DJ Cyber

DJ Cyber is one of the Big 3 writers of New Amsterdam and the leader of FUTURISM. His actions early in the game lead to the Bomb Rush Crew questioning his motivations and involvement with the rest of the Big 3.
== Role in the Story ==
Before seeing DJ Cyber in person, Tryce and Faux pass by a police cell that has been slashed open from the inside, plus additional damage being done to the police bureau. Said damage is to the point where there’s even a hole in the roof. Given the DJ’s weapons of choice are dangerously sharp vinyl records, it’s implied that this was all caused by him.
Later on, right after the boss fight with Rietveld. Tryce and Faux get onto the roof to escape the bureau, passing by DJ Cyber along the way. The DJ himself seems to have been fighting off the police that were surrounding him, even managing to grab one of the cops by the head and drop him to the side.
As Tryce and Faux continue their escape, DJ Cyber readies one of his records. He throws it at them, thus decapitating Faux right after he jumps off the rooftop. Tryce turns to look at the DJ as he and what’s left of Faux fall into a canal down below.
Once Tryce is back at the Bomb Rush Crew’s hideout and Red has been brought up to speed, Tryce explains what he thinks DJ Cyber’s deal is in all of this. He states that the DJ is obsessed with how the brain works, to the point where he has a “special machine” to look into people’s minds. It’s thus implied that DJ Cyber decapitated Faux just to get another mind for his experiments. However, Tryce also describes DJ Cyber as the greatest DJ in New Amsterdam, admitting he’s still looking forward to the DJ’s next mixtape. Regardless, he thinks they can get Faux’s head back from DJ Cyber.
Bel points out that the DJ is the leader of what is currently the most powerful crew in the city, FUTURISM. Tryce concedes to this, adding on that FUTURISM recently beat the Franks in a crew battle. They thus decide to go talk to the Franks in Versum Hill, hoping to get more information on where they can find DJ Cyber.
BRC ends up having to challenge the Franks to a crew battle for more info on the DJ. However, even after BRC wins, the leader of the Franks, the Flesh Prince, still refuses to say anything. This causes FUTURISM to show up, along with DJ Cyber in his bug-like vehicle, crashing it through one of the Franks’ barricades. Given the Franks’ refusal to admit defeat for the crew battle even after the Oldheads’ judgement, DJ Cyber declares this to break the code of the street. In retribution, he decides that Versum Hill is now part of BRC’s territory from now on.
Tryce does thank DJ Cyber for helping them deal with the Franks. However, he then claims that DJ Cyber himself had broken the code of the street recently, but that he is willing to ignore it if the DJ returns Faux’s head to Red. Instead, DJ Cyber has his crew restrain Tryce and Bel. Red is almost caught, but manages to jump away. He tries to charge at the DJ, but is then restrained by Vinyl.
DJ Cyber speaks to Red directly at this point. He states that the streets are in chaos without the rule of the Big 3. He then claims that he, as one of the Big 3 himself, and FUTURISM have been able to provide order to the streets. He decides to look over Red, meaning that he has Red put into his vehicle’s dream machine. This is the “special machine” Tryce mentioned much earlier, with the DJ wanting to take a direct look at Red’s own mind.
Before activating the machine, DJ Cyber explains how cybernetics have been able to advance greatly “ever since we got robots to dream”. In particular, it’s been discovered that a human brain is easier to simulate in comparison to its body.
In the middle of the first dream stage, DJ Cyber himself appears within the dream, albeit in a gigantic form towering over Red. He tells Red that this dreamscape is a representation of his own “machine mind”, and that the DJ is here as a spectator to Red’s imagination. He further explains that dreams can only be made of things and ideas that have already been seen by the dreamer, even if the dreamer doesn’t remember them. He thus encourages Red to take a look around the dream.
Once Red is awake back in the real world, DJ Cyber gives him and the rest of the Bomb Rush Crew a challenge: If they want Faux’s head back, they need to get on his level by going All City before FUTURISM. He also mentions how FUTURISM is currently the strongest crew in the city, and that they are already getting close to going All City anyways.
Back at the hideout, Tryce questions whether DJ Cyber will actually keep his word, but Red insists that going All City means gaining enough respect as writers to force the DJ to cooperate. Tryces end up giving more backstory about DJ Cyber and the rest of the Big 3: they were a trio of legendary writers who ruled the city’s graffiti scene, working together but also competing against each other as rivals. The trio consisted of Faux, Felix, and the DJ himself. In the end, Felix was able to go All City by himself, with DJ Cyber and Faux accepting defeat.
Unfortunately, Felix was killed shortly afterwards, and Tryce thinks that Faux and DJ Cyber both know something about what exactly happened. He particularly points out that the DJ “went full-on overdrive” after Felix died, becoming far more strict about writers breaking the code of the street. DJ Cyber even started wearing Felix’s old mask at that point, which doesn’t sit right with Tryce given what happened.
