Dirty Songs, Sync Buttons, And Who Is Really DJing

Four DJs, one room, and one problem that can make or break the night: set order. We’re coming off our Hard Rock Casino Tejon runs, and we get real about how a multi-DJ lineup should actually work. Opening isn’t about flexing, it’s about setting tone, leaving room for the next DJ, and warming up the crowd with the right mix of funk, oldies, R&B, hip-hop, cumbia, and reggaeton while people are still filtering in.

Then we dig into the craft decisions that working DJs argue about all the time. How do you follow a strong set without repeating the same “smash” records? When is it okay to play a song twice because the crowd rotated? How many bangers do you run before you give the room a breather? We also talk MCing, crowd interaction, and why the nights people remember are the ones that spark nostalgia and make strangers feel like a community.

Finally, we tackle the tech conversation: Serato, sync, and the rise of AI DJ tools that suggest what to play next. We’re not here to fear-monger, but we do draw a line between creative tools and lazy shortcuts, and we explain why vinyl fundamentals, crate building, and real crowd reading still matter. If you care about DJing, open-format sets, music curation, and what it takes to grow from local gigs to bigger stages, this one is for you. Subscribe, share this with a DJ friend, and leave a review telling us where you think the best slot is: opener or closer?

Transcript

Cold Open And Guest Roll Call

SPEAKER_01 0:00

What's up, y'all? The Most Dope Podcast. We are back. We got some new guests. We got some returning guests. You know, obviously, you have your host, myself, Gordy B. Uh, we have DJ Bebecita.

unknown 0:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:14

We have DJ Myth. I know that guy. I know that guy. Where's he from? I heard about him. He's good. He's good. We got DJ Big Drake. What up? What up, Drake?

SPEAKER_02 0:23

Oh, he's eating the deep Drake.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Oh, yeah. He pulled out the Isaac Hayes on us and shit, man. Very white over here. What up? Yeah. Start seeing voice to men over here. Oh, the deep, the the deep. Yeah. Didn't he leave the group for a little while? Yeah. The guy with the deep voice, he was sick. He had like a sickle cell or something. He had something going on with him. Yeah, some about his muscles.

SPEAKER_02 0:48

But um, yeah, before he left though, you know they got into a fight with uh one of the lead singers there. Really? Yeah, because I guess they're supposed to do like a uh Japan tour. Uh-huh. And uh he wasn't going because he missed all kinds of shows and they said, No, you can't go, and then you get in the fist fight.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Oh, well, that explains part of the I heard they're back together though. Like all of them.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02 1:05

All of them are back finally. Yeah, they're doing a tour, or they did a tour. It's that deep voice, man. I know that dude with the deep ass voice.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

How are you doing?

SPEAKER_04 1:15

Let's see, Andre. Let's see her deep voice.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

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SPEAKER_03 1:23

Let's see yours, baby.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

I don't think I have an I don't think I have a deep voice. Hey, baby. All

Hard Rock Sets And DJ Order

SPEAKER_01 1:35

right, y'all. The most dope podcast. We are back. It's been a while. We're hanging out, lots of stuff going on, lots of life happening. Um Hard Rock Tejone, yeah. We've we've been DJing out at the Hard Rock Tejone. We have actually one of Tejone's sons here. That's DJ Myth. He's uh Tahone, he's tribal, he's uh Native American. Uh Dre's been out there, uh Babecita's been out there, myself's been out there. You know, something I wanted to ask you guys, something I've been thinking about for a while regarding our our performances out there, uh, the order of which we perform. Um typically, quote unquote Gordy B, since it's you know, I guess it's my gig or whatever. You're the resident. I would be the resident slash headliner or whatever, but I don't give a fuck. I don't care. I don't care. Hey, you know what? Myth can end, Dre can end, you can end. I don't care. I don't care about being the face. I don't care about uh I don't care about uh uh any kind of stardom or fandom or or popularity or anything like that. I'm really literally only there to play music and play music that I enjoy, play music that I hope other people will enjoy and and be with people enjoying playing music. So like the order of us playing has never bothered me or affected me, or nothing that I've ever really actually ever cared about. Um, however, it there does seem to be several stages uh when you have multiple DJs through the night. Yeah, like like the first DJ, he can't drop every single goddamn banger known to man and kind of like really you know make things difficult for the next two, three, four DJs, right? Like you gotta have some kind of like restraint and you gotta like mix them some things in and leave some shit for some other people. Don't be selfish, right?

SPEAKER_03 3:28

For sure.

SPEAKER_01 3:28

So I think my question is is like for me, for instance, when when I when I I normally just start, I normally just start out. I don't care. I like to start, I like to play um my funk. I play a lot of funk. I play a lot of funk, I play a lot of oldies, I play a lot of RB in my first hour. And and basically I'm trying to set the tone, set the mood, you know, get people you know happy, enjoying, grooving, you know, and and just you don't have to dance when Gordy B DJs. It's not a requirement. You do not have to dance when I DJ. Um, but I want you I want to see your head nod. You know, I want to see uh I want to see a point, uh, a finger pointed, like a thumbs up or some kind of acknowledgement of like, hey, I'm with you, you know. Yep. And I get that. You know, people will come by the booth. I won't have a dance floor, and I really don't care about dance floors too much anymore, um, unless I am prime time, unless I am 12 midnight, 11 clock, 1 a.m. or whatever. And typically, ideally, that's when you do want a dance floor. But I don't think any DJ, even if they're playing on their own, comes out straight hardcore with bangers right off the bat. So again, I I play my funk, I play my oldies, um, and I play my RB, and I probably I I kind of just try to uh set the tone, set the mood, you know, let people know that hey, we're over here to have a good time. You don't have to dance, you can have a good time without dancing. And hey, we still have three other DJs coming up, yeah. Who all different flavors, all different styles, all different uh abilities and everything else. But when you play on your own, I I largely take the same exact approach. I start slow, really. I kind of just kind of get people warmed up, get them grooving, whatever else. And I also try to play, obviously, to the crowd, right? Yeah, you know, the the earlier the night, the older people are still there.

SPEAKER_03 5:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:27

So they're gonna like the funk. They're gonna like the oldies, they're gonna like the 80s and 90s RB, they're gonna like those things. And as the older people leave at 9, 10, 11, 12 o'clock, you know, then that's when I feel like you start ramping up through the night and playing to other, I guess, demographs or uh ages or whatever it may be. So I'm gonna ask you guys all one at a time, I guess. I'll start with myth. Um, after you follow up me, right? After I've played pretty much every fucking funk song, you know, oldies, RB, and you don't have any of that shit left. What's your approach, man? Like, what are you thinking? Like, you're sitting there listening to my set, and I'm sure, like, for me, if I'm sitting there listening to anybody else's set, I'm I'm planning my set out, I'm figuring out where I'm gonna go. I'm trying to figure out that lane, I'm trying to figure out the direction, uh, I'm trying to grow on whoever was prior to me. Yeah, what what what is your methodology, man? What is your thinking? What is your approach after you know, you know, you're coming up after another DJ?

SPEAKER_02 6:33

So, yeah, I I I listen to what they say or what they do, what they play. Um but I've always said that there's such so much music out there. Like, so say you play all the smash bangers from your funk, oldies, whatever. Play all the hits from that. Yeah, and then I can just go into something different. I could play all the smash hits from up to Reggae Tone, or I could go to early 2000s, or I could do 90s. There's uh bangers in every absolutely every what do you call it. So as long as I'm playing with you didn't play, that's opposite, uh-huh. It's it shouldn't be a problem. It should be fine. Plus, you give the people that mix of of, you know, okay, he played this. Oh now he's playing this. And then the next teacher's like, okay, well, he played this, uh-huh. You know, let me let me play some Spanish or let me play absolutely some, you know, some hip hop or some RB or and if you're like, you know, like everybody else, they like to play everything, they don't have to really stick to a certain genre. Sure. So maybe you did play a funk song and people thought the funk was over, but I'm thinking, well, he didn't play this song. Uh-huh. So I'm gonna play oh okay. You play Rick Jane's um dance of me, I think last time we we played. Yeah, I was gonna play uh uh what was that song, Giddle Life? Uh-huh. I was like, hey, he didn't drop Ghetto Life or in the Git or whatever it's called. I'm gonna I'm gonna drop that, but I never did. I just yeah, I just go like I just I don't know. I don't ever have a set plan, I just do it.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

Yeah, I don't either. I don't even have a set plan. Uh you know, I know this weekend uh me and Bebecita are gonna do a West Coast, largely me. She's gonna do whatever she wants after I do me, but I'm gonna do West Coast, I'm gonna do LA, I'm gonna do G Funk, and I'm gonna do Bay Area, and I'm just gonna go on a West Coast journey. And some of the songs people are gonna dance to, and then some of the songs people are gonna vibe to. They're gonna vibe to some of my Larry June, but they're gonna dance to my two short, right? Like, like, you know, and it's gonna be a roller coaster, it's gonna be ups and downs and everything else. Um, Dre coming up, you you ended the night for the last two nights, right? Yeah, you you you've ended the night. What what is your thinking? What is your thought process? What is your you know, your mindset going into following up myself, myth, bebacita, and your fourth up and you're coming up. What what is your mindset? What are you thinking about, man?

SPEAKER_00 8:42

So by the time I come on, I'm just trying to keep the energy. Because by the time I step up, you guys already kind of primed them, greased them a little bit, already built it on. If I change the momentum of that and kind of go off of that, it's gonna kill the vibe. Yeah, so I gotta try to keep the energy, whether it be old school, uh-huh, whatever, just kind of keep the energy and make sure I don't play something you played.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Sure. Sure. And how about you? DJ Bebecita.

