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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: R-Tistic on September 14, 2008, 05:16:47 PM
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......and I realized that half of the kids there were born AFTER the Chronic and even Doggystyle.
I was doin a football game there, and everything was cool...nobody trippin or anything, but when I was going through my songs, I realized how old I am...or either how young the kids are. Most of the dudes there still seemed to know the songs....I guess it's the same way that people my age knew all the 70's and early 80's songs that dropped before we were even born, but it's still a wild thought to me. It seemed like the girls weren't into these kinds of songs as much as the dudes...I know they probably just want to hear Lil Wayne and Jeezy all day...but at least the youngsters knew about the old tracks.
I think it may be different at other schools though...if I did a HS event somewhere in the suburbs, the kids would probably look at me like I was playing some damn Barry Mandelow or somethiin. For y'all...does it seem like the youngsters know anything about, or care anything about the 90's music?
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Yo mayne I've heard young people say Tupac is wack and over rated... That shit be blowing my mind when they say that.
Some of the youngsters know the super popular shit like Dre and Snoop but I bet about 80% of them ain't listened to Dogg Food. Like you said Wayne and Jeezy.
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It's a South dominated market at the moment. Doesn't surprise me. It'll pass, just like G-Funk did.
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most the parties i roll to they play nuthin but the usual southern popular traccs at the moment :-\ but i did here a few dre and snoop traccs and people got into it on the hook and then didnt even know the song and kinda wer outta it ahaha havnt listen to dogg food? most probably aint even herd of the pound i remember a year bacc i was watchin cali iz active and a homie of mine was lik whos this foo wit snoop? i was lik damn thats kurupt foo had no idea who he was haah at lest we know wuts up
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......and I realized that half of the kids there were born AFTER the Chronic and even Doggystyle.
I was doin a football game there, and everything was cool...nobody trippin or anything, but when I was going through my songs, I realized how old I am...or either how young the kids are. Most of the dudes there still seemed to know the songs....I guess it's the same way that people my age knew all the 70's and early 80's songs that dropped before we were even born, but it's still a wild thought to me. It seemed like the girls weren't into these kinds of songs as much as the dudes...I know they probably just want to hear Lil Wayne and Jeezy all day...but at least the youngsters knew about the old tracks.
I think it may be different at other schools though...if I did a HS event somewhere in the suburbs, the kids would probably look at me like I was playing some damn Barry Mandelow or somethiin. For y'all...does it seem like the youngsters know anything about, or care anything about the 90's music?
You still rockin that Jerri Curl?
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what up nigga are you going to be dj in the family reunion for compton high its cominup i forgot what day
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i meant high school reunion
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......and I realized that half of the kids there were born AFTER the Chronic and even Doggystyle.
I was doin a football game there, and everything was cool...nobody trippin or anything, but when I was going through my songs, I realized how old I am...or either how young the kids are. Most of the dudes there still seemed to know the songs....I guess it's the same way that people my age knew all the 70's and early 80's songs that dropped before we were even born, but it's still a wild thought to me. It seemed like the girls weren't into these kinds of songs as much as the dudes...I know they probably just want to hear Lil Wayne and Jeezy all day...but at least the youngsters knew about the old tracks.
I think it may be different at other schools though...if I did a HS event somewhere in the suburbs, the kids would probably look at me like I was playing some damn Barry Mandelow or somethiin. For y'all...does it seem like the youngsters know anything about, or care anything about the 90's music?
lol..its cuz all the young people are feeling Kaizer Sose "The Future of West Coast Hip Hop", new generation, new artist, and alot of older cats still listen to the artist they feel in love with
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I dunno, basically everyday allday I used ta spin nuthin' but dat westcoast heat and shit thats poppin' for yea whip and I ain't care I was like pushin' it on 'em. But I learnt the hard way growing up so to say as a dj, that you gotta play shit that people'll dance too.So that basicially is not even weezy/jeezy so much but Ye'eezy,Gwen,Eve,Jigga,Biggie,Pac,Nelly,Chingy,Pitbull,Lil'Jon,+ add anything hot at the moment, top 40 charts.Even people mainly chicks from tha hood too when they go out to a club,they wanna dance not throw up sets an' throw bows unless the song is calling for that and it's dancable like 'southern hospitality' or 'drop it like it's hot'.So basically I give them that 'hot shit' that they can dance too, and then after the dance/club I pass 'em a 'hot new dj.thirrzty mixtape' w/ some dope g-funk/new-west shiznit on it as they leaving.So they get the best of both worlds whereaver I go. I actually dj'd this wedding last friday before I dj'd a dance and they asked for 80's/90's rock all nite, so that's what I gave 'em. I dunno I specialize in WestCoast Hip-hop and Hip-hop/R'N'B in general, but if they paying an' I gotta bring out a wide arrayment of ish? Than that's the work part of it. Finding shit you ain't feeling but keeping an open mind about it and spinning it and having fun anyway.
