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Turning Passion into Beats with DJ Dos Muchos
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What if you could turn your childhood passion into a thriving career? Join us as we sit down with Dos Muchos, an inspiring DJ who turned his love for music, ignited by the movie "Breaking," into a lifelong journey. From his early days hustling in Oceanside, California, and Yuma, Arizona, to his current life in Bakersfield, Dos Muchos shares personal anecdotes about the friends and family who played crucial roles in his DJing adventure. Discover the challenges he faced in an era before digital conveniences like YouTube, and how he navigated costly equipment and limited mentorship opportunities to carve out his place in the industry.
In a heartfelt reflection, Dos Muchos discusses the mentors and influences that shaped his path, including memorable performances by DJ Crystal Glove and Ice-T, and a pivotal seminar encounter leading to mentorship. He opens up about the unique camaraderie within the DJ community, the significance of seizing opportunities, and the sometimes perilous balance between ambition and caution. Through nostalgic stories, we explore how early breaks might have altered his life trajectory, particularly during the transformative 90s.
Finally, we delve into the intricate art of DJing, balancing crowd-pleasers with hidden gems to create unforgettable experiences. Dos Muchos shares his strategy for reading audiences and mixing iconic tracks with lesser-known favorites, emphasizing the evolution of music consumption from tapes to digital platforms like Twitch. We wrap up with an uplifting message about the importance of support, resilience, and the shared love of music that binds DJs together. A huge shoutout to DJ Gordy B, Queen B, and Queen B Dos Muchos for their invaluable insights and contributions, making this episode a must-listen for music enthusiasts and aspiring DJs alike.
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All right, y'all Most dope podcast. We have a special guest tonight Dos Muchos.
Speaker 2Hello, hello, hello.
Speaker 1How you doing my guy.
Speaker 2Oh man, you know what it is man Slow motion taking it easy. Yeah, yeah, as usual, that's good man, how you doing my guy.
Speaker 1Oh man, you know what? It is man Slow motion taking it easy, yeah, yeah, as usual, that's good man. We got Queen B over here. Hi everyone how you holding up, I'm holding All right.
Speaker 2We're doing it. We're there, we're hanging on by threads.
Speaker 1Yes, literally Martin Lawrence, ride that motherfucker till the wheels fall off. All right, we're going on episode number two. So thank everybody who's listened to the first one. Bring them into the second one. I'm Gordy B, queen B, dos Muchos. Let's see, dos, what's your background, my guy?
Speaker 2Oh man, you know, just a young man. You know what I'm saying. Born in Oceanside, california. You know what I mean. Back and forth between there and Yuma Arizona. For the most part you know what I mean. Grew up in Yuma Arizona and came out here to Bakersfield. California man. Out here trying to make it happen, trying to live Yep, california man out here trying to you know, trying to make it happen, trying to live.
Speaker 2Yep, exactly man Out here trying to keep my head above sea level, like everybody else, man and you know, do my thing. You know, try to contribute to this world and be a you know productive citizen and keep people moving to this music.
Speaker 1Hey, there you go, my guy, how did?
Speaker 2you get started with DJing. Well, man, like it started, like when I was young, I was, you know, just growing up around, you know, just music, just, you know, music was always around me. Everybody in my family was always listening to music. And then, ultimately, man, I just went to go see my mom. She, you know, she was a single mom. She took me to go see, well, she went to go see Breaking, you know, but she had to bring us with her. So I went to go see Breaking, man, and, you know, breaking Part One it was 1984, and that was the first time I ever seen a DJ. You know what I mean, doing what he do and making the crowd rock. And I was just like man, I was like I want to do that, man I was like that's what I want to do.
Speaker 2And then you know what I mean. Years went by. You know, I just pretty much just tried to find any kind of information I could on it. I'm watching videos, I'm listening to. You know, I'm saying just trying to figure things out, just pretty much. You know there's no youtube there's nothing back there, it's all through osmosis I'm over here just trying to figure it out.
Speaker 2And then ultimately, you know, um, my aunt, she started dating some dj and then you know, I mean I was handling him all the time and he's taking me to little gigs and stuff. And then one day, you know, I mean, he brought the stuff over there, man, and he was just like man know, he walked me through a couple basics and then after that, man, I was just pulling up to any place I seen that had, like I was basically just trying to put it together man, you were hustling yeah yeah, and you know, and I, like everybody, like you know, at that time, you know, equipment costed money.
Speaker 2You know what I mean All these records, and you know ain't no laptops or nothing, so that was a thing. And then, ultimately, like a few of my friends you know I'm sitting around the way they had, you know, like my boy, richard McGee, like his daddy was a DJ, so I would go to his house and I'm over here we're digging into crates and stuff and I'm rapping, and let me just get this out the way I was, I was listening.
Speaker 1Don't ask for none of it.
Speaker 2I was listening to some of it. I was busting some of that old stuff back in the day and I was like, nah, we're not doing this like we're not like there was a few years back you probably.
