Biography

DJ Semtex is a legendary Radio DJ, club DJ, festival DJ, touring DJ. Artist producer, artist mentor. Acclaimed interviewer, the scene authority with whom all the big hitters choose to sit down for rare and/or one-off conversations: Kanye West, Drake, Jay-Z, Eminem. A pioneer within the podcast space, & he literally wrote the book on Hip Hop. Tall-walking, ordinarily hard-to-get talents who routinely say: “If I’m going to discuss my new project in the media, I’ll only do it with DJ Semtex.” Onstage performer with Kanye West, Travis Scott, Dave, French Montana, Skepta, D Block Europe, Migos, The Wu-Tang Clan, Rick Ross, Nas, Dizzee Rascal and the cast of Black Panther. On-air trailblazer, first with his groundbreaking, 15-year-strong show on BBC 1Xtra, then with Capital Xtra. Online pioneer, as host of Spotify’s Who We Be Talks_ . Critically acclaimed author, the mighty pen behind 2016’s big-picture, deep-thinking, far-reaching memoir-cum-definitive history, Hip Hop Raised Me. Followed by his recent endeavour: The Hip Hop Raised Me Podcast, with features a new series of exclusive interviews with artists. DJ Semtex has been there, done that. And he’s still going there, doing that, restlessly, urgently pushing on with his exploration and celebration of the music and the artists he loves.