The Most Dope
The Most Dope Podcast is where DJs, MCs, creatives, and friends get together for real conversations about music, nightlife, culture, and life.
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Real DJ Skills Beyond The Usual Bangers
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A DJ set can look like “press play,” but we know it’s really a nonstop chain of choices: crowd reading, EQ decisions, level control, timing, and managing people who think the booth is a group chat. We kick things off by throwing DJ Myth, DJ Dre, and DJ Babisita into a hot seat and naming the most overrated songs that still somehow get requested every weekend.
From there, we go deep on the craft. We talk Serato habits, why crate organization matters, how redlining happens when tracks aren’t mastered equally, and why mixing by ear still separates confident DJs from laptop-only DJs. We also debate what “stealing transitions” even means, how to treat inspiration as learning, and why tagging your drops can protect your work from becoming someone else’s “signature.”
Then we get real about the emotional side of DJing: empty dance floors, new songs that fall flat, and the booth distractions that can ruin your focus. We share practical ways to handle requests, set boundaries, and keep the room moving without turning into a jukebox playing the same 100 tracks on repeat.
We wrap with a community invite: a fundraiser night at Chewy’s on September 17th supporting Alexandra’s medical journey, with raffles and donations going directly to the family. If you got value from the talk, subscribe, share this with a DJ friend, and leave a review so more people can find the pod.
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Welcome Back And Hot Seat Begins
SPEAKER_01What's up, y'all? We are back on the most dope podcast, season two, episode five, I think. We got the crew back together. We got DJ Myth. Hi. We got DJ Dre. What's up? And we got DJ Babisita.
SPEAKER_05Hi.
SPEAKER_01He hits you with a what's up. What's up? What's up? What's up?
SPEAKER_05He forgot to say, I know that guy.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I know that guy. Oh, I know that guy. Hey, he's pretty good. I heard pretty good things about him. I know about him. I know about him too. I've heard some good things about him. That boy good. That boy good. Hey, so we're gonna we're gonna do a little uh little hot seat. We're gonna do a DJ hot seat to start off this little session here. And it's gonna progressively get more and more uncomfortable. Oh no. We're gonna ask some questions that are gonna be difficult to answer. I might be Nick Kennedy. I plead the fifth. Plead the fifth. What is that? Uh uh Chappelle. Fifth. One, two, three, four.
SPEAKER_00Fifth. I'll plead the Dr.
SPEAKER_06Fauci.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, Dr. Fauci. Yeah. All right. So
Most Overrated Songs We Still Play
SPEAKER_01DJ hot seat. I'm gonna give everybody an opportunity, all three of you guys, girls, women, men, whoever, human beings. I'm gonna give you all you guys an uh opportunity to answer these questions. So, first question. First question for the crew. One at a time. Speak up as you wish. Most overrated DJ song. Oh. This is how we do it. This is how we do it. Ain't no fun. Ain't no fun at the homies can. Suavamente. Suavamente. La Chona.
SPEAKER_06La Chona. La bota. Paseo.
SPEAKER_01Oh, just the Paseo de Rodio.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01How about you, Dre? Overrated DJ song. What's the most overrated DJ song? California Girls. Oh man, Katy Perry, California Girls. You know an interesting tidbit. Yeah, I'm going to detract already. Jesus Christ. I fail at this. Interesting tidbit on that. We do this a bunch of school functions over for Mountain View Elementary, way off of like uh Houghton or Taft Highway and Stein or something. Mountain View Elementary. And uh there's uh some boys out there that continually and repeatedly request California Girls by Katy Perry. And I would have never guessed it, but after a while I started thinking to myself, okay, Katy Perry, little boys. I I see now, I understand. Yeah. I understand.
SPEAKER_05And the lyrics in that song. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07It's a cross-school thing. Yeah. I've worked a couple of them. I worked with kids at schools. They all do it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy. Oh, here's a oh man. You guys are gonna. Oh man. This one's tough. Worst song Gordy B plays. What's the worst song that I play?
SPEAKER_06I don't know. I haven't heard you play all of your stuff yet, so you haven't. I mean, to me, you haven't played anything bad yet. Not terrible, right?
SPEAKER_01Like shit, man. Worst song that I play? I don't know what the worst song that I play is. I don't know. Find out on the 29th, Hard Rock Casino will be there. Shameless plug, Hard Rock Casino Marketplace. The 29th, the four of us will be there. Alright, worst song Bebecita plays.
SPEAKER_05I only play good shit.
SPEAKER_01I only play good shit. These are hard questions to say what's the worst song Gordy or Babis Babisita plays. Here's one, and I already know. I already know I'm gonna get roasted on this one probably. Who talks too much on the mic? You I was enjoying it. It was fun. Hey, my name is Myth for a reason. I gotta stay quiet.
SPEAKER_05It was good. It was good. I think it was a bit much too. It was a bit much.
SPEAKER_01I think it was a bit much. I toned it down this last weekend, and it was it was nice. Okay. It was nice. Toned it down. Who's the biggest crate hoarder? You you yeah, you yeah, yeah. I just collect music, you know. I I do uh it's not like I said, I and I tell people this all the time. It's not that I'm ever gonna play 500 gigs worth of music. It's not that I'm ever gonna play 60,000 songs, uh, but I like to have it for whatever event you know comes and whatever request comes. I like to be prepared. I like to collect music.
SPEAKER_05But I think you you have OCD though with your your crates.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, my crates are OCD, everything's OCD. My crates, my my my cue points, uh everything. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06You're the first one that I know that I've seen that your crates are alphabetically ordered. Oh yeah. I was like crazy.
SPEAKER_00I was like, what the heck?
SPEAKER_06Or I use my top ones at the top because I use them the most, and then down lower, it's more of the okay, I do have it. Sprinkled in and there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, I'm real OCD about my library, super OCD about my library. Everything has to be just organized for me. Yeah. Who's
Crates Redlining And Mixing By Ear
SPEAKER_01most likely to red line?
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_01Who's most likely to go go past the red line on the music, on the speakers, on the volume? I'll push it sometimes, I'll admit. I push it and I I push my EQs. Yeah. I'm I try to leave my my my master there, you know, but I do I I'll I'll hit the trim every once in a while. And it's not that I'm trying to push red line, it it's that some of the not all songs are are equal. Exactly. You know, and some songs are a little more quieter than others, and and and that's something that you need to, as a DJ, you need to be aware of and you need to adjust. You need to adjust your EQs. Not all songs are are fine at 12 o'clock EQs, not all songs are great at 12 o'clock trim. Sometimes you've got to go one o'clock trim because that song is a little mute for some reason. Whoever downloaded it, whoever edited it, whoever whatever they did to it.
SPEAKER_06So do you adjust your EQ on your mixer or do you adjust EQ in Cerato? A mixer. Yeah. I kind of I kind of like adjust it in Cerato. Do you? Yeah, this way the half circle. Yeah, like you know drag it with the mouse? This way the EQ on the mixer is still stay the same. Always stays.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. I used to uh actually when it was too low, I used to take the song and put it in Audacity and I would double it. Normalize the volume.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Audio normalization. Yeah, for sure. I like Dre's microphone voice. It's nothing how we used to talk when we talk about this.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't yeah, I just you turn something on over here, motherfucker. Every time you get on the goddamn mic and we have podcasts and you turn on that Barry White or Isaac Hayes or whoever you're turning on, man, you're channeling that that that sexy time shit, man.
SPEAKER_05Voice to men to hire you.
SPEAKER_01No, and then no, I'm just kidding. Who's most likely to steal your transition? I don't know. I don't know that any of us steal each other's transitions. No, I think.
SPEAKER_06I wouldn't say steal, I would say borrowing because it's us, but I I still haven't heard any of us use any of our transitions that we do. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05But it would it would be normal, right? Because like I have like Gordon taught me, so I know his transitions, right? But you know, we're just kind of learning off of each other.
SPEAKER_06I wouldn't mind it either. Like if if you guys see the mix that I do, and you guys like, oh, that goes good, I'm gonna do it. I would it wouldn't bother me. It wouldn't bother me not one.
SPEAKER_01For me, it's a compliment. Exactly. You know, it's uh it's like, hey, man, somebody recognized something that I did and they liked it so much that they're doing it as well. Like, that's a compliment. That's flattery. What is it called? Imitation is the the uh uh highest form of flattery. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Imitation's highest form of flattery.
