DJ Webstar ^Featured

Troy "Webstar" Ryan, a 21-year-old Harlem-based deejay and producer, is the creative force behind "Chicken Noodle Soup," the great underground sensation of the summer of 2006. He is also the co-executive producer of 'Webstar Presents: Caught In The Web' along,a compilation of new talent set for release on Universal Republic on September 26. Finally, he is the owner, with his old friend and partner Arthur Smith, of a brand-new Fontana-distributed label called Scrilla Hill.

Webstar's notoriety goes back to Web's first parties in 2001, where Art provided security for the young deejay. The friendship quickly ripened into a partnership. It was under the banner of their own Scrilla Hill Records label that Web produced a recording called "The Tone Wop” at the end of last year. Named after its creator, an older Harlem gent named Tony who performs an updated version of the Eighties dance craze known as The Wop, and featuring raps from George “G. Dot” Wilkinson and 16-year-old Bianca “Young B.” Dupree, the recording became a national underground hit. Like "The Tone Wop," it’s follow-up “Chicken Noodle Soup" was inspired by a dance, and Web once again recruited Young B to write and rap the rhymes. The irresistible result combines a thumping bass drum beat, an air raid siren, and Young B's girlish rapping about "Chicken noodle soup…with a soda on the side."