April 28, 2023 • 33 mins
In this episode, we have celebrity DJ I AM DJ Drake and listen to his latest single, "Bother Me."
About I Am DJ Drake:
International DJ and recording artist, IAmDJDrake, has launched the official track and music video, "Bother Me," featuring singer-songwriter Keeyen Martin. TreDaPhenom Littlejohn III and IAmDJDrake produce the track and are now available on Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and other major digital outlets. "Bother Me" is also available on Music Choice.
Following his previous release, "Goin Nowhere," featuring Lamone, IAmDJDrake's latest track, "Bother Me," delivers an uplifting and soulful House music sound that blends seamlessly with Keeyen Martin's powerful vocals. Additionally, the way showcases IAmDJDrake's versatility in creating music across multiple genres.
IAmDJDrake has been featured on Sirius XM's channel 47 and appeared on Shade 45's "Sway in the Morning" Show. He has gained international recognition for his unique style and ability to create music that resonates with a diverse audience.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/deeper-than-music-with-markivus--2705530/support.
About I Am DJ Drake:
International DJ and recording artist, IAmDJDrake, has launched the official track and music video, "Bother Me," featuring singer-songwriter Keeyen Martin. TreDaPhenom Littlejohn III and IAmDJDrake produce the track and are now available on Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and other major digital outlets. "Bother Me" is also available on Music Choice.
Following his previous release, "Goin Nowhere," featuring Lamone, IAmDJDrake's latest track, "Bother Me," delivers an uplifting and soulful House music sound that blends seamlessly with Keeyen Martin's powerful vocals. Additionally, the way showcases IAmDJDrake's versatility in creating music across multiple genres.
IAmDJDrake has been featured on Sirius XM's channel 47 and appeared on Shade 45's "Sway in the Morning" Show. He has gained international recognition for his unique style and ability to create music that resonates with a diverse audience.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/deeper-than-music-with-markivus--2705530/support.
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The core of you, the fans, the truth sent the truth is the
linked, the core of you,the fans, the truth than the truth
is the linked. The new US, Good morning, good evening, wherever
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you are in the world. Deeperthan music radio, behind every great song,
that's an even greater story. Ilike to say, what's up to
everybody listening to us on Spotify,Amazon, Alexa, Geo, Sabbin,
all the great streaming platforms, andalso shout out to out the Box Radio
and Dallas Fort Worth, Texas wherewe're also stream or broadcasting. So,
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ladies and gentlemen, we have avery special guest and I'm gonna aged myself
for a minute because when I sawthis guy's bio, I wanted to go
back to the house party and it'sall about the DJUM. We have a
celebrity DJ. Celebrity. He's anentrepreneur and he's been DJM for over twenty
five years. I mean, thisguy started off on college radio. UM
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he's worked with big names including BustaRhymes, DMX Diddy, Chris Brown,
n Y and Kings Ny Kings ofComedy and more, and also with most
DJs, as you know, theygotta hear from music, so he's also
a producer. UM. He releaseda single back in the spring of two
thousand and twenty one, and nowhe has another single called bother Me Um
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featuring Key and Martin and Ladies andGentlemen. It's gonna be the anthem of
twenty and twenty three. Ladies andGentlemen we have. I am DJ Drake
here on Deeper than Music Radio.How you doing, I'm good? How
are you doing, brother, man, I'm doing I'm I'm doing pretty good.
Man. Uh, I gotta say, man, I love that jam.
Man, I love that jam.Don't bother Me Man, It's so
relatable on so many levels, man, and you know it reminds me.
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He speaks to how like you knowyou got. You can't let things bother
you. Man. You gotta don'tlet people dim your light. You gotta
keep moving and grooving. Man.That's what I got from the song.
Yeah, Man, you got,you got, You gotta brush it off
your shoulders. Man. You knowHayter's gonna hate you know, but you
still gotta do what you do tos see you know. Yeah. Yeah,
So, UM, I want toask you a question first and foremost,
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the very first question, man,how did it all begin. Did
you know, like later in lifethat you were gonna be in a DJ?
Like early on in life, didyou know like what inspired you to
get into music? Oh? Man, So I knew at by the time
I was eight nine years old,I knew what I wanted to do.
Um. I'm the youngest of fourin my family. You could really say
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five because my uncle came to livewith us when he was like, you
know, fifteen years old. Soyou know, I grew up around music,
you know, from him playing Shalamarto my older brother playing Parliament and
you know Five of the Temptations andall that. So I knew at a
very early age. You know,music is what was what I wanted to
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do in life. You know.It wasn't until the eighties when I started
DJ, you know, but Iknew earlier on. Yes, music is
where it was what I wanted todo. Wow. Man, And you
mentioned like greats like Shalamar and soyou were back in the era when hip
hop was first, you know,first coming out coming to Fruition. It's
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particularly on the East Coast, andI like to laugh, you know,
you bring up a memory because likelike, um, you know when the
DJ's it's all about the four elements. And I want to ask you,
man, did you did you learnthe DJ? Did you start? Like
I used to mess up my mom'sright, It's like when I first thought
on about DJ, I really scratchedup Michael Jackson's bad. So how was
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your four way to getting it intothat? Man? When you originally on
your parents ones and twos? Like, how did you get into that?
You know what? H So youknow, I, you know, probably
like I was probably like I'm oneof like seven eight years old when uh,
you know, me and my cousinwere listening to like Red Alert in
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New York okay, okay on akiss em and stuff like that, and
like eighty two I think it waslike eighty one eighty two, and um
my brother used to have a turntable, he only had one, and
uh, and I started messing aroundwith that, you know, just messing
around, scratching, no mixing ornothing, just just just just putting my
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hands on it, messing around withit. And then finally, you know,
my my older sister convinced my fatheruh to take me to New York
and buy me some turntables. Andthat was my first true introduction into really
getting on getting on a turntable.So you know, outside of that,
my father nobody didn't have you know, the kind of turntable they had,
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you know they had they had.It was a whole It was a whole
console. You know. It wasn'tlong turn table, whole big unit you
know. Yeah, because like yeah, like you said, it was a
standalone console. And back then,I didn't know about the techniques or like
you know, the actual DJ consoleyou know what I mean. Um,
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and you got your breakthrough um incollege college radio right Connecticut, in Connecticut,
uh eighty nine point three? Howdid how did that come to fruition?
