July 22, 2024 • 41 mins
What if you could journey through the rhythms and beats that define the DMV's unique music culture? Our special guest, Light Skin Black of Light Skin Black Entertainment, takes us on a nostalgic trip through the all-age go-go events that shaped our youth and offers a candid look at the current music scene's transition towards rap and "free car, slide music." Light Skin Black shares his thoughts on this evolution, expressing his admiration for artists like No Savage, KP Skywalker, and Nucci, while voicing his disinterest in the emerging off-beat style. This episode celebrates the heart and soul of DMV's music culture and Light Skin Black's unwavering commitment to his community.
Ever wondered what it takes to rise from uncertain beginnings to become a top party promoter? Discover the transformative journey of Light Skin Black, who went from attending parties solo to building key connections with influential figures like DJ Zion. We explore the challenges of drawing crowds on slow nights and the thrill of booking high-demand celebrities like Erica Banks and Tyreke Evans. You'll hear firsthand accounts of wild after-hours surprises and the outrageous fees demanded by some influencers, shedding light on the glamorous yet complex world of event promotion.
Ready for tales of unforgettable parties and the politics of promoting in the DMV? Light Skin Black recounts the wild success of an overnight glow party, complete with trampoline fun and unexpected antics. We delve into the nuances of organizing go-go events and the stark differences in hospitality between DMV and southern cities. This episode underscores the importance of unity within the nightlife industry, offering practical advice and heartfelt anecdotes to illustrate the dedication required to thrive as a promoter. Join us for an episode filled with vibrant stories, industry insights, and a celebration of community spirit.
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
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You already know, and we arehere with a special guest, we
are here with my brother fromanother mother, holla, other
mother.
How you doing, ma Real, youknow what I'm saying.
This is my man.
Light Skin Black of Light SkinBlack Entertainment man.
(00:56):
What's going on with you, broman?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
what's up with y'all.
You know, anytime my brothercall me to do anything, I'm
coming through, no questionsasked.
He told me to come through anabsolute DMV podcast, Whatever.
He don't even got to ask me tosay listen, I need you to be
here.
That podcast, nigga, I'm coming.
That's straight up.
That's my brother man.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Blessings yo, my man.
We already podcasts already, soyou know, people get to know
who.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Who are you, you know I gotta go back and look at
that.
You gotta tag me or somethingwe're putting it out.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We're putting it out, but uh, but yeah, um yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So I I definitely wanted to bring you on the
podcast.
I mean, not only are you mybrother, but you, uh, you are
one of the best party promotersin the city, you know I'm saying
like you humble, you sayingtrying, but I've been to the
city.
You know what I'm saying.
You humble, you saying trying,but I've been to the parties so
I know what they like and youdefinitely doing your thing out
(01:53):
here, appreciate it, but youknow what I'm saying.
Over here at Absolute DMV, welike to introduce our guests a
little icebreaker questionwhat's your DMV card?
What's something that, whatmakes you a car carrying member
of the dmv, or what will getyour dmv card revoked?
So you know what I'm sayinglike.
(02:13):
Basically, you know what, what,what about a dmv that you love?
You know culture wise, and whatabout a dmv you?
you would like to see changed oryou don't really like man, look
, you know I'm dmv all the way.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Dc maryland average I put on for everybody, man, you
know I'm saying because it's alllove.
I've been out here my wholelife, so I'm all the way dc type
shit.
You know I'm saying like I, Idone done partying, I done
go-go's.
You know I'm saying I've doneit all.
I will hear it, man.
And and uh, the about dc that Ilove is is the go-go scene, man
, because it's still going onsince since when I was a kid,
(02:51):
when we was kids, you know whatI'm saying like all age go-go's
and like that, like we don'teven see that.
No more man.
But when we was kids, man, allage go-go's, that's what we was
doing.
So when all these bands thaty'all seeing, like the tcbs and
tobs and all that, when it wascoming up, we was kids and we
was going to that shit.
You know I'm saying so.
I love that about the dmv man,but this is like now the, the
(03:15):
new shit like I niggas is tryingto transition more into, like
the rap scene and that free car,slide music, music, all that
shit.
I ain't going.
I ain't going, I'm not withthat shit.
I ain't going to lie to you,man, and this is my personal
opinion, like I'm.
No, it's niggas in DC who canrap.
But that free car, that slidemusic, niggas rapping off beat,
(03:38):
that's not really my thing.
I'm just going to be honestwith you, man.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, I'm old with it right yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
like I like niggas who can really like.
There's some young niggas Ifucks with, though you know I'm
saying like no savage.
You know I'm saying free, nosavage.
And and kp skywalker, littlenigga doing his thing, glock
jones just came home.
I fuck with glock jones andshit like that.
But you know, I'm saying likethe other shit, I just, I just
really can't get with it man.
But there's some niggas wholike really doing this shit, I
can really rap, like I'm reallyrapping, like Nucci Nucci.
(04:07):
You seen the front portion,nucci?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
doing his thing, man Niggas who can rap.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Like I know, I know Nucci, I know his little brother
Ricky, I know them niggas andshit.
You know what I'm saying?
Really nigga be on that shit.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So I fucks with niggas who like really rapping
that shit and not just justdoing it, just rapping off beat
shit like I ain't on that causeI always thought that rapping
off beat shit was like, was likethat Detroit kinda you know
what I'm saying, not mumble rap,but they just they would find
like the back half of the pocketto rap in.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So it just kinda always seemed like they was kind
of off offset yeah, so I don'tknow like I'll be like and, like
I said, like I'm being like.
We don't play that in the club,but you know what I'm saying
I'm in this, I'm in the clubscene heavy.
So it was like all that free carmusic, that nobody playing that
in the club for real.
You know what I'm saying.
So, like, if you want to getout there and put DC on the map
(05:05):
and all that shit, we got toswitch shit up, man, you know
what I'm saying.
Like niggas who going globaland shit like that, like Shai
Glizzy and niggas like that,they making shit.
He not making no slap music andshit.
Everybody in the scene, no, shaiGlizzy, everybody in the music
scene knows Shia Glyze.
Now, he may not be mainstream,but everybody in the music
industry know who Shia Glyze is.
(05:26):
You know what I'm saying.
He not rapping that, shit likethat.
So you just got to think aboutniggas who doing it and they
took it to the next level.
You know what I'm saying.
Like, who took it to the nextlevel?
Like what are they doing to besuccessful and shit.
And we ain't seen one free cardmusic rap.
Nigga who done made it.
So you got to think about that.
And I know niggas want to dotheir own thing and shit like
that.
But if you're trying to make itoutside of DC, and rep.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Dc and rep.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
DC.
You got to.
You know what I'm saying.
You got to do what it takes tomake that.
Shit.
Ain't going to make no radiomusic.
Ain't nobody playing no song?
They could play on the radio,Like I hit going on and shit.
You know what I'm saying?
That young nigga he doing histhing, Shout out to him.
But everybody else, man, y'allgot to get the program.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
What about quick question?
We always talk about gear forthe DV.
I see you wearing New Balance.
That's what I'm saying.
Oh brother, yeah, hey, hey, wetalk about this shit.
This motherfucker don't wearNew Balance.
He said yo.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Bro, you know I never owned a pair of New Balances in
my life.
Right, that's a red flag.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
See.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, see, but listen , I'm not going to hold you
right.
So I got another man I doparties with he from Maryland.
He said that's some DC shit.
I don't know what I'm saying.
I don't do all DC.
That's the whole DMV area, bythe way.
You can go to any Footlogger,fucking DTLR, all that shit.
(06:49):
You're going to see New Balancein there and they're going to
have different colors and allthat.
Because when you go out of townand all that shit go to other
states, you don't see a record.
You might see one pair of NewBalances.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I'm saying Because they're not on that shit.
Old person wearing them joints.
Yeah, you know we don't seethat shit, but if you go in any
DC area, any DC area shoe store.
The New Balance is going to beand they're going to be in there
.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Heavy You're going to see the New Balance.
Heavy is going to be in thereNine, nine, nine, nine zeros.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Like you got all the, I've never bought a pair, you
know what, and I'm not going tolie to you, right?
So my other brother quit, youknow what I'm saying.
He put me on Yeezys for real.
He was like man and I never wasAdidas niggas, ever in my life.
You know what I'm saying.
And I'm trying to take theseJones comfortable and just get a
pair.
And I bought my first pair ofYeezys, man, I got you know them
(07:40):
Jones comfortable.
I don't fuck that New Balance.
Comfortable as shit.
You know what I'm saying.
They real life comfortable,like I ain't going.
Phone pauses is a staple at DC,right, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
They're a staple at DC.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
That's what I'm saying.
Niggas, fuck with phone.
Now, mind you, phone pauses arenot comfortable whatsoever.
But To y'all in 2016 and if Ijust wipe them Jones off and
come outside, you gonna thinkthem Jones phone pauses last.
That's why I dig his littlephone pauses and shit.
Like you know what I'm saying,they last.
(08:10):
I got like the purple phonesjust came back out.
I got my Jones from 2017.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I said oh, you coming back out, just let me dust my
ass off real quick and you knowwhat?
I still got my.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Jones, bro, back in.
You know what I'm saying.
I don't even know where thatball.
I still got him, though.
All I'm gonna dust them, jones,I'm gonna bring it back out.
Shit like that flight pauses,phone pauses they last a long
ass time so that's why niggaslove them.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I don't have a pair of those y'all trying I got some
.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I got Nike boots, I got Timbs, I got all that shit
but this nigga, ace Buggy, onshoes, how you on shoes and you
don't got no new balance.
That's a red flag.
That's just a red flag to me,cause this nigga got shoes, he
on shoes cause I've been likethis.
I just whenever I go to thestore if there's some Jordans
there or some new balance there,I'm going to go get the Jordans
(09:03):
.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I've been off Jordans for a minute.
Like I bought some Jordans theall-grade 11 jumps, yeah and he
was with me when I bought them.
When they first came out.
We woke up at 7 in the morningto go to the shoe store.
So I'm like this is likenostalgia.
I got to get them.
I ain't got them in thecollection, and the only other
Jones I want is the 17s in thisbriefcase.
(09:28):
I got to get me them jumpsWhite and blue jumps, the
blizzard color jumps yeah, I gotto get them jumps.
I had them in the 10th gradewhen they first came out and I
was one of like two n, becausethis joint was like hitting that
thing.
They was too there back there.
