Speaker 1: They get a little they called me broadcasting live from Atlanta,
Speaker 1: Georgia up to the ball Alert show. I go by
Speaker 1: the name of for our simus, I go by the
Speaker 1: name you know, BT, DJ Penny Lane, DJ MO name,
Speaker 1: DJ Sugar Shame Building.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show, ladies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to I want to dive right into
Speaker 1: a good conversation with some DJs, entrepreneurs, family people, mothers, travelers, DIBs,
Speaker 1: a sex. Yeah, I've seen each of you, three ladies
Speaker 1: or b T two in club settings, body and clubs,
Speaker 1: on the radio, body and radio mixes. I would like
Speaker 1: to start a Sugar Shae you know, say your name,
Speaker 1: tell them how to follow you, and you know everything
Speaker 1: you got going on?
Speaker 4: Okay, I go by the name of DJ Sugar Shae.
Speaker 4: Mis give me some sugar on my IG is d
Speaker 4: J s U G A s h A E. I
Speaker 4: DJ for Total Radio. Well, I was doing radio for
Speaker 4: seven years, not anymore. I'm a mother of three. When
Speaker 4: it comes to dogs, I'm a dog mother for baby your.
Speaker 3: For a very mom or whatever. I travel a lot internationally.
Speaker 3: I DJ. It's a lot of things I do, honestly.
Speaker 1: Just one that competition that j I just one to.
Speaker 3: Netflix DJ competition.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, shouts out to Flight Out DC for putting
Speaker 4: that together. But yeah, it's probably more stuff than that.
Speaker 4: But I can't even think I do it all honestly.
Speaker 4: But I'm just, you know, happy to be here with
Speaker 4: some dope female DJs.
Speaker 5: So I'm DJ.
Speaker 6: You can follow me on Instagram at DJ Mone, DJ Underscore,
Speaker 6: m O n A. I do radio a lot of
Speaker 6: clubs in the city. I have my own podcast roll
Speaker 6: Wanna Cut DJ Podcasts. Yeah, I DJ for O, R
Speaker 6: and B artists. Her name is the artist.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, all right, how y'all doing. I'm DJ Penny Lane.
Speaker 7: I DJ on Radio ninety six point one.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah home team.
Speaker 7: DJ for R and B Royalty, Jagged Edge, and I
Speaker 7: own recording studios, industry ATLS like eighty five hundred square
Speaker 7: foot compounds, studios, photography studios.
Speaker 8: Anything you could think of if you name it.
Speaker 7: And yeah, just moving.
Speaker 3: You a mom? Oh I'm a mom.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm a new mom. I got a one year
Speaker 7: old baby girl. That's like my world. Like I thought
Speaker 7: I thought other stuff matd. I thought other shit mattered,
Speaker 7: But now since I had my baby. That's literally like
Speaker 7: the only thing that matters everything else. It's just like
Speaker 7: whatever it is, what it is. So yeah, I'm a DJ.
Speaker 2: And the mom.
Speaker 1: I'm getting straight into it. BT. In the industry male dominated,
Speaker 1: I feel like, and I want you guys to correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. I feel like you guys had
Speaker 1: to work twice as hard, be twice as nice, blend
Speaker 1: twice as bad, twice as good as your male coworkers.
Speaker 1: Do you think that is true?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: And why I feel like it's it's harder for us
Speaker 4: because we already have the stigma of like, well, what
Speaker 4: you're gonna do or whatever, and it's like, we gotta
Speaker 4: come looking better. If you want to get a sugar shade,
Speaker 4: you want me to come at sugar shade. So I
Speaker 4: gotta look a certain way that's first and foremost, foremost,
Speaker 4: And then yes, I do have to play good.
Speaker 3: I gotta talk on a mic. I have to create
Speaker 3: a vibe.
Speaker 4: I have to Yeah, I have to be better, because
Speaker 4: if not, then what's the point of getting the female DJ.
Speaker 4: I could just got a guy, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So it's all around with the presentation and the skill
Speaker 4: set too, is very important, So we have to work
Speaker 4: twice as hard to promote ourselves and make sure that
Speaker 4: we're definitely doing better than the guys.
Speaker 1: Now this is a question, Oh oh, all the answers
Speaker 1: they can.
Speaker 7: Oh, so yeah, I'm a piggyback on that. I do
Speaker 7: think that we have to show up.
Speaker 3: Oh my bad, we gotta show up.
Speaker 8: We gotta work extra hard.
Speaker 7: Like when I was getting into the DJ thing, I
Speaker 7: felt like the DJ cunt is like a click. But
Speaker 7: I feel like they treat females like infistrators, like.
Speaker 8: Like we not like or then also too, it be
Speaker 8: like I forgot what I was going to say.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, but but all that too, we do have
Speaker 7: to come Like when I'm working with Jag, I do
Speaker 7: have to come look in a certain way. I do
Speaker 7: have to be sexy, I do have to be fire.
Speaker 7: So it is it's definitely extra hard, but I feel
Speaker 7: like I got a good welcome when I came to Atlanta,
Speaker 7: Like I was working with Ace and Tefline, so I
Speaker 7: feel like they working with them, A lot of the
Speaker 7: other DJs respected me and stuff just because they was like, oh,
Speaker 7: she fucking with them, like she gotta be she gotta
Speaker 7: be fire. She gotta be you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: So I do feel like it's just definitely tougher for us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree too, But my journey was a little different.
Speaker 6: So when I started, I didn't really dress up because
Speaker 6: I wanted people to respect me for my actual talent.
Speaker 6: But when I started doing the bigger clubs, then I
Speaker 6: saw like, all right, I might gotta put that shit
Speaker 6: on sometimes.
Speaker 9: So did anybody say that to anybody? Was just like,
Speaker 9: I mean you.
Speaker 6: Kind of you kind of noticed, like if I'm DJing
Speaker 6: after or before somebody, and I'm like, well, why am
Speaker 6: I not closing? It could be because she came in
Speaker 6: with address on?
Speaker 2: So yeah, that what that was going to be.
Speaker 9: The next question, how do y'all feel about you know, uh,
Speaker 9: I don't really see a lot of female DJs closing, you.
Speaker 4: Know, I've been in the game ten plus years. The
Speaker 4: whole closing thing is it's a conversation that depends on
Speaker 4: if you headlining and different things like that. But do
Speaker 4: I want to close in the city where y'all going
Speaker 4: to probably try to pay me the same as the opener,
Speaker 4: I'm going home at twelve o'clock, rubbing my feet together,
Speaker 4: watching lifetime.
Speaker 3: I'm not here to do that.
Speaker 6: I feel like, or do you want to close in
Speaker 6: a city where you don't know who's watching you in
Speaker 6: the club and you got to go home by yourself?
Speaker 3: Like that's happening either way?
Speaker 6: Wow, we don't like, don't want to be okay, that's
Speaker 6: in general minds is completely different.
Speaker 7: Like I'm trying to get home like I got I
Speaker 7: feel I take it to heart, like being in a
Speaker 7: bill with my baby, Like it'd be like how be
Speaker 7: out in the club, So I prefer.
Speaker 1: Now to do something earlier time shift?
Speaker 6: Wow, dang, But what female DJs we do get respected
Speaker 6: more when it comes to like what price we want?
Speaker 6: So open it up for us is like why would
Speaker 6: I want to close?
Speaker 1: Wow? So you will get a little bit more to open.
Speaker 3: You should get more closed, you should get more money
Speaker 3: to close.
Speaker 4: But a lot of times these promoters that try to
Speaker 4: give the opener and the closes of the same price.
Speaker 3: So what am I here busting my ass for?
