![]() ![]() Speaking of that, a lot of people, they’re more likely to associate you guys with Atlanta. And you know we’re from Philly, so a lot of the mixtapes I grew up on, per se, were all East Coast-driven for the most part. When Tip came along for me, that was like, okay, here’s my opportunity to go in a direction that I wanted to go in. What Green was doing with Em and what Whoo Kid was doing with 50 and G-Unit. Specifically, what those guys did with artists, too, when it comes to the tapes. When Whoo Kid and Green Lantern dropped, me, Cannon, and Sense would be like, “Oh man.” We would just be belittled because it was just larger than life. I’d say from ‘99 to ‘04, ‘05, before our reign, for me, all we did was, whether it was Green Lantern and his creativity or Whoo Kid and his marketing genius and the way he changed the game from just a mixtape to 8-page panels and sponsors. One thing that I don’t feel like I do enough when people ask me that question is give credit to Green Lantern and Whoo Kid. He came with the 50 MCs, the 5 Deadly Venoms. He was the first person that I can remember that had freestyles specifically for his tape: Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes. Doo Wop made a tape called 95 Live, which was revolutionary at the time. They really locked down the game for a while there.įor me, it was definitely, my first ever, I say this all the time, DJ SNS. When it comes to the mixtape DJ being a personality, I feel like, for me, yeah, it was like Envy and Clue. That’s where I really kinda patent my style from. Where I wanted to be in the game was with Green Lantern, really. As a young dude, I was watching Envy and Absolut, because they pretty much had a lock on the game. You were talking about, who were some of the DJs who inspired you as you were coming up. A lot of people like my “Shut up” on that jawn too. That’s kind of like the Jay-Z “Google Me” on the “Drug Dealers Anonymous.”Įxactly. There’s some people that probably have heard that song that might’ve been at a certain age that didn’t know what April 29th, 1992 was, so you go look it up and then you see, “Okay, he’s talking about the Rodney King Riots.” Song’s called “Riot.” There it is. The song’s called “Riot.” This is how it makes me feel. When I think about that, that’s pretty fly. Check my man down on the south side.” That’s real. That’s what I felt like I brought to DJs on mixtapes a lot, was the personality side of it, outside of saying, “Shout out to so-and-so. You know what it reminds me of? It’s kind of like a professional wrestler. For me, it was like, “Damn, what can I say that’s fly that’ll take this and not.” For me, it’s like, for people not to look at it like, “Okay, he’s just talking on records.” The song’s called “Riot.” The song was crazy. For me, it was just that I go off the music. Maybe it’s because I’ve always kind of sort of wanted to, I don’t know if I wanted to be a rapper, but here’s my platform to get my shit off, you know what I’m saying? I can’t curse, no? Okay, all right. I felt like okay, people are familiar with DJ Drama, so regardless of what’s going on in my life at the time, here’s a mixtape, here’s a platform for me to speak because I don’t rap. That was something that I always wanted to. Beyond that, I know for me it was like, my favorite artists, when I think about the greats, they’re all, in their own ways whoever it may be, from all spectrums, from Hov to Em, all bring us into their personal lives. I basically, in the simplest form, just go off the music. It was about, like, let me put some personality on top of just regular shout outs. Part of that twist came at a time when Jeezy’s tape came. For me, it was like when we got to a point where we were coming into our own, I’d say around ‘03-ish, it was about taking things, taking the formula that was already there before us and putting our twist on it. I came from a place of listening to mixtapes and listening to my favorite DJ do shout outs and put on stores and shout out their connects and things like that. ![]() Honestly, I just feel like what mixtapes have always been and what they become. You don’t know? Look it up.” My first question is. “This shit right here feel like LA, April 29th, 1992. The first one that comes to mind, it’s from “Riot” and it’s off of 2 Chainz’ T.R.U. I’m going to be kind of connecting through some of the quotes. Not just the names, but a lot of great quotes. Thanksgiving, Dram Cruise, Dram F Kennedy, Barack O-Drama, Rich Homie Dram, and my personal favorite, Optimus Dram. I’m going to start just with the most obvious thing I can think of doing here. What’s up? What’s up? What’s up? What’s up? We’re going to be speaking to two legendary mixtape DJs.ĭJ Drama. Welcome to the Atlanta Mixtape Gods Round Table on RBMA Radio. ![]()
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