Best of DJ Talk Vol.1

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Speaker 2 (00:04):
I don't know, this one might be brief.
This one might be brief as well.
Tanaka, I got a question foryou.
Would you date another DJ?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Why, or why not, would I date another DJ?
I mean, I feel like that couldbe cool.
Yeah, that would be cool, Iwould date another DJ.
I've actually witnessed that,like one of the teachers, that,

(00:43):
yeah, one of the teachers thatSaw me, like I come to find out,
like, oh, the girl that youknow they, they both djs, um,
and they're both asian.
So, yeah, right, you know, um,it's a side note, do you
remember don Donis the rapper?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Vaguely Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Anyway, he was from Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Was he one of the XXL freshmen?
Okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
He was from Atlanta and I guess he went to school
with a DJ that I spoke about orwhatever.
Right, and I actually met Donisin person because he came to my
college and performed, yeahokay, so that's where I hear.
I had got a job from him for myradio show at the time.

(01:34):
But yeah, would I date anotherDJ?
I feel like that would be acool joint.
You know, just because you guyskind of understand what each
other does, in a sense Sharingthat love of music.
Obviously yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, the only I would say I would honestly, I
mean because I don't see anissue with it.
I saw this question and I justthought it was interesting.
I saw this question and I justthought it was interesting, but
I would say, depending on howbusy each other are, I feel like
it'd be hard to see each other.
Yeah Well, I mean, I don't know.
I feel like I mean, we're bothdoing clubs and I guess we'd

(02:15):
both be coming at the same time,and also there could be a
situation where you justconstantly are seeing you're
like just constantly seeing this, seeing this person like y'all
are doing the same gigs and thatmight be a little like all
right like I don't have no timeto myself yeah, I see all the
time like that shit is I don'tknow.
But other than that I reallydon't see any other uh cons to

(02:40):
that.
I mean if y'all know of anyother cons to dating another dj
like I, please let us know,because I don't know any.
But those are only two I couldthink of yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
I hate it.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Just to reel it out real quick, right?
The perception that all DJs arehoes your thoughts.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
All DJs are not hoes period, but I can understand
that perception that people haveof us.
I mean, for one, we are out atquite odd times, we are amongst
people that are intoxicated anddon't have the clearest of

(03:25):
judgment.
Yeah, so I guess we're inpretty extreme settings, I guess
.
To say the least In terms ofrelationships with.
You know individuals and we seea lot of things.
Definitely, you know and we seea lot of things, so you know.

(03:45):
It's crazy, though, because Idefinitely saw like it's TikTok
talking about like DJs, anotherbasically coming home to a
lonely bed with like justlooking up new music, going to
sleep and going to the clubagain.
Like that's like yes.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
And then you know, the comments were just like yeah
, all these different DJs arelike another night just all
alone and having to go DJanother party the next day With
all these happy people.
Right, do not say that you'reabout to leave and expect me to

(04:36):
push up your record.
Yeah, we gotta address this,bro.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
We gotta address it.
I'm glad you put it on thetable.
Address this, bro, we gottaaddress it.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
We gotta address it.
I'm glad you put it on thetable.
Turn up, bro.
All right, you talk about petpeeves, bro.
Now I see you know how youstart to develop that.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Bro, I see red bro, I ain't gonna lie.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Because it's like.
Bro, do not tell me like, oh,I'm about to leave, Can you play
the record Like, Like, that'snot helping the situation, bro.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
That's not helping.
I'm not helping your situationat all.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
That doesn't make me want to play it anymore.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
I'm already, like you know, in the middle of, you
know, doing my job.
You know that's a thing.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, and you over here want to.
Anyway, I just had to get thatoff my chest because that joint
has really been a pet peeve ofmine.
When people were talking aboutDave like that almost made me be
like no request, you know likeright?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
no, I know it's understandable, bro, because
that shit is like whatever, likeI didn't, like I didn't ask,
like I didn't ask, like thatwasn't a thought in my head to
ask you like, oh, are youleaving?
Oh, okay, are you leaving?

Speaker 3 (05:56):
And especially since folk don't even be like throwing
no money, like it's almost likethey acting like they done,
paid you some money or something.
Right, you know, like Right Now, if you done that, then you
paid you some money or something.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Right, you know, like Right Now, if you done that,
then you know that's anotherstory.
Right, like I mean, at thatpoint I would have already done,
played shit.
But yeah.
Nah, that's Nah, you Nah.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Nah, all right, but turn over.
Yeah, what did you have to?

Speaker 2 (06:23):
All right, but what did you have to?
Oh bro, that was it.
You hit that shit on the head.
That was the topic.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
That was it.
That was the topic.
Oh, okay, bro, because I justBro, that was the topic.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's why I was like bro, you hit that shit.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
That joint was sizzling in my spirit, bro.
That did not settle well, bro,bro, I believe it.
It's just Like.
It's just like they, yeah, they, they gotta, y'all, gotta,
y'all gotta settle the fuck downfor real.

(06:55):
Bro, you know no cap, no kizzy,but um so, you do.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
You do a lot of different events and um, yeah,
you do a lot of different eventsand stuff like that.
So, with the events that you do, are there some hidden gems
music wise that you have foundout through these events?
For example, I do.
Well, we both do a lot ofskating rinks.

(07:22):
Now, are there any songs thatyou got through the skating rink
, or I don't know?
You go, you go to new york anddo a lot of events there in new
york.
Are there some gems that youmay have heard or do you have
gotten from doing events out innew york or anything like that?

Speaker 3 (07:39):
um what?
Are some hidden gems thatyou've gotten from certain
events just from dj and justperiod that I learned about, um,
and you're talking.
You're talking as far as, like,they contact you, uh, they
contact you before the event andthey're like, yeah, could you
play like just 50 songs in yourmix, type of thing or it could
be, or it could be a situationwhere, um, not even necessarily

(08:03):
you being having a DJ, you justyou oh, just being in the
culture, just listening aroundand somebody playing.
Yeah, you could be in theculture.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Like okay, like, like , how, like, how you come to
Smyrna with me sometimes andthere may be a song like oh,
shit, like, but you're a part ofit because you DJ it.
So, like shit like that, nah,definitely um, I say from new
york.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Really, the culture that they taught me was the
whole get light.
You know I'm saying the um,that get light sound.
You know I'm talking aboutright, yeah, so, um, you know,
going to going to school in newy, I encountered obviously a lot
of New Yorkers, and this wasn'teven at a party though uh, come

(08:52):
to think of it but it was justreally just talking to them and
we just, you know, hanging outor whatever in the dorm and
stuff like that, and they talkabout like different dances and
stuff, and they just startedgoing off just having fun, and
so I learned about that and they, you know, because they will
reflect on like high school daysand like what they used to do
and I was just like dang, that'slike a whole different culture,

(09:14):
you know what I mean.
So, like at lunchtime they usedto like be having dance-offs
and stuff.
So that's how I got in soon withlike the get light culture,
cause really that joint was likemaybe two, three years or like
you know it was.
It was kind of a short span,you know, within New York.
So if you weren't there, youknow, like you couldn't, you

(09:37):
know you didn't really knowabout it.
You know what I'm saying.
Like that's one of those youknow kind of uh flashing the
pans flashing the pans, you know, and um.
So I would say there's a handfulof get light records that I
learned from them.
Um, that was by, like dj webstar.
That wasn't chicken noodle soup, you know.

(09:58):
I'm saying that was like somelittle more so I was gonna only
the only get like joints.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
I know of chicken noodle soup and uh Jackie.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, right, right, right and that, and that's crazy
too.
It's like like a record, likeon Jackie, like do you even, you
know, remember the artists?
You know, what I'm saying yeah,now that's what I'm saying is

(10:27):
like remember the song but wedon't even remember the artist,
so to speak.
You know, I say I say from likebeing in the south, I've
learned about candy liquor and,uh, mr clarence carter, you know
what I'm saying.
Yeah, being in the south, those, those records I learned about
because I had no idea about that.
You know what I mean, but itwas on the list as far as

(10:50):
records that they wanted to hear.
You know what I mean, and sothat enlightened me on that.
I'm trying to think what else?
I guess Latin music.
You know what I'm sayingBecause I literally knew about
one album.
So let, uh, this reggaetonartist had did like a joint

(11:14):
venture with rockefeller andthat was kind of like this was
when rockefeller was fallingapart, you know, sadly enough,
but jay-z was basically finna,open up like a new subdivision
called rock love familiar, andit was finna be like a handful
of reggaeton artists.

(11:34):
So this was like a compilationalbum and that was like my only
introduction really to reggaeton, you know, aside from daddy
yankee.
You know, like being on all thecharts and stuff right but um
so I didn't know much aboutlatin music and I knew about
this uh singer called frankie j.
Do you, are you familiar?

Speaker 2 (11:55):
is that the one that got the song with baby bass,
sugar, sugar?

Speaker 3 (11:59):
exactly, exactly.
And he had that record calleduhession.
That was pretty big, but Ididn't realize that that was
kind of a regional thing.
Being on the West Coast andhe's.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Mexican.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
I believe he's Mexican.
That's why that was so huge.
I come to the East Coast.
They don't know shit about it,but they play the same record,
but it's by a different it likeit's like by a group you know
what I'm saying?
Like a latin group.
I'm like, oh, this is not the.
You know, I'm saying like, thisis not the version that I know

(12:34):
and now it was final, like itwas.
It was the same thing, but itwas all in spanish, so I was
like, oh, like did.
Did I hear like a version likethey stole, or?

Speaker 1 (12:44):
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Like the americanized version and this is like the
real joint, you know.
So I went to a latin party andthen, like, just hearing that
music, it was like that taughtme so much, you know.
So that's where I learned aboutlike bachata and merengue and
salsa and like all that otherdifferent styles of Latin music

(13:08):
that I had no idea about,because, being on the West Coast
, kibiji, like it was only youknow, salvadorians and Mexicans,
you know that I reallyencountered, whereas when I came
to the East Coast it was likePuerto Ricans, dominicans,
cubans, colombians, like just awhole you know different blend

(13:31):
of Caribbean culture.
That I never you know, fullybeen introduced to, so through
that I learned a whole bunch of.
Latin records and stuff.
Um, yeah, that's the main onesthat I could think.
I learned a whole bunch ofLatin records and stuff.
Yeah, that's the main ones thatI could think of off top.