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I dunno, basically everyday allday I used ta spin nuthin' but dat westcoast heat and shit thats poppin' for yea whip and I ain't care I was like pushin' it on 'em. But I learnt the hard way growing up so to say as a dj, that you gotta play shit that people'll dance too.So that basicially is not even weezy/jeezy so much but Ye'eezy,Gwen,Eve,Jigga,Biggie,Pac,Nelly,Chingy,Pitbull,Lil'Jon,+ add anything hot at the moment, top 40 charts.Even people mainly chicks from tha hood too when they go out to a club,they wanna dance not throw up sets an' throw bows unless the song is calling for that and it's dancable like 'southern hospitality' or 'drop it like it's hot'.So basically I give them that 'hot shit' that they can dance too, and then after the dance/club I pass 'em a 'hot new dj.thirrzty mixtape' w/ some dope g-funk/new-west shiznit on it as they leaving.So they get the best of both worlds whereaver I go. I actually dj'd this wedding last friday before I dj'd a dance and they asked for 80's/90's rock all nite, so that's what I gave 'em. I dunno I specialize in WestCoast Hip-hop and Hip-hop/R'N'B in general, but if they paying an' I gotta bring out a wide arrayment of ish? Than that's the work part of it. Finding shit you ain't feeling but keeping an open mind about it and spinning it and having fun anyway.
I feel you. With me, one of the main reasons I didn't want to become a DJ is because I've never been the one who liked music just because it was "hot"...if it wasn't as dope as it was "hot", I didn't fuck with it. Even two years ago, I never thought about being a serious DJ...but I had a laptop with hella music, especially West Coast, and some good speakers...so whenever my California people had parties at our school in Florida, it was like "ey, bring yo speakers and do the music". After a while, it went from that, to "do you DJ?" or we'd have people from out of state like "can you play Trick Daddy/Lil Jon/etc" and I slowly became a DJ from that. So the main thing I had to learn was that if I'm getting paid, it's definitely not about me...it's about pleasin the crowd, while still be able to play enough of what you like to enjoy doing it.
I used to party a lot too, so of course I didn't wanna hear West Coast ALL night...just 2-3 songs would be good for me, but I could play em in the car if I wanted to. With this situation here...I wasn't really trying to complain about the fact about what youngsters or even people my age want to hear...that's a whole different topic I could do...but it was just wild to think that if I played anything from these albums, these kids weren't even born so they don't even remember it being what it was...and the good thing is, many of these songs still work. I wasn't tryin to play many of them, but when my boy who doesn't DJ was watchin my stuff, of course he wanted to play West Coast shit...I was goin more for newer south music just because it's a FB game and you gotta keep em hype.
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damn i don't know my dude,
i can guarantee you, if you dj'd any high school party or any type of house party
right now, playing them old school west coast jams still get it cracking.
this is for sure, i can't even count how many times ill be at a party
in compton, south central, east LA, La puente, baldwin park,
watts, or even up at the loft parties in downtown, fuck it even at clubs in hollywood,
and the dj will drop "aint no fun" and shit will go off like a mother fucker.
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Ya I feel ya'll on that. "Ain't No Fun", "California Luv", "What's My Name?!(Who Am I)","any tone loc shit, "Bop Gun", "Let Me Ride","G-Thang", "Made Ni$#az", "Hail Mary", any mixalot shit, "Hotel", "Sprinkle Me", all dat shit still gets the club crowd active even if they don't know it. Tistic I remember you from wcrydaz and tjs djs, how's it been bruh? You still make beats?
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damn i don't know my dude,
i can guarantee you, if you dj'd any high school party or any type of house party
right now, playing them old school west coast jams still get it cracking.
this is for sure, i can't even count how many times ill be at a party
in compton, south central, east LA, La puente, baldwin park,
watts, or even up at the loft parties in downtown, fuck it even at clubs in hollywood,
and the dj will drop "aint no fun" and shit will go off like a mother fucker.
