1997 World ITF DJ Finals - Scratching Final - DJ Babu vs Tony Vegas

[@MeanMachineNZL]

Those were the days.. cue points were memorized in the brain.. only real djs understand the long night's practicing to get that perfect scratch mix.

[@ryanzhang1619]

AUTO BEAT SYNC AUTO CUE POINTS AUTO TRANSITIONS LAUNCHPAD AUTOMATIC SCRATCHING PREMADE MIXES lastly COMPUTERS >Virtual DJ

[@GungKrisna12]

And after so many damaged vinyls

[@priyonjoni]

Leroy Faavesi in 1997, circle stickers were used to set cue points. Not memory.

[@dab0331]

@@priyonjoni still took more talent. than computers odd today. You actually had to time it and catch it under pressure

[@FaderFlosser]

No, cue points were marked with tape to get right to where they wanted to be. The technology does nothing if you don't already have the skills...

[@IntelligentHorseworldofrandom]

The 1990s was an Era of where Rap included a lot of scratching in many songs.I like this style , Trap is okay, but this is way better, Those are some great DJs up there!

[@vilimbubas1302]

That was point of hip hop and to me still is breakbeat aka breakdance, Trap is pop hip hop as Rap was hc hiphop, you pick yuor side, follow the leader or be yourself like in every genre

[@lmtcpd123]

Cough cough nu metal

[@trellyproductions7685]

What scratch is dat

[@Hardstyler981]

You mean hiphop

[@CrimeEnjoyer]

Babu's sets always had so much structure, like a songwriter. Also just so much soul. Vegas had inhuman technical skill but Babu just grooved.

[@KissyAndy]

man, how did I end up watching this ?

[@lamigra7609]

same

[@lukecruse2938]

THIS IS HIP HOP

[@TheChristzouve]

I started with dj Starscream!

[@sreenarajmohan2827]

You followed your heart, brotha.

[@mbusomkhwanazi48]

🤣🤣🤣 I was thinking the exact same thing!

[@elishaevers9433]

DJs have changed a lot since then... DJ Babu was awesome!

[@kendo512]

Was? Is!

[@XShiftryX]

kendo512 Yup! he is still in the game true to his roots and killing it

[@pashmackintosh993]

I was the ITF VP and this was me and Alex' event. To be honest, when we did our Eastern Category Battles in NY where Tony won and qualified for the Finals, we really thought he had a realistic shot against Babs. Tony let that needle skip get to him and it showed throughout his performance. Still a dope battle though. BUT Babu vs. Roli Rho in the Beat Juggling Finals that same night, is till this day one of the best battles of all time.

[@khanivore313]

STRAIGHT DOPE begins at 3:17

[@daz3462]

Faraz Khan ?

[@omega17ds]

Very true

[@Brianaloha]

Thanks for the cue point.

[@luugooo]

69th like

[@oldskool1055]

It's Fresh!! 😎

[@TPO1984]

I remember the first time I heard Babu with his opening scratch routine, I got chills! I still do! It's so dope!!! Tony Vegas has nothing on Babu, he gets squashed!

[@midnightcassettelibrary5171]

Babu feels good on your ears. That corny Tony Reno guy in his funny hat just hurts your ears.

[@johrons]

Vegas was decent git to give flowers but babu shut it down

[@kabsterMDAcuentaAntigüa]

I love this oldies, u learn A LOT from this talents 👉🍻🍻

[@kaizillaboy]

..back when DJ'ing took some actual talent..

[@Yourufgbbk]

This trash tho

[@Andy-bh8hw]

Kenny T. This is trash though

[@kaizillaboy]

@@Andy-bh8hw You're right. There was much better even back then.

[@Moments.like.these.]

It's a scratching competition...

[@harryputang5352]

True

[@DEVINEJUSTICEALLAH72]

REAL HIP HOP DJ.TWO TURNTABLES AND A MIXER.NO DIGITAL STUFF!!

[@CameroniMusic]

Yes because digital = bad

[@d.n.3652]

Fake, there's no laptop and random button pushing

[@aniciadospueblos1523]

Shiny Kingdra this is old

[@aniciadospueblos1523]

Shiny Kingdra as you can see its from 97'

[@Grimhouses]

THEY ARE USING REAL TURNTABLES! Not controllers that you kids call real these days that you hook up to laptops

[@oreopanda5505]

sarcasm guys hello????