200 for some shoe, wasn't thesame Niggas never heard of that
shit before.
In 2002?
Nah, niggas wasn't doing thatshit.
(09:49):
I just showed my age and shit.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But you know, we old bro, we old bro, it's all good,
I'm not old Y, I'm going to tellyou right now.
Being old is the goal bro.
Like that's the goal.
We trying to live long.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I never consider myself old, I consider myself
youthful because, like, when yousay you old, you going to put
that in your mindset, in yourbrain, like, oh, I'm old, I
can't do X, y, z because I'm old.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
No, oh, no, no, no See, I don't do it like that.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
When these years I'm wiser, I say that I'm wiser.
I'm gonna say that, okay, I'mnot with that.
I'm wiser, all right, but solet's get into it.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Let's get into it, let's go.
Light skin, black entertainmentman.
So when did you start promoting?
And what made you decide tostart promoting?
Because I, I, I remember thatthere was a a dark time in your
life and when you came back,everything you know I'm saying
you had to make some decisionsand I really had to find my way.
A dark time in your life andwhen you came back, everything
you know what I'm saying you hadto make some decisions.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, I really had to find my way.
You know what I'm saying, cause, like I wasn't going nowhere
fast.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm like man, I'm out here likeI'm enjoying myself, like, and
I'm going out, I'm partying,shit like that, and nine times
out of ten I'm going out bymyself because he's like the men
around my way, niggas, you knowI'm saying like they wasn't on
(11:09):
that or like gotta be some typeof special event.
I'm just like man, I don't want, I just want to go have some
fun.
So I'm going out on party, woo,woo.
Then I end up, um, working atthis job, and I was working with
this dj and you know I'm sayinglike we get to rapping.
So we telling me woo, woo.
You know what I'm saying, shoutout to DJ Zion man, you know
what I'm saying.
And we get to rapping.
(11:30):
So I'm talking to him like youknow how they getting in woo,
woo and he's telling me like yougot to rap to somebody.
And now, mind you, he said hegonna holler at his folks.
Right, is a big time promoter,nigga.
So when he was saying that shit, like I didn't know, back then
I'm like, oh, that's a bad year.
He said nah.
He said, nah, I'm a rapper tomy man, he gonna see what he can
do.
Woo, woo that the nigga he wastalking about was like a big
time promoter nigga.
(11:51):
So really he was spinning mefor real.
For real, you know what I'msaying, coming across.
You remember Zaliga?
We went to school with Herboyfriend.
Her boyfriend at the time wasdoing parties.
So I cut into Zaliga.
I'm like, hey man, I see yourboyfriend doing parties.
(12:11):
Like you know what I'm saying.
Can you put me on with him,cause I had met him one time,
like maybe like once or twice inpassing, when I seen Zaliga out
somewhere.
You know what I'm saying.
And Zaliga, we went to school.
Me and ace went to school where,like we was little like middle
school type, we used to beat herup hey, that's what you did
(12:32):
when you were, like you was kids, just being stupid, play
fighting push up on the groundand yeah, you know just you know
, I'm saying like you know yougot.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
you got a rough like no, no domestic violence, shit
like that.
You got to rough up the cutegirls you mess with the cute
girls.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You know how we do.
You're too cute to be fuckingwalking around and shit.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah.
But so I met him a couple timesin passing and so I asked her
like man, can you put me on withthe woo-woo?
She's like all right, yeah,woo-woo.
So she ended up putting me onone of my rap tour.
He like I, um, because he hadjust ended up coming home, type
shit.
So I'm like I bet, um, he'slike man, meet me at such and
such spot.
You know, sam, we're gonna rap.
(13:10):
So I met him at the little spot, like a Tuesday, like a little
chill little spot on 8th streetwith their rap tour, and he get
to rap.
Like yeah, we'll be doing thisjump, um, on Wednesdays.
You know, sam, try to get itgoing and see what you can do.
So I'm like all right, bet.
Now, man, it's Tuesday,wednesday was tomorrow.
So I'm like all right, shit,fuck, I don't know what to do.
You know I'm going to try myhand.
So you know what I'm saying.
(13:31):
Like me, I'm the type of nigga.
Like I always have bitches.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's that light skin shit.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Let's see what's going on.
Let's see what's going on.
Let's see what's going on.
Let's see what's going on.
Let's see what's going.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
About the party scene .
Like I didn't know nothingabout the party scene, I just
know I used to go out to party,type shit, but like mainly on
the weekends.
So a Wednesday party I'm like Idon't know.
You know what I'm saying.
Now, mind you, like, if youknow what you know, like
Wednesday is probably one of thehardest days to promote.
Yeah, because it's like it'smidweek, you know what I'm
saying.
It's like days they taking abreak or they waiting for the
(14:21):
weekend, type shit.
So like they ain't really doingtoo much on wednesday.
So I ain't know that.
I'm just like all right, I'mjust happy for the opportunity,
so I'm gonna make it do what itdo.
So you know what I'm saying.
Like I invited some people outand, um, I invited a couple
people out.
You know what I'm saying.
It was cool.
Like now I had you, I had agood time, because I ain't never
did this before and I'm likeall right, bet, you know what
I'm saying, I was feeling lit,to be honest with you, but I was
at the bottom of the tadpole,type, you know what I'm saying.
But for me I was just blessedwith opportunity, whatever.
(14:42):
And then, um, it was cool.
Like after that like I don'teven know if I made any money
that night.
I probably did.
You know what I'm saying, but Iain't even give a.
I just like man, I'm just sohappy to be here, type.
So I'm like all right, but andthen I ended up rocking with him
, and you know what I'm saying.
That's my man.
Shout out to that boy yeah, heappreciates you.
You already know Slim, you knowwhat I'm saying.
He big bro, whatever, you knowwhat I'm saying.
(15:03):
And you know I've been goingever since then.
You know what I'm saying.
And it's like 2018, you knowwhat I'm saying.
Like summer type shit.
You know what I'm saying.
So ever since then you knowwhat I'm saying I've been
rocking out.
You know what I'm saying.
I was rocking under him forBrick, under Boye, so he
(15:24):
introduced me to a lot of peopleon the party scene, on the
nightlife scene.
So at first everybody know, atfirst I wasn't light-skinned
Like I was.
Oh, you, the nigga that be withBoye.
You know what I'm saying.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I guessI, you know.
Yeah, that's me.
You know what I'm saying.
So I ain't have no identity onmy own type shit.
But you know what I'm saying.
Like I made it where I know.
I took that shit as anopportunity and I built, you
(15:47):
know.
So I was networking, made thoseconnections with those people
that he was introducing me to.
So I made, boom, now let me cutinto him on my own type shit
and see what I can work out.
You know what I'm saying andI've been doing that shit ever
since.
You feel me, that's what's up sospeaking of those connections
(16:09):
you done made, like what type ofcelebrities you been able to
bring out.
I mean so, like the type ofcelebrities I've been able to
bring out personally.
You I'm saying like, like Ibrought out.
Like I mean, if you want tolook at, like everybody on the
local dmv scene, I done broughtout anybody in dc, who anybody
in dc I done brought out, I donebrought out my.
(16:51):
They done came through my clubat some point.
You I'm saying but um, outsideof that, you know I went up
baltimore tmc to dawn.
You know I'm saying um, ericabanks brought her out.
Uh, we did a party, a poolparty brought out uh, uh, jay
michelle I don't know if youknow I'm beyond, I don't know
her name, jay michelle, is thatno?
(17:13):
it's one of the nba young boys,baby mother, shit, jay.
I think her name is jaymichelle, something like that.
I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Shit like that.
You know what I'm saying.
But like people who like justhappened to like like grace
their presence in my club andshit it's been I don't want to
name some names, but it's likesome NFL players that came
through, a couple NFL playersthat came through A couple NFL
players that came through in myspot, but I came through the
Commanders, I guess yeah, yeah,yeah, I didn't say Redskins, but
(17:42):
Some.
Commanders, players that camethrough Some.
Wizards, players and shit likethat I went in the club one time
and I'm just like that nigga,look like Greg Oden, like shit.
I'm like, wait a second, thatis greg odin.
What the fuck this nigga?
He brought greg odin now andthis is birthday and shit.
(18:03):
I'm like this nigga, greg odincame on his birthday and shit,
and then, but he, just him andthis girl, they was chilling and
shit.
You know I'm saying like gregodin, like I don't like had, uh,
tyreek evans came through onthe after hours tip.
You know what I'm saying.
One of the after hours partieswe was doing how the fuck, how
the fuck do you know about thisJohn?
Like this is after hoursunderground party.
Like who the fuck put him onwith this shit?
You know what I'm saying.
So, yeah, there's been somesneaky celebrities that came out
(18:23):
and fucked with this type ofshit.
You know what I'm saying.
But that shit.
You know what I'm saying.
Like I fuck with that, but likebooking celebrities that's a
lot.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I like less celebrities, so okay, so hold on
, and then so who has chargedyou the most outrageous bag,
like, like something that wasjust like bruh, you know you,
you know I'm not paying that.
Like you just charging me justbecause you think I'm I'm sweet,
or something like that.
Like who's charging something?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
crazy.
Um, we was going to bring out,um, what's um money bag yo,
what's good, ari mm-hmm wasgonna bring her out for the uh
cia when it first came tobaltimore and fuck, was that
2021, 2022, something like that,something like that, I
(19:15):
Something like that, I forget.
It was 21 or 22.
You know what I'm saying.
And she wanted Charles, 25racks.
And I'm like but what did youdo?
You don't rap, you don't sing,you don't dance, you don't do
nothing, you just Instagrammodel.
I'm just like, I feel like forme.
I'm like I can't Like if youdid something.
Like you, going on the stage,you perform like three songs
(19:37):
that everybody know and that'scool, like I can justify that.
But for you to just be a badbitch and just show up and just
be a bad bitch and like I can'tjustify, I can't do that.
Man, 25 racks, is it?
And now, mind you, this is now.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
She hasn't done anything lately Besides being on
Instagram.
She ain't never done nothingbesides be on Instagram.
You just a famous, famous rap.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Nigga's baby mother.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You money about your girlfriend?
You?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
money about your girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
We pay NBA young boy, baby mother for the pool party.
She don't do nothing.
I was telling my man, why arewe giving her this money?
What does she do?
She don't do nothing.
And I was telling my man, I'mlike why are we giving her this
money?
Like what does she do?
Like she don't even do nothing.
