WEBVTT - #289 - DJ Drama 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.560 Bulet keV Show. We got DJ Drama in here. Welcome 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:07.000 way to start. It's been a long time in the making. Yeah, 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:09.400 I mean I went to Atlanta during the pandemic and 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.799 we kind of did like a little generation now yep, 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.680 but yeah, you being here, Yeah, it's about fucking time. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.080 I feel like I've been stalking you. It felt, I mean, well, 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:22.360 never that. I mean, you're my guy, like Yo Drama, 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.000 when you're coming on the fucking show, you're in LA 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.720 all the time. Yeah, it has, and I have been 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:28.720 putting it off for some time. But I have reason 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.080 to be here. I got a fucking new album, new album. 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:32.600 I wanted to you know what I mean. I wanted 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:34.920 to be I wanted to be timely and I knew 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.320 a conversation with you is you know significant. You know 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.000 what I'm saying for sure? Why I do say. DJ 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.360 Drama is the greatest hip hop DJ of all time. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.400 It's big, the greatest of all time. I'm not saying 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:52.239 it's scratching and fucking transforming and shit, but you're the greatest. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.800 Go so hold on. Let me thank you first of all. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:00.240 So if they're making a for fifty years of hip 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.600 and they make a DJ list, like of the greatest 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.040 DJs in fifty years, you're putting me, I don't even 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:12.319 think it's a discussion. Wow, I mean it would be 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:17.040 hard for me to agree, humbly. I would like to 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.800 be in the top five. But if we're talking fifty years, 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.520 were talking Jazzy Jeff, we talking no, no no, no, no, Listen. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:28.640 I'm talking about listen because Jazzy Jeff probably like, like, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:34.440 there's guys who are really good at DJing, Yeah, party rockers, 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.440 fucking I mean, we can go on and there's like 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.840 some but I just think when I think of like 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.959 your cultural impact on the last twenty years of rap music, 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.280 it is literally not even a discussion. Nobody has ever 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.000 impacted hip hop culture as a DJ the way you have. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.360 And I don't even think and like, listen, you can 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.080 go back to cool Herk. We'll cool Herk a DJ 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.680 or rapper. He was a DJ Okay, so we kind 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.400 of started it. Yeah, but I'm talking about bro. I'm 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.760 fucking thirty six. So when I was coming up, it 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.959 was funk flex. I had like the sixty minutes of 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.720 funk shit. I was getting DJ clue tapes and then 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.560 when I started bootlegging shit and selling shit at the 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.560 swat Me. It was like all gangster grill shit. But 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:22.600 we're talking about your fingerprints are all over it all 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:28.799 Jeezy Wayne for Rell, Gucci. You just want to fucking 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.720 Grammy with Tyler the Creator. Broh, you put a you 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.960 want to Grammy with a gangster grills? What are we 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.640 talking about? A gangster grills want to Grammy? I've done 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.320 some shit, man. I'm really like that. I really think that, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.239 like people can say what they want, Like I mean people, 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.040 There's been even artists. There's been a guy like listen. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.400 DJ Khaled for sure has put out bigger songs than 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:57.639 you as an artist, right right, But like I forget 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.760 the name of the Little Wayne DJ Khalid tape, but 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.520 it wasn't that big of a deal. It had had 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.519 a gem on there though, But you remember which tape 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.200 I'm talking about. Yeah, it was called the Fuck the 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:13.000 Reap or the six the Suffix six six, yeah, the suffix. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.239 But we're talking about the Dedication shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.280 we're talking about dedication. We're talking you just like I mean, 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.280 even like she like Little Brothers, Gangsta Grill, just so 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.919 many like your fingerprints are everywhere, Like you just told 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:30.480 me a story about your first tape with Gucci? Were 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.280 you removed Nicki Minaja's verse because she wasn't popping yet? 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.760 Oh God, why are we talking about this? Nikki? I apologize? 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:44.800 So what happened? Me and Gucci's first actual gangster girls? 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.400 We actually did one with Yogatti first. It was called 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.560 Definition of a g That was the first tape me 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:55.360 and Gucci had did together. It was collaboration Gotti, Gucci 0:03:55.400 --> 0:04:00.480 and me. The first official Gucci man Gangster Grills was 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.680 called the Movie. And when he brought it to me, 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:08.280 the first song that was for the tape, the first 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.840 voice you heard on the on the tape was Nicki Minaj. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:20.240 Obviously this is an early Nicki Minaj and disrespectfully, you know, 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.560 I felt like we can't have a gangst of girls 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.320 with me and Gucci and the first voice you hear 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:31.880 not be Gucci, So I removed her her verse from 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.160 that song. I feel terrible to this day. Did she 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:39.120 did she know it was your decision? I don't know 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.320 she she may know now, But in defense, I will 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:48.480 say that I made sure out of everyone that Nicki 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.679 Minaj was on Dedication three because Nicki Minaj was about 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.359 to get left off of Dedication three. She was calling 0:04:56.400 --> 0:05:00.919 me directly, say Drum please, don't won't let the tape 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.240 come out without me on there, And I said, I 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.640 got you. So Nicki Minaj is on Dedication three directly 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.680 because I made sure she was on there, so you 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:12.240 got it. It came back. I'm trying to make it up. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.719 I'm trying to, you know, did anyone ever hear the 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.880 Nikki verse that you remember? Did you ever use it 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.600 anywhere else? Did that? I don't. I really don't know. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.000 I don't know whatever came from that. We'd have to 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.479 probably ask Gucci, do you still have like your og 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:31.200 email access? I wish I had a gangster grills dot 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.159 Com Gmail that it was probably just some shit in there, 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.160 probably so crazy. I used to get these fucking beats 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:44.440 from this like random email from like it was like 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:48.040 a boy idea or something like. I was like, who 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:52.360 is this boy idea sending me all these beats like 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.400 in like oh five oh six used to flood my 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.720 email because you know how to pronounce the names weird 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.719 name and now looking wanted to I've told him that 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.920 I've definitely we've talked about that like shit was crazy, Yeah, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.479 because I just think about like even the last two 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.200 or three years, the research, Like if you think about it, 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.120 we went through this weird cycle where the blogs would 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.920 drop the no DJ version of mixtapes as well as 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.920 the DJ versions of mixtapes, and I remember you having 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:22.480 an issue with that and I felt used, yeah, because 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.040 they would use the Gangster Grills brand, yeah to like 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.000 launch it and then like a week later and it 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.440 would drop like a no DJ version without your shit 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.320 on it, Like what the fuck? But now we like 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.800 kind of like came back around. Now everybody is getting 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.080 the Gangster Grills and they're dropping them on DSPs, Like 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.239 I mean, shout out to Geeperico. You guys just dropped 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.960 that one. There was a day recently where I feel 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:46.880 like you had three tapes come out on one day, 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.920 and one day I dropped GZ Snowfall Snoop an NBA 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:55.240 Young Boy. That was crazy, Like I was like on that. 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.680 That was like right after I won DJ of the 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.800 Year or two at the Hip Hop Awards. I was like, Oh, yeah, 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.880 I'm coming. I'm coming for the next Year's a word, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.560 how like how much do you feel like because if 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.080 people don't know you're also you Lake and Don have 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.000 cultivated a label called Generation Now that has two of 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.200 the biggest superstars in hip hop period at the moment, 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:23.360 Jack Harlan little uzzy. Yes, so you've obviously been busy. Yeah, 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.040 you've been putting. You've also put out records. You've been 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:27.880 you've been listening. It's like you never went anywhere. But 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:34.120 do you feel like the Tyler album sparked the Gangster 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:39.400 Grills resurgence? Thousand thousand percent. Gotta gotta tip your head 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.560 off to you know, I saw something and say, like, 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.120 of all people, who would have thought Tyler creator, who 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.920 if people have called a weirdo for thus long, would 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:54.400 bring gangster Grills back to life? Like yeah, I mean one, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:59.640 just the ingenious idea of him, of the concept of 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.400 him making his album a Gangster Girls and utilizing me 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.560 the way it did. And two obviously us winning a Grammy, 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.480 Like come on, you can't you can't deny like Tyler 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.120 had a lot to do with it. And I still 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.120 think that that, Like, you know, just even recently I 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.120 saw like Benny and Westside Gun make some references like yo, 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.760 we got drama out of his executive bag. Like, you know, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.840 even before Tyler, I had I had you, I had 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.760 tod be a ship. I did some Ship on Guns projects, 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.120 so you know, there were some other projects you know, 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.120 out there. So I think like there, you know, clearly, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.600 like as a brand, Gangster Girls was still strong. But 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:42.120 I think, you know, the the response and just what 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.800 Tyler's album did, like really, that's we have a lot 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.280 to thank for that for sure, like or even a 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.079 jeezy Snowfall like that was in the works, by the way, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.280 the best g Z album. And I don't know what 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.760 we're taking ten years sometime, it's been it's been a while. Yeah, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.400 we were in New York riding around listening in that ship. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.640 When it came out, I was like, god, damn Jesu 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.360 back on his ship. Yeah, nah, I had that feel. 