DJ Birdy Bird Talks Southeast San Diego, DJ Gems, & Building A Legacy | Buss It Down Podcast

In this episode of the Buss It Down Podcast, we sit down with DJ Birdy Bird — one of San Diego’s most iconic and respected DJs — for a high-level conversation packed with history, culture, and real-life perspective from coming up in Southeast San Diego to becoming a name that rings bells across the city.  

We talk how he built his reputation, what he looks for before he co-signs an artist or song, the craziest moments he’s dealt with while DJ’ing, and the real lessons he learned the hard way — the type of game younger DJs and artists NEED to hear.  

We also get into the fun side: the best taco shop debate (and what’s in his order), plus legacy talk — what DJ Birdy Bird wants his name to represent when it’s all said and done.   

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:10

Hey, hey, hey, hey, what's the big old deal, man? It's the one and only is DC4. That's ITS DC4 at reality chasing DC on everything, man. You here with me, man. Busted Down TV. We going crazy today, man. Welcome to season two. You know what I'm saying? Y'all been rocking with us for a little minute, man. You know, you know, we've been stepping it up. So who I got in here with me today, bro? 6'6 Jukka. 6'6 Ju! All right, all right. Let them know where to find you at, man. Let them know where to find you. Uh, you come on social media or just everything at DJ Birdie Bird. At DJ Birdie Bird. Okay, okay, man. DJ.

SPEAKER_02 0:43

B-I-R-D-Y.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

D-Y meant bird D B-I. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, it is a couple different ways to spell it. You're right, you're right, you're right, man. So um, let's just let's jump straight in, bro. And um just let me know where do where does the name DJ Buddy Bird even come from, bro?

SPEAKER_02 0:59

And what does that mean? Uh as a nickname. Okay. My nickname originally was Egg Bird. Okay. Um, no, my aunt gave me that name. And uh uh from there I got older, so some people call me Bird. Some call Birdie, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I put them two together.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Put it together, man, and now we got DJ Buddy Bird. Yep. That's crazy, bro. So were you DJing early on, or when did that even start for you? Like as a passion? I started DJing when I was like 14, 15. Okay. What inspired that? Uh house parties. House parties. Okay, so like, so like some back in the day New York, you know how they was in New York, because they was doing their little house block parties and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:33

I was always the tallest, always the tallest nigga in the party. So I mean, I ain't doing no freaking. Yeah, yeah. Six, six freaking? Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey. Yeah, so I decided, hey, why not, you know, control the music? Okay. That's how it kind of went. I just started messing around and then turned this into the.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

And it developed into that, man. So at what point did you even like, did you see, like, nah, this is a little bigger than like just the homie DJing? Like, this starting to become something. I don't know. Just I just started doing mixtapes. Yeah. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah. Hey, walk me through that, bro, as far as the mix, mixtape days.

SPEAKER_02 2:07

Uh, I just started watching like uh I used to I used to sit down and watch a lot of DVDs. So all the DJ DVDs. I did everything the normal nigga wouldn't want to do. You know what I'm saying? So the average nigga don't want to sit down and study, don't want to sit down and find history, don't want to do that stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I started just looking at all the DVDs, all the all the videos and everything. And I learned how to do the mixtapes and then start putting them together and then yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

So mixtape days, you was doing the voiceover, you you talking on that thing. Yeah. Everything. Everything. Okay. Um just because I feel like this is hyper-focused with you, right? So um you was around like so with the mixtapes for the Dap Piff days and all that stuff. Yeah, for sure. Did you see that change when Dad Piff stopped being a thing? Like, because I remember the time when it was like, nah, we not doing releases on dat piff no more. Like the labels started picking up on that.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

It changed when the artists start seeing the DJs make money. You think that's what it was?

SPEAKER_01 2:57

That's gonna change. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

So when the artists start seeing the DJs make money, they like, hold on, this is my music, and you get it.

SPEAKER_01 3:02

Right, right, right, right, right, right, right. I really, and then also you you have that though, but you also have where the record label saw that. Because the record labels wouldn't mess with mixtapes at all. They like, oh yeah, I mean, what are we doing? But with streaming game, it was like, hold on, man, people was going online, they ain't buying CDs no more. Hold on.

SPEAKER_02 3:17

But how was the DJ supposed to make money?

SPEAKER_01 3:18

No, no, I get I totally get it. I get it for sure. And now, um, I think now it's to the point of just hosting. Like, let me, you know, still pay me to host your host your project for you.