[@ilikepotatoes1345]

WHOOOSH

[@MrGrouch86]

3:37 mah gawd.

[@jnesta5912]

If only Tony had done more crabs, the one thing his rounds lacked was fast solo crabbing

[@dru-chambers]

haha. finally three years later, you get the haha this deserves

[@captinweestain526]

@@dru-chambers 2nd

[@HuFilms]

I remember Vegas being the best thing since sliced bread but looking at him now he really overdoes certain things like echoes and crabs. Also, his deck hand seems to to a lot of of 'pulling' as opposed to stabbing / pushing. Babu is so much funkier here.

[@Rudenbehr]

Vegas would’ve won if he coulda kept a beat going. I couldn’t really even feel what he was doing because he was all over place.

[@goldschool9050]

He couldn't concentrate after the first skip

[@djfobtronics]

Great to have your feedback on the channel! Our imports shop brought in these particular ITF tapes in late 97.

[@tuamigoimaginario5014]

From minute 8:24 to minute 8:37 it was PERFECT THE SYNCHRONY, between scratch and base of beat jazz, second epics of tony vegas

[@martincrittenden465]

I would say abit further to be honest. Its a shame mateys needle kept coming off the record..... . # put the needle on the record , let the drum beat go like this.... .

[@JackHammerTheDJ]

Babu's Funkiness Level: #LEGENDARY

[@palomino13]

10 months later...im back and babu making those zigga ziggaz talk

[@djairalert422]

Babu and Short Kut always been my favorite, they really make the turntables their instrument 🎻

[@djairalert422]

Babu and Short Kut always been my favorite, they really make the turntables their instrument 🎷

[@kilo-watt]

One of the funkiest scratch routines in a battle, ever.

[@DITKoreates]

Shoutout to Tony Vegas doing the most Tony Vegas shit imaginable (it's really up to the individual to decide whether that's good or bad, tbh)

[@FLawLesSTaStE]

This is what real DJ´ing was back in the days, none of the BS we see nowdays.

[@robertflores3184]

Rip to those needles

[@dickmccarthy9496]

Yep. Expensive hobby back then. Those needles costs A LOT when you need a new needle every week.

[@clokwize]

Negative. The M447's were made to take such beatings...

[@jpopa09]

Nothing gets more 90s than this lol

[@AlexA-bn2wb]

This is more of an 80s thing

[@ZeroToMidnight]

babu kept a beat the whole time, vegas didn't thats what killed him,

[@johnpaulsen6301]

im not even a huge babuu fan ,,but respect him fully,,,,i remember win i first saw him he was just ok,,,,then outta nowhere his skills drastically improved making him one of the big dawgs along with all his crew of djs posse,,they kept real dj in alive n kept dj in going into our serato n tractor days of present,,they still kept the skills n the art of the mix…i do believe babuu and that whole clan cut chemist,z trip, the whole fat beats clan,,,, too many great djs of that school to name,,,they all kept the djs going when it seemed djs were diisapearing from the scene,,thanks frm dj stepchild..n babuu killed this guy ,,peace

[@Supersmallchibiwolf]

No matter who won they both showed how much talent they had and gave amazing performances . Cool video. ^_^

[@HienTamTranNguyen]

BABU IS THE MAN! HIS SCRATCH ARE UNREACHABLE!!! "THE KING OF TURNTABLISM"!🎤♾️🎶🎶

[@MrDankInstrumentals]

ACMENTERTAINMENT1 He never left, he's been Djing and producing for all the underground heads ever since.. you'll see him a lot with his group Dilated Peoples. just since him at the 2013 Rock the Bells. Killed it on the 1210's!

[@eleven.eastgate.twelve967]

Babu's 1st set was clean, well mapped out and executed... Daaaaayum!

[@peterm6179]

Dj BABU = True B-Boy mentality.Word.

[@maumbu]

They have completely different styles. How can you compare'em?

[@vilimbubas1302]

Yep, totally different

[@Pavlovlovlov]

"Style is the answer of everything"

[@dr.funkenstein9790]

Vegas is all flash with no groove

[@roastlonely]

You can, in a battle. It’s who executed their style the best wins ..not difficult. Real hip hop battles.

