March 2, 2026 • 35 mins
DJ, producer, and creative visionary DJ SoulChild AC joins Vigilantes Radio Live to discuss his debut album Douby 🎧🔥. Inspired by the Black diaspora, the project blends hip-hop, R&B, Brazilian funk, and house music while spotlighting talented Black artists across genres. From learning DJ equipment during lunch breaks at Guitar Center to producing a 15-track collaborative album, SoulChild AC shares his journey of resilience, musical discovery, and standing firm in his beliefs. We dive into his creative process, the influence of old-school soul and disco, and how Douby aims to celebrate culture while pushing modern dance music forward. 🌍🎶
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Speaker 4 (01:32):
Starts during a lunch break at target.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Imagine that for a moment, you clock in, well, you
clock out for fifteen minutes, walk next door to a
guitar center, and instead of resting, you start learning the
craft that will change your life. One knob, one beat,
one experiment at a time. That's what hunger looks like,
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They build their stage before the spotlight ever finds them.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Tonight's guests embodies that spirit.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
A DJ, a producer, a cultural curator who turned curiosity
into skill, skill into opportunity, and opportunity into a mission
bringing together black artists across genres to celebrate rhythm, to
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and sometimes even past that thing that we call the ego.
Our interviews are designed to go behind the scenes into
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ones that are out there giving it. They're all for me,
for you, and for the world. Well, ladies and gentlemen.
Born and raised in Atlantic City, DJ soul child Ac
(04:41):
is a DJ, producer and creative collaborator dedicated to celebrating the.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Sound of the black dysphoria.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
What started as curiosity during lunch breaks at Guitar Center
quickly turned into a full fledged career spinning in nightclubs
and producing music. His debut album, I Hope I pronounced
this correctly, Doobie That'll Be brings together hip hop, R
and B brasilient funk, and house music, while showcasing talented
(05:11):
Black artists across genres with passion and resilience and a
bull cred a vision. DJ soul child Ac is building
a movement through music, So please join me in saying
welcome friend to DJ solchaud Ac. Hey, Hey, Hey, welcome
to the show.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Brother?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Hey man? You got it? Man? How's it going?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Man? Excited?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Yes, sir, well man, we are super excited to have
you here tonight with us to share your thoughts on
what you have going on, as well as you know,
some other little things that may come up in conversation.
But man, before we really kick off and get into
the meat and potatoes of everything, first of all, did
I pronounce your debut album correctly.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
The first time you did?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Dooby Doobie Yep. All right, cool, cool, cool?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
So, man, what's been on your heart and mind lately
as you prepare to release this debut album and introduce
Dooby to the world.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Well, anxiety and excitement. It's like, it's like mixed emotions.
It's like, I'm very excited because this is like I've
been dropping nothing but mixtapes the past four years of
just remixes and stuff like that. This is like my
first actual body of work where you know what I'm saying,
It's not just stuck on one genre.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
It's multiple genres.
Speaker 10 (06:34):
And I just wanted to showcase to the world that
I'm not.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
Just some one trick pony that just does one genre
of beats, that I can do multiple, multiple different genres
with anybody and making a hit and doing that. At
the same time, I wanted to put other artists on
who I know personally that are extremely talented, that don't
get the shine.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
That they deserve, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10 (06:59):
And I have a mass a platform on social media.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
So the combination of that with the music is like
a perfect formula to like showcase the challenge they got
and the challenge that I have.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Nice. Nice.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
So man, where does the anxiety come from?
Speaker 10 (07:16):
The anxiety to you know, the anxiety comes from like failing,
if that makes sense. I'm a perfectionist, if that makes sense. Like,
I have have a.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Few goals in mind with this album coming out. One,
I don't want to fail the artists that are collaborating
with me. Two, I am trying to make the Billboard
charts with this album. I don't think I've ever seen
a DJ make the Billboard Top two hundred.
Speaker 10 (07:50):
Charts from TikTok or Instagram or anything like that. I
don't think that's ever happened before. Like that would be
pretty historic.
Speaker 9 (07:59):
And I know for sure or no one from South
Jersey has ever done that either, so I would be
making history.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Sure, man, I see an anxiety come in from.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
Yeah, I'm not just aiming to be you know, hey, guys,
you know I'm grateful. I just want to drop this
album and no, I don't want people to forget about
it the next week.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
I want to leave a last impression I want.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
People to come back to that album, be like, hey man,
that album that DJ Soulchild Guy dropped.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Man, I remember that album came coming out as it
was fire. Let me go back and listen to it,
you know.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
What I mean?
Speaker 9 (08:29):
And it making the billboard charts can lead to many
different possibilities, you know what I'm saying. Who knows, Maybe
one of the artists on the album I get signed
by a record label or or a big distributor.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
You never know. Maybe the album dominated for a Grammy
or considered for one. You never know. You never know.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
The doors can open like that. That's where the anxiety
comes from. That's where the good anxiety and the bad
anxiety come from. One out of want to fail the two.
