The Soundtrack Architects: Why DJs Deserve More Respect

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(01:20):
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Speaker 1 (01:23):
Let's go, man it.
It's been a minute, but thanksfor having me.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I appreciate it, man.
Hey, tell us a little bit aboutyourself, give us a quick
synopsis, quick background.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
You know two, three minutes, uh, tell us what you've
been doing and uh, what you'vegot going on, man all right, man
, uh, mainly I'm just uh doingprivate gigs, all right, you
know, here to support other dsas well.
Yeah, you see me out there.
I'm just like showing love toeverybody.
You know there's so many DJfriends that are like legit 100%

(01:53):
, you know, like with my, youknow.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Good group, good community.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Including you guys as well, you know.
But yeah, just staying low key,but the last two months I've
been going out hey so let me askyou about that man going out.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Do any of your friends hit you up and just
think that you're living thisparty lifestyle?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, actually, yeah, that's what they say.
They're like hey.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I thought you were injured.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
I mean, I think we can ask that of all of us.
Do we have a family or friendsthat think our life is just one
big party?

Speaker 4 (02:28):
right, I think everybody thinks that.
But at the end of the day it'sa job.
It is work yes, work we'restanding there for five to six
hours, djing yeah doing that,you know and it gets tiring, not
including the, the preps youknow, setting up oh yeah, before
, after or even home time, whenyou're putting together your
library put your crates togetherit's work they don't understand

(02:49):
that they think that we're upthere partying the whole time.
You still got to control thewhole atmosphere too all we're
up there doing is countingcounting the beats and the hours
going by.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
All we do is count.
We look at the clock man, welook at the BPM, we look at the
clock man.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
I noticed, though, just being out in the scene I
feel like man.
I know every one of us all ofus could mix, but the style of
mixing nowadays is differentfrom where I used, because I
used to do clubs in the 90s andearly 2000s.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
All right.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
And I used to do clubs in the 90s and early 2000s
.
All right, and I stopped.
You know like we can talk aboutlike a little bit like 2003,
when I met the Lord, like I kindof stepped down.
I stepped down and then I wentback in again because you know
what, like this is a talent, aGod-given talent.
You know what I mean.
All I do is play music.
You know to get everybody hypedup that you know good feeling
around.
You know the party.

(03:45):
You know I mean like you're thelife of the party.
You know I mean like withoutyou right there, like party's
dead.
Yep, that's pretty much what itis like that's this guy's too.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
At the end of the day , we are the center of attention
yeah without us.
I mean, yeah, you can have aband, but what's the?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
they can only play for so long.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
They're gonna say this was all along, and even
that for five, five hours.
They get tired too.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
They get tired for up to two hours.
We don't get to stop.
We don't stop.
Yeah, they take a break.
They take a break, they take abreak.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
We can't.
I'm having to run to thebathroom and run right back
while I'm still playing the samesong.
Yeah, you know Exactly.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
What's the bathroom?

Speaker 4 (04:18):
sound.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Something long Depends, I couldn't even say
Rapper's Delight.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, that's a good one.
That's a good start.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I tried to go into Mexican music.
That's probably the longestthing, so if you know how that
is, it's more spread out.
I'm able to at least go there.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah, but it's different.
So, like I said, I do that andI'm also in the groove 99 every
like twice a week.
Oh wow, yeah, I have a slotfrom 9 to 10 on Tuesdays.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Congrats, man, and Fridays.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, I've been doing that for about.
I think it's coming up to fouryears already.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh nice.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
So yeah, I play old school.
You know throwbacks, you knowyou mix it all in.
It's just tough, Like you'renot playing for the crowd.
You know it's hard to get thatvibe when, like radio mixing and
party mixing, you know like gigmixing and also like club
mixing, it's night and day.
Yeah, because now you have allthis music that you gotta throw

(05:12):
in on a 20 minute set.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
You only got 20 minutes and you have to throw
that in you have to throw thosein.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I go from like I go old school and then 80s pop,
80ss hip hop and then you go tolike throwbacks 2000.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
All right, yeah, we stopped at 2017.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
So anything eight years below is considered
throwback.
So we play, but I still haven'tplayed anything from like 2015.
I'm still like stuck to.
Like you know, Eight years isthrowback, it's considered
throwback.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
So so man like 20 years ago is like oldies now, or
what like is is tupac oldiesit's more.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, it's more like that now you know wow so right
now if you look it up on spotify, you put throwbacks in there
like I see like two thousands.
Why?

Speaker 3 (05:58):
you know, I mean throwbacks to me.
That was just yesterday.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, throwbacks to me is like the 90s, you know so
oh man so it's just different,you know, because, like I said,
I've done a lot of clubs, likeback in the 90s all right and
going out now.
Just I mean, it's not like,honestly, I'm not putting
bakersfield down, but we don'thave an actual club in
bakersfield.
We have a club bar right okaylike a nightclub club, but I

(06:23):
think all right trying to getthere, trying to get there, and
I think casa maybe they're allright.
Tequila yeah, has it, but Istill haven't seen like, like
you know, like la, if you go tola, they have an actual club
where yeah you know where youdjs for like five different
floors.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
That's a huge place.
That's the one thing I wasexplaining too.
When those type of clubsthey're you, the customers don't
have access to the dj, youcan't go with no, you can't.
You know what I mean, so yougotta let the dj cook over here,
somehow we have that andthey're it's a lot and it's like
come on, now, let the dj do hisjob.
Yeah, yeah, but it happens allthe time.
So, exactly, and that's that'sthe other difference on.
So what do you think?

(06:58):
That from the 80s, 90s and 2000, or even makes it now, how was
the difference?
It just was more slow-paced.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
The difference is more like.
So DJs now have so many accessto the music and they're able to
like, grab them right away.
At the same time, they canquick mix Like before, like
records.
I mean you can quick mix, butnot as fast as you can now, but
it's not swapping out an entireLP.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Especially with vinyls.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
You had to know what you were doing, yeah because,
like me, it took me a while toget into controllers.
I didn't get into controllersuntil 2019.
All right, I've been using themixer, but I'm still using my
turntables.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
All right.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
It took me a while, even right now, because I feel
like my muscle memory is stillstuck to trying to look for
records.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
All right.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
So when I look at my crates I'm like man, where's the
next song?

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Unless you go to the new Oculus.
Remember how they have that.
Oh man the virtual DJ the.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Oculus, that's crazy they're talking about.
You might not have to be aresident of LA to DJ in LA.
Man, I know, right, digital.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Yeah, I mean, there was one countdown just showed me
the other day how he's like whydon't you guys ever go digital
live and get money from it?
And I never thought of that.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Like on Twitch.
No, yeah, I used to do Twitch.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
He can actually make money on Twitch.
Yeah, I did not know any ofthat Really, and I'm like I did
Twitch back in the COVID timetime.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
That's when I got.
I got hope, like, oh, you hadto, yeah, like you have a choice
.
Really, like three months I waslike already like affiliate I
made it, you know, I meanbecause like, and then from
there that's when you startgetting paid all right but then
during that time also I work inhealth care, so I was like I got
no time because I'm workingmore, you know.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
So like, yeah, it's a balance, it's a balance.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, it's about to have that time but even this
point, like a lot of peoplestill do it and they make good
money.
Yeah, they make good money.
What's?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
the for all of you.
What's the craziest thingthat's happened mid-set, whether
it be a power outage, whetherit be a fight, whether it be oh
man.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Fights happen all the time.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
I was about to say he downtown man.
Yeah, you see that that'snothing.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
I mean even in the beginning, remember when we were
at Seneca and that one timethat happened and I had to go
and we had to put boy down.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yeah, we had a situation one time.
We were brothers there.
Yeah, he hit a female.
That wasn't right.
Yeah, it was coming.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
I was walking him downstairs from the dj, from the
booth, yeah, yeah, and all of asudden this random dude started
swinging on some other chick infront of us and we were just
like looked at each other likewhat.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
We can't allow that yeah, he grabbed it.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
He tried to fight him .

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Then I grabbed dude from and gave him a toe hold on
him back and he looked at melike what?

Speaker 4 (09:40):
and he just started.
Well, um, and they were justlooking at us like what just
happened?
the dj and his friend wasgetting the djs just whoop dude
jazz I was like, and thensomeone told me let him go, and
I was like oh shit, okay let himgo, yeah it's fine, but he
never should have swung on thewoman in the first place no,
correct and especially on us andyou go after him.
I was like no, you're not gonnaget my boy like that, what the
hell.
Yeah, so I mainly took him downlike, but everybody thought

(10:02):
that we were the only cause.
I was like, no, that dude swungon a female.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
That's not right period.

Speaker 2 (10:07):

Speaker 4 (10:08):
It doesn't matter, it's just a certain situation
that happened like that, but Iwould say the only thing that
I've ever had that happen wouldbe power outage going out.
Power when I'm not able toactually DJ again, even though
the lights are on.
I was like what's up with that?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, sometimes the breakers will take out
everything else Breakers andjust leave lights on.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, but that happened before and.
I was like, I'll just partythis night Go off the jukebox or
something or whatever.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Bluetooth.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
We're firing it up and that's how you know you need
a DJ Music.
Going on Come on now.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Like it's kind of like I don't know, I can't
recall any, but I mean we allhad that power outage or someone
just trying to like you knowdistract you, but I had one
where it's not in the middle ofthe set, it's in the middle of
the wedding ceremony.
Ooh, ooh, so okay.
So this is it's out of townwedding during a ceremony.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
For some reason, I guess the groom was already
pre-gaming since this morning.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Oh yeah, he's been getting ready, he's already,
like you know, because he's kindof nervous, but he's older.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
He's on the older side.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
That's typical of what happens, but he's marrying
a younger woman and he was kindof nervous to meet the other
family.
So but anyway, long story short,he had walked the aisle and
right when the pastor was kindof like saying or say I do,
right before he even got thechance to man, he fell.

