The Most Dope
The Most Dope Podcast: Join us on a thrilling journey through life, adventure, and business as we bring you The Most Dope Podcast! Hosted by a dynamic duo with a passion for DJing, MCing, photobooths, and balloon art, we dive into the latest in current events and pop culture. Whether you're an entrepreneur, an event enthusiast, or just someone who loves a good story, our podcast has something for everyone. Tune in for insightful conversations, behind-the-scenes glimpses, and a whole lot of fun. Get ready to be inspired, entertained, and enlightened with every episode of The Most Dope Podcast!
The Most Dope
DJ Journeys, East LA Vibes & Bakersfield Nights w/ Ill Flow, Dos, Richie Rich, and Dynamite
Get ready for an electrifying session of the Most Dope Podcast as we welcome the incredible talents of Ill Flow, Dose, Dynamite, and Richie Rich to the mix! We start with a fascinating exploration of DJing journeys and how family car rides filled with doo-wop, funk, and old-school hip-hop sparked Ill Flow and Dose's passion for music. From DJ technology's evolution to the vibrant lowrider scene in East LA, our guests reflect on personal inspirations and the stories that shaped their careers. This episode is a heartfelt homage to the DJ lifestyle and the relentless pursuit of musical mastery.
As we reminisce, we take you on a nostalgic journey to Pinky's Records and Discs in Monrovia, where the camaraderie and cultural significance of local hangouts come alive. Dive into tales of beer preferences, living arrangements, and the power of community support. Plus, Ill Flow teases us with exciting stories of DJ battles in the southern regions, ensuring an engaging exchange of experiences. Our journey continues with a spotlight on Bakersfield's vibrant nightlife, featuring gigs at hotspots like Murphy's, Santi's, and Chewy's. It's a celebration of music, culture, and community that defines our shared journey.
Closing out the episode, we delve into the personal side of DJing, from wedding stress tips to the unique interactions at Condors hockey games. Our conversation touches on the importance of storytelling in music, the versatility required for diverse events, and the role of music in supporting mental health. From nostalgic reflections on 90s R&B to the influence of legendary artists, we explore the tapestry of experiences that resonate with music lovers everywhere. Don't miss this engaging episode that weaves together personal stories, cultural insights, and the undeniable power of music.
Thank you for listening to this episode of The Most Dope Podcast! We hope you enjoyed the ride and found some inspiration along the way. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review our podcast on your preferred platform. Stay in touch with us on social media for the latest updates, behind-the-scenes moments, and more dope content. Until next time, stay dope and keep the good vibes rolling.
it's kind of kind of groovy. What's up y'all? It's, uh, the most dope podcast. We're back're back. We got a full house today. We have Ill Flow Ill Flow's in the house. We have Dose Dose is back.
Speaker 2:What's happening y'all?
Speaker 1:We got Dynamite. Dynamite is here and we got the Richie, rich Yo yo. What's up, gents? How you guys doing, I'm good. How are you guys doing I'm good. How are you guys?
Speaker 4:How's life been. How's DJing going?
Speaker 1:Busy, busy, busy busy. So nobody knows you guys as far as the podcast is concerned. So we're going to interview you two first and introduce yourselves how you got started, stuff like that. So background and inspiration right. Where did DJ start for you guys? Where did you finally realize this is a path you want to pursue and you enjoy and it's a passion?
Speaker 4:I mean, I mean, I always grew up, I mean, I think, like any of us, our family kind of, where it starts at who's raising you, who you buy. We knew when you're little, you know whose car you're driving in, you know they're bumping yeah I listen to the music at home. You know where they got records or not. You know so mine, yeah, so mine was. You know all my uncles and aunts, my dad and mom. You know grandparents what was?
Speaker 1:what was the the genre? Was it funk? Was it what? What was it then?
Speaker 4:and they live all the doo-wop oldies. Okay, that was like probably the first thing I started. You know all that. You know, uh, john johnny ace, and you know I mean all that. You know mary Wells, you know just like All the old DuBois stuff, you know. So Grew up in that and then, yeah, then went to the funk and you know I grew up In LA in the 80s and 90s. Freestyle was all good. You know what I mean. You know all that Disco.
Speaker 1:LA disco was dope, you know what I mean, so funk.
Speaker 5:Big disco, Big funk at yeah all the way back. I mean, we're talking about how you grew up in Arvin.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:So this is before my father died, at the time when I was young, yeah, so I remember getting a box of his tapes and it was a bunch of old school hip hop stuff, or it could have been. I mean a lot. And I remember popping in Poojies, popping in you know what I mean Ice Cube, all the old school stuff that we grew up to. And I remember popping in Poojies, popping in Ice Cube, all the old school stuff that we grew up to. And that's when hip hop came up and just inspired me, like, all right, what is this? Gave me that light bulb, right? Yep.
Speaker 5:And then from then on I just kept getting my hands on whatever I could, starting building up my own stuff from there. And then somehow I got myself in the hip-hop scene of bakersfield. All right, and it's not that I wanted to become a digit, it just happened and I had. I became a natural with it. It became a second hand instinct, like, and I took it on from there, just started growing and and it's been 17 years since been doing it and progressing and making the best. And we're still students. You always got to keep learning, oh yeah I think.
Speaker 1:I think that's a. That's a great point, that any profession, you have to keep learning. You can't stop you, you can't get complacent, you can't get comfortable, because things are always advancing, changing, progressing. Stems in the last few years have gotten bigger and bigger stuff like that. You know some of the platforms like uh, vdjs maybe they had them a few years before serato, whatever it may be, but uh, yeah, always changing, always changing. Who, um, who are you guys's influence, like your biggest influence? If you had to name one individual who really inspired you to do the whole thing, who is it?
Speaker 4:Oh man, that's a tough question.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Well, for me it'd be my grandfather, okay Period, maybe because he did musical instruments. He played guitar, piano and sung in choir and church and I just took that as inspiration to just do me. All right, you know and and learn same thing. I played guitar and piano and took on the turntables.
Speaker 4:Nice, you know yeah, I would say my dad. You know what I mean. Like again the 80s and 90s rest in peace.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rest in peace, appreciate it, yeah you know the whole lowrider scene.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean. It was big in LA. Everybody had systems in the cars. You know what I mean. Everybody was bumping, everybody wanted to bump the newest music, right. So you know what I mean. That was like you know all that right there, just always having it there had that feeling of how it sounded, how it made you feel you know stuff like that. So yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Down in East LA, oh, the great area you know what I mean, so you know. The fun area, yeah, the peaceful area.
Speaker 4:It is, it is.
Speaker 1:If you're from there, yeah, if you're from there.
Speaker 1:Who. So for me, you know, we've all grown, adapted and we've been down different trees, if you will. But there's somebody at the root of that tree, like for me, I think at the root of my tree. It was probably Sugar Hill Gang, rapper's Delight. That's what really.
Speaker 1:Just as a little white kid in Arvin, I was just fascinated by it. I loved it. It was hip hop, it was pure, it was storytelling at the time, as opposed to some of the stuff now is not so much storytelling, but back then, rapper's delight, I think, is what really sunk its hooks into me as far as my music in my direction and how I got to these other places with, um, let's say, reggae, bob marley right, everybody starts with marley when they talk about reggae, usually you talk about marley and that's reggae. But. But somehow I've branched off from from Marley and I've went into sublime, for instance, and then to pepper and then to Rome and then to, uh, soldier and revolution and all of these other cats. But the root of that was Marley and the root of my hip hop was sugar hill gang. What, what do you guys? What do you guys think?
Speaker 4:you know bively, I remember my dad playing records. I mean george thurgood was like bad to bone when it first came out. I mean that song was just like hanger, like man battle bone was a banger. You know, when that first starts, that's a song you can start right from the beginning. You already know what's about to drop. You know what I mean. You can play it from the beginning. So, and all the records. But I mean again, he was always into even all the classic rock too. You know, I mean stuff like that.
Speaker 4:Yeah same, but uh nwa man anyway, is probably the one that kind of sunk into me. You know, I mean really talk about storytelling, storytelling and all that kind of stuff. You had the cassette tape and the blazer 87 blazer and we used to play it. You know what I mean. And just like you know all that funk, all that, you know the g funk and all that kind of stuff that was in there.
Speaker 5:So yeah, and going back to the feud with ice cube and easy and bumping those tapes too. Oh, man that's just bringing back memories used to cruise through, especially being in bakersfield all right.
Speaker 1:So we got a little bit of a background on both of you guys. What's your guys' thoughts on collaboration, Like how do you feel about?
Speaker 4:collaborating when you have multiple DJs. I love it. I mean I personally, everybody knows that For me. I mean I love it. You're notorious for it.
Speaker 1:You're notorious for exposing people to like the Condor Games, to Eagle Mountain, to other events that you're at. Chewy's even.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean I'm with it.
Speaker 2:I just want to say something man and props, I salute you. I salute you on that.
Speaker 5:man, real talk, yeah, for real because it takes a lot for someone to acknowledge other DJs and put them on another platform.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, some guys are just starting to, and the veterans, everything in between. Like you said, we all learn from everybody A different eye. It could get like high school. I get it. I know the DJs that don't talk to other DJs. I get it.
Speaker 3:Business is business.
Speaker 4:The people falls out, that's their own thing. Until that happens, between me and them.
Speaker 5:They'll filter themselves we should leave the drama aside. The competition shows within your skills, not you know within. Oh that's just that's what it is. Let's hate each other for it. It's, for instance the community.
Speaker 1:We have just sitting in this room, right, yeah, the most dope podcast. Yeah, we're not getting paid for this. We're not out doing a gig, we're not competing with each other. Six, seven djs, whoever's popped on the show, and just hanging out and talking. Real life, real music, real entertainment, um, and real events and the love of hip-hop love of hip-hop, yeah, yeah, whatever genre it may be, it's everything especially when you're in music when you're a turntablist, you got to be in every genre.
