How We Fell For Hip‑Hop And Found Our DJ Names

Two turntables, a stack of UNO decks, and a room full of opinions—this one moves. We kick off with local wins as Dre rolls out Level Up Entertainment, karaoke residencies lock in, and a first‑ever house set stretches his comfort zone. From there, the crates open wide: Baby Boy lore sparks a sharp take on symbolism, and a Bay Area roll call—E‑40, Too $hort, Mac Dre, Souls of Mischief—collides with today’s wave of Larry June and LaRussell. The question isn’t whether “our” songs are now throwbacks; it’s how DJs stitch eras together so the floor never loses the thread.

We widen the lens with East Coast storytelling and calm control—Joey Bada$$ and J. Cole get their flowers—and shout out a TikTok gem, Norman Sands, whose Tribe‑tinged cadence turns heads. The night’s biggest reveal belongs to Marion, who claims her on‑air identity as DJ Bebecita, a name rooted in her day‑one hospital tag. We unpack branding the right way, from gathering inspo to partnering with a designer who translates story into a mark that works on flyers, socials, and stage visuals.

What really powers the growth is craft and community. Weekly drives to Beat Junkies in Glendale become a ritual of open tables, humble reps, and unexpected mentorship—Shortcut dropping into class, technique critiques that feel like encouragement, and the slow magic of learning baby, release, stab, and tear scratches until timing becomes muscle memory. We also wade into the messy waters of separating art from the artist, balancing client boundaries with cultural honesty, and acknowledging the double standards baked into nostalgia. Between laughter about “oldies,” best diss tracks, and giant game nights that double as strategy lessons, the through‑line is clear: stay curious, keep the joy close, and let the music teach you how to listen.

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Transcript

Introductions And Local DJ Gigs

SPEAKER_07 0:00

What's up, y'all? The Most Dope Podcast is back. We have uh we have a couple uh couple guests. We always have guests, always willing to entertain and have good people over, hang out, you know, food, drinks, tables, music, convo. But uh we got uh we'll play here. DJ Will Play.

SPEAKER_08 0:19

What's up, what's up?

SPEAKER_07 0:20

We got Dre Day. We got Dre over here, Andre, big Andre. Um wifey's over here. Yes, she's here, she's sitting right by me. Um she might have some news for you guys later today. I don't I don't know. It'll be up to her whether she wants to divulge, you know, what she's been up to and sneaking around doing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, but uh, anyways, Dre got some merch made, man. He got some merch made.

SPEAKER_09 0:51

Yeah, I had a uh just bite the bullet. I made some t-shirts. What is it?

SPEAKER_07 0:55

Level up?

SPEAKER_09 0:56

Level up entertainment.

Dre’s Merch And Venue Lineup

SPEAKER_07 0:57

Level up entertainment. Dre is in business. Dre is taking it very seriously. He's uh getting all of his merch, all of his media, all of his advertising. He's getting everything done. Uh he's out at uh Stella's, right? Yeah, he's out at Stella's and he's over here at the Bell, right? Belvidere? Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:15

Where else? What else you got going on, man? Um, I'm covering at El Portal this Saturday. Awesome. Um, I'm doing a house set. Never done house music before. March 1st for uh it's fun to play with.

SPEAKER_07 1:27

Yeah, it's good to get out of your zone.

SPEAKER_09 1:29

It is, it was it was nice. I got to like just sit there for like weeks, just find little songs and nuggets. I was like, that's cool.

SPEAKER_07 1:37

That's awesome. Yeah. So what days are you over at Bell, Belvedere?

SPEAKER_09 1:42

Uh Thursdays and Sundays, and then sometimes I cover on Tuesdays.

SPEAKER_07 1:46

Nice. Thursdays, Sundays, and sometimes Tuesdays. Yeah. And this is uh a lot of karaoke.

SPEAKER_09 1:53

Yeah, that's all karaoke.

SPEAKER_07 1:54

All karaoke. So Belvedere, if you guys aren't familiar, it's over on Brundage and Oak, roughly. Yeah, right down the street from us. Right next to the mobile. Yeah, right next to the gas station, right? Just inwards from the gas station. Stella's is Niles. Niles and Oswell. Niles and Oswell.

SPEAKER_09 2:11

It's right across from the Pizza Hut. Um, and then it's technically like across from the McDonald's.

SPEAKER_07 2:18

Okay. All right. There's a church on the corner too, right? Is there a church on the corner?

House Set Prep And Karaoke Residencies

SPEAKER_09 2:23

Yeah, the Cat Corner. Yeah. Yeah. It's right next to the feed store.

SPEAKER_07 2:26

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. And what days are you over there at Stellos? Typically Fridays. All right. What do you play over there, man? What's your what's your groove over there?

SPEAKER_09 2:34

Old school hip hop. I I always try to throw in a throwback that people haven't heard in a while.

SPEAKER_07 2:39

All right.

SPEAKER_09 2:40

Uh, not too long ago, I was playing uh Tyrese, the song from uh Baby Boy. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:46

I'm just a baby boy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:49

I haven't heard Tyrese in a long time. Hey, you know what?

SPEAKER_07 2:52

I'm gonna I'm gonna derail here. I'm gonna go out. Something just came to mind. I was scrolling on social media the other day, and I'm a baby boy fan. I like the movie. I I I enjoy it, you know, I enjoy soundtracks, you know, all that good stuff. Uh most of it, you know, black culture movies as far as Friday, Next Friday, um, The Wood, uh, you know, The Best Man. Um, one of my favorites is uh the one with um why can't I think of it? Not Love and Basketball, but the the one where uh at the very beginning, Commons talking, uh EPMDs talking, they have a whole Brown Sugar.

SPEAKER_08 3:30

Oh Brown Sugar I have that on DVD. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 3:33

So, anyways, Baby Boy, back to Baby Boy. You guys know the opening sequence of that movie. Tyrese is a grown man inside of a womb, right? And he's being born or something. Um I read uh uh I don't know if it was a fact or a theory, but they had theorized that that was Yvette's abortion. Oh man. And I I had to start thinking about it, right? I I just started getting real deep into it. I'm like, and I'm trying to picture it. Jody got Yvette pregnant. Yvette had a an abortion, right? That was the beginning of the movie, or you know, roughly there in the movie. Um he took her to an abortion clinic, I think.

SPEAKER_09 4:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 4:15

Um, and I guess it's a symbolism or whatever it may be. Four sh I don't know what the the the film term for it is, but apparently that was supposed to be Yvette. Her name's Yvette, right?

SPEAKER_08 4:27

Yvette, I want to say it is yeah, Jody and Yvette.

SPEAKER_07 4:30

And uh apparently that was supposed to symbolize the the abortion.

SPEAKER_04 4:34

Wow.

Throwbacks, Baby Boy Theory, And Symbolism

SPEAKER_07 4:34

And uh, you know, you could see the trauma of of being born or whatever, and you you're automatically assuming that Tyrese, you know, is being born, right? And then the whole idea behind the movie, baby boy, uh uh the lack of maturity in him or in the the average male, the average young male. Um, and and and they even reference it in the movie or whatever about growing up, right? It's a whole theme about the movie about growing up and being mature and responsible and and making good decisions and things of that nature. So, yeah, you know, interrupt you with uh Tyrese, man. Hey, we were talking the other day, Dre, you were talking about Eastside. Oh, yeah. Tell me about Eastside, tell me about Eastside music.

SPEAKER_09 5:19

It's just uh like just that good, like um like gangster music, honestly. That's what I call it. Um you can go from like oldies, like the low rider oldies, kind of get into like back to the hotel, like in too deep or whatever. Yeah, okay, yeah, just kind of all over, just really depends.

SPEAKER_07 5:37

All right, it but it it it's not necessarily Chicano rap or is it? Is it some in there?

SPEAKER_09 5:43

It can be. Yeah, there's some in there. Yeah, there's a lot of subcategories, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 5:48

Yeah, yeah. So when you were referencing East, I was like East Side, Hispanic, I was like, oh, East, you know, rap.