You know what I'm saying?
They get away with anything.
They get away with it, though,Cause they got them rack of
followers and it just theoutreach you know what I'm
saying.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's just, you know that's what you're paying.
Thrown the regular and I don'tsay regular, but in the you know
in the club type jones, likewhat type of you know what's the
wildest party you feel like youprobably ever promoted like oh
see like yeah, I mean in yourparty, I mean, yeah, you ever
been a part of anything likethat.
(20:48):
Just like like all right.
So well, y'all, because I'mtrying to think of some shit.
I'm like all right when you saywow, like, like what kind of
wild.
Like it just was a wild assparty, like some crazy shit
happened, or like what you meanLike wild when you like you
remember at how High, when theywalked out and everybody was
(21:10):
laid out on the lawn and theywas like, yeah, because they
probably want to talk about us,about that wild ass party we
threw last night.
And homie was like, yeah,because they probably want to
talk about us, about thatwild-ass party we threw last
night.
And homie was like, and Redmanwas like it wasn't that wild.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And they saw like a camel laid out or some shit like
that, and he was like it didget a lot out of hand.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Like what party did you throw where you was?
Just like damn, that did get alittle out of hand.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I mean maybe so, all right, so I don't know.
Maybe a year or two ago I didan overnight party which was
from 11 pm to 6 am.
You know I'm saying, and it wasan outdoor event through a
paradox party, so it was outdoorparty and I'm not going to.
It was outdoor party because itwas like I want to say it was
(21:51):
like in or something, but it'sprobably like around labor day.
So the weather was still cool.
You know I'm saying and, um,that shit was dry, wow, because
that shit was lit.
I'm not gonna.
So the weather was still cool.
You know what I'm saying.
And that shit was jive wildbecause that shit was lit.
I'm not going to hold you, itwas lit.
I ain't expect that to turn out.
That might have been my mostprofitable party of all time.
Now that I think about it.
You know what I'm saying.
And it was just like all right,we had a fab pit, we had
vendors set up, everybody gottheir chairs and tents and all
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that woo, woo.
So like we over here at thefive pit.
It's a girl at the five pit.
She twerking, but she got allher clothes off twerking at the
five pit and then, out ofnowhere, she just started
pissing.
Oh my God, she just startedpissing, damn, and she didn't
stop.
She still twerking.
Now imagine, we got this all oncamera, you, we got this all on
(22:34):
camera.
You know what I'm saying?
I ain't going to put a girl outthere, but she started pissing
and I'm like, okay, that's crazy.
Over here the bitch is like,hey, what's up?
Yeah, $200 coming to 10.
I'm like, oh, wow, we gotwhores over here.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
$200 coming to 10?
.
We got whores over here sellingwhat's her name over here?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh, okay, we got a lot of shit going on over here.
You know what I'm saying?
Like a party going on and thenthe entrepreneurs.
Yeah, first of all, I feel like, because why are you selling
shit at my party?
I'm like get it cut up.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Like don't let me know Like y'all going to do that
.
Y'all got to get it cut, likey'all don you know what I'm
saying Exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I got to get a custom vending fee to vending my pies
or whatever.
You know what I'm saying.
And then, nice thing, you know,towards like the end of the
party, like towards like 5o'clock.
I guess everybody like reallyfucked up at this point.
Bitches get the fight and theyknocked the fucking fence over.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You know I'm saying so no cops, no cops came out.
They can end up coming afterthat but not much.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I have like moonlight police officers type shoes.
Be in my offense, I won't makesure everybody secured type shit
.
So like they knew they wascoming, so they was already man,
you know what I'm saying.
They armed and all that shit,so it was diffused, so it wasn't
nothing much going on afterthat, like they diffuse it and
just make everybody leave, typeshit.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Party over.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, party over, but yeah, we're doing another one
of those.
September 1st.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
September the 1st, we're doing another one.
Guess where I'm going to be atSeptember 1st overnight party.
Overnight glow party.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It's going to be in Forestville.
It's not going to be at thatsame location, it's going to be
a different spot.
This spot is a little bit moreentertaining.
We got trampolines.
There's a basketball court.
There's swings.
It's a basketball court, it'sswings.
It's horseshoes I might have tocome out.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Can we bring Absolute DV cameras?
I might have to come outAbsolutely.
Y'all can bring all that shit.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yes, I'm going to tell you, y'all can bring all
that shit man, it's going to beso fun it's going to be fun.
It's a good time telling youlike last, the last one I did
was Memorial Day weekend, fromin there, I guess it's from 11
to 6.
I got there look after it wasNick was already there at 11
o'clock.
Like niggas, was niggas way.
Like I'm not even here yet.
(25:07):
These are people fly guy.
I'm like that's how much you'relike.
Who are these niggas right here?
They like, oh, they customers,that's all.
They got it.
They got it gotta.
You know what I'm saying.
They gotta wait, like I didn't,I didn't get everything
together yet.
You know what I'm saying.
So niggas who know they knowit'd be a good time.
You know what I'm saying.
And my shit, like I said, forthe most part, outside of that
last incident where the girlswas fighting you know what I'm
(25:29):
saying like we this should becool, 90% of the people that be
there.
So, like if there's anythinggoing on, I talk to myself and
figure out, like where theconfusion is and diffuse the
shit.
You know what I'm saying.
But for the most part, it's allvibes, it's all fun, it's a
good time.
You know what I'm saying.
And we just be having it up allnight, yep.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
So what's your favorite type of parties to
promote?
Well, like I know you know whatI'm saying.
I know you, you, you, you throwthe dance parties.
I know you like those, butwhat's your favorite type man?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
like like music.
Okay, my, my question musicwise or whatever, like you gogos
, do you do like straight, likerap, whatever?
I don't know.
Sometimes people like to doreggae joints or whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You know what I mean so I do gogos, but like a lot of
people who don't know, whodon't do that shit.
It's a lot of politics in thego-go scene.
So it's like this band don'twant to play with this band or
this band don't want to, theydon't want to go before them,
they feel like they shouldheadline, and it's certain shit
like the politics of the go-go.
So, like I do, like one go-go ayear Because, you know what I'm
(26:36):
saying, there's too muchpolitics for that shit.
You know what I'm saying.
So we got the TCB in Miami forDMV Takeover, damn.
July 26th through the 28th wegot TCB parties all weekend.
You know what I'm saying.
So that's going to be my onego-go for this year.
You know what I'm saying?
Okay, you know what I'm saying.
(26:59):
Miami too, though in miami wegot him.
We got him at kod in miami.
We got other parties, but themain party gonna be on kod on
the july 27th.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
We got tcb at kod in miami yeah, so anybody in miami
man hit up miami, or if you'regoing to the dmv takeover.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
You know I'm saying tie band with me.
We got tcb all weekend.
You know what I'm saying, but Imean.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So that's perfect, because it leads into my next
question what's the differencebetween like throwing parties
but the parties in the DMVversus the parties like out of
town, Like is there like adifferent vibe when you get out
of town, or is the vibes in DCLike what do you think?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
All right, I'm glad you asked this question because
it's like I be trying to tellmotherfuckers that's in DC,
because motherfuckers ain't beennowhere.
Like it's not the same out oftown, like you feel more love,
you feel more welcome out oftown, especially if you go to,
like one of them, southernplaces, the southern hospitality
(27:59):
like Houston, southern places,the southern hospitality like
houston, the houston party sceneis way it to me is is just way
more official than dc like theyI'm talking from the bras, who's
who's bartending and bottlegirls to like the outfits down
to their socks.
You know, I'm saying theircoordination.
When they bring the bottles outlike you know I'm saying it they
(28:21):
make it an experience, theymake it lit, like when you
paying 100, 200 percent, the uhregular price for a bottle.
You know I'm saying, like you,you want the experience.
You don't want somebody justcome out there, just hand a
bottle, just give you the shitand just walk away like that.
That's not what I'm paying for.
If I'm paying three, fourhundred dollars for a bottle
that that costs sixty dollars,you know I'm saying like I'm not
(28:41):
paying $300 just for the bottle, I'm paying for the experience.
You know what I'm saying.
So you got to make that shitworth it.
So when the bras come out youmight buy one bottle in Houston
they're going to bring three,four, five bitches out when
they're going to make it lit.
They're going to have thesparkles, they're going to be
cool.
They're all dancing,coordination.
(29:06):
They're gonna be lit, they'regonna be smiling, they're gonna
make you feel like you lit andyou bought one motherfucking
bottle.
Shit you can buy.
I went to a brunch in houstonand you can buy a pitcher of
mimosa.
They're gonna do the same shitas if you bought 10 bottles.
They're gonna come out andthey're gonna make you look lit
and you just bought one pitcherof mimosa.
Like the bitches out here in dc.
If you, if you buy one bottle,the bitches will be like why I
gotta go if she can bring thebottle up by herself?
That's only one bottle.
Like the sense of entitlementin DC is insane, yeah it's just
(29:27):
like they're entitled and theyjust feel like shit should be
given to them.
But it's like, no, you gottawork for that shit.
Like if you make someone feellit and that one bottle they
make and you make them feel it,they might be like, damn, I want
to get another bottle.
You know I'm saying, but it'slike you coming out there and
you just like you ain't smiling,you ain't coordinated, you just
bringing the bottles out.
You don't give a fuck, likehere.
(29:48):
Let me hurry up so I get backto doing I was doing.
I think I'm like man, thisdon't whack, like fuck this and
it could be lit.
But they were like theexperience is whack.
So they're like they ain'tfucking with it the south is
different, yeah, the south isthe south.
Show love.
The south make you feel lit.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
The south make you come back you want to come back
and they're going to show love.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
They're going to be like, oh yeah, dc in the
building.
Yeah, they're going to make youfeel it like, yeah, all right,
that's yeah superstar you wantto go to south carolina?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
yeah, charleston charleston be, I would go there.
I never partied in charleston Idon't know.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I know I party with charleston people so I know they
be lit.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It's a college district.
So Okay, you know what I'msaying.
They go, they go, they go.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I be in Charlotte.
My mother live in Charlotte, soI go to Charlotte.
There be a lot of SouthCarolina people coming to
Charlotte to party, so I know itbe cool.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Okay, okay.
So I've been out with you.
I haven't seen you know you.
You showed me some of the perksof you being out and promoting
and everything like that, but uh, so yeah, so what?