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.520 And then you guys are doing the shows together. Yeah, 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.360 that was fun. That was that was dope. That was 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.960 a good time. So when Tyler hits you up, because 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:16.680 obviously you're you're you're extremely culturally aware, I don't like 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.800 I feel like some people might think, oh, DJ Drama 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:20.720 just knows what was popping in the strip club whatever, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.480 but like, you know, what's up, So like Tyler reaches 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.120 out to you. I'm sure you know how big this 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.760 can be because Igor was huge. Oh yeah, I mean 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:34.440 without question. I mean I remember, you know, because we 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.800 started it in twenty twenty during the pandemic. So I 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.120 was doing like zoom interviews and calls, and I knew 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:45.440 it was it was coming, and like you know, obviously 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:46.880 I couldn't talk about it, but I was like, you know, 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.000 I got some big shit coming. No. I think during 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.520 our interview you were like alluded to something coming, Yeah, 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.280 but you can talk. I couldn't talk about it. But 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.760 Lake even the session that he came to Lake. Lake 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.280 came to the second session we did. We did like 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:03.479 three or four. His first was the second session, and 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.040 when he heard the music like off top, he was like, Yo, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.280 your niggas going want to grammy for this, Like he 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.920 said it just playing in simple, clear as day, like 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.120 your niggas going want to grammy? And like he called it, 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.520 are the songs already done? And then you get brought 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.520 in to like collaborate with him on like the shit 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.800 you're gonna say, like what's that process? Like album's done? 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.440 And then you come in after or are you like 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.920 in there when he's recording any verses Like, yeah, for 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.600 the most part, it was done. I mean, Tyler's so 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.360 genius and creative, like he had already even when he 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.319 first came up with the idea, he had taken random 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.600 DJ drama vocals from like another project and they put 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.880 him on there, placed it on like where he thought 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.120 I should talk or what it would sound like, just 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.319 so he could hear it, and then like you know, 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.719 we we vibed a lot, like we sat in the 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.840 studio and talked and just talked music and you know, 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.600 vision and things like that. He told me, you know 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.720 what his what the concept and where he wanted to 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.319 go and just about life the last couple of years. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.079 And you know that's literally how I like to work too, 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.840 like a lot of you know what I what I 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.040 like to say on projects or you know, the direction 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.520 I go. I like to work off of you know, 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.800 I mean, I feel like it's an art in its 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.520 own sense, so you know, I work off of inspiration. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.959 And then yeah, I would go into booth and I 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.640 would I would say some ship and play around and 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.520 then he would like kind of like be like yo, 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.240 like say like I'm on the boat and I'd be 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.640 like a boat, like, oh my god's frock crazy and 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:41.120 like you know, talk about like having my toes out 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.040 and shit like that. So you know, he was that. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.280 That was one that you know, a lot of times 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.160 when I do tapes, I normally like to do them 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.160 in my own zone. But obviously it was like collaborative, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.960 very collaborative. And but you know, I mean he's a 0:11:55.360 --> 0:12:00.160 he's a one man army, so you know, production like everything, 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.320 he does it all. So a lot of a lot 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.320 of it he had had done, but then during the 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.360 session some of the music changed. But even while I 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.360 was in there, he was still kind of like working 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.520 on production and you know, going in and things like that. 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.079 It's crazy too, because one of your more underappreciated projects 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.120 was the one with Pharreal. It's like kind of a 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.640 cult classic, but that kind of ended up being like 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.920 the there's no call me if you get lost, if 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.880 there's no far Real tape. Yeah, but it's but you know, 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.800 to me or in my travels, like the way Dedication 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.760 and Trapp or Die is to certain people, the forar 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.560 Real tape is to certain people, like I've had a 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.960 lot of it's like a cult classic. It is and 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.440 I've had a lot of a lot of people from 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.960 a certain like you know, like hipster kids or just 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:55.000 like you know, not not the what you would think 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.840 the normal gangster girls listener like come up and like yo, 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.719 that forar real tape changed my life, Like the Arrow 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.480 gangst the Grills was like it was this for me, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.880 like so an artist too, Like that was definitely one 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.880 of those ones. And obviously that was a big inspiration 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.760 for somebody like Tyler growing up. So yeah, that was 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.760 that was that was a big That was a big 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.320 tape for me. I mean because you know, at the time, 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.800 Farou was already like a god, you know what I'm saying. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.199 Of course, so when he was on a skateboard p vibes, 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.400 Like when when I got that phone call, Like yeah, 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.720 I think you know that. I think that's the only 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.480 mixtape he's ever done in his career, you know what 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.960 I'm saying. So for us for me to be a 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.000 part of that, and when I got that call and 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.080 then just like you know, just that's that's one of 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.960 those tapes that definitely is one of the greatest ever, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.839 Like you know, the way it's put together, the zone 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:48.680 I was in, like this shit was incredible for you. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:54.120 How because I'm assuming nowadays if a major label artist 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.640 wants against the grills, one you have to fuck with 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.880 the music, but two they have to have the back 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.520 they're not getting against the grills, I'm assuming is that 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.760 fair to say? Or you have to be cutting on 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.160 the project in some aspect? Yeah, the way that I mean, 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:15.280 because like things have changed, Uh in the music business. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:16.880 It's not the same way it used to be. No, 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.800 it's not the same way. So there's you know, the 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.760 way that we approached the business has changed and elevated. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:30.400 The cost of a gangster grills is not what it 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.720 was in the mid two thousand. But you get a cut, 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:35.960 I get, I get more. You should get something, yeah, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.360 published there's more than just a check involved, right right, 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.440 for sure, some residual income there absolutely in the In 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.280 your peak, though, what was the biggest bag you ever 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.680 got to do a gangst the grills because you had 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.800 some random ass gangster grills floating around? Yeah, I did, 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.840 and it was obviously like I know what this one was. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.840 I think it probably was, to be honest, it probably 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.760 came from an athlete. It probably was like a good 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.040 like in in the earlier days. It was it was 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.320 maybe like a forty piece or something like forty against 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.120 the Girls? Was it for like the athletes rapper? Yeah? 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:16.200 Was this what's your athlete? Carmelo Anthony? I did do one. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.880 I did it. I actually did do one for Carmelo 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.560 sounds about. It wasn't that one. But I've done some. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.840 I've done some very notable remember thing going, yeah, we 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:31.880 never did again by that point, I don't. Katie never 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.320 came to me for Against the Grills, but shot the 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:41.200 KD doing Jackson. But yeah, I've done you know, Jason Terry, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:48.760 Deshaun Jackson, Jason Terry, Sante Samuels, uh Meta shot the 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.520 Metal World Peace Round. Our test has a Gangster Girls 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.000 where he's actually rapping on the course, of course he 0:15:55.040 --> 0:16:01.640 does Steven Stephen Jackson, Yeah, he was. Yeah, we got some. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.040 There's some more out there too. You were running it, 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.240 you know, actually fun, a fun time. Indeed, my boy 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.040 Vi the Ruler, I know, had one early from you, 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.960 like from Phoenix, and I know he paid for it. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.120 But VI's like my dog, so I remember, like I 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:17.800 hosted his next tape and he's like, yeah, I got 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.720 a whole project with DJ Drama. I'm like, DJ Drama 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.440 knows you though, but that was probably what was that 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:29.520 like twenty thirteen twelve? Okay, but yeah, man, so this 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.000 new album, you got the new single with Hey Boogie 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:36.640 Wholse one single, little Baby, Little Baby, and a what's 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.640 the name of the album. I'm really like that. I'm 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.360 really like that. Yeah for you? Are you taking like? 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:49.160 Cause there is one thing about DJ projects that can 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:53.360 get hairy, and usually they don't sound very cohesive. Usually 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.880 it just sounds like songs. It's like a bunch of 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.800 songs crammed in with the hottest of hot. It's not 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.240 very cohesive. You gets hit sing off of them. But 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.320 if I'm pressing play from start to finish. That's why 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:04.600 I got to give it up to Metro Booming. And 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.320 I know he's not a DJ as a producer, yeah, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.440 but the way he curated his album in credible, it's 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.760 fucking insane. What approach did you take for this? Something similar? 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.119 Where I wanted to make a cohesive body of work 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.040 from beginning to end, where it was an album not 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.399 of just songs, but you know, something that people would 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.560 put on at the top and you know, let a 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:32.720 ride and like you know, interesting collaborations, not just necessarily 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.359 like Chase names, like you know, just artists that I 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.359 think are dope, that I would love and wanted to 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.640 hear together and like you know, great voices and great 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.359 production and like you know, really make a good body 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.160 of work. I feel like this is my best body 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:52.400 of work since Quality Street Music. My Quality Stream Music won, 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:57.440 which came out about ten years ago. So that was 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.520 was not the one that had the Jeremi record, the 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:07.160 jem My rack. No, that was yeah, yep, yeah my moment, Yeah, 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:11.080 my moment, that was right, and that was ten years ago. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.840 Yeah fuck man, I'm old as fuck. Yeah, that was 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:16.520 my moment was on there. We had a lot of 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.960 we had some gems on there. Yeah. For you though, 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.520 like it's crazy because with all your success, right you 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.200 have like you see a guy like DJ Khaled who's 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:30.240 put out like these gigantic anthems. Meanwhile you have like 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.639 you have gems, you got like dope records, like you 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:38.040 got plaques as a DJ. But you also as to 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.040 where like maybe we the best didn't necessarily work out 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.360 too crazy on the artists, ie, you got generation now, 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:48.160 which is like man, fuck, kudos to you. Guys, why 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.480 do you think like you never really reached the heights 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.600 as a solo DJ because there was a point in 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.240 time where you were on Atlantic and then you ended 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.120 up at coch right mm, and you had some really 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.320 want but you had some really big records that maybe 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:06.680 just weren't like I feel like we're slept on or 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.040 didn't like pop in the way that maybe I thought 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:10.479 they should have. Like why do you think that is? 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.480 I don't know, that's a good question. I mean, are 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.840 you saying in comparison to call it or just in 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.239 my own just in your like, like I feel like 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.520 you had records that could have been fucking number one records. Yeah, 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.879 I mean, I you know, I definitely had some records 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.960 that Charter that did amazing for me. My Moment was 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.840 one of them. Wishing was another one that was a 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.560 big record. Yeah, you know what I mean at that 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.600 space or point in my career. You know, I'm kind 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:46.280 of like in comparison, like I'm more of a reserve 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:50.040 type of person like obviously Kali. It is a very personality, 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.280 very big personality, you know what I'm saying that and 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.679 that that took him to like amazing heights and you know, 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.040 I tip my hat off to him, kudos to like 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.080 all his success. But you know, like for me, like 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:06.800 there was just my my route and you know how 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:10.360 I attacked the game was a little it was it 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.439 was over here, you know. But but I think that 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.840 was dope about it is that you know, there's a 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:19.760 there's like obviously there's room and there's space for both 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:23.199 of us to be these these dominant figures and like 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:27.480 go to people that can inspire other DJs, you know, 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.159 want to be the next Calid or you guys are 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.879 like the bar for sure, you know. And like for me, 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.960 it was like, you know, even outside of just my records, 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.399 it was like all right, I'm still putting out tapes 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.440 out of classics through those years, like whether it was 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:46.440 fab or whether it was was so good there Korean Chasers, 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:51.439 you know, Childish Gambino tape, like Jeremiah tape, like you know, 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.200 I was even during that time, you know, I did 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.439 Little Baby's tape, like you know, I got some ships, 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.760 So there was about the Childish Gamping. There was a 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.000 lot of ship that I was I was doing. I 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:06.000 was you know, building mean street studios which became like 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.639 a hub for you know, everything that was going on 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.000 in the culture in Atlanta when we were doing with 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.760 Generation Now, like cultivating Uzzie's career and Jack's career. Like 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:17.119 you know, I just I wore a lot of hats, 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.399 so you know, for me, it was like this is 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.280 my lane. You know, I'm not trying to beat anybody else, 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:26.560 you know what I'm saying, Like, this is DJ drama, 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:28.960 and this is how I approached and attack the game. 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.200 And you know what I mean, it was like, Hey, 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:33.000 I'm I'm gonna go for what mine, you know, and 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:35.159 I'm gonna make a name for myself and and be 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.159 you know, the greatest and you know, go down in history. 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:42.080 Is arguably one of, if not the greatest DJ of 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:47.760 all time. Yeah, for sure. For you obviously, a guy 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.040 like Uzzi is you know, if he's on the show, 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.320 he's headlined in the fucking roll, he's he is having 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.320 a moment. Yeah again, for sure. Over and over he 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:59.560 has these moments where it's like, no, Uzzi's fucking superstar, 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:03.000 rock star for real, for real. You guys had kind 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:05.280 of gotten into like a weird patch in your relationship, 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:10.160 which I'm sure happens a lot when artists sign and 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:14.679 like I sympathize with kind of the label side. It's like, 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:17.760