SPEAKER_07I think that like you know, looking at somebody's transition and practicing is different than selling somebody's mix they made, right? Oh like playing it as yourself, yeah. Yeah, um, like that Netflix TV show when the kid took the pre-recorded like mix and he was acting like he was DJing. Oh no, yeah, it was the it was one of those music shows. I can't remember the name of it.
SPEAKER_06That's how I'm a big believer throwing your drop as you're doing it. You know what I mean? So some can record it and try to use it.
SPEAKER_05It has your name on it already, yeah. Oh, that's that's a great idea.
SPEAKER_01All right, here's a this is a warm-up. It's shit's starting to get a little spicy. Shit's getting spicy.
SPEAKER_06I have a question before you answer this question. Yeah. How long has this been on your mind?
SPEAKER_01Oh man, I put the I make these notes, man. Like I yeah. Uh unfortunately for me, my brain runs a thousand miles an hour. I get it. 24-7. I can't shut it off. Um, and I probably forget more than I remember or forget more than I think about. So nowadays, anymore, it's mostly my phone. Um, I note everything. That's good. And then I'll I'll go back through my notes and I'll be like, okay, I want to revisit this, or this is important, or you know, I'll be watching a DJ set or whatever it may be. Yeah. And I was like, revisit this, check your crate, make sure you have this song, you know, make sure it's in the right crate, make sure you know you haven't forgot about it, you know. And I'd be making notes like crazy, man.
SPEAKER_05He doesn't sleep.
SPEAKER_01Spiciness. Spiciness. What's
Bad Habits Requests And Crowd Control
SPEAKER_01the worst habit you have as a DJ?
SPEAKER_05I think mine is I don't really check my stuff after someone's been on. So like the Cross Vader will be on the on the way on the other side, and I'm like, fuck. And I'm put bringing in a song and I can hear it in my headphones, right?
SPEAKER_01So it's like, okay, and then ever and then Gordon comes and he's like, or like, because you know, we do the bass swaps, we kill bass, we do EQ mixing, and the bass swap will be down on one of them, and she'll bring a track in with no bass, right? Oh, okay, okay. Um, I think my worst habit as a DJ, uh, and Chalk will love me for this one. Shout out Mr. Chalk, Beat Junkies. Um, I probably look at the computer too much, man. I probably look at Serato too much. I probably rely on waveforms a little too much. I probably don't use my ears as much as I should. Um, and as far as beat matching, BPM, stuff like that. Um, probably my biggest fault. You know, sometimes I'll I'll scratch at the wrong time over a vocal or something, you know, just sprinkle a little scratch in. That's probably a bad uh bad habit. Um another bad habit I have as a DJ.
SPEAKER_06But I don't think, I mean me, I when I've learned Serato and I learned it after so many years of having it around the first when it first came out. Yeah, when I learned like I didn't need the headphones, to me, it's headphones make me hot. Uh-huh. Yeah, sweaty. Yeah, exactly. So when I learned I could use it without the headphones, like I'm not wave writing, I'm still mixing, I'm still me. You know, I'm still doing the things. I don't, you know, I do concentrate on the laptop when I don't want to make eye contact with anybody because I don't want that request. You know what I mean? Oh yeah. So like I was just concentrating on the laptop. I'm staring at this laptop, like I'm not seeing you, I don't want that request. Um I don't know what my I guess I I've been told that um to calm it down when somebody comes after me is the biggest is the biggest thing I've been told. I'm like by multiple multiple people though, like and I always fall back to that dude, like I'm not playing all the hits. There's it goes back to the hits. But if they're your hits, then I apologize because they're the hits that you want to play. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05But if you can't be open enough to know your genre and music, but I think that's what happens too, is that people are already stuck on on like their their brain knowledge, right? And we have libraries, right? And we can go through everything. And some people just kind of type in what they want to listen to. And so they you know that's just on the top of their mind.
SPEAKER_01That is another topic that that is on cue for tonight is is uh complete complacency, uh comfortability, playing the same 50 to 150 songs every single set, like every single time. And and we'd have run into those DJs, uh, you know, and and again, we're all at different levels, and we're all at, you know, I respect everybody, uh, but we we have run into DJs that seem to play the same shit constantly. Um, and I I particularly personally attribute to their library being shit, right? I attribute it, I assume or or I think I have it figured out. It's because their library is so disorganized and so shitty that they're relying on things off the top of their head constantly. Well, if you play the same 50 to 100 songs off the top of your head constantly, you those are gonna be the songs that you repeat constantly all the time. Whereas any of us, anybody in the world really knows that there's there's way too much music to ever be able to remember all of it. Yeah, and there's songs that you're gonna for you're gonna forget. And for me, having crates and working on my crates and being organized allows me to pick and choose songs from within that crate that I might not have been able to remember live during that performance. True. Like just off the top, off the fly, off the cuff. And I feel like it allows me to sprinkle things in randomly. Because I know what I played last week. So if I go in there next week, I know, okay, well, I played, I played eight, maybe ten Bay Area bangers. And I know which eight or ten I played. So if I play some Bay Area shit next week, I'm gonna play something different. I'm gonna play a different Bay Area banger.
SPEAKER_06So you know, rest of peace allergy, he's he's the one that taught me about opening and the songs. He's like, look, when you open, play what you're open, which whatever you want to play with. You know, be selective on your hits, and maybe you can play some older hits and let the newer hits are for the new guys. Sure. For the for the uh uh the main DJ. Yeah. And he goes, Um, but don't get locked into 300 songs. Yeah, yeah, he's like, don't ever get locked in, always always spread it around. He goes, You could get away with that with weddings because of different weddings with different people. So if you want to be a wedding DJ, you can play the same songs over you over and over you want because you're playing for a different crowd and you already know what works for a wedding, you could be selective that way. Yeah, but if you're gonna be in an open space, open you need to be dynamic, yeah. Exactly. So and and me, like being on the radio station, I have a hard time because yeah, we gotta play you know what we gotta play. And and fortunately me, I'm on a radio station where we could play anywhere between the 90s to now, so I try to keep every mix different that I didn't play last week. And there's some like I get it, I do have to play this song, I do have to play that song because it's radio, yeah. But when I'm out, I try not to play the same songs. I catch myself doing it sometimes, especially more lately, because I guess I haven't been DJing in the club lately in a while. But um, I was actually thinking about that. I was like, you know, I'm just gonna do a whole different set that I haven't played yet. Yeah. So I'm with it.
SPEAKER_07Uh to kind of go back, I would say probably my worst habit that I had to like get away from, I would take too many requests. Oh, yeah. I would take way too many requests. People pleaser. Yeah, that's how I started out. Now it's like, uh, let me see if I can fit it in.
SPEAKER_01I I want to say exactly I want to say that that that is a normal progression in the DJ life, in the DJ lifespan, right? You know, the DJ lifespan, just like anything else, uh, you know, you go through different phases and you go through different things. And I would say for uh a while I was a people pleaser and I would try to uh play people's requests and stuff like that. Until you learn and figure out that that shit can kill your dance floor, until you learn and figure out that I have 30 people on the dance floor already rocking to this genre or this music, I'm gonna keep them here for a while. Yeah, there's no reason to to swap out to some crazy different genre or anything else. Um, and for me, it it's always been about communication with with the the guest. Whoever's making that request, I'm like, hey, great song, great request. Actually, I'm gonna get it in here shortly. That's sound that's awesome. It fits.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01If it fits, right? If it doesn't, you know, don't be an asshole. Educate them. You know, let them know, like, hey, I'm at 110. You're you're wanting somebody that is something that's at 87. It's gonna take a while to get back down there, even if I'm in the correct genre in the correct area and the dance floor is in the correct place and everything else. Um, but yeah, I'll try to get it in. I'll add it to my prepared crate, you know, whatever it may be. Um, yeah, I try to educate people nowadays a little bit, man, just rather than just saying no, it's not gonna work, or you know, just to give them a little bit of extra where you're not just blowing them off or you're not the asshole cocky DJ or whatever it may be, right? That's true. But that also comes at how they approach you. Yeah, your attitude, yeah, your demeanor, your attitude. Hey, play this next. No, motherfucker, that's not how this shit works.
SPEAKER_06I'm always like, no, I can't. It doesn't work right now, but I will get to it. No, I want to know. Like, no, I'm not playing it.
SPEAKER_01And now I'm not playing it at all, motherfucker. At all. Period. I won't play it at all. Even if I was planning on playing it before you came up here, now I'm gonna refuse to play it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, unless somebody else comes and asks, I please I got you, but it's not for him.
