July 14, 2025 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up y'all?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Is dreking a call from Poor Minds and licks P
and we here with ZC and eighty five South at
Mackwood's backstage and we have the beautiful knowledge someone.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Here, Yeah, hey, guys, not have a top.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's just your toes.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
And I was like, damn this nigga.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
She said, let the world see. No, come on my job,
you know, showing up to the camera. Period. That's right.
I know I have you. I can appreciate the confidence. No,
(00:46):
that's a that's that's a band. That's a nice Yeah,
you got a nice little arm. Did you use the dance?
Are you a former dancer?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
No, I know I heard you. I was just asking
you a nice point.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
It's yeah, you got to you knows, get down, okay,
b back to you.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
So you are at DJ on the most epic show
that has been around, Breakfast Club. I feel like as
a person in the industry, like once you get on
Breakfast Club, that's like the pinnacle of you know, media.
So talk about that link up and how that how
you got that opportunity.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
So I was working at Power for the past eight
years prior to working with Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I worked on every other show.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I worked with Angie Martinez, That's who like really brought
me in the game. I worked with DJ Clue, That's
who really taught me how to DJ. I worked with
DJ self. I did overnight, so I've always been in
the building. And when I was doing overnights, I used
to work two am to five am, and then I
would run the boards for the ten am to two
pm shift. So I would just sleep at the station
(01:53):
or like just read books. And while I'd be at
the station. Me and Charlemagne realized we had similar interests,
Like I'd be really asa, He's like, what you know
about that? So like we started building a bond and
from there he would just book me to DJ for him.
So yeah, So then when the opportunity came up for
me to like promote new music on Breakfast Club, he
was like, Yo, are you interested?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I'm like absolutely right.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Can you explain how like certain times in the in
the radio business are more popular than others, So you
really gotta make your you know what I'm saying, like
your like like an image known when you have a
certain time where you're like, you know what, I'm gonna
get people to listen during this time, I'm gonna show
them that I'm special.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, I feel like you just always gotta do
that all the time. I don't even feel like it's
like a particular moment where you got to hit it.
I feel like because it's so competitive and because everybody
is somebody now, like you constantly gotta put out, constantly,
gotta show up, constantly, got to be on it. So
I don't know, I can't really be like this is
the time where I'm like, let's lock the fuck in,
just stay locked in.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
You just never know, never know.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So how did you get into DJ?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And have you always just really been into music and
it was something that you wanted to do or was
it kind of one of those hitting talents that you
stumbled up on, Because I feel like, you know, sometimes
people have hitting talents that they don't know they're really
good at and then one day.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
You try something. So how did you end up.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Always been a nerd about music, like awkwardly nerdy about music,
like YouTube, rabbit holes, watching your m TV raps when
I was like five, you know so, and I was
also the kid making CDs offline wires, selling it to
the kids in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I've always done it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So it was just a hobby that I picked up
in college because I needed money, and then it just
it just triggled into a career, thankfully, Like I'm so happy.
I never really thought, like, damn, this could be a job.
I'm going to school for computer science. I was going
to get a government job. I'm from the DMV and
everybody in the works for the government, so that's what
I thought I was gonna be doing, husband kid government job.
(04:04):
But no, like I'm a DJ, I'm at dream of
Fest talking to fucking eighty five South and for.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
But like mixing records, bro, it's like super duper hard,
even though I'm artist and I be trying, Like how
did you realize like you was good?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like you know what? Oh shit, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It don't feel hard to me, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It probably took me like a month to really master
blending and stuff like that, especially if you're already nationally
into music.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I have playlists for days.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Playlists are essentially create, like you're create, like if you're
a DJ and you're trying to set it up. So
I think I've always that represents you.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I was always doing it. So when it came to me,
it really was just like alignment. I guess.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
So as a DJ, when you're hearing music, do you
be like, oh that's a good song.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yes, all day long.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I'll find one song that I haven't heard a while
and it aspired me like about ten other songs like
oh this was sound good next to this, and so yeah,
I'm excited and like to expand my DJ portfolio. I'm
about to drop a tape. It has all New York
City artists on it, so like you got Ki Cash
and yeah there on there Eman Nunez, Life of Tom,
(05:18):
who's on tour right now, Foggy Baby, like it's it's cool.