What do you consider some ofthe, for you have been some of
the upsides and even some of thedownsides of promoting, I mean
(30:57):
you're doing a party like you'regonna get love because people
want to feel like, oh, that's,that's my man.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
you're doing a party like you're going to get loved
because people want to feel like, oh, that's my man.
They're like, yeah, and I ain'tgoing to hold you Like it's
been I ain't going to say itplenty of times.
It's been like every weekend Igo out to one of my parties and
niggas be like what's up Black.
What's going on?
Yeah, woo-woo, and I ain'tgoing to hold you.
I don, I don't know who this is, I don't know, but you know
what I'm saying.
People be telling me like, nah,man, you, you and like it.
(31:23):
Don't be hitting me, because Ijust I'm a regular, like god,
you know what I'm saying, likeanybody else.
So it'd be like when comethrough and they'd be like, um,
they'd be like, yeah, you man,you like skin black, that's what
it.
I'm like right now, I ain'tknow, but I don't know nothing
different.
You, but you'd be like heywhat's up, black girl, that's my
man.
I'm like all right, whatever.
You know saying it's like thelove you get.
You know saying from bitches.
(31:44):
They were like oh, oh, what'sup, black, you come, bitch, come
give you a hug.
You know, I don't know who thethis is.
I ain't seen from that.
You know what I'm saying.
And, mind you, I might befollowing on instagram, but it's
like I don't be looking ateverybody like that.
You know what I'm saying.
Like I to be like, recognizethem, like, like, because I've
seen this a lot, because I'vebeen following on instagram and
but like I don't know and whatthey look like in real life.
(32:05):
So when they come to me andthey play what's up.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I'll be like all catfish no, they do.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
They use too many filters on us it'd be different.
So like when they come off, allat me, I show my love.
You know what I'm saying,because they coming up to me but
I don't be knowing who thesepeople are for real.
But like the downside, like alot of people don't realize, is
like nigga, this shit is, it'dbe work.
You know I'm saying likeeverybody think you just going
out potty, having fun, but likewhen somebody got a problem or
(32:33):
complaining, they come in, whothey gonna come to.
They coming to you, the niggawho they know yeah you know I'm
saying.
So you've got to figure out.
Like you know what I'm saying.
People don't realize it'scustomer service based.
You know what I'm saying.
Like this is a customer servicebased industry, so you've got
to please them.
You can't be like, oh, I don'tgive a fuck, fuck you, you know
what I'm saying Like that's notgoing to make them come back.
No-transcript, nigga, no more.
(33:08):
Now you got a bad stigma like oh, this is not fuck him, his
parties.
You know I'm saying whatever.
So you gotta take care ofeverybody.
You know I'm saying, and thepeople come out for you.
You gotta, you gotta show themlove.
You can't just be like, oh,what's up, you seen them, they
came out and then you blah, blah, blah.
You gotta you know what I'msaying interact with people who
they coming out for you.
Type shit like cause if youwasn't at this spot, they, nine
(33:30):
times a day, wouldn't have came.
So you gotta you know what I'msaying entertain your guests and
then, some of the time, itdon't hit like everybody just
think you do a party and you'rejust supposed to get all this
money and, like I done, lost alot of money doing this.
You know what I'm saying.
So it don't?
It ain't ain't pieces and cream.
You just think you're gonna doan event and you're just gonna
get all this money back, likesometimes you might not even
(33:52):
make, you might have a lit assparty and you leave that and you
owe money.
You know what I'm saying.
The be thinking like oh yeah, Iknow black clean up tonight,
like nah, I might have had topay, come out of pocket and pay
motherfuckers and shit.
You know I'm saying so likethat's just how the shit be.
So everybody's thinking thatyou just throwing parties, you
just make all this money andshit.
But you gotta really work.
(34:13):
For if you want to make somemoney, you gotta work.
You can't just say I'm supposedto fly, everybody gonna show up
, it's gonna be late and I'mjust gonna get this bread now.
You gotta earn your money.
So that's the differencebetween niggas who have
longevity in this industry andmotherfuckers who just they do
some one or two, three weekendsand they be like and you don't
never see them niggas doingevents, no more.
That's how this should be okay,okay, come here, man.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Um, so I guess I'll wrap up the questions with our
last question to be what adviceor what would you like to see
changed in the DMV party clubpromoting this club scene,
whatever in general, like isthere anything you you'd want to
see changed to make it better,or I mean just whatever better,
(35:06):
or I mean just whatever I meanin order to make the dc
nightlife scene better than whatit is and to compete with other
cities.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
You know I'm saying out of state, we gotta like, we
gotta work together like a lotof people.
Everybody want to feel likethey, that person, whether you
the promoter or you the dj, oryou the bartender on the bottle,
or everybody, want to feel likethey.
That person, whether you thepromoter or you the DJ, or you
the bartender or the bartender,everybody want to feel like they
the biggest and the baddest andthey the reason why this event
is what it is Like.
It's going to take everybody tocome together as one the
(35:33):
working together, the DJ, thepromoter, the bartender, the
bartender, the club owner,everybody to come together Like,
all right, we got to worktogether to together to, you
know, I'm saying at the mostefficient party as possible.
Like you have people who workin the event they don't even
like they got some bartenders orbottle girls working the party,
they don't even post a flyer.
And then I'm just like, allright, how you gonna maximize
(35:54):
your?
You know I'm saying your, your,your income, if you're not
promoting yourself like thegirls be looking good.
All them niggas that be in yourdm, tell them where you at.
I'm gonna be at this partytonight.
Come see me.
Like you know, I'm saying thatlike mind.
You like as a nigga who beforeI was doing the party scene was
looking at type shit like that.
Like, oh, she's gonna be there,I can get a chance to talk to
(36:15):
her there.
I'm gonna go there.
Like you know, I'm saying likeit's niggas who like that, like
man, I really want to get up onthis girl how I'm gonna do it.
Oh, I see that she's gonna beat this event.
Let me go here and see what'sup with it.
They don't be doing that.
They be feeling like, oh, I'mnot no promoter, that's not my
job, I ain't got.
So.
It's like the entitlement indc's is crazy and we got to
(36:35):
change that.
You know I'm saying djs like ohoh, yeah, I just come in I just
come to DJ.
Man, it's my job.
I don't.
I ain't here to bring peopleout.
Like, how are we going?
You know, I'm saying now, whenwe the money coming at the end
of the night and if a niggashort, who you think gonna take
the short, the DJ go get itshort.
And then you now you lookingand that's all strange.
I'm like bro, what did you doto help me get this, maximize
(36:56):
this event?
Because, for somebody likemyself, I'm gonna do my part
100%.
That's why everybody fuck withme.
That's why niggas want me ontheir parties with them, because
they know I'm going to do mypart.
You know what I'm saying.
Like I'm going to bring mypeoples out.
I'm going to do what I got todo to make sure the event lit.
I'm not just a nigga who's justgoing to post a flyer.
(37:16):
I'm like all right, fuck it.
Like I'm not doing this shitfor fun.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm not doing this shit to havea good time.
I'm doing this shit to providefor my family.
I got three fucking kids.
Like yeah, I got to provide.
Like you know what I'm saying,I'm not doing this shit, just to
make myself look lit Like oh,I'm just a lit-ass nigga.
(37:36):
Like no, I'm doing this text.
You what you're doing tonight.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm going to call you like hey,man, put up on me, I'm going to
do all that shit to make sureyou come on there.
I'm going to pay for promotion.
I send my text blasts.
There's all types of ways youpromote to get people to come
out.
You know what I'm saying.
So I just feel like it'severybody of state.
You know what I'm saying.
Like when you come in, theymake you feel lit, like they
(38:04):
attend to you.
You know what I'm saying.
They make sure you're good,whatever you need at the table,
blah, blah, blah.
You know what I'm saying.
If you are ordering a bottle ofservice, they're going to make
sure, like you're one of thelittest people in the club.
Whether you bought, they'regoing to make you look lit Like
we got to do that shit withevery event that we do.
So everybody know like I'm goingto come to this nigga party
because I'm going to be lit inthis jungle.
(38:26):
You know what I'm saying.
Like I may not be nobody inthis party, but tonight I'm
somebody and I'm going to be lit.
It's my birthday and I'mcelebrating and we're going to
make you be lit in this jungle.
That's why if I feel like wechanged that atmosphere, then
(38:47):
we'd be doing a lot betterbecause, like, really, the club
singing from from the dmv donewent down since covid.
You know I'm saying like whenall that covid money ran out all
the uh, unemployment checks andpbp loans and ran out, the shit
went downhill.
So if you want to get that shitback the way it was, like
pre-covid, like we had to changethe atmosphere and that's.
And if we don't do that,everything's gonna continue to
go downhill.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (39:05):
nice, okay, okay, well, black, you got any parties
coming up like um besides themiami.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
You got to talk about the miami joint, yeah yeah,
yeah, yeah miami july 26th the28th tcb.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
All weekend we got four different events to the
28th TCB.
All weekend we got fourdifferent events.
Friday we got the meet andgreet.
Saturday we got the TCB showwith TCB at KOD.
Sunday we got the day partybrunch, pool party type shit and
then Sunday night we got thenight party with TCB.
(39:37):
So tap in July 26 through the28th.
You need to take us holla at me.
At lights, get black underscore, or at lights get black
entertainment or instagram.
Um, pool party coming up july21st sunday.
Um, I got to take the link outthere.
You want the ladies gonna befree.
(39:58):
Before what time?
I say five, I think ladies free.
Before what time am I sayingfive?
I think the ladies are freebefore five.
So make sure y'all tap in withthat.
You know the pool parties gocrazy.
Last year at one of my poolparties one of my pool parties
was just so lit.
Lil' Meech and Fat Trail justended up pulling up off the
Humble.
They ended up calling them.
(40:18):
One of their managers ended up.
I don't know how they got mynumber up off the humble.
They end up calling them one oftheir managers.
I don't know how they got mynumber.
Somebody ended up calling me onmy phone at the event like hey
look, I'm with little meech, I'mwith fat trail.
We leaving this one spot.
We heard you got a pool partygoing on, man, we try and slide
through.
So they came through.
I'm saying we showed them love.
They you know what I'm saying.
They was there for a littleminute, had a good time.
You know what I'm saying.
(40:39):
So you know.
I'm saying if you know, if youknow, you know yeah it's going
to be a movie.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Man, I'm telling y'all now well, my brother black
, thank you for coming throughthank you.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Thank you, man I appreciate y'all man, you know
saying for the platform, like Isaid, whenever you want to come
back, come back, you know, man.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yeah, next time you come back.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
What's it called?