SPEAKER_07You know what I mean? What did I say one time? Uh somebody came and they did that, they had a demeter. I'm like, well, you gotta play now money. Yeah. Because if you you ain't gonna shoot me money, I'm sorry. The bar pays me to appease everybody. You're not paying me to make it. Shoot me like a jukebox, pay me like one.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, feed me. It's $20 a song, depending on where you're at.
SPEAKER_01Let's see, let's see. I'm gonna I'm gonna come up with some shit right here.
SPEAKER_05I think the worst is when kids request songs. And you tell them you're gonna play it, they start asking you what time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and they come back every two songs. Are you gonna play it? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05And then they'll be like, oh, like around 9 30. They'll come at 9 30 and be like, Are you gonna play my song?
SPEAKER_06They remember. They remember clocking it. Most popular kids' song I had to play were two. There was either that um whipping nene or whatever, and then that Juju on the beat. Okay, those two were like the most requests when I used to do the kids' dances and stuff.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_07I don't know how baby is still out there, dude. Like Justin Bieber baby, though. All the kids, I don't care how long or how long it's been, it's gonna be the same.
SPEAKER_06They like it. You know why? It's the same way as we as kids grew up to Billy Jean. Because our parents. Okay. So their parents that like the Justin Bieber baby, it's just a time of classic, it's not going anywhere. It's gonna be part of that category.
SPEAKER_05When you said baby, I was thinking baby shark.
unknownOh my god.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, they like that one too. Ain't no way. Fun fact, funny, funny, funny story, real quick. When that song first came out, I played it at Bricks as a joke in the middle of the nightclub, just as a joke while that little 30-second snippet while I transitioned to another song. They loved it. They went. I'm like, you guys are grown-ass. Because they've been playing it for the kids and trees. You're out there dancing like a fish, like that's crazy. Like, but drunk people do drunk things, you know what I mean? So it was fun.
SPEAKER_07I think the crazy one I've been doing recently is you guys remember the show Out the Box from Disney. Those like came out in the 90s. So they had a goodbye song at the end. So when I'm closing down, I'll play it. And then you just see them, they're like, Oh, I haven't heard that one in forever.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, those are always nice, the aha moments like where people remembered songs.
SPEAKER_06I'm gonna start playing Reedy Rainbow's theme song at the end.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you're gonna get them. Oh man.
SPEAKER_01All right, so we we're in the danger zone of questions now. This
Confidence Mentors Practice And Reputation
SPEAKER_01one's yeah, we we this could destroy all of our relationships here. It's time to take a drink real quick. Yeah, everybody grab a drink, have a drink, uh, take a big deep breath. Who at this table thinks they're better than they actually are?
SPEAKER_03You?
SPEAKER_01Damn. I'm gonna say me. I'm gonna say me. Yeah, I'm gonna take it's good to have confidence though. That's being highly of yourself. I'm gonna take one for the team. I I as humble as I am and as as shitty as I know I am sometimes. Uh, I also think I'm I'm pretty decent sometimes. No, you are great. So, like, nah, nah, nah. I'm gonna take that one for the whole team. Nobody else has to answer it. Y'all are safe.
SPEAKER_05I think I'm the worst one in this right here.
SPEAKER_06Okay, look, I'll be honest. I heard all you guys play. All you guys, and it's like, I was joking.
SPEAKER_00No, I think all you guys are. I need to work with them.
SPEAKER_06No, all you guys are great. Um, I'll answer that question. I don't think I'm better than what I am, but I also know I can learn more than what I do know. Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01So I'm the same way.
SPEAKER_05But you are the most experienced.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you're the best one. No, Adam's, you're the best one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Because you have you have more knowledge. Like, how long have you been DJing?
SPEAKER_0697.
SPEAKER_05So like 60 years? God. No, just kidding.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I know I look that age.
SPEAKER_03Just kidding.
SPEAKER_01Who uh who is actually better than they actually realize? Who's better than they actually realize they are?
SPEAKER_03Myth.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, probably. But I don't think that the humbleness though, you know.
SPEAKER_06No, not just that. It's like I guess because I I look at myself to the people that I've learned from and to see where they're at right now, it's just mind blowing. Like, you know, I could be there. I just I'm not right now.
SPEAKER_05But how many people did you learn from that basically like they didn't move from, they didn't progress.
SPEAKER_06Um I'm sure it was a couple of things. You know, yeah, like, you know, I guess different routes in their life took them a different way, but they're still I'll put them against any DJ in the world. My especially my two mentors, um, X-ray and Slice, I'll put them against any DJs in the world. Like they're so they're just dope. You know what I mean? Um you know, uh, got advice from Chalk back when I was just a kid, you know, when uh Slice first introduced me to him. C minus two took some advice from him and just from those guys alone, like where they're at, it's crazy. It's like, you know, from knowing them from when I met them in the late 90s to see, you know, and then to talk to Nick and Eric V about things when, you know, like it's just crazy.
SPEAKER_01It's a crazy thing to to to think everybody started out at the same place. Yeah, right. Everybody started out DJing somewhere, everybody started out with shoes in the dryer, you know, whatever it may be. And some people have made it out and some people haven't. And I largely equate that to I I had this thing uh oh, you know, that I've thought for quite a while, um high school, Arvin High, junior high, Sierra Vista, Haven Drive, Arvin High. I grew up with friends, people, all from our, you know, we all grew up together. A lot of these people have gone to jail, gone to prison, uh, killed people, uh, you know, committed felonies, you know, whatever, right? Yeah. Some people became judges, some people could become lawyers, some people became felons, some people became whatever, right? And you you you ask yourself and you wonder how, right? I went to Sierra Vista with you. I had the same teachers as you, right? I went to Haven Drive, same teachers. I went to uh uh high school, same teachers. And it came to back to the fact that their home. Right? Everything is the same but the home.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Your environment, your home environment, you know, uh how poor you grew up, how how spoiled you were, how entitled you were, how whatever it may be, right? And that's the thing that was the component, you know. If your mom and dad were around, if your dad was around, if your mom was around, if if if you used to get beat, you know, it could be a million things, right? There's so many different uh components or things that could possibly happen to shape or direct somebody's life, right? So yeah, we all started as DJs somewhere. We all have the same fucking equipment, we all have the same fucking laptops, we all have the same fucking music, we all have the same, same, same, same, same, right? The abilities come in as to whether you're practicing at home, right? Whether you're putting in the effort, whether you're curating music, whether you're uh attending beat junkies, or you're you're doing Thursday night gigs with the boys and you're at the crib and you're practicing and you're you're learning and you're you're helping one another, right? Um and you wonder what what what the formula is, what the formula for that success was. And it's gonna be a it's gonna be a series of several items. It's gonna be a series of practicing 30 minutes a day, right? With intent, you know, not lazy practicing, not just blah, blah, blah, blah, but going in with a goal. I want to, I wanna clean this up. I want to clean my stems transitions, I want to clean my EQ transitions, I want to clean my chirps, I want to clean my my whatever it may be, my transformers. I want to clean these things up so I am going to practice with very laser-focused intent for 30 minutes or whatever it may be. And then I'm gonna I'm gonna get with other DJs and I'm gonna practice with them. Uh, and I'm gonna I'm gonna do I'm gonna do a bunch of gigs.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then you got you, you know, you got people that have stayed in Bakersfield, stuck in Bakersfield, and you have people that have gone to LA, you have people that have gone to Vegas, you have people that have the right doors open. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's it's uh, you know, something uh an old boss of mine used to say was uh you know, make your own luck. Yeah, you you work. The harder you work, the more luck you have. The networking.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. I mean, look at Oso. I mean, look at all the good things he's doing, Ilflow, all the good things that he's doing. Yeah, you know what I mean? And you know, Oso's been in the game for a long time, and it's just you know, I get it, it takes time to build up to where you're at. Yeah, you know, and and I'm freaking happy for that guy. Like him and in Ilflow.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so yeah, I love what Ilflow's doing. We talked about it on the last podcast, right? You know, all the all the cruise ships and everything else, and he's getting to travel quote unquote half the world and play music.
SPEAKER_06Why are we doing a nightclub out there? Yeah, he's doing a nightclub out there. Yeah, he created a flyer.
