DJ Professor K (DJプロフェッサーK,DJ Purofessā K?) is a major character in Jet Set Radio. He is the DJ for Jet Set Radio, Tokyo-to's premier pirate radio station, which plays nonstop, hardcore music. Throughout the game, DJ-K is the narrator of the story, commentating on the events that are happening in Tokyo-to.
He is also a playable character exclusively in the Game Boy Advance version of Jet Set Radio. In that version of the game, DJ Professor K is the best character. He is a Graffiti type character whose health is maxed out alongside with very high speed and graffiti stats, and is able to hold up to 30 spray cans.
Note: This backstory (among other things can be found on a guide by IGN[2]) contradicts the actual description from the Jet Grind Radio game manual,[1] and the game. Proceed with caution.
The founder of Jet Set Radio, Professor K was born in Jamaica, and raised in New York City. Growing up to the influences of funk, reggae and dancehall, Professor K started off as a DJ in the Bronx. Though his pirate radio station in NYC was extremely popular and a hit with the underground, Professor K eventually had to leave the States as his station attracted the attention of the feds. Deciding on a new place to turn up his beats, Professor K set his sights on Tokyo, seeing it as the freshest and laxest place he could go to. Knowing that Tokyo-to had the potential to be "one big dance party", Professor K then set up Jet Set Radio to establish his sounds on the airwaves and his quest to keep the soul of the city alive.
In addition to his disk jockeying and being the fly voice of Tokyo's underground, he helps gangsters and Rudies accomplish their tasks and use his radio station as a hideout. He eventually encounters the GG's (Beat, Gum, and Tab) and assists them with their crimes and goals.
Overview[]
Appearance[]
In Jet Set Radio, Professor K is a dark-skinned man with orange lips and dark brown hair styled into five large, lightning-bolt-shaped spikes that move along with the beat of the songs he plays. He has a goatee of similar shape and color. Also notable are his gold-colored nose ring on his left nostril, sunglasses with bright blue lenses, and the yellow letter "K" on his forehead. He is always seen wearing a white shirt with what looks like a black tie in a zigzag shape. He also wears gold rings on both index fingers. The Jet Grind Radio manual reveals he is 6'1 tall.
Personality[]
Professor K is a quirky, upbeat and a charismatic DJ who likes to narrate and of course, being a DJ. He appears to have a high voice and likes to move his hands around as he speaks. He is always willing to help people in need, criminal or not and is a close ally of the GG's.
Development[]
According to Ryuta Ueda, DJ Professor K was inspired by a character known as Super Soul, a blind African-American DJ, in the 1971 film, Vanishing Point. Super Soul runs a pirate radio station and broadcasts events to the public while also helping out and encouraging the protagonist in the process as well.[3]
Role in the games[]
Jet Set Radio[]
In Jet Set Radio, DJ Professor K narrates most of the game's story (Combo narrates the flashbacks in chapter 2. However, Professor K does narrate the whole story in the original Japanese release of the game). His broadcasts are also one of the only sources of information about the events and characters in the game. He often talks between missions, as well as provides comic relief.
At the end of the game, Professor K is told by someone off-screen that they don't believe the story he told actually happened. His response to this criticism is vague, as he says "Okay, okay, sure" and ends his broadcast stating how there is no such thing as "the end" on the streets.
Jet Set Radio (GBA)[]
In the Game Boy Advance version of Jet Set Radio, Professor K plays the exact same role as he did in the console version. However, once the final stage is beaten, he becomes a playable character. He is located between Garam and Beat on the character selection screen. Unlike everyone else, he cannot be seen dancing like the other characters, only his picture appears.
Somewhere in Asia, there is a city that cannot be found on any map called "Tokyo-to", but everyone just calls it Tokyo. The two hottest things on the streets of Tokyo-to are the punks wearing magnetically driven In-line Skates powered by newly developed 'netrium' batteries and 'Jet Set Radio', a pirate radio station manned by the DJ 'Professor K', that plays nothing but non-stop, hard-core music.
Those street punks have been named 'Rudies' by the people of Tokyo-to. They roam the streets and cover the city with their personal graffiti, claiming that it is their way of expressing themselves to the world.