We're just going to chop it onsome chill shit, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
I like whatever.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Like I said, I just wanted the people to really, you
know, I'm proud of you, I'mproud of your work you doing, so
I just wanted the people to youknow, kind of get it, get to
know you a little bit.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
You know what I'm saying, get you out there and
they know, like a lot of some ofthe people watching this junk
man ace, go back.
Some of y'all might not be 28years old, so just know how long
we've been in this shittogether.
As my brother used to say, comeback.
I'm coming back Straight up,that's what it is Thank you,
thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Well y'all thanks for joining us.
We'll try to do better nexttime.
Absolute DMV Peace, peace.
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You already know, and we arehere with a special guest, we
are here with my brother fromanother mother, holla, other
mother.
How you doing, ma Real, youknow what I'm saying.
This is my man.
Light Skin Black of Light SkinBlack Entertainment man.
(00:56):
What's going on with you, broman?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
what's up with y'all.
You know, anytime my brothercall me to do anything, I'm
coming through, no questionsasked.
He told me to come through anabsolute DMV podcast, Whatever.
He don't even got to ask me tosay listen, I need you to be
here.
That podcast, nigga, I'm coming.
That's straight up.
That's my brother man.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Blessings yo, my man.
We already podcasts already, soyou know, people get to know
who.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Who are you, you know I gotta go back and look at
that.
You gotta tag me or somethingwe're putting it out.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We're putting it out, but uh, but yeah, um yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So I I definitely wanted to bring you on the
podcast.
I mean, not only are you mybrother, but you, uh, you are
one of the best party promotersin the city, you know I'm saying
like you humble, you sayingtrying, but I've been to the
city.
You know what I'm saying.
You humble, you saying trying,but I've been to the parties so
I know what they like and youdefinitely doing your thing out
(01:53):
here, appreciate it, but youknow what I'm saying.
Over here at Absolute DMV, welike to introduce our guests a
little icebreaker questionwhat's your DMV card?
What's something that, whatmakes you a car carrying member
of the dmv, or what will getyour dmv card revoked?
So you know what I'm sayinglike.
(02:13):
Basically, you know what, what,what about a dmv that you love?
You know culture wise, and whatabout a dmv you?
you would like to see changed oryou don't really like man, look
, you know I'm dmv all the way.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Dc maryland average I put on for everybody, man, you
know I'm saying because it's alllove.
I've been out here my wholelife, so I'm all the way dc type
shit.
You know I'm saying like I, Idone done partying, I done
go-go's.
You know I'm saying I've doneit all.
I will hear it, man.
And and uh, the about dc that Ilove is is the go-go scene, man
, because it's still going onsince since when I was a kid,
(02:51):
when we was kids, you know whatI'm saying like all age go-go's
and like that, like we don'teven see that.
No more man.
But when we was kids, man, allage go-go's, that's what we was
doing.
So when all these bands thaty'all seeing, like the tcbs and
tobs and all that, when it wascoming up, we was kids and we
was going to that shit.
You know I'm saying so.
I love that about the dmv man,but this is like now the, the
(03:15):
new shit like I niggas is tryingto transition more into, like
the rap scene and that free car,slide music, music, all that
shit.
I ain't going.
I ain't going, I'm not withthat shit.
I ain't going to lie to you,man, and this is my personal
opinion, like I'm.
No, it's niggas in DC who canrap.
But that free car, that slidemusic, niggas rapping off beat,
(03:38):
that's not really my thing.
I'm just going to be honestwith you, man.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, I'm old with it right yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
like I like niggas who can really like.
There's some young niggas Ifucks with, though you know I'm
saying like no savage.
You know I'm saying free, nosavage.
And and kp skywalker, littlenigga doing his thing, glock
jones just came home.
I fuck with glock jones andshit like that.
But you know, I'm saying likethe other shit, I just, I just
really can't get with it man.
But there's some niggas wholike really doing this shit, I
can really rap, like I'm reallyrapping, like Nucci Nucci.
(04:07):
You seen the front portion,nucci?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
doing his thing, man Niggas who can rap.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Like I know, I know Nucci, I know his little brother
Ricky, I know them niggas andshit.
You know what I'm saying?
Really nigga be on that shit.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So I fucks with niggas who like really rapping
that shit and not just justdoing it, just rapping off beat
shit like I ain't on that causeI always thought that rapping
off beat shit was like, was likethat Detroit kinda you know
what I'm saying, not mumble rap,but they just they would find
like the back half of the pocketto rap in.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So it just kinda always seemed like they was kind
of off offset yeah, so I don'tknow like I'll be like and, like
I said, like I'm being like.
We don't play that in the club,but you know what I'm saying
I'm in this, I'm in the clubscene heavy.
So it was like all that free carmusic, that nobody playing that
in the club for real.
You know what I'm saying.
So, like, if you want to getout there and put DC on the map
(05:05):
and all that shit, we got toswitch shit up, man, you know
what I'm saying.
Like niggas who going globaland shit like that, like Shai
Glizzy and niggas like that,they making shit.
He not making no slap music andshit.
Everybody in the scene, no, shaiGlizzy, everybody in the music
scene knows Shia Glyze.
Now, he may not be mainstream,but everybody in the music
industry know who Shia Glyze is.
(05:26):
You know what I'm saying.
He not rapping that, shit likethat.
So you just got to think aboutniggas who doing it and they
took it to the next level.
You know what I'm saying.
Like, who took it to the nextlevel?
Like what are they doing to besuccessful and shit.
And we ain't seen one free cardmusic rap.
Nigga who done made it.
So you got to think about that.
And I know niggas want to dotheir own thing and shit like
that.
But if you're trying to make itoutside of DC, and rep.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Dc and rep.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
DC.
You got to.
You know what I'm saying.
You got to do what it takes tomake that.
Shit.
Ain't going to make no radiomusic.
Ain't nobody playing no song?
They could play on the radio,Like I hit going on and shit.
You know what I'm saying?
That young nigga he doing histhing, Shout out to him.
But everybody else, man, y'allgot to get the program.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
What about quick question?
We always talk about gear forthe DV.
I see you wearing New Balance.
That's what I'm saying.
Oh brother, yeah, hey, hey, wetalk about this shit.
This motherfucker don't wearNew Balance.
He said yo.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Bro, you know I never owned a pair of New Balances in
my life.
Right, that's a red flag.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
See.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, see, but listen , I'm not going to hold you
right.
So I got another man I doparties with he from Maryland.
He said that's some DC shit.
I don't know what I'm saying.
I don't do all DC.
That's the whole DMV area, bythe way.
You can go to any Footlogger,fucking DTLR, all that shit.
(06:49):
You're going to see New Balancein there and they're going to
have different colors and allthat.
Because when you go out of townand all that shit go to other
states, you don't see a record.
You might see one pair of NewBalances.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I'm saying Because they're not on that shit.
Old person wearing them joints.
Yeah, you know we don't seethat shit, but if you go in any
DC area, any DC area shoe store.
The New Balance is going to beand they're going to be in there
.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Heavy You're going to see the New Balance.
Heavy is going to be in thereNine, nine, nine, nine zeros.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Like you got all the, I've never bought a pair, you
know what, and I'm not going tolie to you, right?
So my other brother quit, youknow what I'm saying.
He put me on Yeezys for real.
He was like man and I never wasAdidas niggas, ever in my life.
You know what I'm saying.
And I'm trying to take theseJones comfortable and just get a
pair.
And I bought my first pair ofYeezys, man, I got you know them
(07:40):
Jones comfortable.
I don't fuck that New Balance.
Comfortable as shit.
You know what I'm saying.
They real life comfortable,like I ain't going.
Phone pauses is a staple at DC,right, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
They're a staple at DC.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
That's what I'm saying.
Niggas, fuck with phone.
Now, mind you, phone pauses arenot comfortable whatsoever.
But To y'all in 2016 and if Ijust wipe them Jones off and
come outside, you gonna thinkthem Jones phone pauses last.
That's why I dig his littlephone pauses and shit.
Like you know what I'm saying,they last.
(08:10):
I got like the purple phonesjust came back out.
I got my Jones from 2017.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I said oh, you coming back out, just let me dust my
ass off real quick and you knowwhat?
I still got my.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Jones, bro, back in.
You know what I'm saying.
I don't even know where thatball.
I still got him, though.
All I'm gonna dust them, jones,I'm gonna bring it back out.
Shit like that flight pauses,phone pauses they last a long
ass time so that's why niggaslove them.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I don't have a pair of those y'all trying I got some
.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I got Nike boots, I got Timbs, I got all that shit
but this nigga, ace Buggy, onshoes, how you on shoes and you
don't got no new balance.
That's a red flag.
That's just a red flag to me,cause this nigga got shoes, he
on shoes cause I've been likethis.
I just whenever I go to thestore if there's some Jordans
there or some new balance there,I'm going to go get the Jordans
(09:03):
.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I've been off Jordans for a minute.
Like I bought some Jordans theall-grade 11 jumps, yeah and he
was with me when I bought them.
When they first came out.
We woke up at 7 in the morningto go to the shoe store.
So I'm like this is likenostalgia.
I got to get them.
I ain't got them in thecollection, and the only other
Jones I want is the 17s in thisbriefcase.
(09:28):
I got to get me them jumpsWhite and blue jumps, the
blizzard color jumps yeah, I gotto get them jumps.
I had them in the 10th gradewhen they first came out and I
was one of like two n, becausethis joint was like hitting that
thing.
They was too there back there.
200 for some shoe, wasn't thesame Niggas never heard of that
shit before.
In 2002?
Nah, niggas wasn't doing thatshit.
(09:49):
I just showed my age and shit.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But you know, we old bro, we old bro, it's all good,
I'm not old Y, I'm going to tellyou right now.
Being old is the goal bro.
Like that's the goal.
We trying to live long.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I never consider myself old, I consider myself
youthful because, like, when yousay you old, you going to put
that in your mindset, in yourbrain, like, oh, I'm old, I
can't do X, y, z because I'm old.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
No, oh, no, no, no See, I don't do it like that.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
When these years I'm wiser, I say that I'm wiser.
I'm gonna say that, okay, I'mnot with that.
I'm wiser, all right, but solet's get into it.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Let's get into it, let's go.
Light skin, black entertainmentman.