SPEAKER_09 5:55

They like E40 uh at Stellas. You know, what's not to like about it, right?

SPEAKER_06 6:00

Like like Bay Area, yay area.

SPEAKER_09 6:03

I like to play the older stuff though. I'll play like sideways. Uh-huh. The the little one I've been doing, I've been doing uh what is it, uh Pimp of the Year?

SPEAKER_07 6:11

Pimp of the Year, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 6:12

With um Sideways. Uh-huh. I'll take the little intro part. All right. And I'll loop it, and then I'll go into the the song.

SPEAKER_08 6:19

Okay. One of his songs just had a 20th anniversary. Did it? He was on that uh what's that girl like a singer? She's got a talk show. Hudson Jennifer. Oh, Jennifer Hudson. Yeah, he was on there today. Yeah. Yeah. He's they were celebrating one of his songs. I know it's a popular one I just can't think of it right now, but it was a popular one. And it was like 20 years old, and it's like, oh shit. Is it Sprinkle Me, probably? No, it's not like Sprinkle Me. It's like one of his newer ones, like in the from the 90s. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 6:46

Maybe tell him when to go, maybe. But I'm gonna have to exclude Dre on this, man. I'm gonna have to just keep it to me and you, man. As far as as far as when when that happens, right? And and a mu a song comes up and you see that it's the 20th anniversary. Yeah, you are like, Jesus Christ. Was it really 20 years ago?

SPEAKER_02 7:06

It's tell me when to go.

SPEAKER_07 7:07

Tell me when to go, there you go. Tell me when to go.

SPEAKER_02 7:11

20 years old, damn.

SPEAKER_08 7:12

I mean, I grew up too short, you know. I mean, the underground shit from Oakland.

SPEAKER_07 7:16

But but now our music is probably gonna be shortly considered oldies. Yeah. Our music is soon gonna be considered oldies, probably.

SPEAKER_04 7:25

It is already.

SPEAKER_09 7:26

Yeah, I think it's throwbacks.

SPEAKER_04 7:28

It really is. Yeah, they're throwbacks.

SPEAKER_07 7:29

And then what are oldies now is gonna become what classical? Oldies for me are like 80s because I'm an 80s person. So yeah. So that's exactly.

SPEAKER_08 7:37

But the 90s, that's a year ahead of me, you know.

Eastside Vibes And Bay Area Classics

SPEAKER_07 7:39

So that's it's still but you know, speaking of like E40, you know, you got your young Larry June. Oh, yeah, Larry June. Right, you got Larry June, you got especially now LaRussell. La Russell's on fire right now. I mean, he is going off.

SPEAKER_08 7:54

Too many new cats, but some I do know names, and I've heard some songs.

SPEAKER_07 7:58

Yeah, definitely. I'm on a huge La Russell kick. I was talking to Dre about it. He came over the other day and uh brought me a couple little gifts from uh an expo he went to out in Vegas, and uh I was showing him some uh, I don't know, I think we went over some Joey Badass, we went over some Love Russell, um, we went over some some you know some of the newer Bay Area stuff that was well Joey Badass is New York, but we went over some of the new newer um Bay Area stuff, Larry June and and LaRussell, and those are the two main ones I'm on, like you know, back in our day, E40 and two short. Now I feel like it's Larry June and and um and just talking about LaRussell. Yeah. Um even back then with us, you add Mac Dre in there. Oh, Mac Drew. Like you gotta add Mac Dre, right? You know, so you know, uh yeah.

SPEAKER_08 8:50

You got Souls of Mischief out there, and yeah, you got so many out there in the Bay Area. Lyrics Born just dropped a song actually, I think like last week.

SPEAKER_09 8:57

Oh, really? Came out, yeah, with uh Pillow.

SPEAKER_07 9:00

Pillow, hey, Pillow. You gotta you gotta keep you gotta keep Pillow in there, yeah, right? Um, all right, let's ask this. Where is mustard from? Ooh, good question.

SPEAKER_08 9:10

I just seen him recently too.

SPEAKER_07 9:12

Is mustard LA or or Bay Area native? I don't think he's Bay Area. Um I want to say he's east.

SPEAKER_08 9:21

South or East? I'm not, you know, that's a good that's a good question.

SPEAKER_07 9:26

I'm not quite sure where he's uh born. Los Angeles. Yeah. Mustard is an LA product. Yeah. So I mean, especially right now with what you have going on with LaRussell, Kendrick, Mustard, you know, all of these guys, you know, West Coast seems to be alive and well. Oh, yeah. It's alive and well. And and I and I'm even gonna go as far as saying the East Coast is alive and well with Joey Badass and some of these other artists. Who are the newer uh maybe wet uh East Coast artists you might be listening to lately?

SPEAKER_08 9:57

I don't know if he's the one you put me on is pretty tight. Which one? It's it's blowing up. My friends love that song now. Oh, one on one?

E‑40 Milestones And “Oldies” Debate

SPEAKER_09 10:04

Yeah, the remix one I've seen. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 10:08

Yeah, I checked it out too.

SPEAKER_08 10:09

Yeah, yeah. There's there's a lot out right now. Like I just got into the new J. Cole.

SPEAKER_07 10:15

Oh, I love J. Cole, man. J. Cole is one of my favorites. Me and Chalk. You know, Chalk's, you know, Black Carlos, Chalk, Professor Chalk, instructor Chalk down at Beat Junkies. Chalk's not a big fan of J. Cole.

SPEAKER_04 10:28

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_07 10:29

He's just not a huge fan of him. He he doesn't hate him, doesn't dislike him. Uh, I think it's just kind of his his flow or uh, you know, the calmness. Well, I don't know what it's just something that isn't as aggressive. It's not an as aggressive hit for him. J. Cole, however, I take over Kendrick and I take over uh Drake for sure. But you know, when when that whole thing popped off, I was so confident that J. Cole was gonna be able to hold his own just fine before he chose to you know back out and say, hey, I'm I don't want to do this. This is not for my music, you know, this is not what I want to be involved with, my art or whatnot. I thought he was gonna either beat Kendrick or fare very well against Kendrick. Um but yeah, I'm a huge J. Cole fan. Huge J. Cole fan.

SPEAKER_08 11:18

I put him in him and uh Drake. I'm not Drake, uh Kendrick up there. Yeah, my top of my list, yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_07 11:25

Yeah, no, I love Kendrick. Yeah, I just if I have to choose to listen to a J. Cole album or a Kendrick album, I'm probably usually gonna choose J. Cole. And and I think it's probably for the same reasons Chalk doesn't necessarily it's not Chalk's favorite, yeah. Uh because it's a little chiller, it's a little calmer, it's a little more I feel like it's more storytelling. Um yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 11:49

There's this guy from Houston, he's he's crazy. His name's uh Norman Sands.

SPEAKER_07 11:54

All right.

SPEAKER_09 11:56

I found him on uh TikTok.

SPEAKER_07 11:58

All right.

SPEAKER_09 11:59

That's where I find a lot of the new artists. They added a feature actually where you can add it to Spotify now.

SPEAKER_07 12:03

Oh wow, straight from TikTok, huh?

SPEAKER_09 12:05

Yeah, but he has uh a lot of you can't tell he's from Houston. Like he sounds like a tribe called Quest and like a couple different things. Okay, and it's just bar for bar for bar. Really? Talented brother. Crazy. And every time I show people like there's especially this one song called Mildred.

SPEAKER_07 12:25

Didn't we play that? Did I play that or did you send that to me?

SPEAKER_09 12:28

Uh no, I showed you uh the other one he went viral on TikTok for. Okay, which is uh I think Death at a Funeral.

SPEAKER_07 12:36

Okay, yeah, yeah. Well, little Miss Marion, Marion, booty, baby girl, mama. What's going on in what's going on in your little uh DJ journey?

SPEAKER_02 12:49

Oh well, um, we just came up with my DJ name.