SPEAKER_01He's like, Hey, since I'm gonna be here, you know, off of the cruise ship for a day or two, we're gonna be docked. I'm gonna go ahead and perform. Exactly. I was like, that's dope. Yeah, that was sick. I was happy for him, man. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05You know, but I think sometimes too, it's not what you know, it's who you know.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that's uh that's what I'm saying when the doors come open for you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's but I mean to it to an extent, you can't be a shitty DJ and just have a door open for you. Because yeah, the door might open, but you might have sold yourself, you might have oversold yourself, and then you go to perform and you fall flat on your face and you lose the gig because you were shitty, right? Somebody opened that door for you. And some people don't have any kind of uh I don't know if it's respect or or what it may be, but uh if somebody vouches for me, I take that shit very fucking personally, man. I'm representing somebody's name, somebody put their goddamn neck out on the line for me uh to give me an opportunity, I'm not gonna let you down. Or under underperform for them, then you both will look bad. Uh-huh. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05But trust and believe, if we recommend you and you screw up, we're not recommending you again.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it's happened. It's happened. You know, we got the we got that little Facebook. Uh, I'm not gonna say any names, I'm not here for any negativity, whatever else, but we have that little Facebook, the DJ Family Facebook, and I have um uh uh put out a couple gigs for people that uh are normally my gigs that I take care of for some folks here in town, like Latin Women's, uh uh Highgate, and a couple others uh that I was uh unavailable for, so I I tried to, you know, help somebody out. And I got bad information back, man. And it's like I don't wanna I I I don't even at this point I most of the time I just tell them I'm not available and I don't even refer them out anymore because I uh I take my name very seriously. Yeah, and if you're not gonna take my name as seriously as I take mine or as I take yours, I I can't do business with you. I can't reference you, I can't suggest you, I can't do any of that because you're representing me. Yeah, whether you know it or not, yeah. I I have given you one of my clients that I have earned that love me, uh that will will still use me. But now I feel bad because I I gave you somebody and you you were either stupid with them or you didn't perform well or whatever it may be. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Um, let's go one last one. Gotta
Learning Styles And On The Fly Saves
SPEAKER_01be a spicy ass one.
SPEAKER_06Um Dre, you okay over there? You okay over there? You zoned out over there, man.
SPEAKER_01You were looking at Nikki, huh? We got like Barbershop 3 playing on a TV over here, and Dre's over there drooling over Nikki's ass.
SPEAKER_05No, he's not.
SPEAKER_01You're gonna get him in trouble, Nick, man. I know Mitt said he was. I just uh I just said what Mitt said.
SPEAKER_06He's he's being a little angel.
SPEAKER_07No, I was just in deep thought because I was thinking about a lot of different things because out of the four of us, I would say that you guys practice more than I do. And I think you are but see that you're destined to be better than all three of us because your foundation is different. Like with me, I have had to unlearn a lot of things. Yeah, because I've had bad habits, like how I started out. Yeah, but you got that good foundation, and you're just gonna, once you hit, you're gonna hit.
SPEAKER_05Oh, I know. She's almost kidding. Hey, well fair.
SPEAKER_01Hey, this girl, hey, she tried to make me feel bad the other day. And she was talking about that whole foundation, right? And and you know, me trying to help out whoever I can help out, whether it's in the B Junkies class and with my classmates, or whether it's you know, Dre here and there, whether it's her. And she said, uh, the way that I help other people versus the way that I help her, like, is I'm I'm way rougher or more direct with her. I'm more hard with her or harsh, right, than I am with Dre or anybody else. I'm I'm super harsh on her. But that's a good thing.
SPEAKER_05It's and I told him that. I told him that. I told him, you know, I think I think it's because you know me better than you know Drew. He wants to develop you more and stuff, yeah. Yeah, but you know, there's nicer ways.
SPEAKER_07It's like a chef, right? Who is the hardest one he's on? The sous chef. Yeah, that's a second in command, so that's yeah, yeah, and that's and I told him that.
SPEAKER_05I I go, I know you do it because you want you know I can do better, and I've and he listens to me, so he knows that I can do it.
SPEAKER_06So do you break it down when you teach her? Or so like what I do when I teach my son, and I really I mean, he's so talented I I want him to surpass me in every way possible. Of course, that's what a goal for all of us as parents, right? So I tell him, like, if I can't break it down to where he's not understanding, I was like, okay, just look and watch, and then do your best to mimic. And that's how I'll do it. I'm I'm a better showing you instead of telling you.
SPEAKER_01That's that's the thing about a teacher and a leader and and a student, right? Uh, is you have to understand that there are several different learning styles. There's I could tell you something and you could pick it up fine. Uh, I could show you something and you could pick it up fine. Or you have to be hands-on and do it and you'll learn fine. And that's how I learned.
SPEAKER_06I'm a hands-on person. I had to learn by watching. I mean, even though X-rays good, I break it down how to do a scratch and this, and then slice is really good. I break it down how to mix, and and you know, I never knew about counting. Yeah, like you know, he goes, let me just basically say, Let me just dumb it down for you, just count two, three, four, and then you know, match, you know, get your what you call it. For some reason, I couldn't comprehend that. You know, I don't know if it was my ADD or what. If I was just watching them, I would just pick it up real quick. And then, you know, it took for them to leave, like if they go out a nightclub, I'll go and turn everything on and just started doing it. And then by the time when I hear them coming back, I'd like, oh turn everything off real quick.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's what I used to do. Oh man. Um, what's something that you guys have all done? Um that you you would hope that nobody really noticed, like you know, something that you like during one of your performances that you know you really fucked up, but you're like, you don't know, I'm not sure if anybody else caught it or not.
SPEAKER_07I I'll say it. So one of the times when we were at the Hard Rock, you're like, Dre hitting it on the one. I ran out of song. I tossed it in on beat because I ran out of track, uh-huh. Not because I was trying to hit it on the one. Oh, all right. And it just happened to work out. And then you said that I was just like, I guess. I don't know.
SPEAKER_06Oh man. I remember accidentally, I don't know how I did it, but lower the the volume fader while the song was playing.
SPEAKER_02Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_06But I already had the mic in my hand, so I just announced like something. If you came with your best friends, make some noise and hit the sirens and put the volume back up. But that wasn't part of the plan.
SPEAKER_01I I messed up. I hit the 3345 button once. Oh, I think we've all been there. I hit the 3345 button once, which is a known thing on the Rev 7 for some reason, and they came out with the firmware update, but you have to hold that button for it to actually change now because people were hitting it with the the side of their hand or whatever accidentally. And then the other thing I've done is my line depth on uh on an effect. Uh it was all the way up and the effect was on, and I couldn't get the effect to turn off. Yeah, literally for like like 30 seconds, and because I didn't know what I did wrong and I couldn't correct it, I powered off the controller and powered it back on. And and but then eventually I noticed. Yeah. So, bro, I'm sorry, I thought that was your stomach. I was like, man, my my stomach's making noise over here, man.
SPEAKER_03You need to go, Dre.
SPEAKER_06What was that? The dishwasher?
SPEAKER_05No, it's the like when I guess when the washer is on, it's connected to the kitchen sink. So like when it's draining, it does that gargly noise. It's like, whoa.
SPEAKER_07When I had my rain one, one of the things that it used to do for whatever reason, the freaking track would reverse. Oh yeah. I had that habit together. That thing is not, I don't wish. Wait, that's a Serato hotkey, too.
SPEAKER_01That's a keyboard hotkey that'll go reversing forward too. You have to know that button.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. I had to figure it out real quick, and I was like, well, I switched to the other side and then I looked up the key, and then I was like, okay, I got it. But it's yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I don't mess up. I don't know what you guys are talking about.
SPEAKER_03That foundation Dre's talking about.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna
DJ Stereotypes Plus Walk Up Anthems
SPEAKER_01we're gonna we're gonna play guess the DJ now.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01Describe stereotypical behavior, and everybody points to whichever person at the table is most guilty. Stereotypical behavior. So what's what's one of the what's just DJ stereotype? Stereotypical behavior of a DJ.
SPEAKER_07The extra button thing. Like when you put a little extra when you flip the button on.
SPEAKER_01Oh shit, like the showman shit. Like where they flick. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Like who's extra?
SPEAKER_01Or they're like they're like going and touching every fucking knob and they're not moving a single goddamn thing.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh man. That's when you know their mixes are pre-recorded. Oh it's terrible, man. I I can't stand that shit. Like, I understand the showmanship and I understand a little bit of flair here and there, but you know, just like drops, just like scratching, it has to be done tastefully and it has to be done with flavor, like sprinkled in. Like it has to be done tastefully and it has to be sprinkled in. If if every time you're behind the deck and you I call them nervous twitches, I call them nervous habits. I really do. I feel like it's a nervous twitch of a DJ to like go around and touch the high, the mid, the low, the EQ, the trim, the the high pass, low pass, uh and and and not move a single goddamn knob and act like they're it's on fire or something. Like the knob is hot, so they have to jump off of the knob real fast, man. Like and either that or they're just bored because they don't they're not mixing.