SPEAKER_02 3:30

I mean, at least. DJ Khaled. I mean, that was come on, man. Do you see yourself doing something like that? I mean, I would I put it together. I love it. But I mean, at the end of the day, what's the chance of Khaled? Some people be acting like it's like. You know what I'm saying? Like, I know, but people acting like this shit is like easy. He makes it look easy, bro. He said my son produced the last album. Nah. He makes it look easy. Nah.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

He make it look easy, yeah, yeah. That was like a LeBronic situation. Yeah, that's work though. That's work, man. Especially getting those type of different artists together. You still gotta, it's still all that work going on behind the behind the scenes, most definitely. Okay, okay, that's what's up, man. So um you would say your inspiration just came from those back in the day, house parties. I'm putting it together.

SPEAKER_02 4:08

For sure. Okay. I mean, house parties was big. That's uh that's all we did with house parties.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Did you know how to control crowds early on? Or you learned that it is that just all came with it. Yeah. So I did a lot of messing up. It's a science behind that though, because you play the wrong song, the party might be over. Oh no, you can't be scared to that. It's not that bad. I'm like, I'm like, is it that's it? You know, the politic and serious. Hey man, you just play, I'm going home.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

I like fucking up.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

So I mean I have you ever played like the wrong song, like you didn't you didn't know it was in the party or whatever. Like you played it like, ooh. Yeah, for sure. I still do. I ain't even know. Okay. Just get out of it. Just it is what it is. Blame it on somebody else. I hear you, I hear you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, for real, for real. So um I mean, in your time, though, you've also helped. I've seen you break records, like playing, you know, playing records in the club and everything like that, putting people on, keeping them in your mix. That you, and you know, you've DJ'd at how many clubs, bro? First of all, how many clubs you think? It's it feels like all of them, but you know it's a lot of clubs that you had a couple residencies, residencies though, as well. Where you were like, I had a few. I've had a lot of them. A lot of them Friday night. What was the what was the one you was doing? Uh uh, what was it, two two for one bottles? Yeah, two for one Saturdays. Yeah, that was that was up, bro.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

And then went downtown.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Yeah, that what was downtown on the second floor, the club down there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was lit. That was lit. Yeah, yeah. That shit was crazy. Okay, so um, so what do you look for before you co-sign an artist or even a song? Is there something specific you look for?

SPEAKER_02 5:35

It changed. So, like, you know, first it was like I want to see you look a certain way. Then it when I want to see you move a certain way. Then it goes to now with the the kids. Everything is about the kids now. Yeah. So if the kids ain't, if they ain't, then you ain't really got it. You know what I mean? Like if the kids ain't asking for it.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

Yeah. Yeah. Then that's it, man. Okay, so um, so with that, do you think that it's different in San Diego rather than like, you know, LA or something like that? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

You know what I'm saying? But you know the game, man. You know how I am when it comes to San Diego, LA. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

You know, I'm so a little lighter politics out here, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 6:11

Yeah, I listen. I maybe as far as that. Listen, I gotta call one of the homies or something, because I, you know, I stick to the San Diego thing, because what they do over there, it seemed like it's some other you know, what they got going is kind of different than us, you know.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

So it's like a Malay. I think it's more of a Melee. It's a it's I obviously a bigger machine out there, you know what I'm saying? So it's a lot more at work than just getting your song play. Like, because if you get in the song play, you got emotion, you got views, you getting on the radio. Like, it's a lot that comes with that. So somebody out there.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

When I was in New York, they they mad aggressive.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Or look, you know, I like to say DJ Surty Sarge. Right, there you go. They're gonna be in the comments trolling now. Hit them with the Surty Sarge in the comment, man. Hey, so Bertie Burr, first off, man, I know you lightly touched on some things earlier. So, what area did you actually grow up in?

SPEAKER_02 6:53

Uh 47 and Logan.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

Okay, right there. Yeah, that's where it's. Any any specific claims?

SPEAKER_02 6:58

I almost forgot.

SPEAKER_01 6:58

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. He said La Jolla. Well, it went from Babys to the sea breeze. Oh, oh, oh, you saying you forgot. Boom. I don't know what that I mean.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

You know, I'm I don't know what they call that motherfucker now.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

I mean just the street, the street area, the street area. Logan. Yeah, Logan.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Man, if you don't know that, man, that's you know Southeast San Diego, man. Shout out to a lot of prominent rappers that came up out of that area as well. But um, what was it like growing up? Is it is that who does that define who Buddy Bird is in any any way? Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:28

Yeah. Confused to be confused. Fuck your shit.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

Let me know so confused. What do you mean by that?

