Episode 357 | Becoming The World's DJ (w/ D-Nice) - New Rory & MAL

Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
All Right, Rory today is as one of those days, yeah,
where we are privileged and honored to be joined by
somebody who I think we both have an immense amount
of respect for me personally.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
This gentleman today is one of the reasons that I
think I fell in love with hip hop. I found
hip hop being from the Bronx. His name was like,
you know, a god in my city and growing up
in Ford and Row and crushing in the Bronx.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Today we are joined with legendary DJ, producer, photographer, rapper, rapper,
the human t r A oh a he on this
think I know that legendary DJ D nice man like
this is like.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh when he walked in and said, you know, thank
thank you guys for having me, I was like, no,
thank you, this is this.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Is this is uh And I was just telling you
off camera. I remember running home from school, uh, just
so I could catch self destruction on video music box
growing up man, And that was like one of the
reasons that I think I fell in love with hip
hop growing up in the Bronx. To see all of
those artists together on TV at such a young age
and everybody representing the culture in the city to me

(01:20):
was legendary and a dope cameo one of my favorite movies,
I'm going to Get You sucking man, that was you
know what I'm saying. That's like a legendary, legendary movie.
So yeah, we're honest to have you here today, and
we just want to nerd out man, like we just
want to.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
When I was walking in the building and turned around
and saw you, I fanned out for a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Like they don't We're not doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
It's the truth. It's like, I think that's probably why
I'm still here in part of the culture, because I
don't lose the spirit of like of just honesty, you
know what I mean. Like I see people, I'm like,
oh yo, what's up. I look at you the same way.
I feel the same way for I ran into Like
Barrock is someone you know. It's like people you reminder
people were doing great things, but sometimes you see them

(02:05):
from as far as my first time, like really like
really me and you guys.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
You know, I've been at a few parties you DJ,
but never had the opportunity to walk over and shake in.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I got I gazed from g A Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, No,
those are some of my favorite parties in Brooklyn that
you were doing at one time that I would we
would just stareldn't even we were just in awe didn't
even dance.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Was just like, this is the best DJ set I've
ever seen. Yeah, it's incredible. They've been like quite I
mean even for me where I'm like, you could you
could tell when you're in that zone. My favorite parties
happen to be when I'm rocking with other people, you know,
like when when I would rock with Stretcher, Armstrong, Rich Mandina,
you know, Clark can God bless his dad, you know,
Tony Touch, when we all do back to back sets,

(02:49):
or just someone who I know loves music and we
don't have a set, We just play what we feel
based on who's in front of us. Those are always
like the best sets to me.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, we rarely do this style of interviews where we
do like the life story shit, But Mo and I
were both like, now we have to start at the beginning. Yes, said,
you've seen this entire thing happen that we all fell
in love with, Like, yeah, where does it start with you?
Kris Scott Larrock BDP in general Man it starts.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
So Dave Chappelle was one of my friends. And one
day I was sitting with him and three guys from
day La, you know, peaceful always to Dave from Dayla,
and we were just talking and he asked me. He
was like, Yo, just random question. I never thought about this.
How did you make cars? And I lived in the

(03:43):
Bronx on Woody Crest Avenue at the time. I'm sharing
this story with Dave, you know, living on Woodycrest Avenue,
New Yankee Stadium and my cousin's boyfriend. We all lived
together in like this tenement apartment, one bedroom. My great
grandmother I was sleeping in the living room for years,
you know. And so he was a security guard at
a men's shelter in the Bronx called Franklin Min's Shelter. So,

(04:08):
you know, at the time, I thought, you know, I mean,
I've always tried everything, so I thought it was going
to be a chef. So he asked me to bring
him some food. I brought some food over to him,
and he said, hey, I want to introduce you to someone.
And he took me into the office and introduced me
to the social worker that worked there and his you know,
Scott Sterling was his name, but at night he was
DJ scottland Rock and Scott saw me and was like, yo,

(04:32):
can you wrap? I was lying I had never written
a rap song. I was like, yo, yeah. He was like, here,
you're going to be the ll coolj of my group.
You look like that kind of vibe, like literally just
like that. And then he introduced me to Krs who
was living in the shelter at the time. And when
I shared this story with Dave Dave Chappelle, he was like, man,

(04:54):
did you hear what you just said? He said, you
walked three miles with food to feed your future. So
had I not taken that journey, I'm not here right now,
you know what I mean. Like, so yeah, man, I'm
forever grateful for those beginnings. What was your first impression
of Scott and Krus care rests? And I like, initially,
I mean, we didn't I don't want to say we

(05:14):
didn't get along. It was just like, why do we
need this young kid? You know, because they were much
not much, but they were like seven eight years older
than me. Scott was you know, I mean, he's the
reason why I love loved just the business side you know,
of not just hip hop, but just any business, just
being in control of your own destiny because he was

(05:35):
hip hop, but he was still kind of corporate. Yeah,
he was walking around with his briefcase with like pair
of Nikes on, you know what I mean. Like so he,
I mean truly was like this big brother, you know.
And and part of the reason why I've maintained this
this kind of sense of independence was because like Scott Lorock,

(05:55):
you know, like he was, he was the reason that
I'm here. So I felt like me doing this always,
like you know, reminded people of the incredible job that
he did with music and also just inspiring people. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
So I was talking to my brother hip Hop last
year and we were laughing because it was the whole
fifty year University of hip Hop a couple of years ago.
And there's been things online and a couple of videos
popping up where people are saying the actual first hip
hop party was in Brooklyn, Like somebody has a flyer
where it predates the Cool Heirk party in the Bronx.

(06:32):
It's like a party that was in Brooklyn before Cool
Heirk And they had it on Cee the Ave in
the park where do you stand on that, Like, where
do you feel like, because you obviously you were there
to see it become what it is today, where did
it start as far as you're concerned.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Well, I'm not that old too hip hop right the
very beginnings, but you know, just from my understanding, and
I also grew up near Cedric Avenue, near where he
threw that party. That's like maybe like ten streets away
from where I grew up. So I'm always going to
lean to be actual with you. You know, that else matters.

(07:12):
Even if the history is falses, there's still losses. No, no,
I believe that too.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
But it is kind of interesting to hear those things, like,
you know, because that's part of the history too, Like
if there was a party before the party I hurt did,
It's like, okay, we need to know about that.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
What was that? Like what it sound? I mean, I've
actually never heard that, But now I'm kind of interested
in like kind of going back and like doing some
research because there were DJs that I heard about. By
the way, I'm not like I wasn't deep in the
hip hop at that point. I was just deep into
the hip hop because I was I was young, you know,
thirteen fourteen. I'm trying to chasing girls, you know what

(07:47):
I'm trying. I was a kid, you know when I
got down with the group. But I did start learning
more about Grand Master Flowers and all these other people
who were from other Burroughs. But just to from what
my understand is that it was, it was all those
parties started in the Bronx with her.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
What were some of those early sessions like with Scott
and Cara, especially you being younger and lying that you
even knew.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
How to wrap. Yeah, those young sessions, I mean two things.
It could be young sessions in terms of studio or
young sessions in terms of like the shows we were
doing studio wise. It was just I was fascinated by it,
you know, like we did we produced well, I didn't
produce it. I watched Scott produce our first single South Bronx.

(08:33):
We were like in Queen's and someone's house like on the
sixteen track. Yeah, yeah, we were out there like and
that was just that was interesting to me because I
had never been in the studio. I had never like,
that wasn't my life, you know. I kind of walked
into this and that was that was fun. But by
the time, by the time when Scott passed, by the

(08:56):
time the second album started, I actually knew how to
make beats at that point because I knew how to DJ,
then I knew how to sample. I was out digging
for records because I'm a nerd dude. Like if I
anything that I'm involved in, like I literally break it apart,
like I'm not making this up. I like open it
up to see how it works, you know, and like
physically open this up, you know. And so I learned

(09:20):
how to use all of the machines, and you know,
I was doing tracks when I would go out and
find the samples for like if you know, like BDP records,
like I'm still number one, you know my philosophy. I
was mixing records, you know. Like I said, self Destruction,
I did when I was I was eighteen years old
because I just loved the music at that point and
I loved I was fascinated by by being in the

(09:42):
studio because of what I learned with Scott land Rock.
In terms of shows, man We've had, Man We've The
thing that I love most about carre Us and the
experience of hip hop was that we didn't travel the
way we travel now, you know. Now we're like, all right,
I needed first ticket. I need I'm not staying at

(10:02):
that hotel like bro we were. We were on planes
where we didn't even have money to get back, you
know what I mean, Like we were flying one way
hoping to get on back in, not even back in,
hoping to get all of the money because no one
sent the posits back then. And you know, I do
recall like the first time I was ever on a plane.
We were going to Rochester, New York for a show,

(10:24):
and it's my first time on a plane. I'm like wow,
like this is great. And when we arrived, we didn't
have a hotel room. The promoter had to stand at
his parents' house, the three of us because Scott came
with like a girl and the dude's mom was like
super religious and she saw her. She was like, you

(10:46):
guys can't stay here. She's gonna stay You're not doing it.
She came out with like holy water and started I
wish I was lying Like she started sprinkling holy water
on us, literally kicked us out of the girls reactions.
She was just looking like, you know, we're here now,
so we me scottland Rock and Caras ended up breaking

(11:09):
into like a motel six and like we had no money,
no credit cards. We broke into this joint and I
slept on the floor. No Kara slept on the floor.
Scott had the bed, and I slept on top of
the desk that was there. But we had to be
out before housekeeping came, you know. And so those early
days like that was pure hip hop to me. Yeah, absolutely,

(11:32):
what we experienced now is kind of glorious and it's great,
by the way, Like I'm not in the front, you know,
you still be here all these decades later, and the
treatment is great, But like those days were, like lady now, yeah,
the true foundation even of just our group. Man, it's
some amazing experiences.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
We'll talk about the you know, we're coming off of
one of the biggest battles last year in hip hop,
but you also being right there next to one of
the earliest, most legendary battles with MC and KRSH.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
What was the energy like And fuck y'all for bridges
over bridges over Its crazy, by the way, As someone
who listen, I don't I'm not trying to say that
I'm an expert on battle hip hop. I actually loved
the Drake and I love this Drake Kendrick vibe that
was going on. You know, I hate to see where

(12:21):
it ended up. I don't I don't agree with lawsuits
and all that. I mean, like, to me, battling with
all is fair, you know what I mean? Because I
came from that generation of KRS and Shan and Cool
Mo d In Ll and you know LL and Shan,
like that's what we saw, you know what I mean,
Like that was a part of it was like sparring.