If the good anxiety comes from, well, if I make it,
I may it and then what's next after that?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Right?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Yeah, I get where the anxiety comes from.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Now you're shooting for the moon.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Yes, But man, professionally and personally, I don't think you're
gonna fail in that sense. I'm not going to say
you won't reach your goals. What I'm going to say, though,
is that you're putting out a debut album. Man, You're
you're you're putting yourself out there. Of the mixtapes, you
build a massive following your DJ in You're giving artists
(09:30):
an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
That's a win. That's a win on an on any
given day.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Well, it's it's more personal than that too. Yeah me
me as a DJ in Jersey. You wouldn't believe if
I told you. But even with the massive following I have,
the clubs in New Jersey will not book me because
on my platforms on social media, I am very I
(10:00):
was spoken politically about my political beliefs.
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Anti Trump, I am very anti Ice. I am very
anti Israel. I am very free Palestine, free Congo. I'm
very all of that.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
So the big platform I got got me in a
lot of trouble locally, and a lot of.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
The club owners in Jersey are very pro Trump and
will not hire me.
Speaker 9 (10:27):
I had a gig of Halloween twenty twenty five in
New York City at Harrock Hotel on the rooftop.
Speaker 10 (10:35):
They booked me, They had posters up of me and everything.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
They pulled me on the last second because I made
a video, you know, holding Ice accountable.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
That's like.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Okay, okay, so you know how there is a separation
of church and state. I've heard many artists say there
should be a separation of politics and music. I think
you feel otherwise because you use your platform, you use
who you are to speak out against injustice, no matter
(11:15):
which side is it on. But why are people picking
on you for that?
Speaker 10 (11:22):
That is a good question, that that is a great question,
to be honest, I don't know the answers to that one.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
I've seen other people with large platforms. They don't get
the same amount of heat they get to do what
they do. But I mean, I can't focus and worry
about what they're doing and what they got going on.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I can only focus on me.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
And you know, the line of work that I have
as a DJ nightlife is not the same as every
other lot of work, you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (11:51):
And you know, yeah, those people don't play about that.
Those people don't play about that.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
If what you say and believe, I feel like they
messed up their money.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
They don't want nothing to.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Do with you.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Absolutely. So when it comes to release some music, does
that affect anything? No, well, not so much.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
I mean, you know, with the releasing of the music,
I feel, I feel if if if I hadn't spoke
out as much as I have the past few years politically.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
And and and and you know, did what I did.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
I definitely would have had a bigger chance at making
the charts. But because I'm so outspoken, I've had massive
pages banned from social media. I've currently suspended on Facebook.
My Facebook page is verified and got half a million followers.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
And it's suspended. I can't even use it.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Wow, and it got suspended.
Speaker 10 (12:55):
It got suspended a few days before the album came out.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yeah, what happened to freedom of speech? Uh?
Speaker 10 (13:05):
It don't exist for certain people. It don't exist for
people like you.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Unfortunately, that's crazy. Yeah, and I thought we lived in
a free country. Sound like a dictatorship to me?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That sounds very much like that, brother. Wow, okay, okay, So.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Just to back it up a little bit, you were
working at a target learning DJ equipment during your break
set guitar center.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I guess guitar center was in walking.
Speaker 10 (13:33):
Distance, yeah, walk the targeting yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
So you chose to use your time wisely to learn
a skill.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
That's true dedication, man. So what was it about DJ?
And it hooked?
Speaker 10 (13:46):
You so quickly, so it goes deeper than that.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
So I've always had an ear for music, and it
started with my mom. He had a massive, massive She
still has it right then, she is. She still has
a massive music music collection to this day.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
I ain't never seen nobody with a music collection like
that in my life.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
When I tell you, my mama used to be a
clubhead back in the back in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
She was a club head.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Man, Like when my grandmother used to watch me and
my little sister. My mama was in the clubs and
she used to always like find out what the new
song was, and she used to go to the vinyl
shop or cassette shop and get that new to get
that vinyl, get that seedy, get that the cassette. And
she she she collected so much music, man, it's insane.
And so I used to listen to it with her
(14:34):
back in the day when I was a kid, and
that's how I fell in love with music in general,
especially older music. So growing up, you know what I'm saying,
I always had an ear for it.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
I just didn't know how to Like, I just didn't
know what my talent.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Would be, if that makes sense.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
And I figured it out ten years ago, when I
was twenty five goddamn years old.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I figured it out.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
I was like, oh, wait, I could do this, I
could be a DJ. Why don't I tell that right?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (15:06):
Because again I was working at Target during the day.
The part that I forgot to put in with my
PR team was that at night on the weekend, I
was working the clubs, being the guy who passed out
the cars to get.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
The people in.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
Remember back in the day, they used to give out
the promote the flyers, eighteen promoters, the street team.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
That's what I was.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Because again I was doing all of this while I
was living in a home, so I was saving up.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Yeah, I was at a homeless at the time, So I.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Was okay, let's to impact that. How did you end
up in a homeless shelter? So that okay.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
So I was fighting a case and I couldn't be
at the house I was at, so I had to
like relocate and I had nowhere else to say, So
I had to stay in the homeless shelter in the
Lake City. That's the only place I knew where to
go because I've been at that homeless shelter before when
I was a teenager. Okay, So yeah, So I went
back there because I had know where else to go.
(16:06):
And while I was there, they told me I had
to find a job. So I worked at Target.
Speaker 10 (16:11):
During the day and at night.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
I don't remember how it happened, but I found a
job at night at the nightclub sell selling the flyers.
