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Before we start the episode Something Jizzoand myself and our guest, which is
DJ juice Box. It's the unofficialintroduction to you something all of us have
a connection on. It's our sportsteam. So with Jizzo the Dallas Cowboys,
yeah, and then with me theLakers. So that's the connection with
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all of us, and we canstart with the recent the bakery of our
La Los Angeles Lakers. Oh mygod, man, man, Well,
first things first, I'm happy tobe back here. So it's been a
while since I've been in the studio. We're gonna talk about that when we
start a show, bro. Butyeah, man, the Lakers, right
bro, at least we gotta win. But that was actually you know,
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I was saying, I'll be happyif they beat the team that they haven't
beat twelve straight games. So Iwas happy they got the one win to
get it out the way. ButI don't know, I don't know,
it's almost like just so sad tosee that the Timberwolves are just smacking them.
But then it's almost like the Timberwolvessaw what we did in twenty twenty
was to go length, go big, you know, so we had what
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I mean, we had centers.We had Jabelle McGee, we had Dwight,
and then we had a D atthe four, and I don't know,
we always go back and forth andLaker fans know, like, why
are we having a D at thefive? Like put him at the four?
He can go from there, youknow. So But yeah, I
mean, so how are you seeyou know? Do you see hope for
the future? You know what?Because I just feel like bron is getting
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older, is it's gonna be oneof those where is he really gonna have
it? I mean he's still he'sstill had an impact, right like his
best Yeah, he's like low keyour age and still balling like O age,
what are you talking about? Iroll out of better platic nerve and
I'm like, yo, how ishe doing this at like thirty eight thirty
nine years old? You know?But I think if if we can land
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the right coach, right, yeah, if they can land the right coach
and can make like the right pieces, you know, meaning players, But
I think the accountability goes all acrossthe board from the GM Polinka, like
Polinka gotta get the blame. Hotpocket Hams was just not it, bro,
Like, I mean, I feelI think the job was just too
much for him. I think heknew it too, and low Ki he
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knew like towards the he was justlike this job was just he knew.
I think the writing was on thewall in his end, you know.
So, And then how about you, how do you guys feel about this
NFL season coming up? Okay,so it's funny that me and Juice Box
and two of our other friends,shouts to Gurb and David, we have
this this group chat that we literallytalk, which I hear we talk about
every day all day. Matter offact, we were just talking this morning
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and we just it's funny because JuiceBox says this is like our therapy.
It really is. But I thinkwe've all gone to the point that we're
just tired of like the Cowboys andJerry Jones and the bullshit that they try
to sell us every year. Andthis year we're like making a thing that
we're not buying, like any Cowboysgear, we're not trying to support.
And what you say this morning thateven when the game is televised, like
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stream it. So now, yeah, I've been streaming it. Yeah,
because all the Cowboys games are nationalIt's like the Fox game of the week.
Oh cool, you know, Andit doesn't make sense for Cowboy fans
to get red zone unless you know, you're a big fan of football,
you want to watch it for fantasy. But I strictly just watched Cowboys football,
right and then to see what otherteam is on in the morning and
whatnot. But I went to theNiners Cowboys game. I took my my
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eight year old son last year atLevi's, you know, so it was
it was a great experience. Wegot hooked up with field passes. So
before the game started, folks atlevi saw us and they're like, hey,
you want field passes? Like,here you go. So I never
put a video out there. I'mgoing to put one together just to show
the experience. It's great. Imean, I've been to Levi's a couple
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of times. I've been there whenDak and Zeke rookie year twenty sixteen,
twenty seventeen. I went to thegames. I seen them, you know,
win at Levi's. I seen themlose. But after this season,
you know, thinking that, like, you know, hey, this is
probably probably the one chance I think, as realistic Cowboy fans that we are,
we were just hoping, like ifwe can just get to the championship
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game and then most likely lose tothe Niners, we would have been fine
with that. But we're always oneand done, like one playoff game and
out one playoff game, and wehaven't sniffed an NFC championship since the nineties,
and it's just like we're just tiredof it. Yeah, We're just
tired of it. I gotta wegotta, we gotta be like that that
one video, like my kid belike, Dad, when was the last
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time we went to the Super Bowl? Brouh? I was damn near your
age? He since there he goeslike damn, I'm like all right,
like and then he's kind of likeall right, I'm gonna go play Fortnite,
you know. And I'm just sittingthere like watching like the replays of
like the Yester years on YouTube alllike like a grumpy old man. So
well, our Laker stress is donefor the season. Now is gonna be
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your guys turn cowboys? All right, I'm ready to get this episode started
this You Give Me Fire podcast?What that is? John Magic? And
we are back super excited about thisguest. Former co worker, a fellow
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DJ super interested about his timeline becauseit's one of those where I'm not too
familiar with how he started in radioand DJing, so I'm excited about that.
But speaking of DJing, you know, there's there to me, there's
like two ways of looking at DJ's. There's one side where a person just
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has skill. They have the skill, they know how to DJ, how
to mix, how to scratch,all this stuff. And then there's the
other side where there's DJs that justget it. They get where they're at
there, they get if they understandthe assignment, if they're on the radio,
if they're DJing a wedding, ifthey're at a club, they get
it. And our guest, hegets it. So I'm super excited to
have him in here. DJ jujust box what's going on. It's funny
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that people still recognize that drop manyou Kenny Man. That was that was
that was so random on the spotwhen he did that, because he was
like, Hey, could I doa drop for you? And I just
had the mic on literally like thewhole drop is he goes, hey,
man, let me get some ofthat juice box and then that was it.
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That was it, and he wastrying to force I'm like, bro,
that was it, and so likethere's like a longer version, and
so I just cut it down tothat version. But people still like when
you hear the drop, they lookback, I'm like, were you on
the radio? I was like yeah, They're like I remember hearing you.
Like, oh my god, thatthat drop sounds health familiar, you know.
So you have one of the dose. I think that's one of my
favorite drops is the juice Pox.Yeah, I have a couple, but
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that is like the classic ones.Like you just saying Kenny Drake, the
what do we call him to thehomie? You just saying Kenny just triggered
my memories of all of us justhanging out that years ago the cellar.
All of us always put up.Yeah, man, back when there was
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clubs and bars in Fresno. Noreally though, it would be it would
be like we had the same circleof people that would go on the Tuesdays,
on the Thursdays, the Saturdays AttachyPalace. Remember we talked about that.
So yeah, Juice Box, he'sbeen in a circle with us for
a while now. All right,so let's start from the beginning. We
always usually asked our guests, areyou originally from the valley, and I
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don't think you are right. No, so originally from the Bay Area.
So born and raised in Mountain View, California, so home of Google and
whatnot, you know, so Icall it Google View. Went to school
in Santa Clair and San Jose,you know, so born and raised,
you know, South Bay. That'sthat's my stomping ground. And then so
after graduating high school, came toFresno two thousand and four, So the
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fall of two thousand and four,came out here, you know, as
a as a young Whooper Snapper eighteenyears old, you know, out here.
