DJ Spinz

Gary Rafael Hill (born April 21, 1989), professionally known as DJ Spinz, is an American record producer, songwriter and disc jockey. He is signed to DJ Scream's Hoodrich Entertainment. Spinz became a DJ in the late 2000s before turning into a record producer as well.^[1] He has produced hits for other artists such as Future, August Alsina, Rich Homie Quan, iLoveMakonnen, French Montana and Cash Out.^[2]

Early life

Hill was born April 21, 1989, and grew up in Augusta, Georgia. Spinz's grandmother and uncle ran a supper club and he knew the DJ there since he was three or four years old.^[3] Spinz used to watch him DJ, so it really inspired him. When Spinz was fourteen, his mother bought him his first turntables. The local radio station in Augusta would broadcast high school football games and Spinz made a good impression on the station's program director. Spinz started deejaying during the commercials breaks of the games. When Spinz was sixteen, he met DJ Scream when he went to Atlanta to a Guitar Center to buy some cables for his equipment. When he was sixteen, the program director gave Spinz his own radio spot. At the time everyone around him wanted to be a basketball player or a rapper, but deejaying stuck out to him and he wanted to be able to control the crowd.^[4] At eighteen, Hill moved away from Augusta.

Career

Right after Spinz met DJ Scream, they worked together at Sirius XM Holdings and Spinz was signed to Hoodrich Entertainment. In 2009, Spinz shared an evening spot on Atlanta's Hot 107.9′s Hoodrich Radio. Around the time he started 107.9, SPinz started going into production. Spinz picked up a keyboard and tried to make beats. Spinz struggled a couple of times and was sometimes at a point where he wanted to give up, but kept trying to perfect his skills. In 2010, Spinz produced the breakout single for Travis Porter, called "Go Shorty, Go". The fame of the song encouraged Spinz to want to keep going into production. In 2011, Spinz produced 2 Chainz', "Riot". Later in the year, SPinz also produced Ca$h Out's debut single, "Cashin' Out" and Ca$h Out wasn't signed to a label at the time.^[4] Spinz is also a mixtape DJ. Spinz and his partner DJ Pretty Boy Tank, have been working on the Space Invaders mixtape series since 2006.^[3] His productions have the tag "Cut it up!" voiced by a young boy.

Discography

Extended plays

• Trips (2015)

Mixtapes

• Heart of the City 6 (2009)
• Trench Atlanta (2009)
• Everything Based (2010) (with Lil B)
• HPG (2012)
• HPG 2 (2013)
• HPG 3 (2013)

Production discography

Singles produced

Other songs

Notes

References