SPEAKER_06Like I said, they're pre- they're pre-mixed, and they're just want to show that they're quote unquote DJing, and they're really not.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. That stereotypical behavior bothers me.
SPEAKER_07I can honestly say I don't think any of us actually do that. No, I don't okay.
SPEAKER_05Um, a quick mixer.
SPEAKER_07I do it when I'm nervous. I'll be honest. When I'm nervous, I do it all the time. I like to power mix.
SPEAKER_06That's why she said it.
SPEAKER_01I love to power mix, especially the club. I like to power mix, but you know. But you know, if you do it right, you know, if you know that the the second verse is a popular one, yeah, of course you're gonna let it breathe. Yeah, right. Because people are gonna get mad if you fuck that up. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, okay. Gordon does it with the Spanish music because he doesn't really know it too much.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna listen for the course. Yeah, I don't speak Spanish, so it's like fuck, I don't know, man. I'm doing the best I can. I just let the whole song play out and mix it at the end, man.
SPEAKER_03Like yeah, he does now, but in the beginning he used to do that.
SPEAKER_06Like, why are they why is he changing doing the the the verse?
SPEAKER_03And you can just see when people just like look, that look they give you when they're about to like sing.
SPEAKER_06Hey, but again, he doesn't speak Spanish, so you get a pass. He gets a pass, yeah. I don't I don't speak Spanish and I try, so yeah. Just try to do it for the people.
SPEAKER_05But this was like way at the beginning, he doesn't do it now.
SPEAKER_07Um we guys heard that shockerone song. Uh uh. The Chakaron, Chakaron, Chakaron, Chakaron.
SPEAKER_05I've heard that song before.
SPEAKER_07It is the it the guy, he sounds like Chef from the Muppets. They made a video of it and like cleared it.
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_06So I recently learned, you know, uh, what's the song? La Vaca? Oh, La Vaca. Oh, moo. Yeah. I was like, that's is that he really sing the cow? And like people go crazy over this song. Like, I'm gonna I'm gonna make a song called The Pin. La Pluma.
SPEAKER_03La Pluma, yeah. It might be good. It might be good.
SPEAKER_06I don't know.
SPEAKER_03You can make a song called The Nub.
SPEAKER_06The nub?
SPEAKER_01Damn, too much, man. It's okay.
SPEAKER_06It's just rubbed on it. It's all right. Somebody already rubbed it for luck.
SPEAKER_01Oh man.
SPEAKER_07DJ Myth. All right, how about this one, man?
SPEAKER_01I know we got some WWE fans in the house, right? Yes. WWF back in the days, that's what we knew. Yep. Before they made them go to WWE. Uh, and a lot of us like uh UFC and boxing and all that good stuff. I want a walk-up song from each one of you. If you had a walk-up song to play for you entering the club or entering the DJ booth, what song would you want played as your walk-up song? It's funny how you say that because when we were kids.
SPEAKER_06Hey, there you go. When we were kids, me and my brother used to go out in the front yard.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Role play. And when I first heard Corns Blind, uh-huh, the intro was my walk-up song. Especially when he after he said, Are you red? Like, that was it. Like, I remember having that CD. Um, I think when I first bought that CD, it was like in '95, because I think the album came out in October of '98 four or somewhere around that. But I got it in '95 when I first convinced my grandparents to buy me that CD. And we used to do that. I used to play that as my WWF or WWE intro back in. I think I was still playing. And I and what's his name for the Padres? He plays it when he walks out to his to pitch. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. I was like, dude, that was, you know, it's a corn song, but I was like, dude, that's my theme song. What are you talking about?
SPEAKER_01What would you pick for a walk-up song, man? For Big Dre, man. What would Big Dre's walk-up song be? Your WWE DJ walk-up song.
SPEAKER_07It's either gonna be Groove is in the Heart by I believe it's D Light. Alright. Or it's gonna be. I don't care. I'm half white. Ball with the Ball by Kid Rock.
SPEAKER_06Ball with the Ball, the bang, the bang, boogie did it, booby, then it's it up jump the bow. Why do you say half white? Black people can't like that song, or what? I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I think I get judged a lot of being multiracial. But back then, you know, but back then it was a hot ass song, man.
SPEAKER_06It was it was a fire song. I don't I don't I don't I don't hate it. The Undertaker come out to the song when those uh people I like the Cardi B song Bodak Yellow Bodak Yellow. Yeah. You got red bottoms?
SPEAKER_01Dang. Oh, Lynn. Mine would be something with Mac Miller, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Your favorite Mac Miller song?
SPEAKER_06What is it? Perfect Circle God Speed. Nice. What's yours?
SPEAKER_04My favorite song?
SPEAKER_06Mac Mac Miller song.
SPEAKER_04Ooh. I like Stay.
SPEAKER_07Oh, that's a good one. I need to listen to him a little more. So mine's probably a little more.
SPEAKER_06No, I like the spins. I like the spins. Mine's a duet with him and Ariana. My favorite part. I love that song. I love the whole thing about that song. The rhythm, the percussion, everything. That's just a good song. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Well, Ariana's on stay too. So I I really like we really like watching them. And when we watch them perform too on TV all the time.
SPEAKER_01Here's a good one. Here's a really good one.
What Hurts Plus Booth Pet Peeves
SPEAKER_01Things DJs pretend don't hurt their feelings. Empty dance floors, someone leaving during your favorite song, another DJ immediately feeling the floor. Someone saying, when does the other DJ come back? Like, like, you know, I'm gonna start with this one as far as you know the dance floor and everything. You know, a lot of times DJs are graded by their dance floor, right? Um, and that that that that's it a very certain part of their career, I would say. Um and it's not to say I'm in a super accomplished DJ, obviously I'm not, and I have a long ways to go and a lot of things that I want to do. But dance floors do not bother me so much anymore, especially like at Hard Rock and other places. You know, as long as I can see people grooving and and and piling in and sitting down and enjoying and maybe even singing along or or doing those things, empty dance floors, they don't bother me too much anymore. It used to be a very, very, very big, important thing. And in certain cases, yeah, it still is. You know, if you're at a school dance, obviously you need a fucking dance floor, right? You know, if you're at a wedding and there's supposed to be the dance hour, then you know, dance two hours, dance three hours. You need a dance floor. Um, but I feel like I'm getting to the point in my quote-unquote DJ career where my stuff is more about artistry, I guess. I hate to say sound cliche like hey, I'm an artist, you know, I'm deep and all this shit. I'm not. Um, but I want to deliver music that a both people know and people don't know. Um, I want them to enjoy it. Uh I want to expose people to new music. I want to hang out with them, vibe out with them. Uh so the dance floor thing doesn't bother me um too much. Um but what what would hurt you guys' feelings as a DJ? I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't really like if somebody came up and said, hey, when when's Myth gonna be here again while I'm doing my set or something? Like if you take it incorrectly, right? And it might not be incorrectly. They may love Gordy B, but they may also love Myth in his set, right? And there's there's nothing wrong with that. They may love Dre, they may love Babesita's style and in her mix and everything else. So that kind of stuff, it really depends. I think just like Myth was talking about when people make requests and they're assholes about it. It's really whether you're not an asshole about it or not. Like, sure, hey, when's when's Myth gonna be here? Like, man, fuck you, man.
SPEAKER_05I think for me would be introducing a a new song that I'm like digging and I'm loving, and nobody else is still.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it falls flat? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05You know, and you've like been feeling it all week and everything and working hard and East LA falls flat on me all the time.
SPEAKER_01Will I am and Taboo and and that uh that that that song that they came out with fairly recently, East LA. I love that goddamn song. I fucking love it. Uh most people don't though, it doesn't seem like it's just I mean, I did this song, I like it.
SPEAKER_06Um but I think people won't don't really I mean they like the song, but they probably just we're not in East LA. Yeah, you know what I mean? That's what they're probably thinking about. We're not in East LA, why we're why we're playing this song. Sure. Yeah, I think that comes to a big factor. And two, like I think that's more of a backyard party song than a conversation. I agree. You know what I mean? I agree.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. What do you think, Joe? Anything that would like anything you're sensitive about, anything that bothers you, that that that hurts your feelings per se, that you know can transpire through the night that you're like I'm pretty chill for the most part.