However, ever since the Metropolitan Government and the financial conglomerate, the Rokkaku Group, combined their efforts to co-found the '21st Century Project', the streets of Tokyo-to have never been the same again. Police crackdowns on the Rudies have become more severe, and Captain Onishima is more anxious than ever to put them behind bars.
The streets of Tokyo-to are ready to explode.
N/A (Tutorials)
Hey out there! This is Tokyo's very own, #1, pirate powerstation, Jet Set Radio! Over the hood, through the streets and right into your brain! We're transmitting out signal straight to you. Y'all got your antennas on or what!? Yeah, we're riding high on a smooth stream of supersonic sounds! And I'm your captain and DJ, Professor K. Jet Set Radio!!!
3 gangs are fighting for the Tokyo streets. In the West from Benten-cho, the city of the night, we got those high-tech maniacs, those man-machines, the Noise Tanks. And in the East from Kogane-cho, the city of the sunset, it's that crazy monster mask wearing gang, Poison Jam. And from Shibuya-cho in the South, from the city of daylight, it's those trouble-making punks, the GG's.
The GG's home turf, Shibuya-cho was just attacked. Was it Poison Jam? They were talking about spreadin' out there. Or maybe it was the Noise Tanks, trying to send a system-crash through the whole city. Listen up all you innocent fools out there. Officer Onishima has got some special-order Keisatsu bracelets all ready for you. So get yourselves to the bathroom and brush those teeth, boys and girls. Cause a whole loada trouble is heading your way!
I'm hijacking the airwaves and terrorizing you with tunes cause we're gonna turn these dirty streets into one big dance party! Jet Set Radio!!!
Those cats who ransacked Shibuya-cho turned out to be the Love Shockers!! Love broke their hearts and now they're looking to do some breaking of their own. Watch out for these psychos! When you see their heart-shaped graffiti around, you know someone somewhere is crying with a Uki-Uki-Waku-Waku feeling!
Can the GG's save Shibuya-cho from the Trap of Love, or is it too late?
We're gonna blast your blues with a burst of pure sound. This is your very own, one-punch knockout broadcaster, Jet Set Radio! Which one of you punks wanna step in the ring?
Shibuya-cho got some love letters on the walls from them lonely lovers, but they were erased before mama could see them. But now they've gone away somewhere. Were they just flirting to have some fun or is this some new game they're playing??
This is your very own guerrilla broadcaster, Jet Set Radio!!! Use the city as your canvas and paint us some vibes from the street!
Kogane route exclusive.
And now for our local news! While the GG's were busy going after Kogane-cho, their faithful pup, Potts, was kidnapped! Woof! I guess that would be classified as 'dog'-napping, huh? I wonder how much ransom you get for a dog? The Keisatsu are staying outta this one, so y'all better keep an eye on your own dogs too!
Benten route exclusive.
Those frogs I was talkin' about must have been Poison Jam's pets. Looks like there's gonna be a real turf-war! Ribbit! Ribbit!
Both cutscenes.
Poison Jam! Them horror freaks are really pissed--they haven't seen a good slasher flick in months! And after the action in Kogane-cho, they're out for revenge! It looks like we might be facing a bloodbath here. Better put on your garlic honey, cause the vampires are on the prowl! Ha ha ha ha!
This is Tokyo's hard-walking, truth talking, always squawking, Jet Set Radio!!! Event the Keisatsu tune in here when they're not eatin' donuts.
Kogane route exclusive.
The Poison Jammers are hopping away like little frogs! If the GG's go after them, Kogane-cho will be all theirs!
Benten route exclusive.
Looks like the GG's have filled the streets of Kogane-cho with their graffiti. Those froggies turned right back into little tadpoles and swam away fast as they could. Ribbit! Ribbit!
Poison Jam is on the run, and if the GG's go after them. Kogane-cho is theirs!
We'll leave your mama gawking and your daddy walking, we're Tokyo's biggest, baddest buccaneers. We're Jet Set Radio.
Poison Jam is finished. They're worm-food. And there ain't no sequels in the works for these monsters. They in the grave for good.