The first time I ever came toFresno was dog days in the summer
July. And I remember we wereon Blackstone and my parents looking at me,
like you want to go to schoolhere? And it's like nine o'clock
at night, like still ninety onedegrees because it's like in the summer,
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like in July. And I waslike, yeah, I mean, I
guess it's kind of cool. Waitreal quick that that was the reason why
you were coming here was for aschool visit school. Okay, yeah,
yeah, So so me and aseveryone knows, k Rich, you know,
shout out to k Rich. We'veknown each other for I mean since
we were kids, So we've knowneach other for twenty four years. We've
grown up with each other. That'sliterally my brother, you know. Okay,
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that's something I thought. You guysmet in college. No, each
other since high school. You guyscame out here together, essentially came out
here. Yeah, we came outhere together. You know, we together
and everything, right real, yeah, all that we've grown up out here,
you know, so and we're youknow, I'm happy to say that,
you know, Fresno five five nineis my home because I think it's
been it's gonna be, what eighteenyears I've been here, so essentially the
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same amount of time that I've grownup in the bay, you know.
So the bay is always me,it's in me, but the valley is
also like I'm proud, like mywife is from here, my kids are
are born and raised in here,you know, so I'm definitely like proud.
But anytime I go back home,I always got to flex on my
kids and be like, yo,like this this is where daddy's from.
Put on some forty and whatnot onthe one oh one head to my parents.
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But uh yeah, so it cameout here. But I started djying.
I first started in two thousand andthree, so my dad used to
have DJ gear, so like Ikind of messed around with the DJ stuff
from there, you know, andthen didn't really start again get into it
until two thousand and five ish aroundthere, you know, So uh got
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into it, you know. SoKrich and I like, I mean we
would literally just go to like thehouse parties, right, and you know,
we're dating ourselves. But back thenwhen we had like the five CD
changer boom box and maybe mixes onthe CDs, and we would go through
them and I'm like, bro,like these songs are boo boo, Like
go back to that one Little Johnsong. Right. Yeah. So one
day we i mean we both alreadywere just infused with music. That's how
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our bond started. And we justwas like, we gotta like start djaying
and just start doing these parties,you know. And yeah, man,
I mean we low key took ourfinancial aid money from school, gear the
turntables and all that stuff, youknow, And that's how it started,
you know, and back there orhere it started here. Yeah, so
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you he started as state, right, That's when you got serious yeah,
Win died the whole full Clip DJsthing Full Clip around two thousand and six.
Clip DJs, which is the crewyour crew sort of. Yeah,
so it was like the first crew. So basically like our Mentors, which
is our homie hob season San Diego. You know, he does weddings and
events still in San Diego. FullTurntable is hip hop cat, I mean
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on the vinyl, can cut andscratch and whatnot. And so he was
the one that basically showed us like, hey, this is basically the fundamentals
of hip hop in its essence,how to like go on vinyl and whatnot,
just keeping it real authentic. Ourother homie, check O DJ Checko,
we met him when he was atSanta Clair University and so back then,
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you know, we would go toSanta Clair University and they had this
event called the Bronco and he wasDJing the Bronco on vinyl. Mind you,
Tororado was already there at the time. He had creative the vinyl and
just going off of vinyl. Welove that shit though, right, Like
he almost like refused to use yeah, yeah, he almost refused, Like
he didn't get on Serrato till likeI don't know, two thousand late late,
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So, uh, he was theone that I mean when when you
know, we started on vinyl,he basically told us like no, like,
if you're gonna DJ, you gottastart on vinyl. So when we
started DJing, we were on vinyl, learning by the ears and whatnot,
you know, before riding the screensand looking at the waves and whatnot.
You know. So and that wasthe crew you know, from from when
we started, you know, andthen doing a lot of events in San
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Jose downtown events you know, duringthe hyphee movement and whatnot. You know.
So that in itself was just anexperience to say the least during that
time to go back and forth fromFresno, go back to San Jose,
dj around San Jose, San Francisco, wherever it was, you know,
Milpedis, Fremont, you know,and uh yeah, man, it was
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just uh those early years were funbecause it was just a lot of like
learning, playing music and you know, full circle as to currently what's going
on today with like the kids,which we'll get to still like they they
love the two thousands. I mean, the two thousands is still running when
it comes to parties and whatnot.Off from the days when we used to
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be on the clubs and the radioand whatnot, when you were Oh,
go ahead, and I was gonnasay this was like kind of around the
era that I met Juice Box.We had a class together. I know
you'd like to tell this story.Okay, we had a class at prison
state, right, and so wehad a mutual friends. Shout out to
Samantha. We had a mutual friendand so one day we're we had a
class, you know, like abusiness management class. It was yeah,
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yeah, and this was back inthe day when we had like you know,
you had to match your your hatwith your shirt, with your shoes
with everything, right, everything match. Back then, that was the style.
Go look at a social boy video. That's that's what it was.
Social boy video. Yeah, wasit the big the jerseys? Was it
that area yet? It was comingout of that era, but still but
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still with the bag ship. Yeah. So, like Gisel walks in and
he had a blue a baby blueshirt, and he had like, you
know, I already know the optionof shorts, right, he had like
some white nikes on and like ablueberry hat, like the backward hat.
And I looked at him and I'mlike, but like, why is he
so fitted? At night? Itwasn't been like eight in the morning,
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like first class of the day.And I'm like and I'm like living across
the street and the Bulldogs, solike I'm coming up in like sweats and
like literally slides, which basically isa college I didn't know the assignment apparently,
but I was just looking at him, but like why is he so
fitted? Like it was almost likeno reason, right, like where am
I going fucking class? Like Iwas like he's looking clean, but like
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but bro, like why are youso fitted? Like that's funny and and
yeah man, but like but Iknew like early on, I'm like all
right, like you know, likethis dude knows what's up, like the
style wise, we probably couldn't getalong with just music and what's current and
whatnot the time. You know,so you weren't interning yet at this time
or were you? I know Iwas, I was interning at this time.
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I think I'm not even been parttime during this time. Yeah,
so this was like early what thishas got to be two thousand eightish maybe
around there, I think seven aroundthere, So I was I was probably
doing just weekends at the time.Uh, but I didn't. We just
had that mutual friend and yeah,I was showing up the class fucking unnecessary
like that. But then where wereally got closest when k Rich got into
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this into the station at that time, and then we all kind of like
introduced each other and that's how Igot to know Juice Box. Yeah.
Yeah, we kind of we hadthat class, but even like really talk
to each other really, I guessthat's what I was trying to you guys,
we knew of each other because wehad a mutual friend, but we
didn't really know each other until likewe met until I met kay Rich and
he got into the station and thenhe was like, oh, this is
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my boy juice Box, and likeoh ship, and then we all kind
of like got to meet everybody.Yeah. Yeah, so it was yeah,
like during that time was just new, you know. So and during
that time we would like, youknow, just get to know each other
from like events, going out,you know, doing the bars, the
clubs. I mean back when Switchwas GA Lubs. Yeah you know when
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uh, I mean it was likeon the Rocks, the Red Room or
yeah, because you guys were DJing, fraternity parties a lot, and you
weren't yet, no no, noso but so at this time we were
heavy in the in the college rotationsof parties and they got this ship jumping,
yeah you know so, and sothe way it started was, I
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mean, shout to Carriage. That'sthat's the homie. But the talent that
like he just got it, youknow. And so, uh, when
we would do parties, I wouldI would always be the opener, you
know. I would always open up, you know, so like playing all
the records, and it's funny becauseyou know, like speaking to all the
DJs, I would start from like, you know, the seventy bpms and
work all the way up to likethe one hundreds and back then in the
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two thousands, all the cracking recordswere like one hundred on up, like
the one other record, the twoshort blow the whistle, all the Little
John records, right like all theall the ship was all around there.