Man? How did that opportunity comeabout? Man? So, I
was still in high school at thatpoint. Uh, I was in high
school, I think, like ajunior when that came about. Uh we
we so we actually so back inhighties eighty eight, eighty seven, eighty
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seven, eighty eight, we madeour first record. I was, Man,
I was an early teenager then,um and it was I don't know
if you would be familiar with them, but there was a group out of
California called the La Dream Team.Okay, okay, yeah, yeah,
and one of the members happened tobe from Connecticut, Okay, yeah,
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yeah, yeah, and they heardit. You know, we were just,
you know, we were doing whatall other kids are doing, trying
to rap and DJ and you know, you know, you know, we
had the female MC, we hadthe guy MC, and then you know,
a couple of with me and theother DJ, and we had dances
in the whole nine. So um. You know, they seeing as day
like what we were doing it.And we actually made a record with them,
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uh back in eighty I think itwas like eighty seven, eighty eight.
Yeah, Dancey made a record withthem, and that's what led to
me. Me and the guys atthe radio station who was also doing music
at the time they were they werein college and they were doing music.
There was another rap group and sothey were doing music and that's what led
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to me connecting with them and thembringing me on their radio show, Hip
Hop Nation. Wow. I starteddoing that every week. Wow. And
you and you bring up and Iwant to ask you this question. You
because you the DJ. You startoff as a DJ and during the Golden
era a pop like one of myfirst concerts was DJ Jazzy Jeff and the
Fresh Prince Um and it was allabout the DJ, you know what I
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mean, Like the DJ was thehe helped the MC move the crowd.
And I feel like I feel likethat that essence. I mean it's evolved
now, um, but can youexplain what it used to be because you
had like DJ Jazzy Jeff, youhad Spinderella Um back then when you started
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then that the what was the roleof the DJ back then? I mean
the role of the DJ was thecrowd motivator, you know that, Like
like you said, he got theparty jump and he got everything started.
He the DJ was the point manto set everything off for for for the
crowd, for the for the MCUM. You know, you got looking
no further. You know you sayJazzy Jef, Jazz Jeff was my favorite
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DJ UM and then my other favoriteDJ, Kick Kapre. You ain't got
lotting no further. The Kid Kapre, you know, the crowd motivator,
you know, get everybody excited,get everybody hike. That's why I like
when you see concerts now, youknow they'll have the DJ um come out
beforehand playing the music to get thecrowd hype and get the crowd ready.
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So you know back then it wasthat Times ten. You know, That's
that's where I DJ a lot ofevents and was on stage with a lot
of great mcs like Big Daddy,Kane and MD and and people like that,
because I was actually DJ and theentire event or either my group was
on stage performing for the event.So you know, the DJ is the
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party starter. That's what I liketo call it. D get the party
starter, yep. And I liketo say the listeners, the ones that
are a little bit younger, likea good example of this is you have
to the brand new funk by theDJ J Jeff and the Fresh Prince like
that showcased the DJ and skills andhow you know they move the crowd.
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And then you mentioned Kid Capri andKid kuldpre like, Um, Jeff comedy
jam like he said the stage andI mean the intros to come in,
and I like how him and Martinwere just you know, playoff off of
each other. Um. So movingforward, Um, from the college radio
station, you also worked for likecommercial radio stations clear Channel Power one or
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four point one after them CBS isHot ninety ninety three point seven. How
did how did they go from collegeradio to commercial radio. How was that
transition? So so so again Iwas doing college radio again. So so
for those that don't know, I'mfrom Connecticut, so you know, we
didn't have commercial radio stations in Connecticut. Um, so all you have was
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either college where you had the twocollege stations RTC and w QTQ, and
uh you know when I was incollege. When I got out of college,
I went back to uh college radiowith WQTQ UM. And then in
two thousand that's when we finally gotour first commercial radio station. Okay,
okay, that was that was Hotninety three point seven, So I was
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on I got on Hot nine peopoint seven like any other DJ. They
took the hottest DJs in the areagot on that and then Pard one on
four came and I moved over toPart one on four, which is clear
channel, and I wrote what Partone on four for four years and right
right around the time when they decidedto switch the channel, I was also
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down with a violator all star DJs, Chris Lighty, Chris Lighty crew for
DJs my man scrapped Dirty Random andwe had a show on Series X seven
Hip Hop Nation, and I starteddoing serioues XM Hip Hop Nation for Violated
all Star DJs. So that waslike the transition into into radio Man and
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you mentioned Violator Man Violator. Whatcomes to mind for Violator the late nineties,
early two thousands, Buster Rhymes andjust man like massive star power.
So I have to ask this question, like you work with so so many
great artists, Um, is therelike a memorable moment or artists to say
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somebody that you was just like,hey, memorable moment, like you know,
Probably the most memorable moment was UThe most normal moment was probably with
doing the show with Cameo. Okay, and probably because of what I said
earlier. You know when my uncleand brother that's what they used to always
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play Cameo and Shallaba stuff like that. So being able to do a show
with them later on in life,uh and in the two thousands was I
think that was the ultimate for meout of doing shows with anybody, was
actually being on the stage with LarryBlackman and Cameo, you know man,
and you say Cameo, I justI just in my mind word up,
you know what I mean? Thatwas that we're with We're Linen with the
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Red Cup and all that. Imean, yeah, I mean just to
be a part of that night thatto me, that was my most amazing
memory. Wow wow. And thenum, so you do all these great
things and I like to say,like to me, it's natural to have
like okay, um, I'm gonnamention I'm gonna mention some producers that started
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off at DJ's Manny Fresh, Um, who else do we got Doctor Dre,
DJ Premier um that transition. Sodid you always have in your mind
like eventually I'm gonna take this soI'm gonna I'm gonna start creating my own
sounds. And how did that evolve? Yeah? So so again in the
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nineties, you know, uh,you know, we we had our own
rap group. I was doing Iwas producing the music. You know,
we were going to uh, yearlyevents, getting invited to yearly events like
a conventions like how could I BeDown? And things like that, performing
in Miami and all over all overthe country. So I've always been producing,
um and I've always been DJ andmore so DJ and than producing.
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UM. But I think this timearound, you know, I kind of
stepped away from the music game fora little bit, from like two thousand
and ten to two fourteen. Butwhen I got back into it, I
was like, you know what,this time around, I'm gonna go full
full force Wood. We're trying toput music out, And when the pandemic
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hit, everything just came together.I mean, you know, my first
step with was, Okay, I'mback two fourteen. Let me get back
to letting people know who I am, because it's a whole new generation now,
generation of the nineties and two thousands. It's there, but the new
generation might not know who I am. So you know, I had to
go through that of rebuilding the name. I started doing Heather be on series
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XMS Morning, started doing those typeof things, and but the pandemic really
changed things for me where it waslike, Okay, now is the time.
