Steve Poindexter (born 1965) is an American house producer and DJ.
His father was a jazz drummer and his mother was a backup singer for Mahalia Jackson.
[1] In 1975, at the age of ten, Poindexter started DJing for Saturday night parties held at Mendel High School on the South Side of Chicago.
[2] Inspired by Jesse Saunders' "On and On", Poindexter and his cousin John Hunt started experimenting with drum machines and began creating edits to play at parties.
[1] The title track, built on the Casio RZ-1 drum machine[1] and featuring Poindexter's repeated "work that motherfucker" vocal sample, is considered to be an iconic ghetto house track[2] and hugely influential on the genre.