SPEAKER_07 12:53

Oh, she figured out her DJ name. Yeah, this is why this is the first anybody's gonna know about it.

SPEAKER_06 13:00

First, first.

SPEAKER_07 13:01

Besides me, you two are the first two that are gonna know her her newly chosen DJ name.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

So my DJ name is DJ Bebecita.

SPEAKER_07 13:12

And she has a little hidden meaning behind it, right? What what where did it come from for you?

New West And East Voices In Hip‑Hop

SPEAKER_02 13:17

So when I was born, um I didn't have a name. So when I left the hospital, I was um baby girl Aguayo.

SPEAKER_07 13:26

They didn't know what they were gonna name her yet, so yeah, by default, that's what hospitals do. They name baby boy or baby girl in the last name. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

So that's where I came from, Bebecita.

SPEAKER_07 13:37

And we just uh met with our media lady, and somebody already has a logo. Oh man.

SPEAKER_02 13:45

Yeah, our graphic designer, she's amazing.

SPEAKER_07 13:48

Shout out Stacy Henzo, Monroe Bot. Monroe bot, just how it sounds Monroe and a robot. Monroe bot. I believe Monroe is uh her daughter's name.

SPEAKER_04 13:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 13:58

Um, so it's her company, her media company is and graphic design company is named after her her daughter. Yep, which is very honorable. That's a beautiful thing. I just gave her a couple ideas and yeah, you know, you you just go through social media, you go through the internet, and you grab, they call it inspo. All the kids call it inspo. I we just call it inspiration, right? I'm gonna grab some inspo, some inspiration off of Instagram and off of wherever. And yeah, we really send her stuff and we say, This is our our vision, this is our idea. She'll come up with a whole bunch of stuff, send it back, we'll we'll start whittling it down and we'll say we like this from this one, this from this one, we like this color, we you know, whatever it may be, and go back and forth four, five, six times. Sometimes it only takes two times, sometimes it takes eight. She gets it. She gets it. She'll show you at the end of the at the end of the podcast. That's cool. So, yeah, she has DJ Bebecita. Nice. She has her logo. Uh, we're not gonna announce the other thing quite yet. No, that's that's uh 30 days. That'll be the next podcast. Uh DJ Bebecita has some news for the uh the DJ world, the the female DJ world, the DJ world in general, the community. She she has some exciting news coming up. But uh and then our journey with beat junkies has been a well tell us about your journey with beet junkies. So so I'll say this I've been DJing for only for four years. Uh I've only been DJing for four years. Um, I have a long way to go. I'm very humble about it. I don't compare myself to anybody. I don't say I'm better than anybody, and I don't say I'm worse than anybody. I'm just different, you know, different flavor, different sauce, different whatever. It's unique, right? And make it your own. Yeah, yeah, and and have fun with it and and and and keep it about the music and the happiness that music brings you. Um, which is kind of also why I'm kind of pricing myself.

SPEAKER_08 15:53

Be true to the music you like to play.

J. Cole, Kendrick, And Storytelling

SPEAKER_07 15:55

Yeah. Which is why I'm pricing myself way out of things lately. Uh, because I want to I want to do more of the the artistry and uh the enjoyment of of playing and and playing things that I love as well. You know, when when we work for other people, we have to play what they love. And and DJing for me is not as fun as it is when I'm playing music that I love and I'm having fun playing it and altering it and toying with it and tweaking it, and it just means more to me because generally every song has some kind of memory associated within all of us. So yeah, um I've been DJing a while. You're kind of brand new to it, other than the fact that you've been with me for four years throughout my little DJ journey. Yeah, and um, and we've gotten you mixing on stuff and playing, and you've you've played around a little bit, you know, she's never performed anywhere, and and you know, so you're you're much newer. Yeah, this is a almost a brand new thing to you. So rather than me talk about my experience or give mine, let's hear yours from a very, very fresh virgin DJ.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

Well, I think overall it's amazing. Like I I got to experience it without having bad habits already. You know, um, I don't think I have any bad habits. Um, I'm able to mix while if he needs to go to the bathroom or whatever, I can mix. I can take over and change to a new song, which you know it's pretty easy, right? I just let a song end and then just throw the new one in. But you know, now I'm learning like how to like listen, right? And um beat match and you know, scratch, like so what um what scratches have you learned since being down there? Well the baby scratch.

SPEAKER_07 17:46

Baby scratch.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

Um what is the other one? The the the release. The release, the release scratch, scratch, the release with crossfader, uh-huh, the stab, the stab, and the tear.

SPEAKER_07 18:00

And the tear. No crabs yet. Crabs is actually next Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Actually, no, it's not crabs. I think we're doing Transformers next Wednesday. Oh Transformers. So we're gonna do Transformers next week. So you got little five scratches in your arsenal.

SPEAKER_04 18:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 18:15

Uh you you you learned how to to work a mixer, you learned how to work a turntable, you learned how to read the grooves on the turntable or on the on the records and know that they belong to the different tracks.

unknown 18:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 18:27

It's gonna be to where you don't even need to find the groove. You already know where to drop it after a while. You'll you'll know.

SPEAKER_02 18:31

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, which is it's kind of cool. Yeah. I'm excited for the the new the new journey, the new the next 10 months. The next 10 months.

TikTok Finds And Norman Sands

SPEAKER_07 18:43

10 months, yeah. So we just went through two months. We went through the eight-week course, and that was Monday nights, 7 30 to 8 30. And that was beginning. That was intro to intro to DJing, I think is what they call it. Um foundational DJing. It's their foundation class. This is the 10-month one that starts on Wednesday, and that goes from 7 30 to 9 30, I believe. So, yeah, we drive down to Glendale every week to go to Beat Junkies.

SPEAKER_04 19:14

Every day or once a week.

Announcing DJ Bebecita

SPEAKER_07 19:16

Oh, once a week. Once a week. So every Monday, and now next week it's gonna start to being every Wednesday. Okay. So we drive down there once a week. And this one we did eight weeks, and now the this next one is ten months, so we're gonna be down there for a while. Um, but it you know, it's a wonderful thing. Me and Marion have a great time driving down there together. We we make a little trip out of it. We'll stop by the casino on the way there. Uh, we'll stop and get snacks, coffee, whatever. And we we just have a lot of good conversation on the way down there. Uh sometimes we will usually we're there very early. We'll we'll catch a bite to eat sometimes. We'll just hang out and we'll get extra practice in because it's open tables early before we get there. Um, get some practice in, talk some shit with flip-flop and chalk and C Los and all those guys. Um, but the the the community, it's a wild thing. I was telling Dre about this. It's uh uh we still have good community in Bakersville. We do. We do. There's a lot of DJs that can get together in Bakersfield that that are wholeheartedly supportive, love each other, uh, hang out with each other, no negativity, no drama, you know. Um, and but like everywhere, there's there's the opposite as well. And that opposite can get kind of draining sometimes. It can get kind of draining, kind of depressing, kind of like, do I even want to be a part of this? Do I want to do this? You know, that whole thing. But that's where the refreshing thing comes in is when we go down to beat junkies, man. It's so much love. Uh, the people you're in the course with, they're going doing the next course with you, you're growing with them, you've developed relationships with them. You have relationships with world famous DJs, right? Scratch champions and all kinds of shit up in there. Uh, even um uh what's his name? Shortcut. Shortcut showed up. You know, they had Nom down there, right? And they were in town for Nom or something. And shortcut dropped in on our class. We're sitting there doing dumb little baby scratches like beginners, right? Like what I was showing you when you got here. Yeah. And shortcut sitting over on the couch. And it's like, man, don't watch me, man.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

I got lucky. He came up to me and he's like, You got something.

SPEAKER_07 21:31

Yeah, shortcut. Shortcut said she had it. Shortcut was helping her. Shortcut is a beat junkie, you know. Um, but yeah, he just dropped in on class and he became very active in class when he was not the instructor, wasn't supposed to be there, and he just started helping people, man. There's there's no there's no intimidation. He's not intimidated by me or you or anybody else, nor am I intimidated by anybody. It's it's you know, again. We're all different. We're at all different stages of our DJ journey. WheelPlay's been doing this shit for years and years and years. My ass is only four years in. She's only a month or two months in. You know, I don't know how long you've been at it, Dre.