Speaker 2I probably let you hear some of this shit. But now I'm like, nah, we're good anyway, going on to that For the most part when we wasn't rapping and stuff. I'm over here putting together mixtapes, but him being a DJ at this time, didn't? No DJ just let anybody just touch their stuff, even just when my aunt's boyfriend was letting me on there. I had a certain amount of time and ultimately they're like all right, get out the way. Motherfucker, it just sounds like shit right now. Excuse the language.
Speaker 1He's good Okay.
Speaker 2Then, in the same token, like we get over here and, um, my boy, like we're putting together these tapes, and I'm just pretty much just like, hey, man, you know, bring it in like this and do it like this, and blah, blah, blah. And then we know I go to my friend's house that you know had little, you know, turntables and stuff on top of the. Uh, you know, on top you know the little house turntables, and we sit there and put some shit together, you know, I mean, and be over there just playing around with it, but ultimately we back here playing and then, um, it's funny, I was talking about this the other. Uh, today I put a post up, um about, um, it was this episode of everybody hates chris when he was dj at this party and, uh, it was almost like that I was at this uh dance and, uh, there's one dj, uh, master d um he's, he's actually the first dj I actually seen with my own two eyes.
Speaker 2Like that's another thing, like Like the first time I seen a DJ in person. I remember I was on stage and, um, I mean, he was on stage and they were setting up and I don't even remember how I got up there. But next thing I know I was standing right behind him watching everything he was doing Like. I don't remember walking from from the crowd to the. I was just up, okay, woo, woo, and then years later I'm going to dance.
Speaker 2I'm a teenager and this dude's DJing my junior high dances. And then one day we're at this Boys and Girls Club dance and I'm just over here in the cut. Like I usually do when I walk in there, I'm always right behind the DJ just sitting there seeing what's going on Soaking it up.
Speaker 2Yep, and then I just sat there and I'm watching him and then he's like you want to get on? I'm like, yeah, and I mean you understand, like this is like this, ain't this is. This is not a school function, this is a city teen function. So it's not like it's just confined to you. Know me, my, my, my, my. You know my fellow students. This is a you know pretty much the city and I just remember walking over there and going through that crate, and I just remember pulling out the record and I just remember putting it on there.
Speaker 2I could just hear all the murmuring like what's he doing?
Speaker 1Like is he getting on this, this and that? And I remember the first song I played was Latin Active from Lighter Shade of Brown.
Speaker 2That was the first song I played and I just remember, I just boom. I came right in behind it, like you know what I mean. Boom came in right behind him, boom Came in there, had that one rocking you know what I'm saying for a minute. Then I dropped this second to none.
Speaker 1Fucking Be True to Yourself Came in with that one, right on point and then bam, I was hooked.
Speaker 2I was like I need this.
Speaker 1I need this. You felt the energy and you fed off of it and you're like I need more man. You want three hundred dollars right now you don't send in 1993, or you want to go ahead and run another set. You want to keep going. I don't kept going. All right, you know what I'm saying. Just like that it was. It was the priority level.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, in the feet, just the feedback like if he'd have been like hey, youngster, like you want to go ahead and rock the rest of this, I'd have been like, yeah, let me, let me get it you know what I'm saying but yeah, and ever since then, like especially being on that, like that was, like you know, I mean, like I was like hopping in a corvette you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1that was like, like you know, this is behind the driver.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, that was two techniques, and you know, I mean I was, I was on and I was like, okay, I like this shit right here, boy. And then and then, like all the turn I had, they didn't even have pitch bend on them so I could adjust the speed. You could adjust it up and down, and I was like oh man, I was like yeah, and then, like I said, after that was over with it was like what now? Now I got to get that again. It took a year, it took a couple decades.
Speaker 1So what was his name?
Speaker 2DJ Master, d Master.
Speaker 1D.
Speaker 2Yeah, he got a son that be DJing out there in Yuma, dj Sosa. And yeah, you know like, and it's funny because I got to- years later, I finally got to pull up on his dad and give his dad his props.
Speaker 1Like man like you're, like I don't know if you remember me, but you're the first one to ever let me touch.
Speaker 2You're the first DJ I've ever seen. You're the first one to ever let me touch the turntables. Man and I wouldn't be doing it and I'm DJing. As I told him, I was like I'm down here today. I live in California. I'm down here DJing today because of what?
Speaker 1you do. I was like so yeah, I was glad I was able to do that. Man, I really am it's amazing how something like that can can shape or or direct somebody's life in a certain just a moment, right, just a moment, a small gesture of him allowing you to get up, rock a couple, get that feel and you were off to the races right, you know, I mean like it.
Speaker 2Like I said, it took a minute to get there. Just think about it. If I didn't have that, though, to fall back on like in life, to where I could be like you know what, let me go ahead and do this DJ shit. You know this, motherfucker, let me get loose one time. Let me go out I'm pretty good at this Like if he never gave me that opportunity. Who?