(13:52):
And then, of course, dancehall.
You know, dancehall, I gotintroduced to that too, you know
, creating me friends and stuff.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
So I know you're still fairly fresh and new to
the skate community.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Right.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Any gems?
You get there yet.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I mean um, you know, obviously,we, we I feel like we've talked
about it.
The usher tell me record, soyou know that.
That.
Um see, the crazy thing is Iheard that album in 2016 and you
just kind of skipped over and Ididn't.
Yeah, I didn't even think yeah,didn't think much of it or just

(14:29):
like I don't know my kind ofview of that album as a whole.
Like was just kind of like, yeah, like I don't know where
usher's at with it, right, youknow what I mean.
But um, yeah, when I seen whatthat obviously all the skaters
love that record, it is prettycrazy.
Though.
Turn Up, bro, like seeing, likecause you know, just to put

(14:51):
things in perspective.
You know for the people likeDJing in a skating rink is
completely different from DJingin like a club or like you know
what I mean.
Like there's certain recordsthat you wouldn't expect would
go off in the ring compared.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
You know that but that I mean, but that in a sense
, that's in, that's in any event.
I mean there's certain, there'sonly there's certain spots you
would only play.
I mean there's only certainsongs you would play only at a
strip club right, right, right,or you would only play I don't
know for a wedding exactly.
So I mean Exactly, it's allthey all have their different
pros and cons.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, no, definitely.
But I mean, tell Me About Us.
That's the first one thatreally comes to mind that I kind
of learned about.
I mean, masego Tadal, of course, goes crazy, but that was
already a record I knew about,you know, prior to the rink, you
know.
So, record I knew about, youknow, prior to the rink, you

(15:47):
know.
So I feel like I would haveeventually tried it anyway.
Right, you know.
But yeah, I'm trying to thinkif there's any, any other joints
.
Um, I mean, I knew about jizzybottles up.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
I didn't know it would go that crazy though in
the rink so let me ask you that,because I was definitely going
to bring it up.
If you didn't, how did you feelabout that record?
Uh before the uh.
Before we, we knew what itcould do in the skating rink.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
I thought it was cool you know what I'm saying but it
wasn't something that I waslike, oh, dang that.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
You was overly crazy for it.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, I didn't think.
I thought it was a cool singleby Jeezy, but I didn't.
I could see it having moderatesuccess or whatever, but I
didn't, you know like I couldsee it, you know, having
moderate success or whatever,but I didn't see it as like a
smash, like like him and diddyhit it out the park.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
You know, playing in the skating rink, bro, you would
think that's like the anthem.
Yeah, exactly so I'm surprisedI ain't gonna lie bro I'm
surprised that, no, that nobodyin the skating world has booked
Jeezy to just perform that songFacts.
I feel like they would go crazyover that, yeah that would be.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Do you think Jeezy knows about that?

Speaker 2 (16:59):
I doubt it.
I feel like that's so beneathhim.
He doesn't even.
Yeah, I don't even think hepays attention to that shit.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
But not pay attention .
He probably just doesn't knowabout it.
Yeah, yeah, so yeah, nah,that's a fact.
What about you, turner?
What are some records that you?

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Let me think.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
So I know, I know, when I used to work at, uh,
rumors, uh, when I first reallygot into I'll, I'll, I'll just
say that was really when I gotmy feet wet in the strip club,
in the strip club stuff, becauseI was at goosebumps, yes, but
goosebumps it wasn't reallynothing going on and I was just

(17:41):
kind of doing whatever, right,uh.
But when I got to rumors, um, Iwas doing their day shift so I
had to play a lot of differentmusic and there was some, there
were some different, there wassome different kind of folks
white folks, mexicans, all thatstuff that would come in and
they would ask for the certainsong.
And this is, it's actually asong.

(18:01):
I probably would never play it,but I remember playing it and I
was, wow, this song is actuallypretty catchy.
It's a country song.
I think it's a country song, Idon't know.
It's one of them blends.
We've been talking about thatall night.
It's a song called At the Bar bythis guy named Rehab or is it
like a group named Rehab and Ithought that song was pretty

(18:22):
catchy, right, I'm trying rehaband I thought that's.
I thought that song was prettycatchy, right?
Um, trying to think anythingelse.
Have I learned anything else inthe strip club?
Okay, so there was this.
Um, I learned a lot of when itcomes to the strip club.
I learned a lot of old downsouth music from the strip club
like uh I didn't really, I wasnever really into ugk right I
was never really into do or die.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
I was never really into eight ball mjg you saw what
it did in the strip club,though and apparently nuts over
it right, little john a lot oflittle john uh the blow like I
know the blow.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
For some reason they love that song bro, you be
playing that yeah they, theyfuck with that song I didn't
know that's, that's likesomething.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
That like, because my roommate you know what I'm
saying he put me, he I didn'treally know about crunk juice,
for real, you know, I'm saying,but like, being that he lived in
atlanta, like when that dropped, bro, he was like he's like bro
, this was like this album washuge, like this was being bumped
everywhere and like he alwaystalks about the blow, like that

(19:21):
was one of his favorite records.
And, bro, when I and this wasalso during a period of time in
which I didn't quite understandthis thing called bass and so I
didn't quite, you know, with mylittle headphones I didn't quite
appreciate these recordsbecause I didn't know how hard

(19:41):
they hit.
Bro, if we go into Turner'swhip right now with them, I
don't know what you're talkingabout, bro, he's shaking the
block.
Now I'm playing the blow.
Yeah, like that John Phenomenonsong is stupid, you know so.
Anyway, the more I learnedabout music and you know, and

(20:01):
realized I needed to have theproper system to appreciate
these records, right, you know,yeah, so, anyway, I'm just
surprised that you played theblow.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, nah, it's a couple records from the strip
club, but I mean, I feel likeall of them were more singles,
like UGK, let Me See it, look AtMe, what's some other shit?
Um, it's, it's a.
Well, this is a song that Irelearned.

(20:34):
I remember my uncle.
I remember my uncle used toplay it a lot by a ball mjg.
The song called forever withhim and look with him and lloyd,
oh yeah, I used to.
I used to just remember hearinghim play it.
Yeah and um.
But like I remember someoneplayed and I was like, wow, I've
heard this song before, rightand all that stuff and um.

(20:54):
And then there's this othersong from the strip club called
a money machine.
It's more recent, I forget.
I think the dude's name isswift or something.
They fuck with that song reallyhard and what's crazy about it
is I don't think they play thatsong anywhere else by the strip
club.
And what's funny about that isthat there's another song that

(21:16):
you know and you love that isonly playing in the strip club
and sometimes, sometimes I playit in the skating rink and it's
like oh, I'm assuming you knowwhat song I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
When I seen this clip on stone mountain skates page
they had a reel of this skater,you know, I'm saying uh, you
know doing tricks or whatever,and I heard this song in the
back.
I was like yo.
And then I look into thedescription turn up the dj.
I said.
But turn up what?

Speaker 1 (21:47):
is this?

Speaker 3 (21:48):
what is this record, bro?
This is the hardest hill, brolike telling you bro, like going
to different places.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Bro, you just learn records bro I don't think I ever
heard that song anywhere elsethe club yeah, anywhere, because
I've never heard on radio.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Like to this day I still don't hear this.
I still don't hear him on theradio.
But for the people that don'tknow what song I'm talking about
, there's a song by this otherguy 21, not savage but it's his
little homie, his name littleharold, 21 little harold.
He has a song called freak hoand he's sampling.
What is that?

Speaker 3 (22:23):
freaky tales yeah, I believe freaky tales, freaks and
bruh.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
They fuck with that song hard.
Which is even funnier, theythey fuck with the song at wax
as well.
And for the people that don'tknow, in the first verse he's
talking about how wax got theugly bitches like he's talking
about.
He's talking about all thedifferent clubs.
Magic got the nasty bitches,the lord got the classy bitches,
wax got the ugly bitches.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
I still fuck them bitches and he'll play and like
they'll still play it in wax andthe girls will still go crazy,
which is funny and so, oh, justto just to clarify so when you
say they go crazy for this,you're talking about the
strippers, right, or are youanybody like?
Just anybody, anybody,everybody.
Okay, yeah, gosh, just wantedto.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I will say it probably is more the strippers,
but I mean, once the strippersgo crazy, the customers go crazy
too.
So I mean, it may just be thestrippers, I don't know thanks,
but um trying to think, arethere any other uh songs I've
learned from strip club before Imove on I will say I learned
about the bike and shuffle fromdoing parties.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
I didn't know about that record.
I I didn't know about thatrecord before.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
I still don't know about that record.
So there you go, um, alright,so I can't think of nothing, so
I'ma just go ahead and move onto the skating world.
Cause, bruh, when I tell youthere are so many gems, bro, so
many gems that I've learned fromthe skating world, let's just

(23:47):
start from the top.
So there's this song, there'sthis song, um, this song by neo
and fabulous called crazy love.
You ever heard of that?

Speaker 3 (23:58):
I feel like I heard it.
That's off the red project no,that's off.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I think it's all libra oh, it's on libra.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Okay, okay, I think it is okay, never mind, yeah, I
think it is.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, yeah, the skaters love that r&b vibe song.
Yeah, they love that song.
Um, there's a song by tonybraxton called long as I live.
Have you ever heard that song?
I have never heard the songbefore.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
That was because I I think I heard that smyrna when
you when I played it.
It may be you or somebody.
I'm pretty sure it was you.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure, yeah, long as I
live.
That was another banger, um,that I heard that they love uh,
that I got from the skate world.
I'm trying to think, butthere's a whole bunch of them
and I just can't think about itbecause I just put myself on the
spot.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Doesn't Guapule have a record?
Who Guapule?

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Closer.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Is that it?

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Well, if it is, I think I heard that song before I
got into the Skate World.
Oh, you did.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, Okay okay, no, no no, not closer, it was a
different record, like Honey,milk and Honey.
Yes, yes, yes yes.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Milk and Honey that's probably like number one Boogie
Tonight tweet Spending Money.
R Kelly, get More Money Thanyou oh dang speaking of.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
R of that leg shaking .
I didn't, I knew, I knew, Iknew that song.
I just didn't realize how crazyit would go see here.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
And here's the thing for all my non-skaters listening
to us for some reason, in theatlanta coach, atlanta skate
culture, random songs will bepopping and it'll be like four,
five, six, seven, eight yearsold, right?
For example, the Atlanta rideculture has for some reason made

(25:56):
ride swerve relevant again.
That song came out in like 2005thing, like 2005, 2006.
So I remember hearing that songwhen I first got out here, I
believe.
So I mean, yeah, hell, if we'regoing to the Atlanta Riders
Party Hard Apparently.

