DJ Epps - LTMFK Podcast Episode 64

World Famous DJ Epps (Rock The Bells/SiriusXM) Presents: LTMFK Podcast. Visit https://djepps.com

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Ladies and gentlemen, how you guys doing? It's your boy DJ Epps on your daily let these months no vlog going down right here. Tuesday, May 5th, the day after my wife's birthday, man. Yes. Oh man. Gotta have a lot of energy when you're um, you know, doing your wife's birthday, man. Especially the night of, because uh, ooh, yeah. Happy wife, happy life, right? There you go. So yeah. Had to get to the gym this morning, had to work it out. As I worked it out last night, had a great time, man. Um, big shout to wifey. Happy birthday. Um, we're Taurus gangs over here. Um, I don't know if you know about Taurus, man, but you know, we're we're very humble, we're very uh easygoing. Some say we could be stubborn, but I think you know that just comes with our boundaries and you know, we like to um, you know, put the thought process in every situation we in. You know what I mean? Um, but when you have two tourists, oh boy, them bulls, sometimes it could go like this. And guess what? Guess who's the only bull sometime that just you know the bull that just sometimes back away? Guess who that one is? Yep, me. Why? Because I want peace. I want peace. You know what I mean? I ain't trying to argue, I ain't trying to stress, you know what I mean? And and and you know, later on in life, she she learned that from me and she applied it to herself as well. So, you know, that's us tourists, yeah, yeah, yeah. We we, you know, two Taurus could clash, but there is a difference between an April Taurus and a May Taurus. There is a difference, I don't get it twisted. Dollar bill was popping, Lamont Sanders in the building, will was good, sticker. I see you, trigger, gift was popping, man. Trigger, thank you for the belated birthday. I appreciate you. Um, you know, it it it's it hasn't really sunk in that I turned 50 yet. Why? Maybe it's because I don't feel 50. Maybe I I don't know. You know what they say age is just a number. I think that's what it is. Mr. Sanders, how you doing, family? Richard Felix just walked in the building. Um, yeah, man. You know, good afternoon, family. You already know. This afternoon here, it's probably morning in the West Coast, still, right? Yeah. So, um, Iman was popping. Good morning, Mr. Felix. Yeah. Oh man, Charmel, you you you had a joint last night on New Music uh radio last night. That was jumping, man. Nah, we appreciated that. Listen, man. Uh and if you guys like new music, you know what I do every day at 10 o'clock and sometimes different hours. Um, you know, I turn on my live and do new music radio. But uh Lamar Sanders, aka Shamel, uh Shila, uh Shala. Yeah. You know what I mean? Had a dope joint last night. Um and we we we was we was having fun with it. We was having fun with it. And nobody don't know what I'm talking about. We do new music radio um weeknights, 10 o'clock, and some other times as I mentioned. Um, all you gotta do is submit your music through DJEpps.com, and my team is waiting for you so we could, you know, get ready to have fun with your song. You know what I mean? Um the process is too easy, man. Just go on the website, submit, and you know, we're gonna send you a date and a time where we're gonna air your droid, make you a flyer so you can promote to your fan base. And then when that day comes, man, we're having a party. We're having a party, breaking new music from all different types of artists from everywhere, different genres. Uh, last night, last night I could say it was really West Coastish in the party last night. It was really West Coast. When I say West Coast, there was a lot of West Coast submission, and some people was from Atlanta, some people was from Las Vegas, some people was from New York, but you heard the California low rod and G Funk in the music in the submissions last night. So big shout to everybody that that, yeah. Yeah, it was a vibe last night. I I can't front. I enjoyed listening to a lot of West Coast joints last night. Yeah, yeah. It was definitely a vibe last night. There was a couple of joints on there that had me thinking I could crip walk all over my studio. Oh man. Uh yeah. So if you want to submit for New Music Radio, 10 o'clock tonight. Um, I'll be on my live. Submit your music so we could get you on this week or next week, whatever you know, um your slot possibly can be. And we're gonna have fun, man. Djabs.com. All right, all right. Now, ladies and gentlemen, there's a couple of things I want to talk about, man. Um, yesterday, you know, uh I kind of snapped a little bit. Did I snap or did I not snap? Or was I just being 100? I mean, you know, I was discussing about, you know, the situation that happened in a club recently with a DJ and an artist, and the artist happens to just disrespect the DJ and tried to embarrass the DJ. Now, we talked about that. Now, when I turned off my live and then I went scrolling through my timeline, I end up seeing the artist doing an apology to the DJ. Now, let me tell you something. In my mind, when I saw what happened, I said, yeah, she's gonna have to issue an apology. And also in my mind, I said, I bet you that apology won't be genuine. It won't be real. It's it's gonna be like something it was forced to do because she was getting uh major, uh a lot of people was hitting her up on on social media, like, yo, you know what I mean? And I saw a lot of people was talking bad about the DJ too, talking about the DJ didn't read the room and this and this and this and this and that. But let's stay on the topic. The topic is apology. When she made the apology, I saw the apology, and I said to myself, that apology was whack. It was whack. She couldn't even pronounce the word that she was trying to mention. She couldn't even, you know, I don't know. It just didn't come out authentic, it didn't come out real or genuine. And you know an apology when you hear one, right? So, in my eyes, you know what's an apology for that situation right there. An