SPEAKER_02 7:35

Because you you grow up being taught one thing. Okay, but then you want to do another thing. So then you're trying to navigate all the above. So you gotta remember, I have friends that were from Lincoln. Right, right, right. Growing up in Lincoln, automatically have friends being from Lincoln. Right. And then my other friends, Crips, are they from Skyline or Farrell? And you just equal. So now I gotta have more here, more there. Every it's equal. So I have here, there, there, there. Okay, and I'm trying to navigate it all. And not, you know, not bust around, right, right, and weird, not set nobody up in no situation, I suppose. Right. You know, having somebody go.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

So you're dealing with your own set of politics that's outside of the politics, but it's still a whole because I can't I can just imagine the loyalty, like, man, but at the end of the day. You suppose right. At the end of the day, you grew up with me. Right.

SPEAKER_02 8:26

So when you're at your homies, you're like, man, you know, you would you know you, you know, with the niggas that you, you know, grew up with, you like, man, you know, but then you like, when you with the other nigga, yeah, you know, and so you lying to everybody to be honest. Like a nigga ain't gonna say that, but you really lying to everybody because you really like, I'm just trying not, I'm not gonna put nobody in no compromising position. Right, right. And not not yourself included, yourself included, though. Exactly. Because if you do one goofy thing, now you're like, nah, you really was with them. Right, right, right, right, right, right. But I but literally, and I'm tall too. Not banging. You tall too. So I know everybody was like, nah. So you hitting all the things that like a lot of nigga, I don't get to I don't get to tell niggas. This is why I've never drank before. I never drank before. Okay. That's why I've never had alcohol. Okay. Because I was always the tallest niggas. Okay. I was always the tallest nigga, right? So you gotta be on point. Exactly. Because that's a nigga don't get stolen first, right? So you gotta remember, every party I go to, if I come here with these guys, I know those guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then they saw you first. Right. So, but these guys is like, I know, but you gotta go. Yeah. I'm talking about niggas on the stand, I've had many a situation. Like these niggas have become my real super homies because they'll see me and be like, bye. Right. This ain't it right now. Bye. Yeah. Like, just really like that. Not tonight. They ain't telling no, they ain't telling nobody out.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

You bye.

SPEAKER_02 9:47

Yeah. They ain't gonna say nothing. See me, come give me the little bye. Yeah. It ain't that. And I already knew. But this is shit I've never been able to really talk about. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 9:55

Yeah so every I had every everybody. Everybody. So in that boy, in in that way you said not bust her out or whatever like that. So what do you mean by that?

SPEAKER_02 10:04

I mean, that's just language. You know, that's that's how we know, come on now. You know, growing up in Southeast, that's how we talk. So when I say bust around, like, I didn't do anything weird. Right, right. You know what I'm saying? I didn't do anything. I did it, you know, I'm just I'm talking for the people watching. Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

You know, sometimes I gotta ask lean questions. Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

So I didn't do anything that would put anybody in a in a in a compromise position. Right. You know what I mean? Right. So I that's that's what I mean by that. You know what I mean? I didn't put nobody in no weird position. So nobody was gonna be like, oh man, we knew he was, or oh, we knew. This whole time, yeah. Yeah, you couldn't do that. Secret agent. Right. You could exactly secret agent. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Hey, what you sent you anyway? Who why are you even here?

SPEAKER_02 10:38

And you know what's crazy? Because me and you became close in the same exact yeah, yeah. So you got to say, like, yeah, nah, this nigga is really like this. Yeah. So you could have heard what you heard. No, for sure, for sure. Yeah, no, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

You can sure to see that, like, nah, he ain't regular. Yeah. Ain't no for sure. And I'm even with something like that, bro. That's why I'm so, which I'm sure you can um you can agree with. I'm cool with a lot of people, bro, because we met in different times. But you know, when we met, it was like, it was that go, it was the bravado. It was the, you know, I know when I used to even pull up to these clubs and stuff, when I used to see you and everything, like, I'm making my way. If I saw Birdie, I don't care. I'm going through the club, walking through a hundred niggas. Yeah. So just a handshake with some of my guy. All right, all right, keep it up. And I'm out of there. You know what I'm saying? I'm in the club though, but I'm just saying, you know, what's up to you and the people that I know in this club. And what do I always say? DC right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. First thing I always say, you straight. By itself? You straight.

SPEAKER_02 11:32

Yeah, I always say, I see you and I see them over there and them over there. What I'm gonna do. What I'm gonna do, man, avoid it. Damn, I mean I gotta go with it. No, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna be like, hey, you straight, you know what? Yeah, yeah. You see what's going on, right? Yeah. Okay. And when you give me a review now, it's all good. Yeah, yeah. Because I never wanted to put anybody in a position to have to, you know what I mean? Yeah. Cause they're gonna say it was at our birthday party. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Hey, Bird, and hey, look, for one, you're toy, we're gonna see it. Then we got the iconic logo on the laptop. We know you was there. We saw you, man. But you know it's gonna be a good time, bro. When you see Birdie Bird a part of an event, man, you know, at least, at least the music's gonna be popping. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's gonna be a nice mix, bro. It's gonna be a lot of good things going on. You feel me?