(12:43):
You know. I was never a great lyricist. I literally
every song that I ever released were my only lyrics.
Like so, I wasn't that kind of MC and never
tried to be. It was never battling anyone, but to
be in the presence of KRS and to watch him,
it was just it was just because like I said earlier,
I'm still a fan no matter what, even if I

(13:05):
like even being in the group, I'm still a fan.
And it was just magical, like like wow, like you know,
but I also it was also magical watching Shan because
I was a fan of Shan and like to being
a party. I remember being in this party Bridges over
was out. I was in the party in the Bronx
on Tremont Avenue by myself because I would always roll alone.

(13:27):
And I watched Shan and the Juice Crew walk in
and the way they were walking, like the swaggerness was
like crazy, and Shane with the Rumma bands on his
pants and walking with his Kingo on and it was
like with baling these dudes, like see, it felt like
BDP was much bigger than it was. It was really
like three of us, but the Juice Crew was like

(13:50):
seventeen of them year. Yeah, but it was just it
was just so dope to see, man, and I do
kind of miss that energy of like hip hop man.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah, I mean because we do have some young listeners.
How did the Kris and Shan beef even start? Well,
battle let me not say beef.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, you know, I don't. I don't really you know
from my understanding, because it happened before I was a
part of the group. I do remember Karas saying that,
you know, there's a legendary DJ, mister Magic Radio DJ,
who you know, was a part of the Juice Crew.
I think he was like one of the owners of
the Juice Crew that Scott Lorock went to playing a demo.

(14:25):
I know it's gonna be different stories about all of this,
but just this is just what I remember that. You know,
they laughed at the demo like now get out of
his trash, you know, and and that kind of like
sparked the beef, you know, and like Karras has something
to proved and he did it though. I was like
in a major way.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, yeah, you know what was his energy like in
that session creating Bridges Over?

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Ah, that's funny. I was only in there for South Bronx.
The Bridge Is Over is a funny session because I
went over to Scott's house the next day. I didn't
even know they were in the studio the night before,
and Scott was it was like listen, yo, here's our
new record. And then he played the Bridges Over and
I was like whoa because it was just raw hip hop. Yeah,

(15:08):
you know, no one was like really singing on these records.
No one was really like I mean kr Us, you
know I know her and you know he's Jamaican, but
a lot of people weren't really doing like just kind
of like infusing like like you know, reggae music like
hip hop. So like that baseline is like, I think
that's like old like super Cat or something like that.

(15:30):
Boops and like, but nobody was like really doing it
like that, you know, so like to to hear that
record for the first time, I was, like I said,
I was like a fan even though I was in
a group. I was like, Yo, this this is incredible, incredible.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
What what was life like when South Bronx drops, Like
outside of being local local celebrities probably, but South Bronx
I think probably took it way more global.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Nah, it actually didn't. It's funny, man Like for me,
the excitement was I lived in the Bronx on the
fifth floor walk up, and you know, the first time
it was on the radio, I was I was in
front of my like in front of the building on
the stoop, and I just remember my cousin, Like my
cousin she just opened the window and yelled out, they're

(16:17):
playing your song on the radio. Like I didn't, you know,
like that feeling. I will never forget that moment like that,
that was just like one of those moments you see
in movies where it's like that was the That was
the event that just sparked everything in terms of like
one day biz Marquee. When I started DJing, Biz said

(16:38):
something to me, and he said, you know what will
make you a great DJ is when you go into
these towns and you also recognize the local hit records.
He was like, because remember nobody beats to Biz in
South Bronx. Those were those were local records and I
never thought about that, was right, Those were like really

(16:58):
local hits. You know. You know, the first BDP album,
Criminal Minded, is a classic, but to the core of it,
it was really like an East Coast record, you know,
and so like i't we didn't have that kind of
global success until the second album came out by all
means necessary, and you know then when I had my
solo projects, you know, that was different. Hip hop was different,

(17:19):
and we had more radio play. But yeah, those were
like local records.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
What was the photo shoot like for Criminal Minded? Because
one of the most iconic SO covers is hard work
in general.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
So I was a straight up hood kid like and
I didn't want to do anything but self drugs. I
wanted to be that dude. I wanted to be in
the streets. And Scott Larrock said to me, Yo, if
you don't get your shit straight, you can't be in
this group. So and I was like, man, fuck this group.

(17:54):
I'm out here, I'm hanging with my boys. I'm doing
this and he was dead serious. So that photo shoot,
I wasn't not there because I was like, I don't
want to be a part of this, you know. And
it wasn't until like, because I didn't grow up with
a father, you know, like you know, around me anything,
it was just all women. And then I was in
the hood. I was trying to figure out how to
get out of the hood. So that was the first

(18:15):
moment of me realizing how someone really cared about your
well being, you know, which kind of like that's why
I lived my life the way that I do now,
because if I didn't have those conversations with him, I
wouldn't have been here now. I will say this about
the album cover that I do know. The album cover
was shot when we were on this record company called

(18:36):
rock Candy Records. So the album cover that you're looking
at that same desk by day daytime, they were also
shooting porns on top of that desk. A lot of
sex scenes going on on that desk.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
It's like when we stay in the when we stay
in the manjoh In La. I'm like, I've seen this
porn thing before. Why do we keep saying in this hotel?

Speaker 1 (18:56):
I don't think you ever look at that album? Yeah, okay,
it's wild, bro.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Maul I am here to talk to you and all
of the artists out there about our guys over at
distro Kid. Distro Kid makes music distribution super easy and
they never take a cut of your royalties, which to
me is probably the most important thing, especially for the
up and coming artists. It's the easiest way to get
your music into all the streaming services and stores like Spotify, YouTube,

(19:26):
Apple Music, as well as social platforms like TikTok and Instagram.
That's like one of the toughest things, I feel like
for up and coming artists, how do I even get
my stuff on DSPs? Distro Kid distribute your music to
over one hundred and fifty stores worldwide. Maul I have
been releasing music over I don't know how many years,
whether it be my stuff or people I'm working with.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Distro Kid is.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Like the first step when it comes to figuring out
what you need to do to get it out to
the world.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Without this step, nothing even really matters your.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Distric Kid membership also comes with a ton of free
products and features to help you promote your music. Starting
at twenty two ninety nine, you can upload and distribute
as much music as possible and keep one hundred of
your royalties.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
I like the sound of that royal.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Keeping one hundred percent of your royalties is definitely a
selling point. Sign up at district kid dot com.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Click our link in the description down below for ten
percent off your subscription.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Why did you Why did you stop rapping? Because my
name is d Nice was a was a joint? Yeah? So?
And did you write all of it? Yeah? I wrote.
I wrote everything except for part of the first verse
of that song. Kars was the one who was I
was going to say it kind of sound like a KRS. Yo,
you gotta flow like this, Okay. That song wasn't really
supposed to come out. I kind of have an accidental career.

(20:46):
I did that track the beat for it. I did
that in this song I'm Still number one at the
same time, and I played them both for KRS and
he chose I'm still number one beat. He's like, Yo,
this is crazy, I need that. And then I was
giving that other beat to kid Rock because I got
him signed to Jive and we're trying to figure out, like,

(21:07):
well what because I also was like writing songs for
kid rock because at that point I was like a writer.
I wasn't like an incredible lyrics but like I knew
how to write, and I wrote two songs on his
first album, but that beat was I was giving it
to him and I was like, now you could just
rhyme like this, and I went in and recorded that

(21:28):
and then actually when I heard it, I was like, oh,
this is actually kind of dope, and then we just
kept it. I wasn't supposed to have a record out,
but I did. The crazy went up to the radio
station and played the record for Red Alert and then
he went to the program the director and let him
hear it, and then they put it on rotation. I
didn't even have a release day, which was different back then.
Like now you can just go in the studio, send

(21:50):
anyone your MP three and then you're good. But then
you have to be in the system, and you needed
like a four month kind of like lead time in
order to get the you can't even get it pressed up.
So I kind of went against that. And then because
the record became a hit in New York. My career
kind of like was kind of forced on job, so
they had to put it out. The reason why I

(22:13):
didn't have you know, my my career was kind of
short in hip hop as a solo artist was hip
hop started to shift. I was in this business for
five years since I was a kid at that point.
Now everything is now it's Park and now it's Biggie
and bad Boy, and everyone had their cruise and I

(22:33):
wasn't really a part of anyone's anyone's crew. I was
just d nice out on my own and you know
for jib for you know, signed a job at the time.
You know, we just we started to clash. You know.
I wanted to continue making the kind of music that
I wanted. They didn't want to go in that direction,
and I couldn't. You know, at that time, those those

(22:55):
deals were like iron clad joints, you know, like so
they shelved me, so I didn't. That's why I was saying,
like earlier about when the clapping stops, like what do
you do? But no matter what kind of look back
at life, like, I'm not here right now. If they
didn't do that, you know, I still I could have
still been trying to shop a demo. I could have

(23:15):
still been trying to be hip hop, and hey, no
knocking anyone that's been in the game for a while.
But I could have just been an old school rapper.
But because I you know, I was kind of forced
to figure out how to live and how to you know,
I didn't have money at that point. We weren't really
making a lot of money in hip hop then, you
know what I mean, like, you know, one hundred grand

(23:36):
for the year, but you have no shows, you have
no records, and there's no income. So I had to
sit back for like seven or eight years trying to
figure out life, you know, and and fell in love
with photography and web development and I started. I started
a company called called United Camps with about five hundred dollars.