Whoa, all of a sudden a big black car came by and picked up Poison Jam and snatched 'em right away!! So is this a real kidnapping this time? Or maybe it's just the garbage collector. That was one cool garbage truck, all right.
Kogane route exclusive.
There was a piece of a broken records in a mask that got left behind. Is there a clue here somewhere?? Why was he hiding something like that so carefully? Or maybe it was just a piece of junk. Ha ha!
Benten route exclusive.
There was a piece of a broken record in a mask that got left behind and it fits perfectly with the piece from the Noise Tanks. Do the Love Shockers have the other piece? Guess we gotta ask them.
Turns out it was the Noise Tanks who kidnapped the GG's pet pup Potts.
Benten route exclusive.
The GG's garage is just jumping with frogs! Ribbit! Ribbit! Wonder who did it?
Both cutscenes.
The Noise Tanks from Benten-cho... they won't eat anything without additives and chemicals--no veggies or fruit for them! They're into that Frankenstein Food! They sell software to pay for their spray cans. Right on, brothers!
Word is, last month's big blackout was their work. Look out! Get these guys mad and it's no cable for the kids!
This is Tokyo's guerrilla music broadcaster, Jet Set Radio!!! Let's go to the mail bag.
A letter from Mr. Osaki asks "how do I get rid of these nasty roaches?" Easy. Just burn your house down.
Benten-cho is ablaze with the GG's graffiti, it's even brighter than the neon lights! After their territory was attacked the Noise Tanks ran amok! Their circuits must be fried or something! Maybe they'll be eating dinner for breakfast! Ha ha ha! I heard a rumor they got some kind of secret. Why don't ya check it out?
Music that's violently smooth--it's Jet Set Radio! Even if you're locked up in the joint, don't forget to turn on that radio!!!
The Noise Tanks just got scrapped. They played too many video games and now it's "game over". No continues either! Ha ha ha ha!
Kogane route exclusive.
The GG's dog got home safe and sound, but it looks like the Noise Tanks made some... modifications. Now it moos like a cow. I wonder if they can milk it too?
The mysterious record the GG's picked up from the Noise Tanks fits perfectly with the piece from Poison Jam. Do the Love Shockers have the other piece? Guess ya gotta ask them.
Benten route exclusive.
The GG's picked up a broken piece of a record from the Noise Tanks. But by itself, it's about as useless as a vegetarian steak dinner. What were they doing with that?
Martians come all the way to Earth just to listen to us. We're Tokyo's finest pirate radio, Jet Set Radio!
One of the fallen Love Shockers was holding a golden rhinoceros badge. The Golden Rhinos are a gang of ruthless Asian killers. Rumor has it they're the ones who kidnapped Poison Jam, too.
The Rokkaku Group is run by a strange fella named Goji Rokkaku--it's a huge business conglomerate that pretty much owns the city. Rokkaku Project 2000 is Goji's big city improvement plan to increase productivity and prosperity in the area. The 'future' of Tokyo, he says. If you ask me, it's just a bunch of bull.
Them guys have been erasing a lot of GG Graffiti. Are the GG's gonna sit back and take it!?
The Golden Rhinos and the Rokkaku Project got nothing to do with me, and it's dangerous to get involved. But ya gotta give back what you take, right?
First Golden Rhinos mission.
Jet Set Radio!!
We got another letter from Osaki. He says: 'I burned my house down. What should I do now?' How should I know, fool?
It turns out the Golden Rhinos are a secret branch of the Rokkaku Group. They're a dangerous bunch, cool and cruel! They got a martini in one hand and a switchblade in the other! Looks like they're wiping out everyone who tries to hang on the streets. Go on and hit 'em back! Make 'em feel ya!
Second Golden Rhinos mission.
Jet Set Radio!!!
And now, this report from our informant in Benten-cho, the Pink no Shijin!!! The thing everyone's been hunting for like crazy is something called the "Devil's Contract". It's a record that's got the power to summon a demon!!!
The streets of Tokyo-to are in a panic and we're gonna have to cut off this broadcast soon. Can the GG's graffiti save this city?
Third Golden Rhinos mission.
Jet Set Radio!!!
Them nasty Rokkaku posters have all been covered up by GG graffiti. Way to go! But when they weren't looking, someone swiped the record!!! You gotta go after 'em right?