SPEAKER_07There's a couple things you can do to piss me off very quickly. Um, one of them is like when they come up for a request, and it's like it's okay if you don't know the song, but they're like, hey, but uh you should play some of this. Like, I don't come to your job and tell you how to work, I don't tell you how to mop a floor. Like, if you want to hear a specific song, by all means, ask. But don't come and tell me, hey, you should play uh disco right now. Play something we can dance to.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that doesn't hurt my feeling. That makes it mad. Like, yeah, I'm sorry you're the only one that can't dance to the song, but I can dance for spac. Exactly.
SPEAKER_07There'd be people grooving and going and then they come up and request for nothing.
SPEAKER_05Or they come up to you and ask you for a song and they give you the lyrics. Oh god and they don't know who sings it.
SPEAKER_01Anymore, I can't hear very well. Uh I don't know. I I actually don't think I have a hearing problem. I think I hear okay outside of the DJ booth. But inside of the DJ booth, I can't hear shit. I can't read your lips. Uh I can't uh I I your your accent, whatever it may be, combined with all three of these things, four of these things. And I'm like, look, just show me the song on your phone because it's the same thing. It's like, hey, play I like this song. It goes like this. I need the name of the song, I need the artist. Go away until you have that, bring it back. Uh I'll I'm happy to to uh you know possibly play it for you. Um but yeah, like I can't hear shit. And then you know what? I'm gonna say detouring, you motherfuckers gotta do a better job of protecting me sometimes.
SPEAKER_05Oh yeah, no, we're not going there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you guys gotta do a better job of shielding me. Uh I'll I'll help you out too if you need it. But if some girl comes behind the goddamn DJ booth, man, and she's trying to dance with me and talk on the mic and do all kinds of shit, and you motherfuckers are just sitting there watching me, laughing at me while Marion's sitting there about to boil, man. Fuck y'all, man. I'm not gonna lie, I was waiting for her to tell me what to do.
SPEAKER_07For her and let us say the same thing. Because we were looking, we're like, what do you want us to do?
SPEAKER_05I wasn't. I the thing is that I'm I'm I'm really classy. I really am. Like, I'm not gonna sit there and and fight with anybody.
SPEAKER_06You don't have to fight, just give us the word that we'll go over there and do it. Okay, because we were looking at this, we were looking like what do you want us to do with King?
SPEAKER_05Some guy was coming up to me to the booth, offering me money, and said, Um, will you show my friend a good time?
SPEAKER_07Damn.
SPEAKER_05And Gordon's just sitting there laughing.
SPEAKER_06And I'm like, with uh um, oh my goodness Woody Harrison and Demi uh Demi Moore or whatever. Um decent proposal proposing yeah, I was like, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_05I'm like, help me.
SPEAKER_01No, I wanted you to experience it so you knew how it felt. I wanted you to experience it in its entirety.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you do.
SPEAKER_06I see you're I see Kevin Hart. Help me. Help me help me. Help me. Um, I don't get my feelings here about anything anymore. I mean, you know, in the beginning it was like, man, I thought I rocked it in dance for school, but now it's more of um it's a hard dislike. Actually, I hate when you get that one person that just wants to stand by you and talk your ear off while you're DJ. Don't do that. Don't do that. Like, we are working. I'm not trying to have a conversation about you. I'm sorry if I knew you for 10 years and you want to catch up. There's a time and a place for that. Yeah, I hate when they're just in your ear, just I'm like, dude, I can't hear you for one. I'm not paying attention to what you're saying. I'm trying to concentrate on what's the next song is trying to keep my dance floor up. I you are I'm you're not a priority.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_06Like, and I don't mean to be rude about it, but that's how it is.
SPEAKER_01No, I'm I'll be rude about it. Like, hey man, like hey, I got I'm doing something, man.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I just don't like those people. And then they don't get the hand, like, bro, I'm working. Oh yeah, okay, but let me tell you what happened to me last week, dude. I don't give a shit right now.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, or when they come and try to talk to you when you're mixing a song in. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The whole time, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Or they're trying to shake your hand while you're actually your your hands are on the EQs or on the paddle or or on the faders, and you and you're actually moving, and they want you to stop and shake their hand, give them a fist bump, give them a high five, do a fucking special handshake, all kinds of shit. Like, hey man, I like I don't think people really truly understand. And we talked about this on the last podcast. We're we're we're basically supercomputers. Yeah, we're we're we're calculating, we're we're reading a crowd, we're we're making determinations, we're five songs ahead, we're mixing, we're thinking about maybe some wordplay, we're thinking about a little scratch here and there. Uh we got so much going on that we're managing all at the same time. Like, look, hey, give me a quick fist bump. Hey, good to see you. Thanks for coming out. Uh, I'll I'll try to talk to you at the end of my set. Uh, you know, Myth's gonna come on in an hour. Uh uh, I'll have some time after that. Cool, man.
SPEAKER_06Like are the ones that come and think it's funny to go just to stretch your record. Oh, do not touch a bit equipment he got into a fight with somebody that I like literally cross-decked them hard and then end up getting kind of jumped by his friends, but still, like are they bumping to your table? Yeah, all the time.
SPEAKER_07Are they always bumping? Yeah, stop bumping my shit.
SPEAKER_05Here's another one. Uh it's my birthday. It's my birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday.
SPEAKER_01Uh look.
SPEAKER_05I'll shout you out.
SPEAKER_06Happy birthday.
SPEAKER_01I'm not gonna call this person out. I'm not gonna say this person's name. If they do listen to this podcast, then they're gonna know who they are. This last weekend, uh, me and Bebecita, me and Marion, we had to split up because we had two gigs. They overlapped one another. Uh so we were both at this uh uh 50th or 60th birthday party. A birthday party, 55 or something. Great birthday party, great people, the Hughes. Uh shout out Tina, shout out John, happy birthday, my guy. Um, and we were there from about 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. or something. Well, we had hard rock at 10:30 p.m. So I had to bounce. I had to leave Marion there, Babisita there, which was scary for her. That was her first time ever being alone without anybody able to, you know, help her or interject or intervene or whatever.
SPEAKER_05Maybe you had to use my brain this time.
SPEAKER_01And I broke off to Hard Rock and got set up and did all that good stuff, and you know, I'm playing, doing my thing. And somebody shows up and asks where Marion is. I was like, oh, she's gonna be here a little bit later. She's you know, we we uh she's gonna be here later. Five or ten minutes later, they ask me again, where's Marion? Um She's gonna be here, she's on her way, she's gonna be here. She's you know, five or ten minutes later. When's Marion gonna be here?
SPEAKER_02Oh shoot.
SPEAKER_01Literally, I'm not exaggerating. And while those are happening, I'm also being told that it is this person's birthday. Um I'm like, okay, I'll give you a shout out. I usually shout everybody's birthday out if they come up and ask for it. Um so I shout them out. They come up and say it's their birthday and they want another shout out again.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then they want another a third one. And I'm like, look, what what part of this do you not understand that this is not your night per se? It's a it's a group of people, it's a it's a everybody's night. Um I it's not about you, it's about the music, it's about the vibe, it's about the crowd, it's about dancing, it's about enjoying oneself. Nobody wants me to wants to hear the DJ, the MC, shout out the same birthday three or four times.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like it's it's it's crazy, it's ridiculous. Um and it can't it got to a point where it really just felt like this person wanted to let everybody in the the marketplace know that they knew the DJ basically. Like, oh, I know the DJ, right? Like uh I'm gonna keep coming back over here and talking to the DJ. I'm gonna keep coming over here and talking to the DJ, and I was like, hey man, that's that's enough of this shit.
SPEAKER_05And I don't MC, right? Like, I'm not there yet. So I was like, oh, she wants you to shout out her birthday again. And he's like, I've already done it. And then I told her, and I I told the person I was he said he did it already. And she he's like, You did?
SPEAKER_01And I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_05No, but there is, I mean, it's not just this one person, but there is people that'll go up there and be like, It's my so-and-so's birthday. Can you shout him out?
SPEAKER_06Oh, especially in a nightclub. Yeah. But I guess it's different in a nightclub though, because you know, after the fourth time, I'll shout shout them out. I'll tell them, Happy birthday now, go get a bottle. We'll get a VIP. Like I try to sell a VIP, so they'll stop. They'll stop coming. Like, you know, saying happy.