(26:17):
That song old as shit too.
I ain't never heard that song aday in my life, I ain't never
heard that either.
bro, Never heard that songbefore.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Scatty Ring put me on that.
That either.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Never heard of that song before, never heard of that
song.
But, um, I'm trying to thinkwhat's some other, what's some
other gems that I've heard fromthat I've gotten from the skate
world?
Oh, that, uh, I don't know if Igot dang from the skate world,
but I want to say I did.
I want to say I did.

(26:44):
If not, I got that from rapgenius.
I don't know, it's from one ofthem, but, um, yeah, man, it's
just, it's hella gems, it'shella gems that I've gotten from
um the skate world.
You know what?
I'm gonna just end off withthis, because there's a lot,
there's a hell, there's hellamore.
You know what?
No, I'm going to, I'm going to,I'm going to say that one for

(27:05):
the last one, but um, slow setsfor slow sets.
Uh, to Dow, of course.
Um, tell me, of course,foreplay.
Never heard that one before.
Um, oh, um, and I don't.
Honestly, I don't really knowif this song is really popping
or not, but I heard this song byRihanna called.

(27:27):
Yeah, I Said it.
You ever heard that song before?
No, I don't think I have yeahme neither, but apparently I
remember I got that song fromthere.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Something in my Heart by Michelle A.
I've heard of the song, but theonly reason why I heard the
song was because it was a thingin the band that we did called
Fan Fairs, which meant that onlyone instrument is playing by
themselves, and this was atrombone fanfare that they would

(28:01):
play.
It's called Something in myHeart.
But oh, rehab, um, oh, rehab,rehab.
I learned through the skateworld.
Uh, those are some gems.
I learned from the skate worldI'm gonna end off with this.
So I'm doing, um, I'm doingsparkles gurnett adult oh man,

(28:24):
I'm mad that I don't rememberhis name, but I was DJing with
one of the DJs and he wasplaying this African song and I
was like bro, what is the nameof this song, bro?
And he was like oh.
And then he told me, and then Iended up playing it.
I ended up playing it again.

(28:46):
No, I ended up playing it.
I ended up playing it again.
No, I ended up playing it atGold Rush.
I remember I played it at GoldRush and then one of the girls
was literally running full speedto the DJ booth Yo, what is the
name of that song?
So I told her the name of thesong.
Long story short, that songended up being Essence and I

(29:06):
remember I ended up telling himuh, telling Tanaka about it, and
I had a letter.
I was like bro why have I neverheard this song before?

Speaker 3 (29:15):
and so yeah, man breaking records in the streets.
Bro in the streets if anything,that's him.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
I really wish I could remember his name.
But shout out to bro, I don'tremember his name.
But yeah, y'all, some gemsyou've gotten from different
areas.
You've been around that youprobably would never have heard
if you weren't in there.
Go ahead, let us know aboutthat.
The sync button you with it, orare you against it?

Speaker 3 (29:46):
The sync button.
You with it or are you againstit?
The sync button Yo the heavilydebated sync button.
Nah, that's for all thoselistening and don't really know
about DJ Talk.
This is actually kind of aserious thing, this is like new
generation versus old generationand I'm not gonna cap, I don't

(30:09):
really F with the sing button,like keep it G.
You hear me.
I don't know if that's a badthing.
You know what I'm saying, butyeah, for me at least, I don't
use the sing button, but I knowplenty of DJs that do.
Would I use it Maybe?

(30:30):
But I think I was kind ofbrainwashed by one of my DJ
friends who was like you know,like oh no, don't be using the
sync button.
You're not a real DJ, that's achump.
Yeah, you're not a real DJ ifyou use the sync button.
So, yeah, for me at least.
I don't really use it, you know.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, that's just how I move.
So, and I hate to bewishy-washy about it, but I will
use it on occasions if Iabsolutely positively need to.

(31:12):
If it's a situation where, oh,shit, I forgot to change it to
something reasonable sync.
Like that's what you got to do.
Like, bro, the transition is indire need to do something else.
So, like, if I need to use thatsync button, boom it's right
there.
I'm going to use that singbutton, boom, it's right there
and I'm gonna use it.
Like, why would you?
I feel like, why would youlimit yourself to to like, and
if you fuck up like I don't know, I feel like it's better for

(31:34):
you to just use the sing buttonrather than you just bringing
the song back and then you.
Now you really sound like youfucked up right right and I
don't know right it's a lot.
It's a lot and it's like allright, like I don't know.
So like if I need to, I willuse it, but like I don't know.
I kind of feel like that justbecause I feel like.

(31:57):
I feel like older djs kind oftry to brainwash, because it's
like I feel like they say.
It felt the same way when westarted connecting the computers
to turntables like they wereprobably like why do you need a?
computer like right, right, ohshit, that's moving with the
times.
Man, it's just what it is.

(32:18):
But I don't know like I feel,like I feel like 10 years from
now there's gonna be some DJstalking about the scratch button
like are you with it or againstit?
And I'm totally against that.
Yeah, I'm like bro, if you'renot a scratch, don't do it like

(32:38):
that button joint is bro?

Speaker 3 (32:43):
no, that's definitely .
I see what you're saying,though, um, because, truly told,
like, I'm an advocate thoughfor, like you know, new
technology and all that because,like, let's keep it g, like any
dj or any person you knowshould be, I mean I I feel like
it's it's cool to be versatileyou know what I and be able to

(33:03):
do it on you know the old schoolstuff and all that.
But I also do think it'simportant to keep up with the
times and like whatever newtechnology you know to be able
to use it and to be adaptable,Right.
So I'm not totally it's not likeI'm totally against the sync
button.
That's just how I learned.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
That's very true.
You know what?

Speaker 3 (33:21):
I'm saying it's just like not using it.
You know what I mean, but do Ilook down on other DJs that use
the sync button?
Yes, nah, not really, I mean.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Not really, not really.
You know what I'm saying, notreally.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
I may just like, you know, like, oh he's a singer,
but not really, but it's not,you know, it's not like.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
But that's like that's like am I gonna die?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
not really like like, like bro, come on, bro, you
know, you gotta explain that,you know not really nah, it's
just like.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
I wouldn't say like ever so slightly I hate that
person, or dislike them like oh,they're a terrible DJ, you know
, but I'm like you know, it'sjust like oh, come on, nah dawg.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Come on, bro, come on , nah dawg, go ahead and bring
that in, bro you be like but nah, I don't knock nobody.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Like for folk that just use it every now and then,
like that's cool.
But, like I will say, it doesget a little like for folks that
use it all the time.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
You know, it's just like my dang bro I was gonna say
, bro, because you know yourfavorite classmate be using it,
uh, every saturday morning Imean he ain't got no choice.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
he ain't got no choice, he ain't got no board to
utilize.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Yeah, because he don't want to pay that $20 a
month.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah, man, I'm just yeah, I don't know, to me it's
more so just like playing itsafe.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Right, but that's what I'm saying.
I feel like you should be ableto use the sync button whenever
you want to, because at the endof the day, the sync button
won't always save you.
It'll actually fuck you up somemore if you're not paying
attention.
Right, right, so I feel likeyou're just gambling at that

(35:16):
point.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
No, I hear that.
I will say that too.
Is that because I haven't?

Speaker 2 (35:28):
used the sync button extensively.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
I'm a little scared that I might f it up.
Yeah, so I would need somepractice, you know utilize you
don't need to practice the same.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
If you don't use the sync button, then there ain't no
use.
There ain't no use for it, bro.
Yeah, like, I feel like thesing button is really worth well
for me personally, becausethat's all dj and his personal
preference.
Yeah I feel like it's just ifyou're just that much off or
something like I mean, obviouslythe listeners can't see my

(35:54):
fingers, but like it is.
If it's like that much off,then maybe you should be able to
do that like a hair off and youjust smudge it over a little
bit Right, but not definitely.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
I mean at the end of the day, though, like to what
you were saying, you know, nothaving people recognize you know
you messed up, like, at the endof the day it is, you know, the
most important thing is thatthe people you know hear the
music and hear a cleantransition.
So it makes sense, sense.
You know what I'm sayingbecause at the end of the day,
that's all that really mattershow you get to that the people

(36:31):
don't care.

Speaker 1 (36:31):

Speaker 2 (36:32):
They just hear for the music right, they really
there for the music so it's likeall that extra shit is just oh,
wow, like, no, seriously, likethat's all.
It is like perfect example,bonfire, like.
I always get compliments onlike my transitions and my mixes
and stuff, but everybody lovesthat I'm playing the hits, right

(36:53):
, but I'm able to play and it'snot like some of these other djs
not gonna name no names becauseI mean that's just, I don't
judge people for how they dj,because's how they make their
money.
I never knock anybody formaking money.
Go get the bag.
However, I play the hits but Ialso know how to mix.

(37:14):
Why there's bars and bars, bro,I play the hits, but I'm also
not a mix.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Straight up, straight up.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
That sound like a shirt that sound like some merch
bro, that sound like some merchbro sound like a shirt, sound
like some merch look bro, we gotthe bro.
You gotta come out with amixtape, bro.
But reeling it back in um singa button, I'm for it, tanaka's
not.
He hates you.
If you use it You're going tohell in his head.

(37:47):
So just you know, use singbutton.
Just don't use in front ofTanaka, because he's going to
use the op obviously, please,not every song, not every song.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Come on, man, you feel me Go ahead and be a little
dangerous.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Be a little dangerous .
Be a little dangerous, livinglife on the edge, live a little
life, live a little man you knowwhat I'm saying?

Speaker 3 (38:11):
take a risk, take a risk.
I'm sick of it.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I'm sick of it but yeah, man, if we got any DJs
listening, go ahead and comment.
Tell us how you feel about thesync button.
How you feel about the syncbutton, how you feel about it on
a scale of 1 to 10.
How much do you hate it?
Tell us how much you hate it,we can talk about it, or we'll
just ignore you or block you ifyou get offended, whatever

(38:36):
Depending on how we feel aboutthe situation.
Do you approach song requestsfrom coworkers differently?
Do?

Speaker 3 (38:47):
you approach?
Do you approach some requestsfrom coworkers differently?

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Being that they kind of know what's going on.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
So let's, let's hear about it.
I mean, I'm more inclined tocater to the coworkers other
than you know, because thesekids don't know what's going on.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
They just want to hear they join.
So let's get an example.
Like Soulful Sunday is going onMore Robbie comes to DJ.
You know what?

Speaker 3 (39:14):
I got a highlight.
I got a highlight.
This I got a highlight thisskater.
This skater came to the SoulfulSunday and here we go with the
request.
She came up and she had, shehad, she had texted me and was
like, or she had put on herphone like other side, erykah

(39:38):
Badu, other side, what's thenames?

