Fake DJing BUSTED...tell the truth..sometimes ya'll pretend to turn knobs just to look busy
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Exactly!!
I play a monthly called "Dirtystankn'nastyfunk" at a bar in SF. It started out as an old school funk night, but over the last two years I have had to evolve the sound to keep coming up with fresh material. That means mixing in Jeff Beck's "Come Dancing" or Tony Allen's "Afrobeat" with standards like "shining star" and "flashlight". I've also started mixing in a lot of the hip hop and newer RnB songs that sample these classics. Right now I'm trying to find the best way to mix in a folk band called the New Bohemians into a well known hip hop classic (Real DJ's know exactly which one I'm talking about) for my set on the 15th.
One of the regulars tips me good money, sometimes more than the bar pays, to play Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Muse and the like so I've had gone even further to incorporate these songs into a funk set. I also get a lot of European tourists so Calvin Harris "Merrymaking at my place" gets played alongside the SOS band. The whole night is a consistently shifting paradigm that hardly resembles its origins anymore.
This that BS
It's bad enough when katts are critical bout any DJ not using vinyl and swear every DJ that has a laptop is just pushing buttons. This bitch makes it even worse.
DJ's are just caricatures of what used to be a skilled trade..no one respects that shit anymore.
Crackers have watered down everything that has to do with our culture.
Hell I've received raves going from LL Cool J's "Doin It" to the Fabolous & Nicki Minaj "Doin It Well" song. Their heads would've probably been blown if I played the original sample source for both songs in Grace Jones "My Jamaican Guy". Most people I've come across think LL Cool J's version is the original.
Man that shit still gets me heated just looking at the screenshot
what some people 4get is at the end it's a "bizzness"..some of these "fake dj's" have huge followings..so if you a club owner, party promoter, event planner it's all about the size of the crowd u can draw..unfortunately some of the fake dj's can pack a house.. so they not about the technical skill but more about the promotion skill.. hell it's the reason why a lot of radio dj's use to get booked for parties cause they can promote the fuck out of the venue..that's why dj kay slay, dj envy, and a few others were big in the stripgame cause they can talk/promote whatever venue they playing at which meant lots of money drawn to the spot...they didn't get booked cause they was nice on them turntables they got booked cause they packed a house
Pretty much. I remember this video of DJ Khalid DJing at a radio station and having some next guy selecting the tracks for him. I never cringed so much watching someone do a set. My ears are still hurting from the shrieks of him scratching
Bookmarked, I need a good laugh later
You know I'm gonna steal that now right?!!
No. I'm not that grimy.
One mix I pull is Rob Base "It Takes Two" with Lil Yachty's "It Takes 2". It's a surprisingly good and underplayed cover. The best part is that the original "Think" by Lynn Collins sounds good at almost every speed. And it's easy to change the tempo at the staccato trumpet bridge without anyone really noticing.
Yes.
The first lesson every professional DJ needs to learn is that bar and club owners are not patrons of the arts. If they hire you your job is to help them sell booze. You do that by drawing a crowd and doing it whatever it takes to keep them there.
COSIGN!!! to the N'th Degree!!!
This is precisely what I'm talking about!!! I'm in the Bay Area too, I'll have to come by and check out that set, I like hearing DJ's innovate, especially with funk and other music genres I may be totally unaware of. I don't do any club's or anything, I'm just resurrecting my High School, actually life long, passion with music through DJ'ng. I purchased a Pioneer DDJSX2 during the previous holiday's, sense then I've been building my skill(s) set back up. I've curated a pretty good personal music library so I have plenty of material. Yet it's been a minute since High School, a Brotha now has mortgage's kids and all that goes with that. I plan on displaying what I have at a backyard boogie in July, my kids laugh at me and the idea thinking this music thing and Hip Hop just got started when they arrived on the planet, little poot butt's, LMAO!!! I plan on shocking the world, or at least the folks in my backyard!!!!
BOOM!!!!!!!
Make sure you toss in Verse Simmons "Sexy Body" on that mix too with the Doin It tracks. They all rocking the same sample
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Bro DJing has been a hustle for the last 20 something years. It was never anything to the shit. Play some popular records...mix in some other popular records and people will dance....When you are drunk you vibe to anything if it sounds half way decent.
My next funk gig is Monday May 15th at the Royale on 800 Post Street in San Francisco. Would love to have you come through
Okay, now you're really tempting me to be grimy.
One of my successful experiments was mixing Toto's "Georgy Porgy" with Devin the Dude's "Georgy" if you mix in at the hook they sound perfect together. Not sure who Devin's backup singer is, but she can fuck with Cheryl Lynn on that one.
LOL nothing grimy bout it. We always hear tracks put together that have us considering how we could flip it as well whenever we go out and hear other DJs spin. I definitely find myself spending more time listening to how the DJ spins than paying attention to what's going down around me at parties at times.
Eric Bs ghost
Nice, not a Yachty fan though. How about that Rob Base track and the Skinny Boys "Get Pepped" Just as a suggestion.
I wanted to DJ ever since I was a lil kid but could never afford the equipment. 1200s were $500 a piece & I wasn't street hustling nor did I have a job so getting the equipment was outta my reach. Finally landed a good career & bought my 1st controller, A Pioneer DDJ-S1 back in 2011. Traded up to a DDJ-SX not too long after and then finally went back to my roots with a set of turntables. I now have a set of turntables for spinning at home, a pair of CDJs to bring to clubs & a Vestax controller as a backup. Had a scare with my macbook HDD dying mid gig a few weeks ago so I bought a 2nd macbook too. I carry both macbooks along with a portable Thunderbolt drive with me everywhere I go now.
Here in Las Vegas they laying these mofos millions to DJ in the clubs on the strips.
The highest paid big names are...
-Steve Aoki
-Tiesto
-Calvin Harris
-Martin Garrix
They got others all making in the high 6 figures to push play on a laptop.
And none of them are Black.
The DJ Tiesto was on the Vice Channel showing him on a laptop in his hotel room making up his set for later on that night.
Shit is a scam.
The highest paid big names are...
-Steve Aoki
-Tiesto
-Calvin Harris
-Martin Garrix
They got others all making in the high 6 figures to push play on a laptop.
And none of them are Black.
The DJ Tiesto was on the Vice Channel showing him on a laptop in his hotel room making up his set for later on that night.
Shit is a scam.
Tiesto been making 8 figures for 20+ years now, he been killing it out there in Ibiza etc. before the EDM boom came to the States he was king in Europe. The only black DJs i can think of making big money is Afrojack and maybe Carnage
what the fuck does he do
That Lil Yachty song gave me IBS
Khaled is the most impressive actually, he's the only 1 to blow up to 8 figure status with "Cloth Talk", definitely a pioneer
im still tryin to figure that out.
nigga just stands behind the turntables with them raggidy ass headphones on.....screamin out "We Da Best" every 15 seconds between songs.
couldn't resist.... No ill will to you brotha. lol
Little John has been making a killing in that sector for about 10 years now.