Omar Barton (born June 21, 1985), better known by his
stage name DJ Candlestick, is an American
DJ, radio personality, and record producer. He is a member of
The Chopstars
The Chopstars, also known as Chopstar DJs or simply Chopstars, are a collective that include American disc jockey, DJs and Turntablism, turntablists that perform chopped and screwed remixes of popular music under Chop Not Slop Ent. including Drak ...
of the ChopNotSlop subgenre, former on-air personality for
KQBT
KQBT (93.7 FM) is an urban contemporary radio station in Houston, Texas. It is owned by iHeartMedia. The station's studios are located along the West Loop Freeway in the city's Uptown district, and the transmitter site is near Missouri City, T ...
93.7 The Beat Houston, The Choice 90.9
KTSU (his alma mater) and DJ for The Nice Guys. He is the DJ behind
Chop Care as well as many other ChopNotSlop mixtapes. He is currently a mixer on Drake’s radio station Sound42 on SiriusXM.
Biography
DJ Candlestick has been DJing since 2001. He is a member of
The Chopstars
The Chopstars, also known as Chopstar DJs or simply Chopstars, are a collective that include American disc jockey, DJs and Turntablism, turntablists that perform chopped and screwed remixes of popular music under Chop Not Slop Ent. including Drak ...
(ChopNotSlop subgenre). He is also a member of the Houston-based rap group The Nice Guys.
ChopNotSlop Radio
ChopNotSlop Radio is an online radio station that specializes in ChopNotSlop music. It is the first 24 hours
chopped and screwed
Chopped and screwed (also called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) is a music genre and technique of remixing music that involves slowing down the tempo and deejaying. It developed in the Houston hip hop scene in the early 1990s by D ...
radio station. It was created in 2008 with the intentions of helping keep the subgenre that
DJ Screw
Robert Earl Davis Jr. (July 20, 1971 – November 16, 2000), better known by his stage name DJ Screw, was an American hip hop DJ based in Houston, Texas, and best known as the creator of the now-famous chopped and screwed DJ technique. He ...
had created alive. The station currently has one live show every Sunday that features
OG RON C, DJ Candlestick, DJ Slim K, DJ Lil Steve and DJ Hollygrove with live-on-air turntablism where they chop and screw music.
Partial discography
* 2011: ''
Chop Care:
Drake
Drake may refer to:
Animals
* A male duck
People and fictional characters
* Drake (surname), a list of people and fictional characters with the family name
* Drake (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* ...
OG Ron C Edition''
* 2015:
Little Dragon
Little Dragon are a Swedish electronic music band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1996. The band consists of Yukimi Nagano (vocals, percussion), Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Wallin (bass) and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards).
Little Dragon' ...
Nabuma Purple Rubberband
*2017:
''Moonlight'' Soundtrack
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See also
*
List of record labels
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Houston hip hop
Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memph ...
References
External links
OG Ron C Official Website
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1985 births
African-American record producers
American DJs
American hip hop record producers
American radio personalities
Living people
Rappers from Houston
Southern hip hop musicians
21st-century American rappers
Record producers from Texas
21st-century African-American musicians
20th-century African-American people