SPEAKER_07I know one of the things that I've done when I've had people come up to the booth and I don't necessarily want to talk, I'll put my headphones on, even though I'm not listening to anything yet. I'll just put them both on and they just like they're just like oh okay, they just walk off. They they get it, they get the hit, and then I I'll pop the ear off. Because you could say you could do that without having to tell them anything. Yeah. And they're like, oh, he's busy. So they just naturally leave you alone.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. I try to be like, one second, you know? Because it always seems they come and ask you when you're gonna mix into a new song.
SPEAKER_06It's always like always, like always, always happens.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean, as far as DJs and and playing it safe, you know, we were talking about the 50 to 100 songs everywhere. And and i i it there comes a t a point in time where you wonder where the crowd reading is, where the originality is, where the the artistry's at, where the where all of these things are. We we're playing the same 50, 100 songs, 150 songs all the time. Um that that bothers me. Uh a a peeve, a pet peeve I have are line dance songs. Um like it's cool, whatever, you know. It you know, it's wedding and cha-cha slide and boots on the ground and you know, whatever, all those things, you know, paseo de rodio and all those songs. It's great. But I often feel like it and this goes for a lot. This goes for a lot of people, and uh even for myself it at certain times through that the the growth of becoming a DJ or becoming a better DJ and growing is I don't care about the size of your dance floor. I especially don't care about the size of your dance floor during a line dance. It's like a cheat code, it's automatic. You know, people are gonna fifty people are gonna jump out to the dance floor and they're gonna do that line dance. It doesn't mean that you built a line you built a dance floor, it doesn't mean that you did any of those things. It means you played a song that got people onto the dance floor because it's a a line dance song, right? For me, I like to focus on and try to capture transitions nowadays. So
Social Media Proof Contracts And Content
SPEAKER_01anytime I'm recording Myth, anytime I'm recording Babesita, anytime I'm recording Dre, I'm always trying to record the transitions, the scratches, the flair, the showmanship, the the things that really make a DJ a DJ instead of a jukebox or somebody that can press play and and put a song on and everything else. And I feel like I could go through Instagram right now and scroll through. And 99% of the time I am not gonna see a transition. 99% of the time I'm gonna see a DJ posting a video of them playing La Chona or a Selena song. Yeah, and and and you have a dance floor. I didn't see a transition, I didn't hear a transition, I didn't hear an effects, I didn't hear a uh, you know, an echo, a reverb, a flanger, uh uh I didn't hear any EQ mixing, I didn't hear any bass swaps, I didn't hear anything. Um, and I think if you are going to I won't even say call yourself a DJ, you can call yourself whatever you want, I don't care. Uh I'm it's not for me to decide. I'm not the DJ police, I'm not, you know, the DJ judge, I'm not you're a DJ, you're not a DJ, you're not a DJ, you are a DJ, you know. But I think if you want to portray yourself or work towards or become or call yourself a DJ, you have to show DJ shit. Yeah, you have to show transitions, you have to show technical ability, you have to show maybe wordplay, maybe a little scratch, maybe even if it's a fucking baby scratch bringing in the next song. I don't care, right? But do something a DJ is supposed to do.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and you know what? I agree, but I also see the other side of the coin. Sometimes when they're by themselves, they don't have time to pick up the phone and record themselves, so they only capture what they can.
SPEAKER_01Which is why I had zero footage from last week of myself, yeah, because I was there by myself, yeah. And I was, you know, I've I've been going through some stuff personally, and I was just so focused on that performance that I didn't care. I wanted to live it through my own eyes. I didn't want to live it through a camera. And you go to concerts and you go to these other places and you go to these other things, and everybody is living through their phone.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And they're viewing and seeing through their phone, and I wanted to see. That's why I got footage of her. But that's why we didn't have footage of me because we were split up. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06No, for sure.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I can brag all day about I had the absolute best dance floor that that marketplace has ever had. I can't prove it. Yeah, I can't prove it. Uh uh, I did, I felt like I did. It was an amazing, an amazing, an amazing thing. Um, this is hard to do when you're by yourself.
SPEAKER_06You know, it's too much. Yeah, it is to me that you need somebody there to do that.
SPEAKER_01Especially for me, I'm trying to become more well-rounded as a DJ. So I'm trying to do some wordplay. I'm trying to, you know, throw drop something in on the one. I'm trying to throw a little scratching in. Uh, I'm trying to MC.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm trying to pick four or five different songs. I'm trying to do a whole lot of things like we talked about. I don't have time to get on my goddamn phone and and take a video. Yeah, but that's what's awesome about when we're all together because we all can, you know.
SPEAKER_06And that's the number one thing I get asked all the time. Like, do you have videos? Like, no. And why don't you have videos? Because I don't record myself while I'm working.
SPEAKER_01And and I can't afford a videographer. Yeah, and I'm a videographer is gonna charge me $400 for two hours. That's I can't afford that, man. I'm not gonna make any money eventually. Yeah, exactly. You know, I mean, there has to be some kind of a tipping point, right? Yeah, to where I I have to get some content, right? I have to invest in some content. But then that also comes in with where where your boys and your girls come in and and your fellow DJs, and they they think about that and they're like, let me capture some fucking footage of this guy doing his things because I know I know how hard it is to get footage of yourself. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_06And then you gotta set a time to put a tripod on and have your phone record you the whole thing. Then you gotta go and edit what do you want, what do you not want, you know? Yeah, and and uh nowadays vendors, like if you're doing weddings and stuff, now they want to see your content, uh huh. They want to see your whatever you do most DJing at. Like I keep my TikTok page mostly DJing, right? My Instagram page, my Facebook page, it's for fun. I I'll post some stupid stuff, I'll post some depressing stuff, I'll post some love stuff, some funny stuff. It's just there, it is what it is, you know what I mean? But my TikTok page, I mostly focus on just DJing, yeah, or working out when I was used to work out. Sure. But um, but yeah, so I just tell them like, look, you can look at my my TikTok page. There are little videos there of me have people dancing, but most of the time there's just some of them are just pictures because I'm taking pictures in the moment real quick. Yeah, it's not not really nothing.
SPEAKER_01That is gonna leave what you got. Did you have something, Dre?
SPEAKER_07I was gonna add so it kind of ties in, but this is why, like, for certain events, why contracts are so important because that's something you can add in so you get content so that their other vendors tag you in and yeah, so you have it. Yeah, yeah. Um, because I kid you not, when I didn't have that in my contract, I didn't get nothing back. Not a thing. Now you get content back because now it's in there, they signed it. All right.
SPEAKER_06So I have a question before you close it out. What is the one song that irks you to play that makes your sister oh but it's a popular song that everybody likes, and you know it's gonna get the dance for back.
SPEAKER_05For me, it's yeah.
SPEAKER_06Usher, yeah. Is it
SPEAKER_01I I I I understand that that's not a bad one. Um mine might be more like Taki Taki or something, or Okay. I'm not sure, man. Mine I have a hard time with that question.
SPEAKER_06I mean there's so many from for me. I got so many, but do you? Uh I named a few earlier. What do you got, Dre?
SPEAKER_07I've heard it too many times. I'm just over it. But a lot of people do like it. It's oh my god. By Usher? Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that's I just heard it too much. They overplayed it. I'll give you my top five that I do absolutely not like to play. My humps, low, right? Okay. Pit bull school. Even though it's a you know, I I just I just let it be. I'm with you on that one. Yeah. And the top two, suavemente. Uh-huh. And then what's tied for number one is Ain't No Fun and Keep It Shuffle. Oh. Those two. Like, it's like, stop. I mean, even this is how we do it is in there too. Like, I have a I have a lot. Like, like, dude, that's like, I get it. Those are bangers and that time area, but there's so much more. I don't mind playing those at weddings because it's expected. But to request them in nightclubs, that's why a lot of nightclubs say if you are if you got this version, get in the house version or some kind of EDC version of it. Yeah. So it's different. Yeah. You know.
