DJ Maj has written original compositions in the past, but on The Ringleader, his third disc, a significant portion of his time is committed to newly-written and performed music.

Maj contributes songs of his own on "God Music," "Attack," "Under Pressure," and the title track, occasionally even taking the microphone himself, showing off a different side of his many talents. But turntable fans need not worry, you'll still find plenty to satisfy on this twenty-one track disc. As usual, Maj takes familiar tracks by artists like 4th Avenue Jones, L.A. Symphony, tobyMac, Sev Statik, and more, and puts his virtuoso spin on them all. The creativity he shows in melding new rhythms into existing songs is almost always just as interesting as the original versions.

The truth is, the mixtape is a phenomenon wholly unique to hip-hop music. No other genre has anything similar or equivalent. It's not about recycling old music, it's about highlight the things about a song that already worked and breathing new life into it, it's about making a song danceable in a new, different, and possibly better way, and it's an integral, distinctive piece of hip-hop culture. As such, the mixtape albums of DJ Maj are part hip-hop WOW collections, and part positive propaganda for Christian hip-hop.

Under those terms, The Ringleader has its pulse right on where hip-hop is at and where it's going.