SPEAKER_09 22:15

Seven.

SPEAKER_07 22:15

Seven years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 22:16

But I uh I got thrown into it. My cousin got sick of the gig and I had to figure it out. Oh, yeah. Hey.

SPEAKER_07 22:22

Hey, sink or swim, baby. They send you out to the wolves. You either come back their leader or you get chewed up, man.

unknown 22:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 22:30

I was not mixing. I just I was waiting for the track to end and I hit play and get the other one going.

Branding, Logos, And Media Workflow

SPEAKER_07 22:37

That's all I do. Hey, you know what? And uh and a lot of people might not know the difference, anyways. A lot of people don't know what DJs really do sometimes. And they might just think we're playlist players or whatever else. And especially when we're when we're tough on ourselves or we're tough on each other, because I hear you mess up on a on a blend or something, or I hear some shoes in the dryer, or I hear that you forgot to put your loads back in. It's only us, it's only us that hear it. The other people, all they care about is hearing that the song, identifying the song, loving the song and singing it and dancing to it. Yeah. They don't care how it's brought in, they don't have care how it goes out, they just care that you selected a good piece of music to play. The artistry and everything else is for us to judge and and critique on our own or uh against each other, especially if we're good friends and we can talk to each other and say, hey man, did you hear what you did just now? You know, like hey man, you forgot to bring your loads back in. Here you go, hey, you left echo on, or you know, you you you you you you dropped and your your volume wasn't up.

SPEAKER_02 23:41

Or you dropped the song on the wrong deck.

SPEAKER_07 23:45

Yeah, you overwrote your own deck that was playing, right? I've done that, man. I and I uh but you know, when you know them keyboard shortcuts and you Command Z real quick and it undoes it and it returns playing the last song that you just had. If you do it quick enough, nobody really bats an eye too much. But yeah, it's it's wild. So you're enjoying your trip, you're enjoying your journey.

SPEAKER_08 24:08

We might see you at NAM next year. You know how they they pull somebody out of school and say, hey, she's gonna be up there, she's gonna do she's gonna be at our booth. Hey, that might be you.

SPEAKER_07 24:16

Yeah, and she'll she'll and she'll be with the ladies of sound. Yeah, so the beat junkies have carry your records for you. They have their own, they have their own little female uh crew called the ladies of sound. So my wife knows that they're they're cool people, those girls are cool.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

Yeah, so I'm so excited. I'm stoked. I'm I'm ready. I'm ready for this journey and keep. I mean, my favorite part is that I get to do it with you. Oh like we have our little things, right? Like we have little things we like to do together. Like we like to play golf, Mario golf.

Beat Junkies Journey And Mindset

SPEAKER_07 24:52

Yeah, nobody knows this, but uh, us two nerds of all people, we lay in bed or on the couch. We have our switches mounted behind our TVs. You don't even see that we have a switch, but they're back there. And we play of all games, of all games, could be playing Call of Duty, could be playing all kinds of advanced graphics and everything up. We're playing Mario Golf. And uh it's just our thing. Like we just have fun playing Mario Golf. And now this DJ thing, and you know, our other ventures, you know, we have other ventures, you know, the podcast, of course, the the slot, the casino channel, and you know, we get into a lot of things. Uh to a lot of people that may look like a jack of all trades kind of situation, master of none. Um, but we're very, very good at a lot of them now. You know, we don't have to be a master at just one. We can be good at quite a few things.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

So we could never break up because you know I'm gonna be able to do that. Oh, we're so deeply rooted and connected.

SPEAKER_03 25:50

I will never be able to play a slot machine again or play golfy or DJ.

SPEAKER_07 25:57

Man, that would be terrible, right? To experience all this stuff, grow together, and then you know, that happened and like, yeah, I don't want to think about this person, so that's associated with them. So, you know, like that that could really take a part of your life, right? Like, that's terrible. Yeah, good point. Good point. Good point.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

You're stuck with me, babe.

SPEAKER_07 26:18

We'll play what what you been up to, man?

SPEAKER_08 26:20

Uh nothing, man. I just working, you know, living life, happy life, married life. How's the wife doing? Doing really good. Really good. She says I.

SPEAKER_05 26:28

Yeah, we see you guys, you know, we stay up with you guys on social, of course, man. Yeah. Love that. When's your last time you played?

unknown 26:36

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 26:37

And not even not necessarily for other people, but at the house. At the house?

SPEAKER_08 26:42

Uh, last Saturday.

SPEAKER_07 26:43

All right.

SPEAKER_08 26:44

I get on. I try to get on at least twice, once twice a week. What do you play? Uh, some old school. All right.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

Cleaning music for the wife. Hey, don't play, don't do that to her. I'll play 80s for her every now and then, you know.

SPEAKER_07 26:56

When I'm at the house, cleaning I play 80s.

SPEAKER_08 27:01

Ooh, I like this one. Play this one.

SPEAKER_02 27:05

Yeah. Just reminds me of my mom used to play music while she was cleaning. It was cleaning time when I grew up.

SPEAKER_05 27:11

Yeah, that's how, yeah, I do too. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

Cleaning time when music came on on Saturday.

SPEAKER_05 27:17

So you just haven't what who was it just you and the wifey?

SPEAKER_02 27:20

Oh, just me and the wife. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 27:21

Yeah.

unknown 27:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:22

That's a that's a beautiful thing to share. Early in the morning, I just feel I just, you know, I'm gonna turn my laptop on, I'm gonna turn my, you know, and then come back to it right after breakfast, go over there, and just start working out. Just play. Yeah, just start playing. Yeah. Whatever comes to my head to play, I get down. That's all.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_08 27:37

Is that your genre? What's your favorite genre? Oh man, there's so many of them. I'm very diverse, but for the most part, it's it's it's hip hop and uh old school and 80s music. Those are my two favorite genres.

SPEAKER_07 27:50

What do you think, Dre?

SPEAKER_09 27:52

I like everything. I'm all over it.

SPEAKER_07 27:53

But I'm gonna make you pick one to three. You're on an island. Oddly enough.

SPEAKER_09 28:01

I like I like bluegrass. Okay. Oddly enough, I like bluegrass.

SPEAKER_05 28:05

My uncle plays bluegrass.

SPEAKER_09 28:07

I like hip hop.

SPEAKER_05 28:08

Yeah, of course.

Learning Scratches And Gear Basics

SPEAKER_09 28:09

And I love holdies. All right. And uh all those genres, I probably know all the words to all the songs I listen to. Absolutely. And it's yeah.

SPEAKER_07 28:20

All right. Miss Bebecita over here. What what are your three genres? Or your one genre?

SPEAKER_02 28:24

I have to do reggaeton. I like reggaeton and you know, the Spanish music I I love a lot. You know.

SPEAKER_08 28:32

So you're into the bachatas kind of thing too. Reggaeton, bachata, they're pretty close. They're pretty close.

SPEAKER_02 28:37

They are pretty close, but I don't I don't care too much about the the slowness of bachata. You know, I don't like the essentialness. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 28:47

The remixes are interesting. Yeah. I heard the Frankie J one. I was like, I know that song.

SPEAKER_07 28:52

I have some I have a lot of good ones because we we we were doing Havana Nights for over a year, so I have a lot of mash-ups and everything else.

SPEAKER_09 28:59

Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_07 29:00

I would say for me, my three favorite genres funk, hip-hop, oldies, funk, hip-hop, oldies. Probably my three favorite. Uh, and my absolute favorite, and if I had to pick the one, it's gonna be funk.

SPEAKER_08 29:20

So old school for me is like it's it's hard to say old school, not funk. I could say funk, but I want you to know some of the old school stuff that I like too, so that's why I said old school. But funk, I'm up there with that. That's a tough one, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:32

That's a tough one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 29:33

When you're talking old school, are we talking Zapp and Roger, or what are we talking about?

SPEAKER_08 29:38

Uh that could be Zap and Roger. All right. It's funk, but I like the when I say funk, it's like deeper than old school. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 29:47

Man, I'd be driving around like the bad guy from Roadhouse sometimes. I like those old ones.

SPEAKER_05 29:51

Really?

SPEAKER_09 29:53

Like a what's that song? I think it was Shaboom, Shaboom.

SPEAKER_05 29:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 29:57

Uh-huh. Yeah. And you, are you gonna pick regaton first?

SPEAKER_02 30:02

Yeah, and then probably funk. Yeah, yeah. And what's your last one? Hip hop? Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 30:09

Hip hop is just I it's my first love. I mean, yeah, it'll always be my first love. I'm beatboy till I die. I mean, I r I break danced, I popped, and so yeah, so I did all that stuff.

SPEAKER_07 30:20

You had the cardboard and everything, man.

SPEAKER_08 30:22

Cardboard and linoleum. Oh man. My boom box, what double tape boom box, and oh yeah.

Community, Mentors, And Shortcut’s Drop‑In

SPEAKER_07 30:30

So I'm telling you guys right now, because we talked about it a little while ago, I'm probably gonna watch Brown Sugar tonight. Because, you know, and when I see them with the boom boxes, when I see them using the the street pole power for, you know, when I see the cardboard on the ground in the movie, when you hear all of the legends in the movie talk about when did I fall in love with hip-hop? You know, that was the question throughout the movie. When did you fall in love with hip-hop? And everybody you know had something to say. You know, common to lib, you know, everybody was in there and they all had something. Tribe was in there, I think. There's a whole Method Man, um uh Simmons, Russell Simmons. There's a whole bunch of people, and they they just said, When did you fall in love with hip-hop? For me, I fell in love with hip-hop when I heard Sugar Hill Gang. Rapper's Delight. That was my first kind of introduction into to hip-hop and why I loved hip-hop. Mine was It's Nasty. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 31:27

That was like one of the first ones, and then I went to Houdini Haunted House of Rock. Oh man. It just took off.

SPEAKER_07 31:35

Dre, when did you fall in love with hip-hop?

SPEAKER_09 31:39

I think in the 90s, my uh dad used to like a lot of Biggie.

SPEAKER_07 31:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 31:44

Um P. Diddy, he listened to P. Diddy.

SPEAKER_07 31:49

And you know, I'm I'm not even a fault, you, me, or anybody else for listening to it. We all rock to it. We rock to Mace, we rock to P. Diddy, we rock to Biggie, we rock to all of it. And I'll still play it today. And and I and interrupting you and and and delving off in another direction, um, I feel like people really need to be able to separate music from the person. I can say R.

SPEAKER_08 32:12

Kelly.

SPEAKER_07 32:13

R. Kelly, Michael Jackson. That's a tough one up. You know, whether we know about what whether we know the truth about anything, right? Assumptions, judgments, everything can be made. Uh, I I have no idea. Uh if it's bad, obviously I don't support it. Uh, if it's good, hey, whoever's doing this to them, you know, they need to be, you know, prosecuted or whatnot. Um, but yeah, I I'll still play P. Diddy. I will still play R. Kelly. I will still play Michael Jackson. Uh, I'll play Buddy Hawley, you know. What's wrong with Buddy Holly? Well, he married like his little cousin or something, like a young girl, all right. So, so you know, uh, there's a lot of more examples of things that that you have to be able to separate the artist from. Rolling Stones. Do you guys all endorse, you know, drug-fueled binges and everything else? Is that the best role model? Is that the best thing to know? But is their music fucking amazing? Absolutely. Yeah, I'll listen to Rolling Stones and Ozzie Osborne and everything else. Does that mean I condone everything they do in their personal life? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. So I'm I'm there with you with Diddy, man. Yeah, yeah, I'm all right.

SPEAKER_09 33:20

It did make me rethink some of his lyrics, though, to certain songs. Everything gets reanalyzed on TikTok. I was like, okay, I was like, I I see how you can make that assumption.

SPEAKER_08 33:30

Sometimes, depending on what crowd I have to play that night, I have to ask the person whose party, who whatever it is, and I said, Hey, do you have a problem? I got people that want to hear R. Kelly.

SPEAKER_04 33:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 33:39

And sometimes these people say, you know what, don't play any R. Kelly, please. It's all right. So I have to respect that. I always have to think about that whenever somebody asks me to play it and it kind of wasn't on the playlist. Yeah. You got to go to that person because hey, are you cool with that?

DJ Realities: Mistakes, Crowds, And Saves

SPEAKER_07 33:53

Yeah, I always feel like there's, like I said, I always feel like there's hypocrisy behind it. You don't want to play R. Kelly because he urinated on a young female, but you don't mind playing, you know, Ozzie Osborne who accidentally bit a head off of a bat or or uh whatever the story was with all that, all of these drug-fueled and induced, you know, other things that these artists do or believe in that they don't know about, right? It hasn't become an issue. Nobody's made it a huge issue that, you know, these people are drug abusers or whatever they may be. They may be Satanists, right? They may be atheists, they may be a whole lot of things that these people don't know who they are, but they don't have a problem playing their music because they don't know. I have a problem with R. Kelly because he urinated on somebody. I have a problem with P. Diddy because he extorted and and uh sexually abused and and physically abused and did whatever the hell he did. A lot of people do a lot of things that you don't know about, and you you have no problem listening to any of it. Yeah. So it it becomes a little bit of a wild thing for me when people don't play R. Kelly, don't play P. Diddy, don't play Michael Jackson, uh, don't play who who were them three, them three white country girls that get got mad at George Bush or something. Dixie chicks. Dixie chicks, don't play the Dixie chicks. And it becomes then they it becomes politically affiliated. You know, if you're if your artist is against a particular uh political group, then I don't want you, I don't want that played here, right? But we didn't have a problem with it two months ago when you didn't know that they weren't Republican or that they weren't Democrat or whatever it may be. So yeah, I always find a little bit of humor in it. I laugh, I laugh about it. I'm like, you guys have no idea that the next artist I'm about to play beat the hell out of his wife, right? Like, but you're okay with me playing his shit, right? Yeah, so it's funny knowing a lot of the history of some of these guys. And and we play Rick James.

SPEAKER_08 35:49

Look at all the shit he did. Oh man, he was, I mean, not just freaky, but man, he just sugar-free. Yeah, everybody still listened to sugar free.

SPEAKER_09 35:59

He was a legit pimp. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 36:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 36:09

That that's a that's a crazy thing to think about, too. All of this music that we're hearing and that we we we love that we hear in soundtracks to movies, that we hear on playlists, that we hear other DJs play, that we hear on the radio.

SPEAKER_08 36:25

Yeah, yeah, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 36:27

What's that what's that song? White lines. That's about that's about cocaine. That's about cocaine. White lines is about cocaine, but do you do you not hear it played on the radio? Do you not hear DJs playing it during their oldies or you know, whatever else? Yeah, we absolutely hear that. Madonna, like a prayer. I'm down on my knees. I want to take you there. Hey, people still play Madonna? Yeah, all the time. Uh Whitney Houston? I mean, are we are we going there? Are we gonna go all these directions and places?

Genres We’d Take To A Desert Island

SPEAKER_08 37:08

We don't have to go that deep forever. Stop in our celly, and that's it.

SPEAKER_07 37:12

That's all cameo. Cameo. Candy. Yeah, it's like candy. I love that.

SPEAKER_09 37:19

That video is crazy.

SPEAKER_07 37:21

You want to hear a new one? Watermelon sugar.

SPEAKER_09 37:25

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 37:27

That's about oral sex on female genitalia, I believe.

SPEAKER_08 37:31

Yep.

SPEAKER_07 37:32

Watermelon sugar, and it's played in the radio on the car on the ride home with your your 10-year-old and 13-year-old daughters in the backseat.

SPEAKER_08 37:41

And they're singing it.

SPEAKER_06 37:43

Watermelon sugar.

SPEAKER_07 37:45

Watermelon sugar.

SPEAKER_00 37:50

You're recording them.

SPEAKER_04 37:51

See? You're bringing it on TikTok.

SPEAKER_09 37:56

What is it? Water by Tyler. Yeah. Kids love that. That song is so bad. Yeah. It's rough, man. It's rough.

SPEAKER_03 38:06

Sexy red.

SPEAKER_07 38:08

Ooh. All of it. I mean, you're going there, you're going lotto, you're going big dick energy. Oh man. I mean, all yeah, all of these songs have drugs and sex, some kind of innuendo within them. Uh, you guys might just want me to play some tabernacle, uh, some, you know, some church stuff, you know. I don't I don't quite think you know what these lyrics are actually saying, y'all. And some of them obviously do, you know, to the window, to the ball, to the sweat drop from my balls. All these bitches crawl. All skeet, skeet.

SPEAKER_09 38:53

There's a lot of old school songs that happens and stuff, though.

SPEAKER_07 38:56

Yeah, hidden. And back then, here's the difference, right? Back then it was so hidden, it was real innuendo-ish. Now, this shit is in your face. I had two life crew growing up. Um, Uncle Luke. Yeah, Miami bass. Oh, yeah. Oh man, Miami, just booties, just booties rocking everywhere. What about that song by the dog The Dogs Call It? Your mama's on Crack Rock. Oh man. You know, and then and then classically we have all the diss tracks. Yeah. And the diss tracks are very direct, too. No Vaseline is Oh man. That's your best diss track.

SPEAKER_04 39:34

No Vaseline.

SPEAKER_07 39:35

Um, I'm gonna have to say no Vaseline. I think that's the one I go with. Um, I will also go with uh Tupac. Uh what which one is Tupac can't see me? Which one is Tupac's diss track?

SPEAKER_08 39:47

Uh hit em up.

SPEAKER_07 39:48

Hit 'em up. Yes. Uh you fat motherfucker. I fucked your wife. Um some wonderful shit in there, right?

SPEAKER_08 39:58

Um yeah, what is yours? Ooh, good question. I kind of like the Modi uh L Cool J one. Oh, yeah, that was rough. I did like one. When Jack the Ripper came out, yeah, I picked up two copies of that record.

SPEAKER_05 40:12

Yeah.

When We Fell In Love With Hip‑Hop

SPEAKER_08 40:12

From the moment it came out that day, I went and got two. I got two OG copies. So yeah.

SPEAKER_07 40:17

Oh, you got original press in. Yeah. OG, triple OG.

SPEAKER_09 40:22

Drake has gotten into some stuff with people before. I remember he got into it with Coleman a while back.

SPEAKER_05 40:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 40:27

Colmen just said, you ain't letting nobody, nigga. You Canada dry. That's all he said, and it was done.

SPEAKER_07 40:34

He also came out with that song in black and white where he's rolling, strolling down like Cuba, like he's in the streets of Cuba or whatever. That song's aimed at Drake, and he's talking about you, Frank Sinatra singing, motherfucker, or whatever. It was like, oh shit. He said Lottie Dottie, you know, whatever. Like, man, I was like, he he came after, and it was because of the one of the Williams sisters. Common dated her first. Oh, yeah. And then Drake started dating her. And then there was beef because of that. You know, Common had beef with Ice Cube. Ice Cube, yeah. Right? You know, I I don't, you know, I don't think I would have had beef with Ice Cube. You know, I mean Common, you know, he's a street brother and everything, but he's not Ice Cube. Yeah. Yeah. And then how about Nas and Jay-Z? Nas Ether? Ether.

SPEAKER_08 41:24

Ether.

SPEAKER_07 41:25

Oh, man. I mean, I mean, yeah, if I'm gonna go top five, I think it's pretty much the five that we kind of rattled off.

SPEAKER_09 41:34

I think the only other one to mention probably would be the one that cannabis did to uh LL wasn't bad. Yeah, that was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_07 41:42

You know, and I and this is the people are gonna say it's because I'm white. But I feel like MGK came after Eminem pretty well. Oh shit. Oh, he did? Uh The Devil. Well, I don't remember what the song was, uh uh, but he came after Eminem, and I felt like he held his own. But then I don't know, man. Uh, he got involved with Megan Fox and he turned into like uh one of the Kardashians and he started transforming and he's doing all kinds of weird branching off into other shit now. I'm like, uh, did you get scared off? Like, did you get beat up bad? Or are you just into a different era and you then did different uh exploring something else and going into a different genre, or did you get bullied out? Yeah, what happened? But him and him had a yeah. But I don't think anybody has successfully ever came after M. I don't know that anybody ever has. It's there's very few, first and foremost, because I think most people are too smart and like they're not gonna do it.

SPEAKER_08 42:46

They might do one song towards him, and that's then after that's done. They're like, what was I thinking? Turn the Wi-Fi up.

SPEAKER_09 42:51

Oh man. That was horrible. Oh man. I mean, I like old school, and that is fun, but who let them say turned the Wi-Fi up?

Separating Art From Artist

SPEAKER_07 43:02

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I mean, there's been a lot of good battle raps. There's been a lot of good diss tracks and and things of that nature. I uh I've been enjoying some of the older guys coming out with new music, though. You know, Method Man, Red Man, who came out, uh, was it EPMD or who just came out with some more stuff? Uh Eric Sermon just came out with Eric Sermon. Pretty nice. So it's been nice to have that kind of influx because at this point I feel like my 60-year-old dad, where I'm like, I don't really like any of this new shit. Like, and I feel like I'm uh, but I try to always keep my mind open and I always try to find non, somewhat non mainstream um black, six lakh, black, uh Joey Badass, LaRussell, you know, not so mainstream. Um, and I try to go to them and I try to lean on them for hope. If you will, for the newer generation for music and the direction of hip-hop and things of that nature. So I try very hard not to become my father. I try very hard to not just quickly discredit what has evolved. Because all of this is evolved. And hip hop was an evolution of something. And now this music today is an evolution. Because again, we just named off our favorite genres. And I don't think any of it was 2000s, 2010s, 2020s. I mean, we did say hip hop, we didn't say era, right? But then if we did have to drill it down to an era, I'm still gonna go 80s, 90s, 2000s, maybe, and it might get cut at 2010. I'm not sure. Yeah. Pretty close. Yeah. It that might have been the cutoff. 2010 might have been the cutoff. But if I did that, then would I experience Olive Kendrick? No. Would I experience Olive J. Cole? No. Would I experience all of the Joey Badass and La Russell's and everybody else? Larry June. You know, all of these artists that I'm I'm heavily into, that I I heavily play on my, you know, my sets and when I play music. Um we I wouldn't know that if I cut it off at 2010. So again, trying not to become my 60-year-old dad when I was 10 or whatnot, you know, and because my dad was 50 years older than me, right? He had me uh later on in life, uh second marriage. Uh so there was a big generation gap there. But that's also where I got all of my music education from. Exactly. Was my dad. I I knew B.B. King, I knew all the jazz, I knew Eric Clapton, I knew uh, you know, um he he had guitars, he had amps. Uh that's that's how I know all of the old music, the Frank Sinatra and all Dizzy Gillespie and introduced me to jazz.

SPEAKER_08 45:59

Yeah. Besides old school, jazz was another part of him that I was like, wow, jazz, oh shoot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 46:06

Yeah. So yeah, always trying to keep an open mind. It just seems kind of hard sometimes. Kind of hard.

SPEAKER_09 46:15

I had somebody tell me one time, he's like, uh he was talking about art. Technically, music falls under art.

SPEAKER_07 46:22

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_09 46:22

He said art is subjective. He said there's no such thing as bad art. And I I you know, I can't fully agree with that because you know, like, if we go right, art, that's trash from a trash can. That's not always art.