I just did my first HS party Saturday, and that shit was VERY interesting...quite surprising to say the least.
I'm sure every crowd ain't the same, but still...it was a HS party that was all black, and was on Broadway n 41st Place. I was payin CLOSE attention just because I had never done anything High School, but I'm sure I will, so I had to see how they reacted.
They knew some older West tracks like Y u bullshittin, Let's get high, I'd rather give you my bitch...but barely anybody knew Ain't no fun!! I am sure it's some crowds that do know it...but for this party, barely anybody was singin along with it. I played the typical commercial songs like Milli, Hi Hater, and Lollipop...and they didn't care much for those. The song that went hardest was Turf Talk "Groupie"...and I only had that song because I was goin thru hella albums one day to get songs that might work...but I had NEVER thought about playing that song at a party...so I was in shock that it went so hard for that crowd.
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Hyphy mixes really good with soca and that fast pace "doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo" type island music that's super fast and all tha crowd like already swinging they arms and everything around. That latest 40 water/lil'jon track esp'. Turf drop? I think it's called. tur-tah-tur-tah-turff drop! I'm also working on my blending which is always fun.
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Yo mayne I've heard young people say Tupac is wack and over rated... That shit be blowing my mind when they say that.
Some of the youngsters know the super popular shit like Dre and Snoop but I bet about 80% of them ain't listened to Dogg Food. Like you said Wayne and Jeezy.
yeah man i hate ppl that are like "2pacs ok but isnt he dead"
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Whats Wrong With This New Generation? Doesn't Anyone Care About Lyrics Anymore? Fuck That Southern Shit (Besides The Geto Boys & UGK) But 95% Of That Music Is Wack Club Shit. All These New Songs Are Fuckkin' Love Songs, No Wonder Why All These Kids Are Such Pussies. I'm About To Be 21 This October 26 8) & I'm Glad That I Was Alive During Raps Best Era 8)
Also WTF Is IT With These Niggaz That Be 30 & Over Bumping Lil Wayne? Fuckkin Sell Outs ::)
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Whats Wrong With This New Generation? Doesn't Anyone Care About Lyrics Anymore? Fuck That Southern Shit (Besides The Geto Boys & UGK) But 95% Of That Music Is Wack Club Shit. All These New Songs Are Fuckkin' Love Songs, No Wonder Why All These Kids Are Such Pussies. I'm About To Be 21 This October 26 8) & I'm Glad That I Was Alive During Raps Best Era 8)
Also WTF Is IT With These Niggaz That Be 30 & Over Bumping Lil Wayne? Fuckkin Sell Outs ::)
Do you think anyone at the party will care about the lyrics? All the people wanna do is get drunk/fucked up and freak some girls.... There is proper music for each situation/environment
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DJ's are in a great position to educate the younger crowd, i wish more dj's would play one less known track and then a more popular one.
Then just keep alternating using that pattern.
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I remember I told the DJ to throw on Lets Play House at this college party and everybody stopped dancing
shit was embarassing
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I remember I told the DJ to throw on Lets Play House at this college party and everybody stopped dancing
shit was embarassing
LOL.
R-Tistic: Have you played K. Dot's "Hater" song? Curious to see what the response is on that one.
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I remember I told the DJ to throw on Lets Play House at this college party and everybody stopped dancing
shit was embarassing
LMAO yeah...it just all depends on the crowd. I would never try it on a 21 and under crowd...has to be AT LEAST 20, 21+, and preferably 25-35. I played it a few times and it went hard for that crowd.
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DJ's are in a great position to educate the younger crowd, i wish more dj's would play one less known track and then a more popular one.
Then just keep alternating using that pattern.
It just takes hella balance, and it has to sound somewhat familiar to them. I may do like 1 older but known track every 5-8, then 1 that they may not know every 20...because the crowd can turn on you fast as hell. You can make em dance hard for 15 tracks in a row...but they'll hear that one they don't like and be like "WTF is this?" It also depends on the type of event and all too...not all songs are meant for all events.
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DJ's are in a great position to educate the younger crowd, i wish more dj's would play one less known track and then a more popular one.
Then just keep alternating using that pattern.
It just takes hella balance, and it has to sound somewhat familiar to them. I may do like 1 older but known track every 5-8, then 1 that they may not know every 20...because the crowd can turn on you fast as hell. You can make em dance hard for 15 tracks in a row...but they'll hear that one they don't like and be like "WTF is this?" It also depends on the type of event and all too...not all songs are meant for all events.
yeah that is true, the type of crowd willl play a huge part.
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Ya I feel ya'll on that. "Ain't No Fun", "California Luv", "What's My Name?!(Who Am I)","any tone loc shit, "Bop Gun", "Let Me Ride","G-Thang", "Made Ni$#az", "Hail Mary", any mixalot shit, "Hotel", "Sprinkle Me", all dat shit still gets the club crowd active even if they don't know it. Tistic I remember you from wcrydaz and tjs djs, how's it been bruh? You still make beats?
Everything's been good. LOL I haven't made a beat since last year....I am sure I'll get back on it, but no time soon.
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What fast paced westcoast songs go.... whereever any other dj is at on this board when they play it in the club or at a party? I'm'a bump 'Turf Drop' at this dance I'm djin' this weekend and they a fickle crowd. Because they fickle to the type of music they like (it's gotta be more or well known and danceable, I've dj'd there 3 times so far so I got a feel for the type of crowd), I can't really get too westcoast on them, but along the lines of turf drop, tell me when to go, what's out there that's so hot? I always wanted to try supersicwidit but I think it might just sound great live in concert. Bay/L.a/friggin' Seattle, whatever idea's ya'll got, throw 'em out. Oh I'll try haters from g.malone as well.
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hell no some of em don't know a damn thing...i met somebody that was born in like 92 or 93...and he said ice cube wack...i know he dont know much but damn...(http://www.hhboard.com/images/smilies/smh.gif)
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I think it may be different at other schools though...if I did a HS event somewhere in the suburbs, the kids would probably look at me like I was playing some damn Barry Mandelow or somethiin. For y'all...does it seem like the youngsters know anything about, or care anything about the 90's music?
When I first started DJ'ing in clubs 2-3 years ago, all I would play was old school rap and r&b and the people loved it. That was at a 21 & up club/bar. Lately I've been doing this club every Friday night that is 18 & up and when I drop some shit like California Love I'll get a good response from about a quarter of the crowd and then a super mediocre response from the rest of the crowd like "wtf is this song?" or "why is he playing this old bullshit?" So it's definitely changing as we get older.
Honestly though, as a DJ I've found that when I'm spinning, I get way more into the songs that crowd likes if they're into it, even if the shit is wack as fuck. I mean there's no point in playing Gin & Juice and clearing the dance floor and feeling like an idiot when I could toss on Flo-Rida "In The Ayer" and have the whole crowd going nuts throwing their hands up and shit. It gives you a rush when you have the crowd moving like that. I tend to keep my personal tastes to myself when it comes to dj'ing, and because of that, I've become a better DJ as far as reading a crowd and knowing what to play when and it's really advancing my career.
My advice to all you wannabe dj's out there, when it comes to rockin' crowds, play whats hot today, and keep the throwbacks to a minimum.
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I think it may be different at other schools though...if I did a HS event somewhere in the suburbs, the kids would probably look at me like I was playing some damn Barry Mandelow or somethiin. For y'all...does it seem like the youngsters know anything about, or care anything about the 90's music?
When I first started DJ'ing in clubs 2-3 years ago, all I would play was old school rap and r&b and the people loved it. That was at a 21 & up club/bar. Lately I've been doing this club every Friday night that is 18 & up and when I drop some shit like California Love I'll get a good response from about a quarter of the crowd and then a super mediocre response from the rest of the crowd like "wtf is this song?" or "why is he playing this old bullshit?" So it's definitely changing as we get older.
Honestly though, as a DJ I've found that when I'm spinning, I get way more into the songs that crowd likes if they're into it, even if the shit is wack as fuck. I mean there's no point in playing Gin & Juice and clearing the dance floor and feeling like an idiot when I could toss on Flo-Rida "In The Ayer" and have the whole crowd going nuts throwing their hands up and shit. It gives you a rush when you have the crowd moving like that. I tend to keep my personal tastes to myself when it comes to dj'ing, and because of that, I've become a better DJ as far as reading a crowd and knowing what to play when and it's really advancing my career.
My advice to all you wannabe dj's out there, when it comes to rockin' crowds, play whats hot today, and keep the throwbacks to a minimum.