Influences and Old School Vibes
Speaker 1knows what. You know where I'd be right now. Real shit, who's your big influences, man?
Speaker 2Well, I got to go ahead and say this because, like I told you earlier in the story about the first DJ I seen on the movie, you know what I mean DJ Crystal Glove. I seen him, you know what I'm saying, you know him and Ice-T up there doing their thing and I was like man, you know. And then fast forward, you know, about six years later I mean six years back from now I went to some seminar you know what I mean and got to meet the man you know what I mean himself you know what I'm saying to where. You know he over here didn't put me on gigs and stuff. You know what I'm saying and you know seeing how swell what I was doing and you know what I mean. And man, like you know what I mean, like the first DJ I ever seen, you know what I mean. Just like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1Was it starstruck?
Speaker 2Yeah, it was, but then, like you know, because I'm like I don't- know it's weird. It's because, like there's a lot of people I've met and you know what I mean that were like I've seen, like from afar. You know what. I mean like stars or whatever. You want to call them, celebrities, whatever. But being around him, like I said, the DJ community is a little bit. You know, the vibe behind a DJ is it's a crew, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2Like to put it in perspective. It's almost like you're dealing with music nerds. Everybody doesn't you know what I'm saying. Everybody doesn't move to the same beat that we moved to. Sure, you know what I mean. Like you can't sit up here and talk about DJing with somebody you know what I? You have to explain everything. And then there's certain people you just talk to you know I mean the other djs and you're just like boom, everything, just yeah, it just flows. It's a. It's a.
Speaker 2It's a secret society, you know yeah, it's crazy and that's what and that's and that's how I felt around him and you know I mean, and that's why, like you know, it's like something, I gotta step back and be like man, like damn, like like this, the dude that you you know what I'm saying made the drum. You know what I mean. That you know he'll produce the Chronic, this, the dude, that you know what I'm saying. You know phone tap. You know what I'm saying, dr Dre you know what I mean Explosive.
Speaker 1He's the one that did the drums on Explosive. Yeah.
Speaker 2I have to sit back sometimes and be like damn, you know, I know you helped on the Chronic 2001. I was like did Eminem ever tell you that your song is the first song that he ever heard, the first rap song he ever heard that made him want to rap and he goes? He did tell me that.
Speaker 1Wow.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know what I mean, that song Reckless with him and Ice-T, and I'm just like damn, and you know what I mean. And then he produced that whole soundtrack and he was just like a DJ, just like you and me, and he said the story. He said the whole story behind that was they were making the movie and they were in the club that's in the movie Radiotron. It was actually called something else, but in the movie I think they just called it Radiotron.
Speaker 2I might be mistaken, but either way it goes, he's in there and he has some girlfriend at the time. No-transcript. They're like you know, do you know? Like you know, if we see you DJ, you know how to make a soundtrack.
Speaker 1He's like yeah, he's like I had. No, he didn't know it, but hey, I'm going to worldwide.
Speaker 2Celebrity status yeah, and he's like whoa, like that. He just took a chance. You got to believe in yourself you got to take a chance on yourself, and ain't nobody else going?
Speaker 1to do it for you. I mean, how many times are you going to be presented with that opportunity? So, whether you know it or not, you have to take it. I'll figure it out as I go man and regret boy, nobody likes regret I said, regret to me is almost like it's like it's like dying all over, it's like dying like a million deaths like you think about.
Speaker 2Like man, I should have went and did that that one time and yeah yeah, because there's a, there's quite a few opportunities, you know, I mean, they didn't come with dj, because with dj no no, but but like throughout my life I've learned like there's been opportunities where I'm like man, I should have stepped up here and did this.
Speaker 2You know what I mean. I could have did that. But then again, on the back end of it, I think about it all the time. I'm like man, that shit could have corrupted me. You know, at a young age I'm like I think about when I was young. If I started DJing when I was young, all kind of mess I would have been in at a young age, especially in the 90s.
Speaker 2In and stuff. Man ain't no telling. I have my own little perception about it, like in my hometown. I always tell my people I'm like if I was DJing in my hometown I'd probably be in there DJing, I'd probably pull some little you know what I'm saying some little cute little thing. Next thing you know I'm in the club probably get tired of me. Some new DJ comes in there. I'm bitter about that. Next thing, you know, she's over here bopping around. I'm over here pulling over here trying to, you know, causing domestics and stuff.
Speaker 1I go to prison, Next thing you know.
Speaker 2I get out, she's with my homeboy.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2And I'm outside the house trying to you know what I'm saying texting her, trying to get the app.
Speaker 1You know I'm saying I ain't got no service at the time. All the way do it all the way bad. You know what I mean yeah tell me what's your favorite genre man like? If it's up to you, if you get to play your own music, if it's, you know if I can, if I can stay in the old school pocket you know what I mean.