SPEAKER_04 9:10

I think for me, like I kind of reading the crowd as you're like um DJing, because I'll start seeing, okay, they look like they like gumbia, they look like, you know, you start reading the the crowd a little bit and who's bopping their heads, and like you can play a song that's a little bit more like you know, Spanishy, and then you can see when people are like, okay. So then I'm like, okay, maybe it's a a reggaeton night or you know, 2000s. So I think it

Following Another DJ Without Repeating

SPEAKER_04 9:40

just depends.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

All right.

SPEAKER_04 9:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

So I feel like for me, I'm always taking the first spot. The you know, then it we're this weekend again, it's me, DJ Bebecita. We're gonna do a West Coast thing. Next weekend, we're all gonna be together again. Myth is gonna be there, Dre's gonna be there, Bebecita's gonna be there, Gordy B is gonna be there. We're gonna switch up the order. I I I wanna switch up the order. A, and it it's mostly for myself. Selfishly, I feel like opening is fucking easy. Cause ain't nobody play a song you played yet. Like you get you have you have open, you have free range. I don't have to think, did did Myth play this? Did Dre play this? Did Bebecita play this? Did anybody else play this before I'm about to play this? I don't have that that factor in my head. Um, so I feel like me going first is kind of taking the easy way out a lot of times. And to experience growth, you gotta be uncomfortable. So I think you know, this next time I'm gonna go third or fourth, right? I think you should close out. Really? Yeah. I think you should close out. Yeah, all right. And and the funny thing is, is yeah, you know, I say when I open, I do funk and oldies and RB. When I close out, oh, that's just gonna be dirty south. That's gonna be Bay Area, that's gonna be, you know, uh no hands, why you know, it's gonna be all kinds of shit. Um and it's a little bit of a challenge. Yeah, it's a little bit of a challenge. So I, you know, Dre, I'm letting you know right now I recognize it, I see it. I know it's not the easiest thing to do to come up after three other people, man. Uh so I think Dre's gonna open.

unknown 11:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

We're gonna have Dre open. I'll close, and then you and Myth can row Shambeau for two and three.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

It don't matter to me. I go second. I don't know. How do you two close it out? Yeah, you know, yeah. I will second.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

Yeah, so you know that's something that's been on my mind, something that I've thought about, something I I give I give thought to, and you know, unselfishly, hey, you know, uh, you go first, obviously it's easy, you have free reins. You can play whatever you want to a certain extent as long as you know the crowd is vibing with it. Um, but anybody that knows me probably knows that I love Bay Area. Like I love Bay Area. I will play the shit out of Mac Dre and Too Short and E40 and everybody up in the Bay. Um, I love the hyphy movement, you know. I love that that that genre. It makes me happy. Yeah, right? I I I you experience some joy and some happiness from certain music. I think, and I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm going on a limb to say that Bebecita loves reggaeton.

SPEAKER_04 12:24

I do.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

Love regathong.

SPEAKER_04 12:25

I love 2000s too.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

Oh, 2000s and reggaeton, right? What it what is Myth, what is your what is your favorite, man? What like if you if you have free range, if people are going to pay for a ticket to go see DJ Myth, and you don't have to worry about a dance floor, you don't have to worry about anything else, and you just know that people are there literally to listen to what you're going to play.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

What do you play, man? Everything. All right. I don't have a specific genre I sit with. I just I like open format. All right. I like to play everything. All right. I'll play anything from disco oh I love disco to to some rock, funk, you know, freestyle, hip hop, RB, reggaeton, whatever. Come be us. I love the open format.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

All right. How about you, Dre?

SPEAKER_00 13:10

I'm kind of the same with the open format, but I do like to I'm always listening to music in my car. So I'll find a song. I'm like, man, I haven't heard that one in a while. Sure. I'm gonna try and find a way to mix that in. So yeah, so I'll latch onto a song. Like um, what's the one by uh Key Sweat and Baby Bash?

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Oh yeah, don't stop. I played that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:31

So that one I played, I heard it like maybe like three months ago or something, and it was stuck in my head. I'm like, I'm gonna find a way to play this.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

One of our regulars, we have a few regulars, luckily. A lot of them are the tone tribe, Robert, and all of them. Um, but one of our regulars, Hispanic dude, Hispanic couple, they come up to us and they asked for um Keith Sweat and Baby Bash. Baby Bash. I was like, I got you.

SPEAKER_02 13:56

You know what's funny about that? I forgot all about that song until you played it. Oh yeah, so so shout out to you. I put it in the in the mix on the radio stations when I'm when I'm on DJ. Yeah, so it's both that's on both stations when I'm when I'm DJing. I was like, I remember that.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

Yeah, so you know, um, that's something very, very small that I try to do when I see somebody that I have seen before that has requested that song before. I don't have the greatest memory. I really don't. But for some reason, generally I know what song somebody has requested before. And for some reason, like a steel trap, like a fucking elephant, I keep it for some reason. I can forget everything else in the world. But if somebody comes up to me and says they want Key Sweat, if somebody comes up to me and says they want R. Kelly, step in the name of love, whatever it may be, which is Robert's song. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

I I know this shit and I remember it. And if I see them, I'm fucking playing it. Right, like it means something to me that they come out to watch me and give me their time, give me their energy, give me, give the casino their money, whatever it may be, you know, drinks and Robert and them, they're always buying us drinks and hanging out with us, everything else. They've been they've been wonderful, man. Yeah, they're cool people, man. Yeah, love those eyes. Yeah, I love Robert, man.

SPEAKER_04 15:12

You know, and it's so hard to remember all the music, right? So one thing me and Gordon have recently started doing is we've we have notes. Like a song will pop up, and we're like, oh my gosh, I haven't heard the song in a long time, and we'll write it down.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

So in my phone right now, I can literally pop it up. Oh, yeah, and I can go through a list of songs, music. Uh, if I'm watching a DJ set on YouTube, uh, there's a few DJs that I've been watching quite a bit, and I've been trying to study. Um, I hate to say still or cheat off of or anything else because I'm not them and that's not my style or anything else. But their music resonates with me. Oh, for sure. Or their style, right? And I was like, oh, that that's my shit right there. And I haven't, like you said, I haven't heard that song in fucking forever. And then you you hear it and you're like, why have I not played that? Like, why haven't I played that? And literally at the end of the night, sometimes in silence, no radio, no nothing, driving home from the gig, complete silence, I'll start thinking of songs that I did not fucking play. I think we all do that, brother.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

I think we all do that.

SPEAKER_04 16:20

I start doing that like towards the end of like my set. I'm trying to quick mix because I want to try to get all the songs that I wanted to play.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

For sure. Yeah, and when you're on a time constraint, you know, you do the verse and hook and and bail out, right? Uh, when you're not on a time constraint and you want to let it breathe a little bit, you know, you want to you want to let it play out, you want that second verse, you whatever else, and you'll switch out on the second or third chorus, whatever it may be, then you're cool. Um, but yeah, when you're on a time constraint, the last wedding I did, I was on a time constraint. Everything ran super late, man, like an hour late or something. So the dance floor, the dance portion of the night didn't get started for an hour later than it was supposed to. So at that point, I only had two hours versus three hours. So at that point, I feel like I have to go banger after banger after banger after banger, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out. Just craziness.

SPEAKER_02 17:11

No, for for me as a wedding, when time goes by on the delay, it's a blessing. Yeah, it makes it easier. It's like hey, I mean, take your time, it's okay. I definitely have two hours worth of bangers. Yeah, so three or four, I'm not sure, man. I don't have to work that hard. I mean, granted, we're already working with all the announcements and everything else. So no, let that let that wedding delay as long as you can. Yeah, and we only got 30 minutes of mixing, that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

And I do enjoy that too. I do enjoy it being delayed and and and because I have less work to do and I have less stress. Yeah, for sure. I've had enough stress making sure that I play songs on the time that they're supposed to be played, um, uh, for each different event within the wedding, uh, all the announcements, everything else, enough stress there as it as it is. And then if you have a four-hour dance floor, five-hour dance floor, oh man, like uh here's another thing four of us.

Replaying Songs And Playing Dirty

SPEAKER_01 18:11

How do you feel about a song being played twice in an evening? Not a deal, not a big deal.

SPEAKER_02 18:18

No, not a big deal at all. All right, because there's two there's more than one way to play it. One way, one more than one way to bring it in. You can slam it, you could come in on a regular mix, you can mix it with a different song, make it better, you can just you can do it your own way.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

And your crowd has possibly changed by then.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

And it's a whole new group of people, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 18:36

So I have I guess I have mixed feelings about that, right? Like for a wedding or like a private event, I feel like I wouldn't be able to play the same song twice. But for a club or like how we do it at Hard Rock, people coming and going. People are coming and going, so we can, right?

SPEAKER_02 18:52

But for a wedding, it should be easy because they're already drunk, they just want to dance with their favorite song, they want to hear it one, two or three times.

SPEAKER_04 19:00

Like if there is that one group that just wants to hear the same song three times and that's all that's left, so that's fine.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

So check it when Usher's Yeah first came out. Oh I played that song literally four times at a wedding because everybody wanted to hear it. That was a hit back then. I didn't mind it.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

See, I don't have a problem with it either. Yeah, with the thinking that a the crowd has cycled in and cycled out. And yeah, somebody might want to hear some more, you know, Bay Area. Somebody might want to hear some more, you know, uh LA West Coast, you know, gangster rap, hip-hop, whatever it may be. Uh, so I don't have a problem with it. I don't at all. You know, a a song is a song, a banger is a banger, and people are gonna react regardless.

SPEAKER_03 19:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

So since we're talking about songs and the hard rock, one of the strangest compliments I got there is that I'm the DJ that plays the nasty music.

