247 Ink Magazine (October/November) 2017 Issue#17 | Page 19

You have a degree in radio broadcasting and TV. What lead you into that direction? I had always deejayed. I had done an apprenticeship with Dennis Wat- kins at Tattoo Charlie’s (Baltimore, MD) and was deejaying. I was work- ing as a private detective undercover and got injured on the job. I had to be retrained. I was like, I want to go to broadcasting school. So they paid for me to go to broadcasting school. I came out of there with a morn- ing show. Within thirty days the biggest radio station in Baltimore mar- ket hired me. I just started working with them and stayed with them for years. Then I went to Westwood One at started doing news and traffic. While I was at 98 Rocks, that’s when I started doing the tattoo conven- tions. That’s one of the reasons why I went to Westwood One. Things started picking up and I couldn’t work full-time radio. So I started part- time doing news and traffic. I won Best of Baltimore. I won awards for news and traffic stuff. I was still doing this too. Now I just do this full-time along with consultations and stuff like that. 17