SPEAKER_02 12:15

So nah, but it definitely was a sometimes. I feel like it was easier, you know, for niggas at bang. That's how I feel. You know what I mean? It's a lot harder for me to navigate through all the up, down, around, left, right. Yeah, most definitely. In and out. You know what I mean? So if you kind of just picked a side, it was just like, okay, we know what side you on, so then you kind of know what not to do and not to where to be. Don't do this. I didn't pick a side, so my side trying to kind of changed every day.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's for sure. You know what I mean? It was it's that's for sure, man. All right, yeah, man. So I'm feeling that, bro. But are there any upcoming announcements or business ventures that you would like to talk about right now?

SPEAKER_02 12:52

Uh nah, I just it's man, you know, I'm working with my girl right now. So Kajay Jones, shout out to my.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been I've been seeing y'all be y'all good duo, though. Outside of, you know, outside of obviously, you know, uh a relationship and everything like that. But I see you support her the same way and I see her support you, I'm like, yeah, that's dope. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because a lot of people don't have that.

SPEAKER_02 13:11

They met at Fanna.

SPEAKER_01 13:12

Either I need it off. Shout out to V. Hey, look, no, hey, how many people can say uh I found love at Fana?

SPEAKER_02 13:22

That's I said, see, it's a hit and miss, bro. You're getting all the all the real shit. You're getting all the shit. You know, I'll be kind of commercial in these interviews. I'm giving you the the the the full throttle.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

So how is how is something like that, bro, which is uh, you know, being in a relationship with an artist as a DJ. Yeah. Uh you're asking me, how is it? Yeah, how is that? Uh is that like the dynamic? I don't want to put words in your mouth, you know. Right, right, right. Okay. Okay I could imagine. It's challenging. What what would you say, like uh made just that part of it? What would you say a difficult thing that you guys have to traverse?

SPEAKER_02 13:54

Uh I'm from San Diego, she's from Cleveland. Oh, okay, okay. You know, the way she hears and sees and uh music, the way I hear and see music, so we're trying to figure it out. Yeah. But then we being together, and then it's like, you know, I might might end up sleeping on the couch because we don't see something the same way. And then shout out to that black love, man. That's just crazy. Yeah, you end up on the couch, man. And then, you know, why you ain't playing my music? Yeah. You know, you play out of that. I'm like, yo, even from you? And that's tabs.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

Yeah, yeah, that's tabs. Hold on, no, you played.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

Oh, no, she got it all past. Yeah, yeah, I can I could just imagine. She plays it, but you didn't play. You couldn't just like you know, I'm like, yo. Yeah. And you can't you can't say no to that, like, nah. Or I no, I do. I'm still I'm still the stuff. Oh, that's what you say. Oh, you saying like you gotta understand. It's not like that, but it's like that. Worse than you. You know your ass.

SPEAKER_01 14:43

You you antagonistic. I just have to I just be having stuff to say, bro.

SPEAKER_02 14:46

No, it's like having a a girl that that's a that's a DC foe. That ain't that ain't that ain't that ain't right. Yeah, that ain't right.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

I got I got something to say. Exactly. You know what I'm saying? I got something to say, bro. Um, so that's what's up, man. I am glad that uh I am glad that that happened, man. So you just out DJing at Phantom and y'all came across and boom. She's doing a show with a group.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

Yeah, she was with a group. Oh, that's fire. That's fire. You know, that's fire. Cool. Yeah, I seen her a couple another time and asked her if she needed a DJ. So that was my move. Hey, you ever needed a DJ? Let me know.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

You know, just let me know. You know, I got all the stuff I set up. Cool.

SPEAKER_02 15:23

She hit me up one day. Hit me up like a year later. Yeah. Out the blue. Yeah. And said, where are you at tonight?

SPEAKER_01 15:29

I said, I made something up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:40

I said, I'm be downtown.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, it don't it don't matter. Find hey, find me. Look, all you gotta do. Hey, we've been together since. That's what's up, man. That's what's up, bro. For real. For real, that's what's up. That's powerful. So um, let's segue into what's what's one lesson that you feel you learned the hard way in the industry being a DJ? Uh that you feel every other DJ needs to hear as well.