Now it was the perfect time torelease some music because the world is
sitting down. So now now Ifelt like I would have their right now
because there was nothing for you todo, you know ye so yep,
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Now I was gonna say, that'sthat's interesting you say that because a lot
of people during the pandemic um theydidn't know what to do, but you
said it perfectly. We all hadto sit down and do something, So
you took that time to create,started to creating and start creating music,
start formulating the plan. Um.You know, I put one song out
with with a DJ friend of mineback in twenty twenty called Africa. Uh
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So that was like my first introduction. It was just a you know,
just a house house to be instrumental. Came back in twenty twenty one with
my second single, uh going Nowhere, which is when I really when out
all out on my own UM calledGoing Nowhere. Future of laman another software
house track, which led me tothis point, you know, meeting the
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right people to help with the publicistsand the promotions and you know, all
those things that that that the independentartists would need, and it led me
to this point. So, um, as far as like DJ and and
these big names, there's any ofthose big names besides cameo stand out like
man I DJ for this person andjust the energy was there, they was
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in sync and you just loved it. Like what has been your favorite?
Like DJ and Kid. I wouldsay Buster Rhymes and I would say DMX
Oh man, those are two powerhouses. But just to geergy that they create,
just to be on stage with withwould be a part of that.
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And you know what, what's somethingto say because she was hot when she
She's still dope now. But KeishaCole oh Man and the energy, you
know that, that's what Keisha waslike. You know, everybody was on
Keishakle Yeah, and the energy wasjust so fired. Um I would say
those three, you know, andyou know it's crazy, man, Like
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when you said violator, I immediatelythought Buster, bust Man. And then
the dude is just like man's theolder statesman now you know what I mean.
And that energy still ain't going nowhere, you know what I mean,
Like Buster has got to be AndI was actually thinking about, um,
most of your heads don't notice,but Chuck D gave him his name Buster
Rhymes. That that suits the brotherman because he just when I'm gonna get
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it and I can I can seethat. And then dm ST I still
say to this day, right now, right now, Buster Rhymes and Split
Start to Me are the best hiphop performers all right, they were.
They were the best back then.They're the best right now. Yeah.
And then like God Bless the Dead, dmmex like the man did Woodstock,
you know what I mean, oneof the hip hop groups on Woodstock and
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just and I heard, Man,I heard DMX gave him his all.
And I didn't know correctly if I'mwrong, the brother had asthmach something like
that, right, I don't know. I don't know. I think I
heard, but I heard like hewould give it his all. Man,
go backstage and just be tired.Man, Um, you know what,
I'm gonna add one more groups ofthat? That that that that really freaked
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me out. Uh After how couldI be down? We was performing and
we performed on the same bill withWu Tang Clan. Oh my goodness,
Okay, that right there with uhjust to see old dirty bastard and the
way he man that that was ana forgettable night right there and then and
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then like the funny thing too withthat brother. That brother had an unorthodox
flow, yes, but but itmade sense. It made sense. Yes,
I rememberable ones right there and thenI would say, I'm gonna aging
myself right now. So back inthe late nineties, I used to be
in the Navy and station UH inCentral California, and Uh, I gotta
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say this, like just just duringthe movement A No Limit and the Wu
Tang second album, and I rememberwhen n and Nan and I will come
on. All the brothers from theSouth would come on. But then when
things um debut song off and theysat Triumph came on. New York was
in the building. Man, thatsong right there, Man cast and even
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to this day, Man Man Man, Man. Yeah, they were different,
Man, they were different. Sospeaking on we're talking about different errors.
What is your favorite from a DJand I mean because you've seen it
from the from the DJ perspective,you've seen it from the producer's perspective,
you saw it when it first cameout, the cameos. In your opinion,
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man, what is What's What's thebest era of hip hop so far?
So I so well. First,I'm gonna say the nineties was the
best era the hip hop that theeighties kicked it off, you know,
the eighties that the latter part ofthe eighties started off the golden era.
But I'm gonna say the nineties fromninety to two thousand was the golden era
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of hip hop. I mean,don't get me wrong, the two thousand,
from two thousand and two thousand andten hip hop waste as well,
you know, But the nineties tome is the golden era between Biggie pot
naughty by Nature dayl soul tribe calledquest I mean you, I mean Snoop
Dogg Dot. I mean it's justthey don't get no better than that.
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Yeah, it just exploded, manfrom a commercial perspective, and you mentioned
naughty kg Man another another DJ andthen became producer. Um uh, I
can't think of the name right now, butter Love next, next, next,
yes he did. Next he didJoe you know yep, yeah,
oh yeah, jaheem Johim. Remindme he was just like a shorter version
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of Wou tang Man. Oh mygoodness. So, um, I want
to ask you a question too.What technology changing? Um? How is
now DJ like the technology changing?Because to me it's weird. I'm I'm
used to seeing the vinyl but nowyou see like people have like the Apple
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laptop. I remember when DJ's broughtthe crates. You know, now it's
the album computer and they meant theygot the little turn things that. How
do you feel about technology in therole in the metamorphosis of DJ? I
mean, I mean me personally,I love the technology. I say it
all the time. I'm a guy, So you know, like I said,
my favorite DJs is Jazzy Jef fromKick Kapri and so Kick Kapre.
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I'm from Connecticut, Kick Capre fromNew York. So you know, I've
seen him a million times and everybodywanted to bring you know, fourteen fifteen
crates out like kick there. Youknow. But when I think about it,
like you know, you know,moving over to the computer, that
probably saved a good five to tenyears of my DJ life just being able
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to now use the computer. AndI have to worry about crates. So
from a technology perspective, I loveit, you know, the things you
could do with the mixers, andI mean, yeah, I have no
complaints about technology. You know,I'm still the turntable guy. So even
though obviously I have the laptop,you know, I still use my turntables.
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Um, but I don't begrudge anybodythat's using controllers or cdj's or whatever
it is that they use. Youknow, you have to advance with technology,
yeah, you know you can.You can't. You cannot not advance.
You know, you cannot stay weird, you know back in the nineties.
You gotta advance because I always rememberbetter house party but loud and kids.
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It's the girl and He's like,I'm gonna be right back, and
he scratches up the speakers and Ijust remember back those house parties back in
the day. It was the vinyland man. And now like you know,
somebody DJ Giggy that got the Applecomputer and everything is right there.