(11:33):
He just like passed out andthen, just like a little cliff,
he fell.
He fell on that cliff and then,like, when we picked him out it
was like bloody.
Like we thought, like he bustedhis head and then said someone,
call 911 this, this and that,and, mind you, they didn't even
get a chance to say I do yet.

(11:55):
And then that time it was allbloody, we thought he busted his
head, but then there's likerose bushes, so it got cut right
in the eye.
Right in the eye and then itkind of bleed out.
And then we had to, like youknow what I mean, we got to
divert the crowds.
You know the vibe, you knowwhat I mean.
So we went in and we got tosomehow get everybody in and be

(12:17):
like all right, let's go like agood 20 minutes.
What we're gonna do is canceleverything's canceled.
Time to go home, you know oh andthen, right when we're like
almost packing up and I said, no, you know what, just throw some
music, man, we're gonna getthis we're gonna have a party so
we did.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
It's like a reception , but just threw a big party at
the end it didn't have, weddingdidn't happen oh, man, and then
they end up.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
You know, then during that time they had like
quarreling, you know, like theydon't want to do the wedding no
more.
But because of the vibe, themusic put them all together and
you still kept them going, keptthem going.
At the end of the night theydid a first dance without still
getting married.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Still gonna get married, but not that night I
would imagine that's a prettydifficult thing during a very
dark kind of right time but theydon't pick it back up to
overcome overcome that.
Yeah, you're not just workingfrom baseline to getting people
partying.
You're working from peoplebeing frantic or traumatized or

(13:12):
whatever it may be to okay topartying.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, so at the end of the day they did their first
dance and they made up.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
All right.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
And then I guess they got married some other day.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
They didn't invite you back though.
He's bad luck.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
No, because the reception is already done.
They already had fun, yeah.
It's like we're good, we're notdoing this again.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
So they just had to do the court.
They just had to do the court,yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
But the party was lit the whole time because they
almost like forgot, like whathappened, because they made out
to actually they all.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
right, let's do a first dance happened because
they made out to actually theyall right, let's do a first
dance.
You know, I mean yeah, so theymade something out of a tragic
uh tragedy.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah.
So everything started rightaway and be like oh, we're not
even ready.
You know, like man, dude, wegotta be ready, prepared for
everything.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
So we started playing the music, you know, and
everybody just got up and thenboom, it was good, overcame man
greatly, like I said, not justfrom baseline, but from from a
negative situation to baseline,to partying and happy and I've
never seen it like that.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, that was my.
I've been djing wedding sincethe 90s, like 90, like 1990, and
I've never seen anything likeoh man so yeah, it was like
maybe, uh, three years ago, likeright after, after COVID, yeah,
it was one that is a storyright there.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, I can't beat that story.
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (14:31):
I don't got nobody falling off a cliff.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Well, there's one that we went to.
That was yeah, we went to awedding.
We don't even need to talkabout it.
We went to a wedding and Ithink the groom started messing
around with one of thebridesmaids, or something.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
And the wife comes.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, and starts slapping the shit out of them,
man, just wailing on them, andthen that sounds like a movie,
and then they made up rightthere too, I think it was weird.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
It was strange, man, but what movie was that from?
I forgot there was a movie likethat.
I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Wedding Crashers.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
Oh, I love Wedding, wedding crashers, oh I love
wedding crashers.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Man talk about an epic greatest.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, I just watched that the other week.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, yeah, hey.
So, uh, let's talk about some,uh, past artists.
Let's talk about some pastartists.
For me it's going to be macmiller, right, you know,
everybody knows gordon's a bigmac miller fan.
Whatever, yeah, mac's dopethough I love Mac.
Miller.
He was getting better andbetter and better through the
years.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Rest in peace.
He should still be here.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, he had a bad dealer, bad batch, who's an
artist that resonates with you,that's passed away.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
I say it's Guru.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Guru.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, I'm a big gangster.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Gangstar.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Gangstar, yeah, Back in the 90s when I yeah, I'm a
big gangster gang star, gangstar.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, like back in the 90s when I started like I
started DJing in 89.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
All right.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
But so my type of music back then is like
underground hip hop, slash.
You know what I mean East Coast, west Coast, but more East
Coast because I like Brand Nubiaand like I like the underground
, you know.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Hieroglyphics or yeah .

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Most Def, you know, Hieroglyphics or yeah, Most deaf
, you know tropical quest.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Oh to live you know yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, so it's like those are like my jam back in
the days and I got those recordsto this day, you know.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
So like.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
How about you Dynamite?

Speaker 4 (16:16):
I honestly can't even say it right now.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, I mean, I'm a fan of all of them, that's just a
part of hip hop.
Yeah, so when they they all hadtheir mark.
Yeah, they all had their markyeah.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
It's kind of hard to say who was you know, because
they were all born in the 80swhen hip hop grew up.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
So question for all Out of all of the artists that
we know, that have passed away,whether it's Prince, whether
it's Mac Miller, whether it'sNirvana, you know what's his
name?

Speaker 3 (16:49):
Kurt.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Cobain, kurt Cobain, you know, whoever it may be,
whoever it may be, if you couldget one last album, one last
album out of any of thoseartists, who would that be?
Everybody can take a turn here.
Michael Jackson, who?
Michael Jackson, oh?

Speaker 4 (17:06):
who?

Speaker 5 (17:06):
Oh, michael Jackson or Prince, that's the same
answer to the question beforeYep, it's Michael Jackson.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
All right, someone could want to see, even live to
Michael Jackson.
Yeah, mj.

Speaker 5 (17:17):
I think Chris Brown is like kind of like a he tries
to emulate him, michael Jackson.
But even though Mike didn'twrite all his music, but when it
comes to directing, producingI'm talking videos, dancing,
everything he was just an artist.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, a performer, even Janet Jackson with her
videos.
Man, she was so technologicallyadvanced in some of her videos.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
She learned that from him.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
I know all that.
Her influence was Michael andhe played a big part in
everything.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
So that's on all of us too.
You can bump a Michael Jacksonsong right now and everybody's
going to get up and startdancing.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, okay, so quick question.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
What's the?

Speaker 1 (17:59):
first MJ track you're going to play.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Ooh, I know, I do.
I always play yeah, like me.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
I always have that one song that I play to get
everybody dancing, at least inmy type of rock with you.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Just the way it starts, just when it comes in
Yep, and you can even spin it intwo.
So, depending on what kind ofintro you have, you can spin it.
So when it drops like that, youcan even spin it in two so
depending on what kind of introyou have, you can spin it, so
when it drops like that, you canfade out whatever beat you have
and have the lyrics over thatand then, people hear that and
then.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
And they're already vibing to it, Then it's a wrap.
It's just like boom, boom, boom.
But that would be,

Speaker 3 (18:38):
number one.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
That's good.
That's number one.
I play with a lot of Asians andFilipinos so they like don't
stop till you get enough.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
So that's what I play all the time it's always like
my number two songs.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
I go.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Let's say if it's like a wedding.
You know, it's kind of likecookie cutter but it always
works for me.
I go celebration and then don'tstop till you get enough.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
But is it a stereotype where they say that
Filipinos just they karaoke,they love karaoke?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
They love karaoke.
Yeah, but not everybody cansing.
That's why they made it because, like since you can't, sing,
Because you can't be aprofessional singer.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
you can be an amateur singer.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, jump on that karaoke and you're like you know
, they're like a star.
Well, that's how you find outtoo.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
And apply some reverb and apply some reverb.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
I won't say 50%, but I'll say the majority, though
they have skills as far assinging.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
They can sing by me, I sing when I take a shower,
that's it.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
I try to karaoke, but it's not for me.
I go for the score.
There's a trick to get 100points.
You know what I mean, Becauseat the end of your song it gives
you a score really yeah, like ahundred is the best.
Alright, as long as you'rereading it and you don't have to
sing.
Good, as long as you're readingit, you're not missing any
words from that song alright,you'll get a hundred percent, as
long as your word matches, aslong as the words are right.

(19:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
That's like Guitar Hill for singing.
Yeah, oh, yeah, well.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Rock.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Band Rock.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
Band had a mic.
Yeah, it's the same I played.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
I was the singer.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
You were the singer.
You were the singer in thefamily over here.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, I was the singer.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh man, how about?
Let's say Battle of the Eras?
Let's say Battle of the Eras.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
That's a good one.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
No, let's say Battle of the Eras.
That's a good one.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
Now when you say Battle of the Era, are we
including all music right?
Because?
I'm not going to sit there andsay no, I'm going to say I'm
musically inclined right.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
We're talking about rock, indie, underground like
you, underground rappers.
We're talking, like Dipset.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
We're talking underground gunge music,
underground bands, rock and roll.
Does it include everything?

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yes, yeah, we bands rock and roll.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Does it include everything?