That record everybody's looking for is already missing!!! According to some info we got from Poison Jam, it sounds like that record's the real thing. It was made by some freaky evil sound engineer and it's been passed hand to hand, all the way to Tokyo!
Goji wants to use the record to make a contract demon so he can take over Tokyo and the rest of the world! If those guys get all the pieces, Tokyo, this radio station, sushi, ramen, hamburgers and everything else are gonna be history!
Get to the new Rokkaku Headquarters and destroy that record--along with Goji's evil plans!
That huge turntable of evil, the Rokkaku Building, is a pile of dust, right along with the Rokkaku's scheme. Now they're saying that the building was destroyed in a construction accident--yeah right! But now, Goji's son has taken over the Rokkaku family business, and Tokyo is back to its glorious old self.
Now, the Noise Tanks are in-repair, the Love Shockers are broken-hearted again, but Poison Jam is back, and planning more mischief.
Goji wanted to control the hearts of people who he couldn't buy with his money. Just another millionaire with a grudge. It's the root of all evil they say. But it turns out the record he was looking for, the "Devil's Contract", was just a old indie record, a hoax! Maybe the demons in his own heart made it out of rumors and superstition, or maybe that record is really somewhere here in Tokyo? Somewhere waiting to be found.
But anyway, don't fret about that. DJ Professor K is gonna lay down some cool grooves and take away them blues!!
Every release.
What's that? You think I just made all that up? Ha ha ha! Sure, sure, okay. But watch out! Someone just might have their sights set on Shibuya-cho again! On the street, there's no such thing as 'The End!'
GBA dialogue[]
Dialogue
Mission
Quote
N/A (Prologue)
Somewhere in Asia, there is a city that cannot be found on any map called "Tokyo-to", but everyone just calls it Tokyo. The two hottest things on the streets of Tokyo-to are the punks wearing magnetically driven In-line Skates powered by newly developed 'netrium' batteries and 'Jet Set Radio', a pirate radio station manned by the DJ 'Professor K', that plays nothing but non-stop, hard-core music.
Those street punks have been named 'Rudies' by the people of Tokyo-to. They roam the streets and cover the city with their personal graffiti, claiming that it is their way of expressing themselves to the world.
However, ever since the Metropolitan Government and the financial conglomerate, the Rokkaku Group, combined their efforts to co-found the '21st Century Project', the streets of Tokyo-to have never been the same again. Police crackdowns on the Rudies have become more severe, and Captain Onishima is more anxious than ever to put them behind bars.
N/A (Tutorials)
Hey out there! This is Tokyo's very own, #1, pirate powerstation, Jet Set Radio! Over the hood, through the streets and right into your brain! We're transmitting out signal straight to you. Y'all got your antennas on or what!? Yeah, we're riding high on a smooth stream of supersonic sounds! And I'm your captain and DJ, Professor K. Jet Set Radio!!!
3 gangs are fighting for the Tokyo streets. In the West from Benten-cho, the city of the night, we got those high-tech maniacs, those man-machines, the Noise Tanks. And in the East from Kogane-cho, the city of the sunset, it's that crazy monster mask wearing gang, Poison Jam. And from Shibuya-cho in the South, from the city of daylight, it's those trouble-making punks, the GG's.
The GG's home turf, Shibuya-cho was just attacked. Was it Poison Jam? They were talking about spreadin' out there. Or maybe it was the Noise Tanks, trying to send a system-crash through the whole city. Listen up all you innocent fools out there. Officer Onishima has got some special-order Keisatsu bracelets all ready for you. So get yourselves to the bathroom and brush those teeth, boys and girls. Cause a whole loada trouble is heading your way!
Completion.
I'm the Ronin of the Radio cuttin' rhymes with flair, got the spirit inside of me!
You're chokin' on my flow while eatin' your sushi and I'm spillin' mad wasabi on the microphone.
Those cats who ransacked Shibuya-cho turned out to be the Love Shockers!! Love broke their hearts and now they're looking to do some breaking of their own. You know someone somewhere is crying with a Uki-Uki-Waku-Waku feeling! Can the GG's save Shibuya-cho from the Trap of Love, or is it too late?