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, trying to prove myself and
Speaker 4: really it's nothing to prove at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: after you donet made a name for yourself. So it's
Speaker 4: like knock yourself out. For me, it's like, let the
Speaker 4: younger kids have it. I done did it. I don't
Speaker 4: been at Cafe Circle on a Saturday from three pm
Speaker 4: to three am for years, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And to be piggyback off of what she said, Like
Speaker 4: my first nine years of the game, it was all
Speaker 4: about the skill set, the I didn't care about how
Speaker 4: I looked or none of that. I didn't give a
Speaker 4: fuck about that. It was mainly about I want to
Speaker 4: be respected. I want to I want to out hustle
Speaker 4: everybody as far as I'll work all day. I don't
Speaker 4: give a fuck like you want to add another gig.
Speaker 4: It's times I would DJ from twelve pm to four
Speaker 4: in the morning, just go from one gig to the
Speaker 4: next one.
Speaker 3: I did that shit for years. So now I was like,
Speaker 3: I pay my dues.
Speaker 6: And then we're not trying to be around the promoters
Speaker 6: after they done drunk three bottles.
Speaker 1: I'm about to head there.
Speaker 3: But they do that on a check in. If you that,
Speaker 3: they just gonna try you regardless, like the ready.
Speaker 1: So I'm about to head there. I love all three
Speaker 1: of you guys like my sisters.
Speaker 2: For real.
Speaker 1: I've known each of you guys over five years. I
Speaker 1: want to say close some of you guys maybe close
Speaker 1: to ten, especially YouTube. You know, what I'm saying is
Speaker 1: a little newer. So as a very attractive DJ, female DJ,
Speaker 1: how do you guys navigate? First of all, people coming
Speaker 1: to the boots to request music that's already annoying but
Speaker 1: security okay, but what about now you got the guys saying, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? Oh shit?
Speaker 2: What's up? Like?
Speaker 1: Are there annoying moments that you guys be like a man?
Speaker 1: You're doing too much while you're trying to mix. Why
Speaker 1: you're trying to DJ? Someone's trying to holler at you
Speaker 1: about this? Someone's actually trying to hoghller at you while
Speaker 1: navigating through a club, body in the club, DJing, mixing,
Speaker 1: all these things going through your mind, and you got
Speaker 1: to deal with all the extra stuff about being a
Speaker 1: woman and the DJ PAINNY I want you to go first.
Speaker 7: I feel like I feel like I don't know what
Speaker 7: it is because I literally just was having this conversation
Speaker 7: with another female DJ, like a few days ago, and
Speaker 7: she was just saying about how the DJ's be trying
Speaker 7: her and this and the third and I feel like
Speaker 7: I don't deal with that. I feel like I get
Speaker 7: a certain level of respect for but like niggas know
Speaker 7: not to play with me. Like niggas know I get money,
Speaker 7: they know all of that shit. So if you got
Speaker 7: come a certain way, you got come correct whatever. Then,
Speaker 7: like I said, the people who I came up with
Speaker 7: down here, they respected them, so they showed me another
Speaker 7: level of respect. Then on top of that, like's I
Speaker 7: didn't covered every angle. I didn't went to scratch academy
Speaker 7: with niggas can really scratch about it than me. I
Speaker 7: didn't fucking did like I didn't did put myself in
Speaker 7: a position where I feel like they can't really fuck
Speaker 7: with me. And I think when people be intimidated to
Speaker 7: buy people that don't really fuck with them and don't
Speaker 7: I don't have that. Niggas don't be trying me. Niggas
Speaker 7: don't try me about my paper. Niggas don't like, they
Speaker 7: don't do none of that. I don't really what about
Speaker 7: the people in the crowd though, Like the crowd don't
Speaker 7: even I don't like I'm trying to think, like the
Speaker 7: crowd don't be bothering me like I always got And
Speaker 7: then to be other niggas that really fucked me.
Speaker 8: Or I fuck with me, they be right there gatekeeping.
Speaker 7: I guess, like nobody don't really fuck with me. Like
Speaker 7: I don't deal with that. Like I feel like maybe
Speaker 7: a few times when I.
Speaker 6: Was coming up, but now no, yeah, like I said,
Speaker 6: like you said, like I'm a little newer to the city,
Speaker 6: I have had that happen. But something you just gotta
Speaker 6: let niggas know, like I'm not.
Speaker 5: Going for that.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: Majority of the time I've been in relationships in my career,
Speaker 4: and I think a lot of times I've been in
Speaker 4: relationships to protect myself, you know what I'm saying in
Speaker 4: a lot of ways. So I took this serious as
Speaker 4: far as becoming a DJ, because I was a bartender
Speaker 4: turned DJ. So I've been in the club since I
Speaker 4: was eighteen years old, coming from New York, moving here
Speaker 4: or whatever to Atlanta.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, like I just.
Speaker 1: My camera barton never so coming next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean it come with it.
Speaker 4: At the end of the day, if you attract the female,
Speaker 4: I don't care if you DJ or if you whatever
Speaker 4: it is, and people in that space they drinking or
Speaker 4: whatever the case may be. There's a level of you
Speaker 4: could be nice or be cool, but you know, no,
Speaker 4: not to cross the line. But I don't mind being
Speaker 4: cool or whatever. I don't have to. It's not like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm you know, all outside and all of that type
Speaker 4: of stuff. It just is what it is, Like, I'm cool.
Speaker 4: I know niggas like females. So you can not only
Speaker 4: just the dudes. You gotta think the females. We in Atlanta,
Speaker 4: like you might get hit on by the.
Speaker 3: Girls words and might try to fill you up, like
Speaker 3: maybe girls like a little.
Speaker 5: Bit more intimidated.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, because I know I'd be looking me half
Speaker 6: of the time, but that they.
Speaker 2: Like that, it's scary.
Speaker 1: It's I always want to ask you, guys, this's the women.
Speaker 8: They be extra and they'd be bold to really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I always wanted to ask you this, do
Speaker 1: you guys play for the women or the women?
Speaker 3: That's that's that was the cheat code. I feel like before.
Speaker 4: Before female DJs became really like popular because when we
Speaker 4: came in the game, it probably we could count how
Speaker 4: many was out here. Right now it's very popular even
Speaker 4: with social media. But that was the cold you feel
Speaker 4: me the dudes was just you know, doing what they do.
Speaker 4: We came in the game and we got the girls
Speaker 4: moving absolutely, So the guys don't care they playing their
Speaker 4: homeboy song. They trying to break this record. They play
Speaker 4: trying to play the hottest record that's like the you know,
Speaker 4: the most trappiest song they could think of. We come
Speaker 4: in and just set the vibe and then now it's
Speaker 4: like now the dudes are opening up to that, and
Speaker 4: it's like all right now, y'all, you know, dropping different records.
Speaker 6: From you know, I'm bad idea to let a female
Speaker 6: close the club because we listened to music different than
Speaker 6: men do.
Speaker 1: So you guys have a okay, would you say you
Speaker 1: have a completely different ear than your male co workers? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Not the R and B lovers, some of them they
Speaker 3: be knowing.
Speaker 1: Do you think that you guys would be better R
Speaker 1: and B DJs than of course, I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: put nothing against nothing. I'm just saying because usually I
Speaker 1: feel like I was just always taught as a DJ
Speaker 1: and as a host, you play towards the women in
Speaker 1: the club because then the guys will follow the women.
Speaker 1: That's just how it go. So I feel like, who
Speaker 1: better than a female DJ to do an R and
Speaker 1: B party.
Speaker 2: Right, You don't see a lot of females doing R
Speaker 2: and B parties. I do.
Speaker 3: That's mainly my lane.
Speaker 4: Really, that's all I get booked for most majority of
Speaker 4: the time, and it's other stuff.
Speaker 3: I want to get into other genres.
Speaker 1: But R and B is you could play some shit
Speaker 1: that mother'd be like, oh, I forgot about that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play just the ship that I'm not R and B.