Speaker 2 (39:41):
I've never heard that one before.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
I think it's like other side of the something, I
don't know.
Anyway, I was like oh dang,this is actually something that
fits within Soulful Sunday, youknow what I'm saying.
And I think I do have the song.
And then, sure enough, I did.
So I did play that song.
And then this other gentlemanhad a, had requested, like you

(40:09):
know what I'm saying, uh, arafael sadiq song, but I didn't
have the record.
It was called get involved, theq-tip.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
you know that record speak of the motherfucking devil
.
Well, not, not not recently,but I'm sorry but yeah, you know
that song.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
No, okay, yeah, I didn't know it, but I I was like
it.
From the looks of it it willfit, you know.
And then sure enough, Ilistened.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
That's interesting that you didn't have a Raheem
Devon song because you usuallyRaphael Sadiq.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Raphael Sadiq.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Oh, you said Raheem Devon.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Oh, did I my bad.
Oh, no, no.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
You might've said it you might've said Raphael Sadiq
yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
That's what I meant Evolved.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Oh, yes, yes, I do know that song, I do know that
song.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
It's off a soundtrack and I ain't know the soundtrack
.
I didn't Did.
I know that.
I don't think I knew that.
It's off the PJs.
You know about it.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Wait, the TV show?
Yeah, Didn't know that.
Yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
So but I was like, yeah, I could see them skate to
this and it fits so for Sunday.
Yeah definitely.
So that's definitely shout outto that skater.
He's getting added, you know.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
But yeah, well, I guess in this question, just in
your different areas of so Iguess I't know, we can start
with stone mountain, like.
Do you feel like the people atstone mountain kind of
understand?

Speaker 3 (41:40):
like what type of no?
I feel like the staff don't begiving us no requests, so I
don't really.
Yeah, the only person that usedto hit me with requests was
Xander, and he's you know, he'slike here here and there, you
don't see him often, so shoutout to him.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
He actually had a song that he had requested,
called I mean, he had requestedit before the session called by
Music Soul Child, and I forgotthe name of it.
It's gonna fuck me, I don'tknow, it's some slow song, but
yeah, shout out to xander, thatwas actually he definitely, he
definitely, he has good taste inmusic definitely does um, I

(42:21):
don't know.
I feel like in my, I feel like,from my perspective, it's more
like not necessarily a hey, canyou play this song is more of a.
I feel like the co-workers aremore like and I don't know, you
can speak on this too I feellike they're just more like a
hey, can you turn.
Either you could turn it, canyou turn it up or can you turn
it down, or can you playsomething like this or can you

(42:42):
play something like that, ratherthan hey, can you play this
song I feel like, yeah, sparklesglenette is where I encounter a
lot of requests.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
You know, I'm saying turn it up, turn it down or no,
they they'll be specific oh,they're like hey, play this well
one of them is they'd like tohear well okay, I guess you're
right genres, kind of they'relike can we get some slow set,
slow walk, reg, reggae music?
You know that one girl thatlike reggae music.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
The older lady with the glasses.
Nah Well, is she?

Speaker 3 (43:17):
older, I don't know.
There's one girl that works inthe skate shop.
Oh, she works there.
Oh, no, yeah, she'd be in therental skate rental.
Yeah, I have no idea who you'retalking about, but rental skate
rental and she, yeah, I have noidea what you're talking about,
so, but yeah, so I mean I guessto answer your question.

(43:38):
Yeah, I'm more inclined to you,know, listen to the co-workers.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Yeah, so julian apparently said I requested say
what you want to you.
Before I was working in a snackbar you almost cooked my ass
because you didn't know what itwas.
I probably did and it'sprobably what probably was,
because I know the song now Imean it's but it's, but it's not
.
But oh, you know what, you knowwhat it probably was.

(44:03):
You know what it probably was.
Julian, at that time I didn'tplay negative songs in my, in my
slow sets, so like if there wasany kind of like like breakup,
or like there's some sort ofbreakup or there's like kind of
like tension type shit.
Like I don't play.
I didn't play that type of shit, especially like back in the

(44:23):
day, those days.
Oh yeah, no, I probably wouldhave told you to go fuck off.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
No, I probably wouldn't told you that, but I
ain't sorry, no motions bro,motions bro and not the motions
no, you get no motions, y'allget no motions.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
But it was just, nah, it was just more of a because,
like he's talking about, saywhat you want.
Well, I'm not.
I'm saying like him, oh, andfucking, let's not even, let's
not even talk about fucking umsay goodbye no, fucking, is
dirty Dan's ass still here?
Oh so, tanaka, let's talk aboutit.
Let's talk about it, let's talkabout it.
I don't know if Dirty Dan'sstill in here, but slow set,

(44:58):
right?
You're in a slow set.
Dirty Dan asks you to play LifeJennings XCX.
You playing it or not?
That's me Life Jennings XCX.
Anybody that's in here, pleasetell me why, or why not?
You would want to hear LifeJennings XCX in a slow set.
Oh, by the way, so that's alittle deleted scenes too from

(45:20):
the North Carolina trip.
I asked Mario about that.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Because I'm trying to think can you even like skate
to that?

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Yes, you can.
You can definitely skate to it.
It has a beat.
Anything that has a beat, youcan skate to that.
Yes, you can.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
You can definitely skate to it, it has a beat,
anything that has a beat, youcan skate to exactly julian but
I'm just picturing people tryingto tip to that and he's over
there talking about.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Life is real bruh, he's literally talking about
minors getting raped, bro.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Yeah, I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
That's why it's like, I'm like you can't even like
say the message is crazy, likewhat.
I feel like that's equivalentto Nah, I feel like that's a
little wilder, but I feel likethat's like kind of like right
after that, you playinghypothetically by fucking Life
Jennings.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Nah, I'd be more inclined to play Hypothetically
Then I see it.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
I mean, we're just choosing shits at this point.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
I would play Hypothetically.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Drop that shit, it's off Sunday, then I'm better here
.
There you go.
There you go, hypotheticallycoming to a Nah, if you're going
to play that, you got to play,leaving Tonight, bro, you got to
bro.
Nah, if you gonna play that,you gotta play, leaving tonight,
bro, you got to bro, you gottaplay, leaving tonight, bro, if
you play.
If you play hypothetically yougotta play.
Leaving tonight 200, bro,that's my shit, bro, I ain't
gonna lie bro, that's my shit.

(46:41):
If there was ever a negativesong that I would play in a slow
set, is leaving tonight.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
I ain't gonna lie.
I ain't gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
I ain't gonna lie to you, but yeah, man.
So yeah, coworkers aredefinitely yeah, exactly, yeah,
exactly, julian, but yeah,coworkers.
I'd look at it a littledifferently than if a random
person just came out on thestreet and was like hey, can you
do that?
Your mind is going.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Let's talk about it.
Nah, I just I F with that SCAsong, but I just don't know
where we can play that.
I don't.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
I don't play that.
I don't like that song.
I mean the message, I get themessage.
But yeah, shout out to Tish,tish, come on now.
How you going to come at theend of the episode and ask about
that?
We talked about that at thebeginning.
I guess you're gonna have towait till we repost this and you
can listen to the whole,because we talked about the

(47:37):
whole North Carolina trip.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
But yeah, but go ahead.
Oh so you just don't even likehow the song sounds no, the song
is cool.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
It's just like I wouldn't even add that to my
playlist.
I can appreciate it for what itis and the message that he's
trying to give out to theyounger generation, but, yeah,
that is not a song that I wouldbe playing on my personal time.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
What if you made a remix?

Speaker 3 (48:01):
Right Like an up-tempo.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
That would definitely fall under not a Not listening
to lyrics.
But yeah, shout out to theco-workers, we're going to put
all this shit back in DJ talk.
Well, since we got DJ talk andwe got Julian here, julian, this
is the talk.
When the hell are you going totake this DJ shit serious?

(48:23):
That's the DJ talk of the dayAll right, I didn't even know
about this.
Exactly, I asked you about it.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
When.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Remember I asked you about it when, remember I asked
you like, what would you prefer?
Cause I think you was like hewas telling me about virtual DJ.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
I asked you about Serato oh, but that's not that
I'm finna DJ, that's just.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
I thought you was talking about software in
general, like I mean, that was a, that's an important part of it
.
You know what I mean?
I just thought you was asking aimportant part of it.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
You know, I just thought you was asking for
general knowledge, yeah, likeyou know, like you like you like
Beyonce, or you like Adele,like you know.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
I'm saying like I just, and you know, it's not.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
It's not like you asked, see, julian.
It's not like you asked like oh, you know what controller are
you using, like you ask, see,julian.
It's not like you ask like oh,you know what controller are you
using, like you know, somethinglike that.
So then I'm like oh, you finnastart DJing, like you know.
Like you ask about the software.
It's like I don't know.
I just because there's a hugedebate.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
I don't know if I asked you or turned up about
which controller to get aboutwhich Nah you didn't ask me.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
You definitely didn't ask me because I definitely
would have told you to startsmall yeah, I could have scored
on your old account, on your onyour regular, on your regular
account.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
I gotta go back and look at them, but I think I
still got the messages I'm notsorry, I don't know, because I'm
not.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
I'm not familiar with a lot of controllers and boards
like that.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Me neither.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
I just look at them and like, oh, it look good, let
me go ahead, so this must havebeen a minute ago that you asked
, dude, it was a minute, it'sbeen a minute.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
Oh, okay, the main reason that I'm being held back
right now is because of mylaptop.
I need a new one, got you, or Ineed to get the one that I have
repaired.
But trying to get somebody thatcan repair it, the problem with
it is difficult.
It's a USB C port issue and Ican't charge it.
So it ain't working.

(50:22):
So I can't like you know whatI'm saying.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
I don't know what your pockets look like, but I
got a shop I go to on scenichighway.
I don't know what your pocketslook like, but I got a shop I go
to on Scenic Highway.
I don't know what your pocketslook like, though, so if you got
pockets for it, then I can see.
But yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
As soon as it gets fixed.
I have to once that gets fixed,I'll be straight.
I'll be able to you able tomake some maneuvers.
Because I got a repair before,but the nigga took my SD card
out of it and the SD card hadall my music on it, had the
music on it?