Speaker 5:We. That's why I respect everything too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just not just hip-hop, but that's obviously the better story of it so if people want to search you guys up on any of the social platforms, what are you guys's monikers? What are you guys at?
Speaker 4:I'm just the facebook. You know, dj richie, rich all right I'm same thing. Instagram. All right, dj richie rich.
Speaker 1:Facebook and instagram facebook, instagram dj dynamite facebook instagram dos muchos, the real dos muchos, the real dj dos muchos. Hey, I got Rich Facebook and Instagram. Facebook Instagram DJ Dynamite. Facebook Instagram Dos Muchos, the real Dos Muchos.
Speaker 2:The real DJ Dos Muchos, hey I got a question my guy who's the fake one. Whoever followed me up.
Speaker 1:Hey, whoever followed me?
Speaker 2:up Whoever come after me. That's the fake one man. Simple as that man. That's that. Yep, I'm the real one.
Speaker 1:you know what I mean is ilflow at ilflow or is ilflow at albert's ilflownet?
Speaker 4:oh yeah, oh shit. Yeah, I gotta get a website.
Speaker 1:This boy's official, he has his own domain and Gordy B, you know, just Gordy B. You can find me Gordy B or Gordon Baldridge. You know, I don't have anything crazy. I don't have a website yet, man.
Speaker 4:Got a podcast.
Speaker 1:Hey, yeah, everywhere.
Speaker 3:Because you know the social media platforms. They own all the data. And if you don't have your own online real estate, how are you going to collect your data, the people that rock with you if you have your own online real estate, you know, they always know where they can go check for you. So if Instagram or Facebook crashes like MySpace did, oh, you know, they can go to your website and you can capture that email.
Speaker 1:And we all still got those emails and still happy with each other hey man, if we were still on MySpace you'd guys be in my top eight man Top eight.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what that's about. Oh, you don't know that.
Speaker 1:Hey, MySpace, like the OG social media platform you had like your top eight friends that you got to put in place and display for other people to see man.
Speaker 4:I was just focused on putting a nice wallpaper and some music on it oh, music and wallpaper customization, and it was like coded too, it was a code.
Speaker 1:You had to copy and paste and put it on. You had to go to HTML and CSS to do that shit, man. Hey, you know what's so crazy?
Speaker 2:Is that that particular time when that shit was popping, I was already on Facebook Just because I was just trying to go do something different than everybody else. There's just BB and me when we go to a restaurant everybody.
Speaker 3:Are you on Threads?
Speaker 2:No, I'm not on Threads. Oh, that's a new one.
Speaker 4:It pops up. I don't have it, but it pops up right now.
Speaker 3:I'm not even on TikTok, I was on Threads. Oh, I'm on.
Speaker 2:TikTok. Oh, I'm on.
Speaker 3:I haven't adapted yet.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I. I'm on TikTok right now. Yeah, Boy you better get on.
Speaker 5:It's really hard. It's hard to adapt to the new era like that For me, it's hard to just record myself and put this up all the time. I do it a little bit, but you're too busy in the mix.
Speaker 2:Right, you know what I mean. I feel you.
Speaker 5:That's how I am, but I understand I got to get that content too, Right.
Speaker 2:I mean Like, like you know, my mind works so, like you know, if I'm thinking of something I'll post it. People will be like oh yeah, I remember that and we having conversations and stuff. It's like on TikTok, like the biggest one I got right now. When I put that post up, when I was over at the um, the apartments off of Friday after next, you know what I mean. I'm like guess whose house I'm leaving?
Speaker 1:and we're like oh, that's the apartments off of.
Speaker 2:Hey, I seen you in front of Day-Day's house man. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Popping a song in Friday's movie.
Speaker 2:Listen, that was something I remember, craig's house.
Speaker 1:He was in front of Chico's house too. Hey, listen.
Speaker 2:Hey, look, Look. I remember back in 1995, we went to go see Friday the first.
Speaker 3:Friday we were on.
Speaker 2:The first Friday, when it was on the first Friday, when it was on, we was sitting there and we was watching that movie and I told my boy I said look, I said before I'm gone, I said I'm going to smoke a blunt on that fucking porch on Friday and I did the first Friday movie. I did that and then after that I was like, well, I got to go ahead and hit.
Speaker 1:I got to get the other locations.
Speaker 4:Did you find Pinky's? You know what?
Speaker 2:I'm Pinky Knuckle. You know what? I didn't even think. I didn't even think about that. We know. It ain't no records, though, at least not now, at least not now it ain't no records. But you know what? That's the only, that's the only place I haven't been. I went to the. I went to the motherfucking the strip mall. I went to the strip mall. You know what I mean? I went to every other place in that movie. I've not been there. That's yeah, I gotta go there that's like a story.
Speaker 1:I think we should just make a date and go down there one day man, it's probably a dry cleaner or some shit, a mobile store it's located just so everybody knows, pinky's Records and Discs is located at 623 South Myrtle Avenue, monrovia, california, where the fuck is that Monrovia LA.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you know where that is. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Google Chat GBT. Yeah, I got it Huh.
Speaker 1:Is it still I be cheating?
Speaker 3:writing emails with chat GBT. I typed up a whole resume on that thing in five minutes.
Speaker 1:It's nice man Professional, got me a job and everything Okay, I typed up a whole resume on that thing in five minutes.
Speaker 2:It's nice man Professional, got me a job and everything. Oh, yeah, okay, okay, let me get one of them 805s, my G, that's my favorite beer. You want one. Yeah, oh yeah, oh, you got one. Which one are you going with? 805 or you got it.
Speaker 1:I'll go with the 805. Something I'm going to try one of them over there. A little something, something from my boy Rich. Let me get one of them, yeah these are good. Got it, I got it. Is that a little something? Something too? Yeah, oh, it's just a different.
Speaker 4:Is that a regular one, oh man.
Speaker 1:You didn't even give it. You wanted to keep it for yourself, didn't you Rich? I knew it, man.
Speaker 2:I got to drink it now, man. I got to see what's going on. You know we're trying to hold it down like that.
Speaker 1:Hey, I'm through mine almost, man, I'm good.
Speaker 4:Let's see what's going on with it, oh my little something, Little something something bottle.
Speaker 1:Lagunitas. Oh, cheers, fellas, Cheers. You got that opener. I appreciate you, Brody for inviting us. Yeah, man, I appreciate you guys coming over and hanging out. Man, we didn't used to be able to do this very much. Man, as Ilflow and Dos knows, we lived in a studio. We didn't have much room.
Speaker 2:Hey, but he's always been a good-ass host though man please. He's like come over anytime. Like, bro, I'm not coming over anytime. Yeah, yeah, yeah, real shit. Yeah, you know you don't wear that out. You don't, you don't you don't, you don't wear that out hey, man, I gave I.
Speaker 1:I give you the code to the front door man.
Speaker 2:You said that no, you don't wear that out. You'd be like man, like his back. Like you know, I've said that before.
Speaker 5:Nah, you have homies sleeping on the couch. No, you don't wear that out. You be like man, like his back. Like you know, I've said that before. Nah, you have homies sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah hey.
Speaker 5:but better homies sleeping on the couch than dead in the curb in the gutter, man, as long as they can sleep over here any time you want, man Heard that I'll help anybody out as long as they take an advantage.
Speaker 1:But you know right so, uh, let's talk about some events, some recent events, and and we'll we'll uh head around the room with it. I'll start with ill flow. Um, what are some of the the recent events that were just super dope, that you went to man some, uh, you know location, uh, I know you did some battles. You went to some bad you and you and dose went down south and watched the battle man. So, uh, let me know what, what, what's been going on, what's been awesome, and let me know the stuff that you're looking forward to, man, uh, we went to a battle called um, who wants to battle?
Speaker 3:uh, one of my boys, uh, my boys from the b junkie, ios, he, steezy javsy, he, uh, he entered and he got to, he, he, he dj'd on the undercard and uh, it was him versus another cat. Forgot the other cat's name, but the main card was uh, devin hype and uh, um, waddy jay. There you go, yeah, and waddy jay was, uh, you know he's a dj for a lot of big name artists, but he was currently uh, core days, uh tour dj. So like, uh, they, they battled it out and it was dope. Uh, me and dose went down there, um, and we got to a peep game and uh, it was inspiring and I might be battling it. I'm pretty sure I'm battling the next one next month. It's gonna be dope.
Speaker 2:I've been practicing, like you said. Like you said about cordae. Wasn't it crazy how okay Waddy J is Cordae's DJ. Okay, Remember when Devin Hype had that fucking drop from Cordae?
Speaker 3:I guarantee you that shit was AI. So when Waddy, when Devin Hype came out, he had a drop from Cordae and Cordae was talking smack about Waddy J talking about like yo yo yo get him Devin Hype. You know YDJ's cuts is trash.
Speaker 2:You know that shit was AI bro? I don't know, Unless he was like tapped in with Cordae or something like that, I don't know. Yeah, you gonna make me find out about that.
Speaker 3:Yup, but yeah we went down there to the battle and it was my birthday last week.
Speaker 5:Shout out to all the homies in here came through, I appreciate all y'all and we were all there yeah all you guys were there, definitely All the zone crew here.
Speaker 3:Yup, and we had a good time. Everybody took turns and yeah, hell, yeah, oh man, I'm on the fourth floor now. Damn, yeah, made it to the fourth floor, man, blessings. You got to kick it with the DJ homies.
Speaker 2:Oh, you talking about over the thing.
Speaker 3:Oh no, dose didn't make it, he was. Dose couldn't make it.
Speaker 1:Oh, I hit him up too. He said hey man, I'm driving back from Yuma right now.
Speaker 2:I was coming from Cottonwood. I was coming from Cottonwood Same thing, arizona, cottonwood. Because there's a Cottonwood here in Bakersfield. Yeah, cottonwood Arizona. That's not that far and you couldn't make it.
Speaker 3:I told you he wasn't shit. Cottonwood's the hood too.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that. But yeah, yeah and New Year's.
Speaker 3:Eve At 1933. Pull up.
