DJ ABEATZ
Abe "A-Beatz" Delgado began his venture into radio in 2008 by hosting, DJ'ing, producing, and editing "The Dig'em Show" on WWW.WTNRRADIO.COM (WeTakeNoRequests Radio) an internet radio station with a vast and growing international audience. The weekly talk & music variety show not only broke the stations' record with 5 episodes in the top 20 but posted the #1 and #2 most listened to episodes in its debut season.
For the 2008 VH-1 Hip-Hop Honors he represented WTNRRADIO on the red carpet and interviewed many of Hip-Hop’s finest artists including EMPD’s Eric Sermon, MC Lyte, music mogul Kevin Liles, Whodini, and Fat Joe. Moreover, A-Beatz also conducted extensive and exclusive 1 on 1 interviews with legendary MC Freddie Foxxx (Bumpy Knuckles), Danny Castro (Lyricist Lounge), and critically acclaimed and world reknowned MC Talib Kweli.
In mid 2009, he completed in depth interviews with dancer/choreographer Vergi Rodriguez, congressional candidate Kevin Powell and acclaimed rapper Cormega just to name a few. By late 2010 he had added Grammy winning producer Doc-Ish who produced Eminem's hit "We Made You", reknowned poet "La Bruja" and many more.
Abe also did extensive voice-over work for the Summer 2010 movie "La Soga" starring Manny Perez & Paul Calderon. For 2010's Fashion Week in NYC he arranged and mixed the music for the LuLu Clothing Runway Exhibition by M. Henriquez. Abe is also a lounge/club DJ spinning at various venues on occasion such as La Pomme in NYC and others.
various bars in the east and west village including Baraza, Orchard Bar, and Rivertown Lounge. After about 7 years DJ'ing A-Beatz took the next step and began creating his own music. It was around this time he met his current music partner Yobalni "Hazi" Puello forming the production duo "Illyjackz" and started making soulful but rugged Hip-Hop & R-n-B beats. Hazi and A-Beatz creations were influenced by many genres. A-Beatz says "It's so important to be open-minded to all different types of music. When you create beats like we do, it really does come out in the music you make". Together they’ve produced various released tracks including "Holla at the Kid" a song on independent Hip-Hop artist Rone's mix-tape. They also co-produced Universal Latino artist Krook Rock's song "All Night Long" and also provided 3 tracks for Krooks’ "Beats Mix-Tape". In late 2009 they produced the song "Monday Morning" on JISE (Arsonists) album Chronicles 2. Revisit