So I would just like set himup and he would just go from there,
you know, and just rip it. And again he gets it,
yea gets it, you know.So So those years of just us understanding,
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and I mean still to this daywhen we DJ together, it's one
of those where we don't have tolook at each other and I know which
record to drop, and he knows, like even if he's saying something on
the mic, I know which recordat the I'm gonna type this in And
here we go and just look ateach other and then we left because it's
like, you know, we've we'veknown each other for all these years.
We know exactly like what to play, how to go back and forth with
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it, you know. So it'slike a good sports team with that chemistry.
You guys have that chemistry, yeahfor sure. So uh yeah,
so so like the U during thattime, you know, definitely, you
know, we were heavy in theclubs and whatnot, the bars and and
whatnot. So this was when youknow, all these places were around,
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you know, So anyone that's likekind of like in the bar seeing that
clip scene. Now, you probablydon't remember some of these spots. They're
probably like you know, I don'tknow, like grocery grocery stores now.
Yeah, yeah, literally, butbut uh yeah, I mean they're great
times. I mean the folks thatgrew up with us, you know,
like definitely remember the days when youknow, it was the full clip DJs
of free. But it was dopethough, because you guys had your own
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banner, your own t shirts,and you guys were like doing all the
fat parties and just parties around theschools and then like the little club parties
that like the colleges. So youguys had like the college scene on lock
which is which I always thought wasdope. And then that's when I started
kind of like hanging around with thembecause Kate Rich was at the station at
that time, and you kind oflike, hey, yo, I'm about
to go DJ's it's frat party.And then we'd show up and then Juice
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Box, like you said, hewas opening and it was just it was
jumping off. It was like agood time. And then we had the
parties, uh at the Bulldogs theparties. That was another one that I
would hear about. I guess youguys would be on the balcony. Yeah,
yeah, so it all started byaccident too. Yeah. So it
was like fourth of July, sofor those that would go home for the
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summer, like I mean, therewas some Bacon apartment spots and whatnot.
So the first time we were onthe balcony and we had like those old
school like like tall speakers that juston the top, you know, and
the balcony overlooked the looking overlooking thepool and just imagine a Yeah, the
complex surrounded the pool and like oneof the balconies overlooked it. So it
was like the perfect setup. Yeah, and so we basically just ran power
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in one of the vacant apartments.Yeah, was in and I mean it
was almost like the VP because inthere we just had like our drinks in
there and whatnot, all the allour gear. But did you wait,
so you guys were planning this firstparty pool party, do you have to
get uh permission? Well, youknew the manager, right or someone of
the people that so it was itwas I forgot who it was at the
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time. But basically we we hadit good. We had it in good
with them, you know, sothey they allowed it, you know,
like, hey, we're just gonnado like I think we kind of pulled
off as it was a birthday party, yeah, you know. And then
so from there we just had we'replaying music and I mean people just start
coming over. I mean we wouldstart like, I mean, I don't
know, three o'clock. It wentall the way till all night long.
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But the music was going out tothe pool outside from the I guess the
thing that's going through my head isdo you do that thing where you have
to knock on every door and like, hey, just let you know we're
a party. I think it's oneof those situations where it's mostly students that
live there, so everyone kind ofBut also it was during the summer,
so we didn't have an excuse tobe like I'm studying. Yeah, maybe
it's like you had to work,but it's like like you know where you're
at, like Holliday weekend, theholiday weekend, like people are wanted,
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they want to swim, they wantto hear music, you know. I
think like during that time, peoplewere bringing food, alcohol. It just
like it was. It was.It was dope about it was so organic,
like it just people started. Itwas like, damn, next thing
that was cracking. The one thingI remember from those parties was one little
Waynes the Carter three dropped. Ithink this was two thousand and eight,
and it was huge. That waslike the record of the year, like
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you know, so and then alsothe homie Deontay shout out to Deontay asked
for swag surfing and we were like, uh, and you know, back
then, I was kind of like, uh, I think I know this
record and we played it and peoplelike they knew it, you know,
but we were doing the whole backand forth. That's what it is right
now in twenty twenty four. Backthen, it was just a record and
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the people were just kind of doinglike the little dance to it and whatnot.
You know. So, but it'scrazy to see that that's one of
those records that's just i mean organicallyjust still kind of like it's a cultural
hip hop type of hit that likeyou have to play, know so,
I mean even the kids today lowkey know it, you know, and
it's yeah, it's it's crazy,but h we Yeah, we just kind
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of just used to throw parties orwherever. Man Like we would go to
like different venues like hey, we'reDJ's, can we throw a party here?
And then we would kind of likedo a deal, like you know,
like you guys can keep the barsales and we'll get whatever it's at
the door and and whatnot, youknow. So and so we had like
a lot of homies that would justhad connects like yo, DJ at this
one spot, DJ over here andover here and whatnot, you know.
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So and so that's what it was. That's how it was kind of like
you know, getting our footing youknow for yourself, building a name and
whatnot, which which worked, whichI thought. It was helped to just
kind of grow organically in the collegescene. To see these guys come up
at the college parties and then likethe little the little little hangouts like club
sauce at the times it was jumpedin, uh, and then to see
where they got now, So itwas cool to like kind of grow with
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those guys. All right, Soso you you guys got the party college
scene locked down? How did youwhat was the first uh you know,
thought that you wanted to get intoradio? Was it just because kay Ridge
was there? Now you have tofollow him? Like what was the transition?
So no, yeah, so likeCarridge got on radio I think in
two thousand and eight. Yeah,yeah, so I remember just you know,
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from listening to radio. So growingup listening to radio, Uh,
definitely, I knew like this wassomething that like you had to earn.
So I knew at the time.I'm like, I'm not ready for radio.
I was like basically like you know, knowledgeable, enough to know like
when I'm ready, I'm ready,and I feel like when when I was
ready enough to get on radio,like I would be like, you know,
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basically given the opportunity, you know, I didn't want to be the
ones like knocking on the door,can I get on? It's not like
because growing up in the Bay,I would grow up listening to the DJs
like Jasponoza when he was on oneninety four nine, you know, or
while one was seven at the time, you know, friends in you know
og DJ's my favorite DJ, ScottyFox when he was on CHMEO. I
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would go back home Scotty Fox andI got a chance to DJ with Scotty
Fox, you know, up inin Bay one time, and it was
one of my highlights of like mycareer as a DJ. Just one of
my favorite DJs listening to you know, so, so I know that going
into radio like you have to beseasoned. You gotta sound clean, you
gotta sound crisp. It's a differenttype of djan. Yeah. So even
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listening to the to the DJs herewhen I started, you know, so
listening to you magic and and knowingthat you're like, okay, he's from
like la is a so cal area. So hearing your style, I'm like,
I knew it. I'm like,nah, he's clean, you know.
So even like the you know,Dizzy shout out to Dizzy listening to
him now he's got it. RenRock, the Oge listening. I'm a
huge fan of ren Rock, likelistening to his mixes, you know.
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So I knew. I'm like,Okay, I can't just step in and
not like come in with like youknow, uh, feeling not ready.
