Khaled Mohammed Khaled, better known by his stage name DJ Khaled, is an American DJ, record executive, record producer, and rapper. He was born on November 26, 1975.
The hip-hop collective Terror Squad hired Khaled as a DJ for their live performances after he first rose to fame as a radio personality on the station 99 Jamz in the 1990s. Khaled launched his first studio album, Listennn, after earning producer credits on the band’s music. the Album in 2006, which was certified as gold. He released We the Best (2007) as a follow-up, which featured the top 20 single “I’m So Hood.” We Global (2008) and Victory (2010), his next two albums, were released after he established the record company We the Best Music Group. Both albums peaked in the top ten of the US Billboard 200, with the latter featuring the triple platinum-certified hit “All I Do Is Win.”
Khaled has had success as a writer outside of the music industry, with his book The Keys appearing on the New York Times Best Seller list. He has also appeared as an actor, most recently in the 2019 films Bad Boys for Life and Spies in Disguise (2020).