(23:59):
Picked the Motown is my first client, and I was
building websites. Most people didn't even know that. So like
Diary Alicia Keys, I built that Wow Crazy Tyree's first album,
his his website, you know, Annie Lennox, Boys, the Men
at and t. I was just working on everyone's website,
which is how I was able to change my life.

(24:21):
You know, did they know d Nice was making their website. Nah, no,
they didn't know. The The funny thing is I was
not trying to be d nice, so I did. I
did the g Unit sneaker right. So I was doing
online marketing with through Violator because Chris loved Chris Light.

(24:42):
He loved what I was doing. Rest a piece to Chris,
and he brought me in to build the Violator website.
So I did that site, and then he brought me
in to do to help them with online marketing for
the g Un issue because that was early online marketing days.
And I was sitting in this meeting with Chris and
east Out and Paul Fireman who started reboking like his team.

(25:04):
And then this now I was anti d Nights. I
was Derek Jones. This was I was ten years removed
from hip hop and I hated hip hop. I hated
the business. I was like, yeah, this is terrible man
to treat people. But what made me fall in love
with it again was the current Rebox CEO, Todd Krinsky

(25:25):
walked into the meeting and he walked around the table
said hello to everyone, and when he got to me,
he didn't say hello, He just stood there. So I
stood up like, hey, I'm Derek Jones. And then they
all laughed because they all in on it, and he
said he was like, hey, man, he said, graduated from
Boston you and I wrote my thesis on song from
your first album, song called a Few Dollars More on

(25:45):
my first solo album Wow, and that in that moment,
I was like, holy shit, Like my mind, you know,
the will's are always turning. I was like, Yo, all
these years I've been running away from d nice but
that's the biggest asset that I have because the music
that we all listen to when we're in school, those

(26:06):
are the songs that really define your life. And like
I was at that point in my life where wasn't
a lot of hip hop then. And if you made
it the ll Cool J's, Kumo d Public Enemy, you
were special. It wasn't like a one hit thing like
we were like literally we were a part of someone's
life and these people are now vps and CEOs, and

(26:27):
I was like, yo, I need to do it. After
I thought about that in that meeting, I was like, man,
I should do like afterwork mixers, like throw parties to
just get the people to come out to like yo.
And then you know, try to work it that way
just so I could get more business as a web developer.
I couldn't find a DJ, so I started playing the

(26:51):
music myself. That's crazy, and then became like obsessed with it,
like really obsessed with it, Like yo, I mean nobody
open format wasn't a thing then, you know what I mean,
Like you either played hip hop or you played I
mean EDM wasn't really a thing either. But you either
played hip hop or you played pop music, or you
played classics like q Tip, you know, and Mark Ronson.

(27:15):
But nobody was like really playing like everything like that
or I don't want to say no one, but you know,
not the places that I was going to, it was
very limited. And I went to I became obsessed with it,
and I went to and I wasn't really DJing like that.
I went to a party. Q Tip invited me to
a party because no one was inviting me out, no

(27:35):
one because I wasn't I wasn't hot on the scene
and they didn't know what I was doing. But Tip
invited me to a party where he and Mark Ronson
were playing. They had this party in New York called
Authentic Shit every Thursday night at a place called Table fifty,
and when I walked in there and I just watched them,
and I was like, holy shit, Like you could play

(27:56):
Blondie and then play brand Newdians, you can play the
old school shit. And the way it looked it was
like Tip was playing James Brown and they would go
they would play thirty minute sets. Tip and Monson Mark
would get on and Mark was playing all nineties early
nineties hip hop. I had never been to a party
like that, you know, And because of that, I really

(28:20):
became obsessed to the point where, you know, I stopped
I stopped even focusing on my web company because I
wanted to dj. I was very serious about that, and
I called Chris Lidy up one night and I told him.
I was like, bro, I think I think I just
wanted DJ And Chris said, are you sure you want

(28:42):
to get back in this business because these motherfuckers are
animals now? And I was like, nah, I think I
really want to do it, and he was like, all right,
I'll support you, and yeah, I just I started DJing
more and more. I would play in local clubs here
in New York, but no hip hop clubs because no
hip hop person wanted to hire me. But one dude,
one dude, this cool ass white boy, was like, yo,

(29:03):
you played rock and Roller. I was like, yeah, I
grew up in fucking eighties. Like He's like, yo, play
this party with me, And I started playing like rock
sets all night. So I kind of reversed my way
back into like hip hop clubs because I played everywhere
else but hip hop right, and yeah, man, it just
took off some of the resentment you have for the business.
Anybody think that story is fucking no. I think I've

(29:26):
sitting here like I'm listening to.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Watching a fucking movie like I like zoned out and
forgot Like that is fucking insane. The fact that DJing
started from shine to network with websites is the crazy ship.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
It's like insane, bro, this is crazy. I would have
never guessed that.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
And it also makes sense with you and Tip because
I think producers make the best DJs, like I believe
so too. They're by far dj differently than just regular DJs.
They view ship because they go through create samples everything.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Like that's literally what it is. That's that's their ship.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
The resemment in the business outside of like being shelved
and and everything that a lot of artists go through.
Did you have more resentment because of the Kid Rock situation.
I've heard the story that he told of how you
discovered him, but the fact that JIB wouldn't compensate you
or even Shelvy at that time when you brought somebody
that was one of the most profitable artists to.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Date, well it wasn't. Kid Rock wasn't profitable for Jive.
He only had one album, One Jibe, and that was
the album That Too Short and I you know, we
did the production on and then after that they dropped him,
and then he started doing independent stuff and then he
signed to Atlantic Records. I thought it was all through
Jove that no, no, no, he was so all of

(30:38):
his big albums were through Lava Lava, Jason Flomm's company.
So yeah, but listen at the end of the day, bro,
like I was playing, not physically playing, obviously I'm not
an athlete, but I was DJing ESPN Super Bowl party.
This was like maybe around ten years ago, and the
former CEO of Jive Records was there at the party

(31:03):
and was like, wow, like I hadn't seen him in forever,
you know what I mean. He's like, Yo, this is crazy.
So he watched me play this big ear. This has
nothing to do with Club Quarantine, Like you know, I
know a lot of people think I was on the
scene because of that, but I was already playing you know,
Inaugural Ball the Rock. I had already done all of
this stuff, which is why this whole journey is so beautiful.

(31:27):
But I will say this that I remember when when
Seek happened, and you know the guy I ended up
like a year after Club Quarantine, I was the music
for the Oscars, like for you know, like literally all
of the music until until they started using the live band,
which was like the second half. But for the entire
beginning of the Oscars, the infamous you know that Oscar

(31:50):
I was the music. And then that same guy who
signed me the Jive sent me in text while the
show was on and he was like, wow, whold have
ever thought this d nice at the Oscars? Yeah, you know,
and it's yeah, that's why I always.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Tell people, man like reply, did you have a petty reply?

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (32:10):
I said, I did an awful CEO. You didn't see
the talent that I had, Like you know that, you
know for sure, That's why.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
I said I can't be mad at that because you.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Know, it allowed the space and opportunity for all these
other great things to happen for your for your career.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Man, That's this is like, I don't even know what
to ask at this point.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
How did you get Let's talk about because, like you said,
you was already djaying and doing some of the hottest
parties in the city before club quarantine happened.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
But COVID happens.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
How how does d Nice become the world's DJ at
that point?

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Because that's exact exactly what you were.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Anybody during quarantine that was that had to be home
and we were on our phones. We were waiting for
d Nice to go live. Yeah, so we can just
all for a second, for an hour, to just get
away from it feel better. And how did it feel
knowing that you literally had what felt like the world

(33:21):
waiting for you.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
I was having dinner last night with one of the
guys who worked at Meta at the time, who kind
of helped, you know, me be able to do that,
which I didn't know. I knew him for years, he
was my guy, but I didn't even realize he was
over there and he saw what I was doing on
the first day I think the reason why my situation

(33:43):
worked versus what anyone else was doing was that one
I was very vulnerable, you know, like I I mean,
I was in front of this camera. You know. I
never used Instagram before. I mean used Instagram. I never
used Live before. You know, they had Paris scoping all
this craziness. I'm like, who wants to watch someone go live?
You know? And I'll tell you the crazy story about it. Was.

