BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1464587:Event:661545 DTSTAMP:20260309T081504Z SUMMARY:DJ Drama DESCRIPTION:One of the most important, famous, and even infamous playe rs in the mixtape game, Drama certainly lives up to his moniker thanks to some high-profile legal problems. Drama began his career in hip-ho p in his native Philadelphia under the name DJ Drama. It was in Philly that he befriended Bahamadia, although he wouldn’t become her DJ un til he made the move to Atlanta to attend Clark Atlanta University. Wh ile at CAU, he also began his popular Automatic Relaxation mixtape ser ies, which focused on neo-soul and soulful rap, plus he formed his cre w the Aphilliates featuring DJ Don Cannon, DJ Jamad, Ox Banger, and DJ Sense. After a short gig as DJ for Slum Village, he began a new mixta pe series, Gangsta Grillz, which would become the prime showcase for h ardcore artists looking to connect or reconnect with the streets. Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, and Jim Jones were just a few of the artists to ho st a volume of Gangsta Grillz, but it was during the making of Vol. 7 that he met his future employer, T.I. As the official DJ of T.I.’s G rand Hustle organization, Drama became better known, and a cameo in th e 2006 film ATL didn’t hurt either.What did hurt was a January 2007 police raid on the Aphilliates office, which found both Drama and Don Cannon under arrest for racketeering, along with 81,000 mixtape CDs be ing confiscated. Three months later, legal threats from another DJ Dra ma forced him to change his name to simply Drama (though it would prov e to be only temporary). Despite these legal hassles, Drama took his G angsta Grillz series aboveground late in the year as the legit release Gangsta Grillz: The Album arrived in December courtesy of Grand Hustl e/Atlantic. Lil Wayne, OutKast, Pharrell, T.I., and Young Jeezy were j ust a few of the artists who contributed to the star-studded album. A second volume followed in 2009. In 2011, Third Power became the first Drama album without the Gangsta Grillz tagging, but the guest list wou ld remain big and powerful with names like Freddie Gibbs, Wale, and Wi z Khalifa — the last of whom appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 hit Oh My” — all included. Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chain z, and Tyler, the Creator were some of the names that landed on the 20 12 follow-up, Quality Street Music. In 2013, Drama let his sense of hu mor show by hosting the Urbane Outfitters, Vol. 1 mixtape from the onl ine hip-hop comedy team ItsTheReal. A Quality Street Music sequel arri ved in 2016. “Wishing,” featuring Chris Brown, Skeme, and Lyquin, became Drama’s second single to reach the Hot 100.\n\nFor more infor mation visit https://trueskool.com/events/dj-drama DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170430T020000 CATEGORIES:"san francisco", "bay area" LOCATION:Mezzanine, San Francisco WEBSITE:https://djdramaatmezzanine.eventbrite.com/?aff=truskool URL:https://djdramaatmezzanine.eventbrite.com/?aff=truskool CONTACT:4156258880 ORGANIZER;CN=MezzanineSF:https://trueskool.com/profile/MezzanineSF ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2247998998?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Mezzanine SF:https://trueskool.com/profile/MezzanineSF END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR