The story of DJ Bad Boy Bill reads like the history of house music itself. It tells exactly how this Chicago music subculture spread across America and the world to become an international mainstream phenomenon.

Schooled in the Chi-town house boom of the mid '80s, Bill first made a name for himself by distributing promo mixtapes out of the trunk of his car. (Many even credit him as the founding father of the mixtape.) A few years later, the DJ was recruited for on-air work by radio personality and house legend Farley Jackmaster Funk at WGCI Chicago, where Bill would hone the rapidfire chops that make him famous today.