[@roastlonely]

Also, Tony didn’t pull of his stuff well at all Babu is far superior on the cuts

[@recmane]

Absolutely incredible.

[@crissaracena348]

This is one of the elements of hip hop with out this there's no hip hop and ist 4 this is just one

[@1977SEPTIMUS]

Both badass but different. Babu is a hip hop scratching genius. Vegus uses the decs as an instrument.

[@djairalert422]

Real skills, no computer software could ever take the place of true physical skills.

[@teskaterua1562]

Babu é mestre🇧🇷👏🏼👊🏼

[@giuseppelobasso1318]

Damn I was automatically rooting for California since I'm from there but damn it was no contest, Babu put him in a coffin

[@johrons]

Babu been a beast 💪

[@llewellyn56]

the best years...today's DJ'S will never understand...

[@jolenethellama]

Babu is a freakin' legend man 🙌

[@rudeethethird9664]

2nd dude murders so hard god damn. They both do great but that 2nd dude buries the first just off confidence alone

[@nathanmillington7328]

Props to Tony Vegas & Babu for this fine battle

[@MANKUB123]

VEGAS perfected this first routine for i think the 99 Battle and killed it.

[@crowvizion9588]

1:25 I can’t believe I just randomly stumbled across the most obscure Rob Zombie sample ever. Listen to Get High by Rob Zombie, the sample he uses is in that song. “Bob man you rockin this shit”. Insane

[@nolem5417]

I think they were both amazing, but Babu killed it.

[@ZeacorZeppelin]

If people want to here like some ancient version of music thats like this, listen steve reich "its gonna rain" or go further down the rabbit 🐇 hole and look up tape music, or phase music. Anyway, this is just all kinds of sick.

[@dnn1649]

its gonna rain is such a good pick, severed heads, although more industrial, have a lot of good tape music too B)

[@LuisMartinez-ft9or]

No laptop no software. This is awesome.

[@chrisv966]

His crew The Beat Junkies just celebrated their 20th Anniv. not too long ago. He's doing work with Dilated Peoples and doing venues out here in L.A. now and again.

[@jeffdnb9070]

Vegas was ok but completely out classed by babu

[@mrwonderfultechnicalj7480]

Remember this like it was yesterday Babu rocking it!

[@opiamzen]

10:18 aaaaaawwww shiii

[@TakeOffKam]

fr i like GAME OVER!!

[@jhonnyblade702]

I put my gemini away and bought a mixstick when I first heard this. Damn almost 20 years ago!

[@j-boogiebrown9961]

Is that the thin Vestax mixer? I had one of the as well. I also had one of their "T-shaped" mixers, which was even thinner. The only problem with it was the fader wouldn't loosen up, so I sold it.

[@PawnshopmikeATL]

Yes mixtik was (I think) the o6pro

[@klbncdg]

Dj Babu

[@jbb2660]

Babu's just like some the best jugglers alive...seem like he can thump out any beat at will...just look at how he did it here on one deck..

[@jonwhite549]

I wish djs still put out tapes like this.

[@palomino13]

babu, straight b-boy battle attitude .hip hop. tony not at all.

[@negronthagreat]

Tony's a toy...Babu ate his food.

[@sidemotion]

Remember when you had to swap records or use tape and decals to hit your next cue or break without pressing buttons? I remember.

[@neftalifigueroa0866]

Babu is amazing!

[@kuffa]

thanks for uploading. i had this on vhs which disappeared lol

[@godfathergdup3586]

crabing and flareing had just caught on so to see somebody scratching like this both Tony and Babu were amazing that night I saw Tony do that routine without messing up it's somewhere on KZbin if you want to see him do the routine right and he destroyed it props 2 both of these amazing DJs

[@haruchikasetiadi3525]

so this is the real Disc Jockey..

[@Morning_______Glory]

ohh my god.... babu !!!

[@hogdaddy3768]

Babu by far. Vegas is technical to the point that it looses all musicality

[@ther7478]

What happened in Tony Vegas' two rounds? I guess in the first round the head shell wasn't screwed in properly? What was the issue in the second round? Any one know? All them cats in the 90's were sick. Beat Junkies, Piklz, Scratch Perverts, Allies, X-Men, all of them.