apology is that you should have got with that DJ and said, yo, you know what? I'm coming to your radio show. We go, I'm gonna give you an interview, we're gonna talk, we're gonna vibe out, we're gonna, we're gonna apologize, we're gonna squash it. That's an apology. If that DJ's having a birthday party soon, or or or he has his party in Chicago, pull up to his party and host his party. You know what I mean? Without asking for a bag, that's an apology. Maybe that DJ does music. Hey man, yo, send me some beef. Let's let's do a joint together. Let's show these guys that Miami and Chicago could get together. That's an apology. But the way I saw that apology, mm-mm. Wendy, I felt the apology was fake too. I felt the apology was fake. Publicly. That's the word. She couldn't even say the right, the word, she couldn't even say the word right. I was like, well, what are you trying to say? So, ladies and gentlemen, and you can leave it in the comment box. Do you know an apology when you hear one? Do you know an apology when you hear one? Because some people are just apologizing just to throw it out the window, or um, as I like to call it, brush it inneath, brush it underneath the rug and just let it go. Nah, man. Do you know an apology when you hear one? Leave it in the comment box. Or tell me what an apology really is supposed to be or sound like. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And Wendy, you absolutely right. Let me tell you something about that. From what she said, Wendy said, from what I seen, what she said on the mic, let me tell you something. When somebody says something to you, and it comes off really disrespectful. Whether there's an apology or not, there's some type of truth to what they are saying. When I say truth, meaning they they are true to their words, what are they saying to you? Like it's like they they had that in their system for a long time. And it's like they couldn't wait to try to tell you that. You know what I mean? I remember I remember one time, you know, somebody says something to me, and it's like, it's like they had they've been wanting to say that to me. And and and and hey, you know, I found it a little offensive, but I I carried on and I and I let I let that person go on with their life and and thinking what they thought about me. But they came back around and said, I'm sorry. Nah, you ain't sorry. You've been you meant to say that. You know you wanted to say that. And then and maybe in your in your uh your eyes, your views, maybe you really think that about me. But you meant that. You've been dying to say that. And and you did. So go about yourself and stay on that side of the fence. That's how I feel about situations like that. Some people they have some things bundled up in them and they've been dying and finding the right opportunity to say it. Listen, man, be careful with those types. Be careful with those types. Yeah, be careful with those types. Big shot to Nessa in the building. Nessa was popping. Corey baskin in the building. DJ Shy Quentin, bros. DJs need to take control and take the artist. Not today and play a random swan. I said it, yo. If I was that DJ, I would have played It's All About the Benjamin and start diddy bopping on her on purpose. I would have made the whole crowd laugh. Instead of doing something disrespectful to a point, you know, I mean, nah, man. I, you know, it is what it is, man. The way she stood there was able to say he was short. She wasn't trunk. Yo, son. Oh man. But enough of that, man. But just know, man, know an apology when you hear one. All right. And to me, that apology, I didn't accept it. As a DJ, I wouldn't have accepted it. It wasn't genuine. I didn't like it. I didn't think it was um from the heart. It looked like she was getting bashed online like crazy, and she had to make uh uh what what did she say? A publicity apology. Listen, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. You done messed up. Now nobody ain't gonna play your song. Oh man. So, you know, with that being said, life has ways of testing us. Some people don't know when they're being tested. Some people don't know when God is putting something in their face to test them to see how they're gonna go about the situation. Whether it was that situation, whether it was this situation, or whether it's a situation back in the day you had. Life has a way of testing you to see how you're gonna handle it. Do you do you know when you're being tested? Speaking for me, for some reason, I feel like I'm being tested all the time. I'm being tested with directions, I'm being tested with family members, I'm being tested with uh a party, you know. I mean, request, whatever, man. Yo, you gotta know when you're being tested, and it could be a test that you may not like, but you gotta handle it, you gotta figure it out. Cause this life that you know, this test that's you're being tested with, it could be a life-changing, it could be a life lesson, but you gotta know when life is testing you, challenging you. I mean, you gotta know. The last thing you want to do is keep failing the test, only to have keep going through it. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely, Corey. Absolutely. So, you know, you you know, and some people may take it offensively of the test and not realizing they're being tested. You know what I mean? I test my son all the time because I want him to learn, I want him to figure it out for himself. So I might just throw him a curveball to make him understand that you're gonna have to figure this out by yourself. I can't always hold your hands. You know what I mean? Which he always does. He always does, and that that makes me a proud dad. But you know, I have to, you know, sometimes my daughter be asking me obvious questions. She's a 10-year-old, I get it. But sometimes she asks me the obvious question. So when she hears me not say nothing, and I give her this look, she knows automatically she has to figure it out herself. And she'll come back, you're like, oh. Listen, no matter if you're 10 years old or you're 50-year-old, you're gonna get tested, and