SPEAKER_07 46:39

And somebody thinks they're goofy and special and they're gonna make uh a sculpture out of and they're gonna make it look like Oscar the Grouch's house and they're gonna say it's art. Yeah, right? They're gonna go a little bit deeper and they're gonna try to label it and name it something and cre and and create something that you know. I just seen on social media some some fave some famous sculptor or artist just sold something that was invisible.

Lyrics, Radio Edits, And Double Standards

SPEAKER_08 47:03

Oh yeah. When they tore it down, those they ripped it.

SPEAKER_07 47:07

It's invisible. Yeah, it it doesn't it's invisible. And somebody bought it for like fucking$60,000 or whatever they bought it for, right?

SPEAKER_08 47:14

Oh, I thought I was talking about the other one. Thanks, the Banksy stuff.

SPEAKER_07 47:17

Oh, yeah, the bank, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 47:19

Have you ever seen Pootie Tang? Makes me think about when he had the headphones on, there's nothing going on. Hey, he's just going to be able to do it. Drew.

SPEAKER_07 47:28

Hey, this might be one of the greatest things ever said on this podcast, man. I fucking love Pootie Tang. Well, that's my movie. Hey.

SPEAKER_03 47:37

No, it's the weirdest movie ever.

SPEAKER_07 47:40

I got to say the name on my brother.

SPEAKER_03 47:42

Superpower is a belt.

SPEAKER_08 47:44

It took me a while to like.

SPEAKER_07 47:46

Hey, my dad's superpower was a fucking belt for a while, too. I died. And shit worked very well. My dad's superpower belt worked very well on my ass.

SPEAKER_09 48:01

Oh, yeah, with Eddie Griffin, right? The second one, the second one wasn't as good, but um what's his name? Uh the the white comedian, the one that's really funny. Black people like him. I can't do his name.

SPEAKER_07 48:13

Oh, Gary, Gary Owens. Gary Owens.

SPEAKER_09 48:16

Oh, he played uh Malignant Brother. I was dying just because it was funny.

SPEAKER_07 48:22

Malignantly challenged.

SPEAKER_02 48:26

The worst one that gets I'll like it is the what is it? Is it Dr. Love? The one that has that radio show and he lives on a boat.

SPEAKER_07 48:35

No, you you're talking about um the ladies' memory. Oh, the ladies. Oh, Leon Phelps.

SPEAKER_01 48:41

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_07 48:42

Oh, Leon Phelps. Hey, I love that movie.

SPEAKER_01 48:45

I will watch it, but I will watch it.

SPEAKER_07 48:50

Did somebody stuff two fine hams down the back of your dress? Because that ass. He's like, he'd be on the radio talking, yeah, opening up a bottle of cavasti. He's talking about talking about anal sex. And you just stick it in.

SPEAKER_09 49:10

That movie was so funny because he tricked the guy number the in the eating contest. Got him to eat a piece of poop. That was a good thing.

SPEAKER_07 49:17

Oh man, disgusting. Yeah. And then Will Farrell's in that movie, and they want a Greco Roman wrestle like with oil and shit. Kind of strange, man.

SPEAKER_09 49:25

He's like, he's like, he's like, I didn't say it's the oil, it just makes it better. That's what he took.

SPEAKER_07 49:30

Now let hey, let me ask you guys this. I'm gonna detract and derail this fucking conversation again. Like I have ADD.

SPEAKER_00 49:39

I do have ADD.

SPEAKER_07 49:42

I'm what get him to the Greek. Oh, I love that movie. Okay, now think about it. Puff Daddy. Smoking on the Jeffrey, rubbing the walls, and and him having these wild parties that they're at. They're at a Puff Daddy, wild ass party on Get Him to the Greek. Like you like, I don't now that we know what happened, now that we have figured out what happened, and like Dre said, you go back and you listen to lyrics. It seems like all of these motherfuckers cannot help but tell on themselves.

SPEAKER_06 50:23

Like they want to get caught, like they tell little snippets throughout their songs or in the movies or wherever else. Like you can't help but tell on yourself. Like, I'm not gonna, this is gonna happen to me. Yeah, I think hey, I think that's what it is. I think they think that they're way above.

SPEAKER_07 50:41

Yeah, and and it it it's it's a little bit of dopamine rush for them to to put that little bit out there and and tell people, hey.

SPEAKER_09 50:51

Sometimes it gets out of control.

SPEAKER_05 50:53

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 50:54

It's like it's kind of funny, and that's a comedic movie, but um, what was it? Uh the other guys? Remember when he became Gator? Yeah, Gator.

Best Diss Tracks And Battle Raps

SPEAKER_07 51:05

Gator don't fucking play like that. Gator beat a bitch. What was it?

SPEAKER_09 51:15

Gator's bitches better be wearing Jimmy. Gator's bitches.

SPEAKER_07 51:21

Yeah, hey, Will Farrell, when he becomes Gator, his his previous personality from when he was a pimp when he was younger. Yeah, that shit is epic. That shit's hilarious. Hilarious, man.

SPEAKER_09 51:32

That movie has one of the best little sidebars when he's like, her name is Christineth.

SPEAKER_07 51:37

Oh, yeah, Christinith. Yeah. And then I mean, we're talking about movies. One of my absolute favorite movies is Wedding Crashers. Oh, like I don't think Marion loves that movie.

SPEAKER_02 51:50

No, I'm okay with that one.

SPEAKER_07 51:52

All right. Just not Pootie Tang.

SPEAKER_02 51:53

No, no.

SPEAKER_07 51:54

Putty tank's one of my favorites. I I never get to watch anymore.

SPEAKER_02 51:58

No.

SPEAKER_07 51:59

I don't get to watch it.

SPEAKER_02 52:00

You can watch it by yourself.

SPEAKER_09 52:01

Oh, see? There's this one I like on YouTube. Kennedy does not like it. What is it? Called the Nicker Turtles.

SPEAKER_07 52:06

The Nicker Turtles? Nigga. Nigga. Oh man. Hey, I'll let you all know that I put two K's in that word. I did not put two G's and I did not put a hard R. I said Nickka, like Nikki.

SPEAKER_06 52:21

Nickka.

SPEAKER_09 52:22

No, because my uh my little uh my little stepnephew, uh, he uh he's like nicka what you just say oh man.

Aging Into New Music Without Cynicism

SPEAKER_07 52:33

Yeah, I think we have a couple videos of our daughters uh miss saying something and it comes out as a cuss word, right? And uh I don't remember what they are, but they they're hilarity when they happen. Even more so hilarious. Um man, I don't even want to say this on here. Inevitably, your daughters, your sons, they cuss eventually. Oh yeah, or they just pick up on cussing because you might have said a cuss word at some point in time. And my daughters are little, my daughters are like just learning to talk little, like two, three, four, whatever. They were little. And um, I think it was Avery, who's my my oldest of my two daughters, not my oldest of our five daughters, but my oldest uh 13, 14, 13, 13. Uh she got frustrated with something. She was doing something, she was playing with a toy, she was drawing, she was doing something, and she got frustrated and she said, Fuck shit. And as a parent, you know, you try to react correctly. Um I'm I I'm not immature, but I'm very lighthearted. I I don't really care about words too much. I don't, you know, fuck shit doesn't mean anything in Ethiopia. So, you know, whether you give it power here is whether you give it power here, right? I don't know, it doesn't really mean anything to me. But yeah, our daughter shouldn't be speaking like that, you know, and all the formalities. But it's kind of hard. It was hard not to laugh, man. Like I oh, I almost broke down. I almost broke. I broke. She almost broke me, and I almost just had a laughing fit. I was like, babe, you can't say that. I know you probably heard daddy say it, and she said, No, it was mom. I was like, well, thankfully it wasn't me because I'm probably the the bad influence of the two parents, right? Like, because I'm because again, I'm I'm just I'm more open, more understanding, not so controlling, not so worried about uh, you know, things that I find are not so important rather than your character and treating people correctly and having respect for your elders and things like that. If my girls cuss, they can cuss around the house. I don't I really don't care as long as it's not egregious, as long as it's not disrespectful. But if they're frustrated with something and they say, fuck, I don't care. I don't I don't care. You know, and that's that's to each their own. Every parent is gonna parent differently, and every parent is gonna have different priorities in what they they think is good and bad.