I was the street team guy for multiple different venues,
you know what I mean. So I was doing that
and I was saving my money up so at night,
you know what I'm saying. All the like, I used
to hang with the DJs, and I used to like
be infatuated with what they were doing, and I was like, damn,
(16:36):
I want to I want to do that. Seeing how
they were controlling the crowd, you know what I'm saying,
Seeing how they were getting all the drinks, all the tips,
like people were throwing money at them to play songs.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
You know what I'm saying. I saw all the fine
women coming up to him. I was like, man, I
want that.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
This is just lit, you know what I mean.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
So then I was so then when I was working
at Target, I was like walking around one time and
I didn't realize there was a.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Guitar center right there.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
I was like, oh, the music shop, let me go
over there.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
And then that's when I saw the DJ equipment and
I was like, oh, I got to learn how to
do this, and then it gets even better. The guy
that was working in a DJ section was my old
high school buddy named David. He is a professional DJ
now and he was a professional DJ then.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
When he worked there.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
So yeah, so when I went.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Over there, he was the very first DJ who taught
me Q points, bpms, you know what I'm saying, what
record pool to get.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
He was the one who taught me that.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
He was like my beginner's.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Teacher, if that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
So once once I started practicing for a few months
over there at the Guitar Center low Key, he recommended
me to the same DJs I was working with as as.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
A street team guy.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
And you know how a lot of DJs are. DJs
are a very prideful.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Group of people.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
They don't just take anybody in because everybody want to
be a DJ.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
A lot of people do it for cloud.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
They do it for the for the popularity, you know
what I'm saying, Like the Shacks and the Paris Hilton's
and stuff like that. A lot of people don't take
them as serious as DJs and shit, so they wanted
to make sure I wasn't one of those, so they
started teaching me too.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
So when I was at the club, they would be like,
watch what.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
I'm doing, Watch what I'm doing, and I would visually
pick up on what they were doing. So then another
month or two goes by and there was a DJ
competition and I saved up enough money to get my
own equipment, so I got my own equipment.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
I went to this competition. While I finished second, the
DJs were shocked at how fast I learned.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
Like my wife will tell you, when I pick up
on things very quickly. It don't matter what it is.
I don't know what it is. But I'm not book smart.
I'm visually smart. I could see how someone's doing it
and I could do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
If I see it enough times, I'll pick up on it.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
So I literally learned how to DJ from visually learning it,
and they were completely shocked at how good I did
my first time publicly doing it. That was the first
time I publicly did it was in a competition.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
That's balls.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I fucked up a couple of times,
but they were shocked at how good I was for
what it was at the time. Next thing, you know,
three months later, I got the biggest break of my career.
A DJ lost his slot because he was disrespecting the owner.
He got fired and they called me the back to
(19:46):
be the backup, and I crushed it my first night
And to this day, I'm still a DJ at that
same nightclub. No, yeah, that's about the only nightclub I'm
technically working. I mean, I'm not technically working overnights.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I'm doing the.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Divas show and stuff, but yeah, I still technically work
for that club.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
It's been ten years sis then, and yeah, basically like
a residence. Huh yeah, yeah, yeah, I read it. Yeah resident.
All right, So what is the meaning behind Doobie.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
So the name is a family nickname that my deceased
uncle and grandmother gave.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
To me when I was a baby.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Yeah, and it's like a family name. It's like only
people who are close to me can call me that,
and me naming that album Ubie is basically for my
supporters and for my close friends and my wife is
it's like basically you know, saying like this is me
telling y'all you guys are my family, so you guys
(20:46):
can like that's that's like my way of bringing y'all
in and being like, hey, you're family now. So that's
what they basically means. It's basically about coming together and
stuff like that. And the idea behind the album. I
purposely wanted to release it on Black History Month. And
I always had a dream of making an album like
(21:09):
DJ Khaled style Yeah, where it's nothing but black artists
showcasing their talents and I want.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
To make beats for said artists.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
And said genre.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
And I haven't seen too many producers ever do that,
and I wanted to be and I wanted to be
that guy to do that.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
I wanted to make every beat from scratch.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I made it.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
I did like I wanted to.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
I wanted to test myself and I wanted to test
them the artist.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
So how did you go by about, you know, selecting
the artists who appear and perform on the project.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
So some like So I made a couple of videos
in passing like last year where I was like, hey, man,
I got this idea for this dope album. If you're
a black independent artist, you know, hit me up. Don't
matter the drama just hit me up and you know.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
We'll figure it out.
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Send me your music, you know, show me what you got. Basically,
like some tryouts.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
It was low key.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
It was like some tryals, and then the artists you
hear on the album, they sent me their stuff and
I was blown away by all of them, blown away,
and then I was like, oh man, this guy here,
this guy can do some boombop, this guy here can
do some dem bow. This this young lady here, I
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can definitely hear some house, some some soul house music
with that, you know what I mean. This guy here
can rap his single over some Jersey clubs. And it
just all came together to me, like I basically played
to all of the artists.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Strengths and and and put it on steroids.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That's quite literally.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Now the album's been out four days and it's something
I noticed too. When you go on my Spotify and
you see the and you click on the album right,
you can click the artists that's that's on set songs,
and for most of the artists, the songs from the
album is their highest stream song.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Right now.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
Wow, that that should tell you everything that that you
need to know.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, that says a lot. Mm hmm okay. DJ Caller
of New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
DJ sold y'all. Remember the name.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
You have to come up with a we the best,
you know type of tagline.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
I'll figure that one out on my next album so
they know it's a DJ sold soul y'all track.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
All right, guys, were about to play some music. We
have eat it up right back, stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
That is like that is like that is like that
is like ain't sweet at your son when you speak
upon me, let's channel put it on me better happy like.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
That, you know what I mean.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
Barry is like bon up see don't stop when in
my dog be Army Street.