you have to understand and you have to learn. Life has always uh life has ways of testing you. So just get ready for that and know how to handle it when it comes. All right, man. Another thing I want to talk about. And and and this might touch a nerve with certain individuals, all right? I don't like talking to people that listen to respond versus listen to understand. Oh, let me say that again. I don't like talking to people who does not listen to, who listen to respond and doesn't listen to understand. Yeah, I could be dropping some gem to you. You know what I mean? I think it happened yesterday on my life. Somebody asked me a question, and and and they didn't they didn't understand what I was trying to say to them because this right here is my world, this is my establishment. So the word he was using with me doesn't apply with me over here. He just wanted to listen to respond, and he was responding disrespectfully and responding to what he wants to hear. You know what I mean? Yo, Cori, you might have hit that on the money. That sounds like a marriage. Oh my god. I love my wife, she's the most beautiful creature in the world. Uh she she's amazing. She is um she's she's she's the bomb. That's why she's my wife till this day. Jose Jose was popping. But when me and my my wife bump heads, and when I say something, she replies back. Well, yeah, till this day, she replies to respond versus to understand. You know what I mean? Like, you know, it's like yo, dude, uh, let me show you, let me tell you how it is. This is it, and then it clap back because it was a Taurus thing. We both Tauruses, you know what I mean? So, you know, she tends to respond. She tends to listen to respond versus listen to understand. I'm like, boo, understand. Oh man, listen, you know what I mean? And I could be wrong sometimes. I'll admit it. I could be wrong sometimes, and I could be um, I could be, I could once upon a time do the same thing. Listen to respond versus listen to understand. We're talking about that dude pops, um, David. You know what I mean? Um, and Corey said that sounds like his wife. And I believe a lot of husbands have this situation with their wife where they listen to respond versus listen to understand. So, you know, when you're having a conversation with somebody, you know, and they're talking to you about something, listen to understand versus listen to respond. When you respond and you just want to fight, you just want to argue, you just want to bring your ego and pride out and play it off either like you know it all, you're the right one, da-da-da. You know what I mean? But sometimes you have to listen to understand versus listen to respond. All right. If you know somebody like that, leave it in the comment. Leave it in the comment box. Do you know somebody that listens to respond versus listen to understand? Hmm. PP Armstrong, booyah. Listening is key. Listening is key. Man, that dude pops. So Dre called me yesterday. Here's a his I'll give you an example. Dre called me yesterday, and you know, Dre from Rartha Bel Cruz, um, your podcast, uh uh Component Dre. Dre called me, and you know, we was kicking in, saying hello, and everything, and then he was talking to me about a gig that he had, and um, you know, he's doing the gig and this and this and this and this and this and that. And then, you know, I guess he had a request, a request for this ultimate slow jam in this um environment he's in, and you know, I guess he took the requests as a challenge, but you know, always and forever, that slow jam, listen, it's always for you that joint. Listen, if somebody would have came up to me and asked me to play this joint in the middle of a high party, you know, I I would have to tell a person this doesn't fit this format right now. And that person that's requesting that is not listening to understand what I'm telling him. He wants to argue, oh, you're not gonna play my song, you're a DJ, you're supposed to. That's listening. That's right there, that right there. He's listening to respond, he's not listening to understanding. Imagine I'm at a turnt up party and you come out of nowhere talking about can you play it's always and forever? Listen, you don't know what us DJs be going through, man. I swear to God, I could write a book about this, man. Maybe I will, but yeah. Oh man. So yeah, you know, big shout to my man Dre. I thought that was a real odd request. DJs, you ever had that request? Did DJs, did you ever have a request? Who sings that song again? Always and forever. Who sings that again? Oh. Every time I think of that, I think of Martin in House Party. I think it was that song when he was when he was slow jamming with the girl, and the girl was like blowing the bubble. Oh man, don't tell me you don't remember that house party one uh vibe with Martin. Heat wave. There you go. Heat wave. Oh my God. Listen, you come to me and you ask me for that song, I'm really gonna look at you like what? But then again, I'm the type to look at the BPM and say, you know what? Let me see if I could remix it. Let me see if I could like, you know. I I'm I love a challenge. So I might just look at the BPM and I might think of a record that, you know, an instrumental that might be able to go with that song, and I'll just do a blend right there in front of your face and make the whole crowd go, oh no, he did. I love that reaction. I love that reaction. When you do a blend right in front of everybody and everybody go like, oh, and let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. A lot of DJs have been doing this online, but people don't get fooled. It's a pre-recorded blend. And it may not even be their blend, it might be some other blend from somebody else, and they're recording themselves and they playing it, and the crowd behind them is going back. We know a pre-recorded blend. Us real DJs, we know a pre-recorded blend. Well, we hear one. Do that shit live. Scratch the a cappella and then bring the instrumental in, and then let the crowd go crazy. And that's the official content, the look, the image you need to project as a real DJ.