Speaker 2like that's my, that's my pocket, because I like it, because there's man, there's just so much built on it. And you know what I mean.
Speaker 1I mean, there's so many branches to it. And it's like and when you really think about it, when you go into old school, you start going deep, you start jumping into other genres.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying. Like me, growing up, I remember just listening to older people talk about parties they used to go to and I was always just listening to when they start talking about the music One dude was talking about yeah man, I remember I was in there, man, and they dropped a let's Dance by David Bowie. You know what I mean. I was in their band and they dropped, you know, a let's Dance by David Bowie. You know what I mean, and this, this, and that I'm like for real, like you know what I mean, like yeah, like, oh man, what is grooving in that? Or you know what I mean and I'm like, okay, like you know what I mean and I see that you know, like, okay, it's, you know what I'm saying and and you know, of course we can go ahead and, and you know, by the song I just named, we can go ahead and be like okay, I see the vibe they was in.
Speaker 2They was in a funky vibe but yet they didn't let you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1The genre go ahead and go over and hit some George Michael or something. Right, right, right. Exactly, that's what.
Speaker 2I'm saying Like they was just partying.
Speaker 1You know what's so broad, right, right.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know I mean, and that's, and that's why I, that's, that's why I like, and then, like I said, from any, from there I can go anywhere. You know, I mean I could, you know, I mean I could be over here in this. Okay, I could be like okay, you know, we've been here too long, let me go over here into into this hip-hop, or maybe I can go in this rock set. It doesn't matter where I can, I got so many branches I can go right there.
Speaker 1Especially because so much is sampled from the old school.
Speaker 2Right, we can flow in. Right, yeah, exactly. And then also another thing is like you know, it's old school music and a lot of people got a lot of good memories behind it. You know what I mean. And then you know, you got the ones.
Speaker 1You know what I'm saying where you know sing-alongs, you know I'm saying everybody, you know everybody the whole party's in here.
Speaker 2They know the song.
Speaker 1You know I mean popping on sweet caroline, right, right hey, you know what?
Speaker 2I haven't been nowhere where I've been able to run that one. No, no oh man I haven't, I haven't been, I haven't been. You know, I know that's the go-to, I know that's the, that's the, that's the. You can go ahead, get the whole place, you know, jamming with that one. You know I mean, yeah, I haven't, I haven't got to drop that one.
Speaker 1Yeah, man, you gotta drop yeah, I know I gotta surprise somebody. Yeah, yeah, boom, yeah, it's got, it's got. You know what?
Speaker 2it is, it's gotta be the right place, you know yeah, oh, yeah, it sure does, man.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, there was a. Uh, there was a crate that I seen while uh I was scrolling through. It was a spotify crate.
Speaker 2I already know what you're about to say I already know what you're about to say. I can show it to you right now. It was pretty recent right songs that white people cannot resist.
Speaker 1Yeah songs that white people go crazy to yeah yeah, yeah, and then we got the bangers in there. They got, they got the bangers. We talk, we talk. Man don't stop believing. Oh my God, yeah yeah, woo yeah, journey, oh man, they love that shit. Yeah, yeah, I don't, man, I know where I can run it.
Speaker 2It ain't even necessarily just all white people, but like I can run it in, just like you know the right spot, and it's just like okay, Because, again, music transcends.
Speaker 1Movies have soundtracks and we hear a song from a movie. Whether we're white, Mexican, black, whatever it may be, it's a great movie. We love it. And then we hear that song. We know it was on that movie and we love the song anyways.
Speaker 2You just brought one to mind, For instance, one of the songs I play and when I drop it, I don't care where I drop it.
Speaker 1I don't give a fuck where I drop it. I know where I'm at.
Speaker 2I know I pick my points.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2It's the fucking Grease from Frankie Valli.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Like that one, I drop that one and everybody's like, oh, it's funky too. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1So everybody knows it because they've seen Grease. It's a classic movie. Oh man, yeah, All day. Let's go into your creative process. So when you're setting up a set, when you're trying to get through, you're choosing your tracks, you're trying to create unique mixes. What is your mentality or mindset or attack and approach on creating that?
Speaker 2Okay, that's a very good question. As a matter of fact, I've never been asked that question before.
Speaker 1So y'all get in the first year. Check this out.
Speaker 2Okay, my process is that we're talking about if we're somewhere and they ask for somebody to play music. Apparently the people that show up there, they want to hear music.
Speaker 1Me personally.
Speaker 2I don't try to undermine the people's musical knowledge, okay. So one thing I try to do it goes kind of like what you're saying about the movie thing and things of that nature Like I try to I read the crowd and I try to, like you know, I know, you know looks can be deceiving, but I try to read the crowd and be like, okay, these people look like you know what I'm saying, like you know they might mess with this, you know I got to find them. Okay, but once I do find them, I do, I try to, I don't go off, I try to keep it on the beaten path, but I try to go. And you know those B-sides, like say, for instance, if I'm playing something off of, let's say, let's say playing something off of, like, say, the Chronic or something. Okay, you know, okay you heard nothing but a G thing.
