D.A. Johnson Jr., also known by his stage name Defari, is a West Coast hip hop artist. He is in the Likwit Junkies, a rap duo with DJ Babu of Dilated Peoples. He was born at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley. He began DJing as a young kid in 1982. He was more focused on emceeing, and by 1995, released his first single "Bionic" on Oakland based ABB Records. With the help of E-Swift of Tha Alkaholiks and Evidence of Dilated Peoples, by 1999, Defari recorded his first album. [LINK: http://www.defari.net/] [1] He has made three albums, Focused Daily, Odds & Evens and Street Music. Teaching Johnson taught history at Inglewood High School in Inglewood, California, and holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. and a master's from Columbia University

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