So when did you start promoting?
And what made you decide tostart promoting?
Because I, I, I remember thatthere was a a dark time in your
life and when you came back,everything you know I'm saying
you had to make some decisionsand I really had to find my way.
A dark time in your life andwhen you came back, everything
you know what I'm saying you hadto make some decisions.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, I really had to find my way.
You know what I'm saying, cause, like I wasn't going nowhere
fast.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm like man, I'm out here likeI'm enjoying myself, like, and
I'm going out, I'm partying,shit like that, and nine times
out of ten I'm going out bymyself because he's like the men
around my way, niggas, you knowI'm saying like they wasn't on
(11:09):
that or like gotta be some typeof special event.
I'm just like man, I don't want, I just want to go have some
fun.
So I'm going out on party, woo,woo.
Then I end up, um, working atthis job, and I was working with
this dj and you know I'm sayinglike we get to rapping.
So we telling me woo, woo.
You know what I'm saying, shoutout to DJ Zion man, you know
what I'm saying.
And we get to rapping.
(11:30):
So I'm talking to him like youknow how they getting in woo,
woo and he's telling me like yougot to rap to somebody.
And now, mind you, he said hegonna holler at his folks.
Right, is a big time promoter,nigga.
So when he was saying that shit, like I didn't know, back then
I'm like, oh, that's a bad year.
He said nah.
He said, nah, I'm a rapper tomy man, he gonna see what he can
do.
Woo, woo that the nigga he wastalking about was like a big
time promoter nigga.
(11:51):
So really he was spinning mefor real.
For real, you know what I'msaying, coming across.
You remember Zaliga?
We went to school with Herboyfriend.
Her boyfriend at the time wasdoing parties.
So I cut into Zaliga.
I'm like, hey man, I see yourboyfriend doing parties.
(12:11):
Like you know what I'm saying.
Can you put me on with him,cause I had met him one time,
like maybe like once or twice inpassing, when I seen Zaliga out
somewhere.
You know what I'm saying.
And Zaliga, we went to school.
Me and ace went to school where,like we was little like middle
school type, we used to beat herup hey, that's what you did
(12:32):
when you were, like you was kids, just being stupid, play
fighting push up on the groundand yeah, you know just you know
, I'm saying like you know yougot.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
you got a rough like no, no domestic violence, shit
like that.
You got to rough up the cutegirls you mess with the cute
girls.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You know how we do.
You're too cute to be fuckingwalking around and shit.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah.
But so I met him a couple timesin passing and so I asked her
like man, can you put me on withthe woo-woo?
She's like all right, yeah,woo-woo.
So she ended up putting me onone of my rap tour.
He like I, um, because he hadjust ended up coming home, type
shit.
So I'm like I bet, um, he'slike man, meet me at such and
such spot.
You know, sam, we're gonna rap.
(13:10):
So I met him at the little spot, like a Tuesday, like a little
chill little spot on 8th streetwith their rap tour, and he get
to rap.
Like yeah, we'll be doing thisjump, um, on Wednesdays.
You know, sam, try to get itgoing and see what you can do.
So I'm like all right, bet.
Now, man, it's Tuesday,wednesday was tomorrow.
So I'm like all right, shit,fuck, I don't know what to do.
You know I'm going to try myhand.
So you know what I'm saying.
(13:31):
Like me, I'm the type of nigga.
Like I always have bitches.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's that light skin shit.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Let's see what's going on.
Let's see what's going on.
Let's see what's going on.
Let's see what's going on.
Let's see what's going.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
About the party scene .
Like I didn't know nothingabout the party scene, I just
know I used to go out to party,type shit, but like mainly on
the weekends.
So a Wednesday party I'm like Idon't know.
You know what I'm saying.
Now, mind you, like, if youknow what you know, like
Wednesday is probably one of thehardest days to promote.
Yeah, because it's like it'smidweek, you know what I'm
saying.
It's like days they taking abreak or they waiting for the
(14:21):
weekend, type shit.
So like they ain't really doingtoo much on wednesday.
So I ain't know that.
I'm just like all right, I'mjust happy for the opportunity,
so I'm gonna make it do what itdo.
So you know what I'm saying.
Like I invited some people outand, um, I invited a couple
people out.
You know what I'm saying.
It was cool.
Like now I had you, I had agood time, because I ain't never
did this before and I'm likeall right, bet, you know what
I'm saying, I was feeling lit,to be honest with you, but I was
at the bottom of the tadpole,type, you know what I'm saying.
But for me I was just blessedwith opportunity, whatever.
(14:42):
And then, um, it was cool.
Like after that like I don'teven know if I made any money
that night.
I probably did.
You know what I'm saying, but Iain't even give a.
I just like man, I'm just sohappy to be here, type.
So I'm like all right, but andthen I ended up rocking with him
, and you know what I'm saying.
That's my man.
Shout out to that boy yeah, heappreciates you.
You already know Slim, you knowwhat I'm saying.
He big bro, whatever, you knowwhat I'm saying.
(15:03):
And you know I've been goingever since then.
You know what I'm saying.
And it's like 2018, you knowwhat I'm saying.
Like summer type shit.
You know what I'm saying.
So ever since then you knowwhat I'm saying I've been
rocking out.
You know what I'm saying.
I was rocking under him forBrick, under Boye, so he
(15:24):
introduced me to a lot of peopleon the party scene, on the
nightlife scene.
So at first everybody know, atfirst I wasn't light-skinned
Like I was.
Oh, you, the nigga that be withBoye.
You know what I'm saying.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I guessI, you know.
Yeah, that's me.
You know what I'm saying.
So I ain't have no identity onmy own type shit.
But you know what I'm saying.
Like I made it where I know.
I took that shit as anopportunity and I built, you
(15:47):
know.
So I was networking, made thoseconnections with those people
that he was introducing me to.
So I made, boom, now let me cutinto him on my own type shit
and see what I can work out.
You know what I'm saying andI've been doing that shit ever
since.
You feel me, that's what's up sospeaking of those connections
(16:09):
you done made, like what type ofcelebrities you been able to
bring out.
I mean so, like the type ofcelebrities I've been able to
bring out personally.
You I'm saying like, like Ibrought out.
Like I mean, if you want tolook at, like everybody on the
local dmv scene, I done broughtout anybody in dc, who anybody
in dc I done brought out, I donebrought out my.
(16:51):
They done came through my clubat some point.
You I'm saying but um, outsideof that, you know I went up
baltimore tmc to dawn.
You know I'm saying um, ericabanks brought her out.
Uh, we did a party, a poolparty brought out uh, uh, jay
michelle I don't know if youknow I'm beyond, I don't know
her name, jay michelle, is thatno?
(17:13):
it's one of the nba young boys,baby mother, shit, jay.
I think her name is jaymichelle, something like that.
I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Shit like that.
You know what I'm saying.
But like people who like justhappened to like like grace
their presence in my club andshit it's been I don't want to
name some names, but it's likesome NFL players that came
through, a couple NFL playersthat came through A couple NFL
players that came through in myspot, but I came through the
Commanders, I guess yeah, yeah,yeah, I didn't say Redskins, but
(17:42):
Some.
Commanders, players that camethrough Some.
Wizards, players and shit likethat I went in the club one time
and I'm just like that nigga,look like Greg Oden, like shit.
I'm like, wait a second, thatis greg odin.
What the fuck this nigga?
He brought greg odin now andthis is birthday and shit.
(18:03):
I'm like this nigga, greg odincame on his birthday and shit,
and then, but he, just him andthis girl, they was chilling and
shit.
You know I'm saying like gregodin, like I don't like had, uh,
tyreek evans came through onthe after hours tip.
You know what I'm saying.
One of the after hours partieswe was doing how the fuck, how
the fuck do you know about thisJohn?
Like this is after hoursunderground party.
Like who the fuck put him onwith this shit?
You know what I'm saying.
So, yeah, there's been somesneaky celebrities that came out
(18:23):
and fucked with this type ofshit.
You know what I'm saying.
But that shit.
You know what I'm saying.
Like I fuck with that, but likebooking celebrities that's a
lot.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I like less celebrities, so okay, so hold on
, and then so who has chargedyou the most outrageous bag,
like, like something that wasjust like bruh, you know you,
you know I'm not paying that.
Like you just charging me justbecause you think I'm I'm sweet,
or something like that.
Like who's charging something?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
crazy.
Um, we was going to bring out,um, what's um money bag yo,
what's good, ari mm-hmm wasgonna bring her out for the uh
cia when it first came tobaltimore and fuck, was that
2021, 2022, something like that,something like that, I
(19:15):
Something like that, I forget.
It was 21 or 22.
You know what I'm saying.
And she wanted Charles, 25racks.
And I'm like but what did youdo?
You don't rap, you don't sing,you don't dance, you don't do
nothing, you just Instagrammodel.
I'm just like, I feel like forme.
I'm like I can't Like if youdid something.
Like you, going on the stage,you perform like three songs
(19:37):
that everybody know and that'scool, like I can justify that.
But for you to just be a badbitch and just show up and just
be a bad bitch and like I can'tjustify, I can't do that.
Man, 25 racks, is it?
And now, mind you, this is now.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
She hasn't done anything lately Besides being on
Instagram.
She ain't never done nothingbesides be on Instagram.
You just a famous, famous rap.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Nigga's baby mother.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You money about your girlfriend?
You?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
money about your girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
We pay NBA young boy, baby mother for the pool party.
She don't do nothing.
I was telling my man, why arewe giving her this money?
What does she do?
She don't do nothing.
And I was telling my man, I'mlike why are we giving her this
money?
Like what does she do?
Like she don't even do nothing.
You know what I'm saying?
They get away with anything.
They get away with it, though,Cause they got them rack of
followers and it just theoutreach you know what I'm
saying.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's just, you know that's what you're paying.
Thrown the regular and I don'tsay regular, but in the you know
in the club type jones, likewhat type of you know what's the
wildest party you feel like youprobably ever promoted like oh
see like yeah, I mean in yourparty, I mean, yeah, you ever
been a part of anything likethat.
(20:48):
Just like like all right.
So well, y'all, because I'mtrying to think of some shit.
I'm like all right when you saywow, like, like what kind of
wild.
Like it just was a wild assparty, like some crazy shit
happened, or like what you meanLike wild when you like you
remember at how High, when theywalked out and everybody was
(21:10):
laid out on the lawn and theywas like, yeah, because they
probably want to talk about us,about that wild ass party we
threw last night.
