DJ Cheapshot is the DJ of the hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 ensemble

Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

 Styles of Beyond

Styles of Beyond

Styles of Beyond is an underground rap group from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. The group consists of MCs Ryan Patrick Maginn and Takbir Bashir , Colton Raisin Fisher , and producer Jason Rabinowitz . They have released two LPs, one mixtape and were heavily featured on Mike...

, Get Busy Committee

Get Busy Committee

Get Busy Committee is a hip hop group consisting of underground rapper Apathy, Styles of Beyond's Ryu, and producer Scoop DeVille.-Group Info:...

, and Fort Minor

Fort Minor

Fort Minor is a hip hop side-project of Mike Shinoda, who is better known as being a member of the American rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda's debut solo album as Fort Minor, The Rising Tied was released November 22, 2005.-History:...

. He is also associated with the Demigodz and the Get Busy Committee

Get Busy Committee

Get Busy Committee is a hip hop group consisting of underground rapper Apathy, Styles of Beyond's Ryu, and producer Scoop DeVille.-Group Info:...

, as well as being the founder of SpyTech Records, which is located in Reseda, California, and the Cheapshot's bar, which is located in Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

. Cheapshot currently resides in Burbank, California

Burbank, California

Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, north of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population in 2010 was 103,340....

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Production

Cheapshot has also provided production for several other groups, aside from S.O.B., some of which are listed below.

• Linkin Park
  Linkin Park
  Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries...
  
  
• Beastie Boys
  Beastie Boys
  Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar....
  
  
• Nappy Roots
  Nappy Roots
  Nappy Roots is an American alternative Southern rap quintet that originated in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1995 and is best known for its hit single "Awnaw."...
  
  
• Lexicon
• 4-Zone
• L.A. Ment
• Apathy
  Apathy (rapper)
  Chad Bromley , better known as Apathy is an underground rapper and producer from Willimantic, Connecticut. He attended high school at various schools in Connecticut. He is a re-founding member and unofficial leader of the Demigodz crew...
  
  
• Celph Titled
• Ras Kass
  Ras Kass
  John Austin IV, better known by his stage name Ras Kass, is an American rapper. He is also a part of hip hop supergroup The HRSMN along with Canibus, Killah Priest, and Kurupt...
  
  
• Mykill Miers
• Louis Logik
• Vishiss
• Kurious
• Jizzm
• Breez Evahflowin'
• Sev Statik
• Portable Payback
• New Kids on the Block
  New Kids on the Block
  New Kids on the Block are an American boy band from Boston, Massachusetts, assembled in 1984 by producer Maurice Starr. The band currently consists of brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and Danny Wood.New Kids on the Block enjoyed success in the late 1980s and...
  
  

Production appearances

• L.A. Gang Unit (2008) - On December 17, 2007, in was revealed that Cheapshot and Vin Skully had been signed to complete the entire score for the upcoming A&E
  A&E Network
  The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...
  
   original series L.A. Gang Unit.

• Burn Notice
  Burn Notice (TV series)
  Burn Notice is an American television series created by Matt Nix. The show stars Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, and, beginning in the fourth season, Coby Bell. The series premiered on June 28, 2007, on USA Network. On April 15, 2010, the show was renewed for its...
  
  
• Punk'd
  Punk'd
  Punk'd is an American hidden camera/practical joke reality television series that first aired on MTV in 2003 and was created by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, produced and hosted by Ashton Kutcher. It bore a resemblance to both the classic hidden camera show Candid Camera and to TV's Bloopers...
  
  
• America's Next Top Model
  America's Next Top Model
  America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry....
  
  
• The Real World
  The Real World
  The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the...
  
  
• Newlyweds
• The White Rapper Show
• Dirt
  Dirt (TV series)
  Dirt is an American television serial broadcast on the FX network. It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: drrt and Now Dirt (styled...
  
  
• Prison Break
• Transformers
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
  Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
  Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle is a 2004 American stoner film and the first installment in the Harold & Kumar series...
  