Speaker 5 (20:49):
yes, yeah, we're gonna include everything on this
one man, like decades too.
Yeah, just one, just decade.
Just a 00 to 2010, or 80.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, tens, let's go in tens um what
starting in the 70s?
Mine is gonna be funk the funkyeah I like the funk man, I
really like funk man.
I like anderson pack.
Feels funky to me nowadays man,so he's got his style.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Yeah, I just seen a thing not too long ago where he
started off as someone's drummerbefore he became a big artist
yeah did his thing.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
They were just seeing him shine on stage while he was
drumming and people noticedduring his tiny desk concert
that he was drumming and singingand doing all of this other
stuff at the same time yeah,that ain't easy to do yeah, so
mine's funk, mine's funk, what'syou know?

Speaker 4 (21:37):
so we're talking about a genre or era oh man I'm
gonna go with the funk era, funkgenre, the funk era funk I mean
, because that is 70s and 80s.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
That was mine too.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
It's the same, I mean even when the gangsta era got
into the funk too.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
That was the 90s, yeah, the G-funk era, the G-funk
era.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Okay, maybe pick three.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Let's go 70s, 80s, 90s.
Yeah, that's mine too.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
It's what their inspiration got from the 60s and
70s.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
And they pulled from funk music and old albums.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
yeah, but so I mean obviously, that's what my
opinion is.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
I can say on everybody else.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, I think it's very much the same.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
I'd say the 80s era, because if you look at music now
, every song you hear, you canlisten and see where that sample
came from Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
every song you hear you can.
You can listen and see wherethat sample came from.
Yeah, we're talking like music,like and sometimes two and
three times over, like we'veheard three renditions of a beat
of a song.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yeah, yeah, 100, yeah , but I would say maybe the 90s,
because not only did it havelike the super dope r&b but it
has some of the super dope likeclassic oldie songs.
It had some of the super doperock music.
It had a little, had some ofthe super dope rock music.
It had a little bit.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
I think the 90s was a real hard era, and that's when
I fell in love with music,though that's where I'm at, man.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
To all the old temptations and whatnot.
But when I fell in love I fellin love in that era because I
listened to music differently inthat era.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
One of my first ones was the Chili Peppers.
Man Red Hot, man red hot yeah,I.
I loved the red hot chilipeppers when I was a kid man
like it, I'm not in that genreof music anymore.
It's not what I prefer tolisten to or anything else.
Listen to that, yeah listen toeverything.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
It does not matter, it's just the mood yeah, it's
what you're feeling at the point.
You know what I mean, becausethat's those are, I remember,
sublime, I remember I mean,there's some so many bands that
we knew that it wasn't justabout hip-hop, it was about
music in general.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
I had what I got in on the car on my way over.
It was blasted, it was like 56.
I was in the car like nobodywas in there with me.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
I bet you sounded great.
No, I sang, I can sing, I cansing we're not going to do that.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Can you sing?
Can you sing I can?
There you go.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
That's how actually I would say, my wife fell in love
with me as I sang to her oh, oh, yeah.
And then, that's how.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
I got her.
Hey, hey, Serenaded her manDrop a quick verse.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Let me see Drop a quick verse Calm down, calm down
, calm down, calm down.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Joel's trying to put you on stage.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
He's like I can see.
He's like I can see.
Hey, this episode is going togo viral because of D-Cross's
voice, man.
You know, man, a lot ofproducers could be listening to
this right now.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
All of a sudden we hear Keith Swede on the other
side.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Oh man Twisted the 90s had Keith Swede.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
That was one of my favorite things.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Oh yeah, that's 90s man For me, right there
thousands.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Even selena left.
Oh man, yeah, selena was on herown.
She, she crossed, she crossedeverything.
She crossed genre, she crossedrace.
Uh, she eclipsed all of that.
She was able to overcome all ofthat and everybody, everybody's
mom, everybody's aunt,everybody loved Selena.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
She didn't even speak Spanish.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
She learned it, she better learn it.
Do y'all think it was becauseof what happened to her?

Speaker 5 (24:49):
Or do y'all think it was just because she was such a
dope artist?
No, she was a dope artist.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
She was dope, she was way ahead of us.
She was able to when she wouldperform even the Spanish songs.
She would do English songs andmake it even sound better yeah
like that's an artist and youcan't do that not only that,
like she's like ahead of thegame, she was like ahead, like
you know what I?
Mean, like the way she wassinging is like man, like it's

(25:12):
not even for that era yeah, Imean like it's just like alia
they had one too yeah, exactlythey were all ahead of their
time.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
They were yeah, so way ahead sometimes that's what
happens when someone sees you'retoo ahead of far of the game
they want to take you out.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah, how did we come to this world?

Speaker 4 (25:30):
I know, how did this become?
Where you can't have be anartist anymore?

Speaker 2 (25:34):
where you know what I mean, you get taken out or you
can't be happy for somebody.
It's even in the Mexicanculture too.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
You gotta realize that you can't sing certain
songs in.
Mexico.
You get taken out by thecartels.
When did this just come toapply?
We're just trying to love music.
It's a part of our life.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
It's either they take you out early or they take you
out late Because look they'lllet somebody go before it's
their time to reach the pinnacle, but then look at what they do
to people once they reach thepinnacle.
I mean, look, we're not goingto get all political, but I've
got three names I already know.
R Kelly is one of the greatest.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
R&B writers.
You can't take that away fromhim.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
R Kelly is one of the best.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
His music is his music.
You've got to separate themusic from the human.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
Exactly, michael.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Jackson, they tried to put that on him, so I don't
know Michael Jackson as a person.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I don't know R Kelly as a person, I love the artists.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
I don't know and I'm still playing.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
More money, more problems with P Diddy and
everybody else in it well, Imean I kind of mute it when P
Diddy comes on, I'll be in realwith you but I do the, I got
morals yeah.
I still listen to Biggie though, but yeah, sometimes I'm
questioning now, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
I mean people.
People are still going to love.
What's his name?
What is it?
Kendrick Lamar and Drake.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
They both have hits in the club.
I'm still going back and backwith both of them.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
I have to play Drake.
I still have to play Drake.
And what I noticed I don't knowif anybody else noticed this,
but it seems like the youngergeneration goes with Drake and
the older generation went withKendrick.
If you're 40 and up, 35 and up,whatever, you went with
kendrick.
If you were 35 below, you wentwith drake.

(27:11):
Yeah, and that's because whatshe told me the other day was is
the, the social media and the,the going viral?
For what's the?
The song that he, they weredancing outside the car?

Speaker 4 (27:24):
yeah, what is it?

Speaker 2 (27:27):
nokia oh, drake yeah, yeah yeah, so, and they they
say that that's why the youngergeneration resonates with drake.
More is because of social mediaand the viral videos and things
that that went on with that.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah yeah, but that only goes so far.
If you realize that a viralthing sometimes it ain't about
talent, it's just about a moment.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
But the kids don't see that though.
Right now they don't.
They're all into the aestheticand the picture, perfect, and
they did a poll recently.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
I've seen on social media that they were trying to
find out what kids wanted to benowadays.
And there was a influencer.
Uh, there was, there was, therewas like a few different things
I was looking at.
I was a creator, an influencerof this or that, you know.
Whatever you know, things gowith social media.
Um, there was maybe a fireman.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
I think there was a couple other reg quote unquote
regular professions, uh, butyeah that it was all a
simplified jobs that they thinkthey don't want to get away with
or be a gamer, youtuber,exactly.
Yeah, yeah that is the newgeneration.
I'm trying to break my nephewit's almost like.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
What do you consider influence, though, exactly?

Speaker 4 (28:41):
yeah, their influence .
What's in front of them, what'son the tv or their screen?

Speaker 2 (28:47):
their tablet, their screen, their phone, you know,
and it's kind of sad.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
It gets to that point because they're easily
influenced on what's in front oftheir face instead of who the
person they're talking to yeah,exactly, you know and it's.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
It has got generations got lost because of
that but is it because we'vemade it so easy for our kids
Kind?

Speaker 4 (29:05):
of.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
It's a little bit of both.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
We pussified, sissified our kids.
We've gone soft on them.
That's a really good word forit.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
Because we didn't have that.
We didn't have these privilegesas kids.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
No, we didn't.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
We were able to go outside and do our thing, but
know what time to hey thestreetlights, come on.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Your ass needs to be home.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
We didn't complain that we were going to play a
video game, we would go dosomething else.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
We play in the dirt yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Nowadays kids get to that point where if they're not
satisfied, they're going to cryabout it at some point.
It's like we didn't have that.
We would get scared for it.
We would find something new togo do.
I don't understand that, but Iguess it's.
It's kind of the new era, Iguess, of some I couldn't say
parenting, but a lot of peoplehave allowed certain things and

(29:49):
doesn't mean it's it.
It's okay because in a sense,when you have a privilege of
money and you said you're ableto support your child, there's
nothing wrong with that no butthey got to have a sense of
balance, to know, to absolutelyfor the parents.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, you know the difference between being spoiled
and being deserving exactly.
You know that and I I kind of Ikind of laugh about our girls
and we have we kind of jokearound and we talk about how
quote-unquote spoiled they are.
Yeah, well, our girls are goodgirls, so we don't consider it
spoiling, we consider itrewarding.

(30:22):
Or you know, we're rewarding abehavior and their behavior is
dictates what they get, whatthey don't get that's why you're
a great parent there's not alot of people that do that.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I feel like they just hand the kids all right that
satisfy them, but we're alsosetting their expectations
really high.
We have girls right, so theirexpectations are really Like.
I don't want them to just sayoh for just anybody.
I want somebody to have goalslike, yeah, right now you guys
are kids, you guys are stillbuilding, right, but I want them

(30:56):
to have, you know, like whenthey see something long they
want someone like dad.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Right.
So we're setting theirexpectations high.
That's good.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
It should be that way .