Speaker 12 (24:14):
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah that is
like is like is like that is like ye yeah
yeah yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
Mammy useter Man Lucy not the frustra then go to
postre Daly don't and to possess zero Gondi mandos reaction.
So that's Leno simple Army Corbo Brenda do motor I
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see damn Wilbow. That is look like that isn't like
that isn't like that is.
Speaker 13 (25:01):
Like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahs Mas
Lord Gwando Baho sing Contrayrlo monto.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
Singer Dem Mommy gom all quickly by dropping clitch my
fire opening things for a leg sounds like trip to
tricks fam nothing him a donkey web that like that
is like got look like gott.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
Like yeah yeah up yeah up yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah like that like that like that like yeah yeah
yeah ye.
Speaker 11 (25:49):
Back by he come bens please shan't adam Hervi sence
one move enchanting.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah yeah, all right, all right, welcome back again.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
That was heated up. But he's so child like thee
al right dope dope record love. Let's go ahead and
bring him back. All right, man, you're bag live with us,
tell us about that record.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
So another thing that the pr forgot to tell y'all.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
So I am a black Haitian queer man, pansexual, and
the gentleman who was on the tracks rapping his name
is Juiciana.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
He is a black gay Dominican man.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
So the funny thing.
Speaker 9 (26:54):
About that track is that you know about the obviously
the Islands, Dominican Republican and a lot of them don't
get along and stuff like that. Right, the funny thing
about that track is a black Haitian man man a
den bo beat for a black no medicure.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
That was the whole That was the whole funny thing.
Speaker 10 (27:17):
Because that does not happen.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
That that does not happen.
Speaker 9 (27:22):
And me and Juiciana was laughing and we were like, nah,
that that would be freaking hilarious. That song is actually good,
and then it actually came out fire and we were like, yeah,
that's it right there.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
But you know, man, they say that music is a
universal language.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Indeed.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
All right, all right, well see you.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Said you had three of your favorite songs on the
album were Envy, the Movement, and Studio fifty four.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
What makes these tracks specialty?
Speaker 9 (27:56):
So the Movement is basically the protest song, Like I
wanted that to be like like the protest anthem. So
when you going out protesting against ice and these folks
and the regime and stuff like that, that's the track
you want to play.
Speaker 10 (28:13):
Basically, it's for basically standing up to.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
The powers that be.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
That's what that track is about.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
Envy. So the reason why I love the track Envy
so much is because again another fun fact, I don't
know why my PR didn't tell you this. I'm not
a religious person, right, I am an atheist, right agnostic atheist,
and the gentleman who rapped on that bea was a
Christian rapper by the name of Novah the Rebel from
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Leaving Ohio.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
And to say, member, say, remember that I told.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
You about the juicy Ona thing where it would be
funny if a black Haitian man made a bee for
a Dominican man and it come out fire. Imagine an
atheist making a Christian song with a Christian ran birth. Yeah,
I know, I know personally, I personally don't know who
the trouble oh you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, so we're
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from we're from the.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
Yeah he got uh uh who what you m call
like the bone thugs folks.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yeah, he's with Crazy Bone and I'm with Busy Bone.
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Nice perfect.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
That was the That was like the key of it
all was damn an atheist producer and a Christian rapper
making it making a joint. And that song was voted
as as the best song from the album by the supporters.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Really, how do you feel about that?
Speaker 10 (29:43):
I don't think I can argue that it's definitely one
or two for sure.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
For sure, it's between that to me and Studio fifty four,
and Studio fifty four is.
Speaker 10 (29:56):
Like the sleeper hit, the sleeper hit of the other
album to me, because it's just.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
A house song. It's like a disco house song. But
that that song, to me, was the best producer out
of all of them because of how long it took
me to make it took. It took me like a
week and a half to make that beat, and I
had to listen to like dozens of like house music
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songs to get the idea to.
Speaker 10 (30:23):
Make the beat that I made.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
And it was basically an old day to like old.
Speaker 10 (30:30):
School club culture that my mama used to be a
part of.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
Yeah, it was like an old day to that.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
That's dope, man.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, all right, all right, So where can our listeners
connect with you on the internet?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Okay? Where can they find you on the internet?
Speaker 10 (30:57):
Oh oh, oh, I'm sorry, I tell you.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Yeah. Find me King Gent nineteen eighty nine, k I
N G j E A n t Y nineteen eighty
nine on Instagram. They can also find me on my
new Facebook page DJ soul child Ac, And they can
also find me on TikTok DJ solchiud.
Speaker 10 (31:24):
Ac number zero. That page has one hundred k followers.
They'll be able to find it.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Nice, all right, listeners.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
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you will, I will include them into the description of
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Speaker 4 (31:46):
I'll include that link as well.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Tonight's conversation reminds us that passion often begins in the
quiet moments, like a lunch break inside of a guitar center.