We're trying to usher in just like a new era
of rap, and I'm like a rap head.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I love rap and I love R and B, but
rap is my ship.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So, who are some of your favorite artists right now?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well, cold, I'm a cold stand but favorite artists right now.
I would say Ruben Vincent, I would say Rhapsody, I
would say.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Nico Brim the guys on my tape.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm so committed, Like I feel like mainstream media gets
so much love that.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I'm kind of tired of talking. Ye I hate.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
About Drake Kendrick Cole, Respectfully, I'm tired of the conversation.
Change the conversation. There's so many other dope people we
should be talking about.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, she's like that too. She listens to a lot
of indie music. I'm like an indie.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
So we have a segment on our show called Bop
of the Week, and I've like literally made it a
point to like always shout out like indie.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Artists, small artists, cause that be I got.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I got to get in my bag because I hate
when people say R and B music is dead, and
I'm like, R and B music is actually probably the
best it's ever been right now. It's so many like
new artists and people are always sending me their songs
and be people that just her listeners of the shot,
and I'm like, yo, you actually like really dope, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So Lou is really dope? I know los around here.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yes, lou is super dope.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I said, I.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Said, noy, but we got cold, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Cold, that's my favorite. I went to Saint John's University
because of call on that.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
But all I'm saying is the other niggas we could
be talking about.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Don't they don't need the help, you know what I'm saying,
Like we should.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That's why I really felt with the fact that you
get that highlight indie artists, like it's so important just
bring it to people's attention.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Who's your favorite R and B artist right now?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Though? So honestly, I discovered this guy probably like two
or three months ago. His name is your Train, and
he is like super super dope, Like I have just
been on this listening to all his stuff. I like
Aaron Ray, He's not like super, but he's indie.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Ye, it's a lot. It's so many.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
No, we need to share a playlist, oh for sure.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yes. So I do have one more question being a
woman in the industry, especially with DJing, it's such a
heavily male dominated field. Do you feel like you being
a woman helps you because it's different or do you
think people kind of like try to question your knowledge
or don't take you as serious because you're a woman.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Man, I think whatever you are, male, female, whatever race,
whatever color, you always have disadvantages and advantages and you just.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Gotta work what you got.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But I will say for sure, when I first started
DJing because I was the first like female DJ hired
at the station at power. But also I was just
the first young talent in general at the station, like
there is nobody before me, period. So when I when
I got through, it was hell from a lot of people,
(08:28):
like a lot of older niggas hating on me, saying
that's gonna come and plug my USB.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
People like.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
What type of threat?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah music, These are like older touch by five twelve.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's why I got to I got a copy.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But it was intimidating because these are like older New York,
like these niggas been DJing for like twenty years, and
I'm like, I'm not from here.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I just started. It was just a lot to like digest.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
But and I will say, for a minute.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I did believe them, like I did believe like I
wasn't enough, and I did let it take my confidence.
But I would say Charlot Magne was somebody who was
in my corner like them niggas is hating in their
fat like you're pretty that's what you said.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But yeah, man, so shout out to Charlemagne for real.
He's talking a lot.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Yeah, So what you got coming up next? Where can
people find you all that good stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Man, oh so we just at our very first I do.
I have a music collective where I'm going to be
dropping the album.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Through the collective. It's called Certified Vibe.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
We just threw a party out here yesterday in order
to dream Bofest and it was really cool. A lot
of like Riley artists came out, like painter artists and
then artist like artist artists, producers. So we've just been
heavy on like building community with that. We have our
next Battle of the Beats in Brooklyn April eleventh, and
then we have our next showcase in May.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Huh twenty third, right, she mean through the whole thing.
You do good.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
That's not even my manager, but that's just my left hand.