Speaker 2 (31:09):
So as parents.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
I got a question Do your kids have social media?

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Oh yeah, oh yeah See that's one thing.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
My kids don't have social media.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
No.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
Snapchat no, instagram, no, nothing.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
They're on my social media.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
I got a sophomore and a freshman more than a freshman
and I want to say, like I'mprobably one of the only

Speaker 4 (31:26):
parents where I'm just like nah well, I think our
nine-year-old.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Wow, I never even knew that I'm like, I'm like no,
because the one thing that,even at the age I'm at now and
even at the age that we are, theemotional intelligence is a big
thing, oh, huge.
And if your kids are so lockedinto what everybody else thinks
or what else is going on, wellthen how do they develop their
own?
How?

Speaker 2 (31:44):
do they think for themselves or?

Speaker 5 (31:45):
just find their own sense of purpose, or what is
your thing?
Who?

Speaker 2 (31:50):
are you?
What's your why?
Who are you?

Speaker 5 (31:53):
And we didn't know that until we grew up.
But again, if you just beflooded with all this
information, you're going to bepretending again being
influenced by somebody elseinstead of finding yourself.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
You're going to being influenced by somebody else
instead of finding yourself.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah, you're gonna emulate what you see, I think
for me it depends on how openyour children are with you, and
our girls are very open with us.
If something's going on onsocial media and they don't
understand it, they're gonnacome to us I like that, you know
um they're very, they're veryopen or, like you know, like our
16 year old will be, like mom,this guy friended me and wants

(32:25):
to fly me out to chicago, andbut she, she tells us right she,
she tells us and, and she'svery open, but she doesn't mess
with that stuff, she doesn'teven reply, she, she just leaves
it unopened right, but she yeah, oh yeah, some.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Some guy just got in trouble for coming out to taft.
Yeah, I heard about to pick uplike a 14 year old, 15 year old,
something on on roblox orminecraft or something I think
they got them, yeah, they

Speaker 5 (32:58):
got them.
I like, I like what's goingdown nowadays.
With I mean certain videoswhere these dudes is catching
these pedophiles.
Oh yeah, yep.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
It's good.
Yeah, it needs to be done.
I mean, I don't wish it uponanybody?

Speaker 4 (33:12):
Yeah, but you actually need to be dealt with.
Yeah, you have that mind stateto do that.
That's somebody's kid.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
No, I'm sorry you shouldn't be thinking that way.
They should have been able totell it was a little 300 baby
and got thrown off the cliff.
I was like, nah, this baby'sgoing to be bad Throw him off
the cliff man.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
That's one of my favorite movies too.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Hey, I love 300, man, this is.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Sparta.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Oh man.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
That reminded me of Tropic Thunder, when he's
running off the thing and hethrows the can.
That movie's classic too,though that movie's classic.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
I'm the dude playing the other dude.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Wait, I have a question what is your favorite
movie that has the greatestsoundtrack?

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Dang.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
That's a good one I got one I'm going to pick Boiler
Room, boiler Room, boiler Room.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
I got one.
You probably have some reallycommon movies that we like.
I have one.
I'll be.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
For me, it'd probably be the Belly soundtrack.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Oh damn.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
Because, that's a hard movie and album.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Every time I hear Belly I always think of the neon
lights with the contacts orwhatever man, that whole intro.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
Yes, but you remember , remember even when you play it
, it brings you back to thatmemory.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
It does and that's okay yeah, I'm with you on that.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
One man, that's a great pick now mine is juice oh
yeah, juicy, I mean tupac tupacand like yeah, naughty, by
nature's there oh yeah rock game.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
I think it's there I'm going to have to take a look
at these soundtracks.
I'm going to have to listen tothese soundtracks.

Speaker 5 (34:47):
They don't even make soundtracks like that.
No more, I can't remember thename of the movie.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
I got the album too, man still.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Hey, the Great Gatsby has a good soundtrack too.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, it's a strange movie you like Guardians of the
Galaxy too.
Oh, guardians of the Galaxy,they sample all the funk, you're
right, all the classics.
I got kids, man I'm going to sayLion King man, Hakuna Matata,
baby, hey.

(35:16):
So let's go into cancel culture, man.
I'm not going to talk about theculture, but I'm going to ask
you guys to cancel something.
I'm going to ask you guys tocancel something.
I'm going to ask you guys tocancel something, man.
So you can pick a trend.
You can pick an artist or asong that you would have
canceled forever.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
Trend artist or song, I got a trend.
I'm a coach man, so like I hateseeing like nowadays, where
kids don't act like they've doneit before oh, the showboat yeah
be humble act like you've beenthere before.
Be cool dog celebrate with yourteam.
Don't celebrate staring the mandown.
Don't celebrate like doing allthese.

(35:58):
Iverson walking over him orlike John Moran bro that was
different though that wasdifferent, though that was
different.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
I'm a Laker fan.
That was different though.
Nah, but like somebody likeJohn.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Moran, bro, you already know what situation
you're in, oh yeah, you can't beshooting him guns anymore, man.

Speaker 5 (36:13):
But that guy's an influencer because he's an
influencer on the basketballculture and our young culture.
So if they, at the skill levelhe's at, still acting like you
don't?

Speaker 4 (36:22):
have no damn confidence, and your dad's at
all, your games and your dadcan't tell you nothing.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Stop that influence.

Speaker 5 (36:27):
He already got suspended for it stop that
influence he's already had gunson two posts like what are we
doing?
What are you teaching thesekids, man?
Because you didn't grow up withthat life.
It's like Clarence's parentsparents had a real good marriage
.
Bro, you went to private school.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
That's not true.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
Bro went to private school.
His dad is at all his games,bro.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Poor Anthony Mackey man.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
Hey, that's my guy.
Though, that's my guy bro.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Anthony Mackey.
Before everybody knew whoAnthony Mackey was, man.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
He was killing it.
Battle him and him.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Yeah, battling him and him man.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Before he became an Avenger.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
And Terrence got a real good family and Clarence
Banner's got a real goodmarriage, Like yeah.
Yeah.
I know something about you.
What are you canceling, babe?

Speaker 3 (37:15):
I would say the duck lips.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Oh, I can't stand that shit.
Oh man, oh, you know what?
You're going to go duck lips.
I hate to do it.
I'm going to go.
Eyelashes, the huge ones, thebutterflies no butterfly
eyelashes, no butterflyeyelashes.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Minus the lips.
It's too much.
You know what I mean it's toomuch.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
I'm not with it.
I don't want to piss offanybody.
Hey, I want to piss all kindsof people off man.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
I already talked about throwing a baby off a
cliff.
I'm sure I'm about to getcanceled, man, and I'm nobody.
Oh, even okay for the DJculture just a request in the
face.

Speaker 4 (37:56):

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah, like that's annoying as shit, get the phone
up there.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
Even when you can't read it.
You're like, come on now, butthat's just.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah, but you know what I did?
I did a 12-year-old party onSaturday and a bunch of them are
coming up because they want tohear their songs.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
So I have.
You can get free numbers right.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Oh, like Google phone , Google app number, Google
voice.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, you can give them a fake number.
Oh yeah, like app.
I just tell them okay, this isthe number, the no request.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Now I have that one.
They just go right.
Hey, what's?

Speaker 1 (38:29):
the name of the app.
No request app.
That's what it's called yeah.
So anyways?
No, I just gave them thatnumber.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
I said text everything here.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
You, I was clear the whole night.
They're coming up left andright.
I'm that person.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
She does that for?

Speaker 5 (38:46):
me, you take it for me.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
She does it for me, I know man.
I'm lucky about that.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
I just take a picture of it and then I text him.
That way he only sees my thread, you don't have to go through
different numbers.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
He's seeing my thread , then don't have to go through
different numbers he's seeing mythread yeah

Speaker 3 (39:06):
yeah, and then he just puts it in the queue.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
But yeah, that's, it's tough yeah, it is even for
me it's annoying do you playeverything you see?

Speaker 1 (39:14):
what he goes.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
I really try to man, I really try to play everything
yeah yeah, no, if it comes wayout left field and somebody
wants some fucking crazy edm andwe're doing country or
something, no, it's nothappening, guy, it's it's not
happening nope, I know that'show people are.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
I expect you to just bend the rules for them.
Unless you pay me a good 20 or50 bucks and I'm like, all right
, I'll do that, yeah or ifthere's no one on the dance
floor right like I'll playwhatever you want if nobody's
out there, but not when it's inthe middle of high life, where
everybody's going ham and youwant this song and you think
it's gonna hit and it don't hityeah it had to happen, many

(39:53):
times had to happen.
The other night, right dude hadto ask for an Arabic song and of
course he gained money, but hewas in his friends room dancing
everybody's like.
So I immediately switch up realquick.
But you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
It's part of it but at least you got to cater for
them, right?

Speaker 4 (40:09):
they loved it they were recording the whole time
but I'm immediately.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
I see everybody else's face, so I'm switching
you know what I take requests asan opportunity to possibly
learn a new song.
Yep, that's what I do.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
That's that's what I do I don't know the indian
culture like that if I know asong that's a banger.
I could.
I don't mind rocking it yeahI'll rock it on any set.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
If it's a banger, like music transcends oh yeah,
it really does.
If it's just a banger, it has agood beat.
It has you know, then you'regonna rock with it, if you're
right.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
If you're, if that song is gonna kill the vibe,
then why are you coming withthat?