SPEAKER_03 19:54

Yeah, yeah. And they like DJs, they they like it.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

Who's gonna fuck the DJ? They're like, I love I love when you play Kia. Okay, like we're not we're gonna play, you know, um, what's that? Um my neck, my back. They love my pussy and my ass. Yeah, so you know, when I start playing all that that dirty yeah shit, they're like, hey, they need to play that more often over here. I'm like, I'm I'll just let the other DJs know. I'm pretty sure they have it.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

Hey, and the funny thing is, is I was having a blast mcing over you DJing, man. I was having a blast. I was saying all kinds of filthy shit on the mic, man. I didn't care, man. I was like, and I'm not, you know, it and that was me out of my comfort zone because A, I'm not an MC, B, I don't practice, C, I need to. Yeah, you know, I need to be well-rounded. We all need to be well-rounded. We need to MC, we need to DJ, we need to bring that entire experience, not just DJing and playing music and being silent.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

Oh, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 20:50

We all need to get on the mic, we all need to hype up the crowd and and be playful with the crowd and and and exchange with the crowd, right? Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I I gotta say that this last performance that you did, this last set that you did, I had an absolute blast MCing over your shit, man. It was so fun. Yeah, and we got a lot of positive feedback on that, even the the days and the weeks after, especially when Mary and I are going to record content or whatever, the bartenders, the managers, the security people were coming up to us and saying, Hey, that that night took us back.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

That night took us back to something that we had been missing for a long time. So I really feel like without tooting our own horns, beep, beep, motherfucker. But uh you know, without tooting our own horns, man, uh, we did an amazing, phenomenal job. Um, and people recognize that, and people were so happy that we took them back to something. We helped people escape. Yes. DJs help people escape, music helps people escape. And it helps you know, sensory wise. There's certain things that spark memories. Music sparks memories. Oh, for sure. Visual references spark memories. Spark memories. And and it'll be out of nowhere. And you'll be like, I can't believe I forgot that A. B. This helped me remember it. I smelled it and I was like, man, that smells like tobacco smoke. That smells like tobacco pipe. My dad used to smoke a cob pipe and it smelled like tobacco. Or you smell things, you see things, you you hear things, and you're like, hey man, I was I had some puppy love back then, you know. Like hey, I was, you know, I was 13 and I was in love when this song came out, you know, Selena or whoever it was, right? Hey, don't start your Toxica shit, woman. God damn it. Ain't dealing with your shit right now.

SPEAKER_04 22:55

You know what else? When we have great sets and we bring a lot of people there, the bartenders love that. Oh, for sure. We are bringing people over there and they're buying drinks or getting tips, and I think that's pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Yeah, I loved it. I loved every every moment of the last time we were all up out there together.

SPEAKER_01 23:13

So that yeah, that's gonna be a forever memory for me, like a forever ingrained in my memory.

SPEAKER_04 23:19

We're gonna have more.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

I mean, that's well, we have one, we have one in two weeks. We'll all be out there again in two weeks, and I fully expect all of us to step our games up and and and eclipse the last you know performances we had, right? And and the energy and the love and the crowd and and everything else, the fun that we had. Uh sometimes DJing is is stressful work. Um, and sometimes it's not as an enjoyable experience if especially if you're not playing stuff that resounds with you or you love, or but like I like we talked about that last week that we all performed out there. Um it was memorable, man. Oh, yeah. It was very, very, very memorable. And I I can't wait for this next one. I'm kind of bummed you guys aren't going to be out there this weekend, but we'll get all four of us out there this next weekend

The Night That Took People Back

SPEAKER_01 24:10

again and uh knock it out. And you know, for me, you know, this is a journey, this is an adventure, and and this is this is the part that you're supposed to really embrace, right? This is the you know, the small things like this, you know, us four out at Hard Rock, you know. Who knows where Myth is gonna go in a year, right? Now, who knows where Dre is gonna be in a year? Who knows where we're gonna be in a year, you know? Who knows if you know I finally get you know cracked open in Vegas, which I'm working on, right? You know, just anything out in Vegas just to get my foot in the door and just go outside of Kern County. No offense, Kern County, no offense. Uh, but outside of Kern County and play, you know, shout out DJ Ilflow. Uh Albert, you know, he's on the cruise ships.

SPEAKER_03 24:54

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

You know, he's like in fucking Barbados and fucking all over the place, man. And he's getting to play Ahsoka and Regaton and like different genres and different styles of music and and rock these other crowds and these other people. And it it just, I'm envious. I'm not jealous. He's put in the work, he's put in the time, put in the effort. I'm envious. It's something that I would love to do eventually as well. So much so that I hit him up and asked him, Hey man, you got an in? You know, do you you got anything, you know, you got any tips, any kind of advice, any kind of direction. Um, you know, if I, you know, decide I want to go try that out and do that. And he sent me the link and everything, and I I I put all the information in there, whatever else. Uh, but he says, yeah, he he did it like two years prior. It took him a good two years to finally get in on the I don't know if he's on Carnival or who's he who he's on. Royal, I think. Royal?

SPEAKER_02 25:45

Yeah, I think he's Royal.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Yeah, and he's rocking it, man. You know, fellow beat junkie alumni. Um, you know, Ilflo was episode season one, episode one of the most dope podcast. So shout out Illflo. You know, he's been supporting me since I was a fucking scrub ass DJ with shoes in the dryer, man. Like, I didn't know what the fuck I was doing. I was goddamn terrible. Hey, let me ask you guys this, because I think about this often as well. I feel bad sometimes about my performances from a year ago.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

Don't.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

You know what I mean? Don't I I feel bad. I'm like, man, compared to where I'm at now, you know, I laugh at me a year ago, but then in another year, I'm gonna laugh at me this year. And then in another year, I'm gonna laugh at me from three years ago. And I'm like, you were fucking terrible, man. You were really kind of shitty. You were terrible. You didn't you were terrible. Um, and I feel bad for my clients, my customers, uh, you know, people that I've performed for, per people that I've worked for, just feeling like I didn't deliver what otherwise would have been a myth performance, you know, 20 years into his DJ career, right?

SPEAKER_02 27:00

You you delivered you at that time. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure your customers are happy about it. Yeah, they were. But and I mean, you know, I mean, we're we're we're our own hardest critic.

SPEAKER_04 27:13

But they also didn't pay the price tag they would pay now.

SPEAKER_02 27:16

No, the prices are going up. Well, yeah, prices are going up every month. The more you elevate, the more your your your your price will go up. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you want to talk about horrible DJ. I was, and don't, don't, don't take my word for it. Ask DJ Slice, he was my mentor, him and X-ray. I couldn't get uh mixed down for nothing, nothing on beat. I was out of tune when I was scratched. I couldn't even really scratch, like, but nobody starts off great.

SPEAKER_04 27:41

No, so like this, practice, practice exactly.

SPEAKER_02 27:44

So here I am, a 15-year-old kid getting nervous against these DJs that's been doing it forever, but uh knowing that one day they start like how I did. Yeah, but I was I was a train wreck off the bat, like off the bat, yeah. And watching slice mix and and and do his beat jug uh juggling and all this other stuff and x-ray and his scratching, his mixes like wow, like it was just like dang. To me, they were uh at the time they were DMC ready, yeah. And then when I met the Baker boys, it's got to watch them do at a young age, and then chalk, watch him do what he did at a young age, see mine,

Growth, Mentors, And Beat Junkies

SPEAKER_02 28:20

his vice, all these guys like I got to personally meet and watch them do. I'm like, that's where I want to be.

SPEAKER_01 28:25

Yeah, you know, yeah, you know, to interrupt, to uh side rail to deter, you know, uh get this subject completely off. Maybe not completely off, because you just mentioned chalk. I feel like myself and Marion DJ Babecita, aka put some respect on the name. I feel like uh we're a little jaded, right? Because I goddamn see chalk and C-Los and Flip Flop and Shortcut all the fucking time. I see Chalk every week. I DJ with Chalk every week. He teaches me every single week. Got a very great teacher, and I'm jaded by it, right? I don't recognize that Chalk is a goddamn celebrity basically in the DJ world.

SPEAKER_03 29:14

Yes, right?

SPEAKER_01 29:14

Like he he is up there in the DJ, and I don't see him that way. Oh, yeah. I see him as Chalk. Me and him be chopping it up, we'd be making each other laugh. I be cracking jokes, you know, like I always do. I try to crack jokes for everybody all the time. And he'd be laughing and we'd be kicking back and fucking around on the tables and everything else and picking each other's brains or whatever. His brain more than mine, obviously. Um, but I feel like a little jaded with it. Um, very blessed, very uh, very, very, very blessed to be down at Beat Junkies every week, every Wednesday, learning from chalk, learning from Celos, learning from flip-flop, you know, and then you have people come in, uh Cheddar and Shortcut, and and some of the alumni or some of the other people associated with Beat Junkies that come in every once in a while. And I'm jaded by it. I gotta be honest, I really am. I have shortcut, I have shortcut's number.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

Word.

SPEAKER_01 30:07

I can text them, I can call them. I, you know, I have chalk, I can text them, I can call, I have Celos, I have flip-flop, I have some people that would like die to be around some of these people. And I I feel like there's a little bit of I don't take anything for granted, but it could be easy to do. It could be very easy to take that kind of that kind of uh presence and that kind of knowledge and that kind of assistance and training and teaching. You could take it for granted, man.

SPEAKER_04 30:37

Sorry. We've been pretty blessed. Like we've we've met Be Real.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

Like Yeah, we hung out with Be Real at Chalk and Celos's uh birthday party. Yeah, like they had a birthday party down in LA. We got invited to, we went, we attended, we hung out with Be Real, took pictures with them, talked to him.