Speaker 1: I want to hear bang bang kill, shoot them up.
Speaker 7: You find it interesting when certain male DJs like do
Speaker 7: the R and B because it gives.
Speaker 8: Me like, oh, this is what the niggas like, like, oh.
Speaker 7: Song like that? I don't know, and I don't get
Speaker 7: sucked up. It's some fire R and B like male DJs.
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. I just I've never seen with
Speaker 1: my two eyes a female uh do an R and
Speaker 1: B party. I'm just gonna I'm gonna be a little ignorant.
Speaker 1: I don't really like R and B like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he hates.
Speaker 1: My wife loves R and B, so I played to
Speaker 1: her right, so I know what she likes. So if
Speaker 1: I'm doing some R and B vibes, I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: what I know My wife likes, which will then intend
Speaker 1: mother be like, what the hell do you even knowing
Speaker 1: about that? Cheeko? That's my cheakote. However, I just never
Speaker 1: saw a female.
Speaker 4: I mean, every Thursday don with Mixed Master, David Whiskey,
Speaker 4: Mistress R and.
Speaker 1: B Party, I need to come to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and miss Fire we playing everything, I mean from
Speaker 4: the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties to now, like it's everything.
Speaker 1: Mixed Master got a deep a deep bag absolutely told
Speaker 1: me we had like thirty thousand songs on his laptop.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, that's that's the way right now. Honestly,
Speaker 4: I feel like one, you know how Atlanta is once
Speaker 4: one thing hit and it's like ten thousand R and
Speaker 4: B parties.
Speaker 1: Now yeah yeah, okay, So all right, I hate to
Speaker 1: say it, but I know you ladies have personal lives
Speaker 1: as well. What is that like as a entrepreneur, because
Speaker 1: you guys are serial entrepreneurs. You you get paid to entertain,
Speaker 1: and then you have to have multiple things of income
Speaker 1: as well, because you know, you can't just do one thing,
Speaker 1: and especially in Atlanta, you know, starting with you, Sugar Shade,
Speaker 1: what how does your what does your personal life look like?
Speaker 1: As who you are.
Speaker 4: My personal life right now is like super busy. I
Speaker 4: don't have time for nothing.
Speaker 1: Like so youn't have time for personal life.
Speaker 3: My personal life.
Speaker 4: Majority of the time. When I need that time, I'm
Speaker 4: out of town or I'm out of the country. Honestly,
Speaker 4: when i'm literally I live in Atlanta to work. You know,
Speaker 4: if I'm not working, I'm not here. So if I
Speaker 4: need to get away to where I don't have to
Speaker 4: worry about things happening, I have to go out of
Speaker 4: town so I can like really like unwind. So if
Speaker 4: I am with a you know, an individual or the
Speaker 4: person that I deal with, I'm out of town majority
Speaker 4: at the time because that's where I feel more at peace.
Speaker 4: But when I'm home, it's constant. I have a tight
Speaker 4: schedule to run. I got dogs at you know me,
Speaker 4: and I have like, you know, all this business stuff
Speaker 4: I have to do, you know what I'm saying, just
Speaker 4: like we have to turn in mixes, invoices and making
Speaker 4: sure this is sent over. Like I have to dedicate
Speaker 4: just maybe my mondays to just making sure all my
Speaker 4: pa you know, all of that stuff is handled.
Speaker 3: So it's like you have to really be serious about.
Speaker 4: This because it's not a joke, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: And you feel guilty when you're not doing that because
Speaker 4: it's somebody else that's out here really.
Speaker 3: Like you know, doing what they need to do, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So you can miss one second or something or opportunity,
Speaker 4: so you always got to be on it. So really,
Speaker 4: the only time I have a personal life is when
Speaker 4: I'm not here.
Speaker 6: So my personal life I just choose like to stay
Speaker 6: off of social media, so I don't post my personal
Speaker 6: life like so people feel like they know me, but
Speaker 6: you only know what I post. So that's how I
Speaker 6: keep my sanity. But like she said, I'm always busy,
Speaker 6: Like from the time I wake up to the time
Speaker 6: I go to sleep, I'm always doing something.
Speaker 7: Okay, oh same, always busy, but I do obviously I got.
Speaker 1: A baby, so but you have a new baby.
Speaker 7: And I personally like the guys I date. I personally
Speaker 7: date like guys who I know are not jealous type
Speaker 7: of guys I'll date like mister moms, like I need
Speaker 7: a nigga that could cook.
Speaker 8: Because I'm not.
Speaker 7: I'm so busy and I'm traveling all the time, and
Speaker 7: I don't so I'm not in the kitchen cooking.
Speaker 8: My nigga could cook or you can.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's that's that's dope.
Speaker 7: Not jealous, he's not. He's a team player. Like he's
Speaker 7: whatever I need, whatever, he's right with.
Speaker 8: It, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: So and I personally like like I just just what
Speaker 7: I prefer to date, Like I prefer like when I
Speaker 7: even when I meet a nigga be like, do you
Speaker 7: know how to cook? Do you know how to X
Speaker 7: y Z? Do you know how to can you fulfill?
Speaker 7: Like like that's just a quite like you know how
Speaker 7: guys were looking for a girl who could cook clean
Speaker 7: And that's me.
Speaker 8: That's what I do when I.
Speaker 4: Have to be like that because we're like our personalities
Speaker 4: were dominant even for us to be in the position
Speaker 4: that we in. We dominate, so we can't even deal
Speaker 4: with certain type of guys.
Speaker 3: So you gotta fall in.
Speaker 4: You just signed up to be an assistant. Didn't even
Speaker 4: realize the ship you get like you did, and it
Speaker 4: just is what it is. And sometimes we try, I've
Speaker 4: tried to date guys.
Speaker 1: That's like a willing assistant.
Speaker 4: Yeah, willing, absolutely, you know what I'm saying, you gotta
Speaker 4: do it with a smile.
Speaker 5: I don't really like you. He's gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Now, what do y'all get y'all names from?
Speaker 4: Okay, so, uh, my homegirl Tiffany Fox shout out to Yes,
Speaker 4: Saint Louis or whatever. I've been cool for like fifteen
Speaker 4: years and like I've been sugar Shehet for like mad long,
Speaker 4: Like that's my best friend, She's she that. Yeah, sugar
Speaker 4: Shehet has always been my name, just even before DJ.
Speaker 4: And so once I decided to DJ, I wanted something
Speaker 4: that was already connected to me, so it just made sense.
Speaker 3: It was already a persona was already a thing.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, pretty simple? Is my middle name?
Speaker 1: Okay? I like yours? Well, first of all, I like
Speaker 1: all three y'alls, but I like yours because it's a
Speaker 1: penny and it's like a little it's a little logo.
Speaker 7: Y'all gonna probably laugh and how I got my name?
Speaker 7: But like, all right, so boom, I ain't start DJing.
Speaker 7: I started j I'm like twenty seven, right, so I've
Speaker 7: graduated college, had my degrees, I was working in corporate
Speaker 7: for ten years, right, so I'm finally I'm asking God like, y'all,
Speaker 7: I gotta get out of this, like I.
Speaker 8: Ain't trying to.
Speaker 7: I don't want to do this shit no more, Like
Speaker 7: I need da da da Can you move it around in.
Speaker 8: My life, make it happen for me? So Boom, one
Speaker 8: of my homeboys like, yo, I had a dream. I
Speaker 8: feel like you should dj DJ. He's like, no, yes
Speaker 8: you can.
Speaker 7: He's like, I had a dream, and he's like, I'm
Speaker 7: a teacher and my dream he wasn't somebody that I
Speaker 7: dealt with all the time or whatever, like we were
Speaker 7: cool and then so I'm like, no, I brushed it off.
Speaker 8: Then seeing him again, he's like.