Speaker 1:New Year's Eve 1933. Prohibition Off of Meany, meany, downing, downing, downing. What time does it start, brother?
Speaker 3:9pm. 9pm 9pm.
Speaker 1:All the way to ball drop.
Speaker 3:Yup, at 1.30 Till we closing it out. Man, you know what I mean. Turn it up for sure. How about you Dose.
Speaker 1:What you got going on brother.
Speaker 2:Man, same old, same old man. I'm over here. You know what I'm saying Wednesdays and Fridays. I mean it's Wednesday and Friday. What the hell am I talking about? I ain't got no motherfucking Wednesday gig. See, I'm sick, y'all, I'm crazy. Don't even worry about it. Anyway, look, friday and Saturdays I'm over at Santiago's man, you might catch me popping up somewhere else. You know what I'm saying. I might be holding it down at the hideout. You know what I'm saying my boy.
Speaker 2:You guys are over at the hideout. You know what I'm saying. With my boy, I'm trying to fill out the week. You know what I'm saying. Right now, it's just Fridays and Saturdays right now, man. You know, that's all I got going on right now, man, I'm looking for the next move. Anybody try to go on tour. You know what I'm saying. Holler at your boy. You know what I'm saying. Hey, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:You know about people going on tour. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Sub. Anybody want to get the crowd hype before you go out there and do your thing? You know what I'm saying. You might want to go ahead and bet on your boy right here.
Speaker 1:Get Dos Muchos. Again, it's at the Dos Muchos. Get your boy. He needs to go on tour with you guys.
Speaker 2:The real D-E-E-J-A-Y, d-o-s-m-u-c-h-o-z. That's all, y'all. That's all.
Speaker 1:How about you Dynamite what you been doing, man, and what you got coming up that you're really looking forward to?
Speaker 5:You know what I've been every Thursday I'm at Murphy's, and you know, friday I'm open. Now I've been helping this one over here at Santi's too. Yes, yes, let me, let you know.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying If, let you know, you know what I'm saying If he going down to Santi's, you know what I'm saying you got the dopest DJs in there. My boy right here, donnie might have been holding it down right here. You know what I'm saying. Got all the motherfucking black girls tripping right now.
Speaker 3:So you know what I'm saying? I'm going to go ahead and pull up.
Speaker 1:Does he have that light-skinned persuasion? Man yeah he on that them black girls used to love John B man there you go, since we're going.
Speaker 4:I hate that.
Speaker 3:I didn't call you.
Speaker 4:Craig.
Speaker 1:David man.
Speaker 5:I used to get that a lot, though that's crazy when I did bootstraps.
Speaker 2:I got it too. Y'all want to hear some dope music and have something to look at. Man, my boy Don might be holding it down over here.
Speaker 5:You know what I'm saying y'all. I had to compliment this one because otherwise you know who else is going to keep it up with them over there.
Speaker 1:It's hood over there, man.
Speaker 3:And it's right around the corner from us. It's right down the street right here, man.
Speaker 1:So yeah, man, if y'all need to come by after Santi's man come crash for us.
Speaker 2:Hey, we ain't bad talking, but if y'all really want to you know what I'm saying have fun and dance to some good music. You know what I'm saying? A little excitement, come to.
Speaker 3:Santiago's.
Speaker 2:You can't get that anywhere else either. Huh, you can't get that anywhere else? No, no, no, yeah, that vibe ain't nowhere else in Bakersfield field man, it's right there. And everybody that's upping that motherfucker on them thursdays, I mean them fridays and saturday nights they holding it down, man. So y'all know I'm speaking to the right people. Y'all know what it is they don't look no further.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Rich man, you've been all over the place. Man out at emc uh, you know, down at the convention, down, you know, doing the condors over at chewy's. Man, let us know what's going on in life.
Speaker 4:It's the next gig. Every Thursday out at Chewy's we got a car show, so that's the longest running car show we have in Bakersfield. So every Thursday, all clubs, all format, you know what I mean. So I have other DJs come out, come support Jules and JC and Raleigh. They all come out there and every Thursday we gonna spin it up. So you guys are all more than welcome to come out I was just about to ask right now.
Speaker 2:I'm about to ask tomorrow. It's like treat it like a gym hey, bro, you know, hey, you know, treat it like a gym and see and see. I wanted to go ahead and clarify something. I know what y'all heard me say right now, but don't get twisted, I can do it. I can go anywhere with it. Okay, I know I was talking about getting hood and stuff. Like I said, y'all can book me. I'm going to handle you motherfucking. I'm going to handle your tears.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying? Don't rock. He has the playlist how to Make White People Go Crazy Damn right, I'm going to have y'all.
Speaker 2:Yep, I'm going to have Meemaw out there on the floor.
Speaker 3:Don't you agree Right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but no, I was about to say that man Like yeah, that's what's cool about Chewy's it's an all-format spot and it's still a family restaurant too.
Speaker 1:So you kind of make sure you can't just go out there all wild? Yeah, Chewy's is definitely open format.
Speaker 3:It's open format Open format.
Speaker 1:Chewy's, you can play anything.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean. But it just depends on how late it is and if you out there drinking and want to have a good time and just kind of relax, you know, bringing the cars out. It's only till six to nine, so it's not a late night, it's more like a pre-game spot. Before you go to santiago's you go out there, have some dinner, listen some good music and then you go out to where you need to go yeah, three, you know anything, because you guys are done early yeah, even on a friday night, we're done by 11 o'clock yeah, you did, you know, over there on fr patio.
Speaker 4:So if you want live music, live bands they have that on.
Speaker 1:Fridays and Saturdays Got you.
Speaker 4:And then DJs on Thursdays.
Speaker 2:That sounds like a move for me before I go to Santiago's.
Speaker 5:Like, go over there and just get something to eat and chill the fuck out. I brought it around the corner so I can always pop through, yeah.
Speaker 4:Thursdays at 6 to 9. And then this Sunday I'll be at Eagle Mountain Casino. I got that Drew Hill 112.
Speaker 1:Drew Hill, 112. Eagle Mountain Casino, Porterville, California. The place to be the place to be EMC, the place to be with Richie Rich.
Speaker 4:Eagle Mountain's been good to me. I've been there a little over a year now.
Speaker 1:That's good man.
Speaker 4:I'll be out there for New Year's Eve too, when the ball dropped and we were just out there for the Raider tailgate. Yeah, we did the Raider tailgate out there last month, a month before that Ilfo went out there with me. We did the cowboy watch party out there, yeah, how did you do that I? Mean all the money's still the same color.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's the same color Green. I still green bags, man, let me see them green bags. Hey, there's 32 teams in the NFL, I'll do all 32. He's the biggest Browns fan this month, hey.
Speaker 2:Rich said nigga my ringer on. You know what I mean. It's on my ringer on.
Speaker 3:It's on. You know what I mean. I mean they know I can rock the parties. What's going on on New Year's? What'd you?
Speaker 4:say New Year's Eve over there at Eagle Mountain Casino. So we got Robin Thicke out there.
Speaker 1:He's performing two shows, two at 9, and I'll be out there 9-1-1 right there on the casino floor of the. Ember Bar. So that's open. Rich is right in the middle, the heart of the casino, at the Ember Bar. Right in the middle, drinks hanging out, gambling everything. It's central to everything. I got another thing to say.
Speaker 5:You know, what's crazy is also the stagehand for the shows. I've done the background scene done the lights everything sound setup. I help with the crews out there too but when you get busy and you're DJing. That's my other life too. My thing is DJing, but doing the stage hand stuff when you get into that, you appreciate, that, you know what I mean you most definitely do they got a stage out there too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they got a big like center, like a big it's own building Got you, you know, hey, you didn't remember, oh who
Speaker 1:was it that got booed off and left and got all pissed off George. Lopez. Yeah, I was there actually hey, but y'all didn't pee.
Speaker 4:I did too.
Speaker 2:I DJ'd that party that day hey listeners, y'all didn't pee the game right now. When my boy Elflo was asking they're going to be over there robbing thick, I got to go ahead and get my shit together and see what I'm going to do on my promo.
Speaker 4:See that's what's going on right now. I just wanted to tell them You're like, what time? Hey, I'm on the same time you are.
Speaker 3:He's on promo mode, I was just trying to lob it to him because we skipped past what Mr Lobby did.
Speaker 2:I know that I was trying. They might be sliding out there. Let me try to keep some of these motherfuckers down.
Speaker 4:If you in Bakersfield, you're gonna slide in 1933.
Speaker 2:You're gonna be out in Porterville in a casino. Oh yeah, you're at 33. I'm tripping. I'm in Porterville.
Speaker 4:I'm in Porterville. Yeah, I'm going to kill all of it.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have a New Year's party here at the crib.
Speaker 4:Why not?
Speaker 2:Me and Flo can't be here. I ain't got shit popping on New Year's.
Speaker 5:I ain't got nothing, nothing lined up, yet I know. It's always last moment stuff, I know, I know.
Speaker 3:I always try to leave that open too for the homies, because I know like I catch a bag or catch a gig, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Get that Ilflo. I love you, brother, but my wife is going to make me go to Eagle Mountain Like a casino. She don't give two shits about Rich, she don't give two shits about. Robin Thicke, she wants to go play.
Speaker 4:Nothing wrong with that singer white boy out there oh, frank sinatra ass but uh, other than that, if you guys want to hit up the condors game we got. We got three games in between now and new year's two oh, I'm coming to one of them. Yeah, I'm gonna be there december 27th yeah, gordon, you're going to be dropping a set. Ilflo's already dropped a set. I got to get you guys out there.
Speaker 5:Before, though, I actually dropped a set a long time ago, I don't know, it was back in the days.
Speaker 4:Where at?
Speaker 5:At Condors Games.
Speaker 4:Oh man. But, it was. I can't in-game DJ, so any fight song you hear goal song from the beginning from Doors Open, from Doors Open all the way to the last song. Yeah, you hear me out there.
Speaker 5:That's dope, I know you got control.
