The Producers
Pull up a chair & press play on the board
Dr. Dre
DJ Quik
Mustard
Rick Rock
Cold 187um
Battlecat
Fredwreck
Too $hort
Daz Dillinger
Scott Storch
Mack 10
Sam Sneed
Scoop DeVille
Mr. Short Khop
The DJs
The turntables, the radio waves, the cuts
The Baka Boyz
Brothers Nick & Eric Vidal, out of Bakersfield (hence "Baka"). Launched Friday Nite Flavas on Power 106 in 1992 and turned it into the West Coast's biggest launchpad for unsigned LA talent, plus the original "World Famous Roll Call." Rode the morning and afternoon slots at Power for seven years before jumping to rival station KKBT The Beat — Nick's ear for talent has been credited with early breaks for the Black Eyed Peas, Wu-Tang Clan, Snoop Dogg and Warren G.
DJ Crazy Toones
Lamar Calhoun — WC's younger brother, who cut his start in WC and the Maad Circle alongside a then-unknown Coolio. Spent years as Ice Cube's touring DJ and worked across Westside Connection and Lench Mob Records, on top of production and mixtape work for Kurupt, Xzibit and Snoop Dogg. His CT Experience mixtapes are straight West Coast canon. Died of a heart attack on January 9, 2017, at 45.
DJ Muggs
Cypress Hill's producer and the Soul Assassins general — the murkiest, most stoned sound in '90s hip-hop, built in an LA basement.
DJ Yella
Antoine Carraby met a young Dr. Dre DJing at the Eve After Dark club in Compton, and the two formed the electro-hop World Class Wreckin' Cru together before N.W.A existed — both were cutting Saturday-night mixes on KDAY as early as 1984. N.W.A's quietest, longest-lasting member, he worked production on every N.W.A album plus Eazy-E's Eazy-Duz-It. Released one solo album, 1996's One Mo Nigga ta Go, dedicated to Eazy-E, before stepping away from music for years to direct film.
DJ Battlecat
Kevin Gilliam came up as a battle DJ, competing in the 1988 New Music Seminar DJ Battle for World Supremacy and the 1990 DMC US Mixing Finals in New York before he ever touched a keyboard — church drums and percussion came first, turntables second. Built a sound directly off early-'90s Above the Law/Dr. Dre G-funk, all fat synth bass and soulful keys, and became the go-to for Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Tha Dogg Pound, Xzibit, Nate Dogg and 2Pac. Still Snoop's concert DJ to this day.
Warren G
Long Beach's 213 co-founder. "Regulate" and Regulate…G Funk Era made him the sound's biggest solo hitmaker in 1994.
Julio G
Julio Gonzalez became a KDAY Mixmaster in September 1986, months out of South Gate High — the only other Latino DJ on Greg Mack's roster alongside Joe Cooley. Co-produced Mellow Man Ace's "Mentirosa" and DJ Pooh's "Woop Woop" with Tony G, co-hosted the short-lived Ruthless Radio with Eazy-E in '94, and has filled in as Cypress Hill's touring DJ over the years. His Westside Radio show followed him from KDAY to 92.3 The Beat and back to KDAY's 2004 relaunch — and he's the actual voice of Radio Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Tony G
KDAY Mixmaster turned producer who launched Latin rap — he made Kid Frost's "La Raza" and Mellow Man Ace's "Mentirosa."
Joe Cooley
Legendary battle DJ and half of Rodney O & Joe Cooley ("Everlasting Bass"). A KDAY Mixmaster and one of the West's most respected turntablists.
M. Walk
One of the original 1580 KDAY Mixmasters under Greg Mack, cutting the Saturday Night Mix Show that first put rap on LA radio.
DJ Bobcat
The KDAY Mixmaster who coined the name "Mix Masters" — and went on to co-produce LL Cool J's Grammy-winning "Mama Said Knock You Out."
DJ Icy Ice
An original member of the World Famous Beat Junkies since 1992 and one of the first Filipino American DJs to break through in LA radio, spinning Power 106 and 92.3 The Beat for two decades-plus.