Shout out to Sydney. But yeah, so more events on
the way just follow us that. It's a Certified Vibe
because every week we're doing the same thing, like listening
through indie submissions, shoutout them out and then the best
ones I just shout out on Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Oh urry, thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Period
What's up y'all?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Is dreking a call from Poor Minds and licks P
and we here with ZC and eighty five South at
Mackwood's backstage and we have the beautiful knowledge someone.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Here, Yeah, hey, guys, not have a top.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's just your toes.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
And I was like, damn this nigga.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
She said, let the world see. No, come on my job,
you know, showing up to the camera. Period. That's right.
I know I have you. I can appreciate the confidence. No,
(00:46):
that's a that's that's a band. That's a nice Yeah,
you got a nice little arm. Did you use the dance?
Are you a former dancer?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
No, I know I heard you. I was just asking
you a nice point.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
It's yeah, you got to you knows, get down, okay,
b back to you.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
So you are at DJ on the most epic show
that has been around, Breakfast Club. I feel like as
a person in the industry, like once you get on
Breakfast Club, that's like the pinnacle of you know, media.
So talk about that link up and how that how
you got that opportunity.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
So I was working at Power for the past eight
years prior to working with Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I worked on every other show.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I worked with Angie Martinez, That's who like really brought
me in the game. I worked with DJ Clue, That's
who really taught me how to DJ. I worked with
DJ self. I did overnight, so I've always been in
the building. And when I was doing overnights, I used
to work two am to five am, and then I
would run the boards for the ten am to two
pm shift. So I would just sleep at the station
(01:53):
or like just read books. And while I'd be at
the station. Me and Charlemagne realized we had similar interests,
Like I'd be really asa, He's like, what you know
about that? So like we started building a bond and
from there he would just book me to DJ for him.
So yeah, So then when the opportunity came up for
me to like promote new music on Breakfast Club, he
was like, Yo, are you interested?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I'm like absolutely right.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Can you explain how like certain times in the in
the radio business are more popular than others, So you
really gotta make your you know what I'm saying, like
your like like an image known when you have a
certain time where you're like, you know what, I'm gonna
get people to listen during this time, I'm gonna show
them that I'm special.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, I feel like you just always gotta do
that all the time. I don't even feel like it's
like a particular moment where you got to hit it.
I feel like because it's so competitive and because everybody
is somebody now, like you constantly gotta put out, constantly,
gotta show up, constantly, got to be on it. So
I don't know, I can't really be like this is
the time where I'm like, let's lock the fuck in,
just stay locked in.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
You just never know, never know.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So how did you get into DJ?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And have you always just really been into music and
it was something that you wanted to do or was
it kind of one of those hitting talents that you
stumbled up on, Because I feel like, you know, sometimes
people have hitting talents that they don't know they're really
good at and then one day.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
You try something. So how did you end up.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Always been a nerd about music, like awkwardly nerdy about music,
like YouTube, rabbit holes, watching your m TV raps when
I was like five, you know so, and I was
also the kid making CDs offline wires, selling it to
the kids in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I've always done it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So it was just a hobby that I picked up
in college because I needed money, and then it just
it just triggled into a career, thankfully, Like I'm so happy.
I never really thought, like, damn, this could be a job.
I'm going to school for computer science. I was going
to get a government job. I'm from the DMV and
everybody in the works for the government, so that's what
I thought I was gonna be doing, husband kid government job.
(04:04):
But no, like I'm a DJ, I'm at dream of
Fest talking to fucking eighty five South and for.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
But like mixing records, bro, it's like super duper hard,
even though I'm artist and I be trying, Like how
did you realize like you was good?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like you know what? Oh shit, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It don't feel hard to me, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It probably took me like a month to really master
blending and stuff like that, especially if you're already nationally
into music.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I have playlists for days.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Playlists are essentially create, like you're create, like if you're
a DJ and you're trying to set it up. So
I think I've always that represents you.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I was always doing it. So when it came to me,
it really was just like alignment. I guess.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
So as a DJ, when you're hearing music, do you
be like, oh that's a good song.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yes, all day long.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I'll find one song that I haven't heard a while
and it aspired me like about ten other songs like
oh this was sound good next to this, and so yeah,
I'm excited and like to expand my DJ portfolio. I'm
about to drop a tape. It has all New York
City artists on it, so like you got Ki Cash
and yeah there on there Eman Nunez, Life of Tom,
(05:18):
who's on tour right now, Foggy Baby, like it's it's cool.