Speaker 4:So, talking about back production. Yeah, I'm on a headset with the whole crew. Mike's hard announcing.
Speaker 2:He don't have every DJ come drop set he be showing love.
Speaker 5:I've been there like three, four times, and when he put the Britney Spears headset on nigga, it's game time.
Speaker 1:Game time. It's a big difference when you got it locked in.
Speaker 5:You got the sound and everything locked in too.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what the first time Rich invited me to go out. There was probably a year ago near the same time, and I was super, super new to DJing. And I'll tell you what man it meant the world to me to see my logo up on the Jumbo truck.
Speaker 5:I got a picture of that shit man. I see that shit.
Speaker 2:I said you know, after everybody in New Arizona, I might as well be at the Staples Center and Dos Moussa dropped his big-ass sample too out there at the arena, oh man. The NBA Jam sample that he has.
Speaker 5:He said Dos Moussa, this boy got some intros. I was like bro, Music all playing through the whole stadium.
Speaker 3:You were taking a piss in the restroom. It's out there too.
Speaker 2:I got texts saying man, you up in here, I heard you right now, I heard you say DJ those motos for you. You know what I'm saying? Beggar's Bill, california. I said yep, it. I said yep.
Speaker 3:It's me. He put the barbershop I was working at at the time he did me a favor. He put the logo on. I invited the owner. The owner was like yo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, give him all the tickets. It's the city, it's the city, it is man.
Speaker 4:The Connors is the biggest stage in any given day. It's always front of me. You know what I mean On a slow night, but you know you get the teddy bear toss.
Speaker 1:And how many is in attendance for that brother? 8,500.
Speaker 4:You know, what I mean and you're rocking it.
Speaker 1:All those people you're reaching out to. That's a great thing. I saw merch there.
Speaker 4:Did they hook you up with that custom merch? Yeah, I got DJ Richie Rich. Hey, everybody know down Condors Bakersfield you can
Speaker 1:go get some official Condor Richie, rich merch.
Speaker 4:We're in the gift shop right there. We're in the front.
Speaker 2:Damn yeah, they take care of me, though, man they do.
Speaker 4:That's rock. That's why I like bringing all the DJs In our community. You know what I mean. You know what.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 4:Like I said, I've had almost I've had a lot of DJs Just open up sets. You know what I mean. So I got the rest of the year.
Speaker 5:I mean, I do gotta come in One time with you.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I got you, man. You know, what that has really gotta say About you Is your confidence in yourself and the people that you allow into your circle and to be able to trust those individuals in the circle.
Speaker 5:But yeah, very true, because we live in a city where it's hard to trust people, but especially in the music period, you know, hey, real shit like, like that that right there no yeah, speaks your comfortability miles away they like hey he, he is unbothered you are never going to take my job.
Speaker 1:So I'm right. At least I know the condo that's going to be hard to take out you got to train for that.
Speaker 4:I have to train you to take my job real talk, real talk.
Speaker 5:So yeah, when you got the skills to back up and you've been established in a place, no one can really take that from you.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean. That's how it comes down to, damn right. That's fun, man. It's probably one of the greatest community gigs I got.
Speaker 1:What is it, the old Scarface saying man? A man has two things His balls and his word. There you go, man. He got your balls and your word. That's all you have as a man.
Speaker 3:Don't break them for anybody. Jamming you up for autographs and stuff now yeah, all the time yeah I just signed one last night too.
Speaker 4:Yeah look, rosemont pageant yeah I've seen it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So last night, yeah, I did the wine and whiskey uh event that we have for the condors it's dope man, like I mean even at the games man, I'll sign hats and pucks and stuff with the kids they want to take a picture with me, you know I mean, but it's cool because, like, I've been there seven seasons.
Speaker 4:So these kids, I've already seen these kids grow up already and they're season ticket holders you know, I've seen them when they were like all six years old and now they're like little teenagers. Now you know what I mean. Like damn, like one of my kids yeah, they're all you know.
Speaker 2:I know you're playing, but you could look at it in a sense of like you pretty much crafted these people's musical taste, yeah yeah, yeah, you have a major influence on them, especially if they're hockey fans and Condor fans and they associate some of the music that the Condors DJ plays and it's molded them throughout their life.
Speaker 4:They hit me up all the time hey, what's that playlist, what's that song?
Speaker 1:you just played what's this? Yeah, there, it is what's this, and it was cool too like.
Speaker 4:I'll answer those texts, like during the game somebody hit I guess he's in ticket holders and they'll message me on Instagram because you got the QR code up on the Jumbotron.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, they just messaged me right there on my DMs, so I know that, so they hit me.
Speaker 4:Hey, rich, can I play this? And then I'll play it, and they'll be like you make people feel special.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what I mean. Those are memories that somebody has made that. Hey, I hit Rich up and he went out of his way and he played the track that I asked him to play.
Speaker 4:And we'll troll people. Hey, my buddy hates Eminem. You know, boom Play, lose Yourself.
Speaker 2:Boom. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:And the whole crew's right there, just like, yeah, and the guy's something.
Speaker 2:Man, you are an asset to this community. Okay, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3:I'm moving out here myself and I've been learning.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying? How everything move around here yeah, yeah. Just to hear these things, especially going there, and I know what your job entails and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah and like what he was saying about the text messages and stuff. I had to do a basketball game. One's like look bro, they got that all on a computer for me, bro, I don't know how to get it off here. I'm sorry, you know me, I'm going to figure it out.
Speaker 4:Even that too.
Speaker 2:But, like I said, he asked me back, just like these people that he's talking about right now, bro, and then just knowing how you're involved, bro keep up the good work, bro.
Speaker 5:I mean that I appreciate it.
Speaker 4:Appreciate it even that. I know you reach out to people too. You know my boy, dante. Dante, yeah, yeah, he's the manager over there. Chewie's even the other night, yeah, yeah, so I met him out there and he's a great dude man, dante, yeah, dj d cross.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we work great together. Um, that's also the other night too, I remembered, on the quinceanera oh yeah I seen him calling you.
Speaker 4:I was right next to him. Oh really, yeah, advice from? Why are you getting advice from right next to him? He called me man. I was in the middle of saying that, to have that layout this one has that format.
Speaker 5:And that's a great thing too, because I do weddings, having a quinceanera format and everything else, and knowing that and also adapting back to the other scenes.
Speaker 4:you got to be well-rounded no-transcript, so make sure you know you get with them and get the songs. He's all okay. Well, this happened like in like 10 minutes I'm like oh, oh, no, you're literally there.
Speaker 1:You're like blindsided.
Speaker 3:Okay, never mind, all right game changer Audible, audible, audible right now I go all right, look man, this is what you're going to do.
Speaker 4:You're going to play my Girl, just in case you got nothing.
Speaker 3:You know what?
Speaker 2:I mean Right, right, you're going to play that one.
Speaker 4:Throw that on a little bit. You know what I?
Speaker 2:mean.
Speaker 4:And then you're going to do their little talking, do the ceremony, boom, boom, and you're going to go into the similar to a wedding almost exactly to a wedding, just a little extra. Sometimes I might do a candle and a doll and a crown and a shoe and like gosh.
Speaker 1:I'm doing one next year, so I'm definitely going to have to pick some. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5:You have it on point. I'm used to weddings format. That's it.
Speaker 4:I got the sweet 16. I got a bar mitzvah, one I've never done one.
Speaker 3:I always want to do a bar mitzvah.
Speaker 5:I've never done a bar mitzvah and those things. You got to learn to be corporate.
Speaker 1:You got to If you want to make the big bucks Market yourself. I can do all of these In LA though. All those kind of gigs demographic, we don't have that demographic.
Speaker 5:It's not a huge community here, yeah, even that some of them trying to low budget even with doing weddings oh yeah for this, like you realize, what we gotta bring out. We gotta do stand there for that.
Speaker 1:How many hours setting up everything from beginning and then leave and and and you know, scroll through social media and everybody's seen this. But they say it's like playing tetris on level nine for four hours.
Speaker 4:That's what DJing is Playing Tetris on level 9 for 4 hours, pieces just coming and that's just like a club or a bar.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Santiago. That's 6 hours. That's even worse bro I'll tell you.
Speaker 5:You know how many people I came in straight. They come straight from the bar with their phone in their hand, straight in your face, straight to the DJ booth. Here you go, play this right now. I want Megan, like okay, yeah, man. Let me get into it. I'm cooking already.
Speaker 1:Yeah we got the whole dance floor going Like trust me, I will get to it, it's in my repertoire, it's in my toolbox.
Speaker 5:Sometimes it's the drunk birthday girl coming straight in in and she's demanding. But you know how it goes. We have to deal with it.
Speaker 2:Her baby daddy told her that one time he was finna.
Speaker 3:Come back home and he never came back, so they had trust issues.
Speaker 2:They ain't trying to I want my song right now, motherfucker I ain't trying to hear that shit.
Speaker 4:The biggest thing that stressed me out about DJing is honestly the wedding, the ceremonies. That's my secret. I could mix it up for four or five hours all day and that's this motherfucker him and Countdown a couple other motherfuckers.
Speaker 2:They be like oh man, that shit ain't nothing.
Speaker 4:I'm like y'all just stripping like a motherfucker, because I think we're walking down that aisle.
Speaker 1:You got press play one time, yes, one time, and it has to be the right song at the right volume, relying on you the whole time. That's their one moment, their one special tattoo artist in that one spot that right, that's right, it is.
Speaker 1:That's how I look at it, bro, like you know one of my biggest, my biggest uh failures as a wedding dj and I haven't failed out loud, but I forget their names all the time and I have to keep their. I have to keep the paper or the, the iphone up, or the the tablet up, or something that says mr and m Rhodes or whatever, or the first names.
Speaker 4:I'll say it out loud on the way over in the car Do you yeah? Just that muscle memory. Yeah, I see he studied that. That's the thing Sometimes when we're coming into it.
Speaker 5:I work with Dante, so I have him as the emcee, so he remembers it, and I just got to handle everything else. But we work well together.