  
• The Corruptor
  The Corruptor
  The Corruptor is a 1999 American action thriller film directed by James Foley, and starring Chow Yun-fat and Mark Wahlberg.-Plot:NYPD Lieutenant Nick Chen is one of New York City's police officers and is head of the Asian Gang Unit...
  
  
• Bewitched
• Red Line
• Crank
  Crank (film)
  Crank is a 2006 American comedy movie, written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, and starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Efren Ramirez, and Dwight Yoakam...
  
  
• Horrible Bosses
  Horrible Bosses
  Horrible Bosses is a 2011 black comedy film directed by Seth Gordon, written by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, based on a story by Markowitz. It stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey and Jamie Foxx...
  
  

Space Invadas

Space Invadas is a joke group Cheapshot made with his friend DJ Jester in college when they were bored. Unlike in most of his Styles of Beyond

Styles of Beyond

Styles of Beyond is an underground rap group from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. The group consists of MCs Ryan Patrick Maginn and Takbir Bashir , Colton Raisin Fisher , and producer Jason Rabinowitz . They have released two LPs, one mixtape and were heavily featured on Mike...

 material, which is mostly production, Cheapshot provides vocals for some of his own tracks (including Trades of the Tools, which is a parody of the Fort Minor

Fort Minor

Fort Minor is a hip hop side-project of Mike Shinoda, who is better known as being a member of the American rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda's debut solo album as Fort Minor, The Rising Tied was released November 22, 2005.-History:...

 Militia track Tools of the Trade, which incidentally, he provides parody vocals for also).

Solo Tracks

• OH NO
• Trades of the Tools
• Duck, Duck, Goose (Remix)
• Simon Says (Cheapshot Remix)

Solo Releases

Cheapshot also has released several solo CDs, Vinyls, and Mixtapes, which are listed below, along with several digital releases Cheapshot has released on the Styles Of Beyond fan-site, SOBCentral.

Mixtapes:

• Fort Minor: Sampler Mixtape (2005)
• DJ Cheapshot Presents... Mega Dudical (2007)
• DJ Cheapshot & DJ Marshall Barnes: Party Mouth! (2007)
• True Love & False Idols Presents: Jazzercidal Tendencies (2008)
• Club Footed (2009)
• True Love & False Idols Presents: Jazzercidal Tendencies Part 2 (2011)

Other (Vinyl):

• Cheapshot's Sucka' Breaks: Beat (Downs), Cuts & Nosebleeds (1998)

SOBCentral releases:

• Here We Come (Remix)

• Murderer (Remix)

• Alcohol

Other (MP3):

• Cheapshot Anthem

Touring

Cheapshot has also done several solo tours, aside from his Styles of Beyond

Styles of Beyond

Styles of Beyond is an underground rap group from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. The group consists of MCs Ryan Patrick Maginn and Takbir Bashir , Colton Raisin Fisher , and producer Jason Rabinowitz . They have released two LPs, one mixtape and were heavily featured on Mike...

 tours, including a Mixtape Tour for his Party Mouth! CD, which he released with DJ Marshall Barnes, who is also headlining the tour with him.

"Cheapshot's" The Bar

In February, 2007, Cheapshot, along with his brother Jordan Fisher, opened a bar, called Cheapshot's. It was a life-long dream of the both of them to open a bar, and after several years of successful investment by Jordan, they both purchased a 2200 square feet (204.4 m²) building. After renovating it, they opened it for a test-run in May 2007. It was a success, and is now officially open. The bar has an exclusive collection of signature drinks, including the Ryu Shot, which is a reference to Cheapshot's fellow band-mate, Ryu Maginn

Styles of Beyond

Styles of Beyond is an underground rap group from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. The group consists of MCs Ryan Patrick Maginn and Takbir Bashir , Colton Raisin Fisher , and producer Jason Rabinowitz . They have released two LPs, one mixtape and were heavily featured on Mike...

, and a Cheapshot Mojito, named after Cheapshot himself.

External links

• Styles of Beyond official site
• DJ Cheapshot free mix CDs on SoundCloud
  SoundCloud
  SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform which allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings.-History:SoundCloud was originally started in Stockholm, Sweden, but was established in Berlin, Germany in August, 2007 by sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss...