Independent DJ Turns Album Into A Movement

The energy hits before the beat does. We sit down with our childhood friend Quaye to celebrate Quaye Genye The Gemini, a 16-track project built for the car, the gym, the grocery run, and those late-night windows-down moments. He walks us through the album’s arc—how a love letter to music sets the stage, how punk edges crackle on “Quasar,” and why the joyful bounce of “Get Loose” took two years and a live-band remake to finally snap into place just days before release.

What makes this story different is the path. Quaye is keeping the album off DSPs at first, streaming and selling directly at djunique.com to preserve ownership, learn from listeners, and fund the visuals one track at a time. We talk about building without gatekeepers, using community as a launchpad, and turning a simple $10 purchase into real runway. There’s a lot of craft under the hood too: producing everything himself, choosing features for talent and chemistry, and listening to the full sequence in real settings to protect flow. From a Soju-inspired anthem now getting its own choreography, to a live vision that spans festival highs and intimate lows, this is a blueprint for momentum on your own terms.

As an open-format DJ, Quaye also shares how he keeps his ears wide. He respects the low-end power of modern rap on big systems while still chasing lyricism and songcraft. He drops unexpected recs for date-night soul, laughs through a rapid-fire round of picks—from Wu-Tang to Eddie Murphy—and keeps the perspective sharp: act now, cherish timing, and put the art where the people are. Stream or buy the album at djunique.com, share your favorite track with us, and if you felt the vibe, subscribe, rate, and pass this episode to a friend who loves independent music.

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SPEAKER_01 0:44

What's the name of the show?

SPEAKER_03 0:46

Brothers with Opinions.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

Brothers with Opinions. I'm gonna put it on my Facebook also.

SPEAKER_03 0:51

Oh, nice. All right, hey, we back, everybody. Chris, we're gonna introduce our guests.

SPEAKER_02 0:56

Man, y'all know what time it is. Back with Brothers with Opinions. I know we said seven, then we switched it to six, but y'all bear it with us, and uh it's almost seven again, so we ain't mess up. Um, but we got a good one for you, ladies and gentlemen. You know, had some good guests on recently, man. But we're excited to have our buddy, our childhood friend, man, one of the greatest DJs in the country, and uh somebody who just recently dropped his own uh album, man. So we're excited to get into all that among a few other things. But Quay, all the way from LA, different time zones over there, man. We appreciate you joining us and making sure your schedule was good. So we're excited to have you on. Talk about that. Excited to be here, Scott, and anything else you got going on in life, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:36

Everything. You know what? I don't know if you guys get into like the uh astrological signs or the Chinese calendar or anything like that. I'm not I'm not big on it, you know. I'm saying I kind of hear stuff from a distance, but when I when I hear stuff that I like, I'll be like, okay, that's cool. So this is the year of the horse on the uh on the Chinese calendar, and that means it's like it's all action, baby. It's all moving forward. It's like everything you were thinking about in 2025. Now it's time to put the gas on the pedal. And and that's exactly what it's been like since the first day of the Gregorian calendar 2026. Because y'all know the new year hasn't started yet. New year don't until March. Until March. Like, let's let's let's let's not be ridiculous. We'll play along, we'll play along, but we ain't got no choice because that's what they tell us.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

Our payday is this Friday. Word, but it's a but we know, yeah, 13 months, 28 days in each month, and when babies is born, it's not it's not winter time because that's when people's dying, like that's elderly people.

Year Of Action Mindset

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Um that's why I love y'all. See that that's why I'm my brothers, because y'all y'all not walking around living in this lie that they want us to walk around living, right? But but yeah, so it being that it's the year of the horse is definitely the year of action, and I'm telling you, it's as soon as the first of the year started, it's been go time, so I'm loving it.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

Hey, I love it, man. I love you, and I'd like Chris. You know, it's been go from the jump day one with us as well. You know, so I love it. You're the horse, I like it. So hey, everything's working out. So, Quay, let you know, tell us about your new album. Well, this is your first album, right? No, oh no, okay, I hey I'm sorry.

New Album Overview

SPEAKER_01 3:10

This is you know what? This is my first album of 2026. We'll say like that. But but my first album, no, no, no. I got I got I got other I got other albums that I've released, but this one I will say is my favorite of the uh projects that I've ever made before. Um, because you can tell that it's like growth all throughout life. So this is the point uh uh in life where I am right now, and uh there's 16 tracks on this uh on this project, and I love each and every one of them. And I'm gonna make sure I give attention to each and every one of them because you know, people they'll do like a single, and then I do videos and stuff for that single, and then like go get the album. I I dropped the whole album at the same time so that because because I'm going to give each track that uh attention. Um yeah, so there's it's it's it's a I think it's a good ride, it's a good journey. I I listened to it in different settings. I was like, okay, let me drive. Perfect for driving, let me take it to the gym, perfect for going to the gym. Let me go to the grocery store, perfect for going to the grocery store. Let me sit here and take a shit. It's perfect for even sitting there and taking a shit when I'm telling you that this album fits every occasion, Quaging out of Gemini, which is the name of it, it is right from every perfect occasion. So uh it's it's streaming on my website, uh DJunique.com. Because why put it on Spotify? Why put it on Apple Music? You know what I'm saying? The same way that you could stream it from those platforms, you can stream it from my website. So we are 100% independent artists, so we are 100% independent from the conglomerates. Not forever, not forever. One day I will put it on those DSPs, I will put it on those platforms, but I ain't in a rush to do that. You see what I'm saying? I'm going grassroots for as long as I can because that's what we got to do. You got to take it to the people, right?

SPEAKER_03 5:04

Hey, I like it.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

You start getting too many hands in the pot, then you know what I'm saying? You'll be like, ah, too many hands.

SPEAKER_03 5:11

You get them record labels and everything coming after your money, your bag, and everything. You know what royalty.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

Uh, my my cousin in the building, what's up, Z? Z's in the building, Junior's in the building. What's up? Uh uh Junior is in the hood. I I can only it's very small on my screen trying to see the names coming up. Uh people saying what's up.

SPEAKER_03 5:30

Maybe I maybe I can enlarge that somehow. Let me let me see. I know I got comments.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Yeah, it says it says junior, it says A Mars.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Yeah, so welcome. What's up, fam? What's up, everybody? Happy Thursdays, Friday Eve. You know what I'm saying? Shit, what's up?

SPEAKER_03 5:46

So, so Quay. Uh, did you have any like special guests you want to give us a like on your album?

Why Release Independently

SPEAKER_01 5:52

Um, everyone that I work with is a special guest, in my personal opinion. You see what I'm saying? Whether they be uh underground, whether they be worldwide, doesn't matter to me. If I worked with you, it's because I enjoyed your talent. So I have my good friend Mirage, uh M-I-R-R-A-J-E. Mirage is how you spell her name. I am Mirage on uh on Instagram. Phenomenal singer, phenomenal songwriter, phenomenal performer. Uh, she tours and travels with uh you remember the old school food climax? I got a meeting in the lady from Mirage. Oh, where she back. So she so she tours with them now. She's one of their lead singers, one of their lead singers now. But outside of that, they just I just do that for like name recognition, but her own stuff. Shout out to her husband Jay Rain. I like her husband Jay Rain, he's a cool guy. They got uh uh their own label called Fist to the Sky Records. You know what I'm saying? Uh, she has her own clothing line called My Ancestors Are Dope. Like, y'all need to get into Mirage. I'm trying to tell you, if I if I had the money to give her that that spark to push her out into the world, I would give it to him, be like, go, because she's worth it. Um, my good friend Ombre, Ombre the Great, um amazing singer. He sang a hook for me on a song. My homie Bobby, Bobby came on and sung a hook uh on a song for me. Um and yeah, but other than features, that that's about it. Most of it, it's just your boy. It's your boy. Did you do any of your own skits or interludes? You know what? I was going to, and then decided not to. I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't think of the right ones to put on there to help the flow of the uh of the album. And as many times as I listened to it, the cohesiveness of how the songs go from one to the next, it didn't need it. I really wanted to though.

SPEAKER_02 7:38

I just wanted to know we grew up with all the interludes, they don't do it.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

They don't. Well, um, I uh Ghostface put some on his because you know all the legends he's all the legends drop albums, all the legends drop albums in 2025.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

Yes, you know what I mean with washclaws and shit. That's word. But I didn't I didn't, I didn't, I didn't so so two things real quick. What motivated you to for this album the most, and and how long did it take you to actually do it from beginning to end?

Features And Collaborators

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Beginning to end, let's say let's say two and a half years, and I'm gonna say two and a half years because um some of the songs I had released uh uh earlier, and then I had uh oh chase is trying to call me. I gotta hit Chase back. I gotta hit that. That's my brand, and that's my that's my homie to give me the brand. I'm gonna hit you back, Chase. So it took two and a half years because some songs I released uh earlier, but then pulled them off the DSP so that I can uh put them on this album. Um, I have a song on there called Get Loose, uh with my with my homie Bobby, and that song took me two years to finish. Um so uh what's his name? L? Uh his name is L. Uh L has access to a band. Um, so the song is uh a remake of an old Teddy Pentigras song called Get Funky, get look get down, get funky, get loose. One of my favorite Teddy Pentigrass songs of all time. Shit is fire. Every time I hear it, it just you can't have a bad day after you hear that song. You see what I'm saying? So I didn't want to sample it because I don't got the budget to I I can't afford to sample that. I can't. So me and L did a bartering system where I I uh rapped on a couple of his songs and he got a band together and they played it. And then when they sent me the stems, I was just floored, like they did such a good job that it kind of pushed me back. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, how am I gonna get the most out of this track that I can get out of? So I would tinker with it, tinker with it, and then I and then I put it away. A couple months later, I tinker with it some more, and then I put it away. Finally, uh, I when I got my friend Bobby to sing the hook, he killed it. So I tinker with it some more, still wouldn't run it. Now put it away. I released the album on January 1st, 2026. On December 28th, I finally opened that track up and I was like, you know what? Whatever happens is what happens with me finishing this track. So it took me about two years to finish that song. And when I say it came out the way that it was supposed to come out, I'm telling you, man, that it's God's timing, everything is God's timing. We be trying to rush shit, don't rush shit. You know what I'm saying? It's God's timing. God was like, We're gonna finish it today, and I'm like, and then boom, got it done today. And it's one of my favorite songs on that album.

SPEAKER_03 10:26

I'm telling you, yeah, it's called Don't Rush Perfection, right?

SPEAKER_01 10:32

Yeah, you don't you don't don't rush it, and nothing's perfect, it's not supposed to be perfect, but it but it got that it got that groove, and I'll be like, Oh, turn up. So that one that one took a while. Um, my my song Soju Soju in my cup. I released that earlier, you know. I had a whole movement of it, even had people that never drunk soju. You know what soju is?

SPEAKER_02 10:50

Yeah, I don't like it though.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

Okay, you don't have to like it. Soju is a is a Korean spirit, it's a drink, it's a drink. It's like uh it's like vodka, but it's like Korea, Korea's vodka, right? So uh, so my my my KK had got me to drinking it, and they come out with all these different flavors and stuff. So I I I enjoy soju, I like soju so much so that I made a song about it, you know what I'm saying? Serious, but joking because it was light, it was like, Oh, I got soju in my cup because it's for real, you know.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

I'm saying oh I heard that joint before.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

So, like actual rose, like with nitrain. Y'all was both talking at the same time. I didn't hear that one at a time.

SPEAKER_03 11:26

I was just saying you made you made a song about a drink like uh Guns and Roses did with Nitrane, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

And I and I hope that they made it because they like drinking nitrate. I made the Soju song because I like drinking Soju. I'm like, oh, this is turn up.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Yo, but you got a dance and everything to that song, don't you?

SPEAKER_01 11:43

Didn't have a dance, no, no, didn't have a dance, but I'm glad you said that though. You say indippetus, you see what I'm saying? So I took the I took the song down because I didn't want it living out there by itself. I wanted this song because I love it so much to be with his brothers and sisters on the same album. So took it off of there, put it on uh Quagin out the Gemini album. Called my homegirl Nia today, Chris, and was like, Nia, I need I need I need something for the I need something during uh during a the chorus, during the hook. I need you to make me something. So Nia's Nia's putting a uh dance together for me right now. Uh next Tuesday, we're gonna go uh you know shoot some shoot some footage of us doing the dance and stuff like that. It's all serendipitous, it's all it's all happening right when it's supposed to happen.

SPEAKER_02 12:22

Yeah, that's lit, but you do have some dances, man. I've seen you move in the crowd and everything with some of your own dances.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

No, we did the in the middle dance. We did the in the middle dance at the uh at uh the ultimate dance party a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_02 12:33

Yeah, yeah. So you talking about the one that did a standing door?

SPEAKER_01 12:38

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so so I forgot about that dance in a sense, you know what I'm saying? It it had its run on the high school nation tours that I was doing. I was doing it at the schools, and they was doing it. It was it was dope, it was a good moment, but uh I had forgotten about it, and this past holiday season, I DJ'd uh uh a holiday party for this one. Um, it's called Campbell Hall. All of rich kids go to that school, whatever. But when they uh when they um hired me to DJ the party, they said, Hey, can we do the in the middle dance at the party? And I was kind of like, What? I forgot about that. Like, oh turn up we did the in the middle dance at their party, turn up so my tick tock, yeah.

Creative Process And God’s Timing

SPEAKER_02 13:18

That's lips. See, because people be knowing even when you think it's good. Look, same thing with that dude, man, young MC. He said, Man, I can't stand that songbuster move. But he said, I've never had a nine to five because of it.

SPEAKER_01 13:29

You see what I'm saying? Oh, it only takes one, it only takes one. I got 16 on this album, but it only takes one. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, when you get that lightning in the bottle, and I I I feel so good about being being the this entire album. Like, okay, so the the intro is not gonna be a a hit record because it's not supposed to be. Hey, yo, yo. The intro is not gonna be a hit record because it's just my intro, just you know what I'm saying, and be like we start an album. But I have a song called Healed Me when I'm talking about my love for for music, not a hit record, but it's a great song, and I can't wait to perform that live in front of like you know, I'm saying the good audiences, the good festival audiences. You know what I'm saying? Then I got uh Quasar Comerano after that. I can't wait to be on my black uh punk rock shit with Quasar. No, that's that's how that record be hitting, like turn up and then get loose, come on, get loose. That's a hit record. Turn up, and then after that, Soulju in my cup, that's a hit record. Let's go. And then right after that, forever, that's a hit record.

SPEAKER_04 14:25

Come on, let's go.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

And then right after that, I got a song called Feel It. That's a hit record. Let's go. And then right after that, uh Sunshine, come on, that's a hit record. I mean, come on, let's go. You see what I'm saying? It was like one after the other one after the other.

SPEAKER_03 14:38

Let's go. You're you're speaking it into existence. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Oh no, I'm not speaking, it's already real. You can go download it right now, djunique.com. If you haven't got it yet, you should go and get it. You see, I am an independent artist and I I need all the help I can get. It's only ten dollars, it's only ten dollars. You see what I'm saying? Y'all spend more on on McDonald's and Starbucks, all that goofy shit. I'm I'm hungry out here. I am hungry. It's only for ten dollars. If you want to, you can buy one for yourself and buy for somebody else if you need brother. Gotta eat. I'm starving.

SPEAKER_03 15:05

Man, that that's like us begging for money for BWO. Give us a little money here and there. You got to, you got to.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

People got money, you know. I'm saying, oh, yeah. The last thing you can think is people don't got no money. People got money, people got money for whatever they want to have money for. I need y'all to have some money for me.

SPEAKER_02 15:23

Right, right. Yeah, they they gotta support you though. That's the one thing we we've always spoken about. Man, it's hard like people don't want to support their closest friends and family, but they go support Janet Jackson and LeBron.

SPEAKER_01 15:33

You know, you know, and I I I don't I don't judge it because I don't understand it a hundred percent. You know what I'm saying? But I but I watch it and I pay attention, you know. I'm saying I pay attention to what people repost, what people you know. I I watch all that stuff.

SPEAKER_03 15:48

I'm I'm the same way, Quay. I pay for this.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

Yeah, I'm like, okay, so you find out a lot, but you won't post this, you know what I'm saying? You comment on that, but you won't come okay, okay, okay. I see, I see. Right. And I I'm not, I'm not, I don't store it to be like, I'm gonna get you back because I don't care, right? I don't care. Yeah, it's just something we notice. This is not something I notice because this is how my mind frame is. My mind frame is hey man, we in this, we in the part of life where we you don't know. So oh, what is it? Uh, what's his name? Um, John John Forte, 50 years old, went to sleep, didn't wake up. Rest in peace to the God. You see what I'm saying? Didn't wake up. So everything I'm doing moving forward is if I can get it done today, I'm getting it done today. I'm not arguing with nobody, I'm not worried about I'm not doing none of that. I'm not spending none of my rest of my time here on earth on no goofy. You see what I'm saying? If it's not about moving forward, if it's not about elevation, if it ain't about love or none of that, don't I'm good. I'm good, I don't need that. But I do need$10. I need$10 though.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

We're all on the same level.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

You can send that 10. I take that 10 E T and 10. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 16:56

Right. But Quaid, to biggie bag, I guess kind of what uh Chris asked you. Um, so most of me is like, what mind space do you go in? Like, do you you know, when you write your music or you know, your lyrics songs, whatever, you know, do you go you lock yourself in a closet, like you know, take brailers, you know what I mean? Yeah, what's your writing process?

SPEAKER_01 17:20

Like we are just receptors, so whenever it comes, that's when I take advantage of it. I I try to take advantage of it as long as it's hanging out, you know what I'm saying? Because that's all we are, is just conduits for that energy to come through us, and you know what I'm saying? Because if our receptors are turned off, it's just gonna bounce, it's gonna go to somebody else. I've seen it happen a million times for shit that I dropped the ball on. So when it hits me, I get as much done as I can get done, and then when it leaves, I don't fight it. You know what I'm saying? I'll be like, okay, it's not it's not meant for me to make anything right now. Like right now, if I sat down trying to make some something, it probably wouldn't be good. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 17:56

Yeah, but I get it. It's like when the idea it hits you when it's that moment, yeah.

Soju Track, Dances, And Rollout

SPEAKER_01 18:01

Last time, though, you know what? Last time I started writing, I was inspired listening to Nas and Priem's new album. I was listening to Nas and Prime's new album, and I was like, Oh, this is dope. Like, you know, I'm saying that's how I wrote my intro. I wrote the intro based on listening to that album because I was like, Oh, Nas is coming, Nas is coming with it. So that that gave me inspiration to hear Nas come with it.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

So I was like, Well, let me get on my, you know, I'm saying, so yeah, Primo's my favorite primo's my favorite producer of all time. I love I love Preem, not my favorite, but I do love my favorite then Dre, but I wanted to know like who some of the people you work with producer-wise. It's all me. Well, see, you see that people look he ain't go out there and get no alchemists and no jazzy face.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

I wish I could, I wish I could afford him. I wish I could afford him. I wish I could do it. But you know, I I've being in it being in the game of life as long as I've been in it. I know I can rely on me.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

People blow up on their own. I'm not on their own, but doing things on their own, and that's all it takes. Like, look at Soulja Boy. Word, he was 17 dude, making that hit hit song, and he made the beat. I'm like, damn, that young boy did all that.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

Yep, like he he knew what he wanted to sound like, and then probably for me, I I know what I want to sound like. Yeah, so you stay in your lane that way, it'll work out.

SPEAKER_04 19:18

Yeah, right, right.

SPEAKER_01 19:19

But would I love to work with producers? And this, oh hell yeah, I would love to, but I because they charge an arm on a blade.

SPEAKER_04 19:26

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

You can charge, just just be reliable. It's all I ask of people, just be reliable. If you say you're gonna do something, just do it. That's all I ask. So I run into a lot of people saying what they can or would or gonna do, and they don't do it. So I'll be like, All right, so I don't ask, I don't ask anybody for anything.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

Have you shot any videos?

SPEAKER_01 19:45

Uh full fledged, no, not yet. Everything's everything is just uh out for consumption for people to enjoy it, and then when I get the funding, ten dollars. When I when I get the funding, then yeah, I I want to. Do a video for every song because I think each one of them tells a different story and they all have uh a different vision, and they would all be dope videos. Ten dollars.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

So go go and watch Streets is watching again if you haven't seen it in a while. And it he just did the whole album videos together. And I think you know, I mean that's what you can do with it too. That's dope.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

Word.

SPEAKER_02 20:18

That's that's what albums cost money.

SPEAKER_03 20:22

So, Quay, who who they records in the streets?

SPEAKER_01 20:26

Hold on, both of you at the same time again. Hold on.

SPEAKER_03 20:27

I know Chris just started. I don't think Chris can hear me sometimes, Quay.

SPEAKER_02 20:32

No, I was saying they they recorded their videos in the street, so they wasn't charging people because they wasn't having no fancy people back then.

SPEAKER_03 20:38

Word no, but my question good go ahead, Quay. You got something?

SPEAKER_01 20:43

No, I was gonna say, I I I if it comes down to just shooting a whole bunch of videos on my phone, that is very plausible. You know what I'm saying? I don't I don't have nothing against that because the the it'll still come across. I think the music is so good I could probably like just shoot a video of a doo-doo floating in the toilet, you know what I'm saying, and put the lyrics of the song in front of the doo-doo, and then you know what I'm saying, it'd still be hot.

SPEAKER_03 21:04

So you you have a uh ship fetish quase I don't, I don't at all. All right, so my question was who were your influences growing up musically?

SPEAKER_01 21:20

Every everybody, everybody, everybody, you know what I'm saying? From Jazzy Jeff to K Capri to to the RISA, you know I'm saying to Bon Jovi, to uh you know Phil Collins, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, you know, everybody, you know what I'm saying? Because being an open format DJ, I I I'm open to listen and to play music. I just love music, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I I could never put myself in the box and be like, oh, I just rock with this, or I just rock with that. You missing out. You are missing out if you just and to each day on to each day on. If you want to only want to listen to one thing, God bless your life. But you know what I'm saying? There's a plethora of shit out there. Like, because right now, you y'all y'all listen to Olivia Dean?

SPEAKER_03 22:04

Who is it again?

SPEAKER_01 22:05

Olivia Dean, or y'all rock rock y'all rocking Olivia Dean.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

Oh yeah, I don't think I've heard of her. Oh, her album is it's yeah, the sequay. I'm going through that. My oldest was stuck in a box just listening to hip hop, you know what I mean? So I'm like, quizzy, you got like you says, I mean, you got a brain in your mouth, like listen to everything.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

This is everything.

SPEAKER_03 22:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:29

So if you want to look, look, look, look. Next time you want to have a date night, you know what I'm saying? Have it have it. You could even have a date night at home, have dinner, put the candlelights on, put Olivia Dean's album on in the background. You see what I'm saying? Boom.

SPEAKER_02 22:41

He said, It's on. I thought he was about to say, put on some H Town. He said, Well, that works too.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Uh uh, put that put that Olivia Dean on. H town, if you're just gonna be in the kitchen, don't put that on. Olivia. Look, that's what kids want to hear. Like, hell yeah, dad. Good luck. We're talking, we are talking date night. What's up, Shayla? Shout out to Shayla and the Belder. Shout out that Shayla. Yeah, no, we're talking, we're talking making love stuff. You see, put that Olivia Dean on.

SPEAKER_02 23:05

But I don't be knowing about the new music unless it's on the radio or something, I don't never hear it.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

That's that's how that's how people that's usually by the time that people graduate from college, what they know musically is usually what they ride with until they die. That's just the average person. So if you're not constantly uh having people send you music, or if you're not constantly listening for new stuff, you're not gonna hear new stuff, you're gonna hear the stuff that you grew up with because that's what you want to hear. You see what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 23:32

And most of the new stuff I do here, if it's like if it's pop, rock, stuff like that, RB, I like most of it, but I just really you know me. Remember, we talked about it at the event. I'm like, man, I just really don't like that new that hip-hop rap, it's whatever it is, it's mumble stuff. Like, you know what I mean? That's how I know I'm older.