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Yeah.

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Torio was popping. Yeah. Yeah. Yo, nasty. I hate those type of requests too. Oh my god. Yo, poor Dre. He was he was he was hot. He was hot. And he was, you know what? He he he he told me too, and I hope I'm not putting Dre's business out there, but he told me the establishment he was doing, the boss man came around and you know, he wanted to get feedback. He's like, Yeah, you did a great job. But one thing I didn't, the the the owner or the manager said, the one thing I didn't see you do to the DJ and said, you didn't go around the tables to see what everybody wanted to hear. Since when do we do this? Since when does the DJ have to come around the DJ booth and go to each table? I don't know if it was a restaurant or a lounge, each table and ask him, hey, what song do you like to hear? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Manager own managers, owners, listen with all due respect, us DJs ain't doing that. We don't like that, we don't do that. We never did that. I'm gonna be honest with you. We never I never heard a DJ come out their DJ booth and go to every table to go ask a client, what would you like to hear? Oh, I would like to hear, uh, you know, Nas, whose world is this? Gotcha. I'll be right back. No, no, no. Yo, listen, never in my life heard this, all right, man. So, you know, hey, hey, hey, hey. Yes, yes, you're absolutely right, Corey. Part of the reason you get hired to DJ is your ability to read a room. You gotta read a room, man. If you know there's some Jamaicans over there, play a little reggae, play a little dance hall, Nigerians over there, play some Afro beats, some Latinos, play some reggae thong. You got some girls that want to twerk, pit some city girls in the building for them, man. You know there's some kids in the vicinity of a brunch daytime party, be sure to play clean versions. Like, you know, read the room. Read the room. Mixed by Gentleman. I was talking about a DJ friend of mine that was going through some things. Listen, if you have to tell a DJ how to do that job, that's a serious problem. That's an absolute serious problem. That's a big time problem.

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I ain't even DJ, I'm just a drummer that grew up in church.

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With that being said, I gotta get up out of here. We're done. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I hope we had a great talk, had a great conversation. You know, we do this 1 p.m. Eastern time, let these motherfuckers know vlog with your boy DJ Epps from Sirius XM. Yep, yep, yep, yep. And I appreciate everybody that comes in here and just, you know, politic and talk to me, and we have that conversation because sometimes it's kind of therapeutic. I don't know about you, but for me it is. You know, I mean, never in my life I thought I'll be talking to my laptop and talking, but I got people in here, and I'm talking people. Maybe one day I'll open up a Zoom chat and we'll have a conversation with you know everybody. Zoom. You know what I mean? That'll be dope. Now, tonight, once again, I'll be back playing new music. New music at 10. Yes, new music radio, man. I got joints from uh Champy4K. I got uh Why Bother? Uh Papa Pretty got a joint tonight. Christopher got a joint tonight called Petty. Uh we got Kim T. Young tonight. We got a lot of submissions tonight. So pull up for the party tonight at 10 o'clock New Music Radio. And if you want to submit, if you want to submit to be part of the party this week or next week, DJFs.com is the website. Hit submit and um upload your music and take care of business. And we we look, we got you. We got you. All right. This is the fastest growing DJ show on social media, the fastest growing tastemaking show where you get live comments reviewing your music. Me, I don't review. I'm not gonna tell you. I might tell you, yo, you know, your engineer done messed you up. Like he made you sound like, you know, I mean, I might tell you that, but you know, I'm not I'm not a music review guy. Like, I'm not don't call me a music review. I'm here to break your music. What does breaking mean? That means, oh man, DJ Epps was the only one that actually took my song and broke it on social media, not just once, but for the whole entire month. That's breaking. You know what I mean? And then when people are asking you, oh man, your song has been hitting, it's been flying. How did this happen? Oh man, DJ Epps broke it. He was the first one to take a chance and broke my music. That's how that works. All right, cool. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I want y'all to have a good day, blessed day. Um, uh, and I'll see you tonight at 10 o'clock. All right, man. I love you guys.