Speaker 2 (51:02):
No, we got to fight and I kept hitting him up.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
I'm like hey bro, I need my.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
SD card.
I had like 1,500 songs on there.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Bro, I had a good catalog.
I already said I had it dividedand everything.
Sick boy, that was the music Iwas going to use.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
See.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Tanaka.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
That's the main reason why I can't do the SD
Hard drive.
It's got to be on my computerHard.
Take my shit.
You got to be on my computerHard, like you got to take my
shit.
You got to open thismotherfucker up Like, yeah,
you're going to need thatpassword.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
That's right.
Yeah, by that point, it's yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Ain't nobody can do all that.
But yeah, but yeah man, me andJulian had one meetup.
We did One meetup and it was inthe black room.
It was in the black room atStone Mountain.
When it comes to interactingwith a crowd, yeah, why are you
DJing?
Do you go for it?
And if you do go for it, how doyou go about it?

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Man, it should be told that's really been like the
Achilles heel, I feel like,just as far as my dj with the
crowd joint, because it's almostlike it made you focus on just
one thing.
You know, I'm saying like themusic, you know, but when you
add that element of interactingwith the crowd, then it becomes
a little more personable and, um, it's more so like uh, more

(52:35):
personable, and um, it's more solike uh, yeah, it's more that
joint is important and that'ssomething that I'm still trying
to develop.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
So, bro, honestly, truthfully, bro, we, we all, we
all trying to work on it.
I know me personally.
I, I have to.
I have to work on it as well,especially when I go to, like a
new setting.
Yeah, I don't want to talk toyou, yeah, like it's like I
don't want to host, I don't wantto like, I just want to, I just
want to get through it andhopefully, right, hopefully, I
don't have to say a word.
But once I warm up to a spotand I'm like knowing folks

(53:03):
around them, I'm able to hey,blah, blah, whatever the case
may be.
But yeah, man, it's definitely,it's definitely important
because how long?

Speaker 3 (53:10):
how long would you say if?
Um, it's still for you to likefeel comfortable.
You know what I'm saying, justbeing on the mic, um, I don't
know because it's like.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
It's like, uh, I don't know, because I remember I
remember back at, uh, southCarolina State I was talking on
the mic, but after that I don'treally remember talking after
that.
So it's really just a sense ofcomfort, comfortable
comfortability.
Yeah, yeah, just sense ofcomfortability.
Yeah, you know, just be able tosome that clip.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
My favorite clip from 2014 yeah, your favorite clip.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
I already.
I already knew you know it'sfunny and I put it on there
purposely because I knew youwere gonna say something about
it um, was that you on the micor did you have?
uh, that was me, okay, okay thatwas me, that was me on the mic.
Uh, that was beautiful.
I was just really, I was reallyjust playing with them and uh,
yeah, I was really just playingwith them and just, and that's

(54:12):
when, that's when hot, that'swhen hot nigga was like taking
over the blazing, like blazingas soon as you play that song,
everybody's just yeah, yeah,yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
So you know, yeah, but all right, see, now I gotta
tell y'all folk, y'all gottacheck that out.
You dig like um, it's a 2014clip of turn up dj in a party.
Um, what, what was that?
What was the party?

Speaker 2 (54:38):
so okay, so I'll give y'all a rundown of of of the
situation.
So it was, uh, I believe it was, a high school party, but they,
um, it was in a little eventevent spot and they wanted to do
like a dance competition, okay,and so I started playing like
dance songs, like I think I hadplayed Crank, that Soulja Boy,

(54:58):
and I think I had played, at thetime, the Whip you know what I
was saying?

Speaker 3 (55:02):
The setup was beautiful, yes.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
And so at the end, to get back to the party part, I
was like, alright, so this isthe last, this is the last dance
we gonna do, this is the lastdance competition we gonna do.
And then I had dropped the, Ihad dropped the, I had dropped
the intro to Hot In here byNelly and then you could just
see the girl on her face.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
She's like, and you can hear her, it's not a dance
but when I tell you this is okayside note, this is like the
epitome of dj.
You know what I'm saying,because there's in this short,
how many seconds was that bro?
It was maybe like 10 seconds,like five or ten seconds.
Yeah, bro, in that moment of 10seconds, the range of emotions

(55:48):
that this chick went through,bro, is like the epitome of like
why I admire what Turn Up.
Did you know what I'm saying?
Because that's like the riskthat we take.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
But then you see, the reward is just the reward is
priceless, bro, pricelessEverybody is just you, just see
everybody my bad.
All right, so go back.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
I mean you ended it all, bro you.
I bet All right, so go back.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
I mean you ended it all, bro.
You ended it all perfectly.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
Yeah, bro, he dropped the intro.
So hot in here they was lookingat him crazy on some like kill
the DJ type vibes they're likewhat?
Like that ain't no dance, likebro, and the attitude that she
hit him with and that man's turnup sick.
Watch what I do, though.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
I just love how you make.
I don't even think I said thatI probably did.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
That man said watch what I do, though you heard me.
And then you dropped that.
It's so hot.
Oh man bro, that joint waspriceless bro, very priceless.
But see, that's what you gottado.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Y'all play with them, yeah you definitely gotta play
with them.
You definitely gotta play withthem.
So let me ask you this, Tanaka,and as long as you've been
DJing, has there ever been atime where you made an
interaction with the crowd andyou got a reward or you got some
feedback that you didn't reallycare for?

Speaker 3 (57:11):
So or you get both sides of the coin.
So I guess I was DJing.
I don't know if you it was aperformance.
So I don't know if you considerthat necessarily DJing.
You know, I mean I'm in chargeof, like the artist set, you
know, but I was just kind oflike hype man for him.
And that joint definitely, thatjoint definitely worked.

(57:31):
You know, I'm saying because,seeing that I was like dang, I
do need to do this more often,bro, just because me doing his
ad-libs, or just me hyping himup, like you know, in the
background, like you could tellthat it had an effect, you know,
because it's all energy, likeyou tell me, turn up.
You know what I?
Because it's all energy, likeyou tell me, turn up.
It's like the energy that yougive out, like they're going to

(57:53):
give it back to you, likesometimes, maybe not at first,
but like the more consistent youare with it, the more
comfortable they get.
And you know what I'm sayingExactly.
And it's just, like you know,it's a fear thing, it's crazy.
Because it's like, bro, my dad,like that's what he do.
He's an emcee, he's a host, likeyou know, when they had

(58:16):
Hawaiian concerts like inSeattle, like he was the main
emcee of, like greeting thecrowd and like bringing artists
out and stuff.
So I'm just like dang, like Ireally need to learn from Pops,
you know, like on how to justhost and so, but pops you like
on how to just host and so, butum see, I tried it in new york,
you're I mean, but new york iskind of cut though and they can

(58:38):
see kind of through, like ifyou're not confident and I
wasn't confident in it, and sothey kind of like saw through it
and just looked at me like alittle crazy, you feel me, but
um, that's no excuse.
I'm trying to be more active onthe mic.
You know what I'm saying andjust have that interaction
because it is important.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (58:58):
definitely important I mean, and I mean, we all have
our faults.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Um off the top of my head I don't think there.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
I don't think there's ever been a time and I feel
like there has.
I feel like I'm just putting inthe back of my head so I don't
have to say I'm trying to think,I don't think there was that I
can think of um um, yeah, no, Idon't.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
I don't think so.
Um, so let me ask out the gate,did you was?

Speaker 2 (59:21):
you are on the mic out the well, yes, because, um,
because in my head and what fora lot of people that don't know
as as someone growing up, as ayoung man growing up, I was
hella shy, like I did not wantto talk to you, like, and I
hated my my mom used to alwaystake me to work and then, like

(59:43):
would introduce me to everybodyand I hated, and I hated that so
much, hated it.
But I was a very shy kid growingup, yeah, and as I got older,
shyness just kind of turned intoanti-socialness, like I just
Right, right, it's not that Idon't I'm uncomfortable, I just
don't want to talk to you, right, right.
So when I got into DJing andI'm like, oh bro, I can make

(01:00:07):
money just spending records,yeah, and I'm like, oh bro, I
can make money just spinningrecords, let's do it.
Come to find out you actuallygot to talk and you got to
interact with folks.
I'm like, fuck, I knew it was acatch At that point, I just
honestly and truthfully, Ireally just jumped in head first
.
Hey, what's up, I'm here, we'rehere.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
We're here in this place.
It's right it all together.
You know what I'm saying?
Might as well.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
This is team effort, like let's all have fun, like at
that point, because it's like,like, because if I don't do it,
then I mean somebody, they'llfind somebody else that will
Right, right aspect, and like Ialways tell everybody, I tell
everybody anybody, djing, tryingto start, djing always, or

(01:00:55):
trying to host on the mic, I'mtelling you this is literally
the only thing you need.
You just need that oneinteraction from that one person
that's attractive enough foryou to talk to and she look at
you and she smile or laugh orgiggle.
You're good for, you're goodfor a good, another 10 minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
You know, what's crazy too is that that's an
advice that you know OG DJs begiving too is that, like, bro,
you use the mic, your job isgoing to be like 10 times easier
if you just get on the mic, bro.
And they're just like I promiseyou, bro, like it's already a

(01:01:31):
lot that you have to handle, butgetting on the mic makes your
job that much more easierbecause, like I don't know, it
just makes it loosen up a littlebit you know?

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
no, it definitely does, because, uh, here's
another, um, another story.
I had, uh, another story.
I have shout out touckeye.
I remember we did an event at abig plaza.
It was like a big plaza, theyhad hella kids.
It was like a stadium type shit.
They were taught I think it waslike a drug-free something.

(01:02:04):
It was a drug-free something.
I was in the middle, I was inthe middle of DJing.
I was in the middle of it wasin the middle of DJing.
I was in the middle of a DJingand it was like at certain
points I was playing music orwhatever, and then, like I would
stop and then the people wouldtalk and they just seemed so
uninterested they were notpaying attention to anything
they said.

(01:02:24):
But then it was time forBuckeye to come on and I had to
say something and I'm like, fuck, I'm going to say something and
they're just going to look atme like who is this guy?
So I started talking and I waslike yo, y'all ready.
And then they I don't know whathappened, but they all sparked
up like yeah, like, and I juststarted talking and then like I

(01:02:46):
just I gave this feel about howI don't smoke or drink.
Yeah, you don't need that for.
And they were, yeah, and I waslike, all right, book, are you
ready?
And they're like they got hypeand like everybody started
rushing to the front Right, andso, yeah, man, it works
Definitely Sometimes.