Man, that's all I need,my Alpu computer and I got all my
one hundred thousand songs right there onthat, all my hard driving and I'm
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ready to go, you know play. So what is your creative process when
you're producing? Like do you doyou have a melody in mind? Or
just like just how how does thatcome about? So so for me,
it usually starts with a beat.For me, m uh, just messing
around with different beats and you know, um, you know, my partner
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is the keyboard guy. Uh,he's fantastic with the keyboard. But for
me, it's messing around with differentbeats, uh, messing around with different
samples and seeing how I can manipulatethem. Um, and and and we
go from there, just start creating. You know, hey, let's you
just sound right here and see whatwe could do with this or so and
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so far your joints of like beenum house house music based do you have
like a special connection with a housemusic based because house music gets people moving,
man, Like, so what whatwhat leverage that choice of producing like
house music. So so you know, again, like I said, I've
been I'm a hip hop head.I've been doing hip hop and R and
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B from college radio from the timeI started all the way up to now.
That's what I do, hip hopand R and B. But you
know, you know, you know, when we set out to do this
project during the during the pandemic,you know, we kind of looked at
the landscape and was like, Okay, we know we could do hip hop
and R and B if I'm lookingat the people that I'm rocking to right
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now, like Black Coffee or Knataor or even like the Calvin Harris you
know, I'm looking at everything thatthey're doing and all the places that they're
playing at. Yeah, and theplaces that we're not playing that, you
know, like the big festivals,you know, the Ultra festivals and all
those big, big, big,big events, the casinos, a lot
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of Vegas casinos. I started lookingat like, uh, these are all
house DJs. These are all DJsthat either produced, remix or playhouse house
music. Yeah, whether if it'sd M or depops. But there's so
many different genres ours music, soyou know, so you know, we
said, listen, let's let's let'slet's do something different here. Um,
let's go this route because as aDJ, that is one of my goals
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to be able to be on thelarge festivals, to be able to get
a residency at Vegas or something likethat. And um, you know,
I think since we know how todo it, let's let's try it.
I mean we could all you know, our intent as always to eventually go
back to the hip hop and Rand B, but start off in the
house lane and create a name thatway first, and then you know,
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kind of fall back into the hiphop and R and B as we go
along. Man. You know,and that makes sense. Man. You
said Kevin House because like, uh, like Timberland started off hip hop,
but then he merged off and itwas like trans House is, but it
expanded his brand and opened it upyou know, his lane as far as
music. And that makes sense man. And you said something too, Man,
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would that be your dream gig tolike do a residency? It would
be it would be to do itresidency in Vegas that that would be my
green gig, you know, eitherthat or just just just just doing the
big festivals every year, you know. Um, Like I said, I
look around and and you know,I see Calvin Harris and DJ Snaked and
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Apple Jacking, David Ghetta and allthese big name DJs that's doing house music,
gonna all the festivals, you know. Yeah, yeah, And you
also like you've done major cities.You have, You've been booked Chicago,
Atlantic City, New York, Houston, Miami, Like what is what place
was you? Like? Man?This this place gets live? Like at
of all the places you've been,all the places, I would say,
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uh, I would say Charlotte,Charlotte, Carolina get pretty live. I
mean obviously New York get live,California's live, but I would say Charlotte
shot you know DJ there a fewtimes. And yeah, every time we've
been to either Charlotte or another partof Ali or somewhere, it's always been
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live. It's always been super dope. Okay, man, let's go.
And I'm out here in Fairville manso okay, Okay, Okay, North
Carolina Okay representing um Man. Soyou dropped it your single, um and
I love a song man, Sowhat else can we expect moving forward into
we're getting into the spring summer twentytwenty three. Beyond what can it we
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expect from I am DJ Drake,So I think right now, you know,
we're gonna try to drop a newsingle every other month. So we
dropped this one technically beginning to April, so we'll try to come back in
June and uh, you know,we'll try to do that for the next
six months before we drop an EP. Um Okay, okay, So you
know that's the strategy. I thinkwe're going for it. Just drop singles
and then next year to get inthe next year, you know, first
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quarter, drop that EP and thatway that would give that that that would
give the public enough time to getget familiar with who we are, you
know what it is that I'm doing. Get familiar with the music, fall
in love with the music, andthey'll be ready for EP by them Yeah,
Because I mean the numbers are goodman, over a thousand views on
Facebook, over five hundred thousand onInstagram, and I've also seen you on
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twitch man. So speaking of which, where can the fans and listeners and
people that want to hear more shamelesspromotion times, where's your presence? Where
are you? All right? So, if you want to see me live,
I'm live every Sunday twelve to twopm East to Standard time on Twitch,
Wednesday to four to six pm Eastto Standard time, and four to
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five Easter Standard time. All thoseare on Twitch. If you want to
see me live, interact with melive, come hang out with me.
Everybody from across the world does onthe live string. That's when you can
find me at outside of that Instagram, uh, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter
and YouTube at I am DJ Drake, you can find me there at that
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and um yeah, I mean nowand then you know I'm gonna Sway in
the morning and doing things like that, so you know you can always catch
it something and you say that likeSuey is one of my favorite people is
but the Heather beat all clocks down? Man, how's it? How's it?
You know working with them? Man? How's that? Man? Sway
Heather two of the coolest people you'llever meet? Man? You know me,
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So it's been it's been a pleasure. And I have to say,
man, like with Kanye Preston,he don't know the answers. Man sway
handled that like a gentleman. Ohmy goodness man. Uh so my last
two questions man, And again,thank you for taking the time to be
on the show. And we're alsogonna play uh don't bother, We're gonna
play the Jam your latest single.Um. What does music mean to you?
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I mean music is everything to me. Uh. Music is everything to
me. Um, It's my placeof happiness. Uh you know. Uh,
it just gives me in a moodto to to relax, to enjoy
life, to go out you knowagainst just music is my place of happiness.
It means everything, man. Andthe last question at the end of
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the day, so like twenty yearsbeyond, when you know your career,
you got your you got your roses, you got your awards. Man,
at the end of the day,what do you want to be remembered by
as far as your music and yourmusical craft and what you left the world
with. Um, I just wantto be remembered by somebody that brought that
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brought joy, uh, energy andhappiness to the people, you know,
and positivity and positive vibes the mostimportant thing, positive vibes to the people.
Nothing negative man. Hey, andthank you man for being on the
show you took me on a historytour. Man, I'm like Shalamar cameo
man So, ladies and gentlemen,I am DJ Drake and furious signing off
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for deeper than music radio. Notsurprised, release place worth see no exception
to the day. That's why Ilet nothing bother men join the privacy going
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prid no longer ones play on mehigh fire, peace of mind. If
you're always compromising, all your timerunning in the past, but your present
one whole, it's so much easierto let it go saying it won't let
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it all me not along. It'sif the call release on the downfall.
They want to see go somewhere withyour bad energy. Let it bother me?