(34:09):
So this was March, so maybe like eight months prior
to that, I was. I was I was playing the
main stage at Essence Festival. Janet Jackson was performing. I
was the main stage DJ. And before like a day
or so before the show, so on from Facebook reached
out to me and said, hey, we got this new
feature on Facebook called Live, which I don't think I've

(34:33):
even told this story. It was like, Yo, we got
this new feature called Live. You should use it. And
I was like, well, how much you paying? And it's
like not paying anything, it's a feature. But once again
my mind was like, wait a minute. Somebody was squatting
on the name d Nice on Instagram and I knew
they own Instagram, and I was like I sent the

(34:55):
text the email back like, look, if you give me
my name on Instagram, I'll go live on on on
Facebook live, you know, when I was off of the
main stage. So two days later she said, I couldn't
promise you. I can't promise you that. But two three
days later, I opened up my IG and it no
longer said DJ d Nice and just said D Nice.

(35:16):
And I was like, yo, and I couldn't even because
the dude was blocked. He had one follower. I couldn't
even send him a message like yo, I want my name.
I mean, I am DJ D Night. I want D
Night yet. And so when that happened, I was like, yo,
I gotta go live. I went live from Essence and

(35:36):
then a few days later she emailed me and was like,
you got to see your analytics like people like you.
It's kind of interesting. And I was like, Noah, I'm good.
I didn't want to do that again. I was like
I felt crazy walking around with a phone, like yo,
you see this, yeah, because that's what I thought it
was supposed to be. Man, I didn't know eight months
later that, you know, I woke up that morning and

(35:59):
I went live on IG for the first time because
I have anything else to do. I was like, I'm
gonna go live. I wasn't DJing. I was like, yeah,
I just want to tell some hip hop stories and
then I would I went live. I would play like
the original sample to South Bronx, and then I would
tell the story about being in the studio. Then I
would play South Bronx, and I just kept seeing these
names in there. It was like all of my friends.

(36:21):
It wasn't even like I mean, there was some famous people,
you know, John Let, you know whatever, like, but it
was like really like Chuck Bone and like Jessica Rosenboom,
who used to throw all of the parties in New York.
She's in there and they're like, Yo, this is crazy. Yo, Jamille,
what are you doing in here? It was like I'm
reading these comments, but I'm telling stories and I'm playing

(36:44):
records and playing songs from my laptop. And then it
just felt good. And by the time the end of
the day, I was like wow, like that was different.
And then I did it again and it was more people,
and you know, that first day I went live with
I would be sure. First. The crazy thing is I
was calling all of my friends because I heard that
you could split the screen This was the very first

(37:05):
day I went live, called Cain, called Dougie, they were
all Kane went on, he went live with me, but
Dougie was like, man, this sounds like bullshit pit the screen.
I don't want to do this. I was like, I
don't know broat So then I hit John legend up
and then I went live with John and his daughter Lula.

(37:29):
Is it Lula Luna Luna? She was on his shoulders.
I went live with him, and then my numbers spiked
from like the three hundred. She was like six thousand people.
I'm a tech dude, so I'm like, wait, it's telling
people his followers. Now I'm obsessed with that part. I
just got to keep going live with people. And yeah,

(37:50):
in DJ Clark Camp was like you should actually DJ now.
I was like wow, he was like, you should actually DJ.
I didn't even have DJ Gearrett home. I didn't believe
in DJ at home. And then I ran out to
Guitar Center, came back home, created a flyer. Yo, I'm

(38:11):
going live. I treated it like it was a party,
and that shit changed everything. That's incredible. I mean taking
that approach, I think is made.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
A few some more ship like Clark is always Clark
is always behind some of the most iconic ship in our.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Car, and if he was here, would make sure you
knew that that was his so much. It's actually I'm like, bro,
I was already playing music live. I'm just playing it
from my laptop. I'm playing the same song. He's like,
but no, you should actually mix the records now.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
But I think that approach you took with the party
flyer to made it a party. Like in the comments,
it became a party because it was approached that that way.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
That's how it became club Quarantine. I did not create that.
It was literally people in the comments. This was before
the world knew about it. It was people by day three,
people in the comments, like Jessica's like, yo, I'm at
the door. It came like this point. And then Jay
Valentine JAYE Valentine, was like, you should stop calling it

(39:18):
homeschool because it was called homeschool because I was talking
about the samples and everything that I produced. I'm like, oh,
I educate people on hip hop. He was like, you
should not call it that. You should call it club quarantine.
And I was like, man, that sounds hot fire. And
then that's how yeah, that's that's how That's what it became.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
And people in the comments were having like full blown
conversations like they was at the bar my homegirls in
the section now like.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Bottles you had the most, Like wasn't baracking at one?
You had one? Like it was named it became.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
It got so big, it became like a marketing thing
for brands, Like you would see fucking Geico in there
trying to have their moment in the comments, like it
was a thing.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Bro. Today today marks the exact fifth anniversary of that.
So before I came here, i posted something on on IgM.
You know, I just want to just swipe in a
couple of things because my mom was actually just blown
away by how massive this thing was. And I'm like,
this is like Forbes, d Nice is breaking the Internet,

(40:22):
lifting spirits. Well, why then you switch again? D Nights
Hope hosted a lot socialistic up. Beyonce is then Oprah
is like best party one of one hundred thousand I've
ever been to. Then to get the DM from someone, hey, major, congrats.
Oprah just asked for your numbers. She wants to talk
to you. It's like then it's Mark Zuckerberg, Like Yo,

(40:42):
d Nice, just do the best I'm today. I was
sitting here like Jesus Christ, this is crazy. Look Joe
Biden stopped by d Nice and Social Distance Party. Social
distance Party. It's called here, Joe. He was six feet
away from the door. Did you talk to Obrah? I
did talk to Obra. That kind of taught me, and

(41:04):
we talked and then she interviewed me for her Apple show.
I remember that. And then and then later on in
the Quarantine she had her you know, she had the
book club and her and girl were like walking on
Oprah's property and then they went live on Instagram with me,
so talk about books while it was DJ and it
was crazy. Man. The time. I'll say this, COVID was

(41:27):
horrible for so many people, which is why I still do.
I'll go live on ig when I'm home if I'm
not doing anything or you know, I go and I'll
do my Club Quarantine live shows because the time was
like so dark, man. But the beautiful part was, you know,
we were so nice to each other, and we were creative.

(41:49):
We found ways to stay connected. Like Club Quarantine really
wasn't about the music that I was playing. It was
really about the connection that people had the community and
the community and the conversations, and that that's what was
just beautiful.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Bro, especially since it's the anniversary today, which is also crazy.
The way you were sitting in a violator and that
guy from Boston University came up and said that you
realize that that music had stuck with him as a kid.
You do realize you have that same shit with people
now with Quarantine, Like that was a moment that's going

(42:24):
to stick with us forever because it was.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
It was a fucking awful time.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
That shit brought so much joy that I don't know
if you realize that that really will stick with people
the same way South Bronxing absolutely like that.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
It will stick with people even longer, and it's more
heartfelt than a record. You know, it's just funny that
same essence, I met a woman, you know, not even
not even a flirtations situation. It was just like we
happened to be in the same hotel and the lobby
and you know, those festivals, it's just a lot of people,
and she was just nice to me and didn't exchange

(43:01):
numbers or anything. But when Club Quarantine happened, I was like, Oh,
that's the doctor oh yea. And I would always shout
out every single day it would be the same. It'd
be a lot of people in there, but I would
see like sometimes it would just be the same people
if I was here playing a nineteen hour cent mel Butnemore,
I was in there for nineteen hours and this doctor
was in there for nineteen hours. I had never seen

(43:22):
her again other than that one time until like a
year and a half in the COVID when the world
started to kind of reopen. She happened to be in
LA and she said, I know this is going to
sound crazy, do you mind if I stop by your house?
So I want to introduce you to someone. And I'm like,
stop by my house? Like that's crazy. But then I'm like,

(43:42):
wait a minute, I don't really notice person. I would
never just give someone my address, but I know she's
a doctor. And she rode with me during CQ like
every single day, and I was like, yo, you know what,
you can stop by, I'll come outside. She was like,
I really want you to meet someone. I got came
over to the house, I came out. I was like,

(44:03):
all right, I'm coming out, went out. I had my
baseball cap on She's like, no, you need to put
the other hat on. He's like, all right, cool, put
the hat on. A crazy request. So I walked over
to the car. In the back window rolls down so
I don't see a body. So I'm like, I lean
in and I see a car seat. It's like a

(44:24):
two year old kid in there, and his mom was
in the front seat. And his mom looked back and
it was like, baby, who's that? And this kid was like,
it's d nice yo. I'm almost tearing up now just
thinking about it, because that's crazy, yo. For that kid,
that's all he watched during COVID with his parents. That's

(44:45):
what they had on the screen. They were dancing all day.
And to know that you that's something like that was done,
that started in my kitchen, that brought families together and
brought communities together, is like, It's probably the highlight of
my entire career. I feel like everything that I've done

(45:06):
in my career was to lead up to a moment
like that. Because Baraco or Michelle, they weren't in there
because they just heard about d nice. I was literally
calling people, you know, because I dj' for them. Call
this one's assistant, like, hey, there's something magical happening right now,
like you just listen, you know, and you know, in
the beginning, it was kind of hard to I mean,