SPEAKER_01That's something uh regarding uh the footage, right? The social media, you know, social media DJs, you know, whatever it may be. That's something that I'm excited about with our little venture that we're looking at doing uh in some of the private spaces, you know, renting our own venue, uh, you know, being very, very, very selective about who's gonna be uh allowed uh to experience that, right? It's gonna be a very exclusive thing. And to have GoPro camera set up and Insta360 set up and you know, uh Osmo set up, and we're gonna have different angles and we're gonna have uh you know capturing the audio and everything else, getting all that edited and posted up to YouTube, right? All of a sudden now we have footage, right? All of a sudden we have you know quote unquote clout, right? Like, oh, you need to you need to see here's a YouTube link. Watch this. Yeah, for sure. Right, you know, or you know, we can take Opus clip or a program and pull several clips out of that and and you know, here's myths clips, 30 seconds, 45 seconds, minute, you know, whatever clips there are uh that will produce that social media content that that is being so heavily weighted. Yeah, that that that social media component carries a very, very heavy weight for a lot of people. Yeah, like you said, if uh if I can't see you DJ, you know, yeah, and then you have some subpar DJs that are great on social media, yeah. So they have a whole bunch of content.
SPEAKER_06And then, like I said, you can be a great social media person in your bedroom making contact. How are you in public with people? Yeah, it's a whole different how can you command a crowd? Yeah, yeah. Can you MC? Yeah, exactly. So I mean, there's a lot to it. Like, shout out to those who are on social media putting their stuff out. There's no hate. It's just I'm just trying to say there's different between doing in your bedroom, practicing over and over and over, and then doing it in front of a crowd and expecting to do more than just your little 30, 20 minute set. And can you carry a four-hour to an eight-hour gig? You know, depending on what the gig is.
SPEAKER_01And can you can you react? Yeah, can you can you change direction? How quickly can you pivot?
SPEAKER_06And not everybody likes the wordplay in the club, or they don't like the fast scratching, or you know, like um Sajian from Bricks. I remember one time he said the crowd don't give a shit how much you could crowd how much you can scratch. Yeah, they're here for the music and to have fun. You don't need to scratch on every song. And um, which is true, you know what I mean? You don't need to scratch on every song, you know. Um so that that's always stuck with me, but I don't scratch on every song either. But just little things like yeah, I noticed, you know, watching TikTok DJs, they like to do the wordplay and kind of scratch it between and stuff like that. And you got some that just overdo it on other songs, and you're not scratching for the crowd because the crowd thinks it's dope, you're scratching for the other DJ that's in the crowd to show what they could do. Because basically, if you think about it, they're the only ones that know what you're doing. Yeah, they know the combos that you're doing, you know what you know I mean. Yeah, the other crowds like that. Scratch patterns, everything. Yeah, yeah. That sounds good, that's cool, but you know.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Well, I think that's a wrap for this episode. Yeah, appreciate y'all coming out.
SPEAKER_06I had one more thing. Yeah. Invite you guys all out September 17th. Chewy's.
Chewys Fundraiser And Final Thanks
SPEAKER_06It's on a Thursday. Yeah, definitely.
SPEAKER_01You know what? I was gonna ask you about that. We need to touch on that. We need to, we need to go ahead and speak on that right now. So uh Richie Rich, DJ over at Chewy's, DJ for the Condors, he opens the doors for a lot of people. Yes, he does. All the time. He he gives people opportunities on opportunities on opportunities. If you need to sharpen your tools there and everything else, that's where you go do it. You know, he he he gives you the ability to do it. Um, and it's something that that I've taken with me, and you know, I'm trying to pass down as well and try to provide opportunities for people to, you know, even just even if it's just the fucking marketplace at the hard rock, right? Um but, anyways, Myth will be out at Chewy's September 17th, 5 to 9 p.m. Uh, we have a young girl. My cousin, my little cousin, your little cousin, Alexandra. Uh she has a bit of a medical journey that's going on in her life right now. Uh so there's gonna be some raffles, uh, there's gonna be prizes, great prizes. There's gonna be donations, uh, any donation that you can give. Whether you're there or not, I'm sure you can hit up Myth. I'm sure you can hit up, I don't know who else can they hit up.
SPEAKER_06Um if you have me on social, hit me up. If you got Rich Rich, hit him up. Um, and we'll we'll we'll direct you to the person.
SPEAKER_01You can hit any of us up. You can hit Babisita up, you can hit up Gordy B. You can hit up Dre. We'll we'll forward you over to Myth. We'll get you in contact with who you need to get in contact with. But again, uh September 17th, uh Chewy's Mesquite over on Rosedale Highway, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Richie Rich, DJ Myth, and uh what do they call it? The mess of DJs. A mess of DJs. A mess of DJs. Uh so that you probably see four, five, six DJs out there, maybe twenty. Who knows? Uh there's there's been big numbers of DJs out there. Uh Alexander's medical. How old is this little girl, man? How old is your cousin?
SPEAKER_06I want to say I think she turned six.
SPEAKER_01All right.
SPEAKER_04She's a baby.
SPEAKER_01So all proceeds, everything is going directly to her. There's there's no go fund me fees and and any kind of hidden things or anything like that. Every single cent, every single dollar, every single dime is gonna go help out this little girl and her family, Myth's family. Uh, our community, help our community. She's she's she's in our community, she's a little girl. Uh unfortunately, she has some some medical things going on, and uh the least that any of us can do uh for her is to to show up.
SPEAKER_00Show up, yeah.
SPEAKER_06I mean, you know, there's gonna be raffles, like you said, and retain donations. And big shout out to uh the Bro Bro Willie, uh Wild Child tattoo artist at Nentora Sync. All right, uh he's raffling off a $500 tattoo. Oh wow session. Yeah, that's that's a nice that's gonna be one of the raffles out there. I don't know what we're gonna raffle that off. Uh that's up to the family. Yeah. My cousin, her family, whatever price they want to put on that to raffle off. That's gonna be one of the many prizes. I know a lady who uh reached out to me. Um, she owns a beauty salon here, so she wants to do the whole pampering for raffle for a lucky winner. Yeah, uh, you know, the whole makeover, whatever it was. Um, I gotta make sure again, but she offered to do that too. All right. Um, so a lot of people come together. I know I'm gonna put in for a raffle for a 2027 date. Um, you're gonna get a free party for me. Four hours, four hours maximum. That's it. A free DJ party, I'm gonna put that in there. Um, and I think I'm gonna I'm gonna charge that one uh $25 a raffle ticket for that one. Um so and if anybody out there wants to have something they want to raffle or put in something, yeah. We'll come up with something, we'll put some stuff together.
SPEAKER_01Maybe we'll do a photo booth or something.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, put us down for a photo booth.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but we'll we'll do a photo booth, we'll donate a photo booth, which is $500, whatever. Same thing. That's fine. We'll donate a photo booth and uh we'll figure out some other things to do as well, some other uh items that will be really hot and really attract some people, yeah. You know, to go out there and you know have some fun and you know, take a chance on winning a raffle prize.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it sounds like be a good time, and then you guys will meet Alex and the family, Alexandra and the family. So see who you're helping out with. Yeah, because they're they're gonna be out there some.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. So again, y'all, uh DJ Richie Rich, DJ Myth, over at Chewy's Baja Grill. Um September 17th, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. There's gonna be a shitload of people out there, shitload of DJs out there. Uh, this little girl and her family is gonna be out there. So you're gonna be able to meet this little girl. You're gonna be able to look at this little girl in the eye and know who you're helping out. Uh, you're gonna be able to look at the family in the eye, you're gonna be able to see the family's reaction and and their appreciation and and you know the trials and tribulations and and things that they've been going through and all the emotions that are going to uh gonna happen out there. And we might we might be able to just take a photo booth out there too and and have run the photo booth right next to the DJ setup somewhere out there and you know let people take photos and we'll we'll do a little uh a little Canva background with Alexandra and everything else on it. We'll we'll run something like that out there.
SPEAKER_06And then to all you low rider community or anybody who has any cars, more than welcome to bring them out there. Because you know, they do Thursday night car show or crews, what they call third night cruise. So plenty of spots to bring your cars. So if you guys want to come out, anybody in the low rider community or how about the motorcycle community? Yeah, anybody, you know, they do have motorcycles out there too.
SPEAKER_01So you guys come out, support, and that's you know, this is Yeah, maybe we could hit up uh flawless fades right over here and and see, you know, he's in a motorcycle crew or whatnot. Maybe we can get some of them to come out there and support and drive and everything else as well. But yeah, y'all, uh most dope season two, episode five, I think it is. I appreciate you guys tuning in. Uh it's been wonderful. Um, stat-wise, uh man, uh I don't know, 40 something countries have listened to us now. I've seen how hundreds and hundreds of cities have listened to us. And we're international. You know, we're we're we're small, but we're international. It's uh it's a good thing. It's a beautiful thing. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing, it's a fun little journey. Uh, you know, like minded people, and uh we love you guys. Thank you guys. On to the next episode. We'll see you guys.
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