We're trying to usher in just like a new era
of rap, and I'm like a rap head.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I love rap and I love R and B, but
rap is my ship.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So, who are some of your favorite artists right now?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well, cold, I'm a cold stand but favorite artists right now.
I would say Ruben Vincent, I would say Rhapsody, I
would say.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Nico Brim the guys on my tape.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm so committed, Like I feel like mainstream media gets
so much love that.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I'm kind of tired of talking. Ye I hate.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
About Drake Kendrick Cole, Respectfully, I'm tired of the conversation.
Change the conversation. There's so many other dope people we
should be talking about.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, she's like that too. She listens to a lot
of indie music. I'm like an indie.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
So we have a segment on our show called Bop
of the Week, and I've like literally made it a
point to like always shout out like indie.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Artists, small artists, cause that be I got.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I got to get in my bag because I hate
when people say R and B music is dead, and
I'm like, R and B music is actually probably the
best it's ever been right now. It's so many like
new artists and people are always sending me their songs
and be people that just her listeners of the shot,
and I'm like, yo, you actually like really dope, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So Lou is really dope? I know los around here.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yes, lou is super dope.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I said, I.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Said, noy, but we got cold, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Cold, that's my favorite. I went to Saint John's University
because of call on that.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
But all I'm saying is the other niggas we could
be talking about.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Don't they don't need the help, you know what I'm saying,
Like we should.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That's why I really felt with the fact that you
get that highlight indie artists, like it's so important just
bring it to people's attention.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Who's your favorite R and B artist right now?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Though? So honestly, I discovered this guy probably like two
or three months ago. His name is your Train, and
he is like super super dope, Like I have just
been on this listening to all his stuff. I like
Aaron Ray, He's not like super, but he's indie.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Ye, it's a lot. It's so many.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
No, we need to share a playlist, oh for sure.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yes. So I do have one more question being a
woman in the industry, especially with DJing, it's such a
heavily male dominated field. Do you feel like you being
a woman helps you because it's different or do you
think people kind of like try to question your knowledge
or don't take you as serious because you're a woman.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Man, I think whatever you are, male, female, whatever race,
whatever color, you always have disadvantages and advantages and you just.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Gotta work what you got.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But I will say for sure, when I first started
DJing because I was the first like female DJ hired
at the station at power. But also I was just
the first young talent in general at the station, like
there is nobody before me, period. So when I when
I got through, it was hell from a lot of people,
(08:28):
like a lot of older niggas hating on me, saying
that's gonna come and plug my USB.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
People like.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
What type of threat?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah music, These are like older touch by five twelve.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's why I got to I got a copy.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But it was intimidating because these are like older New York,
like these niggas been DJing for like twenty years, and
I'm like, I'm not from here.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I just started. It was just a lot to like digest.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
But and I will say, for a minute.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I did believe them, like I did believe like I
wasn't enough, and I did let it take my confidence.
But I would say Charlot Magne was somebody who was
in my corner like them niggas is hating in their
fat like you're pretty that's what you said.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But yeah, man, so shout out to Charlemagne for real.
He's talking a lot.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Yeah, So what you got coming up next? Where can
people find you all that good stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Man, oh so we just at our very first I do.
I have a music collective where I'm going to be
dropping the album.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Through the collective. It's called Certified Vibe.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
We just threw a party out here yesterday in order
to dream Bofest and it was really cool. A lot
of like Riley artists came out, like painter artists and
then artist like artist artists, producers. So we've just been
heavy on like building community with that. We have our
next Battle of the Beats in Brooklyn April eleventh, and
then we have our next showcase in May.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Huh twenty third, right, she mean through the whole thing.
You do good.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
That's not even my manager, but that's just my left hand.
Shout out to Sydney. But yeah, so more events on
the way just follow us that. It's a Certified Vibe
because every week we're doing the same thing, like listening
through indie submissions, shoutout them out and then the best
ones I just shout out on Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Oh urry, thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Period
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