(45:27):
how do you tell somebody I got a party on
the phone trying to explain that like normal, that normal,
completely normal? Now, Like how do you explain that? And
like people when they saw what was happening, they took
a chance and they just came in and just changed
the world. Man, absolutely absolutely.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
I mean what were some of the responses after you
had to, you know, explain that and they experienced it.
What were those follow up phone calls? Like, even if
it wasn't celebrity related.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
Just yeah, not a phone calls, you know. You know,
there was one nameless you know that called and offered
me the morning of the twenty first, was like, Yo,
can you promote this for me? I got one hundred
thousand dollars for you, and I wouldn't do it. I
was like, it's not that I didn't need the money,

(46:18):
like who when none of us were working, you know
what I mean, Like I could have used one hundred
grand year. But for me, it was like there were
two things. I've always been like the side dude to
someone you know, bdp care Rest was the face he was,
he was the guy. I was not that lyricist. For

(46:39):
every DJ gig, I had to fight to be someone's
opener or to you know, or wasn't my party because
I was doing private events. So yeah, I'm playing Jay's party,
but this is Jay's party. Nobody come in here to
see me and to have that kind of career since
eighty six until a moment of March twenty first, twenty

(46:59):
twenty where people are literally coming to my ig for me,
I didn't want to promote anyone's thing. I didn't want
that to become yeah. Like, so I was very like aware,
I was like, and I said this to that person.
I was like, bro, there's the first time in my
whole career that this is actually for me, man. And
then I didn't want to promote anything. People were hurting. Yeah,

(47:20):
you know, so that when this thing exploded on the
twenty first, two o'clock in the morning, that that person
called me and was like, wow, congratulate you made the
right decision. You just became one of the biggest DJs
in the world. Incredible, and I'm glad I stuck with that,
you know, And yeah, Man, it's a great feeling.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
I'm sure that came from the decades of having to
reinvent yourself, going through bullshit business.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Knowing would it's like to be broke and go.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
I could use this hunter K, but I know it's
not going to make sense for the bigger picture here before.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
I could skip over this. Yeah, that's that's beautiful, man.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Talk about because you sold out some of the most
iconic rooms DJ and Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center. What is
that like as a DJ from a guy from the
Bronx that you know, grew up in this culture and
to where you are today. What is it like to
be in those rooms where, honestly, you know, our culture

(48:25):
hip hop is really not maybe accepted in those rooms
all the time, Like nobody has really ever had a
hip hop concert at Carnegie Hall Lincoln Center, Like, so
what is it like for d Nice to be in
these rooms bringing hip hop culture?

Speaker 1 (48:39):
I mean it's yeah, I always think about that kid
from the Bronx, you know, like I never imagine selling
out the Hollywood Bowl as a DJ, even before I
even mentioned anyone that's going to be a special guest,
you know, sold that place out in four days. You know,
Carnegie Hall sold out Carnegie Hall twice I played it.
I played it three times twice just as much show

(49:00):
and then once I played and sold out. But I
was a part of like Jerry Seinfeld and like and
Kevin Hart, like it was a whole collective and that
was great. But like to be able to to play
like these iconic stages in from hip hop, but also
respecting those stages. So like I sold out like Kenney
sent to Opera House, like I just sold it out

(49:22):
in January, but like that was like my third sellout
you know where I rock with an orchestra, you know.
So it's not like my thing was like if if
they're gonna let me on these stages, I got to
bring something different, you know. You know I don't I
don't want to just be a DJ up there and
just take all of the money. I want to invest

(49:42):
back into my show and to do something different with this.
So you know, I remember I called too Short up
and I was like, bro, I'm playing no. This is
the one I called Jada kiss hit Jada up because
it was it was too short was the Kennedy Center,
Jada was Carnegie Hall, and I I was like, yo,
I'm playing Carnegie. He was the first person that I

(50:04):
hit up. And it wasn't based on like knock yourself
out or any It was all based on were gonna
make it? Because when I stood on that stage, like
when we did the Deal and I did a venue
walk through, I was standing on that stage and at
Carnegie Hall, and I was like, yo, I made it.

(50:25):
I'm gonna bring hip hop like this to this, but
I want everybody to be fly like they had hip
hop there before. J played it, Nas played it. Mc
light was the first person to play it as a
part of a collective, but like it had only been
Jay and no like for a full show. I was like,
but there was no DJ's, like hip hop DJ none
of that. I was like, yo, I need Jada kiss

(50:47):
because of those strings. And I was like, I'm going
to I'm gonna bring the orchestra, and the woman from
Carnigie was like, wait, You're really gonna use an orchestra.
I was like yeah, absolutely, like full strings. Everything while
I'm DJing track is gonna still be playing. I'm just
gonna add the energy to it. And I told Jada
that he was like, I don't know about this. It's
like the day he came to rehearsal and we were

(51:11):
all sitting there talking. I was like, all right, yo,
let's go and I started playing a record and then
the strings came in.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Yo.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
He was like, Yo, another level. I never heard my
music like this. This is crazy. He's like, I was like, yeah,
but we all got to wear tuxedos. He brought styles
pr with him. Jada had his tongue off, but Stiles.
Stiles had a tuxedo made out of track wear. It
was flying over a draw street. He's like, yeah, I

(51:40):
had to have this maid. You know about that life.
You know, I gotta be style himself at every moment. Style.
But it's great to be able to like, not not
just as d nice, but to be able to be
someone to bring people who have never played some of
those stages you deserve to deserve that stage in their

(52:02):
own way. Come on, bro, I had to ask too short,
you know, to do. I'm like, bro, I need you
to do blow the whistle with me with the orchestraet.
I don't know how it sounds crazy like I sell
it to me. D I'm with you, but I can't
see it. Bro. Y know it was crazy crazy. It
was like He's like, I want to I just want

(52:24):
to sit in the crowd before because I had him
going on last Man. By the time he watched the
whole show E P M D. I had everybody on
this hip hop bro. I had diggable planets like everybody
with Thera with me, DJ and Man Short was like,
I ain't never seen anything like this. This is crazy.
So to be able to bring our icons and hip

(52:45):
hop on on Onto because I know, listen, I'm hip hop,
but I also know that I'm more popular culture these days,
and I respect that, but I love my hip hop
culture as well as like the producer side. So to me,
it's important to combine that, yeah, my hip hop side
to always remember, you know, like tomorrow night, I got

(53:06):
nice and Smooth Shannon stage with Melbourne More and Shirley
Jones of the Jones Girls, but I got day Lost
Soul and I have rock Kim closing, but I have
Tracy Spencer going on first with me rocking, singing tender kisses.
You would normally, normally you'd be like, yo, this shows
a little all over the place. But when you think

(53:26):
about what club Quarantine was, it was all of those
people in there. Yeah, and to have a fifth anniversary
and to not find a way that we can all
share the stage and share the love and Deborah Cox
and to be able to do that, I think it's important.
I think it's just like breaking new grounds by doing something.
Did any of the producers from those songs hit you?

(53:47):
Like did Alchemists?

Speaker 3 (53:49):
I wish there was a video of you on face
time with Alchemists when those strings were playing.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
The funny thing is it wasn't like Alchemist has been
in the live when I was DJM, But it wasn't
the hip hop producers that reached out to me. It
was Jimmy Jam. It was now Rogers. It was like
the not that you know Alchemist and then the icons
definitely icons in their own right, but like Jimmy Jam
is Jimmy Jam different and like different. Jimmy Jam is

(54:16):
in there every day and I'm playing a song. I mean,
I was playing, like you know, I'm sure y'all know
Alexander O'Neil and Charelle Saturday Love. I'm playing the song.
Jimmy's in there telling the story on when he fucked it,
Like yo, oh, we were in this studio.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
You can't pay for this type that is fucking incredible.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
You know. I started playing Chic Records, and all of
a sudden, like I had opened up for now Rogers
like years maybe like two thousand and twelve a Nantucket,
but it wasn't like now was my guy God, But
then we became close because I was playing so much
Chic Records and now we're coming there and Madonna would
be in there and then but then Fat Joe was

(54:58):
in there. It's just like crazy. Yeah, by the way,
I know this all sounds crazy and and I hope
no one takes this in, you know, like I'm like
I'm bragging anything, but to see all of these people
from different eras of music and different genres and like,
you know, I would have randomly like I woke up
one Sunday morning and you know, I was like, man,

(55:19):
I just want to play gospel music, Like who the heck?
I just started playing a gospel set, and then all
of a sudden, all the gospel artists were in there,
Fred Hammond and like so so for Club Quarantine or
just My ig Live to have been this space of
like like community but also this kind of safe space
for artists too. You know, to be able to still

(55:41):
share their love of music and tell their stories. And
you know, which is why, you know, ninety nine percent
of the music that I played, I tried to play
the clean versions just because you never know who's listening,
who's on the other end.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Man, Do you think meta? Let me not put it
on meta? Do you think the major labels are step
over a dollar to get a penny by now striking
and copywriting all music on IJI Love?