Speaker 7: Bro, I keep having this dream that you need to DJ,
Speaker 7: and he like, just do one lesson with me, like
Speaker 7: no harm, no foul, whatever. So we did the lesson
Speaker 7: x y Z and I'm catching on and I'm wucking
Speaker 7: with it. I already love music all that shit. So Boom,
Speaker 7: as I'm practicing, I gotta coming out. He praanted me
Speaker 7: like a coming out party. I don't have no name yet.
Speaker 7: So I'm like, I'm driving to work one day, It's
Speaker 7: like six o'clock in the morning. I'm driving to work
Speaker 7: and Drake is on the radio and this nigga like
Speaker 7: it's happened in Penny Lane, just like you said.
Speaker 8: I was, like, my name was DJ.
Speaker 7: Penny, like I fucking said it was.
Speaker 8: So yeah, that's literally how I got my name.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So as again, entrepreneurs, what's like your
Speaker 1: end plan? Do you have a goal end result? Like
Speaker 1: is there a retirement type of plan that you guys have?
Speaker 7: So I feel like I don't like I'm about to
Speaker 7: be Jersey Jeff fifty sixty still fucking DJing, but not
Speaker 7: just only DJ and it's just that, you know, I
Speaker 7: do got I got recording studios, and I got artists.
Speaker 8: My artists can camp.
Speaker 1: On the top of the bottom.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I got a producer, scientist.
Speaker 7: I'm about to put out some music, about to do
Speaker 7: the okay for all that type of stuff. And then
Speaker 7: I'm transitioning and my R and B to my top
Speaker 7: forty to all that type of shit. So I just
Speaker 7: got a whole another little campaign because ever since I
Speaker 7: had my baby, I ain't I haven't went back to
Speaker 7: the clubs, Like I sound like a stripper.
Speaker 1: That's another episode on the way, by the way.
Speaker 7: It's like I was telling y'all like I like it's
Speaker 7: just like I just can't be not home with my baby,
Speaker 7: like like you feel me.
Speaker 1: So whatever works for you though, right right on the.
Speaker 7: Radio still and I do go through my fly y'all,
Speaker 7: do my dates and come right back the next ding
Speaker 7: and ship like that. But so yeah, like my end
Speaker 7: plan is a lot of ship, Like I plan to
Speaker 7: take this all away millions and millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Now you got a dope podcast, DJs Need Love to
Speaker 1: You featured meet on there. I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 1: I think that was a couple of years ago, but
Speaker 1: run that back for sure.
Speaker 6: But like, yeah, the podcast, and then I do have
Speaker 6: a business up and coming. Don't want to talk too
Speaker 6: much about it, okay, but because I don't want to
Speaker 6: be in the clubs as much. But I still do
Speaker 6: want a DJ long term though, but just when I
Speaker 6: want to.
Speaker 4: My end goal is just my time and my freedom.
Speaker 4: So I really want to live off the grid in
Speaker 4: another country, okay, and DJ when I feel like it,
Speaker 4: like when I want to, and it's gotta be like
Speaker 4: fuss and things like that, but I really want my time.
Speaker 4: I want to be able to just you know, I'm
Speaker 4: about the residuals at this point, make my investments.
Speaker 3: Do it I need to do. But I'm chilling.
Speaker 4: I want to get up and do whatever I want
Speaker 4: to do, you know what I'm saying. And that's just that.
Speaker 4: Like I want spaghetti today, I am going to Italy.
Speaker 4: Like that's the life that I want, like with my dogs,
Speaker 4: and I'm cool. I don't want the kids, like I'm
Speaker 4: cool on that.
Speaker 1: Oh you don't.
Speaker 3: I do not want children.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you already have your fur babies.
Speaker 3: Absolutely want in spirit.
Speaker 4: I can't talk about that because I'm gonna cry. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but one in spirit. But yeah, I'm a dog mom
Speaker 4: and yeah that's cool. That's all I want for a
Speaker 4: for real. Just my time, my freedom. I feel like
Speaker 4: time is so we put so much emphasis on money,
Speaker 4: but time is the ship.
Speaker 3: Like I love that and I just want to be away.
Speaker 2: Okay. Now, speaking on money, does.
Speaker 9: I guess the the uh what DJs make right now
Speaker 9: in Atlanta? Does that kind of take away from like
Speaker 9: really like the love of like wanting.
Speaker 2: To like be motivated to go do a club.
Speaker 8: Now I get paid, Yeah, I get paid what I
Speaker 8: want to.
Speaker 4: I get paid what I want to, But I don't
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say the money.
Speaker 3: I would feel like, honestly.
Speaker 6: Maybe burning yourself out, like working too much.
Speaker 3: I would say it's the crowd.
Speaker 4: When I DJ other places, they have so much fun
Speaker 4: and they're ready to receive it. DJing in Atlanta is
Speaker 4: like a I literally feel like I'm about to fight somebody.
Speaker 4: I'm on a defense. When I go other places, they
Speaker 4: be like, yo, you can relax. You could just chill enjoy.
Speaker 4: I don't even know how to do that because on
Speaker 4: DJ and Atlanta it's like, literally, I'm about to fight somebody.
Speaker 4: That's why, because I'm trying to see what you want,
Speaker 4: how you want this, and you got the promoter telling.
Speaker 3: You will turn up, but it's an R and B party,
Speaker 3: So turn up? What do you mean? Like, what are
Speaker 3: we talking about? You know what I'm saying. It's annoying.
Speaker 4: It's like y'all taking away from the aesthetic of how
Speaker 4: this ship is supposed to go. You can even create
Speaker 4: a vibe because they don't even like that. Everything rushed
Speaker 4: and so you know, I don't like that. Really, that's
Speaker 4: it's not the money, because I do get paid what
Speaker 4: I want, but it's just the whole it's the vibe.
Speaker 3: Like, why am I here? I could have stayed at
Speaker 3: home for this shit.
Speaker 6: I DJ a a party, big party on a Friday,
Speaker 6: and this was my first time doing that party, and
Speaker 6: a promoter up it was like, can I get a
Speaker 6: Drake set? I said, I'm gonna really feel like playing
Speaker 6: on Drake right now. And I said, I'm not the DJ.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna say the DJ's name, but I'm like,
Speaker 6: I'm not him, so I don't want.
Speaker 5: To play Drake.
Speaker 9: Work.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Now she's again, See he never booked you again? You
Speaker 1: didn't do tell me?
Speaker 8: Ain't I want to book you, but you're too expensive.
Speaker 8: I'm like, well, at least you know appreciate it.
Speaker 1: But that's what And that's what happened to me after.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I said this from the last DJ episode.
Speaker 1: I was DJing and y'all see me. I was Damnar
Speaker 1: seven days a week BT same thing, and my wife
Speaker 1: had our last baby and all my gigs. You know,
Speaker 1: I just took a break. I felt like I deserved it.
Speaker 1: I had been DJing so long. I've been in the
Speaker 1: club since I was eighteen, so I'm forty two. Now,
Speaker 1: that's how long I've been in the clubs, so I
Speaker 1: had took a break, and then when I was ready
Speaker 1: to come back, everybody was like, man, for I got
Speaker 1: this young guy and he's doing it for two hondred
Speaker 1: I'm over here.
Speaker 9: He gonna grow up one day words, and so I
Speaker 9: could have.
Speaker 1: He was like, oh, can we negotiate. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not negotiating. IM already give you a discount. And
Speaker 1: that's when I just stopped for a little bit. I
Speaker 1: haven't been back. I go back if he want me
Speaker 1: to come back, and we'll do some ship for the
Speaker 1: ball or show on the big weekend or something like that.
Speaker 1: But shit, I'm cool. I just I be DJing on
Speaker 1: the radio now and I touch away more people.
Speaker 3: I go around love.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I go around aid to.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: And I don't care if it's like off the you know, like, yo,
Speaker 4: why you dj R because it's not the hottest spot.
Speaker 3: Because they pay me good. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I'm eating chicken wings, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They'll pay me right as soon as I get there
Speaker 1: or before I get there. I don't got to call
Speaker 1: you and search for my bro.
Speaker 6: All my gigs, I have now I get paid the
Speaker 6: same night, Like that's what my gigs.
Speaker 5: I get paid the same night.
Speaker 4: And they know what you do. They ain't stressing you.
Speaker 4: Everybody's having a good Let you rock out, you.
Speaker 2: Know what it is. The women don't figured it out.
Speaker 6: DJ men you have to when you when somebody tries
Speaker 6: to bookie, you need to go ahead and put on
Speaker 6: the table what you expect, like this is what I want.
Speaker 7: Or that's why I have lost it because they hit me,
Speaker 7: they booked me or whatever they like, Yeah we do
Speaker 7: thirty I said I do today.
Speaker 2: What I.
Speaker 1: Got that today?
Speaker 5: That's like my second question when it's payout, because.
Speaker 1: It has to be that's usually my first question.
Speaker 4: My thing is too, not that I have a question,
Speaker 4: but I feel like we need to talk about how
Speaker 4: people miss the fact that DJing period is very emotional.
Speaker 4: It's very emotional, even for the men. A lot of
Speaker 4: the men are so emotional, like oh my God, like
Speaker 4: people have died over this ship because it's very emotional.
Speaker 1: It's a feeling because when you DJ, it's a feeling.
Speaker 4: They get so high or not only just that the
Speaker 4: competitiveness and I'm better than this nigga that nigga, like, yo,
Speaker 4: just do you who cares you? Feel me like, nigga,
Speaker 4: be ready to fight you over that ship. And it's
Speaker 4: like even for when we come into the picture, they
Speaker 4: looking at us like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Like it's like like I don't.
Speaker 1: Give a fun Yeah, yeah that happens. Oh no for shore.
Speaker 1: One time I'm a boy Alpo, they had me al pole,
Speaker 1: but luckily I posed my friend and we talked on
Speaker 1: the side and I quit because it was just too
Speaker 1: much jounk.
Speaker 4: People have died over this ship. DJs have died over
Speaker 4: jealousy for sure.
Speaker 9: Why I do feel like people in the clubs try
Speaker 9: to pin people against each other because like I dodn't
Speaker 9: been there, I done got booked the host places and
Speaker 9: they'll be like, oh, well, well you know such and
Speaker 9: such du it for this. I'm like, shit, go book that, nigga.
Speaker 3: I'm out word. It's not a p You'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I started as a home I started as a host,
Speaker 1: got bored because I was doing all a G parties
Speaker 1: and I just got bored. And then at the last
Speaker 1: thirty minutes of AG party, I would just get on
Speaker 1: with dj A's DJH would let me DJ for the
Speaker 1: last thirty minutes and then they was like, bro, you
Speaker 1: all right? So I bought some DJ equipment and I
Speaker 1: never forget a sneaker. A sneaker event offered me two
Speaker 1: grand to DJ this event, right. I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know how the DJ as he was like, Nigga,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a quick tutorial. And ever since then,
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, I I ain't had no music
Speaker 1: or nothing. Majority of my library, thank god, one time
Speaker 1: my boy DJ A's majority of my album A library
Speaker 1: is DJ A's and DJ Bluetooth. I got all their
Speaker 1: music and at the time I wasn't blended because I
Speaker 1: didn't know how to blend. I was playing the song
Speaker 1: is to go off and play another song because it
Speaker 1: was a DJ sneaker event. It was a sneaker event.
Speaker 1: And yeah, ever since then I started DJ. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's all emotion. I appreciate you ladies. We do got
Speaker 1: one more thing. You got another question?
Speaker 9: Uh not really listen to something that y'all want to
Speaker 9: touch on and talk about.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to do something called the mental health
Speaker 1: check in when you guys are you know again? We
Speaker 1: didn't talk to money long it's not called a bad day,
Speaker 1: I know. Right, So if you're having a moment, Penny Lane,
Speaker 1: you start, what do you What does Penny Lane do
Speaker 1: when she's having a moment, a bad day or a moment?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Do you meditate? Do you talk
Speaker 1: to a therapist? Like what do you do to feel bad?
Speaker 8: No? No, I get this.
Speaker 7: I'll be cussing everybody out, every name in the book,
Speaker 7: like if I be in the house all day, like
Speaker 7: just fucking talking ship you Like, I like that's what
Speaker 7: I just. I gotta get my ship off, like I
Speaker 7: gotta get my shirt out, and then like I don't
Speaker 7: really need that's my therapy for real, Like I ain't
Speaker 7: talking whatever it is. I'm talking all mad cast ship
Speaker 7: like I'm talking all types of ship. And then until
Speaker 7: I felt that's how I do because I ain't. I mean,
Speaker 7: I don't do the therapy and all of that, although
Speaker 7: I believe in therapy some people I believe in that.
Speaker 7: But yeah, if I'm having a bad day, I get
Speaker 7: my ship off and then I'm a shopper, like I
Speaker 7: go spend some money, buy some ship out.
Speaker 6: Like for me, well, I can say like recently I
Speaker 6: did I lost my dad. So I went to work
Speaker 6: the same day, but I just cry, Like that's how
Speaker 6: I get my emotions out.
Speaker 3: I'm a cryer.
Speaker 5: And probably go for a walk.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what you do. You go for walks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like bike ride, walk like anything outside.
Speaker 4: Okay, So yeah, for me, I just get it out
Speaker 4: in the gym, like I go crazy.
Speaker 1: And I thank you.
Speaker 4: I'll lift weights, I box, I'll do whatever I need
Speaker 4: to do because I'm very introverted, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't like to do a lot of
Speaker 4: arguing and stuff like that. I just literally put my
Speaker 4: piano on in my headphones and just go crazy for
Speaker 4: two hours, five days a week if that's what I
Speaker 4: need to do, and then catch a flight. So it's like, honestly,
Speaker 4: whenever I'm not in Atlanta, I am. I am me
Speaker 4: When I when my plane sets foot on the runway
Speaker 4: in Atlanta, I just be like it's like and I
Speaker 4: hate to be like that, but it's something I don't
Speaker 4: know if it's low vibration.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is. But it doesn't sit
Speaker 3: on my spirit no more.
Speaker 4: But it's like I have to get away because it
Speaker 4: does put me in a very negative spirit, like, but
Speaker 4: when I'm going, I'll be having a fucking blast.
Speaker 2: What's some of your favorite places of to.
Speaker 4: Loon is like my favorite right now? Like that's almost
Speaker 4: like my homeland. Like that's how I like to me too.
Speaker 4: I feel like, am I Mexican? Like what's going on?
Speaker 4: Like I really love it, Like I could go there.
Speaker 4: I literally, honestly I would live there. Like that's how
Speaker 4: much I love it because time stop and it's just
Speaker 4: so therapeutic. It's spiritual. So I'm on that type of
Speaker 4: you know, I'm very spiritual. I'm in tune. I get
Speaker 4: everything so I could feel it. So that's where I'm
Speaker 4: on right now.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm from Florida originally right outside of Disney World.
Speaker 1: This is a city called Kasimi. Nice, big ass Airbnb's pools, everything.
Speaker 1: Just take the wife and the kids down there and
Speaker 1: I just be cool. I had my little vacation. I
Speaker 1: tried to do it once a year for a week.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm telling y'all, like shit, you could you know,
Speaker 1: I have a family, So I got five kids, wife,
Speaker 1: blended family too, so two of my kids don't live
Speaker 1: with me. But but yeah, man, I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for you guys individually.
