Up and coming hip hop artist Diji gave channelAPA.com a sneak peek of his track “Oh Baby”. The song is going to be on his soon to be released mixtape “Who The F*ck is Diji?!” If you like what you hear, you won’t have to wait long, the mixtape drops August, 8, 2011.
Oh Baby by Diji
More about Diji
Joseph Siasat, better known under his stage name as Diji, is a Filipino Hip-Hop/Rap artist from Los Angeles, California. Born in the Philippines, Diji’s beginnings would lay the foundation of his sound and personal approach to music. Although Philippines is not exactly known for its abundance with any of the elements in hip-hop culture, Diji began to appreciate the art form after seeing a local artist perform in his town . At the tender age of 10, he developed a thirst for the culture especially the music, gradually researching and discovering hip-hop artists that truly captured his imagination and sparked his love for the music.
As Diji turned 12 years old, he and his family relocated to the United States. For Diji, it was a positive culture shock that will forever change his life, as he was then truly exposed to varieties of hip-hop expression. Beat boxing was his first niche’ with hip-hop, beat boxing at school grounds with friends as other rappers in his school would rap over his beat box. He enjoyed the camaraderie, acceptance and most of all the competition. With his competitive nature, Diji thought he could do what these rappers do at his school, so he began writing daily. He wrote verses whenever, wherever and about anything, he was instantly hooked at being able to express himself in the most creative way possible. As his writings progressed, his confidence grew exponentially every day until he finally broke out of his shell and began competing with the same rappers he used to beat box for during lunch and after school hours. He began to garner attention in school as one of the best doing it, releasing several remixes over popular songs and receiving local recognition for it. Diji’s raw talent and unlimited potential is evident, confident and certain that hip-hop music is his life and passion. Now under the Redlight Music Group management, Diji is poised to grow and develop as the artist he always pictured himself to be, one with no gimmicks, just a regular kid from humble beginnings with an extraordinary talent of expressing his life through music. Stay tuned, turn the volume up, get excited.