User:HopDeezy

DJ HOP DEEZY
Antoine Hopkins better known by his stage name Dj Hop Deezy is a popular DJ/producer/engineer from Detroit Michigan. Born in Evansville Indiana he was adopted at the age of 3 by Oscar and Idena Hopkins then moved to Detroit Michigan. he began his music career at the age of 6 playing the saxophone at his elementary school Gesu and later playing the saxophone bass guitar and drums at his middle school and high school. in 1984 when is mother and father bought him his first Boss drum machine from Wonderland music he knew then that he wanted to make a career out of making music.he went to school and was good friends with some pretty big names in the Detroit music scene such as Proof of D12, Trick Trick of the Goon Squad, Aaliyah, The Ghetto Kings, AWOL, Detroit's Most Wanted and gospel great Mark Ivory just to name a few. He gained recognition in the hip hop industry when he became one of the youngest live club radio DJ's, DJ'ing at clubs such as Club Inferno, Club Paradise, The Shelter, and the Outcast just to name a few and He had also became a well-known topless club DJ for some of the top strip clubs in the Metro Detroit area. He has traveled to New York, Chicago, Ohio, California, and Cancun Mexico to DJ in the top clubs in those cities. At the age of 18 he started to DJ for one of Ice Cubes up and coming artist going on a 10 city tour and thats when he decided to put the DJ biz to the side and start producing music. With various popular booty popping tracks under his belt he started doing beats for Aaliyah, The Ghetto Kings, Proof, and a few other well known acts, he then started to also engineer the tracks that he was doing and became well known for his being one of the best engineers in Detroit that didn't take kindly to anyone coming into the studio without a plan or knowing what they wanted to do. Some said he was too hard and too much of a perfectionist but when it was all said and done they would say that without his determination on making the track perfect, it wouldn't have became a hit. In the early 2000's him and his cousin Connell Barbee better known by his stage name Beatz By Squeak started their own studio making and engineering beats for the Detroit Hip-Hop elite such as Blade Icewood, K-Deezy, Slim Budda Lazy, Tone Tone, Hustle Boy Tony Trice, Big Reese, Young Jeezy, Ray J, and a host of others.