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==Early life== Richard Quitevis was born on October 7, 1969, to [[Filipinos|Filipino]] immigrant parents hailing from [[Bacolod]], [[Negros Occidental]] and [[Ilocos Sur]].<ref>{{cite web |title=DJ Qbert: Musician of the world |url= https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/music/dj-qbert-musician-world |website=[[Rappler]] |last=Imbong |first=Peter |date=December 21, 2013}}</ref> Growing up in [[San Francisco]]'s [[Excelsior District]] on Moscow Street, he graduated from Luther Burbank Middle School and in 1987 from [[Balboa High School (San Francisco)|Balboa High School]].<ref name="CHONIN"> {{Cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/01/PK84287.DTL| title=A Dilly of a Career / The Bay Area's Invisibl Skratch Piklz have become world stars of turntablism| access-date=April 10, 2007| date=November 1, 1998| last=Chonin| first=Neva| work=San Francisco Chronicle}} </ref><ref name="DELEON"> {{cite web |url=http://www.thudrumble.com/images/headlines/RuckusMagazineArticle.pdf |title=Get on your P's and Q's : Ten Things You Don't Know About QBERT |access-date=April 10, 2007 |publisher=www.ruckusmag.com |year=2005 |author=de Leon, Krishtine |work=Ruckus - Bay Area Rap Culture: July/August 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929002826/http://www.thudrumble.com/images/headlines/RuckusMagazineArticle.pdf |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |url-status=dead }} </ref> Qbert started playing with [[gramophone record|records]] at the age of 15, although he got his first [[Fisher-Price]] turntable as a toddler. He was influenced by the street performers and graffiti artists of the local hip hop community in the mid-1980s. It was at Balboa's school cafeteria that he first met [[Mix Master Mike]] in a DJ battle; the two have been good friends ever since.<ref name="BANJOKO"> {{cite web| url=http://www.lyricalswords.com/articles/mixmastermike.html| title=The Trigger Man: Face to Face with Mix Master Mike| last=Banjoko| first=Adisa| access-date=April 10, 2007 | quote=(Mix Master Mike): In a cafeteria lunchroom, at Balboa High School in San Francisco, CA. Then we battled again in Stockton, CA. He won in Stockton. I won at Balboa.}}</ref>
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