Agin just will begin and showing upin disguise, giving up on your
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coals now smoke it turns home town. Turning back wouldn't be wise. How
you know you be some mind.If you're always compromising all your time,
put your present one holds so mucheasier to let it go, saying let
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it go bother me long sciffical relief. Then they want to see go somewhere
with your fad energy. Let itbother me? You want well. You're
always a win recalling your focus.You're disappearing when you take it fill it's
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really litiou s your by yourself hasthe cuts in mind home. You're always
compromising all your time. Put yourpresent on holds. So much easier to
let it go. Let have mealong a siffic. Really go somewhere with
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your bad energy. Let it botherme. I am me, it bother
me. Let nothing bother me.Bother belie. Let nothing bother me harbily?
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Can I number bottom harverly
The core of you, the fans, the truth sent the truth is the
linked, the core of you,the fans, the truth than the truth
is the linked. The new US, Good morning, good evening, wherever
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you are in the world. Deeperthan music radio, behind every great song,
that's an even greater story. Ilike to say, what's up to
everybody listening to us on Spotify,Amazon, Alexa, Geo, Sabbin,
all the great streaming platforms, andalso shout out to out the Box Radio
and Dallas Fort Worth, Texas wherewe're also stream or broadcasting. So,
(00:49):
ladies and gentlemen, we have avery special guest and I'm gonna aged myself
for a minute because when I sawthis guy's bio, I wanted to go
back to the house party and it'sall about the DJUM. We have a
celebrity DJ. Celebrity. He's anentrepreneur and he's been DJM for over twenty
five years. I mean, thisguy started off on college radio. UM
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he's worked with big names including BustaRhymes, DMX Diddy, Chris Brown,
n Y and Kings Ny Kings ofComedy and more, and also with most
DJs, as you know, theygotta hear from music, so he's also
a producer. UM. He releaseda single back in the spring of two
thousand and twenty one, and nowhe has another single called bother Me Um
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featuring Key and Martin and Ladies andGentlemen. It's gonna be the anthem of
twenty and twenty three. Ladies andGentlemen we have. I am DJ Drake
here on Deeper than Music Radio.How you doing, I'm good? How
are you doing, brother, man, I'm doing I'm I'm doing pretty good.
Man. Uh, I gotta say, man, I love that jam.
Man, I love that jam.Don't bother Me Man, It's so
relatable on so many levels, man, and you know it reminds me.
(02:00):
He speaks to how like you knowyou got. You can't let things bother
you. Man. You gotta don'tlet people dim your light. You gotta
keep moving and grooving. Man.That's what I got from the song.
Yeah, Man, you got,you got, You gotta brush it off
your shoulders. Man. You knowHayter's gonna hate you know, but you
still gotta do what you do tos see you know. Yeah. Yeah,
So, UM, I want toask you a question first and foremost,
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the very first question, man,how did it all begin. Did
you know, like later in lifethat you were gonna be in a DJ?
Like early on in life, didyou know like what inspired you to
get into music? Oh? Man, So I knew at by the time
I was eight nine years old,I knew what I wanted to do.
Um. I'm the youngest of fourin my family. You could really say
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five because my uncle came to livewith us when he was like, you
know, fifteen years old. Soyou know, I grew up around music,
you know, from him playing Shalamarto my older brother playing Parliament and
you know Five of the Temptations andall that. So I knew at a
very early age. You know,music is what was what I wanted to
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do in life. You know.It wasn't until the eighties when I started
DJ, you know, but Iknew earlier on. Yes, music is
where it was what I wanted todo. Wow. Man, And you
mentioned like greats like Shalamar and soyou were back in the era when hip
hop was first, you know,first coming out coming to Fruition. It's
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particularly on the East Coast, andI like to laugh, you know,
you bring up a memory because likelike, um, you know when the
DJ's it's all about the four elements. And I want to ask you,
man, did you did you learnthe DJ? Did you start? Like
I used to mess up my mom'sright, It's like when I first thought
on about DJ, I really scratchedup Michael Jackson's bad. So how was
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your four way to getting it intothat? Man? When you originally on
your parents ones and twos? Like, how did you get into that?
You know what? H So youknow, I, you know, probably
like I was probably like I'm oneof like seven eight years old when uh,
you know, me and my cousinwere listening to like Red Alert in
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New York okay, okay on akiss em and stuff like that, and
like eighty two I think it waslike eighty one eighty two, and um
my brother used to have a turntable, he only had one, and
uh, and I started messing aroundwith that, you know, just messing
around, scratching, no mixing ornothing, just just just just putting my
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hands on it, messing around withit. And then finally, you know,
my my older sister convinced my fatheruh to take me to New York
and buy me some turntables. Andthat was my first true introduction into really
getting on getting on a turntable.So you know, outside of that,
my father nobody didn't have you know, the kind of turntable they had,
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you know they had they had.It was a whole It was a whole
console. You know. It wasn'tlong turn table, whole big unit you
know. Yeah, because like yeah, like you said, it was a
standalone console. And back then,I didn't know about the techniques or like
you know, the actual DJ consoleyou know what I mean. Um,
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and you got your breakthrough um incollege college radio right Connecticut, in Connecticut,
uh eighty nine point three? Howdid how did that come to fruition?
Man? How did that opportunity comeabout? Man? So, I
was still in high school at thatpoint. Uh, I was in high
school, I think, like ajunior when that came about. Uh we
we so we actually so back inhighties eighty eight, eighty seven, eighty
(05:38):
seven, eighty eight, we madeour first record. I was, Man,
I was an early teenager then,um and it was I don't know
if you would be familiar with them, but there was a group out of
California called the La Dream Team.Okay, okay, yeah, yeah,
and one of the members happened tobe from Connecticut, Okay, yeah,
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yeah, yeah, and they heardit. You know, we were just,
you know, we were doing whatall other kids are doing, trying
to rap and DJ and you know, you know, you know, we
had the female MC, we hadthe guy MC, and then you know,
a couple of with me and theother DJ, and we had dances
in the whole nine. So um. You know, they seeing as day
like what we were doing it.And we actually made a record with them,
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uh back in eighty I think itwas like eighty seven, eighty eight.
Yeah, Dancey made a record withthem, and that's what led to
me. Me and the guys atthe radio station who was also doing music
at the time they were they werein college and they were doing music.
There was another rap group and sothey were doing music and that's what led
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to me connecting with them and thembringing me on their radio show, Hip
Hop Nation. Wow. I starteddoing that every week. Wow. And
you and you bring up and Iwant to ask you this question. You
because you the DJ. You startoff as a DJ and during the Golden
era a pop like one of myfirst concerts was DJ Jazzy Jeff and the
Fresh Prince Um and it was allabout the DJ, you know what I
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mean, Like the DJ was thehe helped the MC move the crowd.
