Prairie View A&M University graduate student DJ Elevated joined several HBCU DJ’s at last week’s Houston Hip-Hop Conference, and claimed top honors at the conference’s culminating event, the 2012 College DJ Battle.

The event, which featured prominent local DJ’s and members of Houston’s famous Screwed Up Click as judges, pitted DJ Burn and DJ Bluetooth of Texas Southern University; DJ Elevated and  DJ General Mealz of Grambling State University as the competition’s HBCU-affiliated artists.

Elevated received the competition’s DJ Screw Legend Award.