Dj timbuck2 biography

Chicago’s hip-hop scene went into mourning Saturday when news broke that WGCI on-air personality and virtuosic turntablist Timothy Jones, aka DJ Timbuck2, had died. He’d been fighting cancer for a little more than a year and had recently turned 34.

Jones, who was also a member of Treated Crew, joined the WGCI team in 2004, and a few years later he launched a Chicago-centric show called GoILL Radio—he not only played new music by artists who rarely received radio exposure, he also brought young talents into the studio for live interviews.

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Through his on-air and nightclub sets, Jones helped the local hip-hop ecosystem grow, helping foster a sense of togetherness. This weekend Chicago not only lost a talented nightlife DJ and radio personality but also a guiding force—he championed the city and its artists and helped make the local hip-hop scene vital and unique.

Born October 22, 1981, Timothy Francis Jones fell for hip-hop at age ten and soon immersed himself in the lo