Speaker 2Okay, but then I might go into one of the you know what I'm saying the B sides, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1The lesser known? Yes, you know what. I mean If it permits, and I'm like oh okay, you know what I mean Bam. Okay, and that's the thing To put it in perspective walls have never heard, at least for, for, for, for a nice chunk I want, but, but the people? But I don't want to alienate the people. No, but that's your job as a dj as well. Right is to introduce people to new music as well, so that's what you're doing, right? Yeah, they haven't heard.
Speaker 2Like, like you know, like you know, like one of the compliments I I was gotten like you know, like, um, they'd be like man. I was hitting up so-and-so and I was like you was over there playing some shit the other day and I was just like man. What song is that he was playing? He's, like you know. I asked the OG, og's, like I don't know what that shit was.
Speaker 1I don't know what that was, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2I'm trying to make people pull out their motherfucking Spotify's. You know what I'm saying exams right and then on the same token. Like you know, I mean I wanted to wear.
Speaker 2Like you know, I mean, like you know, everybody got problems and stuff and I'm just trying to make sure everybody having a having a good time. But I want, like I said, that's where those, that's where those b-sides come in at, to where I'm taking to those songs, that where you like man, like I haven't heard this in years, like this is my jam right here, you know I mean and, and, and you know I mean and, that's that I'm.
Speaker 1I want it to be an experience. I want it to be experienced. You know what I mean. So when that music came out and we had tapes, whatever it may be, and we weren't able to hit a track instantly, right, you had to listen through some tracks, or forward or whatever else, and or just try to listen through the whole album. Now, there may have been two bangers on the album, right two, two hot tracks, two singles that were on that album, and the rest of the album might have been mediocre, it might have been okay, it might have been decent, right, right.
Speaker 1But there's that third or fourth song in there that they actually had to listen to to get to that one song that's right and they oh, I remember that song coming up to east 1999 bone drugs or whatever, yeah, yeah, he's like okay, man, like damn, like man you dropped, mr bill collector, yeah yeah, like like that, yeah, exactly like like for instance, I was playing something there's a song off of the above the rim soundtrack and some youngster came up to me and he was like man, like I never heard nobody play.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying saying uh, you know, I mean um, was it uh blown away? You know, I'm saying I'm like how do you know about that song, like you know. But, like I said, it's a soundtrack, it's on a soundtrack, so you know I mean. And then, you know I mean I mean I can't. I said he was younger but I don't know what his music buying you know I'm saying experience was. He might have had the whole soundtrack in his house and he might have known like, okay, this guy's regulator on there.
Speaker 1Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2Yeah, but you know what? I let this play pass regulator one day and this motherfucker had some shit on him that was going. Oh shit, I thought I turned this off.
Speaker 1You're good man. You're good, we can do whatever the fuck we want2,. Man hey, that's funny. I always say I mean funny about R2-D2.
The Legacy of Tupac Acting
Speaker 2I was like man, you know everybody, look at R2-D2 and be like, okay, yeah, it's R2, blah, blah, blah, and I'm like man, don't you know like, if you look at at least the first six movies. Every one of those like situations they was in R2 got them out of. Every one of them, motherfuckers.
Speaker 1Everyone A Everyone. R2 was the ride or die man. Yeah, the first three.
Speaker 2The first three. He got him out. He's the one that had the plans on the first one he got the plans.
Speaker 1On the second one. He's the one that fucking yeah. Hooked up to the computer, turning and twisting it.
Speaker 2He told them, like did y'all know that? They turned this shit off? When we landed, they got in he's. When we landed, they got in. He's like what he's like, yeah, just go ahead.
Speaker 1Boom, they went into hyperspace and they were shocking the shit out of him, blowing him up. They had to rebuild his ass and then remember the third one when they had to open up the fucking thing, and he was yeah, that's when they went ahead and blew him to bits and Luke loved him yeah yeah, he held it down. Luke him.
Speaker 2He's like one of the only ones that understood wookies but see, it's a spiritual thing, you know, like you know, I mean, I'm from arizona, you know. So you know, like I said I could, I could, you know. Well, then again, like me personally, you know, I mean, like I had, I had a babysitter. You speak to me nothing in spanish. I had to go to esl myself, you know as a kid so, but the point being is, like I was saying like, yeah, you can talk spanish, I going to understand everything you're talking about.
Speaker 1I know what's going on Like, yeah, like hey.
Speaker 2Like no, he said he wanted his money back.
Speaker 1Same thing growing up in Arvin as a white guy man, Right, right, yeah, it was all Hispanic man and I was like I can understand you motherfuckers.
Speaker 2I can't talk little bit in there and be like we're going to get an understanding.
Speaker 1We're going to be like oh okay.
Speaker 2Everything is going to be all right when we leave.