And homie was like, yeah,because they probably want to
talk about us, about thatwild-ass party we threw last
night.
And homie was like, and Redmanwas like it wasn't that wild.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And they saw like a camel laid out or some shit like
that, and he was like it didget a lot out of hand.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Like what party did you throw where you was?
Just like damn, that did get alittle out of hand.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I mean maybe so, all right, so I don't know.
Maybe a year or two ago I didan overnight party which was
from 11 pm to 6 am.
You know I'm saying, and it wasan outdoor event through a
paradox party, so it was outdoorparty and I'm not going to.
It was outdoor party because itwas like I want to say it was
(21:51):
like in or something, but it'sprobably like around labor day.
So the weather was still cool.
You know I'm saying and, um,that shit was dry, wow, because
that shit was lit.
I'm not gonna.
So the weather was still cool.
You know what I'm saying.
And that shit was jive wildbecause that shit was lit.
I'm not going to hold you, itwas lit.
I ain't expect that to turn out.
That might have been my mostprofitable party of all time.
Now that I think about it.
You know what I'm saying.
And it was just like all right,we had a fab pit, we had
vendors set up, everybody gottheir chairs and tents and all
(22:13):
that woo, woo.
So like we over here at thefive pit.
It's a girl at the five pit.
She twerking, but she got allher clothes off twerking at the
five pit and then, out ofnowhere, she just started
pissing.
Oh my God, she just startedpissing, damn, and she didn't
stop.
She still twerking.
Now imagine, we got this all oncamera, you, we got this all on
(22:34):
camera.
You know what I'm saying?
I ain't going to put a girl outthere, but she started pissing
and I'm like, okay, that's crazy.
Over here the bitch is like,hey, what's up?
Yeah, $200 coming to 10.
I'm like, oh, wow, we gotwhores over here.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
$200 coming to 10?
.
We got whores over here sellingwhat's her name over here?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh, okay, we got a lot of shit going on over here.
You know what I'm saying?
Like a party going on and thenthe entrepreneurs.
Yeah, first of all, I feel like, because why are you selling
shit at my party?
I'm like get it cut up.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Like don't let me know Like y'all going to do that
.
Y'all got to get it cut, likey'all don you know what I'm
saying Exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I got to get a custom vending fee to vending my pies
or whatever.
You know what I'm saying.
And then, nice thing, you know,towards like the end of the
party, like towards like 5o'clock.
I guess everybody like reallyfucked up at this point.
Bitches get the fight and theyknocked the fucking fence over.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You know I'm saying so no cops, no cops came out.
They can end up coming afterthat but not much.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I have like moonlight police officers type shoes.
Be in my offense, I won't makesure everybody secured type shit
.
So like they knew they wascoming, so they was already man,
you know what I'm saying.
They armed and all that shit,so it was diffused, so it wasn't
nothing much going on afterthat, like they diffuse it and
just make everybody leave, typeshit.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Party over.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, party over, but yeah, we're doing another one
of those.
September 1st.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
September the 1st, we're doing another one.
Guess where I'm going to be atSeptember 1st overnight party.
Overnight glow party.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It's going to be in Forestville.
It's not going to be at thatsame location, it's going to be
a different spot.
This spot is a little bit moreentertaining.
We got trampolines.
There's a basketball court.
There's swings.
It's a basketball court, it'sswings.
It's horseshoes I might have tocome out.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Can we bring Absolute DV cameras?
I might have to come outAbsolutely.
Y'all can bring all that shit.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yes, I'm going to tell you, y'all can bring all
that shit man, it's going to beso fun it's going to be fun.
It's a good time telling youlike last, the last one I did
was Memorial Day weekend, fromin there, I guess it's from 11
to 6.
I got there look after it wasNick was already there at 11
o'clock.
Like niggas, was niggas way.
Like I'm not even here yet.
(25:07):
These are people fly guy.
I'm like that's how much you'relike.
Who are these niggas right here?
They like, oh, they customers,that's all.
They got it.
They got it gotta.
You know what I'm saying.
They gotta wait, like I didn't,I didn't get everything
together yet.
You know what I'm saying.
So niggas who know they knowit'd be a good time.
You know what I'm saying.
And my shit, like I said, forthe most part, outside of that
last incident where the girlswas fighting you know what I'm
(25:29):
saying like we this should becool, 90% of the people that be
there.
So, like if there's anythinggoing on, I talk to myself and
figure out, like where theconfusion is and diffuse the
shit.
You know what I'm saying.
But for the most part, it's allvibes, it's all fun, it's a
good time.
You know what I'm saying.
And we just be having it up allnight, yep.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
So what's your favorite type of parties to
promote?
Well, like I know you know whatI'm saying.
I know you, you, you, you throwthe dance parties.
I know you like those, butwhat's your favorite type man?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
like like music.
Okay, my, my question musicwise or whatever, like you gogos
, do you do like straight, likerap, whatever?
I don't know.
Sometimes people like to doreggae joints or whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You know what I mean so I do gogos, but like a lot of
people who don't know, whodon't do that shit.
It's a lot of politics in thego-go scene.
So it's like this band don'twant to play with this band or
this band don't want to, theydon't want to go before them,
they feel like they shouldheadline, and it's certain shit
like the politics of the go-go.
So, like I do, like one go-go ayear Because, you know what I'm
(26:36):
saying, there's too muchpolitics for that shit.
You know what I'm saying.
So we got the TCB in Miami forDMV Takeover, damn.
July 26th through the 28th wegot TCB parties all weekend.
You know what I'm saying.
So that's going to be my onego-go for this year.
You know what I'm saying?
Okay, you know what I'm saying.
(26:59):
Miami too, though in miami wegot him.
We got him at kod in miami.
We got other parties, but themain party gonna be on kod on
the july 27th.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
We got tcb at kod in miami yeah, so anybody in miami
man hit up miami, or if you'regoing to the dmv takeover.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
You know I'm saying tie band with me.
We got tcb all weekend.
You know what I'm saying, but Imean.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So that's perfect, because it leads into my next
question what's the differencebetween like throwing parties
but the parties in the DMVversus the parties like out of
town, Like is there like adifferent vibe when you get out
of town, or is the vibes in DCLike what do you think?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
All right, I'm glad you asked this question because
it's like I be trying to tellmotherfuckers that's in DC,
because motherfuckers ain't beennowhere.
Like it's not the same out oftown, like you feel more love,
you feel more welcome out oftown, especially if you go to,
like one of them, southernplaces, the southern hospitality
(27:59):
like Houston, southern places,the southern hospitality like
houston, the houston party sceneis way it to me is is just way
more official than dc like theyI'm talking from the bras, who's
who's bartending and bottlegirls to like the outfits down
to their socks.
You know, I'm saying theircoordination.
When they bring the bottles outlike you know I'm saying it they
(28:21):
make it an experience, theymake it lit, like when you
paying 100, 200 percent, the uhregular price for a bottle.
You know I'm saying, like you,you want the experience.
You don't want somebody justcome out there, just hand a
bottle, just give you the shitand just walk away like that.
That's not what I'm paying for.
If I'm paying three, fourhundred dollars for a bottle
that that costs sixty dollars,you know I'm saying like I'm not
(28:41):
paying $300 just for the bottle, I'm paying for the experience.
You know what I'm saying.
So you got to make that shitworth it.
So when the bras come out youmight buy one bottle in Houston
they're going to bring three,four, five bitches out when
they're going to make it lit.
They're going to have thesparkles, they're going to be
cool.
They're all dancing,coordination.
(29:06):
They're gonna be lit, they'regonna be smiling, they're gonna
make you feel like you lit andyou bought one motherfucking
bottle.
Shit you can buy.
I went to a brunch in houstonand you can buy a pitcher of
mimosa.
They're gonna do the same shitas if you bought 10 bottles.
They're gonna come out andthey're gonna make you look lit
and you just bought one pitcherof mimosa.
Like the bitches out here in dc.
If you, if you buy one bottle,the bitches will be like why I
gotta go if she can bring thebottle up by herself?
That's only one bottle.
Like the sense of entitlementin DC is insane, yeah it's just
(29:27):
like they're entitled and theyjust feel like shit should be
given to them.
But it's like, no, you gottawork for that shit.
Like if you make someone feellit and that one bottle they
make and you make them feel it,they might be like, damn, I want
to get another bottle.
You know I'm saying, but it'slike you coming out there and
you just like you ain't smiling,you ain't coordinated, you just
bringing the bottles out.
You don't give a fuck, likehere.
(29:48):
Let me hurry up so I get backto doing I was doing.
I think I'm like man, thisdon't whack, like fuck this and
it could be lit.
But they were like theexperience is whack.
So they're like they ain'tfucking with it the south is
different, yeah, the south isthe south.
Show love.
The south make you feel lit.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
The south make you come back you want to come back
and they're going to show love.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
They're going to be like, oh yeah, dc in the
building.
Yeah, they're going to make youfeel it like, yeah, all right,
that's yeah superstar you wantto go to south carolina?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
yeah, charleston charleston be, I would go there.
I never partied in charleston Idon't know.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I know I party with charleston people so I know they
be lit.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It's a college district.
So Okay, you know what I'msaying.
They go, they go, they go.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I be in Charlotte.
My mother live in Charlotte, soI go to Charlotte.
There be a lot of SouthCarolina people coming to
Charlotte to party, so I know itbe cool.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Okay, okay.
So I've been out with you.
I haven't seen you know you.
You showed me some of the perksof you being out and promoting
and everything like that, but uh, so yeah, so what?
What do you consider some ofthe, for you have been some of
the upsides and even some of thedownsides of promoting, I mean
(30:57):
you're doing a party like you'regonna get love because people
want to feel like, oh, that's,that's my man.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
you're doing a party like you're going to get loved
because people want to feel like, oh, that's my man.
They're like, yeah, and I ain'tgoing to hold you Like it's
been I ain't going to say itplenty of times.
It's been like every weekend Igo out to one of my parties and
niggas be like what's up Black.
What's going on?
Yeah, woo-woo, and I ain'tgoing to hold you.
I don, I don't know who this is, I don't know, but you know
what I'm saying.
People be telling me like, nah,man, you, you and like it.
(31:23):
Don't be hitting me, because Ijust I'm a regular, like god,
you know what I'm saying, likeanybody else.