Speaker 2: What do you do BT, I told you he walked, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I walked like.
Speaker 9: Get in my sugar shape bag and I'd be like, man,
Speaker 9: I'm about to take I'm like, I'm going to Miami.
Speaker 9: I go to Mexico and all I need to do
Speaker 9: is be bosting waters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to have a flight book.
Speaker 4: Like as I'm waiting for my like to get home,
Speaker 4: I have another flight book before I get I cannot
Speaker 4: take it.
Speaker 3: Like it's at least twice a month. I have to
Speaker 3: be gone. I have to or I'm not gonna be okay.
Speaker 9: Man, I missed those days before I did radio full time.
Speaker 3: That's why I want to do radio.
Speaker 9: When I tell you he no, I used to, I
Speaker 9: mean having to stay on him, bro, I like, immediately
Speaker 9: look in my flight I'm leaving.
Speaker 1: I called him at least two three times a bro,
Speaker 1: don't forget we got this, because then we gotta do this,
Speaker 1: after this, this, after that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I do feel you though, like Atlanta do kind of
Speaker 5: get like low vibrations.
Speaker 4: It's it's sad to say, because I really this city
Speaker 4: like made me who I am, even though I'm, you know,
Speaker 4: born in New York, but it's changed.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is. If it's like the
Speaker 3: like I am from out of time. I don't know.
Speaker 3: After COVID, I don't know what's different, but it's just.
Speaker 1: It, don't I want to say, after COVID to me,
Speaker 1: I don't feel right. It was definitely a shift. I
Speaker 1: didn't like the shift, but I also would say, like
Speaker 1: everything is like about everything seems transactional. And when everything's transactional,
Speaker 1: you got remember I've been here since two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: Sous I graduated college. I went to grad school, dropped out.
Speaker 1: I told my parents I was gonna be on the radio.
Speaker 1: They was like, what I'm gonna show you? So I
Speaker 1: moved up here and it was just so open and
Speaker 1: friendly and helpful. And I want to say after I
Speaker 1: want to say the shift that I saw and personalities
Speaker 1: and everything being so transactional, it was twenty twenty one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but in twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: everything became so transactional. The big clubs are no longer.
Speaker 1: Everything's restaurants. And what can you do in a restaurant?
Speaker 2: Bro? Well, I think I think the economy.
Speaker 7: I felt like, y'all, man, I don't really I feel
Speaker 7: like we was having this conversation went away here, like
Speaker 7: I'm from up north, I'm from Philly. Like I feel
Speaker 7: like this is peaceful, Like I feel like you could
Speaker 7: get involved with what you want to get involved, or
Speaker 7: you could just be out the way like I be out.
Speaker 1: See that's the thing. I'm out the way. But I
Speaker 1: never used to be out.
Speaker 2: So you're coming from Philly. Yeah, so I've been to Philly.
Speaker 1: It's peaceful here com Philly. Philly is very like assion.
Speaker 2: Philly is really aggressed.
Speaker 1: I would like to say with my camera, I would
Speaker 1: like to say Philly is a lot more aggressive than
Speaker 1: New York.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, no, I've never.
Speaker 9: Seen when Philly don't even talk to each other like
Speaker 9: I'm talking about it is like you see a whole
Speaker 9: bunch of people talk to you New York, bro.
Speaker 3: Won't We're gonna walk past our cousin.
Speaker 1: They may look at you though, Philly mother to be
Speaker 1: like I'm over here, like yeah, it's scary.
Speaker 9: Like even when you go to restaurants like I wouldn't
Speaker 9: have I would to Philly when I did usher.
Speaker 1: Tour and I was like, man, I'm in Philly.
Speaker 2: I would have get a Philly tees.
Speaker 9: Second, I went to a restaurant and it's like the
Speaker 9: quietest restaurant I've ever been in.
Speaker 2: Like nobody's talking.
Speaker 8: It's like here.
Speaker 7: Whatever, it's like, excuse me sorry, it's like back home.
Speaker 7: You ain't like Leo, where the you going?
Speaker 8: Like yourself?
Speaker 7: Like you know what I feel? That's what I feel like.
Speaker 7: It's so peaceful down here. If you don't want to
Speaker 7: get involved with the bullshit, you don't have to. You
Speaker 7: could be in your space wherever you like.
Speaker 1: That's a good way to look at it, though, So
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't feel like that. I don't feel like i'd
Speaker 7: be needing a break or like one of that.
Speaker 2: Now I'll be feeling like Also, like the economy got people.
Speaker 9: You know, a lot of people that were making a
Speaker 9: lot of money before the pandemic they not making that money.
Speaker 2: So it's like it's almost like when you talk angry,
Speaker 2: they are angry.
Speaker 9: And it's like when you talk to somebody, you're right right,
Speaker 9: it's all transaction. It's like, how can I make money
Speaker 9: off you? It's not even like you know, I used
Speaker 9: to get calls, people checking up on me, people seeing like,
Speaker 9: oh man, I ain't seeing you out like where you being?
Speaker 2: I don't hear from none of these folks know.
Speaker 1: To try and borrow some money from me. That she's
Speaker 1: crazy a couple, y'all need me some money. But Penny Lane,
Speaker 1: start with you. Just popular ship anything you got going on,
Speaker 1: go ahead and promote it as we close out.
Speaker 7: You can follow me on the Instagram Penny More Proud,
Speaker 7: Penny More Proud. You can follow my business industry n
Speaker 7: D s t r O y A t L industryatl
Speaker 7: dot com. I'm about to drop my music next month,
Speaker 7: drop my videos, my content, go on that little run.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 5: Sorry, can you repeat that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Just pop your shit. Whatever you got going on promoted.
Speaker 5: Like I said.
Speaker 6: Follow me on Instagram at DJ Underscore m O n
Speaker 6: a E. I do have a DJ podcast. We interview DJ's,
Speaker 6: give them their flowers, and we do it at Penny Spot.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, but April twenty second, we are doing our
Speaker 5: three year anniversary.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: DJ sugar Shay mis give me some sugar. You can
Speaker 4: follow me at DJ s u g A s h
Speaker 4: a E. And I mean our DJ for Total. So
Speaker 4: we're gonna we're back out doing some spot days. Just
Speaker 4: got off of the Queens of R and B tour.
Speaker 4: We was going crazy all summer. But I don't know,
Speaker 4: I'm everywhere, you know what I'm saying, So I do
Speaker 4: a lot of different things to just follow me and
Speaker 4: just you know, keep up with the stuff I got
Speaker 4: going on. But I'm really you know, right now it
Speaker 4: is the first quarter, I'm kind of like, you know,
Speaker 4: laying load, getting my up. You gotta know, you gotta
Speaker 4: know when to chills, so you know, just taking care
Speaker 4: of me right now.
Speaker 3: But you know, stay tuned.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, my bad, I mean to cut you off.
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Speaker 2: The album's fired to by the way.
Speaker 8: I mean, look, I'm like, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it all right, man, Hey man, another great episode.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you ladies. We gotta definitely do a part
Speaker 1: two in front of a live audience. Yeah, so we
Speaker 1: get some Q and A from the audience.
Speaker 2: I appreciate.
Speaker 4: I feel like we needed a couple more questions of
Speaker 4: Like I felt like we need some more questions.
Speaker 2: Wait, that's what I said.
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, is it something y'all want to get
Speaker 1: on chair? What you want to do?
Speaker 4: Like, because a lot of times they be trying to
Speaker 4: be like with being a female DJ, like they they
Speaker 4: want us to judge others and how they present themselves
Speaker 4: or is that.
Speaker 3: Too what's too sexy? What's okay? What's appropriate?