Speaker 4:And then when he gets up, hey, mix.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, and we have a great MC.
Speaker 4:We have a great MC. It's dope Like my boy, jc from ASM man. He's the best MC I've ever had and I'll have him. He'll take control. He'll walk out there right in the middle of the crowd.
Speaker 5:You know, what I mean and some people just got it, like that.
Speaker 4:I mean they just got it, that's his sword. He tells me that's my sword. You know, I go out there with the wireless mic and I got it and he does man.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you guys something and I'm going to steal it from you guys If you guys have some great things that you do throughout the wedding, there's one thing is the anniversary dance yeah, I like that, and you get everybody out there. And then you, you get out there on the mic and you say, okay, everybody that's been married less than five years exit, right. And then it gets whittled down and then everybody that's been married 15 years or less exit, and eventually it's just the bride and the groom and some old couple that's been married for 66 years man, usually their grandparents.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's an amazing thing, because you can actually see that that's a possibility that my marriage could go 63 years. Yeah, these peoples did. Not only do I know that they, but because I'm the only two left on the floor, that's who I'm going for advice for I get married I'm going to the people that've been married 66 years and that's the cherry on top.
Speaker 4:That's what I do. I have that couple, get them, I give them the mic and let them give them some advice, right there they're on the spot.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, see, that's an even better addition. I'm going to steal that brother.
Speaker 5:Yeah, no, you got to, yeah yeah yeah, but even now, when you know you have that couple.
Speaker 4:You leave the married couple on there and then let them don't, don't excuse.
Speaker 1:They're, they're excluded, they're, they're excluded. Married couple is excluded.
Speaker 5:I'm talking about that old school couple.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and, and and they already know that when you have a meeting, they already know who's going to be out there, cause we already planned this. They they chose a song that they want for the anniversary dance and we let, and then I tell them get them a gift. You know what I mean, whether it's a card, a gift card that I drink and give them a bottle of wine, whatever it is, and then, yeah, and then at the end you give them the mic and then have them give them advice. You know how'd you stay married 63 years, or whatever?
Speaker 1:yeah, wow, what's the best advice you?
Speaker 4:could give your you know your grandson or your granddaughter right stealing that man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I'll give you credit, hey, so I learned this from my boy dj richie, rich, but I gotta do it.
Speaker 4:So here I learned that from a dj on youtube. Yeah, exactly geeking out, you know mc tips, yeah yeah but make it personal having the notes. Oh yeah, you know what I?
Speaker 5:mean while you're doing weddings yeah sometimes you forget little things, but the details, man, yeah, you definitely, yeah, you definitely do. Next time, tells do matter.
Speaker 1:And then I also have an issue of miss and misses Right.
Speaker 4:Miss yeah, the singular versus the you know, you know my pet peeve is making sure you say wedding party, it's not the bridal party, it's the wedding party. The wedding party, wedding party is both sides. Bridal party is just the girls, bridal party is for the bride and the groom party is the groom. Yeah, but everybody says bridal party.
Speaker 1:It's a wedding party. It's the entirety of the wedding party. It's the wedding party, and then it branches down to the groom and the bride.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you never separate them, yeah groom bride newlyweds. I mean, sometimes you might have the groomsmen walk on one side and the bridal party walk on the other side, right, and that's how you would use that term. At the end of the day, it's always the wedding party.
Speaker 1:Man Dose has some stuff going on over here.
Speaker 4:This boy's conducting some business over here?
Speaker 2:No, I'm not, I'm on a hey man. Stop telling stories on me, man. You got no cameras, you got no proof.
Speaker 1:Dose is booking gigs right now. No, I'm not hey man, this isn't live yet man.
Speaker 2:So they haven't called you for that road gig yet. No, no, no, no. I'm over here talking to that boy we was talking about earlier, devin Hype, about how he had that diss. You know what I'm saying? How he had that motherfucker Cordae talking shit about the dude.
Speaker 4:Oh, you already did the investigation earlier.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he hit me back right now.
Speaker 5:man Shout out to my boy, devin Hype. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to tag my boy was right. Yeah, yeah, devin Hype is really dope. Yeah, he was definitely dope. Yeah, he was out.
Speaker 4:At Palm Springs Out there doing some stuff In Coachella With DJ Ernell Out there. He has Rhythm and Rhythm and Brunch, so shout out to them.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, what's the?
Speaker 3:DJ's name.
Speaker 4:Ernell Ernell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's the one you were Talking about last time, man In.
Speaker 2:LA and.
Speaker 1:San Francisco the R&B, ribs and R&B.
Speaker 3:Rhythm and.
Speaker 4:Brunch.
Speaker 3:Let me see, I'm looking on Instagram right now R&B and Ribs.
Speaker 4:Yeah, r&b and Ribs. That's a bigger one, that's the one out of San Francisco.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4:That's a dope one too. This one's called, I think, Rhythm and Brunch.
Speaker 5:Let me see, and we to see, and we got a couple of those in bakersfield now right, well, that's why I'm trying to that's the reason why I'm trying to make that 30 plus club or maybe 25 plus club. But us no phones. Leave at the house, at the car disconnect.
Speaker 4:I did that we collabed on one that was a 30 and over. Yeah, I think they wanted 35 and over the old school r&b festival I dj'd yep, that was pretty dope.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was nice that was uh by des right, yeah, by des p, yeah, yeah des uh arranged that. Des set that up. She was the event coordinator for that. She did a great job, I think man yeah, for the first one, it was good.
Speaker 4:I think we had who provided sound out there um, that was the dj technique, technique, I'm, I'm elite, elite events, elite audios. Elite events I had eight teens Arrays RCFs. Yeah, with the flying five each on each side.
Speaker 1:So we had about ten. You had some power Ten yeah, I don't even know, what them speaking is.
Speaker 5:Those are probably the PacWest sound.
Speaker 2:They're the ones that fan.
Speaker 4:Oh, the fan ones, Okay yeah, from a neat, a neat advance my boy technique, yeah, he has all that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah he was playing with some big shit. It was dope. He had good equipment. Man, whenever I see him, whenever I see him, we got a mixer on the other end, just like running the mixer you know you in something, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:The guys that do.
Speaker 2:looking at you giving you the thumbs up, I don't give a sound guy nigga. I know we in it, we in it, we in it.
Speaker 1:You were talking about the 30.
Speaker 2:And over.
Speaker 1:Marion and I were talking earlier, a couple days earlier we were talking about like an EDM. There's nothing EDM in Bakersfield.
Speaker 5:Here's a question for you on that one I do know.
Speaker 4:EDM set, though, for my warm-ups with the Condors though, yeah, so.
Speaker 1:EDM does not really exist in. Bakersfield, like it does in LA, San Diego, San Francisco, you know, Chicago, New York, other areas right.
Speaker 5:It does and it doesn't, it depends on the spot. I mean I know a lot of the homies that do it at the Mint.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, oh, is that the Rectify? Yeah?
Speaker 5:Rectify vinyl set Richard Duvall. That's an EDM House.
Speaker 4:That's what I'm saying. House techno.
Speaker 5:EDM is everything. There's so many genres. This is where I be quiet Anything over 120.
Speaker 3:That's what a lot of people who don't know the difference between the genres. That's what they be thinking. They be hearing a house. You playing EDM Like. No, this is a house. No, this is a house. It's a different genre. That's 122. I'm not even 125. There's different styles of house.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, oh, you could house on every. You could throw a house on every genre you every genre.
Speaker 3:The 90s house got the R&B singers on it. Yeah, Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 5:Yeah, because everything is remixing nowadays too.
Speaker 4:Especially nowadays.
Speaker 1:What did they say about rap?
Speaker 5:music ain't the same without the R&B hook on it from back in the days I think that was the 90s, that was the 90s thing, but it wasn't a classic.
Speaker 2:That reminds me of my home. Niggas be over here recording music and shit and he be like you know what this need? You just need to have a female singing on the hook man. Stop, it, man Stop.
Speaker 4:They all did that. The Bone Thugs did that when they had those chicks.
Speaker 2:Every song he be like man you just need to have a female on here. Man, get out of here. I'm like no, no, you know what I mean. That was a you know. Once that marriage went down, you know it was. I'd say the height is like the Mary J.
Speaker 4:Blige and Method man. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, mariah Carey, mariah Carey was doing it. Yeah, you know what I mean. And all the women rappers were real big back then, like Foxy.
Speaker 2:Kim, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:It's always been. That's the dope. You know what I mean. Brat Brat without the MC light. Roxy Brown from like the.
Speaker 2:Rush Hour sound. Matifa, what's that? Yeah, a big Batman and Jammer oh, and Aaliyah and DMX yeah, the Romeo Must Die. Yeah, back in One Piece, back in One Piece. Yes, yep, gotcha yep.
Speaker 4:Romeo Must Die. That's the first movie I took my wife to no shit, no matter how long that movie is, that's like 1999, that's 2001.
Speaker 1:Hey, tell me you're not in the right place right now. If we just talked about that, it was like 99, it was like 99.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah, man man, no, no, no no, no, it wasn't 98, it was.
Speaker 2:It had to have been 2001 or 2000. I I'm going to say 2001. I'm laying on 2001.
Speaker 4:You know, it might not have been the first movie, but I just remember there was a big old fight in there. Okay, yeah, that's important.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, for real, it was a scene. No, no, real shit.
Speaker 4:The guy got in a fight. He had his wife or girlfriend walk down and some guy whistled at her.
Speaker 2:Ooh.
Speaker 4:That's up and the two guys were up on the top and he's like, oh, and he's like what? And the wife's like no, no, don't do that. But then they called him out like yeah, listen to your wife, or be a little bitch and listen to your wife. And then, boom, you walked out.
Speaker 1:I got one for you guys In the movies Jet Li or Jackie Chan. Oh shit, jet Li, jet Li.
Speaker 2:I agree.
Speaker 1:All going with Jet Li. Jackie Chan has the humor factor and that's cool and he's athletic and everything else, but I like Jet Li man.
Speaker 2:I'm a Jet Li motherfucker, I don't care.