DJ Soul child Ac turn curateosity and too skills skill
into collaboration, and collaboration into a culture celebration with Doobie,
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Our interviews are designed to go behind the scenes into
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ones that are out there giving it. They're all for me,
for you, and for the world. Well, ladies and gentlemen.
Born and raised in Atlantic City, DJ soul child Ac
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is a DJ, producer and creative collaborator dedicated to celebrating the.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Sound of the black dysphoria.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
What started as curiosity during lunch breaks at Guitar Center
quickly turned into a full fledged career spinning in nightclubs
and producing music. His debut album, I Hope I pronounced
this correctly, Doobie That'll Be brings together hip hop, R
and B brasilient funk, and house music, while showcasing talented
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Black artists across genres with passion and resilience and a
bull cred a vision. DJ soul child Ac is building
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welcome friend to DJ solchaud Ac. Hey, Hey, Hey, welcome
to the show.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Brother?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Hey man? You got it? Man? How's it going?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Man? Excited?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Yes, sir, well man, we are super excited to have
you here tonight with us to share your thoughts on
what you have going on, as well as you know,
some other little things that may come up in conversation.
But man, before we really kick off and get into
the meat and potatoes of everything, first of all, did
I pronounce your debut album correctly.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
The first time you did?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Dooby Doobie Yep. All right, cool, cool, cool?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
So, man, what's been on your heart and mind lately
as you prepare to release this debut album and introduce
Dooby to the world.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Well, anxiety and excitement. It's like, it's like mixed emotions.
It's like, I'm very excited because this is like I've
been dropping nothing but mixtapes the past four years of
just remixes and stuff like that. This is like my
first actual body of work where you know what I'm saying,
It's not just stuck on one genre.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
It's multiple genres.
Speaker 10 (06:34):
And I just wanted to showcase to the world that
I'm not.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
Just some one trick pony that just does one genre
of beats, that I can do multiple, multiple different genres
with anybody and making a hit and doing that. At
the same time, I wanted to put other artists on
who I know personally that are extremely talented, that don't
get the shine.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
That they deserve, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10 (06:59):
And I have a mass a platform on social media.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
So the combination of that with the music is like
a perfect formula to like showcase the challenge they got
and the challenge that I have.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Nice. Nice.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
So man, where does the anxiety come from?
Speaker 10 (07:16):
The anxiety to you know, the anxiety comes from like failing,
if that makes sense. I'm a perfectionist, if that makes sense. Like,
I have have a.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Few goals in mind with this album coming out. One,
I don't want to fail the artists that are collaborating
with me. Two, I am trying to make the Billboard
charts with this album. I don't think I've ever seen
a DJ make the Billboard Top two hundred.
Speaker 10 (07:50):
Charts from TikTok or Instagram or anything like that. I
don't think that's ever happened before. Like that would be
pretty historic.
Speaker 9 (07:59):
And I know for sure or no one from South
Jersey has ever done that either, so I would be
making history.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Sure, man, I see an anxiety come in from.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
Yeah, I'm not just aiming to be you know, hey, guys,
you know I'm grateful. I just want to drop this
album and no, I don't want people to forget about
it the next week.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
I want to leave a last impression I want.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
People to come back to that album, be like, hey man,
that album that DJ Soulchild Guy dropped.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Man, I remember that album came coming out as it
was fire. Let me go back and listen to it,
you know.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
What I mean?
Speaker 9 (08:29):
And it making the billboard charts can lead to many
different possibilities, you know what I'm saying. Who knows, Maybe
one of the artists on the album I get signed
by a record label or or a big distributor.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
You never know. Maybe the album dominated for a Grammy
or considered for one. You never know. You never know.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
The doors can open like that. That's where the anxiety
comes from. That's where the good anxiety and the bad
anxiety come from. One out of want to fail the two.
If the good anxiety comes from, well, if I make it,
I may it and then what's next after that?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Right?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Yeah, I get where the anxiety comes from.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Now you're shooting for the moon.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Yes, But man, professionally and personally, I don't think you're
gonna fail in that sense. I'm not going to say
you won't reach your goals. What I'm going to say, though,
is that you're putting out a debut album. Man, You're
you're you're putting yourself out there. Of the mixtapes, you
build a massive following your DJ in You're giving artists
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an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
That's a win. That's a win on an on any
given day.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Well, it's it's more personal than that too. Yeah me
me as a DJ in Jersey. You wouldn't believe if
I told you. But even with the massive following I have,
the clubs in New Jersey will not book me because
on my platforms on social media, I am very I
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was spoken politically about my political beliefs.
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Anti Trump, I am very anti Ice. I am very
anti Israel. I am very free Palestine, free Congo. I'm
very all of that.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
So the big platform I got got me in a
lot of trouble locally, and a lot of.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
The club owners in Jersey are very pro Trump and
will not hire me.
Speaker 9 (10:27):
I had a gig of Halloween twenty twenty five in
New York City at Harrock Hotel on the rooftop.
Speaker 10 (10:35):
They booked me, They had posters up of me and everything.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
They pulled me on the last second because I made
a video, you know, holding Ice accountable.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
That's like.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Okay, okay, so you know how there is a separation
of church and state. I've heard many artists say there
should be a separation of politics and music. I think
you feel otherwise because you use your platform, you use
who you are to speak out against injustice, no matter
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which side is it on. But why are people picking
on you for that?