Completion.
This is your very own, one-punch knockout broadcaster, Jet Set Radio! Which one of you punks wanna step in the ring?
Shibuya-cho got some love letters from them lonely lovers, but the GG's were feelin' so good they sent their own message right back to them Love Shockers. At first those girls were just flirting, but I guess they can't turn down a date now, huh? Ha ha ha ha ha.
Kogane is crawling with those creepy monster mask wearing freaks, Poison Jam! Them horror freaks are really angry - they haven't seen a good slasher flick in months.
Completion.
The GG's put on a better show than a b-monster movie. Monster Jam will think twice before taking a bite outta them next time!
And after the action in Kogane-cho, they're out for revenge! It looks like we might be facing a bloodbath here. Better put on your garlic honey, cause the vampires are on the prowl! Ha ha ha ha!
Completion.
This is Tokyo's hard-walking, truth talking, always squawking, Jet Set Radio!!! Even the cops tune in here when they're not eatin' donuts. Looks like Monster Jam is really taking the dunk lately!
Looks like the GG's have filled the streets of Kogane-cho with their graffiti. The Poison Jammers are hopping away like little frogs! If the GG's go after them, Kogane-cho wil be all theirs!
Completion.
We'll leave your mama gawking and your daddy walking, we're Tokyo's biggest, baddest buccaneers. We're Jet Set Radio!
Poison Jam is finished. They're worm-food. And there ain't no sequels in the works for these monsters. Whoa, all of a sudden a big black car came by and snatched 'em right away!! Maybe it's just the garbage collector. Haha!
There was a piece of a broken records in a mask that got left behind. Is there a clue here somewhere?? Or maybe it was just a piece of junk. Ha!
We're gonna burn Tokyo up! We got an explosive broadcast coming straight to you. We're Jet Set Radio!!!
The Noise Tanks from Benten-cho... they won't eat anything without additives and chemicals--no veggies or fruit for them! Word is, last month's big blackout was their work. Look out!!
Completion.
This is Tokyo's guerilla music broadcaster, Jet Set Radio!!!
Looks like the GG's hacked their way into Benten. Boy, the Noise Tanks must be made up to their 0 and 1's!
Hear those electrifying sounds!? That's your Professor K spinning the crazy tracks. But the GG's got some other sounds to worry about like the artificial tones of the furious Noise Tanks!
Completion.
Jet Set Radio!!! The bug zapper of mosquito DJ's buzzing the jungle beats. Sounds like the GG's are sending a jolt through the Noise Tanks hard drives. The Noise Tanks my be performing a control alt delete!
Benten-cho is ablaze with the GG's graffiti. It's even brighter than the neon lights! After their territory was attacked, them Noise Tanks ran amok! Their circuits must be fried or something! Ha ha ha!
Completion.
Music that's violently smooth - it's Jet Set Radio! The Noise Tanks just got scrapped. They played too many video games and now it's "game over". No continues either! Ha ha ha!
Them GG's picked up a broken piece of a record from the Noise Tanks. But by itself, it's about as useless as a vegetarian steak dinner!
Martians come all the way to Earth just to listen to us. We're Tokyo's finest pirate radio, Jet Set Radio!
And what's with all these record bits!? Maybe the Love Shockers know what romantic tune this record scratches out!
Completion.
One of the fallen Love Shockers was holding a golden rhinoceros badge. The Golden Rhinos are a gang of ruthless killers. Rumor has it they're the ones who kidnapped Poison Jam.
All of a sudden, these strange posters have been popping up all over town! They say 'Project Rokkaku 2000'. Must be the Rokkaku Group's work.
The Rokkaku Group is run by a strange fella named Goji Rokkaku--working on the 'future' of Tokyo, he says. If you ask me it's just a bunch of bull. Them guys have been erasing a lot of GG graffiti. Are the GG's gonna sit back and take it!?
Professor K here igniting the airwaves with some hot beats! But I hear there are some crazy cats out there playing with more than just musical fire!.
Completion.
This here is your very own Tokyo pirate broadcaster, Jet Set Radio!!!! Them nasty Rokkaku posters have all been covered up by GG graffiti. Way to go! But when they weren't looking, someone swiped the record!!! You gotta go after 'em right?