Speaker 4:One of my favorite movies is it man.
Speaker 1:Oh it man. And then how about the Ong Box?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, tony Jaa, I know my shit, I know my shit, I know my shit.
Speaker 1:That's because karate and hip-hop are synonymous, right RZA.
Speaker 5:That goes back to the Wu-Tang man with the iron fists.
Speaker 2:That's what's so crazy about them when they be talking about that Kung Fu Theater shit, we was watching Kung Fu Theater on Saturday.
Speaker 1:GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip.
Speaker 2:I was watching the same. I was watching the same shit. I'm watching all Kung Fu Theater. I'm watching the shit. You know what I'm saying on the Arizona station on Saturday afternoons I'm watching all this shit. So when the Wu-Tang came out, I was like I know you.
Speaker 1:I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:I can relate. Jizz's album came out when he had that fucking uh a show gun, swords or no liquid sword. When he had that show gun assassins from that from the movie show gun assassin. I was like okay, I'm fucking with you. Yeah, I know where that's from you know, what I mean? Yeah, yeah, that's my shit right there hey, so, uh, new artists.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna start with ill flow over here. Who's a new artist that's on your radar, uh, that you have on, uh in the back pocket ready to drop on people?
Speaker 3:Doshi, she's signed to TDE. I know you're talking about her and she's bossing.
Speaker 5:Yeah, she just got floated and I just went through her stuff recently and like she gonna be that new one, I know.
Speaker 3:Man. She like to me like. She's like the female Kendrick when Kendrick first started right now.
Speaker 3:Like when he and and like uh, I just seen an interview where they said, um, where she, she's on TDE, she hasn't even met Kendrick, Right, she's like man, I haven't met him yet. And they were, like you about to go on that tour with SZA and him, Ain't you Like? Like? She said she ain't met him, but it sounds like she's about to go on tour with Kendrick and SZA and TDE puts on this like this holiday toy drive every year in Watts, because the owner of TDE is from Watts, so is J-Rock and they throw this free concert every year and it's cool to see like they throw on the whole TDE lineup. And we got a Bakersfield artist that's from Bakersfield, that's on TDE and he's actually going to be there to perform. And it's just ill to see like Kendrick's not signed to TDE, no more. He's out of his deal but being that he's like you know, those are his people and he's still popping up Like, as big as he is, he's still popping up like as big as he is, he's the biggest right now.
Speaker 3:And he's still popping up and he's still doing the toy drive for free and he took Rihanna out there a couple years back. You know what I mean. But to see Doshi man, I went through her records and one of her records really, really, really hit me. I related to it. You know what I mean. So yo, she's spitting, yo, I'm rocking with her, man, I hope she gets everything, man. And if y'all don't know about Doshi man, make sure y'all go check out Doshi, because she's raw, she's busting, she's busting hard, she can sing, she's down with TDE and them and yeah, man, it's going down. You know what I'm saying. So y'all check out for Doshi, doshi.
Speaker 1:Alright, so you got Doshi, doshi, doshi is Illflow's pick man. I'm gonna, I'm gonna hit it over Over to man. Let's go. Dynamite man, dynamite Yo, who, you, who, you picking man.
Speaker 5:Right now For me. It'd Well. For me it'd be Joyner Lucas. Oh, joyner Lucas, joyner's dope. He's always been dope, but his shit's more harder than ever. His new album is sick. I got some slumpers that you know. You got those hits that some people only appreciate until it's on the radio. You know how it goes.
Speaker 3:My boy's passing out pizza right now. Man, this is fire. So you know, appreciate you, bro.
Speaker 4:Thank you, look at those some dominoes hey, have you heard all that ruffling?
Speaker 3:I'm trying to go to his party anytime he throw it. If it felt like this, I feel like it's the it's the sidekick, right here.
Speaker 1:It's the better half man, she, she, uh. She has molded me and changed me, and uh, otherwise this place would probably look like a barracks we're just missing like a big old balloon arch right now.
Speaker 4:That's all we're missing. Missing Just white walls, man.
Speaker 1:You know some milk crates to hold the TV up. You know none of this shit's important to me, man. So yeah, it's all her. It makes this shit comfy, cozy.
Speaker 4:Now, I don't have a new artist right now, but I mean that new Kendrick album that just came out.
Speaker 1:Oh man, tv up squabble Up. Who's the one with?
Speaker 4:SZA. It was dope dropping it at the arena the.
Speaker 1:SZA track is the grown folk track. Kendrick and SZA that's the grown folk track. They've been saying that it's not a real album, it's a mixtape.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it is a mixtape.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they say it's a mixtape and they say there's two Grand Nationals.
Speaker 5:So is there a mixtape? And they say there's two grand nationals, so is there a mixtape? Number two coming. Apparently he's supposed to make another album after this, a real album like the one like Not Like Us.
Speaker 4:I mean that should be on the album, but this is just a straight mixtape. I mean he covered different beats.
Speaker 3:He was you know, I mean Nas.
Speaker 5:One Mike, and all that you know, I got the new remix. You see that new.
Speaker 4:The Richie remix that I dropped. Uh uh the one.
Speaker 5:Yeah, the Richie, yeah, yeah, yeah, richie. That's my new drop. Now, richie.
Speaker 1:I'm about to steal that man. Yeah, yeah, gordy B Gordy.
Speaker 4:I got a couple homies. Always when they see me, they'll say Richie you know. So it's like oh man, you know you know Right, say, richie, you know.
Speaker 5:So it's like, oh man, you know, you know right. That's a classic that's nice man.
Speaker 1:And then what you mixing? You mixing uh that straight over to uh two of America's Most Wanted or something, or into some Pac, since he was referencing Pac in there it depends like oh, I did the quinceanera.
Speaker 5:One of the girls asked me for hit him up when Tupac oh yeah but you know, mom was like we old school, this is what we want. Yeah, all right, that happens, let's go somebody just sent me that on tiktok.
Speaker 1:Uh, they they let their kid listen to hit him up and the kid was like that's pretty extreme. It's like, hey, that was our era you. We grew up different man Y'all just soft as baby shit.
Speaker 5:Nowadays, man, the new era is different. Y'all only want to play video games and be inside. Thank you, y'all used to be outside.
Speaker 1:Yeah, drinking out the water hose, getting some lead and contamination, some pesticides in you.
Speaker 5:Apparently that was irresponsible too. Oh yeah, it's funny how everything do that.
Speaker 1:They had a car. Everything changes man. Doctors used to smoke and they used to display doctors smoking as a status thing as like, hey, I'm going to start smoking too.
Speaker 4:Cocaine and heroin. Cocaine was in coca.
Speaker 5:That's how they actually got their name. I just found out the other day. That's what was the realness, and how do we change that and market it better?
Speaker 1:Some medio litro y coca.
Speaker 5:Did you even know that Coca-Cola I found this out too. Coca-cola actually almost invented Christmas, in a sense Because of their Because of their whole marketing. Because they couldn't sell In the winter time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, because you don't want to drink something cold when it's cold.
Speaker 5:That's why they put Santa Claus and came up with the whole thing.
Speaker 1:Oh, the polar bears man, I'm just finding this out.
Speaker 2:This was back in the 1920s, that's just like I was telling my kids the other day about the song Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. That was a commercial for motherfucking Sears. If you look up the, if you look up the, the, who owns it?
Speaker 1:sears owns that song, oh wow well, I mean what anheuser busch did, the same thing with the big ass clydesdales in the snow, right? That's a christmas marketing thing too for them, right?
Speaker 5:true, cold beer, cold coke, yeah yeah, falling into, uh uh, what is that Mandela effect and everything being washed and not in real life?
Speaker 1:I hate to call myself a conspiracy theorist, but I like to think of myself as an open thinker man, a free thinker. I'm like hey man. I remember the guy had a monocle on his eye, the Monopoly dude man, what the hell happened to that guy's monocle? Now, he doesn't never had one, apparently Shazam, they said on his eye the Monopoly dude man, what the hell happened to that guy's monocle? Now, he doesn't never had one, apparently what's the other one, shazam.
Speaker 1:Shazam. They said, shaq was never a genie. Yes, I remember he was a genie.
Speaker 4:How about the one in Sinbad?
Speaker 1:No, the one with Sinbad, sinbad, I remember he was a genie man, I don't remember that oh man yeah, you're making me look bad Dose.
Speaker 5:You're making me look a little crazy.
Speaker 4:He got caught up in the effect. That's why I don't know everything.
Speaker 1:I don't know everything. It's glitches in the matrix.
Speaker 4:If it was a video, game, He'd be all out of it. Oh, hey.
Speaker 1:Dose knows games man, no man.
Speaker 3:You didn't have that game back team all day First pick.
Speaker 2:First pick, first pick on my team Don't talk to me. On my team I got you that boy, got everything right.
Speaker 3:I got you.
Speaker 1:Just ignorant amount of knowledge man.
Speaker 4:Hey, man, hey, a couple months ago I sent you that little thing on Instagram, remember? I was talking about the Bone.
Speaker 3:Thugs Harmony that was on that video game. They sampled that song.
Speaker 4:I remember you were like bro. I knew that before, even this came out and he sent me the receipts too. He sent me the screenshots from 2007 or 2012.
Speaker 2:I posted this shit years ago. Man, I've been knowing that when I first heard that song, it was that Bone Thugs in Harmony, land of the Heartless, I it was that Bone Thugs-Harmony, it's not the Land of the Heartless. I can't think of the name of the song. It comes from the Sega game Eternal Champions, yep, and I was like that's from that shit.
Speaker 4:I remember when it came out because I was playing it, but it wasn't even like an introduction was like when you press pause, like it was just like when you press pause and it does that little
Speaker 2:song. It's that, that one, that yeah, yeah, yeah. And they sample that Doom, doom, doom, doom, dude, it's from that game and there's another. They sample two songs from that game that one and the one of the original Crossroads, not the remix, you know the boom, boom, boom, the original one that that song, that beat, is from that same game, both of those motherfuckers from that same game. Both of those motherfuckers were in that same game because we was playing that game tough at the time.
