09/23/2026
THE MAN. THE MYTH. THE LEGEND.
This picture might look like a simple selfie.
But there are more than 30 years of stories standing behind those glasses.
I started as a teenager in Jamaica, Queens, fascinated by what a DJ could do with two turntables and the right record. My cousin DJ Big T helped introduce me to that world, and I never really left it.
What started with music became radio. Clubs. College radio. Hip-hop. Traveling. Touring. DJ conferences. Cameras. DVDs. Internet broadcasting before anybody called it “content creation.” I built StreetDrops.com, recorded artists, traveled to places I never imagined music would take me, and kept finding new ways to turn creativity into opportunity.
There were nights at the Peacock, Mano’s, Jesse James and countless other rooms. There were Core DJs conferences, SXSW, years of March Madness, artists, celebrities, packed dance floors, weddings, birthdays, community events—and plenty of gigs nobody will ever see pictures from.
I watched DJing change from crates of records to CDs, laptops, controllers, music videos, social media and now TikTok Live.
And somehow…
I’m still here.
Not trying to recreate who I was at 20.
Building on him.
Today, DJ One Tyme is bigger than somebody standing behind DJ equipment.
I’m a DJ.
An MC.
A businessman.
A content creator.
A storyteller.
And after all these years, still a student of this thing called music.
I’ve had successes. I’ve made mistakes. I’ve reinvented myself more than once. I’ve watched trends come and go. I’ve watched rooms change, technology change and generations change.
But one thing never changed:
Give me a room full of people and some music, and I’m going to figure out how to connect them.
That’s probably the part of my career I’m proudest of.
Not just how long I’ve been doing it.
It’s that after all these years, I still love doing it.
At 17 or 18, I couldn’t have imagined where those turntables would take me.
And at 50?
I’m not looking backward like the story is finished.
Quite the opposite.
There are still parties to rock.
Businesses to build.
Videos to create.
Places to travel.
People to meet.
And chapters that haven’t even been written yet.
So maybe the shirt has it almost right…
THE MAN.
That’s who I am.
THE MYTH.
Those are all the stories people have heard over the years. 😂
THE LEGEND?
I’ll let everybody else decide that one.
I’m still working.
DJ ONE TYME — HERO FOR HIRE. 🎧👑
More than a DJ. More than a career. It’s been a life.
