DJ Yoda Chats To I Like Music

The DJ is irrelevant in hip hop now. It used to be that the DJ was at the forefront. It's lost touch with that. I hope all of that will come back around at some point, but it's not the way things are now. I've tried to take scratching and turntablism in other, interesting directions. Whether that be the video stuff that I do or the concerto for turntables that I did, which was about taking the turntable out of a hip hop environment.

ILM: Seeing it as an instrument in its own right?

DJ Yoda: Exactly. There's all this technology now. For a kid starting DJing now, they could start with a laptop, you're right. You could start with DVDs, MPCs, CDs...but for me the important thing is the basis of it all. Where it all started, which was two records and a mixer. I think it's important to learn that first if you are going to get into DJing. You should understand why people scratch in the first place. You scratch to queue up the beginning of a record. It seems irrelevant to do that if you're using laptops. It's about understanding the basics of it and where it all comes from. Then it will all fit together and start making sense.
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