Speaker 4:You know, those guys are just smoking weed.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 4:I'm pausing, just like and bro and guess what?
Speaker 2:The game wasn't even all that. The game wasn't about shit.
Speaker 4:Back then, though, that's why it was on pause. No, no, no you had Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 3:You had.
Speaker 2:Street Fighter at that time, nigga, and this was a game made by Sega, that was only on Sega and it wasn't about shit bro.
Speaker 3:It wasn't that good, bro, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1:Are they, hey? Which ones did you order, babe?
Speaker 4:The ones that were too hot.
Speaker 1:Booty's gonna be burning.
Speaker 5:Floor play.
Speaker 1:Hey, so if we all got together and we wanted to create the uh, the dopest soundtrack, the dopest soundtrack, and we got to go around this room and we got to pick a track that has to be on this most dope soundtrack, I'm going to start and I'm going to go with Mac Dre.
Speaker 4:I would have but not everybody's on the Mac Miller. We all would have thought that one Easy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, man, I know my answer Planet Rock, planet Rock, it's got to be Nipsey. You got to have what's your answer Planet Rock.
Speaker 3:Planet Rock, so so so that is classic. It's got to be Nipsey. You got to have some kind of Nipsey on there Do you, I think, for me, I'm just saying I think for me it would be like the Gap Band, bro, yeah.
Speaker 1:Some funk.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but their catalog is deep though everybody samples funk, yeah, guy band and Rick James. You know they're probably my top two. Alright, yeah, that's classic. Go to alright and I love old school period.
Speaker 1:Who's yours man for?
Speaker 5:me that brought me back back into the real hip hop underground scene too was Zion and I and the Grouch Silly Putty okay. I remember that, that futuristic sound when Ampli was bringing it.
Speaker 5:A lot of people don't even know the producer Ampli. But beyond that, that's another great DJ too. Back in the day, that was early 2000s, right when the underground scene was barely blowing up. You're talking about hieroglyphics out there. You know what I mean. There's so many that could go on that. I remember working out in Sacramento with the homies and they inspired me hey, listen to this. And it sparked that point. I was like yo, what is this? I need to be in that scene, I want that, I want to hear it, I want more. It wasn't just the mainstream part, it was the underground part, because that means there was a different part of the world, of what hip hop was in the underground world.
Speaker 5:Because that's where the heart was yeah that's what real hip-hop is about. You know what I mean.
Speaker 5:So when it brought you back to that era of because then, when the 2000 came out, it was more about money cars oh, it was the mainstream part yeah it wasn't how hip-hop used to be in the beginning and then when the air, that's when the underground was growing up big, you know, and it just kept me inspired from there and that's also another inspiration for me that kept me going, because you still gotta have love for music. Sometimes it dies down with the generation because of what it's speaking. Sometimes it's not even doing it right, like look what we're listening now. Most of it's ratchet stuff that we had to play sexy red. I'm trying to list that into my fucking car.
Speaker 5:I'm sorry, but but you're playing it at santi's, though we have to play that shit, but I'm not bumping that shit in my home or you know, that's not me I'm sorry, I'm listening to something otherwise, so it's just different now. But yeah that's what I grew up on too dose round two man.
Speaker 1:Who's your next one up as?
Speaker 2:far as what?
Speaker 1:Artist. It has to be on a soundtrack, it has to be on your life soundtrack.
Speaker 2:An artist yeah.
Speaker 1:Hmm, who has to be on Dose's autobiography? Oh?
Speaker 2:man Like oh, you're talking about, oh man, shit man, what sums you up?
Speaker 5:man.
Speaker 2:Man, damn, that's a damn good question. It's hard, yeah, okay, okay, okay, but let me get this right. Am I picking a song or an artist?
Speaker 1:Either or man so.
Speaker 2:I went with.
Speaker 1:Mac Dre, and there's, you know.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay. If I had to pick an artist right now and I'd say, oh, we got to put some Prince on there, ooh.
Speaker 4:We got to put Prince on. Can't go wrong with it.
Speaker 2:You're the heavy hitter the heavy hitter we didn't talk about.
Speaker 5:DJ artists too. That actually inspired us. There's a lot out there, too, that we didn't get to there's a lot of dope DJs out there. I mean we've been talking about we've been expressing DJ Rectangle. Yeah, you know what I mean Scribble A-Track, scratch Bastard Craze is another one that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1:Scratch Bastard's my dude man. I love Scratch DJ AM.
Speaker 4:DJ.
Speaker 5:AM bro.
Speaker 4:AM was probably one of my first DJs I watched on YouTube with his opening sets out in Vegas and Palms. You know what? I mean Watching that when he had that little intro with the clock tower going off and the TikTok and I'm like man, this dude is dope. So DJ M was like Biggest shout out. Yeah, rest in peace. So he was big, but you know.
Speaker 5:But even you gotta go old school. There's so many.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna go Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul For me Shit.
Speaker 3:Like as far as DJs goes Like. First I would say the Baker Boys, because as a kid. All I had was a radio box. I lived with them adults and I had no access to the TV. I couldn't watch football, basketball, nothing. They was like uh-uh, you last Everybody got to be asleep or gone for you to get action at the TV. You definitely wasn't getting on no MTV or no BET. Yeah.
Speaker 4:I don't know, You're like uh-uh Radio.
Speaker 3:So for me all, I had was the radio, so I would just record mix shows and it was always the Baker Boys, baker's Boys, baker Boys, baker Boys.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I grew up in LA too and I didn't. I wasn't from Baker's. I'm born and raised in Los Angeles, so I didn't come out here my high and hearing the Baker Boys early in the morning all the time. Power 106. Power 106. Freshman year in high school, gardner Grove High, I always remember, man, we had like this big old rally just right there in the middle and DJ E-Man was up there and DJ E-Man he was dope too, and sure enough, baker Boys, they were sitting out there with their backpacks on hats.
Speaker 3:They're like yeah, yeah yeah, he's doing his set right. They're cool too. They talk tight with each other.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, they're like homies, little kids, and they walked up out there with the mic and they got it, man, e-man got the whole crew. I'm like man. I remember that bit me right there too. I was only a freshman in high school. I'm like man, that's just dope. Mom lived out here, man, um she. I lived with my dad. My mom and dad divorced when I was young. So uh, did that whole little back and forth going with your mom, going with your dad, kind of thing, you know. So at that moment in my life I was down in my dad's seventh to ninth grade down in orange county. At that little, at that little part of my life and before that was elementary school, all in la mom moved up to touch me, came down to bakersfield and I just came to visit up here. Just one summer my mom, my little brother, just came to visit. They gave me the little guilt trip. You know, hey, stay here with us, like all right cool.
Speaker 4:So sophomore year, going to junior year and then moving out here and then that's it met my wife in high school and then became high school sweethearts, had our kids and grew my own roots here and uh, been here ever since that's a story, bro.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean. So yeah, so you know, other than my mom, my mom's here now.
Speaker 4:She moved back again later on in life, so and then so she's here with my stepdad and that's the only blood relative I have in current county. Everybody has in la, everybody's in la.
Speaker 5:So all my family. You got stuck in the current county black hole yeah, it's like I've left twice ended up back here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it just happened, but there's a there's.
Speaker 5:We get a lot of love and support here. There is a hip-hop scene and it's, you know, grown from what I've known since back in the day, so it's just about us being a part of it. Now, you know and I was putting our foot- in that and ellie's not too far man.
Speaker 4:So I mean, at the end of the day, for me, like you know, we're west coast djs man, you know, you can tell it's just, you know, west coast but we get a lot of even from, even though the baker boys and all that.
Speaker 5:We still get a lot of HLA because they were last, but there's a lot of great artists here, period.
Speaker 4:No, a lot of people come out of here but nowadays, with internet and stuff like that, no one's behind. You're behind if you choose to be behind and you don't want to get with it.
Speaker 5:But everybody got the same 24 hours and the same. How lazy are you? I think in a sense. In a sense I could play stuff in LA that won't slap over here.
Speaker 4:No you gotta look at your demographic for sure. They don't go over there and they think we from the Bay they be like y'all from the Bay, ain't you like? Nah we just hip to the. We know we just playing some shit, that jive, you should talk about all format, we're all format.
Speaker 5:We can go to LA To the Bay, yeah for sure, and Central, but we know how to adapt, that's how it is One of those.
Speaker 3:When we go to LA, go jam out and they be thinking we from the Bay, oh yeah, yeah. I don't know why. I don't know why that comes Cause we get hyphied In the motherfucker. That's why.
Speaker 4:And me. You know, honestly, I'm from LA too. I love all my LA stuff and shout out to the B Junkies man, man.
Speaker 3:Like they had a big influence on me too. Like going out there and rocking with Mr Chalk and Babu and the school bro. My favorite guy, bro, honestly from your crew is Mel favorite one, bro, I mean all of them are dope, don't get wrong they're all dope, but his style is is what I like.
Speaker 4:I like that I remember from 92.3 back in the day. You know what I mean. He was one of the djs, just you know five o'clock travel jam.
Speaker 3:He taught me one of the ill he thought he taught me the steve d swing, and that's what I like you feel me, that's what I was like.
Speaker 2:What's that?
Speaker 3:when I first, when I first learned it and then when I learned I was so excited because it was hard to learn. He's like bro, that shit's easy.
Speaker 2:He was like I'm like that's easy, and now that I know it, I'm like yeah, it's easy.
Speaker 3:Like now like you know. But yeah, man, like you know, for me, like the inspiration from them, bro, is just you know, is the power of discipline, because in order to learn a lot of the shit that they teach you, you have to really like they can teach it to you.
Speaker 4:but it's up to you to discipline up and go down there and learn it and put it in. Learn it to you Put the hours in. Yeah, and it's meditation, bro.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's really meditation, bro. Like you know, learning those tricks and just like practicing over and, over and over, it's a form of meditation because it forces you to focus. You know what I'm saying? Yep, and you can let it off a lot of steam. So shout out to them, man, because I learned a lot from them.
