Davey D

Davey D is a hip hop historian, journalist, deejay and community activist. He hosts Hard Knock Radio on Berkeley’s KPFA-FM 94.1, a daily drivetime hip-hop talk show. Davey D also pens a column for the San Jose Mercury News and hosts a weekly talk show on Oakland’s Soul Beat television. He's been down with Hip Hop since 1977 in the Bronx where he started out as an emcee for two crews; TDK [Total Def Krew] out of Co-op City and the Avengers out of the Marble Hill section of the Bronx. Later, Davey D came out to California to go to school at UC Berkeley and started deejaying in the Bay Area. His mobile deejay work and community activism eventually lead him to deejaying at radio stations including KALX, KPFA and later KMEL. He's currently the webmaster for what is considered one of the oldest and largest hip-hop sites on the Web, Davey D's Hip Hop Corner (www.daveyd.com). He also puts out a popular Internet newsletter, which has 100,000 subscribers. He is also a co-founder of the Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition and a member of the Bay Area Black Journalist Association. He regularly speaks on topics ranging from hip-hop to politics to birding the digital divide.