Speaker 2 (40:46):
He's like come on, there might be alcohol involved
with that man as to why they'rerequesting, but first you got to
listen to it, first Try tosample it.
If not, like I don't think we'regoing to go from Nirvana to
Frank Sinatra, hey, so most ofus?
Hey look, we all have jobs.
We all have we all.

(41:06):
We all have jobs.
Most, you know, we all havecareers, we all have jobs.
We all are not, quote, unquote,full-time professional.
Whatever you want to call a dj,right, he's living the dream,
man.
He's living it, man.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Yeah but it took a long time to get there it wasn't
easy, but I was also doingstage shows.
I was stagehand too.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Doing shows and everything like that.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
That's my other side when I don't have work.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Audio.
All right, yeah, so if weweren't DJs, which we just
talked about, it, basically youwould still do audio stuff, you
think?

Speaker 4 (41:45):
I wouldn't know I've done so many jobs.
I could tell you that you'd besurprised that I've done yeah
said, even like when I wasworking on oil fields, being a
confined space rescue technicianalso uh, hazmat technician um
saving lives yeah and I'd be theone having to go in because I'm
the smallest dude.
But I they trained me for that.

(42:06):
I was running my own crews andwhen I would be out there and
talk to fire captains, theywould trip out on the way.
I would talk to them and givethem a whole game plan.
They were like this kid knowshis stuff.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
He knows what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
I was only 25, 26 years old.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
But at the time being when the incident happened,
like I said, I had differentplans.
I took it as an initiative todo my DJ career, do something I
wanted to do because I wasn'thappy.
Yeah, I was making money, but Iwas on call 24-7, not happy,
you know.
You see all your friends goingout and doing stuff and you're
just at work.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
You're at work constantly.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Yeah, I have my bank account nice.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, you're doing what 12-hour shifts.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Jules, that's going to be me, because I work every
weekend.
I was telling Cross, I workevery weekend, man, friday,
saturday, sunday.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
And, like man, how do you do a gig?

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Yeah, my coworkers would be like, wow, out of all
the people, why you?
Why did you take that?
And that's all the reason why Ihe gave me more money.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
It's how I support myself and my family.
That's why he gave me moremoney.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
At the same time, I love what I'm doing.
So this is the thing about.
I tell this to every youngerbecause we get a lot of students
right.
I tell them hey, do it for thelove of why you chose this
career, because you love it.
You didn't choose this careerbecause of your love for the

(43:25):
money, because the money isthere money is good yeah but
then what happens if that kindof runs out?
so now you're not gonna betaking care of your patient
because, like, you're justfocused on trying to make this
money.
And then you got to the pointwhere there's no patient care
there's no patient care, andthen I see that a lot like I
mean not just in my department,like other departments and be

(43:46):
like man, don't?
These people have family?
You know that's how are yougonna treat your family if they
come to the hospital.
They come here because they'resick yeah you know, you can tell
people come there faking, wecan tell, we can all tell.
But man, they went there for areason, so you have to take care
of them.
You signed up for it, so do itfor the love of that.
And then to me, whenever I cometo work, it's not work because

(44:09):
I love what I do.
When you love something, whenyou love something, it's not a
job, it's not like you know, Imean like it's like.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
It's like you don't have to, you get to.
I get to it like I'd be likeman.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
I love being here.
So even though I'm there at thesame time like you said, man,
my buddies is all like partyingit up.
And then I had to experiencethat the last two months because
I was going out there moredynamite added aura.
Living it up, man, yeah, manwhy did I sign up for this job?

Speaker 2 (44:36):
living the life every weekend.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Dynamite, god damn you yeah but what I do now, like
I said earlier, I was talkingto Cross it's like you know,
like I still get gigs.
You know I get booked up, butnow it's like I can't do A.
Can you do something for me?
Like in three weeks, are youavailable?
He said I can't.
I got to be at least two monthsin advance because I got to
Request it.

Speaker 5 (45:05):
I got to request it At the same time.
You know I ever do it and callin sick anyways man, I will not.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
I will not self-incriminate, I'll be like
you guys know the answer to that, that's all I can say but yeah,
man, like out of everything, Ithink everything we do, man, you
gotta have love and passion toit, you know cause otherwise
you'll get burned out.
You'll get burned out,especially like you know you're

(45:31):
gonna be there for 12 hours.
You know, even when we DJ, youknow what I mean like we do a
wedding, it's like a whole dayyou know, I've done a gig where
I started at like 7 in and inthe end I didn't get done till
like 4 am oh yeah you know likeyeah, so imagine.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
That like but that's the luck for it.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Gigs yeah the thing, too, back-to-back and stuff man
oh, we have a coupleback-to-back weddings coming up,
man.
There's gonna be one here onsaturday and one at the coast on
sunday.
Oh no, I think paso okay, yeah,yeah, and out of town too yeah,
so we're gonna wrap one weddingup man and then possibly drive

(46:10):
out that night and get a roomand check in and then wake up
out there and then go set up andeverything wow that's tough.
I don't think I wanna get upearly in the morning.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
I'd rather be out at night to me the toughest I've
done like rather be out at night, what's that to me?
The toughest I've done likethis is?
It was it's kind of designedbecause, like I remember, I went
to denver, this is denver,right, I have a gig the next day
, right, I was at denver.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
I left at denver at 7 30, so they're like what an
hour I think two hours maybecentral, yeah, mountain okay, so
I gotta be lax.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
my gig is at 3 o'clock.
I'm still in Denver at 7.30.
Shit, at 7.30 in the morning.
I got to LAX at like 12.

Speaker 5 (46:53):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
I got a two-hour drive from LAX to Bakersfield.
For some reason, I made it, man, I made it to my gig.
It starts at 3.30.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Did you have somebody bring your equipment out or
something?

Speaker 1 (47:03):
no, what I, what I did, is, like you know, we all I
mean most of us got two cars orwhatever yeah I packed it up
already before you had it readyto go.
Hey, smart man, smart man I gotit ready because I knew I'm
gonna be like you know, just incase there's traffic, you know.
But yeah, man, for some reasonI made it.
But I was like man, I wasnervous, I was like yeah, that's
time consuming right thereespecially that, yeah, we we

(47:28):
always question that like we'lltake it.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
You know we're gonna sign up for it and everything
else, but when the day comeswe're like, oh shit I don't have
energy for this, but I gottaget through it.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
Yeah, I've been there .

Speaker 4 (47:42):
I remember we did the your thing too, and I was
barely hanging on oh man, yousaved me that.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Yeah, you saved me that day, brother man, I had
this poor dude out on top of aparking garage without a canopy
man yeah, we need to do thatagain I know man yeah
everybody's been wanting thatyeah, yeah, we'll knock that out
again.
Cross man man, what would yoube doing, man I?

Speaker 5 (48:06):
think that for every stage of my life I was right
where I was supposed to be.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
Right.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
Right.
I think that when I was youngerlike 20, started coaching at 20
, 21.
I did that until I was like 30.
I think at that time that'swhat I was most passionate about
.
I love back, uh, some of thekids that I coach now so you
like coaching and teaching andeducating and growing and
developing I love being a partof.

(48:31):
I love being a part ofdifferent legacies.
Yeah, like we all to everybody,you'll play a villain in
somebody's story, no matter whatoh, yeah, yeah as long as you
don't play a villain in your ownstories while it matters I
won't be a villain in my story,but to a lot of people I could
say I've left.
I've left something right, buteverything I pulled from that I
was able to get back to my sonin coaching right.

(48:51):
My son was able to be aroundfootball, baseball as I coached
him.
He was younger and now you cantell like he he thrives and he
loves it yeah so at that stageof my life that was where I was
at.
And then now we got therestaurant thing.
But in that stage of my life,like I love the bartending and
the serving and whatnot, yep andthen now I got the dj thing, so
they go hand in hand because,oh, they work.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Synergy working in the restaurant bro, I get mad
love right yeah and you'reconstantly meeting people.
If you're working at therestaurant, you're constantly
meeting all the people that goto that area anyways.
So you got that double, you gotthat double whammy going for
you, man.
That's, that's.
That's a nice thing, man.
You can develop all thoserelationships with all those

(49:30):
chewy's customers and you alsoget to perform for those chewy
customers and they're gonna havelove for you.
They know you that you, you're,you're a, you're a staple of
chewy's.
They know d man, you know.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
That's where I met you Unbelievable.
Hey, see, that's how we metthey always have a dope crowd
over there.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
Even when he brought me over there too, I mean I had
a lot of love just for thelittle people that I had there.
You know what I mean?
I was just starting it off.
The environment you're in.
Sometimes you got to know howto work it.
That's all it is.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
You guys did the Chichella huh.

Speaker 5 (50:13):
Yeah, that's Uchella Rob Markman.
How was it Rob Markman?
It was dope, I think the dopest.
Well, two of the dopest parts,like he said, to be able to get
him there and get his name onthe flyer and the whole weekend
and be able to be like not saylike my brother built his own
thing.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Rob Markman.
Yeah, yeah, Rob Markman.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
But to be able to say like, I finally got to like
crazy because I finally got tobe on the same card with
somebody I look up to in thisindustry.
If we say D went first, it'sbecause that's how the day
planned out and I ended up goinglast.
I was not the headliner, buteven then, to think about it, my
brother opened up for me.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Rob Markman, you were still out there with your
brother.
My brother opened up for me.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
Rob Markman.
Yeah, we still had a good time.
Just chilling, yeah, chillingman.
Just chilling, yeah, chillingman.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
Yeah, chilling.
I literally text him the nightbecause it was like it was
already packed when I came intomy set.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
because, we are at the band, yeah.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
So the energy when I got off.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
Work was like like it should have lit.
Yeah.
So literally from the firstsong on to like all the way
through the set.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
It was like some of the dopest feelings and I texted
for them and I said, hey, it'sthe best feeling in the world.
Man, that's the best feeling inthe world and he's what he
texted me back was even dopertoo.