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Yeah? Is that hustling backwards? I think it's I think
because it's all their whole business is all based on streaming,
So for them, that is taking away the business from them.
But technically, I looked at it more from a radio
station perspective, you know, like if I'm playing these songs,
I played a lot of old school music, you know,
because I wanted this kind of nostalgic feeling and then

(56:30):
to have you know, so you know, people on these
some of these platforms to just not allow people to
play the music. It's like, bro, it's only you're playing
a snippet of it, You're playing two minutes. That person
may want to just go and buy this. This was
so that was like my argument during covid on how
I was able to still play because I went to them,
I'm like, yo, you can't can't shut this off, you know,

(56:52):
like this is saving lives. Yeah, and then they kind
of like help make that happen and to me, because
they're supposed to be smarter than all of us.

Speaker 3 (56:59):
To me, it's hustling backwards because after you would do
a set, I would go on my timeline and find
the nerd that that made the d nice playlist for
this day, and the streams went up for every song.
It was like promotion. Like I don't understand why they're
trying to do this. Now I'm done with IG live
because I can't play music on it. Yeah, it makes

(57:19):
no sense to me. It's promotion. If somebody hears this shit, now,
you think they're not going to want to go listen
to that song again.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
So I don't have any shares of meta. I don't
have any you know, sucks, But I will say this, man,
it's like it's not necessarily just their fault. I think
the major labels more meta, more on the music side,
because it's not that's not a streaming platform. Yeah, you know,
so major labels probably don't feel like, you know, how

(57:47):
are we benefited from it? You know? Like, but I'm like, bro,
this is like promoting the music. Yes, that's how you're benefiting.
You know, that's how the artist benefits. You know.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
But even like a program the way they do with
verified checks, if there was a way a verified DJ
would get all free range to play whatever that, Like,
I don't understand why majors aren't trying to make a
program like that. Like me and Maul used to do
battles of different artists during quarantine back and forth. That
was getting twenty thousand, thirty thousand people in there, Yeah,

(58:18):
playing mixtape Wayne and fab shit. I don't understand why
certain people, if you're verified to some degree within the
music industry, that you're not allowed to do that because
it's going to be promotion for everybody, Like you're not
going to lose money on.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
This form is allowing you to do it. That's just
not the platform that you chose, I guess, you know, Yeah,
because YouTube did whitelist a lot of people. Fair Oh,
they did allow people to play music obviously Twitch.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
Oh I mean Twitch, they would they small Instagram's boots after.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
That, Yeah, you know, because its own you know Amazon,
you know, Like so it was more like IG wasn't
really it, but IG was just IG is the perfect form,
you know, especially at that time for playing music, because
it was like one stop shopping exactly. You know, you
open your phone, you're checking Instagram, you see someone live,

(59:09):
You're like, oh, I'm gonna click on that.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
That's why it pissed me off that IG went that route,
because I get twitching YouTube, like damn, this was this
was the best community I had was here.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
And yeah and Twitch, even though sonically it was better,
you know, because you had stereo sound. I g it
was just mono like everything I was just rung. But
it was just the best platform. The grittiness it was
feeling then, like yo, I'm looking at my pictures and
let me go, oh all right, malls on, let me

(59:40):
see that. Oh oh Shan is live. It was like
look at TV station, you know, Twitch, you had to
go there because you wanted to hear that person. Well
you know, but yeah, man, but hey listen, I wish
I wish it was a lot easier. I wish people
had free rate to play what they wanted to play.
You know, it just makes it that much easier and

(01:00:03):
you know, not promoting their platform. I will say this,
the music changed their platforms absolutely, you know. But on
the flip side, I think it's just me. I'm not
a doctor, none of that. But I personally feel like
suicide rates would have been higher if we didn't have

(01:00:26):
that connection during that time, if we didn't have if
we couldn't dance, you know what I mean, if we
couldn't just talk to people. I think depression would have
been a lot higher. Anxiety levels through the roof because
you really think about how many people were Like, here's
the deal, Like, you have kids, you have a job,

(01:00:48):
wake up seven, six thirty am, getting your kids ready
for school, drop them off to school. You're going to
work from nine to five, kids come home. You know,
from six to eight. This was the only time you
actually spent with your kids. Dinner, go to bed, repeat,
So you really didn't spend that much time of your family.
Quarantine hit stuck twenty four hours with everybody, abusive relationships,

(01:01:14):
like couldn't go anywhere. Some people put headphones on to escape,
Like it was magical, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
Like have you someone look forward to as well? A
flyer meant something at that time, like three more.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Hours, all right, but I know what I'm doing Tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
People were getting dressed up in the crib, getting dressed
up in the crib to dance in their living room
in the socks went full gowns on, and on top
of it, the silly shit that I was doing during
I can't imagine.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Just I used to get up in the middle of
the night when a bathrobe in Pj's like, yo, this
is after dark. I can't. I'm like, I looked at it.
I'm like, what was I think? But we didn't have
a choice. We had we were stuck out. I mean,
I had this character I was Chinchilla Jones and somebody

(01:02:02):
sent me a Chiller Jones cup and the diamonds. I
looked at that the other day, I'm like, what is that?
Figuring it out, But in that moment it was crazy.
It's like, yo, we needed the entertainment. But for people,
they were doing the same thing. I remember saying, like
so crazy. I got a d M from someone from NASA,

(01:02:26):
literally from the NASA handle, like, yo, remember during quarantine,
that's not nothing, that's not nothing. Upset that loadst the
rocket dude, quarantine. Yo. They were like we want you
to be the theme music what we had, like, yo,

(01:02:47):
I was playing David Bowie, I'm controlling. It's holy. The
whole experience of like.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
Crazy crazy getting a DM from Nasai's that's like who
sent you? That?

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
Is crazy?

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
Yea?

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
How do you get your first fe like? What the fuck?

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Backtracking a little bit, just a personal question. Why wasn't
a Time to Flow as big as my Name is D?
Because now I thought that was my ship.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
Time to Flow was a better record than Call Me
D Nice Sonically, I think the problem was I didn't
know myself as an MC, so I went into it
trying to compete, trying to keep up with with Tretch
because I was doing that, I was rhyming like him,

(01:03:44):
you know what I mean, Like I do only know
this now because looking bad. I was a kid when
I did that, you know. But I was trying to
like yo, I'm just as nice. But that's not why
people like me, you know what I mean? So I
don't think I had my own personality in that record.
I think it sounded like which is so craz because
everyone raps the same right now. But yeah, everyone's doing
the same flow, cadence everything. But then that was like

(01:04:08):
a no, no, you know no that We.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Talked about that a lot, like back then you got
clown for sound like for anybody.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
So I think the reach is so unique as well.
The record for for the people that like D Nice
so call me D Nice, that just wasn't it for them,
you know what I mean? But for me that was
like that was that was that was my ship like
it was before, was my ship, you know. And I
did that track with with KG. Kg came in with
the drums and all that he had Dave who played

(01:04:34):
piano on on on their records. It was like fun,
but it would have probably would have been a bigger
record if it was just a trench record. Okay, that
makes sense, Like do.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
You have do you have any trench stories? One of
my favorite people man Trench, Tretch and Pop. Listen the
two of them.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Man, I don't know who has better stories by the way,
between D Nice and Print Yeah Bream. One day I
just I asked Prem with a bathroom and then found
out through that question that him and Pac was roommates
on tour ones.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
I said, Prem, I just wanted to know where the bathroeld.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
The amount of times I just would go to prem
Studio just to ask one simple question, knowing I was
about to get a three hour and I would just
sit there like Indian style.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
Just because you when you're living the history, you don't
even realize it, you know what I mean, Like I
remember you know this is a POC story. I mean,
I was in Atlanta. My cousin who was my DJ,
we called him Mick Boo. He was in BDP. It
was like in the crew BDP. We were in Atlanta.
I didn't smoke weed. We had this party. Pak was like, yo,

(01:05:38):
the music is loud, like yo, you got a blunt
and I was like nah. So he got a blunt
from someone, split it open, rolled it up, talking, you
got you got a light? No, got a light with
someone did? He went to pass me the blunt and
I was like, now smoke yo. He was like yo,

(01:05:59):
you don't smoke. You don't smoke the cronic. I'm like no,
I feeling bad. So my cousin was like yo, he
he wanted some so Pock handed him the blunt, the flashlight.
It was the cops, you and you come with us.

(01:06:20):
You're under arrest, literally like clown me in two minutes,
not even two minutes getting arrested, getting arrested.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
This is why Pok shot those cops in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
It don't makes sense now, so we're now they're in
the kitchen of the club. What I will say about
park Roll, he was a stand up dude man, because
he wouldn't let them arrest my cousin. He was like, yo,
don't arrest him. Solid it was mine, it was mine,
it was mine, don not don't arrest him. I'm seeing
all this from afar And they let my cousin go,

(01:06:52):
and they arrested him, you know what I mean. Like
he was a solid dude man, you know. And Trench,
Trench was the same way, bro like Tretch, not even
but Trench is a solid dude like he you know,
he was just he was just wild though. He was
just different, Like who goes performs on stage with a machete,
like like literally with a machete, change shit like yo.

(01:07:17):
But it was Floers, Yeah, yeah, absolutely thing.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
And Trench of course comes across rightfully. So is one
of the scariest people also one of the nicest humans ones.