Speaker 4: What's you know what I'm saying, Like they be on
Speaker 4: that type of shit and it's just like why do
Speaker 4: we go? It's people in general, like they feel like
Speaker 4: it's it's like a fine line that you can cross
Speaker 4: or you can't cross.
Speaker 2: Or you know, talking about when you come in dress.
Speaker 3: Yeah, period as a female DJ, like what's too far?
Speaker 3: What's okay? What's okay?
Speaker 1: So let me let me let me position this. Then
Speaker 1: when you guys are dressing for a gig, do you
Speaker 1: guys get judged based off of what you wear to
Speaker 1: the club or to a gig?
Speaker 4: Or they probably feel like certain girls have gotten certain
Speaker 4: opportunities because they are more willing to be more sexual,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, versus caring about the skill
Speaker 4: you feel me like stuff like that.
Speaker 5: So it's like we can't come to the club with
Speaker 5: a Nike take on.
Speaker 7: Like I even even to the point where like like
Speaker 7: I mean I dressed down, like I'm not wearing shoes
Speaker 7: to the club nor or I did that like when
Speaker 7: I was first coming up, and do you know that
Speaker 7: I did all the shoes.
Speaker 8: Then it got to the point where I want to
Speaker 8: be comfortable. But then when I go to my shoulds
Speaker 8: and I can put this shit on, like I'm so,
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 1: Feel like do you guys DJ and heels?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it depends to stand up for mad long.
Speaker 1: That's a three hour shift potentially four next day. So
Speaker 1: what's a comfortable, appealing shoe that you guys will wear
Speaker 1: outside of a sneaker?
Speaker 4: I mean, if I'm gonna put a love on, if
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put a live on, I mean you if
Speaker 4: I'm behind the boot, who's gonna see that?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Long as you walk, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: The right way, we know how to fix it up
Speaker 4: and make it look nice, but you know, it just
Speaker 4: be a lot I hear a lot of that combo
Speaker 4: about like well look at this or this person, she
Speaker 4: ain't got no clothes on.
Speaker 1: And I feel like and that's a promoter or somebody else,
Speaker 1: other DJs.
Speaker 3: Or just people, your mentors, just anything.
Speaker 2: Well people try to tell y'all how to dress.
Speaker 3: It not even tell you how to how to promote
Speaker 3: your brand.
Speaker 4: It's a certain way to like present yourself or just
Speaker 4: be careful certain things so you don't get certain type
Speaker 4: of attention in a way, it's like very it's a
Speaker 4: conversation that pretty much even if.
Speaker 6: You want it to be sexy, it's like you you know,
Speaker 6: like you'll have to deal with the drunk men come
Speaker 6: into the DJ.
Speaker 9: Like and and I and I wish that like most
Speaker 9: clubs would do, like a shout out to stats in
Speaker 9: in Charlotte. Uh, when I go host there, nobody's even
Speaker 9: allowed to get into the DJ. But when they got security,
Speaker 9: like right there, you not nobody a boy to come
Speaker 9: and request no songs.
Speaker 2: Nobody come.
Speaker 9: It ain't nothing. You see some what's up? But like
Speaker 9: they security don't play, they not nobody's getting on stage.
Speaker 9: And I wish a lot of other clubs did that too,
Speaker 9: to where you know security is protecting the DJ because
Speaker 9: in a sense of the music go out, it's like
Speaker 9: life's going out. So it's like you should be wanting
Speaker 9: to protect that energy space anyways, because I don't want
Speaker 9: nobody just coming up to the DJ moove like, hey,
Speaker 9: can you man get out my.
Speaker 8: Face when it comes.
Speaker 6: I like with women if you do, like Mick are weird,
Speaker 6: so like you could kind of just yo what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: Like you could dismiss a man and he'll like literally
Speaker 6: hold that grudge.
Speaker 1: And like I was gonna ask you this, do you gouty?
Speaker 1: Does Valet allow you guys to park up front?
Speaker 4: I usually always Valet, They just take my car and
Speaker 4: then somebody always walk me out. But it's like it's
Speaker 4: every Thursday I had to bring to security attention. This
Speaker 4: is one guy that I watches him. I watch this nigga, Yo,
Speaker 4: he's like so weird. It's a time I went up
Speaker 4: to the bathroom, like not even the main bathroom, went
Speaker 4: upstairs and then by something in my spirit was like, yo,
Speaker 4: like what if this nigga standing by the door? I
Speaker 4: come out, the dude like walking right behind me. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 4: if this nigga look at me one more time, like
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get fired because I'll fight him.
Speaker 3: I don't care about that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But I'm telling y'all to watch him, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, because he's very he's weird. I can go
Speaker 4: out to my car. One time, he like knocked on
Speaker 4: the door, like yo, this dude, Like I don't feel
Speaker 4: like he should be here. But there's been times that
Speaker 4: I had, like guys that cannot come if I'm in there.
Speaker 4: Not saying you banned from the club, but if I'm working,
Speaker 4: you can't come in there.
Speaker 1: I've never correct me if I'm wrong. I've never really
Speaker 1: seen you guys come to clubs by yourself. Correct I
Speaker 1: come to the I'm gonna just.
Speaker 8: Say no myself, don't.
Speaker 9: Oh well right, I've seen you guys with people sometimes
Speaker 9: to day people if you come by yourself, are you
Speaker 9: getting escorted out to your car?
Speaker 8: They always have always get the park.
Speaker 1: I never paid attention to that. And I've been rocking
Speaker 1: with y'all for a minute.
Speaker 7: And then the other part. I know we talked a
Speaker 7: lot about like the male and the female, like DJ's
Speaker 7: et cetera, et cetera. But it'd be a lot of
Speaker 7: jealousy within the female DJs too, like what you wear,
Speaker 7: what you're dressing, girl tating on you because of your
Speaker 7: opportunities or whatever whatever. Girls fake acting like they like you,
Speaker 7: they don't really fuck with you. Like all type of
Speaker 7: talking shit behind your back. All that should be going
Speaker 7: on too, So it don't be just with the biggas.
Speaker 1: Okay, how do y'all?
Speaker 2: How do y'all maneuver through that?
Speaker 7: Me personally, I've got on blonders, Like I don't feel
Speaker 7: like none of them, none of these people is my competition.
Speaker 8: Like, I got blonders on this what I want.
Speaker 7: I can't DJ every party, I can't be on every station,
Speaker 7: I can't be at every event. I just got blonder
Speaker 7: a sept my goals, and I go ahead. I don't
Speaker 7: be worrying about what nobody else doing, what they got
Speaker 7: going on, with they wearing like none of that shit.
Speaker 7: I literally just keep my blinders on, And I feel
Speaker 7: like that's how I've even been able to just accomplish
Speaker 7: all my goals and do everything that I wanted to do.
Speaker 5: You feel me, and I just learned I just don't
Speaker 5: take it personal. This industry. You can't take nothing, and the.
Speaker 9: People that's booking you don't care, Like like, I don't
Speaker 9: get why people don't understand that. It's like when somebody
Speaker 9: go and hates on somebody, because I feel like that
Speaker 9: happens often, you know what I'm saying, Because you you
Speaker 9: might go to a club and you might body the
Speaker 9: club right then there might be some people over there
Speaker 9: just watching you body the club and you never get.
Speaker 2: Booked again, and you like.
Speaker 1: Shit behind the scenes.
Speaker 9: But then but then you thinking, I remember it was
Speaker 9: such and such that was watching me the whole time,
Speaker 9: So you know, you.
Speaker 5: Just never know who it probably undercutted you or something.
Speaker 2: Not even that.
Speaker 9: I just I just feel like we had we had
Speaker 9: we got one of our young bulls.
Speaker 2: Uh he was. He was telling us.