The army's moved into Kogane-cho. They're turnin' Tokyo into a war zone. What's with those jet packs? Why can't they just take the subway like everybody else?
Completion.
This is Tokyo's only back-alley broadcaster, Jet Set Radio! It turns out the Golden Rhinos area secret branch of the Rokkaku Group. A dangerous bunch, cool and cruel! Looks like they're wiping out everyone who tries to hang on the streets. Go on and hit 'em back!
We're gonna burn Tokyo up! We got an explosive broadcast coming to you. The thing everyone's been hunting for like crazy is something called the 'Devil's Contract'. It's a record that's got the power to summon a demon!!!!
Completion.
This is bad mojo, boys and girls! I don't know what it's doing in Tokyo, but we can't let whackos like that get their hands on it! Demon or no demon, this can't be good news! The streets of Tokyo-to are in a panic and we're gonna have to cut off this broadcast soon. Can the GG's graffiti save this city?
That record everybody's looking for is already missing!!! According to some info we got from Poison Jam, it sounds like that record's the real thing. It was made by some freaky evil sound engineer. It's been passed hand to hand, all the way to Tokyo! Goji wants to use the record to make a contract demon so he can take over Tokyo and the rest of the world!
Get to the new Rokkaku Headquarters and destroy that record--along with Goji's evil plans!
Completion.
That huge portal of evil, the Rokkaku Building, is a pile of dust, right along with the Rokkaku's scheme. Now they're saying that the building was destroyed in a construction accident--yeah right! At least Tokyo is back to its glorious old self. It turns out that the Glden Rhinos were just another group of Goji's henchmen. That explains a lot...
It turns out the record that Goji was looking for was just an old indie record, a hoax.
The Noise Tanks are in-repair, the Love Shockers are broken-hearted again, but Poison Jam is back, and planning more mischief. What's that? You think I just made all that up? Ha ha ha! Sure, sure, okay. But watch out! On the streets, there's no such thing as 'The End!'
Stats[]
DJ Professor K's maximum health, cans held, and starting graffiti challenge in Jet Set Radio GBA.
Style
Graffiti
Power
Maximum
Technique/Speed
High
Graffiti
Very High
Spray Cans
30
Graffiti Command
Gum Type
The stats for DJ Professor K only refer to his appearance in the GBA version of Jet Set Radio. He is not playable in the console versions.
An underline notes the characters highest skill(s).
DJ Professor K's graffiti challenge begins with 180 counterclockwise then 180 clockwise, making him a "Gum Type" character. He can hold up to 30 spray cans.
EN: Charismatic DJ of "Jet Set Radio", a pirate radio broadcast that hijacks the airwaves and plays cool, non-genre, non-stop, guerrilla-style music around the streets of Tokyo-to. He has lived in Tokyo-to for 13 years, and his super afro dreadlocks are his symbol. His tongue-in-cheek crazy DJ style, whose nationality is unknown, is popular among young people. The only thing he doesn't know about Tokyo-to is how to fill out an income tax form, and he has all the behind-the-scenes information. There are many mysteries about his existence.[note 1]
Manuals[]
JSR (JP)/De La JSR:身長185cm、黒人。トーキョーのストリートを中心に、クールでノンジャンル、ノンストップでゲリラ的に電波を乗っ取って音楽をかけまくる、海賊ラジオ放送“ジェットセットラジオ”のカリスマ的DJ。トーキョー在住13年、スーパーアフロドレッドヘヤーがシンボル。国籍不明の毒舌ラップ、クレイジーDJプレイが若者に支持されている。トーキョーについて知らないことはなく、裏情報までもすべて握っている。彼の存在については謎が多い。[5][6]
JGR:Height: 6'1". At the center of Tokyo-to street culture is Professor K, a superstar DJ spinning a mix of non-stop tunes from all genres on the pirate radio station, "Jet Grind Radio." He's lived in Tokyo-to for 13 years and is known by his super funky afro dreads. There's nothing he doesn't know about Tokyo-to. But there's a lot not known about him.[1]
EN: He is the charismatic DJ of the pirate radio broadcast, "Jet Set Radio", which plays non-genre, non-stop, guerrilla-style music by hijacking the airwaves on the streets of Tokyo. He has lived in Tokyo for 13 years and has super afro dreadlocks as his symbol. His tongue-in-cheek raps and crazy DJ play of unknown nationality is popular among young people. There is nothing he doesn't know about Tokyo, and he knows everything there is to know about the city. There is much about him that is a mystery.[note 1]
Jamaican born and New York raised, Prof. K fled out to Tokyo after the FBI put out a warrant for his arrest a year ago. DJ Prof. K was running an illegal pirate radio station in the South Bronx playing underground Hip-Hop and Dancehall Reggae. DJ Prof. K is the man; he plays the latest underground tracks to the Rudies on the streets of Tokyo. DJ Prof. K regularly organizes graffiti competitions for all the Rudies and has one goal; to turn Tokyo into one big dancehall.[2]
Other appearances[]
Sega Superstars Tennis[]
DJ-K's appearance on the tennis court.
