that looked like two vinyl records
side by side, and I could mix and
fade between songs, basically
everything a DJ can do live. I
started making party CDs, and
those started selling like hotcakes,
too.
—Business was booming. By matric I
was balling, making 500 rand a
week. To put that in perspective,
there are maids in South Africa who
still earn less than that today. It’s a
shit salary if you’re trying to
support a family, but as a sixteen-
year-old living at home with no real