SPEAKER_02 16:02

The way you walk, talk, and handle everything. Right. Like, so I try to work on talking, you know. Um what well, how would I say it to where it makes it make sense? You can't be a nigga in this industry, bro. And you mean nigga as far as like the ignorant. Yeah, I say that part. It's like, nah, you can't be black, you know. I'm sorry, you can't be a nigga. You know what I mean? And when I talk to you, I'm talking to you like I'm talking to you, you know. No, so many people might not really. That's all right. You know what I mean? But you can't be a nigga because that right there is is that's what's gonna that's gonna get you out of here. And that's what I learned. Quick for us. Oh yeah, because I came with all the Southeast mentality. I came with all the, you know what I mean? Like, you know, talking, talking a certain way.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

It's a different city, man. And I I know you a big advocate on that, bro. And I see you talking about that a lot as far as you know the population in San Diego and what because a lot of people say that like, well, we one of the biggest cities, like, so while we can't be LA or or one of these, I'm like, we can be, but the big city is not Southeast, though. No. Just understand that Southeast is like a small portion of that huge city.

SPEAKER_02 17:06

But when you, it's like I told you growing up in Babista. You know, Babista, you think Baby Vista's big. Oh, yeah, yeah. You think Southeast is big.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

What Mitchie said, he said, yeah, but it looked like some when you in it, like when you there. When you there, you like me at Fan Mort, meaning here, here, so far. It looked big. And you start going to Oceanside and La Jolla.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

You start dating and do going here, and they take you to Del Mars. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

You like never.

unknown 17:30

Never.

SPEAKER_01 17:31

That was like a, you know, that's a whole nother world, bro.

SPEAKER_02 17:33

Like Ryan said, what? Really, Barry see the beach? Like San Diego?

SPEAKER_01 17:37

We don't really can't San Diego motherfuckers don't really go to the beach like that. I think that encompassed, yeah. I think that encompassed us. I don't even care if you go to the beach, because I even had a time where like I was going to the beach, you know, damn near every other night. Like, you know, my process of writing, turning up late night, whatever. But we didn't go to the water. We just we was like towards the beach in the parking lot.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

That's even advanced. You more advanced.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

Yeah, you more advanced. Yeah. No, the beach was everybody was getting together, and you know what happened when they get there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Royal Rumble. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

You know that. I think they're doing better, man. Hopefully they bring Juneteenth back this year, they said. 619 Day Man. Man, I went to the, I think I went to like one of the first two, actually. But you know, I popped in the first one. Drama. Second one.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

It was cool. I miss it all. Yeah. I didn't, I missed both.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

Hopefully they bring it back, man. And they said they are this year. And um, you know, that might be dope. But I feel like things like that, man, hopefully, and shout out, shout out to Mimi as well, you know, Fat Camp, bro, because Fat Camp also brings us together in ways that I never thought I'm like. You know, I be looking, even though, you know, everybody had their little areas or whatever, like, hey, we over here, but it ain't no everything good, bro. It's I I love when we come together and we can do those type of things, man. Um out of respect for Birdie Bird, you know, we gonna come to the event, bro, and turn up and have fun. And you know, yeah. As long as no goofballs, you know, one person.

SPEAKER_02 18:59

I understand all those. I understand everything else. It's just you know, I can't, I can't, you know, can't keep involving forever. No, yeah, for sure. For sure.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

For sure, man. For sure. So um, so look, we finna we finna get into this next segment, bro. But this one is a little different, so I'm gonna put some time on the clock. Right. And I mean, you know, this is this is just rapid fire legacy questions. So this is called the Encore. And just getting your answer, I got I have some questions and scenarios for you. You tell me basically the first thing that comes to mind. All right. You know? Yeah. So I'm gonna put some time on the clock, man, and let's get it. So the so what's the first record that you ever played that made you fall in love with DJing? If you bling bling. Bling bling by Chingy? No, no, not by Ching. Oh, wait, no, bling bling bling bling. Uh Lil Wayne. Hot Boys. Hot Boys, man, yeah, okay, okay. Wait, where did I go? Bling. Well, no, Chingy Doo got a yeah, okay, okay. Bling bling by the Hot Boys, man, Lil Wayne. Anybody verse in particular? Uh shit. If the song can't be like, that was it. I probably got the whole thing. That was it. That was it. Remember the whole thing. Okay. Okay, okay. So that was the first song that made you like, you know what? This is, yeah, yeah, I got this. I got this. Okay. All right, that's what's up, bro. Can you name one San Diego artist who deserves way more attention right now?

SPEAKER_02 20:10

Uh one tango artists ever live. So I'ma say you.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

I'ma say you. Shout out, man. That's what I'm talking about. See, that's why I I gave him a couple dollars to say that though. Nah, nah, nah. You you working. Nah, yeah, for sure. For sure. Tremendous. We still working, bro. Yeah, I'm just trying to be better than I was yesterday, man. Every day. Yeah. After a little time, bro.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

I mean, you perform a thing. I was you know, I didn't get to hear nothing. I haven't heard nothing new in a minute. You know what I mean? Hey, man, hold on. Hold on. Since I got you sitting right here, why you cut my vocals out for so long? Because you're not putting out the vocals in the record.