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
But don't cross him though, you know, I used to
would never Yeah, I used to go where they lived
in East Orange, one hundred and eighteenth Street, I mean
on eighteenth Street. I grew up one hundred and eighteen
Street in Harlem. But like I would go out there
and hang out with them because you know, even before
they got their deal, because Shot Kim Shot Kim and
Queen Latifa and I were like, like, I mean, obviously

(01:07:49):
they're still the best friends and business partners, but I
was always with them, you know, like like Dana and
I we all lived in the same building in Jersey,
this old pencil factory called Dixon Mills, Like right, we
all lived there. Yep. She had her video store. And

(01:08:11):
remember back then, you didn't you know, you couldn't wire
your rent money. It was all rentals. So if she
was on tour, if I was on tour, if he
was on tour, like we would pay each other's rent,
you know what I mean, like just get it back
from each other. But like we just have all these
stories of like that's great time. So I would always
hang with Sha and like, yo, let's go let's go
to East Starrings, hang with Naughty, So yeah, man, it's

(01:08:34):
but my stories, bro, like just to have been in
hip hop this long and and and still be here
and to still be respected by my peers, old school
and younger cats. You know, it's it's just beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
It's I mean, just just sitting here and just kicking
it with you today. Man, It's just you know, it's
a testament of exactly how much the culture will take
care of you if you take care of it. And
I think and just listening to you in your story,
you you you always had respect with you. Whatever you did,
you respected it, Like you said, you took things apart,

(01:09:08):
you wanted to learn it, how it works, how it functions.
And I think that's just reflective of you know, even
Club Quarantine again not knowing it, but then once you
figured out what it was and how to do it,
became the biggest DJ at a time where we all
needed music to get us through.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
The Other part for me is like how much the
younger generation rock with me? Like I'll be fifty five
years old, Bro, I don't feel it, you don't look it,
don't look it at all. No, But then Jimmy your
skincaret probably Melani, I'll be I'll be fifty five and
to have been around this long and like to remember

(01:09:49):
when I was when I told you before like a
lot of hip hop DJs weren't really trying to let
me open up for them or you know. And this
was like early on. One person that reached out Jamaine Duprie.
I'm like, Jamaine, I don't even know Jamaine like that.
He had a social depth holiday party in New York
and Jamaine's like, y'all want d nice y'all. I got

(01:10:12):
a call one day from Axe Deodorant. One of the
execs was like, Yo, mister T, I wants you to
open up for him. I was like, T, I knows
who I am. T I wants you to open up
for him. I'm like, yo, he knows who. Because I
felt seen, you know what I mean, to be away

(01:10:35):
from hip hop for so long, to feel seen by
the younger people, you know what I mean? It was
like or the newer artists say the younger people with
the newer artists was like yo. So it made me
always want to incorporate their music with what I grew
up with, to the records that we sampled to. So
that's why in my sets, y'all, I play everything Jay

(01:10:57):
to Sammy Davis Junior. If it feels right, I was
gonna throw a Sammy Davis song. But if if the
beat flows with it and I can get it in
there and like and like take you on this journey,
then I'm gonna do that because.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
Is that how you approach Yeah, you approach every party differently,
like you got to feel it while you're there.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
Yeah. I don't have any like playlists at all. Like
I don't have a playlist literally, Like the only thing
that will look like a playlist on my computer is
because sometimes at the end of the night, I'll be like, yeah,
that shit, that set was crazy. I just kind of
want to reminder in case. In case, I'm like, yo,
what did I play that night? That that one song

(01:11:35):
that I just randomly put on, Then I'll go to
that folder from that damn like, oh my gosh, that's
what it was, Like I forgot how dope? What's his name?
Derek Bentley joint was with Andre three thousands. Literally the
other day I had not heard that song in years,
and like last two weeks ago, I was at home

(01:11:55):
and I'm playing a set on ig even Fun and
I started humming at I'm like, what was that? And
then I figured it out and just dropped it. Now
I'm like I got to make this a part of
my set. The three stacks went off in that and
the beat is crazy records. But that's how I DJ.
It's like I'll feel, I'll remember something and then it's

(01:12:17):
like I gotta go there. But the other part that's
beautiful is I'm not a hip hop DJ, so I
get to play whatever it is that I want. That
feeling doesn't just have to be with any one specific genre.
I can be playing like you know, hove and then
I'm like, oh, oh this this this goes crazy with
this Bowie record name because of the drums, like, oh,

(01:12:39):
you know, I'm gonna blend it in based on that,
and then it's just magical. It's like painting. You know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
I know you probably signed some NDAs, But what's the
craziest record that you saw Barock just knock his head to?

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
All Right? The craziest Barock record story would be because
but Rock likes he actually likes hip hop, like like
trap hip hop and like, you know, but he loves music.
His playlist that he you know, the list he puts out,
it's truly a reflection of like what he likes, you know,
and definitely have an NDA.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
But I.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
Can't say this because this is just one of those
moments where I was like, Yo, this is crazy. Not
already dj the inaugural ball. This was before COVID. He
wasn't in No, he was still he was still president
at the time, So no until I didn't play because
I played Like the second to the last party at

(01:13:33):
the White House, there's like a viral video with everyone
swacksurfing in a way. I was DJing that joke. But
we were on Martha's vineyard. This was the craziest scene
to like see a sitting president like on vacation. We're
at someone's house, one of his boys. I'm DJing this
party and I just had to get there for sound check.

(01:13:56):
It's like massic service coming in. I get this. See
how crazy that situation is. They had, you know, artillery
I've never seen before with like very specific scope playing.
I was like, you shoot your mustache off. This isn't
even in Call of Duty. I was like, this is crazy.

(01:14:18):
So now I'm DJing party. It's like fifty people, you know,
So I'm playing a party and he came over to me.
He was like, hey, man, what's that song you're playing?
And I was like, oh, it's called Candy Rain. Then
he walked for real. Then he came back, He's like,
who says that? I was like, so for real? And
then he started laughing and joking and you know, like

(01:14:39):
if you you homies. He put his arm around me,
around him. I'm laughing. And then in this one moment,
I remember when all of those people were set up.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
If I do hate, I'm done shooting that hat, shooting
that hat off again.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
Yet your head blown off to Candy Rain. It's crazy,
but that's dope though. The Candy Raid, Yeah, that was
a gem.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
That was a joy. That was the joy right there.
That's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
Before we get out of it, what what was your
favorite verses during quarantine? Because it was it was you
and verses outside of the DJ that ended racism. I
forgot his name, what was his name? David tried to
end race tried to crazy. That the clip I've ever
seen in my fucking life.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
That was crazy. Yeah, yeah, but I'm still trying to
recover from that. That was crazy. Let us wiping our
groceries down for sure? Absolutely, God absolutely, But yeah, I
mean versus, it was you and versus in my opinion,
What was your favorite one my favorite versus. I mean,

(01:15:52):
I'm gonna be biased because I was on the versus,
so I, yeah, you rated the Earth Winding Fire versus
Isley Brothers, so you know, like I put the songs together.
The crazy part about that was I was very vocal
I love earth Winding Fire and but I love the
Isley Brothers and I would always say that, and I

(01:16:12):
forgot that, like Philip Bailey and them were always on
my ig. So when they found out that I was
the music were setting it up. They're like, he's setting
it up. We want him to do that. He already's rigged.
But I love that they approach a battle that way.

(01:16:39):
That's crazy. But I was pairing the song based on
what the feeling was. I'm like yo. And then on
top of it, they gave me they said, we want
to do a different kind of verses we want, which
is producing. By the way, that's that's producing. But they
gave me a break of like I could play six
songs back to back of my own many verses of

(01:16:59):
this songs. Oh wow. So in that versus, I just
played a whole set where it was like I was
going back and forth from one I either this one
or that, and it was like, yo, that was flying man.
So personally, I'm gonna say that one was my favorite. Yeah,
I'm not even yeah, that's that's it for me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
That's I mean you, I mean that's earth when it fire,
I mean, yeah, who's gonna argue with that?

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
Who's gonna with that?

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
To put you on the spot quickly, it doesn't have
to be in order top five DJs of all time
excluding yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
Yeah, I'm definitely not top five, so that wouldn't even
do that. But that's different. Depends on the genre, you know,
like different because listen, I like Calvin Harris a lot,
you know, I mean so, but he's not grand Master Flash.
But I like, I'll go to his show and I'm like, yo,
this is crazy, right, So if I just stick to

(01:17:53):
like hip hop, but stick to hip hop, man, man,
that's different. Did this party DJ versus?

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
But everything you're saying, like people like Clark or Scratch, like,
you could put them in any scenario. It doesn't have
to be hip hop and they're going to shine. So
to me, that's really when I'm asking your top five DJs.
It doesn't have to be a genre.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
DJs no matter where they go, They will shine. I
love Mark Ronson.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Mark. We put Mark in any room for anybody, and
Mark is gonna shine. Producers make the best DJs. Yeah,
Clark Camp for sure. I love Stretch. I'm strong. Yeah, y'all,
Stretch will shine. Don't let them play said right, he's
bodying you. Yeah, looking at this white notice I did

(01:18:45):
the corny of ship. I introduced myself to Stretch on
the G train. He was sitting there and I was like,
I can't not say like hello. I was like, y'all,
I just want to say something.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
With a fan, like like I felt like I played
myself once I got off the platform, but I like,
there's no way.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
I'm just sitting on the train Stretch trying to think.
Who else do I like? I really like he DJ's
for Usher now, but he's like older generation, but he's
still rocking. DJ Mars go to Atlanta and he yeah, bro,
he was having the parties crazy, like to the point
where I didn't want to get on with him. Man.
I'm like, because he knew those records and uh man,

(01:19:25):
who else? I got one more? I got one more.
Rich Medina is a different Rich Medina is part of
the reason that I play with the soul. Now, I know,
I named a lot of New York DJs because that's
who I was going to hear, you know, And I
got to spend a lot of time and I see
the love of music. But like Rich Rich's knowledge, you know,

(01:19:46):
he's he I mean, he doesn't brag about it, but
he's like Cornell Dude. With Cornell, he's like literally like
just this brilliant mind. But he's this guy that fully
loves music. I think he loved music. Clark was more
of a showman who did love music, but it was
the showman. Rich just the music bro and like h

(01:20:09):
Quest love like Quest Quest is crazy to me. It
took me a minute to understand his DJ because I
couldn't figure out. I'm like, why is he doing that?
Like what was he playing? And one day I went
to a party. Quest would be my sixth man. I
would say that because I went to a party and
totally changed how I DJ. I went to a party.
I walked in. He was DJ, and he was playing.