In Sega Superstars Tennis, DJ Professor K appears as a spectator on the Jet Set Radio court, DJ'ing as Tab and Piranha stand next to him. Beat also has a voice-line telling Professor K to "spin the beat".
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed[]
DJ-K's cameo on the Graffiti City track.
In Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, DJ Professor K can be seen standing in the background of the Graffiti City stage. He cameos alongside with the Jet Set Radio Future iterations of Yoyo, Rhyth, and Cube and the S.W.A.T. Team from JSR. True to the games he comes from, he commentates on the races on this stage, using lines from Jet Set Radio Future, mainly from the Death Ball chapter, as the player progresses through the track. He also appears on an unlockable sticker.
Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls[]
DJ-K's cameo appearance in "Broken Jet Set Radio".
In Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls, DJ Professor K, alongside Beat, Gum, and Corn, makes a cameo appearance in the Jet Set Radio focused episode, "Broken Jet Set Radio". DJ-K appears via archival footage of the opening cutscene from the game.
Sega Heroes[]
DJ Professor K appeared as a blue legendary hero in Sega Heroes. He was released to the game on October 15th, 2018, alongside Beat, Gum, and Captain Onishima.
Roller Champions[]
In Roller Champions, DJ Professor K makes an appearance via a promotional JSR art piece that was featured on a bus, outside of the Jet Set Radio Park.
In the data files for Jet Set Radio, Professor K has more associated files than any character, including several outtakes/alternate recordings of lines in the finished game. Interestingly, two of the voice clips (one in Japanese, one in English) are reminiscent of a freestyle rap.
Parts of this freestyle were included in the GBA release of Jet Set Radio.
Anytime the player completes a tag with DJ-K in the GBA version of Jet Set Radio, he will always shout "Jet Set Radio!!".
On the soundtrack release for Jet Set Radio, DJ Professor K is credited as a featured artist on track 16, "Jet Set Station", by Toronto.
According to the Japanese JSR site, the only thing in Tokyo-to he doesn't know is how to do is fill an income tax form.[4]
Although his profile in the JSR Perfect Guidebook contradicts this by saying "he knows everything to know about the city".
On the official Japanese website for JSR, it is revealed that DJ-K has a friend known as "Brother Q". Brother Q is not mentioned anywhere in the game or guides and manuals for JSR, but did provide updates to fans about the game's upcoming international release and eventually the launch of the JSRF website.
Similar to some characters, DJ Professor K's artwork differs from his appearance in game. The "K" tattoo on his forehead is a solid red color in his artwork, while on his model it appears yellow with a red outline. Professor K also has a "DJ" tattoo on his left arm in his artwork that is not present on his model. The two rings featured on K's hand in the artwork do not appear, as only one ring is present on both hands, additionally the blue bracelet is also absent from his model. However, the nose-ring that appears on DJ K's model is exclusive to it as it does not appear in his artwork.
Just like Garam, Yo-Yo and Goji, DJ-K does not have any eye textures behind his sunglasses.
In an interview with Ryuta Ueda, he would reveal that DJ K is a storyteller who reveals that the events in Jet Set Radio are a fantasy, not set in reality.[9]