(01:03:17):
Sometimes it might just I meanhonestly and truthfully
sometimes it might just you, itmight be your mind just fucking
with you.
Sometimes you just gotta try itand you know, and sometimes and
I remember there was, Iremember there was something you
said in a past, um, pastepisode where you're like you
say shit, you say shit just toremind yourself that that's what
you're supposed to do, right,right, and sometimes I do,
sometimes I do that as well,whereas, like, I just have to
remind myself that I'm justreally just fucking with myself
in my head, right, and you justgot to do it.
So, yeah, man interacting withthe crowd is can definitely be

(01:03:41):
make your make your job a loteasier and a lot more fun, right
?
Definitely for sure if you doit right, definitely but yeah,
man y'all let us know howInteractive's crowd has made
your life a lot easier or harder.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
Give us some feedback with how you feel about that
yeah, man, and yeah, let me seethe motivation for y'all, we'll
go off.
What Turnup, just said man.
He just said just do it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Make it like Nike and just do it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
So whatever you got to knock out on your test list,
man, knock it out, just do it.
Yeah, we're going to keep itshort for this one, bro.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
That's the motivation of the day, man, you know what
I'm saying bro, that's themotivation of the day, man you
know, I'm saying you should doit, I should make a light and I
can just do it, yeah, but that'swhat's up, man.
So, uh, let's see.
So, tanaka, I got a questionfor you, right, and steve, I'm,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna involve youtoo, uh, but I'm gonna involve
you from, like, a customerstandpoint for sure.

(01:04:47):
So, tanaka, um, how you feelabout just playing the hits at,
at a, at a I won't even say asession, just at an event?

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
I mean, you know how I feel about it.
I think this you know soon.
But I'll be taking risks, bro.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
You know I'm saying boy, do you ever boy?

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
you be taking risks you be taking.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
I ain't gonna lie.
Some of them I be like, but Imean, I'm not gonna be the one
To tell you to like Not take therisk.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
Nah, nah, I feel you and I know that, though it is a
creative Nah.
I know that, though you knowwhat I'm saying, so I put it out
there Like knowing that I mayget like what the Is that?

Speaker 4 (01:05:26):
That's what I told him.
If they paying, you play thehits Play the hits.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
This is your job.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Yeah.
Play the hits.
You see each other.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
Right DJ Kool Hurty folks.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
If you at a company party.

Speaker 4 (01:05:43):
they want to hear old 2000 rap.
Apple bottom jeans Boots withthe fur or they want to hear Get
Low, youots with the fur.
Oh, they want to hear uh, getlow, you need to play that Right
.
Like it's not your job to belike.
Nah, they probably want to hearit.
No, they don't.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
Right, no, that's facts, that's facts and that's
and it's funny that we had thatconversation Remember, uh 20 had
that situation at that littleuh, what was it?
Atl bounce, I don't know someshit and they got mad at him.
They got mad at him because hewasn't playing what was on the
list, but it was the vibe.
The vibe didn't give the listthat he gave him or some shit
like that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
You don't remember that one anyway, I remember, but
I don't remember exactly whathappened it was okay so bruh
gave him a list.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
Bruh gave him a list of songs that he was supposed to
play Right and basically, longstory short, the list didn't
match the vibe of the peoplethat were there Right and he
didn't go off the list, he wentoff the vibe of what the people
wanted to hear.
Right and so dude came back tohim and was like bro, you didn't
play none of the shit on to doda da, da da.
Bruh never called him back to doanother gig, right?

(01:06:50):
He didn't pay you for thatright, and that's exactly what I
said.
I'm like, bro, if that's whathe paid me for, right?
I'm finna, I'm finna.
Dissect the fuck out of thatlist.
And that's all you gonna get isthat list.
And if somebody come up to meand in that direction, and you
also got to know your personnel.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
They give you free reigns.
That's what's up, you know what.
I'm saying but if you go tothese certain gigs you might be
at a bar mix.
If they want to play thesesongs, you play those songs,
yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
That's relaxed, so okay.
So, big Steve, I got a questionfor you.
So you in the club, you in theDJ, to just play all the hits,
or do you respect him for like?

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
now I do, now I do, you do yeah, cause people don't
really they want to.
They want to know what's, uh,what they know.
I mean they want to hear whatthey know.
You dig what I'm saying Likelike they.
They not trying to get put onlike that, you know what I'm
saying you got to know yourpersonnel.
If you're at one of thembonfire type events, all right,

(01:07:51):
go ahead, get jiggy with thatshit.
You know what?
I'm saying the skating rink.
They come to hear 2-1-1.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
Savage.
Oh, I ain't gonna lie, I takeall the risks.
Oh that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
That's what he came up with.
That's a bust.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
I'm playing that trouble show Busting on a floor.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
I'm busting for trouble, you hear me yes.
They want to hear this.
That man dude, oh no, no, no,what killed me?

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
I mean, it didn't get a that Alpha.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
Mega, he played Alpha Mega.
He's played the snitches.
You got to chill.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
Oh, my god, what you mean?
He's a snitch, is he?
Yeah, oh, I didn't know thatthe type of one that used to be
with TI.
Yeah, yeah, damn, I didn't knowthat the one that used to be
with TI.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Yeah, yeah, damn, I didn't know that.
That's why he got dropped.
Oh, I thought he got dropped.

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
Like Spody got dropped, he's snitching.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Oh, I thought Spody got dropped because he didn't
snitch.
No, no, because I heard of asituation where Droll was like
he wanted him to take the rapfrom him and Spody didn't, or
something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
I thought I heard it, but I thought it was Spody's
gun oh, it probably was, I don'tknow and Joe, that's your gun.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
You carrying that, bro, I'm not finna.
Hold your gun, bro, like it'snot even mine oh, it might be,
that's wild that was like thecounter.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
I heard there was some other shit going on too.
He had snitches on some papersand some shit.
But you know, as he said, Idon't know for sure.
But why are you playing AlphaMega, you know?

Speaker 3 (01:09:34):
I was just going to escape that one, that record
hard bro To you.
I'm just saying, man, you knowwhat I'm saying.
Well, okay, here's the.
On top of that, it said TrapFever.
So it's like Trap Fever.
I feel like it's almost likeTrap History Class.

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
So See, I'm listening to the Will's autobiography.
We gotta stop that feeling shit.
I feel like nobody cares howyou feel I'm saying Play what
they wanna hear, bro.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
I'm saying bro, bro, they came here for dirt bro,
they came here for baby bro, butsee, they didn't Strap fever
bro.

Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
They came here for dirt, they came here for baby
bro.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
They came here for Chief Keef, but they came for
For.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
Nito ATL.
They wanna hear for Nito.
Yeah, well.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
I actually be surprised.
You'll actually be surprised.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
These kids?

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
No, bro, these kids do their homework, bro, and we
talk Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
But tell them some of their favorite songs, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
Yeah, let me run through Ask about Zo, and when
you said Bush, I thought youwere going to come out with that
.
All right, what is?

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
that.
Oh, know your clap, know yourclap oh.

Speaker 4 (01:10:43):
When you said Bush, I thought you said cow, oh one,
two, three, four.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Oh, okay, so, granted , when we say kids, we talking
like 18, 19, 20.
Okay, hold on, let me, if thisshit want to act right.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
So these are some of the songs they like to listen to
.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Let's see what the fuck we got.
Bless it, god damn.
Now you need to leave thealphabet in the car.
Alright, let's see.
Like what's some shit.
They Tone, tone GorillazoJockin'.
You ever heard of this songbefore?

Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
You said Tone, tone, tone, gorillazo.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
Featuring Gorillazo called Jockin'.
A song called Jockin'.
No, it's a song a named GorillaZol, I mean not Gorilla Zol,
tone Tone.
He had a sample with the hoodnigga.
All the hoes, jockin' it'scalled Jockin'.

Speaker 3 (01:11:31):
They fuck with that song that's like the banger.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
These are the bangers to them.
Have you ever heard of a songas a group called ACM called
Party Hard?
You ever heard that song Banger?

Speaker 3 (01:11:42):
called Party Hard.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
You ever heard that song Banger, banger.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
They love that song.
A little level of reaction.

Speaker 4 (01:11:48):
There might be some east side shit.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
West side.
West side, bro, this is Cascade.
I understand correctly.
Let me ask you this I'm DumbGorilla Zoe.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
Oh yeah, I know that.
Did you like that record?
No, bro.
Yeah, I know that, bro, did youplay that song?
Did you like that record?
No, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
Bro, when I tell you bite down.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
They are like full speed to the skate floor.
Yeah, Rod Swerve.

Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
Blackjack.
I'm actually friends with him.

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
Oh snap.

Speaker 4 (01:12:20):
You know that's Drip's uncle.

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
Oh, I ain't know that .

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
Well, when I say friend, like I know bro, like
for real, like I know him, he'splayed flag football at my
homeboys and shit, oh wow, short, dark skin grill in the mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
Okay, I just remember hearing this song when I first
moved down here.

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
I was at another song with T-Pain too.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Yeah, $500?
Black yeah, I'd be playing thatsong sometimes.
Get Off Me, gorillazo.
You ever heard?

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
this one, see, hold on.
Oh, what's that?

Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
I know that's what you said.
That shit, that ride Swerve.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
Oh, it might be.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
That one might be, that might be.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
It might be, but I mean, I don't think they really
pay attention to who's where,but they, Bro, you play that
song in Cascade over with thefloor is flooded.
Get Off of Me, Gorilla.
Zoe you ever heard this one, myass girlfriends say that she
was over me.

Speaker 4 (01:13:14):
I got all these.
I remember listening to GorillaZoe, but I don't.
Yeah, I feel you.

Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
What the F would Zoe have?
You could literally play any.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
Zoe and Rocco.

Speaker 4 (01:13:22):
They love Rocco Rocco .
They love Rocco Rocco.
At legend though, they loveRocco they love Rocco.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Okay, have you ever heard of somebody named Decatur
Dictator Hell?

Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
no.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Bro, this song, oh, I'm not gonna play it, but it's
a song called Like this Onebottle, one cup, nigga.
That's what's up.
You ever heard that song before?
Love it like.
These are they.

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
These are their bangers, bro, these are like the
anthem, like these are like youplay these.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
These are like their bangers.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
You don't play these off real, you let.
You let the height of the crowdexactly like you, build up like
you're waiting for them

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
to like go on, like, go out and do other shit, to
like these are like the songsgonna bring them back.

Speaker 4 (01:14:01):
They don't sound like my type of music.
My Camaro, you ever heard thatsong before?
Yeah, that's out the mix.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
Uh-huh, travis Porter .

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
Yeah, on Deck, gucci.
I don't fuck with Gucci.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
Oh, you don't fuck with Gucci at all, oh wow.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
Nah, he got some songs.
In terms of the catalog.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Ball Forever.