SPEAKER_02 30:55

Um He's a net a down-to-earth guy.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

Yeah, crazy, crazy down to earth, man. He cut us off on the freeway and he doesn't even know it. Hey, be real. I'm letting you know right now, man. We were down in LA. We were driving to uh Chalk and uh Celos' birthday party. You fucking cut us off in a Range Rover, I believe. I flipped you off from inside my car. I don't think you've seen it because our shit's tinted and your shit was tinted. Uh, but then I seen you pull up in the same exact car to the party that we were going to. My bad brother. I love you, man. It's great to meet you. Appreciate it. Thank you, man.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

Oh man. But hey, we're going back to the beat junkies, though. Um Shortcut was one of my favorite DJs growing up. Like I used to watch all his tapes. I don't know if you remember um Q Bird used to have the individual scratch for pickles TVs, but it was on tape V VHS back in the day. And that's when I used to study it. Study it. Him, Yoga Frog.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

Just on repeat, rewind, play, rewind, play, rewind, play.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

And then, you know, I truly believe. Shout out to Craze, love Craze, dope DJ. But I think it was like '98, the DMC battle. Uh shortcut lost to him only because the needle kept skipping. Oh I think he could have won that. Yeah, go back and watch it. They both had excellent sets. All right. But yeah, shortcuts has always been like the one that I looked up to like uh I want to scratch like him. Like he's dope. Like I never met him, but I want to, you know.

SPEAKER_04 32:29

We'll meet him.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

No, we'll meet him.

SPEAKER_04 32:31

Yeah. We'll get it. Who shortcut? Yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_02 32:33

I never met that guy, man. Like, and he's been one of my biggest, uh, one of my most inspirational DJs, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

Yeah, we met him post-stroke. Yeah. So he had his stroke. Yeah. Uh, we met him down in uh and he spent some time with Marion. Nice. He was sitting there working with Marion. I was fucking, I was a little jealous, man. I was like, hey, motherfucker, I'm the DJ, man. She's just here with me, man. I need help more than hey, like, help me, man. Give me some goddamn tips, man. So it's a thing about female DJs.

SPEAKER_02 33:02

They want to see him do better.

SPEAKER_01 33:03

Yeah. Yeah, I think so, man. But yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_04 33:07

Um there's probably because there's very few, huh?

SPEAKER_02 33:10

Yeah, there's a lot. Yeah, there's a few. I try to get my daughter to do it. Um, she he was okay with it, and she, you know, found boys. No, that always boys over music, man.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

I guess. You know, go ahead. No, no, go

Music Roots And Why It Connects

SPEAKER_01 33:25

ahead. I I feel like music, you know, for me has been in my entire life. You know, I started playing the saxophone at third grade. Started playing the saxophone, got a little bit of a head start until Haven Drive out in Arvin. Mr. Autry, shout out, huge shout out to Mr. Autry, man. Um uh huge shout out to my dad, even. He was he was there with me trying to help me teach me how to play saxophone. He didn't even know how to play saxophone. My dad was very musical, played banjo, played guitar, played all the kinds of shit, had amps, he had a whole room just dedicated to him playing music. He wasn't a musician or anything, he just loved playing music. And a lot of my my cultural music, I think, came from my father. Uh, because he was playing, you know, my dad was white, obviously. Your boy's white, I'm white, my dad was white, my mom's white. Yeah, no shit. I'm creel. No, I'm creel, man. I thought you were light-skinned. I'm light skinny. Um, my dad played everything. My dad played B.B. King and and and Dizzy Gillespie and and like all the crooners and uh all that music. And um played a I think it played a pivotal big role in in my music selection, right? My dad could have easily been whitewashed, could have easily just been Elvis or Frank Sinatra or whoever it may be, right? But he had a lot of cultural, he had a lot of you know uh African American, you know, in music influence at a time that it was probably not so popular to support as a white man, right? Um, so you know, ever since I've I've been all over the place with music, you know, black, white, Mexican. I don't care, you know, music is music, is music, is music. Like um, you know, growing up in Arvin. Fuck of course I know cumbias and banda. You know, my fucking heard it every night outside my bedroom from my goddamn neighbors. I'm gonna go four or five in the morning. Yeah, I know it. I I've heard it for my entire life. Of course I know this music, man. And then, you know, uh Regatone, you know, being you know, uh coming up after Cumbias and Banda and you know being the next, you know.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

What the hell in like late 99, early 2000s?

SPEAKER_01 35:36

Latin yeah, Latin music movement. Yeah um, yeah, so that that's been that's been cool for me, man. Like I've been all over the place. Uh Dre, what do you got, man?

SPEAKER_00 35:47

I wanted to share this because we keep talking about music, and it's kind of funny because I had uh I had to give a speech in one of the like board meeting, like networking things.

SPEAKER_03 35:55

All right.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

So um I'm gonna paraphrase it, but it says music connects people across backgrounds and generations, turning strangers into communities and events into shared experiences. While decor and food may be forgotten, people remember the moments they sing together, laugh together, and celebrate together. Those emotions become tied to the experience itself. So it's just it just you can be a Jamaican dude straight from Jamaica and then some Asian guy who's a monk. And music can just connect you. Yeah, it's just crazy the way

Building Crates And The R&B Gap

SPEAKER_00 36:30

it works.

SPEAKER_01 36:31

Yeah, for sure. I have been building my crates for a long time. I've been, I'm a I I've been referred to as a curator. I collect music. I really do. And it's not the fact that I need to be have any kind of bravado or machismo or anything about, oh, I have eight terabytes of music. You know, that that's bullshit. You ain't gonna never play eight terabytes of music, you're gonna play the same 300, 400 songs all the fucking time. So you don't need eight terabytes of music. However, I enjoy having that on hand. I enjoy having it on deck, and I really enjoy people coming and requesting something thinking I probably don't have it, and I do, and I drop it on them. I really enjoy that. Um, and it's not to say that you need an eight terabyte library. I don't have a terabyte. I what do we have, 500 gigs or something? Which is still crazy. A crazy amount of music. We really do. And I collect music. I do. I always want to be prepared. And you know, the streaming services I'm not I'm not huge on. I'm not huge on title, I'm not huge on Spotify. Although Spotify is great for weddings. It really is, you know, especially when they give you playlists and shit like that, and you don't maybe not have that particular song. But then uh I tried crate hackers for a while. And as I it's all right, I mean it's not a record pool, you can't download any music from them, but they can give you ideas on crates, right? And 80s crate, 90s crate, 90s hip hop, 90s RB, blah blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, recently, as I've been working on my crates, and you know, I have 80s RB, 90s RB. There seems to be a bit of a falloff with RB. And I talked to Bill Bass. He's uh he's he has a record pool, or you know, he has record packs, he sells them, you know, like Sick Mix does, Derek B up in uh the Bay Area. Shout out Derek B, shout out Sick Mix. But I was talking to Bill Bass, I believe he's out in Florida and he does he does uh crates, you know. You can download, you know, 200 songs for 30, 40 bucks that he's put together for you. And I hit him up and I was like, hey man, I what what's up with the 2010s 2020s RB? Where is it at? Nobody has a goddamn 2010s, 2020 RB pack. Nobody does. And Bill told me something about how RB fell off for a while, like during the 2000s or something, like RB just just went away. But for me, like that 2010s, that 2020s, that Bryson Tiller, the Sizza, the you know, some of these other artists, Frank Ocean, you know, whoever it may be, is like I need that music. And I'm trying to build those packs and I'm trying to build those crates and I'm trying to put them together so you know, hey, even more well-rounded, and still still I can play some newer RB along with the older RB. But that newer RB seems kind of far few and far between.

SPEAKER_02 39:27

It's a lot more hip-hop than RB. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 39:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:31

Why why do you think that is, man? The newer age kids, what they like. That's basic basically what it is. Yeah, you know, got the new generation coming up, so they don't they don't see the music how we saw it when we grew up. Yeah. And I think a lot of it too is the tradition ain't getting passed down like I should be. Yeah. You know, like you know, we when we grew up, we had our parents showing us the 80s or the you know, the 60s or 70s, even the 50s songs, you know what I mean? Yeah, they still listen to them until you know like you know, the far as you grew up with. And then that got to like you know, your 90s are I think the 90s RB is the best RB era ever. I think so. So it's like I agree. Yeah, yeah. Keep sweating all of them, all of them. TLC, Aaliyah, you know, SWB, everybody invogue, whoever, maybe, yeah, like Janet Jackson, Paul Abdul, Pebbles was still down in the 90s. Yeah, pebbles, yeah, pebbles, you know. I mean, you still, you know, you still had a lot of good RB back there in the 90s. Um, and that I don't think it was just passed down or passed on its way to the generation generation. Yeah, somehow it stopped. Yeah, like you said, maybe 2010, even 2008. I was gonna start back. Yeah, and um, yeah, then there's that huge gap. Like, I mean, yeah, you still had Jakisha Cole. Correct, you still had you know, yeah, but it wasn't really RB, really. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:50

So I talked to him, he's gonna he's gonna work on some stuff for me. Um, try to get a couple packs from him, some of the newer RB stuff. And you know, you get you you can get your record pools and you can get your one-offs, and you you know, possibly if you're educated enough and and in tune enough, you can make your own edits, right? Buy the song from iTunes, buy the song from Amazon, buy the song from whoever your preferred provider is, yeah. Throw it in Ableton, throw it in Cerato Studio, do your eight bar intro, do your eight bar outro, and and be done with it. And uh you know, Ableton is a class that we're looking to take down at Beat Junkies here shortly as well.

SPEAKER_02 41:24

Still favor Ableton over Cerrato Studio.

SPEAKER_01 41:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 41:28

It's just I mean, the stems on it are better. Okay, everything's just better. Awesome. Like Serato is called Coming Up. Correct, but I still prefer Ableton.

SPEAKER_01 41:37

Well, then nowadays Cerrato Studio comes free with Serrato Pro. Like you don't even have to have the separate, you don't have to buy it separately now. You can you can just use Cerato Studio as long as you're a Cerrato Pro user.

SPEAKER_02 41:46

Yeah, Serato Pro.

SPEAKER_01 41:47

Yeah, yeah. So you if you anybody listening, if y'all don't already know that, go to Cerrato, get your Serrato Studio. It's free with your Serato subscription.

