DJ P-Cutta,” aka Preston Quartey, mixtape artist, deejay and principal owner of Rooftop Entertainment, has been touted as a major player in the underground mixtape industry. Street Wars, P-Cutta’s innovative compilation of Hip Hop's battles and beef, has been called “the hottest mixtape on New York's streets…a blow-by-blow of the industry's current beefs".

Influenced by rap legends KRS-ONE, Run-DMC, Public Enemy, Slick Rick, Kool C, Steady B amongst others, Preston studied everything about hip-hop and adopted it as a way of life. In 1996, he began distributing mixtapes and quickly became a major source for street vendors and local music spots in the DC metro area. A student by day and a barber/deejay by night he quickly became a part of DC’s underground hip-hop scene and was given the name “P-Cutta.” "I was a barber at the time so people would come through get a cut and listen to newest and hottest mixtapes. Word traveled, and I became the hip-hop mixtape expert. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.