I had to come in prepared,you know. So Herb Herb was like
another og like listening to RB andwhatnot. You know. So, so
I was given the opportunity around twentythirteen, and I think Gizzo and Herb
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like kind of basically was like askedlike, Hey, do you want an
opportunity to get on the station,And I said yeah, because I think
at that time twenty thirteen, giveme some time. I was. I
felt like I was ready ready,you know, so so way I didn't
know this that you were you kindof quarterbacked him getting into station. Yeah
and a hat Okay, yeah,yeah for sure. This so Herb was
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still doing the at the time.Coordinator. Yeah, Ka Rich we were
all kind of like riding for itbecause like it was time, you know
what I mean, Like he hadpaid his dues, he was clean.
We needed a DJ, and it'sjust like yo, we this is our
guy right here. Yes. So, so HERB made me submit like three
different mixes. Put submitted mix,twenty minute, thirty minute mix, all
right, cool, put through itin there, send me another one.
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All right, cool through another one. And I knew like it was just
like let me see like the versatilityfrom yeah yeah, and so I knew.
I'm like, all right, letme do like radio style, let
me do like one that's a moreuptempo, let me do one that's like,
you know, general kind of poppymix whatever, you know. So
and he asked me like, hey, can you DJ Memorial Day weekend?
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And I was like, all right, yeah, we could do it,
but you gotta go live for twohours. And I knew that was a
test. That's a different beast.You can you sound good like recorded,
you know, but like let's seeyou do this live. And that was
one of the most nerve wracking momentsin my career, stepping in the studio
and just being like, damn,do you remember who he went live with
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Yeah, with God what's his name? Man? The Prophet really was here
real quick. Can we just putsome context into this because we're talking about
recording and live. Of course,with technology, we could record things and
make it sound good and that's whatyou'll hear on the radio. But this
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was an era where everyone was DJinglive, Yeah, and we all wanted
to. It was fun especially likethe mixt weekends. It's funny you say
that because that was always kind ofa time where we needed extra mixers because
it's literally Friday through Monday mixing likefrom noon to midnight, so you need
extra mixers. So that sounds aboutright. The Herb wanted him during that
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time because we probably needed bodies.And it's just a good time because it's
like a party on the radio duringthat time. Uh, and so that
was perfect. But I guess youwork with the Prophet during that time,
which is funny. Yeah, we'rein the room. We're in the studio
where we're recording this podcast, whichwhere you would have been DJs, which
is the mixing room, and Iknow the first thing he came in,
he was like, Yo, we'rethe table. It's kind of redecorated in
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here. So let's take us tothat first on air live shift. Yeah.
So I come in and set up. I think I got like an
hear a hour early, and Ithink I don't know if someone was here
beforehand. I don't know if itwas Dizzy or rent Rock. And they
were like, oh, you're gonnamix live and all all right, and
you know they were they've been inhere, they know didn't and they're like,
good luck, man, like,all right, do what you do?
You know you have fire. Ihad no one in here, and
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I kind of wanted that. Iwas like, I don't want anyone to
hear, Like, let me justkind of like concentrate because I think the
first hour I didn't really like scratchor anything like much on it because I
was nervous. So it was justclean, safe. I kept as simple.
Second hour, I was like,Okay, I'm good, and so
like I was able to kind oflike, you know, go a little
harder with the creativity and whatnot.You know, so uh just overly like
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dropping the Juice Box logo during themixes and whatnot. Yeah. So and
then after that, you know,I was invited to, uh to come
back again, you know, andthen having a time slot like you know,
during the weekends and whatnot. Andbut like you guys mentioned like,
I mean, the fun times werejust like being in the studio going live.
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I mean, like as a asa radio listener. You know,
I'm trying to paint it for you, like you guys are hearing like us,
and it sounds like it's fun andit's live, and it is because
we're talking on the radio. We'retalking about quick current events stuff. We're
talking about the music, like yo, this is a new Chris Brown.
I don't know if you guys heardit yet. I mean, you know,
with this day and age, Imean, we're pretty quick to hear
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music like just like that with ourphone. But back then, you know,
we were able to premiere records andthen you know, I mean even
sometimes I'll tune into BE ninety fiveand I'll be like, what song is
this? Yeah? Because okay,like I'm just listening to like podcasts about
like sports and how shitty the Cowboysare yeaheah, you know, so like
but once in a while, likeyou know, like I'll turn tune in
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and then you know, and I'llbe like, oh shit, what song
is this and then like I'll haveto like look it up. I'm like,
oh I like this song, Ohthis is that one song? Okay?
Cool? You know, so radiostill does his job in which like
it's still like, you know,gets music out there for everyone. But
I mean think about like how funit sounds like to have like a mixer
and whatnot. And that's what Ilove. That's what I grew up listening
to as a kid, growing upwith the boom box and then calling you
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know, like ninety four nine ko, like can I hear this this song
and whatnot? I mean I meanlike that's what I wanted to bring in.
Yeah, you know, I wantedto like come in and give a
fuck about putting together like a qualitymix that like people like wanted to be
like yo, that was a dopemix. So so yeah, man,
I mean it's it's it was.It was just a blast, you know,
just to to do radio. It'ssomething that I still cherish to my
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heart. You know. You know, I got kids now, so like
they definitely like are like, oh, you used to be on the radio.
It's like yeah, you know,and all the mixes that I did,
I have them all saved from likeover the years, I have them
all saved up, you know,so that one day I can just like
play for them, you know,like, hey, look, this is
my time when I was on radio, this is the music at the time,
and whatnot. You know. Sowe we've mentioned just and I have
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mentioned this before in the past episodes, but just even when the mics are
not on, but whoever's DJing,we would all just come and hang out
around. Yeah, just sit hereand juice boxes DJing. But then we'll
just be all talking here on theside. Yeah. I remember like having
to be here on New Year's Evedoing a shift and just bringing everybody up
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in here, like yo, we'regonna have our own Yeah. It was.
It was fun, man. AndI mean like, and I think
that's something that like, you know, we wanted people to kind of here,
like, oh it sounds cracking overthere, there's people in the background
talking and move on to feel likeit's like a house party. That energy
kind of like relates to the listeners. You know. If it sounds like
we're having fun, they're probably havinga good time too. Yeah. Something
you know we always talk about ontheir personalities where they kind of emulate people
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they've heard just out of curiosity,you learning how to DJ each year?
Were was there anyone that you kindof listen to that you wanted to emulate
when you were still when you werelearning, or looked up to maybe yeah,
I know you you brought the othernames before, but yeah, so
skill wise, skill wise, youknow, so god like I wanted to
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basically just have my It took awhile to like really understand what my style
is. You know, every DJhas their style and whatnot, and so
you know, when I started DJing, I wasn't the much. I wasn't
a talker. So like those thatknow us know that, like Kybridge was
the one that was always on themic, phenomenal on the mic. You
know, Like I did not liketalking on the mic. I think I
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was just very I was quiet growingup as a kid. I was just
very shy. So it's kind ofcrazy that like I fell into doing radio
and even like continue to DJ andlike I mean weddings and corporate events because
like I'm talking on a microphone.Yeah, you have to put yourself out
there hundreds of people and having toshow like personality, you know, and
so so I had to like learnto be like what kind of DJ am
I going to be? You know, I want to be a DJ where
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like I'm able to kind of likeshow a little bit of cuts and scratches,
you know, and whatnot, andalso like just be clean. I
always wanted to come off as likethat's a clean mix, you know.