Speaker 10 (11:22):
That is a good question, that that is a great question,
to be honest, I don't know the answers to that one.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
I've seen other people with large platforms. They don't get
the same amount of heat they get to do what
they do. But I mean, I can't focus and worry
about what they're doing and what they got going on.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I can only focus on me.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
And you know, the line of work that I have
as a DJ nightlife is not the same as every
other lot of work, you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (11:51):
And you know, yeah, those people don't play about that.
Those people don't play about that.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
If what you say and believe, I feel like they
messed up their money.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
They don't want nothing to.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Do with you.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Absolutely. So when it comes to release some music, does
that affect anything? No, well, not so much.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
I mean, you know, with the releasing of the music,
I feel, I feel if if if I hadn't spoke
out as much as I have the past few years politically.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
And and and and you know, did what I did.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
I definitely would have had a bigger chance at making
the charts. But because I'm so outspoken, I've had massive
pages banned from social media. I've currently suspended on Facebook.
My Facebook page is verified and got half a million followers.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
And it's suspended. I can't even use it.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Wow, and it got suspended.
Speaker 10 (12:55):
It got suspended a few days before the album came out.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yeah, what happened to freedom of speech? Uh?
Speaker 10 (13:05):
It don't exist for certain people. It don't exist for
people like you.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Unfortunately, that's crazy. Yeah, and I thought we lived in
a free country. Sound like a dictatorship to me?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That sounds very much like that, brother. Wow, okay, okay, So.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Just to back it up a little bit, you were
working at a target learning DJ equipment during your break
set guitar center.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I guess guitar center was in walking.
Speaker 10 (13:33):
Distance, yeah, walk the targeting yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
So you chose to use your time wisely to learn
a skill.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
That's true dedication, man. So what was it about DJ?
And it hooked?
Speaker 10 (13:46):
You so quickly, so it goes deeper than that.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
So I've always had an ear for music, and it
started with my mom. He had a massive, massive She
still has it right then, she is. She still has
a massive music music collection to this day.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
I ain't never seen nobody with a music collection like
that in my life.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
When I tell you, my mama used to be a
clubhead back in the back in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
She was a club head.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Man, Like when my grandmother used to watch me and
my little sister. My mama was in the clubs and
she used to always like find out what the new
song was, and she used to go to the vinyl
shop or cassette shop and get that new to get
that vinyl, get that seedy, get that the cassette. And
she she she collected so much music, man, it's insane.
And so I used to listen to it with her
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back in the day when I was a kid, and
that's how I fell in love with music in general,
especially older music. So growing up, you know what I'm saying,
I always had an ear for it.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
I just didn't know how to Like, I just didn't
know what my talent.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Would be, if that makes sense.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
And I figured it out ten years ago, when I
was twenty five goddamn years old.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I figured it out.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
I was like, oh, wait, I could do this, I
could be a DJ. Why don't I tell that right?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (15:06):
Because again I was working at Target during the day.
The part that I forgot to put in with my
PR team was that at night on the weekend, I
was working the clubs, being the guy who passed out
the cars to get.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
The people in.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
Remember back in the day, they used to give out
the promote the flyers, eighteen promoters, the street team.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
That's what I was.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Because again I was doing all of this while I
was living in a home, so I was saving up.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Yeah, I was at a homeless at the time, So I.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Was okay, let's to impact that. How did you end
up in a homeless shelter? So that okay.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
So I was fighting a case and I couldn't be
at the house I was at, so I had to
like relocate and I had nowhere else to say, So
I had to stay in the homeless shelter in the
Lake City. That's the only place I knew where to
go because I've been at that homeless shelter before when
I was a teenager. Okay, So yeah, So I went
back there because I had know where else to go.
(16:06):
And while I was there, they told me I had
to find a job. So I worked at Target.
Speaker 10 (16:11):
During the day and at night.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
I don't remember how it happened, but I found a
job at night at the nightclub sell selling the flyers.
I was the street team guy for multiple different venues,
you know what I mean. So I was doing that
and I was saving my money up so at night,
you know what I'm saying. All the like, I used
to hang with the DJs, and I used to like
be infatuated with what they were doing, and I was like, damn,
(16:36):
I want to I want to do that. Seeing how
they were controlling the crowd, you know what I'm saying,
Seeing how they were getting all the drinks, all the tips,
like people were throwing money at them to play songs.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
You know what I'm saying. I saw all the fine
women coming up to him. I was like, man, I
want that.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
This is just lit, you know what I mean.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
So then I was so then when I was working
at Target, I was like walking around one time and
I didn't realize there was a.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Guitar center right there.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
I was like, oh, the music shop, let me go
over there.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
And then that's when I saw the DJ equipment and
I was like, oh, I got to learn how to
do this, and then it gets even better. The guy
that was working in a DJ section was my old
high school buddy named David. He is a professional DJ
now and he was a professional DJ then.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
When he worked there.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
So yeah, so when I went.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Over there, he was the very first DJ who taught
me Q points, bpms, you know what I'm saying, what
record pool to get.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
He was the one who taught me that.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
He was like my beginner's.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Teacher, if that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
So once once I started practicing for a few months
over there at the Guitar Center low Key, he recommended
me to the same DJs I was working with as as.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
A street team guy.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
And you know how a lot of DJs are. DJs
are a very prideful.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Group of people.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
They don't just take anybody in because everybody want to
be a DJ.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
A lot of people do it for cloud.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
They do it for the for the popularity, you know
what I'm saying, Like the Shacks and the Paris Hilton's
and stuff like that. A lot of people don't take
them as serious as DJs and shit, so they wanted
to make sure I wasn't one of those, so they
started teaching me too.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
So when I was at the club, they would be like,
watch what.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
I'm doing, Watch what I'm doing, and I would visually
pick up on what they were doing. So then another
month or two goes by and there was a DJ
competition and I saved up enough money to get my
own equipment, so I got my own equipment.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
I went to this competition. While I finished second, the
DJs were shocked at how fast I learned.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
Like my wife will tell you, when I pick up
on things very quickly. It don't matter what it is.