Speaker 1So I'm going to sway real quick. We had a little talk the other day. We were talking about top five, top 10, top 15 black actors Got you.
Speaker 2Oh man, oh yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1She had Will Smith in the top five. I'm a top 15 somewhere. Will Smith is in the top 15, I agree. However, we googled it right, Because it's like man, there's a ton that we forget about. She didn't know Tupac acted. Go ahead and speak on it.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1I did know he acted, but you can't put him in the same place as Will.
Speaker 2Smith. You can't Wow A poetic justice above the rim.
Speaker 1No, that's a very good argument. That's a very good argument.
Speaker 2That's an argument over quality, over quantity.
Speaker 1Yes, you know what. I'm saying that's what the argument is right there, will Smith cranked out 30 movies, pac did four or five. You know what I'm saying? That's what the argument is. Right there. Will Smith cranked out 30 movies, pac did four or five.
Speaker 2And then you know what I mean and then they'll test. You know what I'm saying. Like you know not. You know what I'm saying. You're a little younger but I understand, like probably when you. You know, at the time I'm pretty sure it was nothing for an artist to be in a movie. You know what I'm saying. At the time, when Tupac was in a movie, it wasn't just him being a rap artist in a movie, he was acting.
Speaker 1He really had some. He went to all them schools and everything in New York with Jada and everywhere else. I mean he was in arts, he was in performing arts so he knew acting that was the point.
Speaker 2I think, if anything, I think that was the, that was, that was the. That was the point that I think. If anything, I think that was the plan a. I think I think the acting was the plan a. I think he was like this is what I'm gonna go to go do, and I think the hip-hop thing came around and he was just like you know, I don't know this to be true, but I mean, just see, it seems like that I've had very many acting.
Speaker 1Acting might have been safer for the right right right. I've had very many.
Speaker 2I've had very. There's been many, many discussions, slash arguments about, you know tupac, you know with a lot of tupac fucking fanatics and they're. And I'm like you know, like bro, like he couldn't be, you know, and please don't, please don't, nobody they're gonna come after you, man yeah, because we can get deep, but we ain't gonna get deep.
Speaker 2But the point being is is that, like I'm like, well, look, you know the man, you know, when he was a kid, apparently you know he was going to these schools and stuff. So, like you know, he couldn't have been thugging the whole entire time. I mean, I'm like, but he knows what he's talking about. Like I'm not debating it but like you know, like don't sit up here. You know that's his cast, as they want. I'm like no, he wasn't.
Speaker 1No, he was out there doing ballet for a while. Yeah, y'all better, y'all better. He was doing performing arts. He was a kid.
Speaker 2He was a kid once. Don't act like this man.
Speaker 1Been grown his whole life, Like stop it. What is that when actors go up on stage and they do an impromptu act with each other?
Speaker 2What is?
Speaker 1that called I forgot what it's called but where the actors just off the fly say, okay, I'm a dying cancer patient.
Speaker 2Right, I know what you're talking about and do it right now. Right, just right now. Yeah, I know what you're talking about, and those were the schools that he was in.
Speaker 1So, yeah, he grew up rough. We know the story about his mom, we know about his father or lack thereof, Right, and we knew, you know, from Bronx, from New York to Oakland to you know Bay Area and everything else in that transition. So you know, I can't doubt that the guy actually went through some tough shit.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm not doubting that, not at all. You know one thing I have to say, though, like you know about, like all the arguments I've been having about like Tupac and stuff, like boy, like I have to say, like the fanatics have died down since the 90s.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah, because I'm telling you like I used to boy. Get into some debates about it.
Speaker 2It'd be some outlandish stuff.
Speaker 1And.
Speaker 2I was like man, like calm down, like calm down.
Speaker 1This dude. He was a human being. He's still a normal dude. Yeah, he's still a guy. He's not a god, but he blew up. He blew up.
Speaker 2Oh man, I mean, I don't think nobody knew.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, that's what I was going to say.
Speaker 2Me personally, my awareness to the man I remember when he came out on the digital underground song same song and that was my favorite verse on there. I'm like that dude killed it yeah yeah, and then I remember when juice came out, when I seen him in juice, I hated tupac. Oh man, I hated tupac. I was like fuck tupac. I was like fuck that.
Speaker 1But that shows you how good of an actor he was. Oh yeah, because I was like fuck that old sneaky ass motherfucker.
Speaker 2I was like fuck that. But that shows you how good of an actor he was, cause I was like fuck that old sneaky ass motherfucker.
Speaker 1I was like I had one of my friends, he was telling me a little younger, to me.
Speaker 2He said he remembered when his brother came home with. He said his brother came home with All Eyes on Me.
Speaker 1He said I remember Bishop's album. Bishop, yeah, it wasn't Tupac, it was Bishop. He's yelling like they want this shit.
Speaker 2He's like are you buying Bishop shit? What the fuck you tripping.