So I mean even like uh,I think some of the cleanest mixes that
I've ever heard radio wise, Imean from like down in La so like
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Real ninety two to three, powerone oh six, you know, just
DJ a Man. I mean hismixes just sound clean. E Rock.
You know, he's now in Vegas, and I mean his mixes always sounded
clean. Friends in the og,you know, sounded clean, you know,
so Eric Deluxe also his mixes,the Cuts, Sour Milk. I
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mean, these these are guys thatlike I listen to and like and I'm
just like, yeah, this islike kind of like what I wanted to
sound like, just clean, cut, scratches, not go overly. I'm
not too much of a turntable listlike, you know saying I'm still practiced.
I still practice to this day.I was just practicing yesterday, you
know, like the kids are goingto bed last night I'm in my room
like cranking music. I'm playing,you know, like I'm I'm putting it
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level. Yeah, I'm putting togetheryou know, these these podcast mixes that
we'll talk about and just recapping years, you know, and I was playing
music from like two thousand and fourand just thinking like, oh my god,
this is music from like twenty yearsago, and then like and it's
crazy to see that, like it'scoming coming back in full circle, because
I mean it's still popular today,you know, like these these these songs.
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You know, So as matter offact, list can we get into
that about these songs? You gotsomething else? Well? I was just
gonna ask during that era, youknow, just on I this is what
kind of what was our profession wasradio? Were you what was the mindset
of where did you want to goprofession wise while you were DJing on the
radio. Yeah, So I thoughtthat, you know, radio could have
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been like, you know, we'llsee how far it could go. But
I felt that at the time thatI wanted to really push myself, like
as a DJ. So I wason B ninety five, I think I
got on twenty fourteen, and thenI ended in twenty nineteen. So twenty
nineteen, I felt like I wantedto really like challenge, give myself a
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challenge, you know, just becauseat that point, you know, I
knew like, Okay, I canmix, I can scratch, I can
do this, I know the music. I was starting to come around as
to like, you know, bemore comfortable on the microphone and talking and
so in even I was doing youknow, like a private event such as
weddings, which is what I'm primarilydoing nowadays, you know, but I
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wanted to you know, hone inon that skill and craft. And so
I knew that like I had tolike kind of turn and really like build
my own brand, like you know, and I wanted to like really just
go out there and branch and likejust build a brand, build the name,
you know, and whatnot. So, uh, people know me as
Juice Box, you know. Otherpeople still call me as you know,
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my first name, Hugo. Youknow. I mean, there there aren't
that many Hugos that a lot ofpeople know. So I wanted to go
out there and just kind of likereally start that branding, you know.
So as as a DJ who doesweddings, private events, high school events,
uh, corporate events, I'll still, you know, I'll go back
to San Jose and work with acouple you know, uh dot com companies
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out there when they do events andwhatnot, you know. So but yeah,
but but weddings is basically one thatlike as a DJ, it's it's
it's a difference between doing radio andin doing weddings that is like a huge
And and and clubs are you areyou dipping into the club scene at all
or not so much anymore? Notnot so much? You know, I'll
I'll still do it once in awhile, you know, like if if
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there's like an opportunity, like I'lldip in there. One thing for sure,
I remember when we started doing clubs. I remember the first time I
opened up for for Magic. Wewas to do, uh, what's the
club in Clovi is uh the sellercellar door or one of the cell seller
right, So I remember, Ithink it might've been the first time Magic
heard me, you know, andso I opened up and I knew I
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had like the approval When he cameup to me, he says like,
that's how you fucking open a set. That's a fucking opening set right there.
And then I think, like II think I finally got like his
respect there because he was like,oh shit, okay, like he's good,
you know so. And I rememberthinking to myself like I want to
do good, like I want togive a fuck. I want people to
like walk in and be like ohshit, like okay, that's what's up.
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You know So there's a dope mixlike who's that dude in that hat
over there? Beard? You knowso? But yeah, I don't do
as much. I don't do theclubs as much anymore, you know so.
I'll still do a couple events aroundtown, some of the brunches,
like shout out to uh the Cocky'sbut a brunch, you know so I'll
step in and and do those.Those are a blast to do. I
think that really gave me the opportunityto really flourish as a DJ, as
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a person, to just have fungive like go out there and like drunker
nuts and like yo, like yo, this is who the fuck I am.
So clubs are still fun. Idon't do them as much, you
know so, but when I do, I mean, they're they're still fun
to do, you know. Okay, before we get to the podcast mixing,
because you brought up branding, doyou remember Juice Box wasn't his name
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when he first started wrighting. Weren'tyou just DJ Juice? Yeah, so
I was DJ Juice because obviously,Okay, so for you know, like
those who speak Spanish, huge Googleis Google like Juice in Spanish, right,
so that was easily like GJ juice. Oh that ship's fucking you know,
and I spell it different j euce because I'm a junior, so
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like Juice number two junior, LikeI had this whole thing, right,
and so, but then there's otherDJ Juices. There's a DJ Juice in
the Bay Area, there's a DJJuice locally, the I'll go here DJ
Jews like the og you know,shout out to DJ Juice here and Fresno
like that's the homie, you know. So so yeah, so I think
in twenty ten was like I gottalike either do something, change it or
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add to it. So I thoughtto myself, like, I'm gonna do
Juice Box. But wait, whywasn't the mentality like, no, I'm
gonna be the DJ Juice in town. Well, because other DJ Juice,
I mean, he had this,he was he's been out here for a
minute. That's true. By theway, he's the homie like what we
know. I was like, nah, you know what, like I don't
want to like, I just Iwant to like I'm not to kind of
like separate yourself, right, Iwant to separate myself and I I you
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know, I want I want tobe cool with like all the DJs in
town. I got no qualms onanyone here. Did you ever talk to
him about this? Does he likedid you ever know? No? Okay,
No, it was more for you, like, okay, I want
to change. Yeah. Yeah.And so I just thought that the name
DJ juice Box is so funny,Like I thought to myself, someone probably
thinks of a juice box, that'sa that's a dumb sounding DJ name,
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And then I was probably one ofthem. At first, I wasn't a
fans. I wasn't a fan whenyou did it because I understood why it
was juice because of your name.So when you first did it, at
first, I wasn't a fan,but then it kind of grew on me.
It grew and I think just becausepeople are just like, I don't
know a juice box exactly. That'swhat I was gonna say, Like,
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you know, no one else hasthat name. So I think that's kind
of like why. I like,people like at the time already knew me.
They've already called me Juice, likeJuicy, what's up, you know,
like, and so I was like, I can't like not just call
myself DJ, I don't know whatever, you know, Like, so I
just had to go Juice box,you know, and with the with the
drop, you know, I meanthat really came brought it together, brought
it home and be like, okay, cool, you know. So I
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think I so the thing the wholereason I we wanted to get you on
this topic because we've been talking alot about clubs and the scene and the
change of you know, with thenew generation. But you had tweeted something.