I don't know what it is. But I'm not book smart.
I'm visually smart. I could see how someone's doing it
and I could do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
If I see it enough times, I'll pick up on it.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
So I literally learned how to DJ from visually learning it,
and they were completely shocked at how good I did
my first time publicly doing it. That was the first
time I publicly did it was in a competition.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
That's balls.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I fucked up a couple of times,
but they were shocked at how good I was for
what it was at the time. Next thing, you know,
three months later, I got the biggest break of my career.
A DJ lost his slot because he was disrespecting the owner.
He got fired and they called me the back to
(19:46):
be the backup, and I crushed it my first night
And to this day, I'm still a DJ at that
same nightclub. No, yeah, that's about the only nightclub I'm
technically working. I mean, I'm not technically working overnights.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I'm doing the.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Divas show and stuff, but yeah, I still technically work
for that club.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
It's been ten years sis then, and yeah, basically like
a residence. Huh yeah, yeah, yeah, I read it. Yeah resident.
All right, So what is the meaning behind Doobie.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
So the name is a family nickname that my deceased
uncle and grandmother gave.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
To me when I was a baby.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Yeah, and it's like a family name. It's like only
people who are close to me can call me that,
and me naming that album Ubie is basically for my
supporters and for my close friends and my wife is
it's like basically you know, saying like this is me
telling y'all you guys are my family, so you guys
(20:46):
can like that's that's like my way of bringing y'all
in and being like, hey, you're family now. So that's
what they basically means. It's basically about coming together and
stuff like that. And the idea behind the album. I
purposely wanted to release it on Black History Month. And
I always had a dream of making an album like
(21:09):
DJ Khaled style Yeah, where it's nothing but black artists
showcasing their talents and I want.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
To make beats for said artists.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
And said genre.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
And I haven't seen too many producers ever do that,
and I wanted to be and I wanted to be
that guy to do that.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
I wanted to make every beat from scratch.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I made it.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
I did like I wanted to.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
I wanted to test myself and I wanted to test
them the artist.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
So how did you go by about, you know, selecting
the artists who appear and perform on the project.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
So some like So I made a couple of videos
in passing like last year where I was like, hey, man,
I got this idea for this dope album. If you're
a black independent artist, you know, hit me up. Don't
matter the drama just hit me up and you know.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
We'll figure it out.
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Send me your music, you know, show me what you got. Basically,
like some tryouts.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
It was low key.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
It was like some tryals, and then the artists you
hear on the album, they sent me their stuff and
I was blown away by all of them, blown away,
and then I was like, oh man, this guy here,
this guy can do some boombop, this guy here can
do some dem bow. This this young lady here, I
(22:30):
can definitely hear some house, some some soul house music
with that, you know what I mean. This guy here
can rap his single over some Jersey clubs. And it
just all came together to me, like I basically played
to all of the artists.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Strengths and and and put it on steroids.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That's quite literally.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Now the album's been out four days and it's something
I noticed too. When you go on my Spotify and
you see the and you click on the album right,
you can click the artists that's that's on set songs,
and for most of the artists, the songs from the
album is their highest stream song.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Right now.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
Wow, that that should tell you everything that that you
need to know.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, that says a lot. Mm hmm okay. DJ Caller
of New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
DJ sold y'all. Remember the name.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
You have to come up with a we the best,
you know type of tagline.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
I'll figure that one out on my next album so
they know it's a DJ sold soul y'all track.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
All right, guys, were about to play some music. We
have eat it up right back, stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
That is like that is like that is like that
is like ain't sweet at your son when you speak
upon me, let's channel put it on me better happy like.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
That, you know what I mean.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
Barry is like bon up see don't stop when in
my dog be Army Street.
Speaker 12 (24:14):
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah that is
like is like is like that is like ye yeah
yeah yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
Mammy useter Man Lucy not the frustra then go to
postre Daly don't and to possess zero Gondi mandos reaction.
So that's Leno simple Army Corbo Brenda do motor I
(24:52):
see damn Wilbow. That is look like that isn't like
that isn't like that is.
Speaker 13 (25:01):
Like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahs Mas
Lord Gwando Baho sing Contrayrlo monto.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
Singer Dem Mommy gom all quickly by dropping clitch my
fire opening things for a leg sounds like trip to
tricks fam nothing him a donkey web that like that
is like got look like gott.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
Like yeah yeah up yeah up yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah like that like that like that like yeah yeah
yeah ye.