Speaker 5 (51:17):
When I read it, I was just like I love you, man.
Thank you yeah I mean becausehe was like yeah, you know what
you said.
So it was dope.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
It was dope.
I appreciate it.
I love man, I love.
That's.
That's true community, truebrotherhood, true love, true
respect for your peers that'swhat we need to build as a dj
community.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
Some, some people feel some type of way on.
We don't need to have noanimosity or no trade towards
each other.
Why there's enough money it'suseless.
Yeah, there is so, if you feel,some type of way about somebody
, then that's your own issue.
I have no negative towardsanybody.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
It shouldn't be that way.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
I welcome everybody, man, I want to see you blow up
just as much as the next person.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Hey, we just had how many DJs out at Chewy's all at
once?

Speaker 5 (52:03):
We had 11.
10, 11?
I was inside, so I count youknow what I mean.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
We had to bring you out For the picture.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
That night was 11.
That's crazy to think about.
When you all can get together,we can all get together and do
that.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
I don't know if you saw that one that Richie Rich
did for the Condors when he hadall the DJs that played.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
I didn't see it His post.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
He did a whole collage.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Everybody was in the picture.
Yeah, I was like man, that's alot of DJs.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
I know I didn't expect that he was doing that
either.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
He sent it to me because I'm still trying to make
one, because he made it himself.
But the one I'm making is legitBecause he you know every one
of us like he always takes apicture or a video of us playing
.
And then he goes to the ice.
And then ice back to another.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
Back to another DJ Back to ice.
Back to another DJ, all kindsof transitions, yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
But yeah, it's dope.
Like I was like man, he sent melike 150 pictures.
How many.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
DJs did.
We have beats over the city.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
We had a lot we had all of, yeah, they showed up.
They're just to show up yeah,we had a lot show up yeah, I
couldn't make it.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
I wasn't, I wanted to go now, but I couldn't.
I think I had something goingyou were working, probably man
no, no, no no.
I I wasn't where.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
I think I was maybe out of town or something yeah, I
wanted to go because, like Isaid, man, we're, we're, we're
talking about it, we're talkingabout doing it again.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Yeah I saw the pictures, though.
Oh man, like everyone's thereit was cool.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
There's some things that we're going to change the
layout and stuff like that,things that we're processing,
you know, port-a-potties, vendorlayout, dj layout, where we're
going to be everything else, andwe're going to move some things
around, make things a littlebit more comfortable, and we're
planning on doing it againpretty soon.
Nice, yeah, and of course, I'mgoing to want all of you guys

(53:50):
out there If you guys can getout there.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
It's a weekend, right , it's a weekend.
Yeah Well, make sure it's twomonths in advance.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
I don't know, man, is it right?

Speaker 1 (53:58):
now that I need to make a request now.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Hey, let me see man yeah, september yeah man, I need
two months in the past.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
We can always go on the under path.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Right, one lower.
Yeah, one lower level it'sduring the day anyways, right.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Yeah, I've done it.
Where I can wake up early.
I was able to come and drop aset for the R&B Sundays Because
every Sunday, right, so I didthe last two.
I dropped the set at the endBecause, like hey, I work.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Yeah, you showed up when you could Ace and Spoon.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Yeah, yeah, so I could do it, especially during
the afternoon.
I could be late, I could belate.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
All right.
So I have a question.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
It's like a love, maybe love hate.
Do you guys like getting paidin advance or the day of your
event?
I've never even been asked thatquestion before.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Honestly, as long as I'm getting paid, that's all
that matters.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
As long as it's there by the end of your set.
That's all that matters as longas you're getting paid.
I'm getting paid afterwards.
I know your credibility isthere.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Oh yeah, if you're good, that's all that matters,
as long as you get, as I know,your credibility.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
oh yeah, if you're good for it, yeah because you
know it happens sometimes wheresometimes even that money isn't
there.
I'm not gonna hound them aboutit, but I know eventually
they're gonna get they're doingwhat they can.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Yeah, yeah, they're good for it as I work out too.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
Sometimes they don't have a crowd and I'm playing for
three, four people I don'texpect them to be a payout that
night yeah give me next weekendor whatever you know yeah and
sometimes we're doing enough tokeep relevant.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Yeah, you know so I'm not hurt, I'm doing well and
I'm blessed for that, yeah forthe for the rest, for for, like
the, the open format for thewedding djs yeah we have to
secure a deposit, a deposit tolock a date in, because you're
talking about wedding season iswhat?

(55:52):
Six months of the year, threemonths in the beginning, three
months near the end?

Speaker 5 (55:56):
you know somewhere, you already know, but it also
depends on where you are yeah so.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
And then you have how many weekends per month?
52.
So four times six is 24.
You really only have about 24weekend.
You know days that you need tobe able to make your, your money
that you would.
You you have set for yourselffor the year.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
You have to make it in a smaller window yeah, so um
like for me, uh, I mean how I domine, because I don't do an
event or I don't do any of mygigs unless I know the person.
All right, because I'm not likeout there trying to like.
You notice I don't have, likeyou, probably never heard of me

(56:36):
as a DJ.
I do this, I only cater to thepeople I know.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
All right.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
So for me I have no issues about you know like they
have not paid me because hey, Iknow where you live.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
I know you know.
Like they have not paid mebecause, hey, I know where you
live, I know you personally,brother.
I know where you live, I knowwhere you work, you know what I
mean.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
So even if they don't pay me on the day off, because
sometimes they don't Like I getpaid like two days after.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
And then you know I'll be like, okay, it's cool
because I know he's going toshow up to work today.
Oh, off to work today, oh yeah,I'm gonna see him.
And then, and the other part ofit is like it never happened to
me, where you know, like your,your, your equipment get crashed
or whatever, like someonemessed up your equipment or some
like in the party, likesomeone's trying to mess with

(57:19):
you.
It never happened to me.
But I always have that thoughtlike where, if I do somebody
else's party, I was recommendedby someone, unless, like one of
you guys that I trust, yeah, hey, can you do, uh, this party I
was recommended by someoneunless like one of you guys that
I trust.
Yeah, hey, can you do, uh, thisparty?
I know them real good, I woulddo it.
Yeah, someone random I wouldn'tdo because like have that, you
know, like my ocd was like no,they're gonna miss.
They're gonna miss my stuff orthey won't even invite you to

(57:42):
eat sometimes.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Oh man you can't get to eat or a drink.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
You can't even get a drink, man every gig that I do,
I, I do, I'm like part of theparty.
It's like, hey, have you sitdown with us on our table real
quick.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Play something else.
You know Like it's always likethat, so like I don't.
You know, I never had an issueabout like me not being part of
the you know what I mean Likebeing part of the party, even
though, like, yeah, you are partof the party because you're a
DJ, but, at the same time, like,I don't have to worry about
someone's messing with me.

Speaker 5 (58:13):
Like it's just me One .
I got to get the depositnowadays Because when I first
started, like everything wasbuilt on love.
Oh, it's cool, I got you.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
No deposit.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
Hit me later.
Woo and then I.
Then I realized, like you said,I'm occupying, I'm taking the
day off of the other job whichmeans I'm losing that money for
the family.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
Oh yeah, and then I'm losing that weekend, so I got
to get deposits.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
now Got to get contracts.
What I do is I take a smalldeposit.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
All right.

Speaker 5 (58:38):
If it's a wedding and we charge whatever.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
X amount of money Yep .

Speaker 5 (58:42):
I'm taking a fifth of it.
Yeah, I a fifth of it.
Yeah, I'm taking up maybe afourth of it because at the end
I want to still feel like onegoing to the event when I know
I'm getting a bunch of money atthe end yeah you feel like
you're you're gaining a reward.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
And then two I don't want to go into an event and be
paid and already spent thatmoney, oh yeah you just have
that same event like that'sabout it's like free, right, you
feel like you're doing it freebecause you got paid six months
ago that's what I don't like.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
I was gonna get into that, so like I don't want to
get paid in full yeah, becauselike, like you said, what if you
have already spent it?
Yep, and you go in there with adifferent mood your mindset?
Yes, it's different, you're notactually working for it and um,
I mean, like I didn't even Idid a wedding.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
I talked to you about it.
It was a buddy of mine and itwas his daughter's wedding and
he's a dj, so he knows how itgoes yeah he walked up to me as
I was setting up.
My son was with me and he waslike I know you want your cash
right now.
And I was like nah, bro.
I said honestly, hold theenvelope, just give it to me
later.
He's like no, I love you, bro,thank you for being here.
So he gave it to me, so I tookit.
I'm not gonna say no yeah butat the end of the day I already

(59:49):
put more into that weddingbecause that's his daughter so
there was already so much and wetreat it like our own daughter
yeah, that's somebody's daughterand he.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
And when, when, when our daughter gets married, we're
gonna want them to, you know.
Do go all out and do the bestfor her as well you're gonna
want somebody like a, like arichie.

Speaker 5 (01:00:07):
Yeah, you're gonna want somebody like somebody,
like a nate or somebody like ayou that looks at life the way
you do when you have that persondoing it, because that's a
special event, yeah, and at thatevent you don't want to be
worried about all the thingsthat we worry about as djs yes,
you want to be like yo yeah, oh,it's d we good we're good.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Yeah, I don't even have to worry about that anymore
.