Matter of fact, I got thetweet here, and you said,
the kids at prom are requesting morerecords from the two thousands stand of current,
and so I think kids would ratherhear party slash club records of yesterday
than of today. They can slaptoday's music anytime. And so that was
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like interesting to me because it's kindof been in the same realm of the
things that we've been talking about withthe new generation and the music they want
to hear and the songs that theywant to hear. And so you've been
doing a lot of proms lately inthese like high school events, and that's
the change you've been seeing, isthey want to hear because we see it
on TikTok. These old ass songsare like trending again. Which, by
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the way, I get surprised whenthey're singing along and know it, right,
I know it, yeah, becauseyou post I love I love your
recap videos. Man, I'm watchingthem. Yeah and yeah, I get
surprised when you guys drop a songfrom our era and they're singing it word
for words. So I think tomyself, Okay, so like let's bring
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it down. These kids are inhigh school, right, they're sixteen,
seventeen years old. Right, theywere born in two thousand and six,
two thousand and seven, two thousandand eight. They're a sophomore if my
mouth is correct. So you haveto think about that their parents are either
elder millennials or older gen X folksthat grew up listening to stuff from like
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the nineties and the two thousands.So what are they listening to as they're
growing up, stuff from like thetwo thousands, from the nineties, right.
So basically, if you I'm gonnaI'm thirty eight, all right.
So if you're like thirty eight andup and probably have a kid like in
high school or junior high, chancesare they're they're listening to you know,
the two thousand stuff growing up.Right. Listen, I got a I
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got a playlist that this past weekend. Shout out to uh Hoover High Foul
or High I did their proms thispast month. Dude, the kids were
rocking, man. But listen tothe playlist, Kisha cole Love. That's
a big record that who's giving youthis playlist? The school is, the
school is, this is what thekids that are requesting because I tell them
I need you to tell the kidswhat they want to hear. Well,
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first of all, are you messagingthese is what he did? No?
No, no, no no no, Drake, no no no no.
But like I'm talking to like theforminators administrators, I'm like, hey,
you know, can you do mea favor, like ask the kids like
you know or what we do iswe'll do like a QR code. The
kids can like put the QR codesubmit like the songs that they want here.
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Yeah, So Keisha Cole Love isone of the biggest records that these
kids love. That's some crazy I'mtrying. I'm trying to think this that's
equivalent to like what for us,like a a tevin Ca Campbell Can we
talk? Yeah? For us?Right yeah, Flow right er Low that
came out in two thousand and eight, Walk a Flock of No Hands that
came out, Yeah, that's you, Mac Dre Gets Stupid twenty four,
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twenty years that that dropped, youknow Usher, Yeah, that came out.
Confessions was like the biggest R andB album two thousand and four,
right lit John get Low Wow.I mean these are records, so this
is livingly like our high school era. Yeah, and then Sweedy my Type.
That's that's their that's their current stuff, even though that record came out
a couple of years ago. Rightjustin Bieber Baby Wow banger for them,
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I just drop of it and Icould just go back and forth, and
they are singing their heart out,you know, obviously like the Taylor Swift
and all that. But something aboutthese records for them, to them,
these are like their throwbacks. Tothem, that's their old school when you
think about it, you know,so, but What's interesting though, why
do they want to hear those atlike the dances. Is it because they
feel they can dance to these songsmore or like what do you think the
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reason is? I think that theyprobably grow up hearing stories from their parents,
or they probably on social media andthey're on TikTok, and then they're
probably like hearying like you know,the millennials like yo, back in the
club days we used to have weused to hear these records. We to
hear this record. And if youkind of listen to music today, music
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today is more about the vibes.It's vibe stuff. It's more like,
you know, you're kind of kickingback, like having like a a kickback
of house party and you're listening towhat Byby records that's on right now.
So but if you want to likehave a great time in dance, nothing
is like compared to those early clubrecords. I mean, like, I
mean, we we're we're a testamentbecause we grew up and went through it,
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you know, and so uh,I mean these kids, like I
mean, if they want to havea great time, yeah, they want
to hear Montel Jordan's this is howwe do it it comes up asking for
like eighties records, I'm like,what the fuck I'm want to hear that.
I feel like TikTok too has alot to do with it with the
high school kids because I'm seeing dances. You know, TikTok is known for
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the when they're doing these dances wherethey use they use songs from back in
the days. For instance, Idon't play Poisoned by Bail Bidevo hardly ever
anymore, but I see that it'scoming. They're doing it, but it's
the sped up version. But atleast they know what that's they can they'll
recognize the song when they hear itagain. Yeah, but I'm like,
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oh man, and I might haveto bring poison Belle Bivdevo back on my
list because I'm seeing it on TikTok. So. Here's something that we've been
talking about about, like with theclubs recently, is that we're seeing a
shift in like kind of the atmosphereof the clubs and people not really dancing
and it's more about the lounge.And it's like, and I'm a fan.
I know, we're all kind ofa fan of the dance clubs where
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people are actually dancing and moving around, but it doesn't seem like it's that
anymore. But now kind of likewhat you're telling us, what these teenagers
are doing and what they're wanting.Do you think that when once they start
growing and getting into the club scene, that maybe that that dance club is
going to come back around? Giveit? Yes? I think right now
what we've been with the trend withhip hop. Yeah, I have my
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own theory just because I'm a nerdlike that, and I go back and
listen to a lot of different musicfrom like the past and whatnot. You
Yeah, I think that there's beena trend since. I think music kind
of started changing around twenty eighteen,twenty nineteen. Everything prior to that.
So when I was on radio betweentwenty thirteen, twenty fourteen up till twenty
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nineteen, music was in a goodin a good pocket where there was music
that was hip hop, there wasmusic that was radio friendly, there was
music that was you can dance toit. Like let's say, for example,
twenty fourteen, remember the Mustard era, Yeah had like you know,
the supposed to be the tanasehe tuon. Those were good radio records and you
can still play them at the cluband what you can still dance on me.
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After twenty nineteen, the pandemic,I think kind of fucked up music,
like if you because because we wereinside, right, yeah, it
got depressing. The one, theone popular record in twenty twenty was the
Baby rock Star that living look aBaby and I'm sorry but that I was
through TikTok. That song fucking sucks. Like every time I heard it,
I changed it because I don't know, Like, I don't know, because
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the time was depressing because the Coronavirus. We were all inside. You
would hear the guitar and I'm justlike, oh the fuck it just felt
I don't know. But after that, music hasn't really been the same.
I don't know, Like I thinklike that the pandemic really kind of shifted
everything. So we're four years outfrom from it, I think we're starting
to kind of come out of likethis rut. When it comes to music,
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it's I think it's just a hiphop where it's out right now.
It's kind of in like a stalenesswhere it's out right now. Even radio
songs are just kind of like,eh, you know, it's a lot
of like slower tempo kind of records, and I think that's why like Latin
music really kind of sparked man.Yeah, because that's because that's where people
are dancing. Yeah, I mean, I mean, like now, like
when I do parties, like i'mit's either if it's not fifty to fifty,
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I'm playing more Spanish music party goodpoints. So growing up, I
mean I knew Spanish music, youknow, I mean, I'm Salvadorian.
I didn't grow up listening to theMexican corridosallo's all that. But out here
in the valley, I had tolike quickly learn. Yeah, I gotta
I gotta know these records, youknow, so and so and so.
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Like I got like, you know, my current uh DJ buddies that like,
you know, I'm working with,they put me up on games.