Speaker 11 (25:49):
Back by he come bens please shan't adam Hervi sence
one move enchanting.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah yeah, all right, all right, welcome back again.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
That was heated up. But he's so child like thee
al right dope dope record love. Let's go ahead and
bring him back. All right, man, you're bag live with us,
tell us about that record.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
So another thing that the pr forgot to tell y'all.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
So I am a black Haitian queer man, pansexual, and
the gentleman who was on the tracks rapping his name
is Juiciana.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
He is a black gay Dominican man.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
So the funny thing.
Speaker 9 (26:54):
About that track is that you know about the obviously
the Islands, Dominican Republican and a lot of them don't
get along and stuff like that. Right, the funny thing
about that track is a black Haitian man man a
den bo beat for a black no medicure.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
That was the whole That was the whole funny thing.
Speaker 10 (27:17):
Because that does not happen.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
That that does not happen.
Speaker 9 (27:22):
And me and Juiciana was laughing and we were like, nah,
that that would be freaking hilarious. That song is actually good,
and then it actually came out fire and we were like, yeah,
that's it right there.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
But you know, man, they say that music is a
universal language.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Indeed.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
All right, all right, well see you.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Said you had three of your favorite songs on the
album were Envy, the Movement, and Studio fifty four.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
What makes these tracks specialty?
Speaker 9 (27:56):
So the Movement is basically the protest song, Like I
wanted that to be like like the protest anthem. So
when you going out protesting against ice and these folks
and the regime and stuff like that, that's the track
you want to play.
Speaker 10 (28:13):
Basically, it's for basically standing up to.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
The powers that be.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
That's what that track is about.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
Envy. So the reason why I love the track Envy
so much is because again another fun fact, I don't
know why my PR didn't tell you this. I'm not
a religious person, right, I am an atheist, right agnostic atheist,
and the gentleman who rapped on that bea was a
Christian rapper by the name of Novah the Rebel from
(28:44):
Leaving Ohio.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
And to say, member, say, remember that I told.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
You about the juicy Ona thing where it would be
funny if a black Haitian man made a bee for
a Dominican man and it come out fire. Imagine an
atheist making a Christian song with a Christian ran birth. Yeah,
I know, I know personally, I personally don't know who
the trouble oh you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, so we're
(29:11):
from we're from the.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
Yeah he got uh uh who what you m call
like the bone thugs folks.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yeah, he's with Crazy Bone and I'm with Busy Bone.
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Nice perfect.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
That was the That was like the key of it
all was damn an atheist producer and a Christian rapper
making it making a joint. And that song was voted
as as the best song from the album by the supporters.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Really, how do you feel about that?
Speaker 10 (29:43):
I don't think I can argue that it's definitely one
or two for sure.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
For sure, it's between that to me and Studio fifty four,
and Studio fifty four is.
Speaker 10 (29:56):
Like the sleeper hit, the sleeper hit of the other
album to me, because it's just.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
A house song. It's like a disco house song. But
that that song, to me, was the best producer out
of all of them because of how long it took
me to make it took. It took me like a
week and a half to make that beat, and I
had to listen to like dozens of like house music
(30:21):
songs to get the idea to.
Speaker 10 (30:23):
Make the beat that I made.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
And it was basically an old day to like old.
Speaker 10 (30:30):
School club culture that my mama used to be a
part of.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
Yeah, it was like an old day to that.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
That's dope, man.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, all right, all right, So where can our listeners
connect with you on the internet?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Okay? Where can they find you on the internet?
Speaker 10 (30:57):
Oh oh, oh, I'm sorry, I tell you.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Yeah. Find me King Gent nineteen eighty nine, k I
N G j E A n t Y nineteen eighty
nine on Instagram. They can also find me on my
new Facebook page DJ soul child Ac, And they can
also find me on TikTok DJ solchiud.
Speaker 10 (31:24):
Ac number zero. That page has one hundred k followers.
They'll be able to find it.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Nice, all right, listeners.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Just in case you need those links, and I know
you will, I will include them into the description of
this episode and in the show notes, So all you
guys have to do is click the links. Facebook can't
keep them down or hitting He's gonna keep popping up, so.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I'll include that link as well.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Tonight's conversation reminds us that passion often begins in the
quiet moments, like a lunch break inside of a guitar center.
DJ Soul child Ac turn curateosity and too skills skill
into collaboration, and collaboration into a culture celebration with Doobie,
a project built on rhythm, identity, and unity across genres.
(32:12):
If you enjoy today's episode, make sure you follow DJ
Soul tao Ac and streamers debut album. Like you said,
it's out already's four days old. And remember you're not
just here for a talk show. This isn't just radio.
This is revival for your mind, body, and spirit. This
is Vigilantes Radio Live. Thank you so much, DJ Sochia.
(32:35):
We really appreciate you stopping buy and sharing your story
with us. Appreciate you for having me brother, Yes, sir man,
take care all right, peace.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
And I am the host of Vigilantes. I think that
we are beyond get responses.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
I think that we are here as creatos to provide
an example that we can do do things different outside
of expectations because some of us simply we're not born
into the club. But there is perhaps a door window
or back game that we can leave a clue for
(33:25):
you to get into. Life is short, but there are
plenty of moments to try and get it right in
pursuing your dreams and learning from mistakes. Maybe tough or regret.
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