Hits, Sequencing, And Live Vision

SPEAKER_01 23:52

You gotta you gotta you got a mind for good stuff. Um so in my in my Serato, I have everything labeled, so I got hip hop. Uh a lot of the newer stuff, I don't call it hip hop, I label it rap. And then for the stuff that maybe the kids will ask me for that I really don't rock with, then I label it rap with a capital R A P, but right in front of it, I put a C. So I know there you go. I know what I'm reaching for before I play it. I'm like, okay, it's one of these records, but to each day on, you see what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 24:23

Yeah, I just that's how I know I'm our parents' age because they used to be like, What the hell y'all listening to? And I'm the same way, only but only with that, like the pop and and the RB. None of that really bothers me. I like a lot of it, but I just I just don't know what they're really saying, so I'm like, What the fuck going on? Something about we grew up with drug dealers, they grew up with the people on the drugs.

SPEAKER_01 24:41

You say something about killing a ops, something about smashing somebody's girl, uh, something about a Draco. Like, usually these are the things I that's what I catch in a song, you know what I'm saying? Something about an op, but you know, to each their own. I hope I hope they all kill a op or whatever they was trying to worry, right? But no, but but there's a time and a place for everything because if you ever go to like rolling loud or if you be at a venue and you hear it on the big system, you understand why they like it, right? It's the it's the track, it's something in that track. When that 808 and all that stuff be gone, it's something in the track. You can you can delete whatever the uh rapper, whoever's on top is saying, you can delete that and just play the tracks.

SPEAKER_03 25:23

The beat, they love those beats. I was gonna say a lot, and that's a lot of people out there. It's just the beat or the rhythm or the they don't care about most people don't listen to the word, you know.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

I mean, it's a whole yeah, they don't care about no lyric, lyrical rappers no more. They're like, we don't care about that. Like Kendrick, a few of them, Kendrick J. Cole, a few of them, but most of them they're like, We don't we don't care what they're seeing.

SPEAKER_03 25:42

I'm the opposite. I'm I listened to the literature. I'm like, I wanted to tell a story, something you know what I mean. Like, I gotta relate to it or something, and I like that artist.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Yeah, yeah, you should go to DJunique.com, Tony. You should go to DJunique.com and stream uh equation at the Gemini.

SPEAKER_03 25:57

You see, I think you're like, Hey, I'm sorry, I meant to right before we got on, but I didn't, but I'm gonna get it, I promise you. I'm gonna check it out. We're gonna promote you everything on our site. I hope so. Shayla, Shayla, I hope you heard it, Shayla.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

You should heard too, Shayla.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

One of my website, well, because of your the name of your album, which is dope, but that's a playoff of outcast, so I know they was a part of an inspiration for you, too.

Direct Support And The Ten Dollar Pitch

SPEAKER_01 26:22

I mean, I like I like Dre.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

I like Big Boy too. Andre and Big Boy, they both dope, but of course, Andre one of the illest.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

He he's one of the illest. So is uh, you know what? Big boy's underrated big boy's underrated. Big boy is underrated because of how nice Andre is, yeah. And that and and that doesn't take anything away from from Big Boy because Big Boy is nice, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But no, no, no. It it's it equation of the Gemini, uh, it's because I'm a Gemini. It has nothing to do with outcasts, it's because you know I'm saying I don't I don't root raw for most things, like some people have sports. Who's your favorite football team or whatever?

SPEAKER_03 27:00

Miles Riggs is gonna talk about that right now.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Yeah, Miles Riggs, and he's the team that killed us when we was living in real life.

SPEAKER_01 27:07

Um see, I I don't I don't have any I don't have any sporting teams that I root for, you know. I'm saying I could I could care less about any of those teams. I don't I don't get paid for none of that. I used to I used to like the Eagles back in the day, and my it would ruin my day when they would lose. I'm like, houses ruining my day, you know. I'm saying all of them go home to real nice houses and all this stuff, even if they lose. Like, you know what? I'm good on sharing for sport teams. I like the sport, but I can care less about the teams.

SPEAKER_03 27:32

I'm just a fan of the sport.

SPEAKER_01 27:33

I'm a fan of the sport, so only team that I'll be like, yeah, yeah, let's go, is Team Gemini. That's the only one that I was like, you know what? I mean, let me rock with this. So, yeah, that's my team. Right.

SPEAKER_03 27:44

Yeah. So, all right, Quay, we're gonna have a little fun segment here to close out the show with. If we want to ask you, it's kind of like Drain Champs, I guess, two things, and you choose.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Was it five? Five times with slime, was it prime was it slime?

SPEAKER_03 27:58

Well, we're we're trying to figure out new segments here. We're we're brainstorming, but we'll get it together, me and Chris. So you're gonna get two words, you know, it can be it's gonna be hip hop artists, anything. It's gonna be random stuff. So you just choose. All right. And if you can, you gotta give us 20 push-ups, I guess. All right, let's go. All right, we're saying hurdles or relays.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

Hurdles or relays. I ran hurdles, so I'm going hurdles.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

All right.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

Uh what was Chad Richie? Shout out to Chad Richie.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

Right? Y'all did the 300?