So it'd be like when comethrough and they'd be like, um,
they'd be like, yeah, you man,you like skin black, that's what
it.
I'm like right now, I ain'tknow, but I don't know nothing
different.
You, but you'd be like heywhat's up, black girl, that's my
man.
I'm like all right, whatever.
You know saying it's like thelove you get.
You know saying from bitches.
(31:44):
They were like oh, oh, what'sup, black, you come, bitch, come
give you a hug.
You know, I don't know who thethis is.
I ain't seen from that.
You know what I'm saying.
And, mind you, I might befollowing on instagram, but it's
like I don't be looking ateverybody like that.
You know what I'm saying.
Like I to be like, recognizethem, like, like, because I've
seen this a lot, because I'vebeen following on instagram and
but like I don't know and whatthey look like in real life.
(32:05):
So when they come to me andthey play what's up.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I'll be like all catfish no, they do.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
They use too many filters on us it'd be different.
So like when they come off, allat me, I show my love.
You know what I'm saying,because they coming up to me but
I don't be knowing who thesepeople are for real.
But like the downside, like alot of people don't realize, is
like nigga, this shit is, it'dbe work.
You know I'm saying likeeverybody think you just going
out potty, having fun, but likewhen somebody got a problem or
(32:33):
complaining, they come in, whothey gonna come to.
They coming to you, the niggawho they know yeah you know I'm
saying.
So you've got to figure out.
Like you know what I'm saying.
People don't realize it'scustomer service based.
You know what I'm saying.
Like this is a customer servicebased industry, so you've got
to please them.
You can't be like, oh, I don'tgive a fuck, fuck you, you know
what I'm saying Like that's notgoing to make them come back.
No-transcript, nigga, no more.
(33:08):
Now you got a bad stigma like oh, this is not fuck him, his
parties.
You know I'm saying whatever.
So you gotta take care ofeverybody.
You know I'm saying, and thepeople come out for you.
You gotta, you gotta show themlove.
You can't just be like, oh,what's up, you seen them, they
came out and then you blah, blah, blah.
You gotta you know what I'msaying interact with people who
they coming out for you.
Type shit like cause if youwasn't at this spot, they, nine
(33:30):
times a day, wouldn't have came.
So you gotta you know what I'msaying entertain your guests and
then, some of the time, itdon't hit like everybody just
think you do a party and you'rejust supposed to get all this
money and, like I done, lost alot of money doing this.
You know what I'm saying.
So it don't?
It ain't ain't pieces and cream.
You just think you're gonna doan event and you're just gonna
get all this money back, likesometimes you might not even
(33:52):
make, you might have a lit assparty and you leave that and you
owe money.
You know what I'm saying.
The be thinking like oh yeah, Iknow black clean up tonight,
like nah, I might have had topay, come out of pocket and pay
motherfuckers and shit.
You know I'm saying so likethat's just how the shit be.
So everybody's thinking thatyou just throwing parties, you
just make all this money andshit.
But you gotta really work.
(34:13):
For if you want to make somemoney, you gotta work.
You can't just say I'm supposedto fly, everybody gonna show up
, it's gonna be late and I'mjust gonna get this bread now.
You gotta earn your money.
So that's the differencebetween niggas who have
longevity in this industry andmotherfuckers who just they do
some one or two, three weekendsand they be like and you don't
never see them niggas doingevents, no more.
That's how this should be okay,okay, come here, man.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Um, so I guess I'll wrap up the questions with our
last question to be what adviceor what would you like to see
changed in the DMV party clubpromoting this club scene,
whatever in general, like isthere anything you you'd want to
see changed to make it better,or I mean just whatever better,
(35:06):
or I mean just whatever I meanin order to make the dc
nightlife scene better than whatit is and to compete with other
cities.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
You know I'm saying out of state, we gotta like, we
gotta work together like a lotof people.
Everybody want to feel likethey, that person, whether you
the promoter or you the dj, oryou the bartender on the bottle,
or everybody, want to feel likethey.
That person, whether you thepromoter or you the DJ, or you
the bartender or the bartender,everybody want to feel like they
the biggest and the baddest andthey the reason why this event
is what it is Like.
It's going to take everybody tocome together as one the
(35:33):
working together, the DJ, thepromoter, the bartender, the
bartender, the club owner,everybody to come together Like,
all right, we got to worktogether to together to, you
know, I'm saying at the mostefficient party as possible.
Like you have people who workin the event they don't even
like they got some bartenders orbottle girls working the party,
they don't even post a flyer.
And then I'm just like, allright, how you gonna maximize
(35:54):
your?
You know I'm saying your, your,your income, if you're not
promoting yourself like thegirls be looking good.
All them niggas that be in yourdm, tell them where you at.
I'm gonna be at this partytonight.
Come see me.
Like you know, I'm saying thatlike mind.
You like as a nigga who beforeI was doing the party scene was
looking at type shit like that.
Like, oh, she's gonna be there,I can get a chance to talk to
(36:15):
her there.
I'm gonna go there.
Like you know, I'm saying likeit's niggas who like that, like
man, I really want to get up onthis girl how I'm gonna do it.
Oh, I see that she's gonna beat this event.
Let me go here and see what'sup with it.
They don't be doing that.
They be feeling like, oh, I'mnot no promoter, that's not my
job, I ain't got.
So.
It's like the entitlement indc's is crazy and we got to
(36:35):
change that.
You know I'm saying djs like ohoh, yeah, I just come in I just
come to DJ.
Man, it's my job.
I don't.
I ain't here to bring peopleout.
Like, how are we going?
You know, I'm saying now, whenwe the money coming at the end
of the night and if a niggashort, who you think gonna take
the short, the DJ go get itshort.
And then you now you lookingand that's all strange.
I'm like bro, what did you doto help me get this, maximize
(36:56):
this event?
Because, for somebody likemyself, I'm gonna do my part
100%.
That's why everybody fuck withme.
That's why niggas want me ontheir parties with them, because
they know I'm going to do mypart.
You know what I'm saying.
Like I'm going to bring mypeoples out.
I'm going to do what I got todo to make sure the event lit.
I'm not just a nigga who's justgoing to post a flyer.
(37:16):
I'm like all right, fuck it.
Like I'm not doing this shitfor fun.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm not doing this shit to havea good time.
I'm doing this shit to providefor my family.
I got three fucking kids.
Like yeah, I got to provide.
Like you know what I'm saying,I'm not doing this shit, just to
make myself look lit Like oh,I'm just a lit-ass nigga.
(37:36):
Like no, I'm doing this text.
You what you're doing tonight.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm going to call you like hey,man, put up on me, I'm going to
do all that shit to make sureyou come on there.
I'm going to pay for promotion.
I send my text blasts.
There's all types of ways youpromote to get people to come
out.
You know what I'm saying.
So I just feel like it'severybody of state.
You know what I'm saying.
Like when you come in, theymake you feel lit, like they
(38:04):
attend to you.
You know what I'm saying.
They make sure you're good,whatever you need at the table,
blah, blah, blah.
You know what I'm saying.
If you are ordering a bottle ofservice, they're going to make
sure, like you're one of thelittest people in the club.
Whether you bought, they'regoing to make you look lit Like
we got to do that shit withevery event that we do.
So everybody know like I'm goingto come to this nigga party
because I'm going to be lit inthis jungle.
(38:26):
You know what I'm saying.
Like I may not be nobody inthis party, but tonight I'm
somebody and I'm going to be lit.
It's my birthday and I'mcelebrating and we're going to
make you be lit in this jungle.
That's why if I feel like wechanged that atmosphere, then
(38:47):
we'd be doing a lot betterbecause, like, really, the club
singing from from the dmv donewent down since covid.
You know I'm saying like whenall that covid money ran out all
the uh, unemployment checks andpbp loans and ran out, the shit
went downhill.
So if you want to get that shitback the way it was, like
pre-covid, like we had to changethe atmosphere and that's.
And if we don't do that,everything's gonna continue to
go downhill.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (39:05):
nice, okay, okay, well, black, you got any parties
coming up like um besides themiami.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
You got to talk about the miami joint, yeah yeah,
yeah, yeah miami july 26th the28th tcb.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
All weekend we got four different events to the
28th TCB.
All weekend we got fourdifferent events.
Friday we got the meet andgreet.
Saturday we got the TCB showwith TCB at KOD.
Sunday we got the day partybrunch, pool party type shit and
then Sunday night we got thenight party with TCB.
(39:37):
So tap in July 26 through the28th.
You need to take us holla at me.
At lights, get black underscore, or at lights get black
entertainment or instagram.
Um, pool party coming up july21st sunday.
Um, I got to take the link outthere.
You want the ladies gonna befree.
(39:58):
Before what time?
I say five, I think ladies free.
Before what time am I sayingfive?
I think the ladies are freebefore five.
So make sure y'all tap in withthat.
You know the pool parties gocrazy.
Last year at one of my poolparties one of my pool parties
was just so lit.
Lil' Meech and Fat Trail justended up pulling up off the
Humble.
They ended up calling them.
(40:18):
One of their managers ended up.
I don't know how they got mynumber up off the humble.
They end up calling them one oftheir managers.
I don't know how they got mynumber.
Somebody ended up calling me onmy phone at the event like hey
look, I'm with little meech, I'mwith fat trail.
We leaving this one spot.
We heard you got a pool partygoing on, man, we try and slide
through.
So they came through.
I'm saying we showed them love.
They you know what I'm saying.
They was there for a littleminute, had a good time.
You know what I'm saying.
(40:39):
So you know.
I'm saying if you know, if youknow, you know yeah it's going
to be a movie.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Man, I'm telling y'all now well, my brother black
, thank you for coming throughthank you.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Thank you, man I appreciate y'all man, you know
saying for the platform, like Isaid, whenever you want to come
back, come back, you know, man.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yeah, next time you come back.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
What's it called?
We're just going to chop it onsome chill shit, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
I like whatever.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Like I said, I just wanted the people to really, you
know, I'm proud of you, I'mproud of your work you doing, so
I just wanted the people to youknow, kind of get it, get to
know you a little bit.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
You know what I'm saying, get you out there and
they know, like a lot of some ofthe people watching this junk
man ace, go back.
Some of y'all might not be 28years old, so just know how long
we've been in this shittogether.
As my brother used to say, comeback.
I'm coming back Straight up,that's what it is Thank you,
thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Well y'all thanks for joining us.
We'll try to do better nexttime.
Absolute DMV Peace, peace.
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