And I feel like I feel likethat that essence. I mean it's evolved
now, um, but can youexplain what it used to be because you
had like DJ Jazzy Jeff, youhad Spinderella Um back then when you started
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then that the what was the roleof the DJ back then? I mean
the role of the DJ was thecrowd motivator, you know that, Like
like you said, he got theparty jump and he got everything started.
He the DJ was the point manto set everything off for for for the
crowd, for the for the MCUM. You know, you got looking
no further. You know you sayJazzy Jef, Jazz Jeff was my favorite
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DJ UM and then my other favoriteDJ, Kick Kapre. You ain't got
lotting no further. The Kid Kapre, you know, the crowd motivator,
you know, get everybody excited,get everybody hike. That's why I like
when you see concerts now, youknow they'll have the DJ um come out
beforehand playing the music to get thecrowd hype and get the crowd ready.
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So you know back then it wasthat Times ten. You know, That's
that's where I DJ a lot ofevents and was on stage with a lot
of great mcs like Big Daddy,Kane and MD and and people like that,
because I was actually DJ and theentire event or either my group was
on stage performing for the event.So you know, the DJ is the
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party starter. That's what I liketo call it. D get the party
starter, yep. And I liketo say the listeners, the ones that
are a little bit younger, likea good example of this is you have
to the brand new funk by theDJ J Jeff and the Fresh Prince like
that showcased the DJ and skills andhow you know they move the crowd.
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And then you mentioned Kid Capri andKid kuldpre like, Um, Jeff comedy
jam like he said the stage andI mean the intros to come in,
and I like how him and Martinwere just you know, playoff off of
each other. Um. So movingforward, Um, from the college radio
station, you also worked for likecommercial radio stations clear Channel Power one or
(09:13):
four point one after them CBS isHot ninety ninety three point seven. How
did how did they go from collegeradio to commercial radio. How was that
transition? So so so again Iwas doing college radio again. So so
for those that don't know, I'mfrom Connecticut, so you know, we
didn't have commercial radio stations in Connecticut. Um, so all you have was
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either college where you had the twocollege stations RTC and w QTQ, and
uh you know when I was incollege. When I got out of college,
I went back to uh college radiowith WQTQ UM. And then in
two thousand that's when we finally gotour first commercial radio station. Okay,
okay, that was that was Hotninety three point seven, So I was
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on I got on Hot nine peopoint seven like any other DJ. They
took the hottest DJs in the areagot on that and then Pard one on
four came and I moved over toPart one on four, which is clear
channel, and I wrote what Partone on four for four years and right
right around the time when they decidedto switch the channel, I was also
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down with a violator all star DJs, Chris Lighty, Chris Lighty crew for
DJs my man scrapped Dirty Random andwe had a show on Series X seven
Hip Hop Nation, and I starteddoing serioues XM Hip Hop Nation for Violated
all Star DJs. So that waslike the transition into into radio Man and
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you mentioned Violator Man Violator. Whatcomes to mind for Violator the late nineties,
early two thousands, Buster Rhymes andjust man like massive star power.
So I have to ask this question, like you work with so so many
great artists, Um, is therelike a memorable moment or artists to say
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somebody that you was just like,hey, memorable moment, like you know,
Probably the most memorable moment was UThe most normal moment was probably with
doing the show with Cameo. Okay, and probably because of what I said
earlier. You know when my uncleand brother that's what they used to always
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play Cameo and Shallaba stuff like that. So being able to do a show
with them later on in life,uh and in the two thousands was I
think that was the ultimate for meout of doing shows with anybody, was
actually being on the stage with LarryBlackman and Cameo, you know man,
and you say Cameo, I justI just in my mind word up,
you know what I mean? Thatwas that we're with We're Linen with the
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Red Cup and all that. Imean, yeah, I mean just to
be a part of that night thatto me, that was my most amazing
memory. Wow wow. And thenum, so you do all these great
things and I like to say,like to me, it's natural to have
like okay, um, I'm gonnamention I'm gonna mention some producers that started
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off at DJ's Manny Fresh, Um, who else do we got Doctor Dre,
DJ Premier um that transition. Sodid you always have in your mind
like eventually I'm gonna take this soI'm gonna I'm gonna start creating my own
sounds. And how did that evolve? Yeah? So so again in the
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nineties, you know, uh,you know, we we had our own
rap group. I was doing Iwas producing the music. You know,
we were going to uh, yearlyevents, getting invited to yearly events like
a conventions like how could I BeDown? And things like that, performing
in Miami and all over all overthe country. So I've always been producing,
um and I've always been DJ andmore so DJ and than producing.
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UM. But I think this timearound, you know, I kind of
stepped away from the music game fora little bit, from like two thousand
and ten to two fourteen. Butwhen I got back into it, I
was like, you know what,this time around, I'm gonna go full
full force Wood. We're trying toput music out, And when the pandemic
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hit, everything just came together.I mean, you know, my first
step with was, Okay, I'mback two fourteen. Let me get back
to letting people know who I am, because it's a whole new generation now,
generation of the nineties and two thousands. It's there, but the new
generation might not know who I am. So you know, I had to
go through that of rebuilding the name. I started doing Heather be on series
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XMS Morning, started doing those typeof things, and but the pandemic really
changed things for me where it waslike, Okay, now is the time.
Now it was the perfect time torelease some music because the world is
sitting down. So now now Ifelt like I would have their right now
because there was nothing for you todo, you know ye so yep,
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Now I was gonna say, that'sthat's interesting you say that because a lot
of people during the pandemic um theydidn't know what to do, but you
said it perfectly. We all hadto sit down and do something, So
you took that time to create,started to creating and start creating music,
start formulating the plan. Um.You know, I put one song out
with with a DJ friend of mineback in twenty twenty called Africa. Uh
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So that was like my first introduction. It was just a you know,
just a house house to be instrumental. Came back in twenty twenty one with
my second single, uh going Nowhere, which is when I really when out
all out on my own UM calledGoing Nowhere. Future of laman another software
house track, which led me tothis point, you know, meeting the
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right people to help with the publicistsand the promotions and you know, all
those things that that that the independentartists would need, and it led me
to this point. So, um, as far as like DJ and and
these big names, there's any ofthose big names besides cameo stand out like
man I DJ for this person andjust the energy was there, they was
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in sync and you just loved it. Like what has been your favorite?
Like DJ and Kid. I wouldsay Buster Rhymes and I would say DMX
Oh man, those are two powerhouses. But just to geergy that they create,
just to be on stage with withwould be a part of that.