[@mohammedahmedgaafarelkhali7592]

I think in the second round he realized Babu whooped his a$$

[@iamacaveman7653]

First guys is just a bunch of noise while the second guy is a Straight Smoove Operator!

[@thepsychicpeach8425]

my headphones caught fire😂🔥🔥literally no like im serious my headphones started smoking and are useless now🙁

[@edselsugay5342]

Hip hop won this night. Oh how I miss these days.

[@skratchafakascrew557]

Real Djing Real Djs Respect!

[@carloseluru159]

Does anyone know the track name with the BIG BASS LINE babu uses in the last session?

[@BabyCee713]

Formula 4 “Killer Groove” 1984 Malaco Records

[@mr_diatribe2324]

Tony Vegas Scratch Perverts..... Babu Beat Junkies.... Both very respected turntablists.... Remember was the very early days when both Djs went onto greater things..... Also Tony's technique was a precursor to amazing things.... Mistakes make you tighter next time.... Babu such a legend and he coined the term Turntablism so props everytime..... Peace..... Ps all the negatives comments on this page just make you guys sound bi-atchessssss lol

[@ATBTurnier]

Babu is dope as fuck!

[@chief_117]

hell yeah he is!

[@eMZetMartez]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeendgeiiil !!! Datz Da REAL Way, scratching goes... Then Nothing. 2 Turntables (da legendary Technics 1210) ^^ Every Saturday on MTV ...DMC (Disco Mix Club) Worlds best Dj Contest

[@barbachas425]

Awesome video man thanks

[@michaelmcpherson82]

This is before serotonin. Youngin..& lab tops...u had 2 do the work..

[@mr_diatribe2324]

Tony Vegas, some nice stuff, but errors cost him. DJ Babu WAS REHEARSED;;;; battle tool era ;) No spontaneity! ;) UK HISTORY RIGHT THERE ;)X

[@jeffdnb9070]

10:18 in with babu, awsome

[@johnnymassacre]

8:14 look I don't know the technical aspect to scratching but that didn't sound good!

[@nolem5417]

Daniel Khastou It was alright.

[@deebreezy246]

Some girls out there be thinking what Babu can make em feel.

[@Emilio007hola]

That Vegas really messed up, and acts like a spoiled child.

[@kaizillaboy]

There are a lot of electronic aids that make a halfway decent DJ look like a pro. Back then it was 100% raw talent and timing. Today's DJ's are better in a sense they can lay down a track in real time with MANY more tools at their disposal.

[@edrooney9580]

It's our human theme we share with technology....a basic form of tech comes along n people push it to and PAST the limit of creativity....then with time the tools become much more powerful, and are so advanced that the human takes a back seat to the tech and therefore loses creativity and skill the more tech advances...year 2100 were gonna be able to levitate and move over 1000mph and communicate telepathically...but we'll be the absolutely retarded n completely reliant on A.I

[@Hchris101]

This is basically a lost art

[@mohammedahmedgaafarelkhali7592]

When DJ Vegas was playing, I thought we were in the "chicken scratching" category of this competition

[@samgreak352]

Now u just press a button such talent

[@CmacKola12]

Today anybody can be a DJ all you got to do is press a button on the laptop you call yourself a DJ I don't care I'm keeping it old school

[@jovansoriano6450]

I bought this vhs tape at Streetlight Record!! Dj Baaaaadu!!!

[@ry6222]

I like the second guys stuff man that was fire

[@baynekarma4268]

the best video!

[@isuckondemtitteas1974]

I like how the first song is Roxanne Roxanne U.T.F.O

[@dbztrunkscion8787]

Back In Time

[@unixriver]

Amazing!!!!!

[@project-unifiedfreepeoples]

The talent is tremendous!

[@rhapsodicious1203]

real dj

[@revoltpuppy]

Guy wore a bucket hat, always destined for runner up. Watch any teen movie.

[@tuamigoimaginario5014]

Does anyone know, what is the name of the song at min. 7:53 and what Dj is it please?

[@BpmSupreme]

nice mix!

[@donniebrasco881]

Бабу фо лайф!

[@mohammedahmedgaafarelkhali7592]

I can't get over how DJ wit it was DJ Babu!!! SOO Hip hop. On the other hand I call Tony Vegas's style "Chicken Scratching"