Speaker 5 (01:00:28):
Nothing, yeah, let me , let me roll on that, let me
yeah, we're good, yeah, good outhere, so yeah that's what I
like.
I like a little bit of cash,and the little bit of cash that
I get I use to pay off something.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
I pay off my equipment, I pay off this bill,
that bill the next investmentcheck that goes into the next
investment.
Yeah, yeah, that's just how Ilook at it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Yeah, you got to be money, money management yeah,
and that's too like I thinkdeposit is more important than
anything else because, like,like for me, like I've never had
anybody, like like I've out ofall my like from the 90s to now,
right, I've only had onecancellation all right and guess
what, who canceled on me?

(01:01:09):
I mean, you wouldn't think,because I your sister, your
brother so why I cancel on me isone of the one of the church oh
, okay you know what I mean andI'm already doing it like.
Like you know, I mean alreadyalmost pro bono yeah like
whatever.
Like you don't have to give meanything charity, just pay me
for gas, yeah, just whatever.

(01:01:29):
But at the same time, like Isaid, I'll have to take off work
.
You know what I mean?
I already got it off.
So when you take off work youknow what I mean Like you're not
making.
I mean I'm still making themoney because I have PTO, but at
the same time.
Like you know what I mean.
Like I got everything theycanceled.
Like last minute, Like I goteverything loaded up.

(01:01:49):
You know what I mean Like.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
So I was like Like you didn't know a day ago, or
you didn't know Eight hours ago,you didn't know 12, 24 36,
anything.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
This one happened back, like in 2009, right?
So I was like.
So from that point on, I saidyou know what?
I don't care who it is, I'mjust going to ask a minimum $100
deposit, whoever like.
Whoever it is, it could be afriend or buddy $100 it has to
be serious enough for them tocommit.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Yes, it's a commitment.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
You know what I mean it's like I told him that's why
I said minimum is $100, so atleast you get something from it,
you know?

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
so it's just to me and it cancellation fee and
everything else that's includedyeah, yeah yeah, you're taking
someone's time no reimbursement,you're putting your time in too
, though, if you think about it,you're keeping it, no matter
what not, no matter what if it'ssome legit shit.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
If somebody just died from cancer or something, hey,
take your money, go take care ofyour family.
You don't do what you need todo reschedule yeah, but we'll do
it like it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
Yeah, yeah but on your contract.
Like me, I have a contract thatI pretty much copy from online.
So mine is like if they cancelwithin the 10 days, they don't
have to pay the full amount much30 30.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Yeah, because I've got to take it off work yeah, we
got to take it off work andwe're taking a day that that day
could have went to anotherparty that was going to pay, and
now I have lost that entireday's worth of money.
And, like I said, if weddingseason is six months three in

(01:03:21):
the first half, three in thelast half you know, six months
times four is 24.
You have 24 days Fridays andsaturdays, or saturdays and
sundays to make your money.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, our, our, ourdeposit's pretty, pretty steep.
Like, our deposit will be like300 or 500, like I'm.

(01:03:41):
Hey, if you want me, you're, I'mstill gonna make 500 that day.
If you cancel on me and youpull some stupid shit, I'm still
getting $500, which is prettygood days worth of money, you
know.
So you have to set that.
You know your highs and youhave to set your lows, and then

(01:04:01):
that's what I base my depositsoff of.
Is what I want to make on a day.
Yeah, how much do you make aday at your normal job?
Okay, if it's $20 an hour,eight hours, you make $160.
Well, I'm my, my deposit'sgoing to be minimum of $160
because I'm going to get paidfor my day of work.

Speaker 5 (01:04:23):
That's pretty much how I look at it too.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
Just in case anything happens.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
I still made some amount of money.

Speaker 5 (01:04:29):
I would have made if I went to Chewy's at the end of
the day.
If anything else, if all elsefails, we're good yeah,
absolutely back at the crib.
We're good like.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
I said for me, I give 10 days because, like I said,
most of them I know it's familyand friends it's word of mouth
yeah, I mean like I, I do quitea bit of gigs each year but it's
all like from from the friendsI've done.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
You know like they're like recommendations I have
never solicited a job, a dj gigfrom anybody.
I've never solicited.
I have a career.
Right, I have a job.
Djing I do for fun, I love it,I love music and I love doing it
and that's why I do it.
I have a career, I have a job.
We work for the same company.
Yeah, um that's crazy.

(01:05:13):
Yeah, I know, man yeah, Iforgot you guys talking about
that.
I didn't know, but I was likethat's my whole world, man yeah,
we work for the same companyand and I have never solicited a
job.
All the jobs that I've gottenany wedding, any party, any
something has come off of socialmedia and or friends and family
, uh, and and people that I haveactually dj'd for prior.

(01:05:36):
You know, speaking your nameout and everything else, mine's
completely all organic.
I, I don't, I don't approachanybody, I don't, I don't, I
don't even like getting onsocial media when they say, oh,
looking for a DJ for a wedding,I'm like, eh, I'm the same way I
know you go hit me up, hit meup, that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:53):
But I'm not going to reach out to you, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:05:59):
I will, because even if you do the communication,
that has to be had when you book.
The gig is going to be organic?
Yeah, because I don't have acompany where I can send you
listen some blank, ass fuckingmessage that says so, and so go
to this side.
Yeah, now I'm like look, I'mopen that day if you have any
questions, dm me, yep, and ifyou dm me and we talk it up and
we can work it out.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
It was built organically yeah, absolutely
that's me, it's like yeah, I'mnot on there hunting, but I but
yeah I am in there.
Yeah, I mean, if someone tagsyou, you're gonna reply but if
somebody tags me, I expect thatthey know that person, right.
I expect that there's arelationship there and they can
vouch for that person and thingslike that Kind of.
What you're talking about,jules, is I don't attach my name

(01:06:40):
to something I can't count onsomebody for.
On somebody for, like, if I'm aDJ and I'm booked next weekend
and I have a couple of peopleasking me for gigs that I know,
I will match them up with a DJ.
If, if you hit me up and Idon't know you and you want to
DJ, I'll still give yourinformation out to somebody.

(01:07:00):
But I'm not, my name is notattached to it.
I'm going to let Dante know Idon't know this person, I know
nothing about it, but they hitme up and they wanted me for a
gig and I can't do itOrganically talk to them and
figure out if it's a fit for youor not, right?

Speaker 4 (01:07:16):
That's pretty much what it is.
If it's a fit.
Yeah, I feel comfortable inthat place because we already
know weddings are nerve-wrackingperiod.
So it's a lot to handle.
It's a lot, it's a feeling,yeah it's a lot to handle.

Speaker 5 (01:07:26):
Yeah, it's a feeling, though too.
I won't reply on all of themLike a lot of stalker.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
You could kind of read into some things.

Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
I'm going in and I'm looking.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
And I want to look and see one.
Do we have any friends that weknow?
In your top eight bro, is thereany people?
I and from the first look I'mlike that's not me or that's not
my vibe, or I won't even replyback.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
I just yeah, that's not like I never read it I I
hate to say this, man, because Idon't really get into this kind
of stuff but if I see a bunchof politics, religion, a whole
bunch of just decide divisivestuff that they've been posting
or liking or commenting on, orstuff like that, I won't touch
it with a 10-foot pole eitherman.
I don't want nothing to do withit because I kind of have a

(01:08:12):
feeling I know who, who you are.
I I've gathered kind of who Ithink you are, based off of your
social media, people are tryingto low-cut uh-huh, yeah you do
the homie deal.

Speaker 4 (01:08:23):
It's like you want to pay extra for everything else,
but not the dj okay, I don'tmake no sense yeah, I had, I had
that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
I had that happened to me like uh, last month
actually, because they hit me up.
So I said, okay, I'll do it,but we never talk about the
price.
So I saw their flyer, becausethe flyer was already done right
, and they got vendors,different vendors.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
This one they paid this much.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
And then when we started to talk about the price,
I said, oh, how much do we needto pay?
Just pretty much close to whatyou paid me last time.
I said, well, my daughter kindof don't have that money.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
She don't have that budget.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
And then I wonder if you could do it for this much.
I said like no, I can't,because I I can't do it, so I
make it has to make sense to me.
I have to make more if I juststay at work.
I gotta call out yeah, exactly,I gotta call out, but they
didn't know that I was off work.
But I said I gotta call out.
But if I do this one right hereit's not worth my time yeah,

(01:09:28):
it's really not worth my time.
Yep, you know what I mean, like,and I, like I didn't tell her
I'd be like.
You got all these vendors, Iknow you.
You're paying them more thanyou're paying me yeah, and then
and I'm gonna be like.
You know, we're the life of theparty and you're trying to
undercut me.