Speaker 4 (01:14:26):
I mean, but that's a banger though.
You know I'm about to go.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
I'm on Ball Forever, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
I serve the bass.
That's another banger.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
Okay, I'm trying to see the songs, but they ain't
really bang.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
You said, you don't fuck with.

Speaker 3 (01:14:39):
Gucci, so Water slide .
And turn up.
I will say that the reason Iplayed $100 autograph was.

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
That go off, oh bruh.
Schooling yeah $100 for myautograph yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:14:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I see, of course I see
you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
What's up?
You know that yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:15:03):
Bingo man, y'all play that and I see, of course I see
you what's up?
You know that.
Yeah, b-dovey.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
Y'all play that.
Oh what, oh?
That used to have a, that usedto have a part.
He's going crazy too.
I was in high school.
What Bro?
But hold me bro.
Oh God Bro, you're you laughing?
Bro probably in a party withSteve and we'd be holding a
nigga down the house and we likethis, we like this.
I got you nigga, I got you.

(01:15:26):
You never seen this nigga a dayin my life.
Yeah yeah, that was realbrotherhood, bro.
Why you bullshitting?
That's some real shit.
That was an each one teach oneshit.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
Oh God bro, that was some weed to see community shit,
type shit.
Weed to see community shit,type shit.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
We the C community shit, good fucking times bro
Alright, I'm going to go througha couple more.
Riding Hard by Rocco.
You ever heard of this songbefore I?

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
probably should?

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
He keeps saying bells , bells, bells.
I got my name ringing.

Speaker 4 (01:15:58):
Oh bells, Apparently the song's called Riding Hard.
Yeah, I thought it was calledBells too.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Yeah, I definitely know that song.
Okay, well, yeah, give you acouple more.

Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
Priceless, rocco, priceless yeah you know that
song.

Speaker 4 (01:16:13):
Yeah, yeah, it's on the first album.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
Bang.
These are like top tier.
Why, though, bruh and it'sfunny bro, and it's funny bro,
it's funny y'all playing thismorning?
Yeah, yeah, it's, but that'swhat's funny.
You would think that that wouldbe like a top bank.
It's not like a top.

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
You could play it and it'll get a reaction they used
to be my ring, so they used by along clock.
This morning I woke up feelinglike money, yeah, yeah did you?

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
did you ever listen to Quanticash?
Yeah, he from hood PresidentialSlash Show.

Speaker 4 (01:16:47):
I don't know that.
One Like I'm saying, I knowthat Money baby Money, baby
Money.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
I'm not going to lie, that's really it.
Well, no, okay, like I said, Iknow that song.
Bloody Head, for sure, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:16:59):
He got an intro to one of his little albums that I
used to listen to down thereeveryday.
It got uh, what was that sample?
It was like I'm wishing on astar Really, oh damn.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to hear that one.

Speaker 4 (01:17:17):
He go hard, though he vulnerable.
It's like his intro.
You feel me, I'm gonna have tocheck that one out.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
I, I'm going to check that out.
Check that one out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
Check that out.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
But yeah, like these are, like they're bangers, and
like there's a certain time inthe night where, like, like you
said, I don't really take risks,I just boom, boom, boom, boom,
we hitting them over the headLike they're at a point like
stop.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
But see, that's what I'm saying, though that's why I
gotta try some of this stuffjust based off of that.
Nah, you don't, I'm gonna tellyou a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:17:49):
This technology shit.
Don't fuck a lot of shit up too.
You see what I'm saying.
Usually, even if you wereplaying like quote unquote the
bangers they know it's in thefingertips.
You dig what I'm saying.
When you pull them besties out,you get the.
You feel me, they ain't got nocontrol over that.
That's when you break shit.

(01:18:10):
You dig what I'm saying.
You put them besties out thatvinyl shit and you get the.
You know, what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Like I said, I ain't touchedvinyl.
This is the first year Itouched vinyl.
For real, yeah I learned DJingbackwards, but that's a whole
other story.

Speaker 4 (01:18:27):
Most people my age do , though, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
You see, what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:18:32):
Because computers and shit.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
You know what I'm saying, you get left something
got, done get a gig.

Speaker 4 (01:18:38):
Right.
Right type shit for real whatI'm saying is if you end up
scratching this shit, don'tforce.
You ain't got time to listen torequests like that.
You feel me like you in yourbag and that's when you got time
to put people on the shit.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
They have you sitting there.
They have you sitting there, Ijust be yeah, you gotta.

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
Now you putting people on the shit.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
You know what I'm saying but see we, like I
dropped we you know what I'msaying but see, we dropped
$100,000 and you know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
But I'm not going to lie though.

Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
I'm not going to lie, though, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
I forgot about that one.
Yeah, crazy, yeah, out of there.
I will say there have been acouple times his wrists have
taken that, have taken very goodrewards, that fucking.
I mean.
At first it was him, but thenit started.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
Somebody's trying to make a jug.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
That too.
Well, that was even better nowthat I think about it.
Yeah, trying to make a jug byGorilla Zoe.
You ever heard that song?

Speaker 4 (01:19:38):
Yeah, they four was over here with Wilder, I don't
know.
He not from the east side, ishe?
I think he is, I don't knowwhen is he from it's on three.
I don't know.
It's on three games from theEastside, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
It's Zulu, Atlanta I don't know, I don't know that's
some shit.
But no, he played fucking ChopChop by Youngbloods Bruh.
Like the first, it was like,okay, we don't really know this
song, whatever.
But then he played it thesecond, third, fourth, fifth.
They're like, oh yeah, chopchop.

Speaker 4 (01:20:10):
As soon as that beat drop, it's over with my favorite
Young Blood song there damn, ohyeah.
Boy, they fuck withPresidential more.
But damn, that's a banger.
The first verse is legendary.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
Legendary bro, they calling me.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
Batting to the streets, come on, that's
legendary.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
Yeah, that's legendary yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:20:30):
Like that was magic in that studio that day, bro
Nice.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Yeah, and you can tell that.

Speaker 4 (01:20:35):
Well, I can definitely say that's legendary
because, like I said, I was inCalifornia when that came out
and I was, oh yeah.
I was like, yeah, you grew upin Cali.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
I'm from Cali.
Oh Well, I lived in Cali fromwhen I was well, from when I was
born, to like I was 12.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
Now, I moved out here .

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
Oh, okay yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
And he moved out here in like 2005, right, 2005.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
Like yeah, the height of like snap music.

Speaker 4 (01:21:05):
So when I came out here to listen to the radio I
was squad was having that shitthough, bro, when I tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
That shit was crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:21:08):
I hate that shit, I mean, there was good parties.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
You know I hate that shit did you?

Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
yeah, lean with it, rock with it that's yeah, I save
it, david, I didn't, you couldbeat it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
I didn't.
Yeah, I was.
I think I was like seventhgrade, so, yeah, I wasn't doing
nothing yet.

Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
It did.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
We had so many transformations, bro.
Yeah, y'all did.
I'm not gonna lie.
My least favorite was thefuturistic shit, bro.
I hated that.
I hated it.
No.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
Rich Kids was cool.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
I'm talking about like J Money Young LA.
If it wasn't for that, no RichKids was cool.
I'm talking about like J MoneyYoung LA.

Speaker 4 (01:21:48):
If it wasn't for that it wouldn't be no Future and
shit.
There's a lot of artists thatwould be.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
You probably right.
You probably right.
I'm pretty sure Future wouldhave found a way.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:22:00):
It wouldn't have been about Future, though.
You see what I'm saying.
That's what it was birthed from, though God I hate it.
I took him through the tutoriallesson.
Yeah, like.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
Bro, he played no cuffing bro.

Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
Yeah, my man oh that was.

Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
That's what I'm saying.
That was the height of my party, Like bro.

Speaker 4 (01:22:24):
That of my partner.
That's my partner for real.
Tone, nah, hell, nah.
I was about to say Tone, theother two on there.
Tone is on the middle verse.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
Is he really?
Yeah, that's not even his songFor real I didn't know that he
got there, ran off with him.

Speaker 4 (01:22:34):
People sold.
It was at a high school andshit.

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
So all I know is Smash did pass, no matter what.
That's not Tone.

Speaker 4 (01:22:43):
I mean, technically it is, but he stole the song
from this group called Self Pay.
I do know about Self Pay, yeah,yeah, yeah.
So the dude who got the iconicfirst verse Is Self Pay, ace,
and the one, the one on the lastverse, is Self Pay.
Ye, you know what I mean.
So he like took the lyrics Nah,he took their song so they had

(01:23:08):
a chance.
They can better tell you.
But when they was in high schoolthey came out with their song.
Tom was older than them andthey ended up like fucking with
him because I guess he washaving some emotion or whatever.
Yeah, having a pool, yeah.
And so he put his name in frontof the song and they let it
ride because it was doingnumbers and shit.
But that's really their song.

(01:23:29):
You dig what I'm saying?
On some stupid shit, I saidy'all, boy Fellas, y'all need to
get y'all paperwork right.
And they had an opportunity tosign with Future.
Yeah, Future was fucking withthem heavy.
He was on the remix and shit.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
Oh yeah, I know that, and that's the one I played.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that was on the road withhim for a little bit.
Yeah, but that's what I'msaying.
Like Future was in that mix.
Him and all All these people,even kid YC.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
Okay, so maybe you can help explain to me YC's
situation.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
So, and please correct me ifI'm wrong.
Rax was written by Future.

Speaker 4 (01:24:28):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
He gave it to YC.

Speaker 4 (01:24:31):
A lot of people give away songs, though.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
No, no, no, I get that, but if you were going to
be on the song anyway, why giveit to YC?

Speaker 4 (01:24:40):
Nobody knows when it's about to be a hit or not.
Most people when they recordabout to be a hit or not.
That's true.
Most people when they record,they be like yo, this the banger
, and it's never the banger likethe one they least expect oh
yeah, they say that on the songyeah, people get songs all the
time.
Like he was even showing meChuck music.
That was I'm Just Doing my Job.

(01:25:02):
Rick Ross was on there first.
I didn't know that and Kanye,and Kanye told TI that, like you
know, I got somebody on here,but TI laid his joint.
Like you can have it, type shit.
But like people get songs Withit all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
I mean, I get Okay and that makes sense, but he's
already on the song, so likethat's.
That's where I lose theconnection.
You're giving away the song,but you're still on the song.
Why didn't you just keep thesong?
What was going to be plan B ifhe wrote the song anyway?
I'm not playing B, not playingB.
I'm sorry, what was going to bethe next step for YC after Rax,
because he didn't write itanyway.