Despite all that, BRC are still determined to go All City in order to beat DJ Cyber and get Faux’s head back. This leads them to challenge and beat Eclipse, DOT EXE, and Devil Theory.
The next time the DJ appears in the game, it’s just after BRC defeat Devil Theory in a crew battle on Pyramid Island. He captures Vinyl and takes her to the top of the central cylinder of the island. When the rest of BRC confront him there, DJ Cyber tells them to stay out of his business. He claims that Vinyl is a double agent, having been working with BRC behind his back. He thus punishes her by trapping her in the central cylinder, even closing the top so she can’t escape.
Red challenges the DJ to a 1v1 battle, claiming he can beat DJ Cyber in a fair fight. The DJ accepts that challenge, bringing in his vehicle for the fight. Once Red manages to defeat him, DJ Cyber takes off his mask, questioning when Red is “finally going to remember”. See his face causes Red to slip into another dream stage.
Once Red wakes back up with more of his old memories, he’s standing in front of Vinyl and DJ Cyber (with his mask back on). Red looks between the two, before eventually punching the latter hard enough to knock his mask off. The DJ admits he deserved that.
Still, DJ Cyber points out that his plan worked, and that Red finally remembers that he is actually Felix. Tryce also ends up mentioning that Vinyl was in on the whole thing, working together with the DJ to help Felix remember his real identity. They both knew Red was actually Felix, but they needed him to realize that on his own.
Although he acknowledges it’s probably hard for them to trust him now, he promises to stop using his weaponized vinyl records other than playing them on the turntables, meaning he’s on their side now. He also admits that he doesn’t actually have Faux’s head. The DJ explains that after decapitating Faux, the other writer’s head ended up in police custody. Faux was then hooked up to their Project Algo system. Faux gained the police’s trust by telling them everything he knew about the graffiti scene, and is now giving them misinformation in order to kill all other writers in the city.
Thus, DJ Cyber and Vinyl believed that they needed Felix’s help in order to stop Faux, as the DJ claims that only Felix knew about Faux’s weakness. They thus worked on their plan to help Felix recover and remember everything that happened. Although Red admits he still doesn’t remember Faux’s weakness, BRC are still willing to try and go All City if it means helping Red remember that weakness and stop Faux for good.
Despite DJ Cyber being on BRC’s side now, they still need to formally beat FUTURISM and gain control of Mataan themselves, as per the code of the street. Once they do that, DJ Cyber shows up in the main plaza of Mataan, acknowledging that they’ve managed to claim all five boroughs of the city. He asks if Red still wants “his” head back, but Red responds that his real head will do.
DJ Cyber then points out that something is still missing, musing over how the body is nothing without the head, and in turn the head is nothing without the mind. He suggests that Red needs to consolidate his past as Felix and his present as Red into a “future self”, and thus allows Red into his vehicle’s dream machine to try and do so.
Once Red, or rather Felix, gets through the last dream stage, DJ Cyber appears again in his mind, showing him the final piece of his missing memories: the night that Felix died. It’s thus revealed that Felix was killed by Faux, who managed to knock him off of a roof and into a ventilation fan which then decapitated the legendary writer. Fortunately for him, his body and head fell into an indoor basketball court, where DJ Cyber, the Flesh Prince, and the Franks were hanging out.
DJ Cyber finds out shortly afterwards that Faux was the one who killed Felix, which of course led to the DJ decapitating Faux at the police bureau at the start of the game. He also mentions that there was a key witness to Faux’s crime, namely Solace. Despite that, the DJ was evidently arrested by the police in connection to Felix’s death, along with Tryce. Even so, it worked out in the end, with Felix having regained his memories and now being determined to deal with Faux.
With Red Felix finished with the final dream stage, DJ Cyber is still at the plaza with the rest of BRC. Red Felix realizes that Faux is now in charge of the police force, with DJ Cyber adding that Faux is effectively Project Algo itself at this point. He again mentions how Faux is planning to kill all writers in New Amsterdam, and Red Felix responds that he knows what he has to do to stop him. Unfortunately, he’s interrupted by Faux himself, who is directly piloting a walking tank and trying to kill Devil Theory. This thus leads into a boss fight against Faux.
Even though Red Felix manages to beat him, Faux come back in a larger serpent-like tank. He manages to rip off Red Felix's head and kidnap Solace, heading further into Mataan. DJ Cyber admits that despite all their efforts to help Felix recover, Felix can’t really do anything in his current state. 
Fortunately, Rietveld arrives with Felix’s old body, allowing them to put Felix back together and go after Faux. During the last part of the final boss fight against Faux, DJ Cyber along with Tryce, Bel, and Vinyl, help keep Faux’s weakspot open, allowing Felix to finishing him off with a headbutt.