Speaker 1Who was he in Above the Rim? Bird, birdie, birdie, birdie in Above the Rim. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, he was boy. Yeah, he was trying to get his motherfucking dinero on in that one.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, he was.
Speaker 2But yeah, in Juice he made me believe that that was him, like the way he was, and you know what I mean the temperament you know what I mean Like. I was around motherfuckers like that. I ain't saying they were running around here killing people, but like I was around you know temperamental motherfuckers like that Like when he was sitting in the house and he was just looking out the window watching them and he's like fucking ride him, man. And they're like what's your problem?
Speaker 1He's like you're my fucking problem.
Speaker 2I'm like okay.
Speaker 1Like I said, when I see them do that shit, I'm like yeah, or like the one.
Speaker 2one dude was like you know, maybe we should do it some other time. I was like this nigga's scared.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was like, yep, we've all been around somebody, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2And he made me believe that that was him.
Speaker 1You know what I mean, and you know what I mean.
Speaker 2I had to hear All Eyes on Me from the Dragon. Well, I get around. I was like all right, you got you in there.
Speaker 1You got a little hit, you in there.
Speaker 2And me personally. I album still, but I listen to it. Yeah, I like that song. But then when all eyes on me came out, you know I mean, well, I'll put, I'll back it up. When um me against the world came out, I was like okay, because this is a little deep, you know I mean. But then in my mind I'm like, well, you know, I'm getting in trouble too, you know I'm saying so like you know, I understand you want to sit back and reflect.
Speaker 2you know I'm 15, 16 times like, okay, I know they're about to send you to prison, so you want to reflect and kick some knowledge. But then, when All Eyes on Me came out, that was a monster.
Speaker 1That was a double, right, yeah, that was a double.
Speaker 2That was how I heard it best put.
Speaker 1They said if you wanted to tell somebody, show somebody what the 90s is about. Just play that out.
Speaker 2Just play that out, that's the 90s is about just play that out. Just play that out, that's the 90s, right there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1So what's going on in Dos Muchos? Business life man. Oh man this month, next month, what do you got?
Speaker 2going. Where are you going to be? Man, I'm out here trying to get back out here to Arizona. Man, I'm out here trying to go ahead and get back to my hometown, go out here and, you know, have a little, you know a little gig out there. I'm working on that and then, um, this saturday actually I gotta go do this. They have a pub crawl down here and, um, yeah, down, make my right, yeah, they got um, yeah, in downtown.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, they got me on the um. I'm on the last end. It's the. Uh, where was it at the mint'm going to be at the Mint over there on that, and then you know, I got Santiago's. And then I got what's? The other one, the Hideout man. You know, I mean it's still moving and grooving.
Speaker 1Who's the event downtown? The pub crawl. It's for somebody, right? Yeah, I believe you know me. You know, I'm from out of town, man. Yeah, I'm from out of town, man. Yeah, I don't have the name on hand. Yeah, I got it right here.
Speaker 2I don't want to speak about it and not mention it.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I don't want to do that. We'll get it out there.
Speaker 2It's a man, his name was Mike, I forget his last name man. My boy told me about him pretty much. I guess he was pretty much real active out here.
DJ Culture and Camaraderie
Speaker 1You know what I'm saying In the entertainment industry. He's out here I guess he's putting on shows and whatnot.
Speaker 2You know what I mean. A lot of people I mess with you know what I mean. They got a lot of love for this cat.
Speaker 1Apparently, this ain't the first one.
Speaker 2This is an annual thing that they've been out here running behind this man's name, keeping his memory alive, right.
Speaker 1That's all. Somebody can ask for man man who you tell.
Speaker 2That's all we can ask for.
Speaker 1Yeah, you know, they say, uh, you die a second time or you die twice when nobody mentions your name ever again. Right, right, right. So, hey, talk about me after I die.
Speaker 2Talk about me, yeah, that's like that's like yeah, that's like uh, that's like like that's funny. You say that I remember I was watching this uh boxing match. I remember it was one of these. I'm a boxing fanatic. I was watching this match. Mike Tyson's old coach he was coaching this dude. It was some fight. It was like on like 11 o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2You know I'm watching this about 2012. And dude, he had man. You know he was losing pretty much the most of the match. And then you know you get it's a championship match. So you know, once he got to round 10, that's the championship round oh, yeah, and he told it, he told that dude, he goes.
Speaker 2Do you believe in magic? You know what I'm saying? He's like. He's like I'm telling you, if you, if you believe it's like I'm telling you, we can make magic here tonight. He goes because you know what? I know your father just passed away. He's like but they speak about you, they'll have to speak about your father. Yeah, absolutely, he went out there Dug deep.
Speaker 1He had to dig real deep.
Speaker 2I said he was sitting on that one.
Speaker 1I mean, if you were getting beat for nine rounds, man, you had to dig deep for the last two rounds.