SPEAKER_02 41:57

Um, and what no matter how how far back you bought their pro, because I bought Pro back when it first came out, really.

SPEAKER_01 42:05

So forever ago. And then hardware starts coming out with it automatically. You automatically get pros if you have a Rev 7 or uh you know or uh or uh what's the uh Serato Rain or what's the controllers? What do we have? We have an S9, so S11, S9, S7, whatever it may be. Yeah, we still have S9. And they don't have S9 anymore, they still sell an S7 and an S11.

SPEAKER_02 42:30

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 42:30

Yeah, I was like, I got my S9 from Flex. Shout out DJ Flex. Thank you, brother. Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_02 42:36

Yep, yep. Thank you for buying my S11 so you can sell Gordy your S9.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

We know what you did, motherfucker. We've been talking, I figured it out.

Serato AI And The Sync Debate

SPEAKER_02 42:47

Hey, real quick though, um, go back to that Timbler and all that stuff that you that you're talking about earlier, that Sorato now you use. What do you think about the Serato AI? Sorato AI? It's like an AI thing where you you you could use AI to tell you what song will go good to play next. Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

Here's the thing AI is going to continue developing. Fuck you.

SPEAKER_02 43:16

No, real for real.

SPEAKER_01 43:17

Industry terms, yeah. Fuck you. Yeah, it's for real. Serato, you know, AI is going to continue evolving, right? Whether it's not, whether or not it's gonna ever be able to take out the human component, uh, the human MCing, which we talked about earlier on. We have to all be MCs, right? We have to get on the microphone, we have to, you know, interact with the crowd, do all that good stuff, and do things that AI can't do, right? And AI is gonna be dangerous in the sense that I feel eventually one day there will be uh a webcam in a facility, uh, tied into a computer, tied into AI, tied into quote unquote Serato AI Pro. And it is going to be able to read the crowd very well.

SPEAKER_02 44:04

Oh, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 44:06

It's going to be able to manipulate and play the songs that that crowd would love and probably eventually it's going to do scratching and all kinds of extra shit, right? Like it's going to grow. It's going to develop. Um I think you know, coming back again to the human DJ, uh, the human MC, I don't know that it's ever going to replace a human being doing something that a computer is having to do. That's a very impressive thing. Now, if you think about it, you take it back to core, you take it back to it takes a super fucking computer to read a crowd, DJ MC, scratch, song select, do everything else. Meanwhile, it takes uh DJ Myth, DJ Gordy B, DJ Big Dre, DJ Bebecita, and we're doing what a quote unquote fucking supercomputer would do, right? So I don't know that there is ever gonna be a replacement truly for DJs, but I think there is going to be a space for restaurants and clubs and and stuff, especially on the off nights.

SPEAKER_02 45:12

Oh yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 45:13

Uh Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I still feel and hope that Friday, Saturday will be a DJ, a live human being.

SPEAKER_02 45:21

So true. But here's my thing. All right, you have a controller. Yeah. That rank a mix for you if you think about it. If you hit the sync button. Okay. So now you have a controller with the sync button with Serato AI that you're using. Who's really the DJ? Are you just there to just uh press the buttons, let it do its work? I think it makes DJing lazy that anybody can make anybody can be. I mean, I have a hard time accepting DJs that still use a sync button every time. Yeah they're not learning, they're not learning the craft. They're lazy. I call them fake J's, you know. I'm not trying to hate, but I'm hating because those are the ones that are somehow getting the gigs because they're going. If if you watch them, they're going live and they're not really mixing. You could tell they're not mixing because you can just see how their pitch control is. Yeah. So it's like, okay, good for you. You're building your you're you're building your foundation, your fan base here. So when you go out and DJ, the people know, oh, that's a DJ on TikTok. But a real DJ could see like this one, this dude ain't fucking DJing. He's yeah, letting the controller work for him. He's being lazy. So with AI coming on now, like I feel like okay, well, AI, what song should I play next? So they're not doing uh, they're not going to the roots of DJing, they're not thinking about it, they're not reading the song with the crowd, they're not picking the song, they're not actually using you know their hands to mix and beat match right, like you know what I mean. So yeah, that's where I say a lot of us older DJs that's been doing this for a long time, that still day one from the craft are starting to get fade out for popularity instead of craftsmanship.

SPEAKER_01 47:00

I I agree with that to uh a degree, right? I feel like that is absolutely 1000% correct until a certain point of success. Hey, they have this, they have this social media success, they have this YouTube success, this TikTok success. But I think if you want to get past that, if you want to go further, if you want to go to a festival, uh if you want to do any of the stuff like Thurston does, Chalk Sun and Michael Leary and and and Traze and and um uh Miles, is it Miles? I hate to say Miles Morales because I know that's goddamn Spider-Man. Straight from what Brooklyn. Yeah, but there's there's somebody, Miles or Morales. There's there's a DJ, I don't remember his name. I think to get to that point, you absolutely cannot be an AI sync automatic kind of DJ. Oh, for sure. Let me ask you on this sync thing, because I have never used sync in my life, which a lot of people will applaud. Whatever. I'm not looking for your, you know, whatever. If you agree, great. If you don't, I've never used sync. Uh the times that I have used sync are when I'm doing crazy uh BPM changes. So I'll sync my old track to my new track. I will have my new track set all the way down to 87 BPM with my original track. I'll sync it to my new track at 87 BPM and on the chorus or wherever I'm gonna mix in, I will increase that BPM on the original track back up. And it obviously is gonna speed the old track up, right? And that's just some kind of a uh cheesy ass shitty transition that I'm trying to do to be able to jump from you know BPMs. Now, obviously, they have songs that have transitions in them, they'll go from 90 to 120 or something built into the song, but not all songs have those.

SPEAKER_02 48:55

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 48:56

Yeah, yeah, correct. Now, I don't want to oh man, I don't want to demonize sync so much, right? No, for sure. I want to explore how we could use sync creatively, not as a crutch, not as a tool, not how to beat sync, not how to beat match, not how to do anything else. But creatively, there has to be some good ways to use sync. There has to be, right?

SPEAKER_02 49:25

I mean, like you said, if you're not, it's not your every transition you're doing. Yeah, yeah. If you're gonna do like a big jump transition and BPMs and you don't have a transition to it, great, do it. You know what I mean? That's what it's there for. But if you're gonna do it on every song because you literally don't know how to DJ and don't know how to B match, that's where I have a problem with syncing. I agree. But if you if you want to transition from 90 to 130, you know what I mean, and then you want to sink it in for all, do it. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 49:56

It's it's there for that transition. I might do it once, maybe twice, maybe not ever during an evening. And that really depends on the direction of where I think the crowd is and what kind of an oh shit moment that I was like, fuck, I really gotta save this dance floor, or I gotta get a dance floor back, and it's gonna take me jumping from one genre at 120 down to another genre at 89 to get my people back on the dance floor. I have I'm gonna acknowledge that I've made a fucking mistake. I read the room incorrectly, I played a shit fucking song for that crowd. I lost my dance floor, and now I need to get it back.

SPEAKER_02 50:33

So sometimes even though you play a great song and the dance floor clears, doesn't mean you lost them. Still great song. It just means that they're thirsty. Yeah. They're going to the bar to get a drink. Yeah. Or they're going back to the table to get their drink real quick. So every now and then you gotta throw on a song that's gonna be like, okay, this is cool, time to get a drink, play another song to bring it

Bangers, Breath, And Set Pacing

SPEAKER_02 50:52

back.

SPEAKER_01 50:52

How do you feel about that, man? So so you you're rocking a crowd. Um, you're rocking a crowd at 110 bpm, 100 bpm. I'll just say a hundred. Like to say keep it a hundred, right? Blow the whistle, basically. You're playing blow the whistle. So we're at a hundred, man. How many bangers do you feel like you're gonna knock out before you give them that quote unquote break? Four, three, five, five?

SPEAKER_00 51:15

I'll say five. All right, five's a safe number.

SPEAKER_01 51:16

How about you, Dre?

SPEAKER_00 51:18

Um, it depends on what kind of banger we're talking about. Because it's RB, you can get away with a little bit more, maybe like six.

SPEAKER_01 51:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 51:25

But it just really depends on if you're gonna play, like where you're mixing out at, how long you're gonna do. All right. I would say you could probably five, six songs, uh, maybe like I don't know what each one would be, maybe about like two minutes. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:41

I mean, you're talking two, two and a half minutes, depending on whether you're slow mixing, quick mixing, whatever it may be. Yeah. Letting a song breathe, letting people enjoy it. They really love the second verse of a song and your dumbass mixed out on the first. Guilty, guilty as charge, guilty as.

SPEAKER_02 51:59

But for me, if I'm on a time set, I'm gonna, I'm gonna power mix. I'm gonna, you know, I mean, I don't know if you notice I do that. You do so, and that's not just because I don't like the song to play, it's just you know, it's either I like to do a lot of wordplay. So either my wordplay is at the beginning of the song, all right. So I'll work play it to the next song, right? Or it's just like, okay, boom, and I can see the crowd not really willing feeling it, or whatever. I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna play this one because everybody had lined up. And then plus I only got, I don't know, whatever the time I get. If I get 30 minutes, I'll let the song breathe. If I get 20 minutes, 15 minutes, I'm gonna power mix through that. If I get at 45 minutes, it goes, it just depends, sure, you know. But sure. I'll do what I do is I do verse, chorus, verse, and if I'm word playing, start mixing it out where I want the word play at during the verse, or start mixing it out after the second verse. Yeah, at the chorus. Yeah, at the course. Second chorus. Yeah, second chorus. There you go. Yeah, but it just depends on what the set, what the song, and how it goes and the time.