So shout out to uh Lunatico,you know R two oh, you know
Echo, Like they're the ones thatput me on when it comes to the
Spanish records, like hey just playthis or play that, you know,
so to. But I think now, like give it, give it about
two three years. I feel likemusic is gonna shift to where it's gonna
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go back to like a dancing likedancing. People are gonna want a club
more. I mean we're kind oflike coming out of this whole bottle service
era at the clubs. Hope,so because that shit is so whack to
me, you know what I'm saying. Everybody just wants bottle service. Everybody
wants to do it for the gram. Yeah, you know, show what
they're in VIP and no one's fuckingmoving, you know what I'm saying.
It's just like all for show.But like take me back to the clubs.
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Jumping off people are jumping literally dancingmoving, you know what I'm saying,
breaking a sweat. We got togo back to like when we just
like pull up and like dance onthe female, like and if you got
dissed, you got this and youjust moved on. Like when like you
go up on a girl and thenlike he looks at the homegirl and she
gives you that like yeah, here'sa confirmation that she kind of looks back
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at your like okay, cool,Like you know, so we had to
go back to those days. Youknow, I think I think a lot
of these kids are just missing likethose those club days, man, like
just going out having a good time, like breaking the sweat. You know.
I think we talked about the previousone where they they go for themselves
with the gram and then they leadshow people that I was there. You
know what I'm saying. Make sureyou saw what I was wearing. But
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yeah, let's take it back tohaving fun at the clubs and the parties,
which was the original point of it. You know what I'm saying.
Let's kind of fast forward. Letme just ask you, this is DJing
cause you know, like you said, you're DJing the schools, the weddings
sometimes clubs. Is this your mainsource of income right now? Yeah?
Oh no, this is full time? So I think I started basically just
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was like I think I need todo this full time. Like around twenty
eighteen, twenty nineteen. Remind me, did you correct me if I'm wrong?
Did you just you you chose toleave radio, right I did?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you'relike, yeah, I think I'm done.
Like yeah, you didn't get likecut or nothing like no, yeah,
no, I I left, youknow, but it but it was
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just it was a tough. Itwas a tough decision because I love to
do radio. I loved it,you know, just because I love to
like actually wanted to put a goodproduct of a mix out there because growing
up I listened to like great mixes, Like I listened to some dope DJs,
and so when I stepped in asa radio DJ, I had a
responsibility of, like, you needto put together quality mixes. You need
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you need to sound solid. I'veheard some shitty mixes and it just irked
me because I'm like, dude,like you gotta like put some respect on
your name. You gotta have peoplepeople want to like, want you to
like, you know, like it'sa privilege essentially to do what we're doing,
right what I'm saying. So,but but I at the same time,
I I decided to step back becauseI kind of wanted to focus on
(50:00):
my on my branding and just takemore time. And yeah, I went,
I went full time, you know. So I uh, with the
support of my wife, you know, she she told me, like you,
she told me, like, Ithink you need to do this full
time. I mean, and whenyou when I look back at it,
I mean, I've been djaying fornow, it's going to be what eighteen
years. I've been doing this foreighteen years, you know, from when
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I started from the inception and it'sit's essentially my career, you know.
So so when I when I domeet with like clients who want to book
for a DJ, I tell themlike, listen, you're not I'm not
doing this part time. This isn'tlike a side thing, a weekend thing.
This is my profession. Yeah,this is what my resume speaks for.
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I've done radio, i do this, I've done this, I was
here, I've done there, youknow, school. So yeah, I
mean so so and when a lotof people hear me, like they just
come up and they're like, you'rereally good, and I'm like, I'm
always appreciative because I want I wantpeople to care about the music. I
want them to you know, havea great time for me. At the
end of the night, when peoplecome up and say, like, dude,
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that was fun. People are sweating, they're drunk, and they're like
bad to me, like that meansthey had a blast, you know.
So, so yeah, this isfull time now. Yeah, shouts out
to you. Because DJ there's differentlanes. There's the touring DJ, there's
the festival DJs, the radio DJs, the club DJs, and you found
this lane where you're especially in townnot a lot of people do. There's
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a lot of our homies are doingit too. But yeah, you have
this lane where essentially doing private eventsyou know what I'm saying exactly, and
I know how much those pay theclubs and shouts out to you for even
investing in that, because I thinkthis was years ago where you posted like
something you bought for you know,uh a gig, and I think I
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messaged I was like, yo,like that DJ, but I don't know
what you bought, but you boughtsomething where I was like, Yo,
that booth is tight. Yeah,and so you're doing it the right way,
thank you? No, Yeah,did the investments? Man? Like
you? You have to you haveto give a damn you know, like
and to if you want other peopleto invest in you and pay for you
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what you're asking for, you haveto invest the timing within yourself to show
others like, listen, this iswhat I do. This is my profession.
And you have to execute. Ithink like the execution portion of it
is, you know, uh easynowadays I can just pull up in DJ
and whatnot. I feel like atthis point in my career, I am
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like hitting the strides like in justperfect, like I'm comfortable on the microphone.
I'm comfortable to talk in front oflike random strangers, you know.
I mean I've DJed at the SaveMark before, you know, like in
front of thousands, you know,so with the help of like being on
radio and when and with you know, everyone around here. So for me
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to do a wedding, I meanthose are fun. I Mean. The
only thing that sucks is like outhere, like if you're doing a wedding
in the summer, and yeah,I'm in a suit, I'm over your
chug and like gallons of water tostay hi. That's the only thing that
sucks. But like, I meanthe execution of it, because I've done
so many like over the years,i already know like how to like go
about it. Sometimes, like I'llrun the whole wedding myself, you know,
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like and people are paying me tolike can you do the whole wedding?
And can you run this from thebeginning to the end, And I'm
like, absolutely, let's do it. I will sit down, we'll knock
everything out. I'll give you suggestions. Do you want to do this?
Do you want to do that?Here we're running a little bit behind.
You want to push up, youknow. So uh you know, so
doing private events and weddings, likeI mean, there's a lot of responsibilities
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and you have to care because youhave to remember, like these are moments
that people are gonna remember. Yeah, really, and you can't mess up.
And there's no sick days with DJs. There are no sick days.
If I have a flu too bad, like bring a night cool, drink
pliny water and do it. Youknow. So where where can uh like
the public, uh, you know, get information on booking? You Are
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you going through a company? Areyou working with partners or can they go
directly to you? Yeah? SoI work with Moss Entertainment. So so
if you want to like, checkus out website Moss M A S H
E N T Weddings dot com.So if you want to check us out,
it's about five of us in therein the crew. So shout out
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to a DJ Lunatico, uh,DJ Echo Arturo, myself, DJ Juice
Box and DJ Kbridge. Five ofus right now. You know. We
we do weddings, private events,school events, I mean you name it,
you know, divorce parties. Youknow, we'll be in there and
you know and get a crack andyou know so. But yeah, if
you want to hit hit me upon the socials, it's everything like the
same at DJ juice Box d JJ e U C E b o X.
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That's Instagram, Twitter if you wantto see me like talk shit about
my team when they're you know soFacebook. Yeah, sometimes I feel like
on Twitter juice Box during the Lakersseason, juice Box would get mad at
me for my negativity. You knowwhat it is too, It's who I
find. I don't know because youmight not be following the same people I
follow, which is my friends,and we all feel the same, and
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I feel like you're getting just mine. So maybe it's not it's not translating
because I'm talking shit with my friends. Yeah, and he's seeing it.