SPEAKER_01 28:37

Hated that. I hated it.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

I hated it. You got hurdles, right?

SPEAKER_01 28:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 28:43

So, all right, next one. DJing or rapping? Ooh, he's ooh. Oh, great. You just don't love.

SPEAKER_02 28:54

He can't cheat. That's where they would have been like, take a shot, take a shot.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

Oh man. Um, I got I I gotta say both.

SPEAKER_03 29:03

All right. Yeah, that's dope, though. Yeah. Yeah, I gotta say. Oh, so Tupac or Big L?

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Big L. No.

SPEAKER_03 29:13

He's backtracking.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

I gotta backtrack it. I gotta say Tupac only because I play so much more of his music than I do Big L.

SPEAKER_03 29:21

Right. Because he has a lot more music.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

Oh, all right. Guns and Roses or Aerosmith.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

I'm gonna go with Aerosmith because I meant Steven Tyler.

SPEAKER_03 29:34

Ooh, oh, okay. All right. That makes sense. Uh Gray Master Music too. Yeah. Uh Gray Master Flash or DJ Premier. Flash. Okay. Run DMC or E DMD.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

Oh Run. But like barely. But like barely.

Writing Flow And Producer Talk

SPEAKER_03 30:16

Huh? Who'd you say I'm who was it? Run DMC, but barely. But barely. Yeah. All right. Uh NWA or Wu Tang.

SPEAKER_01 30:24

Wu-Tang all day long. You know how bad I want to make a song with Ghostface? I want to make it. I'm going to put that in the atmosphere right now. I'm going to put Ghostface on a hip house track. Let's go. That's happening.

SPEAKER_03 30:37

I'm putting Ghostface. I gotta go with Wu Tang. Yeah. Spinal tap or Tenacious D.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

I don't know neither one of them. I'm gonna like that. You know the parody, but I know their names, but let me go with Spinal Tap. Because ain't Tenacious D a fake group.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

Ain't they like the that's uh Jack Black and Yeah, they're not real.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

I'm going with Spinal Tap.

SPEAKER_02 30:59

I ain't gonna lie, I don't even know who they are. I know Jack Black, but they're they're bands.

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Yeah, Tenacious D is like a fun thing.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

Yeah, they're they're a fun, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:07

Like and I can't be walking around being like Tenacious D. That's that's suspect.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

Eddie Murphy or Richard Pryor? Eddie's whatever. There you go. See, I feel that too because I I wasn't really like I was too young for Rich.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

Yeah, and no disrespect to Richard for kicking down doors and breaking ground. I will not take no credit away from uh uh from Mr. Pryor, but funny. I'm going Eddie. Eddie, I feel like Eddie you just be sitting there and he's gonna say something funny. Something funny is coming out his mouth, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 31:42

So yeah, I'm going to Eddie's right. All right, a couple more. Uh Stets of Sonic or De La Soul. De La Soul.

SPEAKER_01 31:49

Uh you put a you put a uh uh NBA team against a JV squad.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

Do you remember them? Yes, but against oh come on, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

They're not gonna crack beat no day last that's not even did y'all hear Day Las new album?

SPEAKER_03 32:05

No, they put a new one on. You know what? I think my brother told me that because Jason's the one who does keep me in the loop. Thank God I got it with music because you know he's all in it.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

So put put Day Lasso's new album on. You got a day fire, fire.

SPEAKER_03 32:20

All right, last one. Mike Rcuelin or Justin Garber?

SPEAKER_01 32:24

Mike Rulin. Come on, he played the drums. You know what I'm saying? And he almost made me cry. He almost made me. If I was a crier, I would have cried when he reposted uh about my album and how he liked it and the different emotions and stuff that he felt from listening to it and stuff. Man, it almost brought me to tears. I wish I was a crier, you know what I'm saying? I'm just I'm just not a crier, you know. I'm saying somebody gotta die for me to be like uh but the like the fail stuff. I'd be feeling it, I feel it in my spirit. My spirit feels it, and I'm I just don't cry. But if I if I was a crier, I would have cried. Turn up, shout out to Mike.

SPEAKER_03 32:54

Good for him. Shout out to Mike, yeah, both of them. Yeah, grew up with both of them. But hey, Quaid, it was fun having you on, man. We enjoy having you on. I think this is your third time, right?

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Second, I think.

SPEAKER_03 33:05

Maybe third. I thought it was third or something. But man, love love having you on. Always enjoyment. Everybody go out and get his album.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

Djunique.com, Dj U N I E Q dot com. You can stream it on there to listen to it. That's nice, or you can support it and buy it all from the same site. As soon as you go to my website, you can see a yellow button, it's like boop boop, boop, boop, boop. Click the button, and it takes you to the pay hip. And then you put your you put your ten dollars in there and you smile when you put your ten dollars. You be like, oh my god, I'm giving this ten dollars to Quaid. You see what I'm saying? And then you download it and then you listen to it and you stream it. Yeah, yeah. Turn up Quaid's not the Gemini. It's amazing. Be on the lookout. I can't talk about everything that's happening right now, but I'm telling you, we're about to do another show. Okay, and on the next show, y'all gonna be like, God damn, you did all that in the past two months. Okay, oh yeah, turn up if they ain't on the train first. Tell them to get a ticket, they better get a ticket right now because the train is leaving the station and the shit is gonna replace them. That's good.