SPEAKER_01 52:57

How about you, Ben? How do you uh how do you plan your set and the length of songs and whether you're quick mixing or letting it breathe or it what's your cadence? Like you know that you typically have an hour at the hard rock, right? We all try to squeeze an hour in at the hard rock. Uh-huh. And you know, the last person, poor Dre, the last couple times, only got 20, 30 minutes, right? But we're gonna fix that this next uh this next week in two weeks. Hard rock to hone marketplace, DJ Dre opening up.

SPEAKER_00 53:29

Default a lot longer than that, the last 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 53:32

I think we've we do try to go past our time. We do, we don't care. I got talked to Tim, you know, I talked to him, I'm like, hey man. Uh he's pretty cool with me starting early. The the problem with me starting early is that Vic is over there giving away a fucking car or something, and and they they they're utilizing everything and they want people people to be able to hear it and you know and engage in that. So typically, you know, they try to get me to start at 10:30 at the marketplace, but I try to start at 10. Maybe even 9.45 if I get set up early enough. Uh, but again, that's dependent on the you know, dependent on Vic and the giveaways and whatever else Hard Rock has. But afterwards, they don't want us to go too far after because they're trying to close the bar and do all that stuff. And you know, Robbie, the you know, shout out Rob. Robbie, um, he's like the manager over in that section of the marketplace, and he runs it, and you know, he'll come up and say, Hey, can you give a last call and everything else? And we will, and he doesn't give us any shit or anything if if we go to 145, 150, 2 o'clock, you know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 54:38

I mean, I don't think they really care that we don't charge them for that.

SPEAKER_01 54:41

Yeah, yeah, we're not charging them. They're you know, they're not paying us to to play. Um, but yeah, at the end of the night, I always like ending up with uh them old Spanish songs and of course love by Keisha Cole. We have three of them really. We have Tragos, uh-huh, Volver, we have Volver, and we have Love, Kisha Cole.

SPEAKER_04 55:00

Yeah, and Time of Our Lives.

SPEAKER_01 55:02

Oh, Time of Our Lives, Dirty Bit, the Remix one, the remix one, the remix one, dirty dick, dirty dick. That's what it sounded like originally, right? Like it sounded like a dirty dick. And like nobody wants to know dirty dick. Nobody wants to know dirty dick, man.

SPEAKER_02 55:15

What the fuck's going on, right? Remember I dropped that song at um, well, was Briggs about the time it's called Tonic. Tonic, yeah. So when that song first came out, I dropped it there. And a buddy of mine's like, is he saying dirty dick?

SPEAKER_01 55:28

Dirty bit. It's B-I-T, bit, dirty bit. And it's some remix of I've had the time of my life, Bill Medley and Jennifer something. Anyways, we play that Bill Medley and Jennifer, the original dirty dancing. We play that song at the end of every event we do normally. Okay. I don't know why. Um, but you know, look, you know, I've had the time of my life. Like either you have or you haven't. And my goal out here as DJing with you guys was to give you the time of your life. Yeah. And you know, even at the end of the night when we play the dirty bit one, I'll get on the mic and MC and I'll say, Hey man, I hope y'all had the time of your lives, right? Like, uh, did you have the time of your life?

SPEAKER_02 56:09

So those are your guys' close out.

SPEAKER_01 56:11

What's yours?

SPEAKER_00 56:12

My Love King Cole obviously is one of them. I like playing uh what is it, uh lovers and friends. Okay, or uh, what is it, uh Cuddy Buddy's on there? Um, what's the other one? Slow jams?

SPEAKER_01 56:30

Oh, yeah, slow jams, you can't go Kanye and Twister or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 56:33

You can't go wrong with that one. All right, so I'm gonna take you guys back to 2008.

SPEAKER_01 56:38

Oh, this motherfucker's gonna give us the fucking exact year and everything else.

SPEAKER_02 56:43

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is 2008 Cosmos Days, um, aka what is it now? Zambas? Zomba. Oh, okay. So so we used to close it out. Uh back then it was me, Ogre, uh Adamie, Ant Real sometimes. Um I would close it out with two of my favorite songs were Pretty Brown Eyes, you know, and then Joe to see Fiend. Oh yeah. So and then, you know, that was our crowd based though. Uh huh. So and they loved it. And then Ogre, you know, he would do Pretty Brown Eyes also if I wasn't if I didn't do it. And then um he'll do Pony. So yeah, like, you know, just something to calm it down and give something for the ladies or something, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 57:25

So um next Saturday, Hard Rock Casino. Not this Saturday, next Saturday, y'all. Uh Dre's gonna open. Bebecita's going second.

SPEAKER_02 57:40

Oh yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 57:41

Myth is going third, and I have the absolute terror and and uh I have the absolute terror of following up myth.

SPEAKER_02 57:51

There's no terror behind that room. There's a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 57:56

There's a lot of it. No, what do you mean? Come on, man. I mean, the myths over here trying to be humble and shit, man. Like, man, I gotta follow up a fucking Bakersfield DJ legend hearing like this shit, man.

unknown 58:09

Right.

SPEAKER_01 58:09

And then he's gonna have the crowd all fucking happy and playing all the shit that they want to play. All that club music. Yeah, he has all the dirty shit that they want to hear. And so I'm gonna have to come up with some filthy shit after him, man.

SPEAKER_04 58:22

But you can't go too filthy because then you get embarrassed. I do. I am my um.

SPEAKER_02 58:28

So you gotta think about it. You're you're you're playing for 21 and over, people. There's nobody underage that is at that casino. Yeah, they're all grown adults and they all get freaky in the bed.

SPEAKER_04 58:36

Um, I because I played that um Bruno Mars song.

SPEAKER_01 58:41

Fat, juicy, and wet.

SPEAKER_04 58:42

Oh my gosh. I was like mortified. I was like, I didn't know it was gonna be that bad.

SPEAKER_02 58:47

So okay, so to be fair, I I just I just downloaded a version of that song to transition to another song, which I'm not gonna tell you. Oh, we're gonna hear it, we're gonna hear it next time.

SPEAKER_01 59:01

So, this motherfucker, not only did I say I'm terrified of following up with him, but now he's bringing in some special fucking ammo on me, man. Like, man, fuck you, man.

SPEAKER_02 59:10

That's gonna lead into some wordplay. That's gonna bring into another song that I'm gonna bring into that's gonna transition to another song. It's just gonna be it's gonna be epic. I'm just gonna no, no, no, WAP is not in there. But aha will be in there. You know, aha, right? Cardi B song, uh-huh. The new one. The new one. She says, she says, suck my dick, bitch.

SPEAKER_00 59:36

That's cool, man. Let's go, let's go. You guys remember that song, My Dick, by Mickey F on Dernesse? Yeah. So, for whatever reason, Young Gravy came out with a song called My Bitch. And they did a promo video with all the guys, and then and I listened to it, and I'm like, it doesn't sound that bad, but I'm like, I don't know how he's getting cleared to do all these samples. Yeah. He's getting some good samples out of it. Oh man. Because he's getting he sampled what James Brown for the uh for that dog for dog man.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:12

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:14

The the kept in underpants type movie. He did the the song for the movie.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:19

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:20

He got a James Brown sample cleared for it. I'm just like, I don't I don't get it.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:24

So well, who's who's he signed it or what label is he on?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:27

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:28

We can look at it because that that all could be tied to the same if they're all on the same label, then they could just give him a green light to use it. He wouldn't have to pay that much or at anything at all. But if it's from a different label, then they'll probably charge him armor leg.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:40

That would actually make more sense because he's been getting some crazy cleared light. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:45

Oh, they've been clearing him for everything. He he's probably, you know, I mean, every everybody's under the universal uh umbrella. Yeah. So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:55

Wait, I want to go back to the AI shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:57

Uh oh.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:58

Okay. So I feel like we're safe, you know, because I go to talk about and I hate it. I hate it. That's stupid.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:05

Yeah, I hate drive-through AI. Hate it, drive through AI.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:08

And I feel like people are gonna just get frustrated.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:10

Yeah. No, it's it's but you're you're still gotta control what you they give you input. Yeah, they give you a list of songs. This song's these three songs are gonna go good with this song. Have your choice of these three. Instead of using your own instinct and be like, nah, these songs not. That's not gonna be the crowd, what the crowd want. Let me give up.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:28

But you mean they're they're still hiring a DJ, but the DJ's putting in the songs, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:32

But like I said, you still have them doing the song choice for you, and you still have the sync button button for them to see the song.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:40

You know what's crazy about that is Crate Hackers has an add-on called the banger button. It is a little square button that floats in your screen wherever you want to put it. It overlays whatever window you have open. It reads Serato and it reads virtual DJ or whoever else. It reads some of the DJing platforms, the the programs, but it knows what songs you have in Serato loaded on each deck, and you can hit this little banger button thing, and it opens up and it tells you what song might be best next.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:10

See, I don't like that. Yeah, I don't, yeah. It's like you're not DJing, you're not you're not thinking, you're not exactly it.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:16

Might as well just put Spotify on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:18

Exactly. Yeah, so it's like it's taking the joy away from DJing, the the art craft, the

Vinyl Respect And DJ Pricing

SPEAKER_02 1:02:24

the work. I mean, maybe I'm so more adamant about it because I started off with vinyl, like you know, like there was no laptop and that's it is hard. No, it's well, yeah, beginning. I'm good, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:36

Yeah, because me and her went back to beat junkies and we started on vinyl and beat junkies, right? And I wanted to do that. A because I just wanted to do it, I wanted to know the feel, I wanted to know how to do it, I wanted to have the ability to do it, which I do have.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:50

So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:51

But I you know, like it's hard to beat that. On the other end of it, it's not hard for me. Like I can beat magic. You have struggles. You do have some struggles.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:02

I mean, you're not gonna get it right off the back. It is, it is, it could be challenging that.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:07

I feel like I've gotten better, but it's it's still, I mean, vinyl is hard as compared to Serato.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:14