SPEAKER_08 55:05

But yeah, it was uh it was rather my son's 26 and I still have to tell him the tone of it, take it easy.

SPEAKER_07 55:12

Too hard, too, too much on it, too heavy into the cursing.

SPEAKER_04 55:15

Where all that comes from.

SPEAKER_07 55:17

It's gotta be like flavor, it's gotta be like salt and pepper. It's gotta be like scratching. You know, you you do it tastefully. Yeah, you know, cursing can be done tastefully.

SPEAKER_09 55:28

Every time people hear me cuss, they start laughing because I don't talk like that. So when I get that, I'd be like, you mother.

SPEAKER_07 55:33

Yeah, you motherfuckers, man. See, I haven't known you that long, and I don't know, uh I don't know enough about you, you know, spirituality, religious, anything else, and I don't really automatically judge anybody. Again, I'm I'm pretty easy and open and not judgmental of people. So it would have never crossed my mind, oh shit, Dre just cussed, right? Like I wouldn't like if you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. I have no idea your history or if you ever used to, right? Like, I have no idea, man.

SPEAKER_02 56:02

Well, he thinks it's weird when I cuss.

SPEAKER_07 56:04

Yeah, I don't like I don't like when she cusses. I tell her, cut it out. I say, You're not me. I say, You're not me. Don't try to be me. You don't want to be me. I'm not the I'm not the perfect, you know, role mug.

SPEAKER_02 56:16

Hey, hey, you don't talk like that.

SPEAKER_07 56:19

But playfully, you know, if she wants to cuss, she can cuss. I don't I don't rule the roost around here. She wears her pants, I wear mine. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:27

I wear your pants sometimes.

SPEAKER_07 56:28

I I don't fit in yours, so uh you wear all my goddamn clothes. I have everything missing all the time. I think it comes with a job. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 56:39

Sweaters are gone.

SPEAKER_07 56:40

Hoodie thieves. That's what females are. Hoodie thieves. Not me. Well, no, because mine fits you like a dress.

SPEAKER_08 56:46

Mine are too baggy. My wife won't wear them.

SPEAKER_07 56:48

Yeah. Mine are way too big, they'll go down to her knees, you know, because you know what how tall are you?

SPEAKER_00 56:53

Five two.

SPEAKER_07 56:53

She's five two. I'm six three. I wear three XL hoodies. A three XL hoodie on a little five foot two person. It's gonna fit like a tent. So that's why you don't steal my hoodies. Like a house rubber, like a bathrobe. You use it for a bathrobe.

SPEAKER_02 57:12

Sometimes I put your shirts on really quick.

SPEAKER_07 57:14

Yeah, she does, doesn't she? And they fit you even huge. They fit you huge, too. All right, yeah. Well, I think we are gonna call this a podcast. We're gonna call this a session. We're about an hour in. We'll try not to do too much to you guys. We appreciate you guys listening in and hanging out with us. We'll play. Hey, thank you for coming, brother. You know, I've got to hang out with you a couple times and always a pleasure. Dre, same great conversation. Hanging out, you know.

SPEAKER_08 57:41

We're gonna play Uno again.

SPEAKER_07 57:43

Hey, look at how many. Hey, we'll play. Look behind you and see how many Uno games we have.

unknown 57:50

Shit.

SPEAKER_07 57:53

Now, we also have enormous games. And we just recently bought huge Yahtzee enorme gigante.

SPEAKER_06 58:05

And we just bought gigante. Gigante. Gigante? Well, I'm white. What do you expect?

Parents, Cussing, And Tasteful Timing

SPEAKER_09 58:11

I got my friend mad because I see you have the connect for there. She got mad because we played with the giant one at Bottle Shock. Uh-huh. I beat her like five times in a row. She got mad.

SPEAKER_07 58:20

It's funny. That big one, we watch our daughters play it against each other. They play it against each other, and we're looking, it's like, I know you're gonna put that there. So you block that. I know you're gonna block that, right?

SPEAKER_06 58:31

I know, and I'm thinking to myself, and their hand is over in the opposite place, and I'm looking and I'm looking, I'm like, you're about to fuck up.

SPEAKER_07 58:38

It's about to be game over. I see it. And it's sometimes funny, but I think it teaches you vision. I really think it teaches you patience and vision and to step back from situations in life or on connect four. Step back from the situation, get a better look at the board overall, make sure you're not gonna make a mistake and play your play, right? And the same thing in life, man. Something comes up, something happens. Take a step back from the situation, look at it, analyze it, determine how you're gonna approach it and do it correctly. So it deep, kind of deep, right? But yeah, that connect four, man. She's beat me on it. I've made stupid mistakes. I put one somewhere and I'm looking, and she'll just drop one and she'll win like two different directions or something. I've lost in two different directions.

SPEAKER_02 59:30

Because sometimes I won't tell him that I won already.

SPEAKER_07 59:33

He'll keep going. She does. She'll toy with me like a cat and playing with a mouse. She'll just toy with me. Like it's game over for me. And or she'll avoid it, she'll put it somewhere else, and she'll say, I could have beat you just now. I'm like, oh shit. Shit.

SPEAKER_09 59:57

I kind of I would like to play you one of these days. It'd be fun because I kind of set up like most people go like two, three moves. I set up like three or four in advance.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:08

It's chess, nothing. By the time we get to it, you're like, oh. I'm fucked.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:13

Now he has three different ways he's gonna win. Yeah. It's crazy, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:18

No, we do love it. We got giant Yahtzee because his mom loves Yahtzee.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:22

Oh, Yachty, that's my guy.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:23

And every time we go to Ohio, we play Yahtzee. And I was walking through Costco and I'm like, oh, I gotta get it. I had to buy it, which we probably will never play because he said it would be too tiring.

Hoodie Thieves And Household Banter

SPEAKER_07 1:00:35

No, no, think about it. Every time you roll in Yahtzee, you can roll three times your initial roll and two backup rolls. So you're telling me I'm gonna pick all five of those dice up, I'm gonna throw them on the ground, I'm gonna pick up a certain number of them, I'm gonna throw them on the ground again, then I'm gonna pick up another certain number of them and throw them on the ground again. Every turn I have to pick shit up three times. It's like, no, I'm playing on the table with dice. I'm not doing this giant yachty shit. Like, I'm gonna throw my back out. I'm 46. Yeah, I'm old already, man. Yeah, it comes with a little shit. It does. Yeah, it comes with a little uh like a little shaker cup, like uh I don't know whether it's at polyester collapsible, like has metal rings in it. Uh you guys have seen it probably.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:30

I used to learn when I was younger, but I never really got into it.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:33

It's just uh cards and dice.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:35

I was never a big card.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:36

Cards and dice format.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:37

No, my uh my uncle, when we used to play, he'd be like, uh, I'm gonna open up a can of whoop ass.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:43

Uh huh. Yeah. Because the original game comes with a cup that looks like a can, even.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:48

Yeah. All right, y'all. The most dope podcast. Uh, we had uh Will Play over here. Thank you, Will Play, for coming through. We have Big Dre over here. I'm gonna call him Dre Day until he figures out what he's gonna call himself, but he's gonna be Dre Day for me. And I I mean that sounds like a pretty good DJ name. You might want to run with that one, brother. Keep that one in mind, and then just you know, every every once in a while, uh once a year, you know, send me a royalty or something, man. Like, you know, five bucks, ten bucks. Hey, Gordon, good pick on the name, man. Thank you. And we got we got Marion, my baby girl, DJ Bebecita. DJ Bebecita. Thanks for joining, and we'll catch you guys on the next one, y'all.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:26

Peace.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:27

Bye.