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
I mean, you know what I mean, like it depends on the
situation, because me and youwas talking earlier and just
about his process and where he'sat right now in his business
and what he's doing like and whyhe's doing what he's doing.
Right, you're taking the samesteps to build some.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
Right yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
If you're doing it and in your mind is some type of
charity or some type ofdonation, or you're giving back
in hopes of the retainment ofsomething in the future or
gaining something from that,then it makes sense you're also
on a point where you don't needit yeah you have a cool job me
I'm in a point where I'm nottrying to get out of my job,

(01:10:20):
like I don't need to leavechewy's.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
I'm secure in my job but, bro, I want to be where
danny's at yeah, I'm not lookingto go find another career.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
Or, yeah, be a gm of some store, uh, and move down.
No, I want to be where Denny'sat yeah, I'm not looking to go
find another career or be a GMof some store and move down.
No, I want to be a full-time DJand that's wedding.
Yeah, that's corporate Club,everything I mean man.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
You have to get into it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
That's what it takes, that's what I want to be, but
if you're not looking at it fromthat that lens, well then of
course you can just push awaygigs yeah, or of course you can
say now there's a minimum Iwould do a gig for, and I'm
gonna say like oh no, you'reworth, but yeah, there's there's
nothing that's for to me,that's oh, you're too good for
this.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
I'm not yeah, no, I'm never too good, so what I do is
like I know this, I know themand it's a birthday party.
You know it's a 30th birthdayparty.
That's fun and and me, I knowit would have been fun.
Like me, like I've done so manylike, like I've given, like me.
Honestly, you don't have to payme.
Honestly, you don't have to payme, but you have to get paid
right yeah I love what I'm doinglike.

(01:11:18):
That's why I come out ofchewy's.
I come out all these, you know,different venues.
I don't get paid for it no, youknow what I mean.
Like you're out there for thelove of DJing, yeah for the love
of DJing, love of music, andI'm there.
But this is a 30th birthdayparty and I know you guys got
the money and you're trying toundercut me.
I mean, come on.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Yeah.
So I mean like you have moneyfor everybody else.
Maybe next time.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
Like I said, I already took theday off off, like you know I
mean like I already switched mydays so you're gonna have to
make some money, yeah, so but Imean because we all, we all do,
you know, we all have thataccount, that always there for
us.
You know, like right, you havelike a gig, like like every year
you have something solid,something that's always going to
be there, like that's that kindof kind of pays for it.

(01:12:02):
And then I said I don't look atit as my so you're looking
forward to that, like you, youhave like there's like two or
three gigs a year that you getto look forward to doing like me
.
I would have done it if it wasjust worded differently, because
the way she worded it's kind oflike make me like.
You know you've done it for mebefore this way and then and
then we have all these vendors.
They kind of put up, we kind ofput our money there, that's

(01:12:24):
when I said that was yourmistake, yeah, I was like okay,
all right, okay you know what Imean like, so you'd rather pay
them and pay yeah, pay me likethe entertainment, like honestly
, like the food, yeah, they'regonna eat, but but what's gonna
keep them there?

Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
you can only eat so much this goes back to what he
was saying there is no if.
If the dj world shut down.
Look how much stuff shuts down.
Oh yeah, there's no wedding.
I mean, you could have awedding, but what would it
really be?

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
You might as well just go to the courthouse.
No clubs, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:12:55):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
No parties, no radio, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
That's why I figure, do we get?

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
the respect sometimes that we deserve.
I mean, sometimes it doesn'tfeel like that.
You know, doesn't feel likethat.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
It's soundtrack to people'slives.
The soundtrack to people'slives, at least their night that
they had.
Yeah, so you know what I mean.
All right, guys, we're gonnawrap this one up.
Man, we're gonna close out a uhd d we got we got dynamite we,
we got D-Cross, we got Jules wegot Queen B.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
It's DJ.
It's DJ, two D's and a J.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Oh, there you go, man .

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
It's DJ man.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
D and J man, we got it.
Hey, let us know what you gotgoing on, where you're going to
be.
We know Dynamite man has beenrocking rocking aura, right
brother.
Dynamite man has been rockingrocking aura, right brother.

Speaker 4 (01:13:48):
Rocking aura and Thursday's Murphys McMurphys.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
Are you?
I was just there yesterday, man, I'm going to have to swing in.

Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
They wanted me to come.
I was tired.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
I'm going to have to swing in.
You said Thursday's, I got toget my seat.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
Yeah, I'm nervous.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
I'm going to swing by Thursday, man.
I'm going to swing by man.
I've been trying to get out andsupport.
I don't even go there to playman.
I don't even go to drop a set.
I get nervous anyways.
I don't really like droppingsets in front of y'all.
I'll go drop a set in front ofa wedding Three, four, five
hundred people, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
but I don't want to play in front of any of you,
it's different because you getcritiqued more.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
It's your family.
It's just like your family.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
We're going to give each other a ration of shit, man
.
We're going to fuck with eachother.
We're going to talk shit toeach other, which?

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
is good.
So that's why I come out ofChewy's every Thursday.
That's why we were called Iguess Just a Mess of DJs,
because we're like show up inthere and just play our tunes.
Whatever show up in there andjust play our tunes, you know,
like whatever vibe you'refeeling hey, that's iron
sharpening iron out there, man.

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
Yeah, that's how I see it.
That's how I see it.
It never used to be that way.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
Now it's turned to how we're finally getting
together.
Most of the DJs don't like toshare the spot, right?

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Yeah, most of the DJs don't?

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
Everybody got to play .
Yeah, you know what I meanEverybody got to play.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
The kid came out from the coast.
Even I don't remember his name.
Oh, yeah yeah.
Yeah, pops brought him out fromthe coast.
Man, he did his thing.
Bro was sick.

Speaker 5 (01:15:16):
Yeah, he did, he did, he did, he did.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
I know they added me on Instagram and I'm going to
have to apologize to them.
To him now I don't remember,but uh, the kid was sick man I,
I loved it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:33):
Yeah, I loved it good , they did good.
Yeah, so dynamite thursdays.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
Thursdays mcmurphy's friday and saturday aura aura
all right d crofts uh, I meanthis wedding season, right now.

Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
So every every saturday I'm locked into a
wedding yep, uh, I just cameback from Eagle.
Mountain.
That was cool.
What else I got going thismonth?
I got some birthday partiesgoing or whatever, which y'all
can't pull up to them.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
And Chewy's Thursday nights.

Speaker 5 (01:15:57):
Yeah, nah, but I never really get to miss.

Speaker 2 (01:15:59):
You don't get to because you're working.

Speaker 5 (01:16:00):
It's either I'm at work or I'm not at work.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
You don't want to be at work.
Your boy's not coming, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:16:06):
So I think the next time I'll be at Chewy's on June
5th and I'll be with a bandcalled Funkalotopus.
They're super dope.
It's a super dope vibe.
The singer's off the chain.
I mix for an hour first andthen in between they're setting.
I mix for an hour after.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
So if you want to come up man We'll come out and
support.

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
So other than that man, I'm pretty much locked into
gigs you guys can't show to,but I appreciate the look, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
Yeah, I appreciate it , jules, you got anything?

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
coming up, man?
Yeah, I got some coming up, butagain, I just want to plug.
Every Tuesdays and Fridays, I'mon the groove.
Yeah, and 9.3, it's from 9 to10.
All right, and Thursdays, I'malways there at Chewy's.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
And then, yeah, I got gigs coming up.
I can't say the day because I'mgoing to be, you know, because
I'm working.
Yeah, I'm calling out that dayIn the next two weeks I got a
big because, okay, filipinos arebig with 18th birthdays.
I don't know if you guys havedone 18th birthdays, so 18th
birthday, we call it a debut, adebut birthdays.

(01:17:12):
So 18th birthday, we call it adebut, a debut it's called, or
you?

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
can say debut okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
So those, are our quinceaneras.
Okay, so you know, there'squinceaneras 15, there's sweet
16s, right?
Yeah filipinos are 18 soprobably in town.
I probably do most of them.
So I do that at least 10 in ayear oh really it's bigger than
the bigger than a wedding.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
And this is in the Filipino community.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
No, this is in general 18.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
So a lot of cultures do an 18th, a big 18th.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
Or Filipinos only.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
It's 18, because that's when they're officially
an adult.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
An adult.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
They're leaving their home.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Getting kicked out the nest.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Or they're staying their parents kicked out the
nest, or they're staying theirparents.
They're buying a car, so theymake them get a job they make
them choose because, like, doyou want a car or something that
you like, or you want to throwa party oh, okay, like eight,
sixty percent, seventy percent,they choose a party oh really so
there's a lot of 18 birthdayshere all right a lot.
There's plenty like I mean, it'sjust happened to be I'm

(01:18:04):
filipino and then I get most ofthem, because if you do one
they're friends.
There's 18 of them.
Yeah, all of them are going towant it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
They're going to need it too, and then the
15-year-olds and 16-year-oldsand 17-year-olds that you're
affecting throughout that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
So if you did, I'd say oh 18, have a 10 or 8.
In eight years you'll still bedoing this yeah, it'll be like
yeah, I think so, yeah, so, yeah, I have.
I have two of those coming upnext month.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
Oh, all right.
Hey, nobody knows where youwork.
Man, you're good brother, I'mnot gonna snitch you out that
far, man, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna give you a hard timeabout having to call out, but,
man, I'm not gonna completelyput you on.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Blast, man it's good about our job right now, when
you call out like you don't haveto talk to anybody, we just
text.
You text in I can't make ittonight and I go all right.
I hope you feel better or we'llsee you tomorrow or in two days
, or whenever we don't reallyhave to make an excuse.
It's just straightforward, LikeI can't make it to work tonight
Sorry for the late notice andthen boom.

(01:19:06):
All right, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
Yeah, yeah, we do have a pretty good company.
We work for man Works outpretty good.
Well, I appreciate you guyscoming out.
Man, I love you guys Alwayslove here.
You guys are always welcomehere.
This is always home, Whether weDJ, whether we sit here,
whether we watch a movie,whether we just shoot the shit.

(01:19:28):
Man, I appreciate it and we'llclose it out with that man.
Love y'all.

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