As I've said to many people before...I started doin beats 13 years ago, but never wanted to be a DJ because I've always hated the typical commercial mainstream "program people to like" type of tracks...and I knew I'd hate havin to playin these songs versus songs that are truly good, classic, or whatever else.
The breaking point that made me decide if I would REALLY become a serious DJ or not was when Soulja Boy dropped "Crank dat." I can't explain how much I hated the song, and when I was doin my homegirl's birthday just with a Windows Media playlist and speakers, I was like "I am NOT playing this garbage!!!!" but since she begged, I dropped it, and all the lil females were goin wild on it. At that point, I was like fuckit...I know I gotta play BS if I want to really DJ...but just to keep myself happy and motivated, I'll just figure out how to mix it up enough and play enough of what I like that I know the crowd will love.
I realize every crowd is different...but I am still gonna be true to what I feel is dope and "good" regardless of the crowd...so for every few Soulja Boy, crunk, snap, bland songs I play, I gotta play something either classic or brand new that needs exposure just to balance it out...and I'll only play it if I know I can get away with it. If I know the crowd will stop dancing, then I definitely won't drop it...but chances are, if you mix it in right and they are familiar with it, they'll roll with it. And for my 21+ crowd...they love basically anything I play, whether it's brand new or classic old shit
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real talk @ last two posts r-tistic 'n' coma.
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yo r-tistic you got a sight to peep your mixes or beats?
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yeah, them youngin's don't know shit man....kids was born the same year Dre and Snoop and them was droppin these records....lol...us 84' and 83er's are gettin old!!
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yo r-tistic you got a sight to peep your mixes or beats?
The only mix I had up expired a few weeks ago...but I'm puttin it back up, along with one I'm doin for Dubcnn that has a few rare tracks that I won't claim as exclusives, but are hella hard to find.
I got a few older beats on www.soundclick.com/rtistic
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I just rocked tha set tonite, it was hella fun, I had a whole buncha requests for california luv tonite but I stayed mainly to top 40 and newer hiphop. Dammit, I forgot 'Turf Drop' thoe. Btw a smart dj who examins the crowd as I noticed tonite can get away with missing 'crank dat' and 'lolli pop' in their sets if they play doper/newer stuff, people won't even notice you didn't play that bubble gum stuff. Of course I kept 'em happy with 'In tha ayerr' and 'Private dancer' etc;.
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LOL Oh my gosh!, I didn't have a great crowd to begin w/ last nite cuz half of the 100 or so were at this other same kind of invent across town that this one organzation hosts like 1nce a year, I'll have them all back next friday thoe, but yea, lol I played (dunno wtf I was thinkin') "Tha Block Is Hot" - Lil'Wayne and cleared house, lmfao. I hadda bring whoever was there back with Rihannna's - 'Don't stop the music'.
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......and I realized that half of the kids there were born AFTER the Chronic and even Doggystyle.
I was doin a football game there, and everything was cool...nobody trippin or anything, but when I was going through my songs, I realized how old I am...or either how young the kids are. Most of the dudes there still seemed to know the songs....I guess it's the same way that people my age knew all the 70's and early 80's songs that dropped before we were even born, but it's still a wild thought to me. It seemed like the girls weren't into these kinds of songs as much as the dudes...I know they probably just want to hear Lil Wayne and Jeezy all day...but at least the youngsters knew about the old tracks.
I think it may be different at other schools though...if I did a HS event somewhere in the suburbs, the kids would probably look at me like I was playing some damn Barry Mandelow or somethiin. For y'all...does it seem like the youngsters know anything about, or care anything about the 90's music?
hahaha but thats networth my equal yell
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LOL Oh my gosh!, I didn't have a great crowd to begin w/ last nite cuz half of the 100 or so were at this other same kind of invent across town that this one organzation hosts like 1nce a year, I'll have them all back next friday thoe, but yea, lol I played (dunno wtf I was thinkin') "Tha Block Is Hot" - Lil'Wayne and cleared house, lmfao. I hadda bring whoever was there back with Rihannna's - 'Don't stop the music'.
LOL dayum...I'd only play Block is hot durin a Wayne set, unless it was hella early. I might do a Wayne set n throw that on just on some "let's see how many of y'all were REALLY fuckin with Wayne 9 years ago"
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Lol, Yeah ay! They were lookin' @ me like a deer caught in the headlights, word up, lol, report to all dj's - stay away from tha block is hot until further notice! lol