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DJ Clue Net Worth

Ernesto Shaw best known under his stage name DJ Clue, is a disk jockey, record producer and radio personality. He was born on 8 January 1975 in Queens, New York. He is most famous for his street-level mix tapes such as “The Professional” (1998), his first mix tape CD, which obtained international success and secured him a prosperous career.

Have you ever wondered how rich DJ Clue is?

According to sources, it is estimated that DJ Clue’s overall net worth is $12 million. Most of his net worth was acquired due to the enormous success achieved by release of his first mix tape which sold out in more than a million copies as well as the following realization of his projects “The Professional 2” (2001) and “The Professional 3”

His parents divorced when he was 12, so Ernesto decided to live with his father. He finished a local high school and never went to college. After graduation, he started to work for a radio company and made his way up, already being recognized when he was a teenager. At the beginning of his career, “Clue” was interested in rapping and hip-hop and was known as MC Drama. He was the frontman of a rap group from Queens, when during one of their rehearsals he realized that he was more attracted to multiplying and subtracting beats into to his own taste, and in that way expressing himself as an artist. A year later, he released his first tape “Clue #24” (1990) which gained big popularity and was played all around New York city, making DJ Clue one of the most popular DJs in the city. The diversity of his mixes started to attract more and more fans, leading to “Clue” putting together up to two hundred mix tapes within a seven-year period. Owing to that, he connected with Jay-Z’s “Roc-a-Fella Records”, which released his first major-label debut “The Professional” (1998). The record mostly displayed the biggest names of rap industry such as Nas, Mobb Deep, Ja Rule and DMX and their hits. During this period, “Clue” continued building his reputation through popular New York hip-hop station “Hot 97”. Shortly after, he founded his own record label “Desert Storm Records” which continues to work to this