasp has become one of europes biggest and mores respected hip-hop DJs having been a DMC winner and winner of many other DJ Competitions as well as working with Numark and Vestax.
DJ Rasp started DJing in 1996, influenced by hip-hop dj’s and turntablist crews such as Cash Money, ISP & the X-Men. After his initial years of dj’ing at house parties,
producing mixtapes and non-stop practising, in 1998 Rasp decided to start competing in the highly technical and competitive DJ battle circuit.
DJ Rasp has reached the UK finals many times, becoming the double UK champion in 2009, taking both the DMC UK and IDA UK crown. In 2010 he successfully retained his IDA UK champion title and became a DMC UK Vice champion as well as touring with a number of hip hop crews including G&G Sindikatas (Lithuania), The Shakti, The Punning Clan, Random Era and more.
DJ Rasp has a number of club residencies throughout the North West of England, as well
as performing at festivals & B-Boy events across the UK and Europe.
DJ Residences:
Santa Chupitos – Liverpool
MU – Liverpool
Lime Tyger – Ormskirk
Skratch & Spit (with the Mak of All Trades) -Liverpool
Floornography (B-boy event) Liverpool
Tear It Up (International B-boy comp) Liverpool
Gold in The Shade – Liverpool
Contrast – Liverpool
Kut Above The Rest – (Turntablist event) – Manchester
Hub Festival – Liverpool
Tour DJ for The Elementals
Tour DJ for G&G Sindikatas
Tour DJ for The Punning Clan
DJ Battle Statistics & Info:
Official Pro X Fade Global Ambassador
Official Numark Ambassador
Official Vestax Sponsorship
2012 DMC Newcastle Heat Winner
2012 DMC Online World Qualifier
2011 IDA World Finalist
2011 IDA UK Vice Champion
2011 DMC Online World Finalist 5th place
2011 DMC UK Finalist 5th place
2011 Blackpool DMC Winner
2011 DMC Online World Heat Winner & World Final Qualifier
2010 IDA UK Champion
2010 IDA World Finalist
2010 DMC UK Battle For Supremacy UK Vice-Champion
2010 Official World “Pro X Fade” Ambassador
2009 IDA World Finalist
2009 DMC World Finalist 3rd place
2009 IDA UK Champion
2009 DMC Battle For Suprermacy UK Champion
2009 DMC UK Finalist 4th place
2009 Plymouth DMC Winner
2008 DMC UK Finalist
2007 DMC UK Finalist 4th place
2007 Sheffield DMC Winner,
2007 Homegrown Battle Manchester Runner up
2006 DMC UK Finalist
2006 Leeds DMC Winner
2005 ITF UK Finalist 4th place
2005 Manchester Breakfast Scratch Battle Winner
Thats quite a record of achievements and as mentioned he works with Numark and Vestax having recently performed at the BPM 2012 show for Numark which is where our pictures are taken wearing a HOTDJGEAR designed shirt. So if you didn’t know who DJ Rasp was, you sure do now. So why not grab your own HOTDJGEAR shirt?