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And you know what, what's somethingto say because she was hot when she
She's still dope now. But KeishaCole oh Man and the energy, you
know that, that's what Keisha waslike. You know, everybody was on
Keishakle Yeah, and the energy wasjust so fired. Um I would say
those three, you know, andyou know it's crazy, man, Like
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when you said violator, I immediatelythought Buster, bust Man. And then
the dude is just like man's theolder statesman now you know what I mean.
And that energy still ain't going nowhere, you know what I mean,
Like Buster has got to be AndI was actually thinking about, um,
most of your heads don't notice,but Chuck D gave him his name Buster
Rhymes. That that suits the brotherman because he just when I'm gonna get
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it and I can I can seethat. And then dm ST I still
say to this day, right now, right now, Buster Rhymes and Split
Start to Me are the best hiphop performers all right, they were.
They were the best back then.They're the best right now. Yeah.
And then like God Bless the Dead, dmmex like the man did Woodstock,
you know what I mean, oneof the hip hop groups on Woodstock and
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just and I heard, Man,I heard DMX gave him his all.
And I didn't know correctly if I'mwrong, the brother had asthmach something like
that, right, I don't know. I don't know. I think I
heard, but I heard like hewould give it his all. Man,
go backstage and just be tired.Man, Um, you know what,
I'm gonna add one more groups ofthat? That that that that really freaked
(17:02):
me out. Uh After how couldI be down? We was performing and
we performed on the same bill withWu Tang Clan. Oh my goodness,
Okay, that right there with uhjust to see old dirty bastard and the
way he man that that was ana forgettable night right there and then and
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then like the funny thing too withthat brother. That brother had an unorthodox
flow, yes, but but itmade sense. It made sense. Yes,
I rememberable ones right there and thenI would say, I'm gonna aging
myself right now. So back inthe late nineties, I used to be
in the Navy and station UH inCentral California, and Uh, I gotta
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say this, like just just duringthe movement A No Limit and the Wu
Tang second album, and I rememberwhen n and Nan and I will come
on. All the brothers from theSouth would come on. But then when
things um debut song off and theysat Triumph came on. New York was
in the building. Man, thatsong right there, Man cast and even
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to this day, Man Man Man, Man. Yeah, they were different,
Man, they were different. Sospeaking on we're talking about different errors.
What is your favorite from a DJand I mean because you've seen it
from the from the DJ perspective,you've seen it from the producer's perspective,
you saw it when it first cameout, the cameos. In your opinion,
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man, what is What's What's thebest era of hip hop so far?
So I so well. First,I'm gonna say the nineties was the
best era the hip hop that theeighties kicked it off, you know,
the eighties that the latter part ofthe eighties started off the golden era.
But I'm gonna say the nineties fromninety to two thousand was the golden era
(18:52):
of hip hop. I mean,don't get me wrong, the two thousand,
from two thousand and two thousand andten hip hop waste as well,
you know, But the nineties tome is the golden era between Biggie pot
naughty by Nature dayl soul tribe calledquest I mean you, I mean Snoop
Dogg Dot. I mean it's justthey don't get no better than that.
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Yeah, it just exploded, manfrom a commercial perspective, and you mentioned
naughty kg Man another another DJ andthen became producer. Um uh, I
can't think of the name right now, butter Love next, next, next,
yes he did. Next he didJoe you know yep, yeah,
oh yeah, jaheem Johim. Remindme he was just like a shorter version
(19:38):
of Wou tang Man. Oh mygoodness. So, um, I want
to ask you a question too.What technology changing? Um? How is
now DJ like the technology changing?Because to me it's weird. I'm I'm
used to seeing the vinyl but nowyou see like people have like the Apple
(20:00):
laptop. I remember when DJ's broughtthe crates. You know, now it's
the album computer and they meant theygot the little turn things that. How
do you feel about technology in therole in the metamorphosis of DJ? I
mean, I mean me personally,I love the technology. I say it
all the time. I'm a guy, So you know, like I said,
my favorite DJs is Jazzy Jef fromKick Kapri and so Kick Kapre.
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I'm from Connecticut, Kick Capre fromNew York. So you know, I've
seen him a million times and everybodywanted to bring you know, fourteen fifteen
crates out like kick there. Youknow. But when I think about it,
like you know, you know,moving over to the computer, that
probably saved a good five to tenyears of my DJ life just being able
(20:44):
to now use the computer. AndI have to worry about crates. So
from a technology perspective, I loveit, you know, the things you
could do with the mixers, andI mean, yeah, I have no
complaints about technology. You know,I'm still the turntable guy. So even
though obviously I have the laptop,you know, I still use my turntables.
(21:06):
Um, but I don't begrudge anybodythat's using controllers or cdj's or whatever
it is that they use. Youknow, you have to advance with technology,
yeah, you know you can.You can't. You cannot not advance.
You know, you cannot stay weird, you know back in the nineties.
You gotta advance because I always rememberbetter house party but loud and kids.
(21:30):
It's the girl and He's like,I'm gonna be right back, and
he scratches up the speakers and Ijust remember back those house parties back in
the day. It was the vinyland man. And now like you know,
somebody DJ Giggy that got the Applecomputer and everything is right there.
Man, that's all I need,my Alpu computer and I got all my
one hundred thousand songs right there onthat, all my hard driving and I'm
(21:52):
ready to go, you know play. So what is your creative process when
you're producing? Like do you doyou have a melody in mind? Or
just like just how how does thatcome about? So so for me,
it usually starts with a beat.For me, m uh, just messing
around with different beats and you know, um, you know, my partner
(22:15):
is the keyboard guy. Uh,he's fantastic with the keyboard. But for
me, it's messing around with differentbeats, uh, messing around with different
samples and seeing how I can manipulatethem. Um, and and and we
go from there, just start creating. You know, hey, let's you
just sound right here and see whatwe could do with this or so and
(22:37):
so far your joints of like beenum house house music based do you have
like a special connection with a housemusic based because house music gets people moving,
man, Like, so what whatwhat leverage that choice of producing like
house music. So so you know, again, like I said, I've
been I'm a hip hop head.I've been doing hip hop and R and
(22:59):
B from college radio from the timeI started all the way up to now.