During the ending cutscene, DJ Cyber muses over how there are some things people can’t change, such as their age and roots. Despite that, people should own that kind of thing instead of trying to hide it. He states that, in the end, “what defines you is what you do with the stuff you got”.
Felix manages to catch up to DJ Cyber, wanting to thank the DJ for helping him, especially with getting his old memories back. DJ Cyber points out that Felix did most of the work himself. He then warns Felix not to assume that he’ll stay All City forever, claiming that their rivalry isn’t over.
==Boss Fight==
DJ Cyber is fought on Pyramid Island, after Red challenges him to a one-on-one fight. The fight starts off on one of the higher floors of the island, specifically the floor with access to the very top of the central cylinder. Here, the DJ rides around in his vehicle, occasionally stopping to throw vinyls at Red. These vinyl will of course damage Red if they land.
In order to hit him in this stage of the fight, you have to knock the vinyls back at him by hitting them back yourself. However, the timing to hit them back can be hard to get the hang of. It is recommended that, once DJ Cyber stops to throw vinyls at you, you dodge two of them and then try to knock the third one back. You can still hit them back while on your movestyle ride, but it is recommended to be on your feet instead just to make the timing a bit easier.
Once he's hit, he'll be stunned for a bit, so take the opportunity to go up and hit him directly. After hitting him three times like this, he will move down one floor, to the one with sliding paths around the bottom part of the central cylinder.
During this second stage of the fight, DJ Cyber will ride around the floor in his vehicle, dropping mines that will explode either after a certain amount of time or if the player runs into them. DJ's vehicle is also capable of crawling along the ceiling in certain parts of this floor.
To reach and hit him, either use your movestyle ride or slide along the sliding paths in order to catch up to DJ's vehicle. Once you get close enough, the DJ will stop to throw more vinyls at you. When this happens, you have to do the same as the previous stage and knock one of the vinyls back at him. After about three more hits, DJ Cyber will finally admit defeat.
== How to Unlock == 
Once you've reached the postgame, DJ Cyber can be found on top of the tall tower in the middle of Millennium Square. You will need to use the billboards around the tower to get to the top. There, DJ Cyber will challenge you to beat his high score in the area, which is only 1 million.
However, it can still be tricky to beat that score. Multipliers in this area can be hard to reach on one combo if you're not careful. Even then, the square overall has less multipliers to get due to being much small than the other boroughs. At the least, you have 5 minutes to get the score, which should be plenty of time.
Once you've beaten his score, DJ Cyber will be impressed and agrees to hang out with BRC, becoming playable from then on.
==Gallery==
DJ Cyber Gallery	
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File:Dj cyber concept art.jpg|Concept Art by Dion Koster https://x.com/DionKoster/status/952228534705106945?s=20
File:Futurism dj cyber vehicle.jpg|Concept Art of DJ Cyber's vehicle by Snafaman https://x.com/snafaman/status/1694812639275225447?s=20
File:Promo art.jpg|Promo art featuring DJ Cyber and Red by Tan Zhi Hui https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rJdvZa
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File:DJCyberVehicleTexture.png|Texture file for DJ Cyber's vehicle
File:DJCyberBloodTexture.png|Texture file for when DJ Cyber's mask is covered in blood
File:DJCyberSpringTexture.png|Texture file for DJ Cyber's Spring palette
File:DJCyberSummerTexture.png|Texture file for DJ Cyber's Summer palette
File:DJCyberAutumnTexture.png|Texture file for DJ Cyber's Autumn palette
File:DJCyberWinterTexture.png|Texture file for DJ Cyber's Winter palette	
==Trivia==
* He shares the same voice actor as Tryce and The Franks, YAPICO, who also created some of the in-game graffiti for BRC.
* DJ Cyber shares the same S Graffiti as FUTURISM, due to him being their leader.
* After beating DJ Cyber in his boss fight, he appears in the game without his mask, headphones, and the vinyls in his arms. He still looks like this when you talk to him in Millennium Square in the postgame. However, once he's playable, his appearance goes back to him wearing his accessories. Thus, you can't play as him without those accessories outside of using mods.
* DJ Cyber's texture files and main model are labeled with just "dj". He has a separate model for when he's not wearing his mask, called "DJNoMask".
* thumb|"HOLY!"In one of his lines, DJ Cyber shouts "HOLY!". His voice actor YAPICO clarified during a stream that this is slang from Toronto, where he's from. He admits he wasn't expecting that particular line to make it into the game, since it was very late into his recording session for DJ Cyber's lines.https://twitter.com/yap1co/status/1694183691478565171 (Archive Link)
==References==
Category:Rival Crews
Category:Bosses
Category:The Big 3