SPEAKER_01 20:48

Hey, look, I'm with you, but I just recorded it. Oh, I promise you. No, no, I knew it, but I was like, and then it was one of them things where I was really guessing, bro. Like I was acting. I was going crazy. So I was like, it got to that one point, I said, nigga. Yeah, they didn't hear, they can't hear you. See when the words on, they can't hear you. Yeah, yeah, but that was dope, though. I was like, oh, because you came right out. I said, okay, boom. I thought you was gonna come back in. He was like, warm as we like, nah, we gonna see a little bit. There's a lot of warmers. Come on, man, you got this, bro. Yeah, yeah. Ain't no for sure. For sure. You did that, bro. And I was like, hey, that's the only thing I had to say. I said, I'm glad I knew the song. Oh, you been. Because I didn't know if I knew it. I'm like, oh, I'm glad I knew it, bro. All right, let me let me get back in. I just have to ask that real quick. So um what's the craziest, what's the craziest request you've ever gotten while DJing? Uh probably like Lady Gaga. Something like that. Lady Gaga? Yeah, I guess. It's crazy, bro. Wow, out the blue. Hey, has somebody ever asked you to play their music and you like, bro, what's yeah, that's regular though. That's regular. Oh, so that's not crazy, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_02 21:50

Hell no. Bro, what's your name again? Oh, uh that's normal. I don't think I got I don't think I got it. Get into it with niggas every every night.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

You don't know who I am, man.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Nah, they really say I don't know I am. Yeah. Like, you know, like, man, like, you know, you put your love to see him, like, bro, then gave you 25 years. Right.

SPEAKER_01 22:05

The love. Come on, man. Come on. Ain't it somebody else? Is it somebody else turn in? You don't tell that nigga that. Tell him he's trying to make a name. Help him. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? He needs to show y'all some love. Let's say that you weren't DJ'ing. What do you think you'd be doing right now if you weren't DJing? Oh, if I wasn't DJing. No, I don't want to put no. I don't want to put selling cars.

SPEAKER_02 22:28

I started off selling cars. It was my first job.

SPEAKER_01 22:29

I couldn't. I don't know, bro. I couldn't. I don't know if I can see that.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

Do you help him test drive? Like you tall, bro. Like you can, you know what I'm saying? I like to get a car.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

I like having nice cars and stuff. So I sell cars and made solid money.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

That's different. That was actually different. Okay. So um what's a track that you've played thousands of times but never gets old?

SPEAKER_02 22:50

Oh, never get old. Uh shake that monkey.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

Shake that monkey. Oh. Shake that monkey. Yeah, that and that's one of them.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

Remember that dick dick come on?

SPEAKER_01 23:02

Let's go. Oh my God. Okay, shake that monkey. I can see that. I can see that. Um, what is the wildest event or party that you've DJ'd at? And wild could be anything. Crazy or turnt up, whatever. Always the uh shit.

SPEAKER_02 23:15

I'm a what do you call it? The uh the the the the gay parties. The gay parties. The gay parties. It's different when you win it. Always. No, it's it's different. It's different. I can imagine. I mean, you're lit. It's it's not just lit, it's just it's uncomfortable, but you gotta be comfortable because you're there for the right.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

So it's yeah. Right, right, right. And you turn it, you turn, bro. You you you getting paid. Bro, you're here. Play the music. Turn it up.

SPEAKER_02 23:38

All you can do. And keep looking at your computer screen.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

I don't know what's going on. Got you, got you. Yo.

SPEAKER_01 23:46

Y'all can figure that out. Um, who was the first major artist to recognize and acknowledge your skills as a DJ?

SPEAKER_02 23:53

I ain't gonna lie, I can never remember. I would never. It just came in. So many different artists. Like I've for real, I've had a lot. Yeah, yeah. A lot. I can imagine. Yeah, I can't remember. I can't remember that.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Okay. Um, if someone made a movie about DJ Birdie Bird, who would you want to play you?

SPEAKER_02 24:10

Whoever that little dude that they keep telling me they think is my son. Who's that? I have no idea. They keep telling me, you know, this dude like that. Oh, they be trolling? They be like trolling? They see my picture of everything. So I want whoever that little dude. Whoever he is son that is. Boom. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

We need that. We need that guy. Okay. All right, all right. Uh let's say, what's one DJ rule or principle that you will never break, no matter the situation? None. I'm I'm breaking them all. You're right, okay. Now I'm breaking them all. Right situation, right circumstance, whatever like this.

SPEAKER_02 24:39

I mean, I'm not, me, I kind of stick to the one, which is I don't burn the closer out. Like if I'm opening or if I'm doing a midset and it's a closer, I don't burn the closer out. What do you mean by that? It's just some vernacular. Like, how can you break that down? It's so much music. Okay. So there's a lot of music in play. Okay. Basically, when you're in the opener, you're supposed to suck, bro. So opener is the first DJ. Yeah, you're supposed to just be there to keep people visually entertained. Kill time. In the middle, you start to kind of like, you know, get the drinks flowing, get people kind of like, you know, ready. You prepare them. Okay. Closer.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

Oh, so closer is driving it home. Right. Oh, okay, okay, I got you.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

You go out and you start looking, the middle guy is doing the closer's job.

SPEAKER_01 25:18

Right, the moat and setting up for him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

Yeah, but now he's doing, that's that's a problem now. The middle dude is trying to beat a closer. So he's burning him out. So he's playing all records, supposed to sit down. Okay, I get you. I get you.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

It's like supposed to peak. It's like when an art, when an artist comes, you know, um, when an artist, uh major artist is coming out to perform, if they really want to get that control, they'll be like, hey, don't play none of my music till you see me.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

You're not supposed to see. You feel me? Like, don't play my other music. Then when I perform it, nigga, they're like, we already. Every event is supposed to have a peak.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Okay, I got you.

SPEAKER_02 25:46

So if it's already been peaking from start to finish, people burnt out.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Then the mid-DJ close out, then here come the next DJ trying to turn it back up, but we already heard that.

SPEAKER_02 25:54

We already heard that. So I get you. I guess that's when you know people start getting a little disgruntled. Yeah, energy is everything, man. Yeah, you know, if you didn't already turn it up, walkaflocka at uh 10:30. And then by the time we get to you know 12:30 and you walk a flocca again, the energy is retarded right now.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

Okay, I dig. Double walkaflocka? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, for sure. And I could see how a person could think like, I'm a I'm a DJ, so if I played a song everybody want to hear, then I'm a good DJ. Like, I don't even make it right, bro. You really not. Not even enough people to play that song yet, man. Yeah, tripping, bro. Yeah. Okay, let's say fast forward to retirement, man. So we done we done DJing. How do you want people to describe the legacy of DJ Birdie Bird?

SPEAKER_02 26:33

Uh just one, I kept it S D to the fullest. Okay. So you represent it right, man. Put it on. For sure. Poster child. Okay. For sure. That's what's up. I mean, look around. I mean, how many of them lasted this long? Yeah. OG had to move away, retire and come back, that do all. I I never left. Talk your shit. And I'm not saying I never left. Physically, but I never my relevancy. Me being relevant has never gone away.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

Hey, you know what came to mind, man? I was thinking about during COVID. Would you would you do would you start doing that again, man? House D, you know, DJing in the house on live. I know you had a big audience because we was there with you. I used to put you on a TV screen.

SPEAKER_02 27:13

I want to do it, but it's I've been DJing so much. Yeah, working. I just be taking my time to just live. Yeah. Have a good time. That's what's set up. So when you're not DJing, man, what you doing?

SPEAKER_01 27:23

Uh working out, the gym and pescatarian diet, so you're taking care of yourself. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

Okay. I've always been on that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:31

How long? Wait, how long you been a pescatarian? Or just anything? What was it? What was it before that?

SPEAKER_02 27:36

That's a women do the book.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

Oh, got you. Get that red meat out of here. That's crazy, bro. Yeah, I've been about uh four or five years now. For real? Yeah. I haven't ate pork in five years for sure. I ain't red meat in like four years.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

That's why you're so young.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

Yeah, and I keep bouncing back between eating chicken. I keep on, bro, breaking on chicken, though.

SPEAKER_02 27:55

I'm like, but nah, you're not Asian. Put a little chicken on that salad today.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

But I've been on a pescatarian again this time for since the beginning of the year. I already did it for a year, you know. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm done. Yeah, I'll probably go to vegetarian at some point, but you know, drag my feet, bro. You like ranch? Hell yeah. Ranch and sour cream is my bro, that's my weakness. I'm like, I don't I can't go vegetarian. Like, man, to y'all find something that's just like it. I don't want the alternative, bro. Like, come on. I'm never going to vegetarian. I gotta have ranch and sour cream, bro. I need it. I need it. Um, so if you could have one superpower, any superpower you could think of, what would it be, bro?

SPEAKER_02 28:35

One superpower. Yeah. Uh probably read minds. So I think about people thinking are they saying? Okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

You and you DJ in front of a lot of people, bro.