That's what I do, hip hopand R and B. But you
know, you know, you know, when we set out to do this
project during the during the pandemic,you know, we kind of looked at
the landscape and was like, Okay, we know we could do hip hop
and R and B if I'm lookingat the people that I'm rocking to right
(23:22):
now, like Black Coffee or Knataor or even like the Calvin Harris you
know, I'm looking at everything thatthey're doing and all the places that they're
playing at. Yeah, and theplaces that we're not playing that, you
know, like the big festivals,you know, the Ultra festivals and all
those big, big, big,big events, the casinos, a lot
(23:44):
of Vegas casinos. I started lookingat like, uh, these are all
house DJs. These are all DJsthat either produced, remix or playhouse house
music. Yeah, whether if it'sd M or depops. But there's so
many different genres ours music, soyou know, so you know, we
said, listen, let's let's let'slet's do something different here. Um,
let's go this route because as aDJ, that is one of my goals
(24:07):
to be able to be on thelarge festivals, to be able to get
a residency at Vegas or something likethat. And um, you know,
I think since we know how todo it, let's let's try it.
I mean we could all you know, our intent as always to eventually go
back to the hip hop and Rand B, but start off in the
house lane and create a name thatway first, and then you know,
(24:33):
kind of fall back into the hiphop and R and B as we go
along. Man. You know,and that makes sense. Man. You
said Kevin House because like, uh, like Timberland started off hip hop,
but then he merged off and itwas like trans House is, but it
expanded his brand and opened it upyou know, his lane as far as
music. And that makes sense man. And you said something too, Man,
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would that be your dream gig tolike do a residency? It would
be it would be to do itresidency in Vegas that that would be my
green gig, you know, eitherthat or just just just just doing the
big festivals every year, you know. Um, Like I said, I
look around and and you know,I see Calvin Harris and DJ Snaked and
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Apple Jacking, David Ghetta and allthese big name DJs that's doing house music,
gonna all the festivals, you know. Yeah, yeah, And you
also like you've done major cities.You have, You've been booked Chicago,
Atlantic City, New York, Houston, Miami, Like what is what place
was you? Like? Man?This this place gets live? Like at
of all the places you've been,all the places, I would say,
(25:38):
uh, I would say Charlotte,Charlotte, Carolina get pretty live. I
mean obviously New York get live,California's live, but I would say Charlotte
shot you know DJ there a fewtimes. And yeah, every time we've
been to either Charlotte or another partof Ali or somewhere, it's always been
(26:00):
live. It's always been super dope. Okay, man, let's go.
And I'm out here in Fairville manso okay, Okay, Okay, North
Carolina Okay representing um Man. Soyou dropped it your single, um and
I love a song man, Sowhat else can we expect moving forward into
we're getting into the spring summer twentytwenty three. Beyond what can it we
(26:25):
expect from I am DJ Drake,So I think right now, you know,
we're gonna try to drop a newsingle every other month. So we
dropped this one technically beginning to April, so we'll try to come back in
June and uh, you know,we'll try to do that for the next
six months before we drop an EP. Um Okay, okay, So you
know that's the strategy. I thinkwe're going for it. Just drop singles
and then next year to get inthe next year, you know, first
(26:48):
quarter, drop that EP and thatway that would give that that that would
give the public enough time to getget familiar with who we are, you
know what it is that I'm doing. Get familiar with the music, fall
in love with the music, andthey'll be ready for EP by them Yeah,
Because I mean the numbers are goodman, over a thousand views on
Facebook, over five hundred thousand onInstagram, and I've also seen you on
(27:11):
twitch man. So speaking of which, where can the fans and listeners and
people that want to hear more shamelesspromotion times, where's your presence? Where
are you? All right? So, if you want to see me live,
I'm live every Sunday twelve to twopm East to Standard time on Twitch,
Wednesday to four to six pm Eastto Standard time, and four to
(27:34):
five Easter Standard time. All thoseare on Twitch. If you want to
see me live, interact with melive, come hang out with me.
Everybody from across the world does onthe live string. That's when you can
find me at outside of that Instagram, uh, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter
and YouTube at I am DJ Drake, you can find me there at that
(27:57):
and um yeah, I mean nowand then you know I'm gonna Sway in
the morning and doing things like that, so you know you can always catch
it something and you say that likeSuey is one of my favorite people is
but the Heather beat all clocks down? Man, how's it? How's it?
You know working with them? Man? How's that? Man? Sway
Heather two of the coolest people you'llever meet? Man? You know me,
(28:21):
So it's been it's been a pleasure. And I have to say,
man, like with Kanye Preston,he don't know the answers. Man sway
handled that like a gentleman. Ohmy goodness man. Uh so my last
two questions man, And again,thank you for taking the time to be
on the show. And we're alsogonna play uh don't bother, We're gonna
play the Jam your latest single.Um. What does music mean to you?
(28:49):
I mean music is everything to me. Uh. Music is everything to
me. Um, It's my placeof happiness. Uh you know. Uh,
it just gives me in a moodto to to relax, to enjoy
life, to go out you knowagainst just music is my place of happiness.
It means everything, man. Andthe last question at the end of
(29:12):
the day, so like twenty yearsbeyond, when you know your career,
you got your you got your roses, you got your awards. Man,
at the end of the day,what do you want to be remembered by
as far as your music and yourmusical craft and what you left the world
with. Um, I just wantto be remembered by somebody that brought that
(29:33):
brought joy, uh, energy andhappiness to the people, you know,
and positivity and positive vibes the mostimportant thing, positive vibes to the people.
Nothing negative man. Hey, andthank you man for being on the
show you took me on a historytour. Man, I'm like Shalamar cameo
man So, ladies and gentlemen,I am DJ Drake and furious signing off
(29:57):
for deeper than music radio. Notsurprised, release place worth see no exception
to the day. That's why Ilet nothing bother men join the privacy going
(30:19):
prid no longer ones play on mehigh fire, peace of mind. If
you're always compromising, all your timerunning in the past, but your present
one whole, it's so much easierto let it go saying it won't let
(30:41):
it all me not along. It'sif the call release on the downfall.
They want to see go somewhere withyour bad energy. Let it bother me?
Agin just will begin and showing upin disguise, giving up on your
(31:04):
coals now smoke it turns home town. Turning back wouldn't be wise. How
you know you be some mind.If you're always compromising all your time,
put your present one holds so mucheasier to let it go, saying let
(31:32):
it go bother me long sciffical relief. Then they want to see go somewhere
with your fad energy. Let itbother me? You want well. You're
always a win recalling your focus.You're disappearing when you take it fill it's
(31:56):
really litiou s your by yourself hasthe cuts in mind home. You're always
compromising all your time. Put yourpresent on holds. So much easier to
let it go. Let have mealong a siffic. Really go somewhere with
(32:31):
your bad energy. Let it botherme. I am me, it bother
me. Let nothing bother me.Bother belie. Let nothing bother me harbily?
(33:00):
Can I number bottom harverly
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