Speaker 4:That class that you take, bro, that's dope. I wish I would have the time to go down there and do that. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, so yeah, we're going to both go down there this next year You're going to take the class.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're going to go down.
Speaker 1:I think it's every Wednesday or every.
Speaker 2:Thursday hey, that's what's up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to head down there as a couple she wants to be a DJ, you're going to try it. Yeah, she's going to do it with me. She might as well, you know.
Speaker 4:She's going to be there. They have all the courses. You're a graduation class, right, they're going to do another structure.
Speaker 1:So we're headed down there next year. Man, Every other.
Speaker 4:Wednesday or whatever it is.
Speaker 3:I would love to do that bro.
Speaker 4:I would love to do that.
Speaker 1:Are you busy on Wednesdays?
Speaker 4:I don't have no gigs on Wednesdays. I might have some condor gigs you can roll down there with us. Man, you already got people going down there Might as well that aspect of dj man, like that's right, like honestly, like elfo, like even like my wife would say, bro, like elfo's. Probably elfo is my wife's favorite dj here in pickerswood. It's fyi, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Like it's like you know just his style, you know what I mean elfo has a great style man, you know.
Speaker 4:I mean, we all have our own strengths and weaknesses, and you know, and, uh, yeah, yeah, elfo is definitely on my top as far as like turntablism.
Speaker 5:You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:Because I'm not a turntablist. You know what I mean.
Speaker 5:So and I appreciate the art.
Speaker 4:I love it, so man.
Speaker 5:What do you walk on, Ricky? I would love to do that.
Speaker 4:What do you walk on? What do you have? What? Do you set when I play. Yeah, oh right, you know what I mean, yeah yeah, yeah, that performer, that performer's dope.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:And Elfo got on it too. He's like all right, this is dope, you know what I mean. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's dope.
Speaker 1:I'm rocking the old SR2, man.
Speaker 4:SR2.
Speaker 1:DDJ SR2.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Had the rain one.
Speaker 4:I ran. I still need to get with you Airflow, airflow said he might know, he might he got to do down there.
Speaker 2:He know somebody that could I need my fix too? For sure, yeah, I need my fix too.
Speaker 3:Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey.
Speaker 4:Hey, I feel like it's a soldering issue.
Speaker 1:Hey, y'all could just trade some parts, man.
Speaker 2:Okay, my motor ain't doing nothing.
Speaker 5:That's the only part about getting a controller and trying to adapt to that. That's where I stick to old school techniques and what I got.
Speaker 4:Man, I just mobile too much. I know Right, I have. You know what I mean November was my busiest month of the year and I had 21 gigs in November, Shit, so it was like you know. So taking some turntables out.
Speaker 1:A lot.
Speaker 5:Oh, of course.
Speaker 4:I think I had like five. I mean, that's everything. That's Connors, chewy's Eagle Mountain.
Speaker 1:But that's work though, man.
Speaker 5:That's work I do want to get a new Pioneer and go to a controller and actually adapt.
Speaker 4:I even got the new RCFs, the RCFs, those J8s, the Evox. Oh man, the tops and the bottom together, the top stores in the subwoofer and the whole thing weighs 52 pounds.
Speaker 1:It weighs less than my subs man 52 pounds.
Speaker 5:I'm talking about a backsaver and space saver, and they're loud.
Speaker 4:RCF. Okay, gotcha, but that specific model is cheaper than a lot of them because they're an expensive brand. You know what I mean. But that one right there, man, if you got a sub already, take another sub with you. And those two little 12s with the little tops, man you're good, you're good, you're good, that's right.
Speaker 1:We're going to close it up here in a minute. We're a buck 12 in. We're an hour 12 in. So we'll close it up in a minute, we won't keep it too long. Um, mental health, mental health. I know it's a stigma, I know people don't talk about it. I, I have issues with it. I do the best I can. Um, and music obviously is something that has gotten a lot of people through a lot of different things. Uh, for me it goes all the way back to like uh, tupac e40. You know, dear mama, and you know what's the e40 song, where he got kicked out of his house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just way it is I know what song you're talking about when you say it. Yeah, um, and then obviously going into mac miller and uh, even kid cuddy. You know some of those, some of those artists, pharaoh munch, pharaoh munch oh, yeah, yeah yeah, so all of them have gotten me through quite a bit of shit in life. Who's your guys's go-to's?
Speaker 3:uh for me, for me, like it, for me, like, uh it was, it was a lot of nipsey. Whenever I'm in the gym, like I just play a lot of nipsey and if you, if you listen to his music, like he's from the streets and he has his streets, his street topics, you know what I mean. But but he also has a lot of motivation and inspirational stuff with a positive message that'll help you push through, you know, to get you whatever you're going through. So, like for me, like when I'm in the gym, that's what I I tend to focus on. So it's a form of meditation when I'm in the gym, and it's the same when I'm on, when I'm in the turntables, like practicing. Again, it's a form of meditation when I got to practice and focus, like whatever is on my mind.
Speaker 3:That's bothering me. I won't be able to. It'll be probably still on my mind, but I'll notice that I'm not hitting this. I got to pay attention to what I'm doing. Hit that line or pay attention to the video I'm watching to practice with doing. Hit that line or pay attention to the video I'm watching it to practice with, and if I don't, then I'm not. I'm, I'm not, I'm not getting it done.
Speaker 1:So that's, that's my form of meditation, right there how about you guys, man, who's artists that you've gone to through hard times, didn't listen to a a track 20 times in a row?
Speaker 5:I couldn't say, because I listen to everybody, even be like an artist.
Speaker 4:I it's just the mood. You know what I mean. Whether you want to feel, you know what I mean, Like back in the day, you know, listening to some oldies, right oh?
Speaker 2:yeah.
Speaker 4:Or if you want to mix it up and like learn your craft a little bit more, you know what I mean. So that's it for a meditation.
Speaker 1:So you're talking about transporting yourself to a different era in your life. It might have been better probably that childhood era because even I used to listen to.
Speaker 3:Santana back in the days you know what I mean you're talking about going back to old school.
Speaker 5:That brings back memories, that where you were happy then and you didn't have no worries going back to my Theos and Theas, you know listening to music in the driveway at your grandparents house.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean everybody's barbecuing hanging out. You know what I mean. So that's kind of form of meditation. Other than that man, you know it's praying. You know my faith, you know my faith in god.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean and just you know.
Speaker 4:Just you know doing that, you're doing that with your family. You know what I mean and you know what. No matter what anybody's faith is, but you know, have that faith, man and that's another thing with rich, uh rich and dynamite.
Speaker 1:Uh, rich is, uh. He's entrenched in the churches as well. He's active in the churches.
Speaker 4:People might not know about me man, but yeah, he's active in the churches. My wife and I run the daycare at church every Sunday.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's with the kids. Man. I take care of the three-year-olds man.
Speaker 1:Not only is his music his music is molding kids, but his so shout out to New Life man, southwest man.
Speaker 5:New Life Church, yeah, the.
Speaker 4:Haas family and you know the Rangers and yeah, so my wife is a director for the kids and kids life Awesome. You know, I volunteer in the back and we're out there every Sunday man.
Speaker 1:A lot of people don't know that. How do you, bro? That's a little known fact about Rich.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm a little kid whisperer out there, man, he Little Easy and NWA and. Yella and everybody else. Man, he's going to church the next day, man, he's well-rounded. How about you Dos? What's happening Music, man Music artists, songs that have gotten you through tough times.
Speaker 2:There's a song on the CeeLo Green and the Soul Machine album. It's called. It's the third track on there, motherfucker, but there's a song's the opening line. He says on there he said if I could write, if I could write one song to write all what wrongs I would.
Speaker 5:If I could, oh wow, yeah, I know what song you're talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, I want to be think about it as a think about it. Are you really out here living? You know what I mean, likeeelo.
Speaker 5:Green is another great artist too.
Speaker 2:That's the last CeeLo Green album I pretty much know.
Speaker 1:Mac Miller has a track with him. Oh, I already know that.
Speaker 5:Even when he did his off-the-wall stuff, he was still dope.
Speaker 1:The Gnarls Barkley. Shit is awesome man.
Speaker 2:This album I'm talking about is right before the gnarles barking.
Speaker 1:Art of Noise.
Speaker 2:Huh, art of Noise? No, it's not the Art of Noise. No, that's not the third song on there.
Speaker 3:On the CeeLo Green, the Soul's Machine.
Speaker 5:What's the fourth song. It's the one with the Live Again. That's the one. There we go.
Speaker 1:See. The first one is the intro.
Speaker 2:Got you, I hear you.
Speaker 1:Alright, y'all, we are going to go ahead and wrap up this episode of the Most Dope Podcast. I'm going to give everybody an opportunity to say give an exit and let them know what's going on, let them know where you can catch them, and we'll start with Elflo over here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, catch me at the hideout every Saturday. Pull up.
Speaker 4:We open format. We turning up Anything to make you dance. Have a good time. Y'all know what it is. Yeah, dj Richie Rich. Man, catch me. Chewy's Thursdays are all the car shows, every Condors game. You guys come out too. We have a bunch of them. Eagle Mountain Casino. We'll be out there. So yeah, look me up. We have DJ Rich Rich Instagram.
Speaker 5:Yo DJ Dynamite D-Y-N-O-M-I-T-3. I'll be at McMurphy's every Thursday and everybody else booked up, sometimes Santiago hoping up Dos, and I'm still open, so I'm looking for another spot Yep, dj Dos Muchos, the real D-E-E-J-A-Y Dos Muchos with a Z at the end.
Speaker 2:Z, you know what I mean. Catch me at Santiago's. You know what I mean. Every Friday and Saturday, man. You know what I mean and you know what it is. Man, I'm out here moving and grooving. You know what I'm saying. Get at your boy All right y'all.
Speaker 1:We appreciate you joining Gordy B everybody else out.
Speaker 3:You guys have a great.