(01:25:38):
What was going to be the nextstep for him?
People?

Speaker 4 (01:25:39):
just the next step for him.
You know people just be wingingthis shit Like he really just a
trap nigga.
You know what I'm saying?
That's what I'm saying.
People just be winging thisshit for real, for real, but
what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is they Futuremight not even know that it was
anybody been in a different song.
If Future is, if it was leadingthe song or his song.

Speaker 1 (01:26:06):
You think of the?

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
land.
You only got one verse right,true?
I feel that he's probably knowhe might have wrote two verses
to it and it was trash okay,well, yeah, no, because that was
my thing, like okay, future.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
you wrote the whole thing like what was the point of
you giving this away?
I don't know, but I feel likeit would have made more sense to
give it away to somebody thatalready had a name, I guess.

Speaker 4 (01:26:30):
I don't know, he didn't have a name.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
Who Future?
No, I mean, yeah, he didn't.
But I mean I don't know, theplanning of it was just weird.
You wrote it.
Why didn't you just put it outyourself?
I don't know, that's just aquestion I had.

Speaker 4 (01:26:49):
Can't reproduce H to the Izzo.
Why didn't he do it himself?
But he didn't have a verse.
But he didn't have a verse hecould have.
He could have, but all I knowhe had one.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
We know he had one.

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
Yeah, that's true.
I Y'all find we know he had one.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
You know what I'm saying but like, yeah, that's
true, that's true.

Speaker 4 (01:27:05):
I mean, I don't know, but that's more of a I don't
know, that's not a lateral move,that's a oh I don't know A
stepping stone move.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
Oh, I don't know.
I'm not going to lie, I don'tknow.
I mean because he know him as arapper at the time.
I just knew of him as the dudein the video doing this.
Honestly, I didn't even know hewas the producer.
I don't know.
I was a young nigga so I didn'treally know nothing about
producing shit like that either.
I didn't know about Kanye untilThrough the Wire.
Was that his first real single,when?

Speaker 4 (01:27:34):
he got in the car accident.
His first single, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
Probably so.

Speaker 4 (01:27:39):
Yeah, it was his first single.
I was just watching thedocumentary, but what I'm saying
?
Future might not even look atthat shit as a hit.
It might have been some shitwhere, like, why is he coming
and buying the bought, the beator whatever, like yo, bro, hop
on it with me, or some shit.

(01:27:59):
I had an idea for it.
Future might say I had an ideafor it.
I had an idea for it.
Future might say I had an ideafor it.
He might not have been feelingit.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
Just gave it a run.
Okay, I mean, that makes sense.
Nobody knows if it's a hit ornot.

Speaker 4 (01:28:12):
for real Right.
The people are going to tellyou Right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
No, that makes sense.
That makes sense yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:28:19):
After the fact, and that's when the controversy
happened.
Matter of fact, I'm sure ithappened like that Because after
the fact, that's when Futuregot the mention that I wrote the
song Like he wanted more creditor whatnot.
You know what I'm saying,because he wasn't Future then.
He was still up and coming.

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:28:34):
That's how I even got leaked.
Probably he was like I wrotethat song anyway, like I did the
writing.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, they were still cool.
Yeah, we probably would neverfind out about that.
Yes, you probably.

Speaker 4 (01:28:45):
You probably got something on that and and YC
probably, man, why you tell themthat?

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
You know, you put some damn on my shine.
I mean it is out there, none?
Yeah, exactly that's what I'msaying, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
But Future.
Once they found out I was a hit, future was like I want
somebody to shine.
I wanted to be highlighted thatI did that song, you were, so
I'm pretty sure it happened likethat.
They didn't think it was goingto be a hit Right.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
It was a people's choice.

Speaker 4 (01:29:19):
people want man I'm trying to tell you how to play
what they want, see, and that'show you really back in.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
That's what I'm talking about.
Big steve, I don't talk aboutbig steve.
Play what the people want, butyeah, no, but um, yeah, y'all uh
tell us how y'all feel aboutthat, uh, about that topic.
Uh, do y'all feel like, as a dj, we supposed to be just playing
the same shit over and overagain with the hits, or?
You know, you want us to play alittle bit of you know?

Speaker 4 (01:29:42):
a little bit of something else.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
I know your personnel right, that is very true as
well.
That is very true as well butthat's that's that's a whole
nother story.
Yeah, no, go ahead, talk to us,then I can talk.
To talk, talk, no, no, no, yousure all right.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
No, I mean it's just because like like okay, so then
I, I play like the same stuffevery time, right, and then
they're like bro, like can youswitch it up?
But whenever I try to switch itup, y'all fuck you know what
I'm saying.
All up in there, it's like youcan't, you damned if you do, you
damned.

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
If you don't, bro, maybe it's you hey bro, maybe it
is.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Lord you done got him right Now.
He finna be in the car.
Maybe it is me.

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
Nah, nah, I mean, I've accepted it, bro.
I know that I gotta bedifferent.
You know about it Because, likeyou know, them folks talking
crazy on Google and shit whatthey say on Google.

Speaker 4 (01:30:39):
Oh my God, oh my God.
Do we have time?
We?

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
got time, we got time .

Speaker 4 (01:30:45):
What did they say?
Tanaka, you take it away.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
Oh no, they just said I was trash.

Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
They said you was trash.
Yeah, oh, I wouldn't go therefor it.
It's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
You know, I wouldn't say that at all.

Speaker 4 (01:30:58):
They said you was trash.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
On the Google site.

Speaker 4 (01:31:05):
Stone Mountain Skate page trend on the google site
mountain skate page.
Then you know they on thegoogle map.
You know they got the reviewslike when is this hours?

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
and yeah yeah, on the reviews there's somebody named.
Who what's his name?
I know you remember his namebecause you you was talking
about it the whole time yeah,darius darius.
This guy named darius.
He wrote a review about it andthen he said something like I
don't know the dj's name, Ithink his name is tanaka or
something like that.
He said some shit like thatright.

Speaker 3 (01:31:26):
Well, this man really said tanaka or something.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
There's not no, like you know, right, yeah, like
right and then what's made iteven funnier is that he spelled
it right, so like it's not evenlike yeah, like it was.
I don't know that was weird,but yeah so you know, yeah, that
was an interesting situation,interesting interaction, but

(01:31:51):
we're going to reel it out.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
We way reeled out right now.
This is funny, we're going to.
Yeah, why did he care Bro?

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
And you know why he cares too much.
Here's the thing, right.
I seen this like two or threeweeks before he did, but I
didn't tell him because I knewhe was gonna do this.

Speaker 4 (01:32:10):
I knew he was gonna do this and he was gonna dwell
on it forever this is how thisshit go, bro, right dropping
this, but you're gonna have agroup that's always gonna hate
you.
Yeah, you're gonna have a groupthat's always gonna love you.
You're gonna have a group thatyou got to sway either way yeah

(01:32:31):
this is who you need to focus on.

Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
Who to sway right, fuck these people yeah they're
always gonna hate you, bro,always.

Speaker 4 (01:32:39):
They might not like how your eyes.
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
I'm saying Opposition it doesn't matter, right,
they're gonna be thereregardless His goatee.

Speaker 4 (01:32:46):
His goatee too long.
What the fuck Like Right?
They're always gonna hate you,bro.
Yeah, people are always gonnalove you, just cause they fuck
with you.
You gotta focus on the peoplewho gonna sway you and that's
gonna make or break you.
Yeah, that's real.
Right, why you gonna fuck about?
Fuck, darius.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
Right, the fuck Like.

Speaker 4 (01:33:06):
I'm talking about Darius.
We're shooting you a stiff one.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
Right, fuck, darius.
Like I don't even, like I saidWell, tanaka was there when that
lady was Badgering me at SmyrnaLike Bro.

Speaker 4 (01:33:16):
You can't.
There's billions of people Onthis earth.
You can't please anybody Bro.
You can't.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
Like bro, not, please , everybody Bro.
You can't Bro, not everybodycan like you, bro, and that's
what kills me, bro.
It'd be bro.
Okay, so Soulful Sunday don'treally be a lot.
It'd be like 80, 90 peoplemaybe, bro if you complain about
one person.
It'd be one or two people, andyou know it.
It'd be one or two or maybethree at the most.
That'd be like I don't likewhat he's playing.

Speaker 4 (01:33:39):
It'd be 90 people out there.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
It'd be a little crowd, I might let it look, oh,
here we go, you done scared himaway.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
I gotta go out there on like a Wednesday with a crowd
like I used to skate, though,but I'm a little heavier now.
Oh, that'd be a couple heavier.
No, I'm saying I don't know ifI got my bearings right in the
boy.

Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
Nah, boy, if you play basketball, you know what I'm
saying, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:34:07):
That was not the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
The balance is important boy, that's not the
same thing.
Big Steve runs there, bro.
There are a couple of cougarsout there, bro, as soon as you
get on the floor.
That's how you ride.
I can cougar pimp.

Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
you know what?
I'm saying I can be on thesidelines hey yo there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
There it is.
I'm telling you and as a sayingI tell him every time, and it's
on my shirt fuck Darius merchcoming soon, fuck Darius, but no
, it's a shirt I wear.
They love me one day, they hateme one day.
I got paid both days, bro.

(01:34:49):
It really shit, bro.
It's three.

Speaker 4 (01:34:50):
I feel like you saved that shit that shit saved me a
phone.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
Nah, bro, I ain't saved it, I don't got nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:34:58):
That shit, like it was saved bro.

Speaker 3 (01:35:00):
I put it up on Google Maps.
Oh, I thought you saved that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
shit, I'm not going to lie bro.
I feel like you did too.

Speaker 4 (01:35:05):
Yeah, I feel like I said that shit Now that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
Steve said that I can definitely see you doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:35:10):
It's motivation.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
You cannot please, everybody bro.

Speaker 4 (01:35:16):
Like bro.
You know how many trash-asscomments are under some
restaurants that you know aregood.
Yeah, you know, Ash asscomments are under some
restaurants that you know aregood.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
Yeah, yeah, you just got to take it from the start.

Speaker 4 (01:35:26):
You know, those restaurants are good.

Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
Right, yeah, yeah bro .

Speaker 4 (01:35:32):
Oh, that shrimp was overcooked Like bitch.
That shrimp ain't never beenovercooked, Right, you know?

Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
that restaurant good, it be like that sometimes, man.

Speaker 1 (01:35:43):
But you know, it's all good.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
I need to drop his nuts.
Fuck that shit.

Speaker 4 (01:35:48):
I mean he ain't wrong .

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
Thank you.

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