DJ Saucy P (Brandon Daniels)

DJ Saucy P, born Brandon Daniels, was a Jersey club producer and dancer from Newark, New Jersey, who died on November 12, 2026. He was widely regarded as one of the genre's dependable, longstanding contributors, a figure whose name appeared on dozens of tracks that circulated through New Jersey and New York dance floors over nearly two decades.

He came up through dance before he came up through music. As a child he loved to dance, and by his early teens he had founded his own crew, Strictly Business, which competed and performed across the New York tri-state area. It was while making beats for his own dancers that he began producing in earnest, a path that mirrors how Jersey club itself grew out of Newark's dance and party scene in the early 2000s.

His breakthrough came in 2010, when he produced the DJ Frosty track Ride That Wave, a record that featured Fatman Scoop, DJ Webstar, Smooth and Young B and became one of the most played Jersey club records on tri-state radio and beyond. He also produced Chad B's Hit It, another early and influential entry in the fusion of Jersey club and rap. Over the following years he worked with a wide range of artists associated with the scene, including Lumidee, Jason Fox, DJ Lilman and DJ Difficult, and he became an early member of the collective TNMG. His catalogue, spread across Jersey club remixes, original productions and collaborations, kept him a steady and recognizable presence in a genre that has only grown in reach since its Newark origins.

DJ Saucy P mattered because he was one of the people who kept Jersey club moving forward after its first wave of recognition, turning out tracks year after year and working with both scene veterans and newer artists. People in the dance and club community knew him as a reliable collaborator and a mentor figure to younger producers, someone who had lived the culture from the dance floor up rather than arriving at it from outside.

His death was confirmed by Resident Advisor on November 12, 2026, after a source close to Daniels verified his passing. No cause of death has been made public. Tributes followed quickly from friends, family and fellow artists, with one friend describing him on Facebook as having a heart of gold and someone who got to live out his dreams through music, and fellow artist Niamoni Chanel saying she was proud to have made music with him for so many years. As of this writing, no details of a funeral or memorial service have been announced.