(01:20:31):
He was mixing Nirvana and Poison and Belle de Vogue Poison.
I'm like, in that moment, he was like the Poison
drum and then he was switching to the and I
was like, oh my gosh, he's a fucking drummer. He's
not playing from the baseline. He's playing from the drums.

(01:20:54):
He not not four on the floor, He's playing like
the feeling of the drums. Holy shit. Totally changed everything.
I was like, oh no, I got to like really
pay attention to these that's incredible.

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
Ques quest DJ is the way J Dilla produces. It's
the most unorthodox ship.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
I would just go.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
I'd go to Brooklyn bul By myself sometimes just to
see a quest Love DJ said like.

Speaker 1 (01:21:17):
I tell you this, I know, I know, we gotta go.
I'm sorry to take him this story. I'm good. So
two years ago I was supposed to DJ Jay and
Beyonce's gold Party Oscar Joint and it was the night
so yeah, that was two so it's three oscars, so yeah,

(01:21:38):
it was the night that I was DJ on the Oscar,
so like DJ the Oscars. Then I played the Governor's
Ball right after the Oscars. Then I left there. I
played Vanity Fair for one hour and then I was
supposed to end up at Jay's party, but Jay found
out that I was also doing Madonna's Party and Madonna
and Gout Series. So it's like, yo, those are those

(01:22:01):
are the parties that everyone want. They all want to
go to. So Jay's like, nah, you can do that.
That will do you. Another time in the following year
when he hit me up, it was like he put
this pressure on me because he said, Yo, you're ready
for the Gold Party. Why am I trying to sound

(01:22:23):
like you know this is a special party. He say,
no regular party, no regular part. What quest Love did
was masterful. Yeah, sure you sure you can handle this?

(01:22:45):
Was like, man, I can such an yo. Leny was like, Yo, Jay,
what you're doing bro? He was like, nah, I gotta
know you like this. No, this is the Gold Party. Yo.
What he said was right, it is the Gold Party.
Now I'm nervous and I'm like, so I called quest

(01:23:08):
Love because JA said Questlove played the best set that
I've ever heard ever. So now I called a mirror
up and I'm like, yo, Jay said you played the
best set he ever heard. I probably shouldn't say it's
said anyway. Mirror was like, you want to hear a set?
I recorded it. I was like, wait what. Then I

(01:23:31):
listened to it and it was probably one of the
most perfect sets that I've ever heard because he didn't
stay with one thing. But I was like, it's the
fucking way already. DJ. I was like, oh, man, this
dude putting all this pressure on me. This is what
I do. Man. I played the Gold Party last year
like after that, after hearing a mirror set, I was like, nah,

(01:23:52):
I'm going to do me and it was me and
Clark and I played my set. Yo. Clark tapped me
on it. He was like yo. He was like, bro.
Actually he didn't say that he did. Yeah. He was
like because it was it was the zone, you know

(01:24:14):
what I mean. To find that zone and to be comfortable.
It's like as a DJ, you know when you play
a song where you could feel that everyone loves it,
when all you can do is just smile because you
can do no wrong. At this point. It's like the
people are once they believe in you. First of all,
when you walk into the door, if you're fantastic DJ,
the fact that you walked into that door, that changes

(01:24:36):
everything because part of that set is them seeing you
like yo, yo, stretch armstrong and see it. Oh it's
about to be some. So part of the work is
done by you just showing up. Part of the work
was done when I walked into the Gold party. They're like,
oh Yeao, you rock. Yeah. Oh then it's different. Then
you get to play and to be in that zone. Man.

(01:24:57):
And I'm forever grateful that jay can put that kind
of pressure and make you want to be great. But
I'm also grateful that that A mirror was like, yo,
you want to hear it? Yeah, that's fine, And I
was like, Yo, this is crazy, So I'm going to
break an NDA with this entire thing.

Speaker 3 (01:25:12):
I think jay Z put that pressure on you because
jay Z secretly wants to be a DJ. Probably we
we I mean I don't DJ, but our Polozer crew
J and B booked us twice to do parties for them,
like private shit of the Polluza crew.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
The entire time, jay Z was hovering over the DJ
booth on us, making everything like yo, do you just
want to get on the wheels of steel here?

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Bro? J wants to be a DJ. He was like, yo,
you should blend this with this.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
I'm like, yo, yeah, he got it, producer, actually see that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
No, I loved it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:47):
It was very interesting to see him in a vulnerable
place of just being a music lover, Like I think
jay Z wants to be a DJ.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
Yeah, because even like during that set, you know, because
I had an ND for that too. But Yo, during
that set, like I was, whats ken your cousin name?
Keen Keen? I never even heard that record? You know
what I mean? Like you talking Quarantine? Be nice? Yeah,
I'm playing all the classics like new Records. Was like,

(01:26:13):
that wasn't my new record zone, you know what I'm saying.
Like that time, I didn't even know anything about it.
He's like, Yo, you gotta rock that. Yeah, Yo. Joint
went off and I was like, so, I think he
probably secretly does one.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
The amount of requests he made in the two parties
that we did for him in real time.

Speaker 1 (01:26:29):
Also, Computers is jay Z's favorite song. I want to
let He made us play Computers three times in a row. Yeah,
get the party Rocket. This is fun.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
This has been, This has been, This has been, this
conversation has been great for me, man, This is a
This is like a dream come true for me. Man,
just growing up watching you, uh, you know, following your
career and everything that you've done in the culture hip hop.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
We just thank you for coming by today and kicking
with us, man like this is this is like I'm
all over the place right now. The stories and just
the knowledge and everything that you've given us. We appreciate
it and thank you for Club Quarantine.

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
This is the Fibby Anniversary.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
You're rocking Apollo this week and then where you are
I've seen you somewhere else next week.

Speaker 1 (01:27:20):
I believe. Oh that I just I promoted I supposed to. No,
I'm doing I'm doing Club Quarantine in Baltimore, Baltimore during
the Preakness. Okay, yeah, that's actually a big one too, man. Yeah,
that's crazy. Do you have this? Do you have Baltimore
club music? Yeah, but I want to have a little bit
of that. I could give you a photo if you
need one. I'll call Jay Z.

Speaker 3 (01:27:44):
Got a folder for I can send you the way
file and swing that ship if you need as long.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
As I can take and I can rob that song
with the orchestra because I'm using the orchestra with that.
Took the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with love that. But yeah, man,
like I'm excited about it even with that. You know,
you know, I got the call from the first Lady
of Maryland. It's like hey, you know, like literally her
calling me like, hey, I think club quarantines think you five?

(01:28:10):
She even call it club quarantine. I know she really
followed you five. We want to do seek you five
doing the practice. I was like, oh, well, let's do it.
But yeah, man, but I do want to say thank you.
I'll be one hundred honest. I was like when I
got the call, I was like, I know who you
guys are and I'm following. I'm like, man, they're not
gonna find my story interesting, you know what I mean? Like,

(01:28:31):
this is probably gonna be what are you heard me? Ask?
I was like, how long? One of your producers, I'm like,
how long is this? What? When we got the obstra
for the date, it's quick? They said, d nice. I
was like they were like you cool, was like, what
why would you ask me?

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
That's that's this is Yeah, this is a dream for me.

Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
Man, Like I said, I you know you you are
definitely one of the reasons I fell in love with
hip podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:28:52):
So thank you for coming by kicking with us today. Yeah,
and first time meeting you.

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
I also understand why Club Quarantine worked outside of.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
Your DJ skills, you have great energy like one.

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
I think that that probably somehow was involved.

Speaker 1 (01:29:05):
In one million moment. I agree with you, it was.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
It was not just the blends like yeah, it was
the Nice. I also get it now, Yeah, this is
a good person.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
That was D Nice, the legendary D Nice. Hopefully you'll
enjoyed that as much as I did. If not, I
don't give a fuck because this is just personal for me.

Speaker 3 (01:29:23):
This was he didn't have to leave. We could have
won another three. This is this is personal. Great D.

Speaker 1 (01:29:27):
Nice. We thank you, and we salute you, and we
support you forever. Brother. Oh love, great lighting gear, got
that peach.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
The Nice took my foot Y'all niggas can't tell me
nothing

All Episodes

Episode 357 | Becoming The World's DJ (w/ D-Nice)

Episode Transcript

Popular Podcasts

Crime Junkie

24/7 News: The Latest

Stuff You Should Know

.css-15opob5{left:0;position:absolute;top:0.8rem;} All Episodes

.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}Episode 357 | Becoming The World's DJ (w/ D-Nice)