And the other thing is, is it yeah, I wanted to prove to people that I wasn't just a digital DJ, I wasn't a sync button DJ, I wasn't any of these things out, and I really shouldn't, right? I really shouldn't care what anybody else thinks about me, right? Exactly. Um, or my abilities or how I started or where I started, but to pay proper homage to the craft, to the culture, I felt that it was very important to start at the beginning, regardless of me starting on a Rev 1, you know, pioneer Rev 1 controller. Right.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:48

You're paying your respects to what was there before. Yeah. So like when I taught my son how to DJ, he he learned how vinyl first. Oh, yeah. And then now he does uh, you know, use Serato. Then he's like, wait, I have to use the instrumental, then I gotta bring that. Yeah, I yeah, there's a meaning why you had double records, you know what I mean? And that's I was explaining that. We had two copies of everything, exactly. And then I go, unless you, you know, top secret finally came out with their eight bar intros on each vinyl, yeah, and you got like five or six songs, quote unquote radio edits or whatever exactly. But yeah, everything was doubles, like that's why you like but I can only imagine how many crates you guys had to carry. So when I first did my very first solo party, I took eight crates of record. Because I didn't know what I was doing. You don't know what you're getting into, yeah. Then it became as I got older and older in the game, I started we had a crate a case of of vinyls that was fit anywhere between a hundred to a hundred and fifty rec vinyls in there. And that was enough, and that was enough, yeah. Yeah, and especially if you're only dropping a set too, yeah. But if you're if you're doing all night, it means two or three crates, yeah, because you know that's you solo by yourself, so you didn't want enough music. Yeah, so I had to teach my son or tell my son, like, hey, when you're mixing in, it's instrumental, as you're loaning up that record, you're cleaner spot. We really didn't get on the mic back then. We had a host because we were trying to concentrate. We didn't have a lot of too much, way too much. So as the instrumental is playing, they're doing like throw your hands up, ladies make some noise, you can't hear but your best friends, shout them out, whatever, whatever it was. And um, and then then when they say GJ Myth, drop it or whatever, just boom, and it's yeah, yeah, cue it up.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:22

So yeah, no, that's it's not, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:24

It's it's a lot more work back then. A lot more work.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:27

And you probably didn't charge as much as you're charging now.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:30

And back then, this is why I get mad when DJs, this is why I still get mad when DJs today charge $150. $150. I was getting paid back in like 97, bro. Like, and there were still DJs out there charging two, three hundred dollars, you know. But I was new in '97, so I charged $150. It's 2026.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:53

It should be $400 or more. I agree. You know what I mean? I agree.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:57

There's no reason it should be in the 90s prices, DJ. I've I've put myself up to at least three. Yeah, exactly. I put myself up to at least three. I'll I'll price myself out uh on purpose half the time. Um if you really, really, really rock with me, if you really love DJ Gordy B, if you love my style, if you love my personality, if you love what I do, what I play, then you'll pay for it. Oh, exactly. You absolutely will. And if you don't and you just want a DJ, then you'll you'll pay for a DJ.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:26

Yeah, you pay what you get, you know what I mean? So I mean there's some bars out there that I'm not gonna say names because I still go out there and DJ, but there's some dars uh bars out there that was still trying to give me 200, 250. But like four hours. Yeah, I'm like, no, no, you know, at least three. Yeah. But if I have to bring all my equipment, my speakers, my lights, everything to your venue, yeah, so I could so you could have a DJ for proper performance, yeah. Then you're gonna give me like 800 bucks. Yeah, 900 bucks. You know what I mean? If I'm if I had to bring everything, yeah. But if I just bring my laptop and and and either my controller or my armor, my turntables. Whatever I gotta bring, if I'm not bringing speakers and lights, then it won't work 350, 400 bucks, you know. But it just depends on where you're at, where you're where you're DJing at.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:13

All right, y'all.

Goals For The Year And Artist Picks

SPEAKER_01 1:07:14

We're going into an hour and 10 minutes on this podcast. It's gonna be blazing, man. We're gonna I'll have it uploaded tonight. Don't worry, I'll give you guys the links. I'm gonna close this out with two things. I'm gonna ask everybody two questions. Uh question A, question one, uh, what is your what's your goal this year? Or what's your end goal, uh, where you want to end up next year. And B, uh share an artist with me that you might have come uh up on recently, or that might not be as celebrated as some of the mainstream artists, uh, somebody that you've been enjoying listening to, um, any of those things. So I'm gonna start out with DJ Bebesito over here. In one year's time, next year at this time, what's your vision? What's your plan? What's your idea? What are you thinking?

unknown 1:08:09

I want to be on a stage.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:10

On a stage somewhere.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:11

I want to be on a stage. Like on a stage, like it could either be like rooftop pool, but I want there to be like a lot of people, like I don't know, I'm gonna say like EDC style or coachella, like something like you know, popping.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:30

That's a that's a grand, whatever, you know, like that's pretty grand. I I don't I'm gonna help you, I'm gonna do everything I can to help you get there too. That's pretty grand, and I don't hate it at all. It's better than just saying, hey, I wanna go DJ over at XYZ bar or whatever, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:44

And my favorite artist, like my go-to, is Jesse Reyes. I love Jesse Reyes.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:49

I feel like Jesse Reyes is hugely underrated, underappreciated, and I'm going to piggyback on that very quickly, and I'm going to attach Black.

unknown 1:08:59

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:59

And they call him Six Lack because his name starts with the digit six L-A-C-K, Black. Um, and he's done some things with her. Uh, Miguel has done some things with her. And the one that I'm going to give right now, just to interject, is um, oh, what's his name? What's his name? All right, no, whatever. Fuck. Dre, you're next, man. Um I gotta find this artist real quick. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:28

Um, I want to finish a lot of things. I'm doing a lot all at once because I'm trying to stay busy, but I want to finish building my website. Um, I want to by next year, I want to have at least 20 weddings in a year.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:46

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:46

I think that's a good goal. I'm getting about 10 right now, 10 to 12. Um, and then I want to be able to have something under my belt, kind of like yours, just a little different, maybe a little smaller. I don't know if I want to go to the whole party yet. Um, but like I want to be able to be like, oh, that's that's Big Dre. He's on the radio. I wanna I want to get on the radio.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:11

I think that'd be fun.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:15

And artist-wise, I was looking to my Spotify.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:19

I'm trying to find my dude still. I don't know why I can't find him. He's the he's uh like a Brooklyn kid. Uh he's real soulful. Um, but he's hip hop.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:29

Um not the guy that sings by the bay, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:32

No, no, no, no, no, Brooklyn, not Bay Area. Other coast. The other coast.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:37

Are we listening? Have we listened to him recently?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:39

Yeah, and his name starts with a J, I believe. I can't oh man, I'm gonna kick myself in the ass when I listen to this and laugh at myself.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:47

Okay, I got I got three.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:48

Hell yeah, man. Because you know what, that's gonna help me steal something from you for next weekend, man. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:53

Um so for whatever reason, I well, it's just like like my throwback thing I was telling you about. So there's two of them that I got right now. So I I like listening to this in the car. Go West, King of Wishful Thinking. I like to drive to that. That's just me personally.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:09

All right.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:09

But gigwise, for uh, it's ragtime interlude slash I'm real by Missy Elliott.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:15

All right.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:16

I like I like the the intro on that, it's really nice. And the artist I always say I'm gonna keep pushing him until he gets big is uh Norman Sands. I love that guy.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:27

Norman Sands.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:28

Yeah, he's from Houston.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:30

Oh, you've showed me I've I've listened to him with you. We played him.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:33

He is all right. He's just I like that guy a lot. He's dope.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:37

All right, and uh Myth, man, last but not least, well, before me, I'm last, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:43

Um you know, I I'll say I think I had a blessed and still have a blessed DJ career. Um there's not a lot that I want to do now, but just to see my peers succeed and do whatever they do. Um you know, my job now is to root for you guys and for everyone that I've mentored through the ways, and that's what that brings me joy. When they do good, seeing you guys do good, that brings me joy and peace. Um, I've done you know, played for a lot of people. I'd done been on different radio stations. Um not to like bose or anything. So for me to say, would I see myself next year? I think I want to be that guy, like yeah, I gave some type of passed down some type of knowledge of the game to these people and and kind of mentor them and see them just rock and be on top. That thing that's what I want to see next year for myself. Um, for me, for the artists, it's gonna be weird, but I like young artists because they're be they're they're future of the game. Yeah. I like Little Tekka. I like, you know, I like I like I want to see, you know, Little Tekka. Uh not that uh filthy ass mind over here. I mean, I'm uh itty biddies are big old I'm big old titties. I do not discriminate. It's okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:08

I do. I don't want no, I don't want no ant bites. I want me some big old titties. It's just the soul of the person that I I look at. Oh, he looks in the inner beauty. Um Myth is available. He's looking for inner beauty. Uh so you can be fat and ugly. It's all right. He will still hell no. I do. I do have a weight.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:29

I mean, hold on. I do have a weight. I'm not body shamey. Shout out to the big girls out there. Some some of you guys are ruining.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:36

I used to rock with big girls. I don't anymore.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:38

But you know, I I do have a preference, but I don't care about their how big their asses are, how big their breasts is.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:46

So it there's more to it, man. Happiness and and and yeah, there's a lot more to it. Look, if you can get both, if you can get a nice, decent little body that you are attracted to, if you can get a good soul, a good mental, and everything else, that's the ultimate win, right? I'm not gonna, yeah. I mean, it's the ultimate win. It really is.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:06

One day I'll find that, but right now we're talking about DJing.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:09

So hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna give a shout out to Myth right now, man. Myth, Myth has been the one of the most supportive DJs here in Bakersfield, Kern County. Uh, he has supported my journey from you know my my humble three, four-year-old beginnings. Um, he supported uh, you know, Marion and her her journey. He's he's been to our our events, he supported our events. Um every Thursday, roughly, we all try to get together here at the crib. And uh if we're on the tables, great. If we're watching a movie, great. If we're eating dinner, great, if we're podcasting, great. Um, but I continue to learn from him. I I appreciate uh everything he's done and given to us. Um I appreciate you, brother. I love you, man. Um, thank you, man. Yeah, I love you too, bro.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:56

I love both of you guys, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:57

Uh after you say your person.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:01

After you say your person, I have another goal for all of us.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:04

Okay, after I say my person, I have to give my goal first, right? And goal in person. All right, so uh I'm gonna be pretty kind of low with my next goal. I want to DJ somewhere in Vegas, uh, whether that's at the El Cortez, whether it's on Fremont, uh, whether it's at a club down there. I really don't care. I want to DJ somewhere kind of quote unquote notable outside of Bakersfield, outside of Kern County. I would love to get a set in with Thurston at one of his YouTube events. I would love to get a set in with Michael Leary at one of his YouTube events, uh Treys. Uh I would, you know, and I'm working on things, uh, the things that I can't talk about too much. Um, I've been in contact with quite a few people. Um I've reached out to Scratch Bastard. Uh, I've talked to him. He's actually, you know, we've actually had a conversation back and forth. Uh very, very uh humbles me greatly that somebody like that would even have a conversation with me about bringing him out to fucking Bakersfield of all places, right? Shortcut, Celos, uh, chalk, flip-flop, all of them. Um, I would like to, I would like, I want to do Sunday school with with Beat Junkies, right? So Beat Junkies has a Sunday school where the they pick an alumni that they get to come out and and drop sets out in the parking lot. And it's, you know, they have a taco vendor, they have a papas vendor, they have a bar, they have all kinds of shit. It's it and it's at the beat junkies facility. I want to DJ there, of course, and I think I will, hopefully, I will. Um, but otherwise, yeah, I want to go down to LA with Thurston, San Diego with Thurston, Bay Area with Thurston. Uh, I want to open up for one of them one day. Um, again, Vegas. And my artists, man. Um, I've been real heavy on Joey Badass. That's the artist that I was failing to mention earlier. Uh, Joey Badass, Brooklyn kid, uh smooth with it. Just just, I love his flow. I love his his style. Um, and then the other one that I've been listening to a lot lately, just recently, I I don't know why. I just found out about this guy, Jay Worthy.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:07

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:08

Like a funk West Coast funk, somebody that's keeping the West Coast funk alive, right? He is keeping West Coast funk alive. And um, I'm gonna give a shout out real quick to DJ Cobain, 661. Um, he he responded to a story that I posted on social media uh about Jay Worthy and about the funk and everything else, and he responded, he says, Yo, listen to DZ Hollow 2, bro, bringing that funk and had and has that sugar-free flow to me. Yes, so DZ Hollow and uh Jay Worthy, um uh along with Joey Badass. I'm on all three of those guys right now for some reason. Um, again, a lot of people probably haven't even heard of these people. Um, they're not quote unquote super mainstream. Check them out, but I have never been mainstream myself. I I like to uh listen to a lot of music that a lot of people don't know. I like to a lot listen to a lot of obscure tracks that weren't their number ones, right? Well, I don't care if it's too short, I don't care if it's too pack, I don't care, I don't care who it is. I'm gonna find a song in their album that resonates with me, that I enjoy, that I like, that's not popular on um uh popular among the masses and the radio and mainstream media. Um, so those are those are my two Jay Worthy and Joey Badass.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:35

Uh quick quick sign up before you go. Go ahead. Yes, shout out to DJ Cobain 661. What's up, cuz? Love you. Yeah, it's fam, he's fam because I do. Yeah, so yeah. So he's uh um you've been working with him.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:49

He came out, right? He came out to Hard Rock, right? Yeah. Uh no. Well, I don't know if he ever came out. I don't know who the DJ is. Somebody came out. Some some people have been coming out. DJ's been coming out. I don't exactly know all of y'all. I love to meet all of y'all. Uh, no offense that I don't know you yet. Um, it's not your fault. It's nothing to do with that. I don't have an ego, I don't care. Um, I appreciate all the love and all the DJ love and everybody that's been coming out and supporting us.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:14

I'll introduce you guys. He he does DJ at the Had out sometimes. Okay. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:19

Awesome.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:19

Well, yeah, he's family. He does uh the pop-ups during the day.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:23

So great.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:24

Let's go out there. Yeah. Well, I didn't even know that. And I just shouted him out without prompt aid. Cobain, yo, hey, I didn't mean rehearse this shit. I didn't know this shit. Uh, you l legit dipped into my fucking Instagram story and and and said, hey, listen, if you like this guy, listen to this guy. And I greatly appreciate anybody that sends me new music or new artists and lets me expand my my world of music,

Planning A Private Live-Recorded Event

SPEAKER_01 1:19:50

right? And uh, we're gonna go ahead and let it close out with DJ Bebecito over here. She has a goal that she wanted to review with everybody. For us, for us, for all four of us, or for who? Just us four.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:01

So I'm I really want us to throw a huge event.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:04

I do too.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:06

Uh a huge one. Like I want to get it to the point where um we do something like that Christmas movie we like to watch, the Nutcracker one.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:16

Oh, oh uh it's with Anthony Mackey, Seth Rogan, uh the night before. The night before the Christmas movie? No, no, Christmas movie, the night before, Anthony Mackey, um Seth Rogan, Seth Rogan, and who's the young white kid? He has a sister, uh, they're both famous. One from uh anyways, they have and they have some very, very, very private, secretive Christmas party called the Nutcracker Ball that happens every Christmas that somebody throws. And these dudes have been getting been trying to get into this Christmas party and go to it for years. Well, they finally find some tickets, he steals some tickets out of somebody's coat. He steals three tickets for him and his boys. Um and yeah, this this this event is just so epic. It's so epic, it's so beautiful, it's so private, exclusive, exclusive, right? Like people actually are like want to get in there, like they're curious about it, like and and and generating that curiosity and that excitement and and all of those things. Definitely, I agree. Something I would love to do. Well, now we're definitely going to rent a space soon, all four of us. We're gonna rent a space. Uh, we're gonna throw up some GoPros, we're gonna record it, we're gonna go live on YouTube, we're gonna we're gonna post it on YouTube. Um, it's gonna be a vibe. Um, you want to dance a little bit? I'm sure you can, but it's more gonna be about mingling and just nodding your head and and feeling some music and enjoying the the you know the event. Uh so we are all four going to be doing that very, very soon. You know, Dre has come up with a couple uh venue options. Um, I have a couple I'm thinking of Myth has come up, you know. So we're all brainstorming right now. And I would say within the next month, 30 days, y'all. 30 days from now, you guys are listening to this fucking podcast right now. 30 days from now, there will be exclusive invites sent out to people. You can apply to uh uh to to attend this event. Uh once you're in, you're locked in. It'll be four hours roughly. Uh, you will not leave in four hours, you can leave after four hours. Um, hell no, it's not okay. If if I'm gonna give you an invite, if I'm gonna give you an RSVP and I'm gonna let you into this event, uh, you need to stay there, you need to support, you need to enjoy it, and you need to make it uh a point that you're really there to listen to music for a few hours and to listen to a few DJs and all of that stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:58

Open format.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:59

Open format, completely open format. You know, I'm I can I'm gonna go ahead and go out on a limb and I'm gonna say uh Myth is gonna play some booty shaking shit, uh some West Coast shit. I'm gonna go out on a limb.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:13

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:13

And say DJ Bebestita's gonna play some regathon and some 2000s. Um, I'm probably gonna stick with some fucking obscure hip-hop, you know, Joey Bettass, you know, Jay Worthy, some of the stuff you guys aren't super familiar with, but we're gonna rock out to it. We're gonna enjoy it, we're gonna make an event out of it. Um, yeah, you guys will have to sign off a little waiver knowing that you guys will be on YouTube. Uh, don't act stupid, don't act retarded, don't do anything dumb. You know, it it's it's gonna be grown, it's gonna be adult, it's gonna be mature, we're gonna be there to play some music, enjoy some music, uh, post to YouTube, and uh hopefully grow something of our own here in Bakersfield, man. You know, Kern County. Like I said, Thurston, Michael Leary, all these dudes across the the nation, across California. I think Michael Leary's from New York or something. Um, you know, they're they all have something to to to look forward to to go to, and and we plan on doing the same thing here.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:05

Yeah, be a lovely thing. P.S. Don't go with anybody you're not supposed to.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:09

Oh, yeah, because again, you will be on camera. Um, uh the other thing is is you're on camera at Hard Rock sometimes too, y'all. So if you're trying to bring a sneaky link around the marketplace or or wherever else that we're DJing out there, you you might get caught, y'all. So uh weed and snitch. Hey, we'd love to have you there. B, uh protect yourself. Um, and and we don't condone that. I don't condone it, but I don't judge either. I don't give a fuck what you do. Your life is your life.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:35

None of my business.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:36

It's not what I'm into, you know. I got my wife, I got DJ Bebecita. We do our thing, we rock out. I got my friends, very, very, very tight, close-knit group of people.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:46

What do you say all the time? Not my monkey, not my circus.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:50

Not my monkey, not my circus. I like that. Whatever you got going on, you want to fucking act out, do whatever. I don't care, whatever. Not my monkey, not my circus. Not my monkey, not my circus.

Final Warnings And Sign Off

SPEAKER_01 1:25:00

All right, y'all. The most dope podcast. I don't know. We're in season two, maybe episode two or three. Uh, appreciate you guys listening in. I know it's been a long session. We're about an hour and a half in. Uh, DJ Myth, DJ Big Dre, DJ Bebecita, DJ Gordy B. We're signing out. Thank you guys, and we'll catch you on the next one.

unknown 1:25:18

Bye.