Dj Maaco (Detroit In Effect) started as a drummer at age 6 playing for a small church, by age 12 he dropped the sticks

and got himself a cardboard and started break dancing! By 14, he was drawing turntables and

mixers on his cardboard boxes and pretending as if he was rocking parties. He talked his dad into

buying him his very first mixer from Radio Shack, he himself bought a Mcdonald turntable for 35

bucks with the 8 track tape player built in. He rigged it to his mixer and from that he learned how to

mix and scratch. AT age 16 Kool Keith(Tucker) showed him an 808, Juno 106, and some other