Speaker 9: He was like, man, somebody said I wasn't good and
Speaker 9: I was doing this party and he was the way
Speaker 9: he was explaining to us. We so seasoned were like, oh,
Speaker 9: we already know who got you out the way.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I never forget I was doing. I was closing at
Speaker 1: this club for about three months and I always got
Speaker 1: my money. It was cool, negotiated, it was good. Feet too.
Speaker 1: So one time the promoter had to get he went
Speaker 1: and got my money for me. He was like how
Speaker 1: much you get? I was like, yeah, I get this amount.
Speaker 1: He was like, no, you don't. I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: I do. I screenshot the text for me and OG
Speaker 1: sent it to him. He was like, wow, did y'all
Speaker 1: know that I stopped working there the following week? Whoa
Speaker 1: true story?
Speaker 9: That's true study hosting and and nobody, nobody like the person,
Speaker 9: the person that had nothing to do with him getting paid.
Speaker 9: The promoter had nothing to do with him receiving his money.
Speaker 9: His deal was going through the owner.
Speaker 1: I always negotiated my deals with owners. I never necessarily
Speaker 1: did a promoter. If I did a promoter, me and
Speaker 1: you have a relationship much. But that's what I negotiate
Speaker 1: with owners. I always talk to owners. That's just who
Speaker 1: I always dealt with. So if it's a promoter thing
Speaker 1: that I do something with, that's my homeboy. Or I
Speaker 1: funk with you and you know you're gonna pay me
Speaker 1: before I get there type ship. So if I do,
Speaker 1: or if it's like a favor and the owners paying
Speaker 1: me from his directly, I'm not getting no money from nothing.
Speaker 1: That has anything to do with anything. And I have
Speaker 1: really good, long standing relationships with owners too, like this
Speaker 1: this is my potma motherfucker's at my wedding type ship.
Speaker 1: So nigga, you don't nigga, I can get you fired
Speaker 1: if I want to, but it don't be that. It
Speaker 1: won't be that deep.
Speaker 2: But he put on a game about that life like
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 9: He was like, hey, he said, I know you rock
Speaker 9: with a lot of these promoters, but he was like,
Speaker 9: start getting started building a relationship with these owners because
Speaker 9: you're gonna start getting paid more.
Speaker 2: And I start.
Speaker 9: I started doing that, and I remember like one of
Speaker 9: my one of my DJ potterers, he was like, man,
Speaker 9: you know this person was saying something about you to
Speaker 9: the to like one of the promoters, and he was like,
Speaker 9: but I said, hey, man, that they gonna fire you
Speaker 9: before they try to get rid of BT, because BT
Speaker 9: got a relationship with plus owner.
Speaker 6: Plus the promoter ended up like the party ended up
Speaker 6: like dying down.
Speaker 5: The probably would keep you.
Speaker 9: He gonna keep you, and he gonna add new promoters
Speaker 9: on to the party. So it's it's like it's more
Speaker 9: like building yourself up for longevity.
Speaker 1: Really good promoters there are some very good, good business
Speaker 1: promoters out there shout out to y'all talking about y'all
Speaker 1: talking about the one very.
Speaker 2: Few though very few.
Speaker 4: Like piggyback off of the jealousy comment like that come
Speaker 4: with the territory, like you should expect any of that
Speaker 4: type of stuff, and like just keep it moving, like
Speaker 4: that's that stuff you welcome.
Speaker 3: It's cool.
Speaker 4: Ain't no big deal, like longest, like nothing, none of
Speaker 4: that should bother anybody, honestly, at the end of the day.
Speaker 4: It's people that's like celebrities like Beyonce, people got shipped
Speaker 4: say about her. You know what I'm saying, like it
Speaker 4: come with it, like it just is what it is.
Speaker 4: So it's definitely not nothing to even worry about or
Speaker 4: lose sleep or none of that. Ship Like as long
Speaker 4: as we respectful, like, ain't no big deal.
Speaker 9: And I tell people were stronger together, right, Like if
Speaker 9: y'all three ladies, if somebody's trying to book y'all, y'all say, man,
Speaker 9: we all set our price at this.
Speaker 2: The mic can't hear it. We all set our price
Speaker 2: at this.
Speaker 9: So now when they try to call you to undercut
Speaker 9: this person, they're gonna be like, damn like what this
Speaker 9: what the bar said, And I feel like that's the issue,
Speaker 9: Like that the problem because we had, you know, the guys,
Speaker 9: they came on the show and they was, you know,
Speaker 9: frustrated about the pay and stuff like that of what
Speaker 9: they get for closing. And in reality, if this DJ,
Speaker 9: if everybody's like, yo, this is our price.
Speaker 2: This is minimal, you know what I'm saying. Now, everybody's
Speaker 2: gonna be at the same level.
Speaker 9: Some people are gonna be here, some people like this
Speaker 9: the minimum it would be a bar set tough, like
Speaker 9: this is what you gotta pay.
Speaker 6: But you got to think about the DJs who don't
Speaker 6: DJ a lot, that practice all day, who want to
Speaker 6: be in those.
Speaker 4: And everybody not in the same place in their career
Speaker 4: for that or money wise, lifestyle wise or whatever. So
Speaker 4: a five hundred might be seemed good to me, but
Speaker 4: somebody else might need a stack. Like It's just everybody
Speaker 4: is in different places, so we can't necessarily do that.
Speaker 4: And then of course we're in a market in Atlanta
Speaker 4: where people just they don't give a fuck, they just
Speaker 4: want to DJ.
Speaker 1: In Future might walk in and I hit the DJ when.
Speaker 3: We don't care.
Speaker 4: We see future walking down the street, like they're not
Speaker 4: celebrities to us here are not celebrities to come.
Speaker 5: To see little baby baby at the taco spot.
Speaker 3: Right and you're not even tripping it, like not even
Speaker 3: pulling your phone out.
Speaker 1: Again, you guys are very season veteran DJs. The young
Speaker 1: ones be taking down their pennies to no penitenden to DJ.
Speaker 1: And again that's what That's why I'm telling you, Like
Speaker 1: I just I appreciate you guys pulling up. I would
Speaker 1: love to do a Part two in front of a
Speaker 1: live round.
Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, that would be dope. Yah yo, you know
Speaker 9: what would be really dope. And this is just an
Speaker 9: idea that I have, Like if we have the male
Speaker 9: DJs the female DJs, then we do a Q and A.
Speaker 1: That's fine, you know because we because I have this experience,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Everybody expand this because I
Speaker 1: think the conversation never really happened to the level word
Speaker 1: involves everybody's comments and thoughts and concerns. Because we did
Speaker 1: a promoter episode.
Speaker 2: We need to put the promoters in the crowd. And
Speaker 2: if DJ is on state, look, why are you so cheap?
Speaker 2: We are?
Speaker 1: We aren't going to get to the bottom of this
Speaker 1: Valet ship. Oh yeah, we definitely got to have a
Speaker 1: Valet episode with some Valet guys because Valet Valet. I'm
Speaker 1: going to cut their ass out. They be fucking up
Speaker 1: people cars, They be charging one hundred dollars on the
Speaker 1: bro Come.
Speaker 2: On, everybody, know this is only two people.
Speaker 9: I first, I used to didn't like securities, like at
Speaker 9: the clubs, because I would just feel like security just
Speaker 9: be super aggressive. And then when a nigga walking club
Speaker 9: with a tattoo on his face, they ain't checking him,
Speaker 9: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But I do want to do the live audience though,
Speaker 5: I feel like we should collapse.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna were gonna figure it out. I got you.
Speaker 2: We're doing something.
Speaker 1: We're doing something Revolt, which we may be able to
Speaker 1: do it at Revolt and have a live audience there too,
Speaker 1: so you know, but if we do it at Petlines,
Speaker 1: but that might be cool too, if it has some
Speaker 1: space for a crowd, I'm okay cool.
Speaker 4: I appreciate y'all, ladies, thanks for having us