SPEAKER_03 34:01

See what I'm saying? Love your energy, man. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Yeah, if anybody gonna make it happen, is you yo, I would love to hook you and Jamal up too sometime, man. Me too.

SPEAKER_03 34:13

For real. Hey, you right out there, you right out there by my brother Jason. Y'all gonna collaborate and do something. He lives uh in Silverton in Oregon.

SPEAKER_01 34:23

That ain't close. Well, it's closer than his uh protect protect.

SPEAKER_02 34:30

You can do this right here. He's like eight states away if he was on the east coast. Yeah, in Virginia.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

I thought it was gonna be like he liked lived in Silver Lake or he lived like in Hollywood or something. No, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 34:50

But at the end of the day, they don't have to see each other in person. That's why we ain't we ain't none of us is in the same state right now. Uh uh.

SPEAKER_03 34:55

So what does your brother do? He works he works for UPS, but he's still in the me, you know, he's done his music thing and whatever, but he does a podcast too. Word so he does uh call it balls rhetoric.

SPEAKER_02 35:08

He still he still gets tapes from Mike from Mike Armstead.

SPEAKER_01 35:11

Let's go. Send me his links and stuff. You know what I'm saying? Oh, I'll do that, man. Yeah, I'll see that. It's all family, babe. It's all family, you know what I'm saying? If this person grows, everybody grow. Come get some of this water, come get some of these nutrients. You see what I'm saying? We everybody growing.

SPEAKER_03 35:27

Yeah, that's right. That's it, man. Hey, I hate to cut it short, but got a game. My son's playing. Good luck.

SPEAKER_02 35:33

Love having you on, man. They need good luck because they've been getting whopped lately.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

We'll talk about that on another show.

SPEAKER_01 35:43

All right, y'all. Djunique.com. Watch it. Hey, love you, appreciate it.

Genre Openness And Music Discovery

SPEAKER_02 35:46

Go download his album, man. Show support, man. For real. Like you're gonna say you want to hear him and this and that. Go download it. Yep. We appreciate you getting on, man. We won't get into the state of America right now because the state of America, as Tony says, he don't care what we're talking about. He loves sports, and you gotta go run and watch his son.

SPEAKER_01 36:03

Go watch your son. Go watch it.

SPEAKER_02 36:04

Go on to Tommy Dixon court and go and watch him.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:08

How crazy is that? Yeah, that's dope, right?

SPEAKER_01 36:10

That's dope. Like, let's go. Legend. Legendary.

SPEAKER_03 36:13

All right. All right. All right, Quaid. Love you, man. Respect. And reach out anytime and get on, jump on anytime.

SPEAKER_02 36:20

Let's go.

SPEAKER_03 36:20

All right, man. Have a good time.

SPEAKER_02 36:22

Tony, keep us posted on the score. Oh, I will. All right. All right. We appreciate y'all listening, man. Y'all all be safe out there. We'll see y'all again in another week. We got some more guests lined up, but hopefully we won't got no more Hamley games interfering. But it's it's all good.

SPEAKER_03 36:37

Uh well, quick quick announcements though before we get off, real quick. I wanted to shout out Kevin Curry for his lifting brothers up. Building brothers up. So everyone go out to that. It will be at when is it? Let me find it real quick. It will be uh February 21st from 2 to 5 p.m. at 20 2249 Valor Drive. I believe it's at New Church.

SPEAKER_02 37:07

I mean, you need to go too, man. Y'all need to stop sitting on your ass and go go and support Bullet and everybody else that got stuff going on.

SPEAKER_03 37:13

Right. So I'm gonna yeah, give give Kevin, yeah. He's getting that lifting brothers up back so everybody guys, you know, go out there. But it's called Building Brothers Up. Building Brothers, sorry. Lifting building. So I wanted to mention that real quick, but yeah, Kevin, we're here for you too. Like me and Chris said, you know, we're here to support you, help you out anyway as well. So everyone, hey, enjoyed the show, Chris. Enjoy tonight. Appreciate Quay coming on, man. Y'all go get the album. Go get it, go get that new album, Gemini. Everyone, download, please. Give ten dollars. Hey, and give to us as well. You know, we got out there. You can donate to us or subscribe to our YouTube channel as well. We're on all platforms, everyone. But hey, everyone, we'll see everybody next Thursday, right? Next Thursday, probably back to the Thursday at seven. We should be back on time. Correct, correct. All right, everybody. Thanks for tuning in tonight. Appreciate it, everyone. All right, Chris. All right, fam. Peace. Enjoy the game.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

No stylist with the five.