But he's seeing it, so he'slike, Yo, magic is very negative
over here. I don't be likemagic, what the fuck domestic as magic?
Yo, We're down ten. Wegot this, bro, you know.
But then I love it when youjoin when you join it, I'm
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all right, I'm gonna join that. I'm like, I'm the same way
in our group chat. I'll bethe most negative person in our group chat,
and juice Boxes like, nah,we're good still, and I'm like,
no, man, I'm ready toturn this shit off already. Man,
I'm always the one I got hold. I'm down twenty one in the
fourth, two minutes left. Broit ain't over yet. Ain't over yet,
you know. So but but yeah, but like also, if you
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guys are on podcast and one thatI just uploaded some mixes on YouTube.
So if you go on YouTube,search a DJ juice box, I'm currently
working on the series of your reviewsfor for mixes. So I've done two
thousand and one. I broke itup in two so I've done two thousand
and one R and B in twothousand and one hip hop. I uploaded
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like these mixes on YouTube, andthe numbers blew up because I forget that,
you know, YouTube is there tolike kind of put mixes out there
and whatnot, you know, soI just can't monetize off of it,
which I don't care. But Ijust my mixes have gotten like already hundreds
of thousands of listens, you know, and I just uploaded them like about
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a two months ago. But theseare mixes that I started working around twenty
twenty. You know. I've hadthis, like, you know, a
project in my idea of wanting todo recap of mixes, like you know,
over the years. So I've donetwo thousand, two thousand and one,
you guys can check that out.Two thousand and two, hip hop
and R and B. Two thousandand three. I did those last year
for hip hop and R and B, and so this year I'm working on
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two thousand and four. R andB is gonna drop first, and then
hip hop later on down the year, and then I'll probably come back circle
around to like the twenty elevens.I did a twenty eleven. I gotta
re upload that one, but goback to the twenty twelve's and whatnot,
probably you know, for their twentyyears or whatnot. And then you even
do like specific like Aliya mixes oroutcasts. Yeah, like all yeah,
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Like I'll put together like quick littleTikTok songs and mixes you know that people
can just like you know, putup there, you know, just branding,
you know, just throwing mixes outthere. I mean the DJs out
there. There's some dope DJs thatare just putting out some great content,
you know, and you know TikTokwe're scrolling. Yeah, and so I
gotta I gotta come with a record. You just drop it real quick,
thirty seconds of just a bunch ofrecords, you know whatnot. So it's
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great promotions, just kind of putthe name out there, you know,
so just promote mixes. Like Ilove putting these mixes together because I call
them like passion projects. They kindof just kind of like take us back
to like a moment when we werelike younger, and it's like, oh,
back in the day, man,when life was simple and yeah,
man, McDonald's wasn't as expensive.You know, Taco bell was like a
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dollar. You know, there's athere's definitely a lot of nostalgic field to
it because some of my favorite mixesare like the era let's say the era
mixes that he puts out from thefrom the years and like, yeah,
it will take you back to acertain time in your life. And not
to mention, those mixes are verygood for like workouts, you're going on
for a walk and uh or ifyou know, you just want to reminisce
about the good old days. SoI do really like when he puts these,
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Like you like your mixes, Iguess you would call them, yeah,
but you said those are on YouTube. They're on YouTube. They're on
YouTube. Go to Apple podcasts ifso the iPhone listeners, go to podcasts,
just type in my name DJ juiceBox and it'll pop up in there.
All the mixes I've done, Ihave some old ones over the years.
I did a Neptune's mix back intwenty ten. People still like ask
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about it. Did you do aNate Dog mix too? No? No,
no, that was uh DJ SteveWonder okay, stee h he uh
he did a mix It's called Nateand no wait, dude, that mix.
I think that was what was theone that really like inspired me to
do like a theme mix the mixes, you know. So, but yeah,
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so YouTube, it's on there,you'll check it out. Uh,
it's also on iTunes as well.I'm not on iTunes, Apple podcasts and
whatnot. So go go on myInstagram and you'll follow the link and then
it'll take you all there to goback and listening to them. I try
to keep it in an hour.I crme in like as much as fifty
songs in these mixes. And yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm
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just I'm quickly mixing, quick mixingthem, you know, so people have
asked like, hey, can youmake like longer mixes, But like I
just think to myself, like,no one wants to hear like a ninety
minute mix. Yeah. Less,it's more keep them wanting to come back,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, But then I I also remember
that there are people that like liketo you know, clean the house and
have YouTube on in the background andwhatnot. So I might just start putting
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together like just mixes of like youknow me, you know, mixing like
at the house. Yeah. Peoplelike to see like the live mixes and
whatnot, you know. So that'ssomething that like I'm gonna work on soon,
you know, just to kind ofyou know, scratch the itch of
the days when I used to doradio, because like I still try to
find the times to like put togethersome mixes and whatnot, you know,
for you bro. Yeah, yeah, it was good to catch up with
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you face to face. I know. It kind of when with social media
you feel like you hang out withyour friends anyways. And also I'll say
this because it man, it youjust saying these names. It just reminds
me of when we used to hangout. We call you guys, call
it the h Q House on wherewas that at? Yeah, well we
don't live there anymore, but yeah, Getsburg. Yeah, we used to
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just go there and just hang out. Man, the stories that we have.
We had a DJ room, justa wall full of like posters and
whatnot, you know, and uhand when artists would stop by, we
would just pull like the vinyls,like like Rich would hit me up,
like yo, look for that oneGenie vinyl or that one Mario record,
and then we would pull up thestation and the artist would be like,
(01:00:59):
dude, you have this still andit was sign it. You know.
We still have some of those,you know. Yeah man those yeah,
like it's just for sure, andI know we're we're we you know,
you have a family and we're allolder now, so it's not even one
of those things like yo, wedon't even hang out anymore, Like no,
it it was great when we gotto do it back then. And
now we're all older and I'm gladwe're all still friends. Yeah. The
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way we hang out now is goingto like his kids birthdays, you know.
So it's just a different topic hangoutnow. You know what I'm saying,
life life, and you know,yeah, exactly it's still it's still
great to see everyone. I'm stillI'm still happy that, like you know,
most of us are still in town. Yeah, shout out to Kenny.
Kenny lives in New Orleans now,Oh wow, yeah, so shout
shout out to him. It's beena minute. I think he'll be out
here soon, you know so.But yeah, man, it's it's great
(01:01:44):
to be back here man at thestation, the old stomping ground. So
definitely great memories here. I Igrew up a lot as a DJ,
you know, so, and andas a as a person, as an
m C. It all started herefor me, you know, and so
thank you guys for having me.It was definitely, you know, an
honor to be here. I listento you guys all the time. Definitely,
(01:02:06):
you guys got some funny ass stories. Story about that one I told
I told you about, texted youabout which one I was trapped in the
closet? That one? That one? Yeah, how come we never heard
of this story? Yeah? Broheard that story? What I went to
old girl's house and her dad waschasing me through their house. We got
some story. We're gonna we're gonnakeep it off. The podcast from h
Q back in the day. Ohyeah, man, me and juice Box
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got some stories Vegas, some Vegasstories. Oh my god. I don't
know. We might have to openthis up on another day, but it
might get us fired. Until nexttime, DJ juice Box, this could
give me for our podcast.