DJ Pimp

Croatian DJ, producer and MC, originally from Rijeka, since the early 2000's based in Zürich, Switzerland. Co-founder of the Ugly Leaders, the first Hip Hop group (formed in 1988.) coming from the ex-Yougoslav territorry. At the time he started his career of a DJ/Turntablist and began to participate in numerous DJ Battles, most notably Croatian DMC/DJ Championship in 1995 (3rd place) and winning the Austrian DMC/DJ Championship in 1996 as well as taking part at World DMC/DJ Championship the same year where he got to the semi finales. Hosted a radio show "Pimpova Grupna Terapija" (Pimp's Group Therapy) for a while in 1997 (on "Radio Otok Krk", a local radio station on the Island of Krk, near Rijeka) where he was putting on Rap, R'n'B and House tunes and mixtapes, then focused on organizing Rap parties and events in Rijeka and its vicinity as well as DJ-ing at the parties (his DJ Pimp moniker is used when spinning Rap and R'n'B, while House/Tech-House sets went under the name of DJ Inkognito). With an ambition to bring the growing Rap scene in Croatia together, he collected demo-works by various Hip Hop groups/artists and compiled them as "Hip Hop Generacija 2000" (Hip Hop Generation 2000) which dropped in late 1998. His solo debut "Sex, Dope & Hip Hop" was released in 1999, followed by Ugly Leaders' album "2000 EP" in early 2000, and the subsequent compilation "Hip Hop Generacija 2001" later that year. At the time he collaborated and produced with Split's Hip Hop acts including The Beat Fleet and Dhirtee III Ratz which closely bonded Rijeka and Split's Rap scenes. Due to a dissent with the Zagreb scene in 2000, he quit the "Hip Hop Generacija" projects, although the material for the 3rd issue had been already collected. Soon after that, he moved to Zürich, Switzerland to DJ as a part of Bum Squad DJ'z, with occasional gigs in Croatia.