Speaker 2Yeah, his coach told him that His coach told him that he went out there and turned it up. He was like I know you're tired. I know you don't like this. He's like you go out here and you do this and that's what you're saying. Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1Like when we go out here and do this thing for this man. Apparently you know what I mean.
Speaker 2Like you know, he's still here.
Speaker 1He's still alive, he's still around man. Yeah, absolutely so yeah.
Speaker 2I got that going on. I don't know man, I just like I love this DJing shit man. But I mean like I'm not, you know, and you know what I mean. I'm a humble person, I'm like. You know what I mean, I understand, you know, like everybody got their own thing, but man like me personally, like I'm not satisfied with the comfortable number two no, no, absolutely not like I said, I'm not you know what I mean.
Speaker 2That's just me. I'm always just trying to put out that. In the same token, I'm trying to have fun.
Speaker 1I got to have fun, otherwise, if I ain't having fun, I don't want to do this shit. You're not going to do it anymore, you're going to burn out. It's not fun anymore. Yeah, as simple as that. Yeah, absolutely, man. Technology, man, we got. Twitch just announced that they have their new DJ platform, where their new DJ platform where we can stream and not get taken down, man, they said I believe it goes something along the lines that they're going to pay the artists. You know, whoever you play, whoever you're mixing on Twitch Me. I got like five Twitch followers.
Speaker 2I ain't even heavy on Twitch right now. Who you telling you might have four more?
Speaker 1than me. Eventually, man, we'll get the setup and we'll go on.
Speaker 2Twitch every.
Speaker 1Wednesday Anytime you guys want to come by Wednesdays usually it's Wednesdays you guys are always welcome man Gotcha Appreciate it we want to make some culture man. Some camaraderie, some DJs kicking back enjoying each other.
Speaker 2It's none of the BS, man, right, yeah, yeah, and you know how it is, man, as a DJ, like you know, for the most part that's the feel like this the filters are turned on high.
Speaker 1Yes, you know what I'm saying, you know what I mean. You know it's turned on high.
Speaker 2You know you go out here. You know what I mean. You're trying to go out here. You know what I mean and do what you do, but when it comes to this, you know what I mean. You got your guards up and things of that nature. You know what I mean and I'm going to tell you, like this, one of the DJs man rest in peace.
Speaker 2He said some real shit one time he goes. You know he had this vent, he was like a little vent, he had crowd. He goes. Look man, he goes. I know all of us in here. You know we got our own things and this, this and that, blah, blah, blah you know differences.
Speaker 1He goes, but one thing all of us djs have in common is the love for music.
Speaker 2So as long as we got that, you know I'm saying that's, that's a plus. You know I'm saying anything can be built off of that yeah you know I mean, and that's that's where I come from, the same place, like that's as simple as that. Like everybody don't everybody. You know you can be a DJ, you can do whatever you do, but everybody ain't going to love this music like a motherfucking DJ going to love it.
Speaker 1You know what?
Speaker 2I mean yeah.
Speaker 1So we're going to close out, man. We're going to keep our podcast down to about 30 to 45 minutes. How can they follow you, man?
Speaker 2Oh man, you can follow me. I'm on TikTok at DJ Dos Muchos. That D-E-E-J-A-Y-D-O-S-M-U-C-H-O-Z. Same thing on Instagram. It's the Real D-E-E-J-A-Y-D-O-S-M-U-C-H-O-Z. I'm on Facebook. Like we said Twitch, I mean I'm everywhere with it. You know what I mean. That's all. Hey, man, let me just say man, because, like I said, djs need this man. It's like therapy.
Speaker 1Yeah, we're going to grow it, man. Yeah, we're going to grow it, man. We're going to have our drink, we're going to have our smoke, we're going to chill, we're going to play music and talk all things DJ, business, culture, everything in between. What's that? Final thoughts, man. Final thoughts before we close out man say, wow, that's another one.
Message of Support and Camaraderie
Speaker 2I ain't never got you know what Final thoughts I'm just going to say this, man. Like you know, man, whatever I'm going to say for me personally, you know I'm supportive of everybody, because you know what I mean. Everybody gets their shot. You know what I mean, and so you know what I mean. That's why you got to supportive of everybody, because ultimately, you're going to get your shot one day and you're going to want everybody to be supportive of you.
Speaker 2So just keep that love out there, man, and don't you know what I'm saying? Don't let nobody deter you from what it is you're trying to do and just keep pushing man. You know what I mean. It ain't easy, Ain't nothing. You know what I'm saying. You won't go come easy. You know what I mean. And in life, as long as it don't hurt nobody else, man, it's as simple as that.
Speaker 1Do whatever you want, as long as you're not affecting anybody else.
Speaker 2Don't care.
Speaker 1There's enough for everybody.
Speaker 2That's right. That's exactly right. There's plenty, that's right.
Speaker 1We're going to sign off. Dj Gordy B, queen B, queen B Dos Muchos joined us today. Thank you for coming out, brother.
Speaker 2Thank you, man, thank you Appreciate.