SPEAKER_02 28:44

That's kind of like what song they want to hear.

SPEAKER_01 28:46

Yeah, yeah. Got you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:49

Yeah, that's cold.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

That's cold. That's cold. That is cold. Okay. I know I know what you want before you wanna hear Snoop Dogg. Oh, that's oh my god. Got you. Over. Because you know, DJing all about the reaction. Hey, my my superpower, bro, would have to be I want to see in the future, but I want to see a little bit. Like, like two days. Yeah, I don't want to go too far because then I know too much, bro. I'm like, hey, I'm over here stressed out, like, bro, I know too much. Like, don't, hey, look, don't leave the house in three years on a Wednesday, it's gonna rain a little bit. Just don't leave, please. And then you know, prepare. But it's rules to it. No, I gotta tell somebody else this. You ever watch them movies? And they like, and you can't tell the proof, you can't tell the future because then people gonna do it. Then you do it. Then how I'm gonna feel like I told you not to.

SPEAKER_02 29:36

Then I can listen anyway.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

I just don't wanna be torah, bro. Yeah, then I'm gonna have gray hair. I just know too much. Like, Bertie, don't play that song. You play it anyway, Riot. Riot. I can't like why don't you just tell me why? I couldn't tell you why. Some nigga told me it's rules. I don't know, man. All right. All right, so um can I can I just ask you this last thing before we get out of here? Is how did you stay focused and grounded coming up from the neighborhood that you did, man? And um, especially when the streets pull so many people in, bro, and they never come out, you know, for whatever reason.

SPEAKER_02 30:09

God, faith. Yeah, I and not even to get serious. Sometimes I don't know. Yeah. Sometimes I saw all I can I I'm saying I know, but it it's sometimes I can't really like pinpoint it without saying because it's just it's been so many situations, bro. Yeah, it's been so many situations. Glad you made it out. Yeah, sure. Who you telling?

SPEAKER_01 30:31

For sure, man. Um because you know it's it's so many different things, it's so many different things that's at work, bro. It's not just you know, jail or losing your life, bro. It's a lot of other things that are.

SPEAKER_02 30:44

There's the same shit that's after that. Like, yeah, Cats don't really understand that. So you think you just deal with the street shit, the corporate shit and the business shit. Yeah, so much just as street. It's so much, it's bullshit. It's so much bullshit that if you if you don't got it together, you go crazy, man.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

Is it anything good that came out of growing up in a neighborhood like that? That history. No. It taught me all the wrong shit. So you would you would you say that possibly like if you grew up somewhere else, you'd be you have more of an advantage?

SPEAKER_02 31:16

I wouldn't say I have a more of an advantage. I just wouldn't have been trying to prove certain things. So you grow up in the neighborhood, you're trying to prove, you know what I'm saying? You trying to prove you ain't you ain't soft, you're trying to prove all these things. And you know, people say, Oh, you don't gotta prove nobody. Come grow up over here. Yeah, yeah. You say that.

SPEAKER_01 31:37

As soon as they see, like, oh, you a punk?

SPEAKER_02 31:39

Oh, oh now what you gonna do? You got pooped? Oh, yeah, I can't wait till I see you.

SPEAKER_01 31:44

What size is those?

SPEAKER_02 31:47

Hey, it sounds good, don't it? It sounds good. It sounds good. You get boobed one time, yeah. You'll prove something.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

Oh, you might always boob me. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What he saying the wood? What is that? A divine light from the from the heavens. Oh, it's a fist. That's what's up, man. So um thank you for coming on, man. Oh, no. For real. Thank you, man. Probably. Uh, this is a real light conversation. You know, I just want to open up the door and you know, make our first rounds. And really, you know, what I'm looking at, bro, is you know, having you back later down the line, man. We're gonna keep on working, bro. Keep on doing our thing. Appreciate it. You know what I'm saying? And um, I do thank you for taking the time out to come through. And this is being busted down TV. Please, one more time looking at cameraman and let them know where to find you at, bro. Uh everything at DJ Birdie Bird. Okay, easy, man. With a birdie with a Y, not an IE, man. And when you see, or oh, okay, boom. You know what I'm saying? But look for the two B's on the back of the laptop. He's very tall, bro. You're gonna always see him. You're gonna always see the logo.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:46

Hey, man, my guy, man. Thank you for tuning in. It's DC4, man. That's ITS DC4 at reality chasing DC. This has been Bust It Down, man. Thank you for tuning in. In the famous words of Paper Pat, right? Go back, watch all the other ones, and come back and watch this one, all right? Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

We about to bust it down. Yeah. Coming live in the rain.