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Hoodie short sets confuse the absolute fuck out of me. Because if you cold, why you got shorts on? I'm Kid Fury. Welcome back to Furious Thoughts. I push white people in the club. I'm proud of it. I'm not going to stop doing it for clarity. When you're in the way, which is often, which is nearly all the time. Let's be. Let's be for real. I feel like if I can't get my acres, I can't have the donkey or whatever. I'm pushing the fuck out of you. If you're in my way at the Abbey or wherever the fuck shit is that we at. I don't know why y' all feel like you can TikTok and selfie and do a bump and a line and drink all while standing in the doorway for the bathroom. I'm gonna shove you. I'm gonna shove you. And you and I both know you're not gonna do anything about it. He's not gonna do anything about it. Vanderpump's rules. No one's gonna do anything about it. So I push white people in the club. Please. If you are a white person in the club and you are hearing this, consider your proximity to others and consideration of others when you're out in public spaces. Because you might be out in a public space with me, man. Get clothesline. Like, it is like your name Triple H or something. I don't know. Like, I'm going to hit you with a DDT if I have to get to pee. How was it? Wasn't Me by Shaggy a hit record. First of all, Sonically Poor, it's not, like, the most pleasant song to listen to. Sure, it's, like, catchy, you know, melody here and there or whatever, but it's kind of like a fucked up, demented nursery rhyme and in an adult animated sitcom. But I just don't understand how, like, men, women, grandma, grandpa, dog, kitten, everybody was all about this song featuring two fuck niggas singing about how they clearly had affairs, pointing to all kinds of cockamamie ass evidence in an effort to clear their name. Like, why did my mama like this song? Why did she not mind that my daddy liked the song? Do I have to call them? This might have been, like, I might have just taken a dark turn here and had an awakening moment. Why did n like that song so bad? It wasn't me. It was. Yeah, no, that's the joke. But why are we laughing? I feel like all niggas with stomach tattoos got kids and a lot of them and they don't take care of them. I won't be explaining that any further. It isn't a joke. It's just a statement theory, if you will. Niggas and stomach tattoos, bad fathers. Speaking of niggas, I love them like personally from like a sexual standpoint. And this is a problem. I find it to be a shortcoming. I find it to be a hindrance. I think that it is a flaw, you know, like if you ever seen like a sci fi movie or maybe like a Marvel film or like maybe an alien or AI is the enemy and they're like, oh, all that love. That's your weakness. You caring about people. Me, it's like chain smoking hood that listen to big timers and drive a beat up car that don't belong to them. That like probably scam. If not, they definitely used to scam. Like these are the things that I found myself first attracted to. And I have to do some digging into why that is. I have to want better for myself. I deserve a Russell Wilson. No, I don't. I don't want. But see, I don't want that. I don't want that. I don't want that. I feel like I could see me like six years into a Russell Wilson relationship and this like we're at LaGuardia or something, just coming into town for like friendsgiving. We're on the escalator going down. He just makes some stupid corny romantic joke about what's going to happen when we get to the Hyatt Regency. And then I just push him down the stairs. Like I push him down the escalator and he breaks his neck and dies. Like I could see that happening for me, but I'm not ciara. What were we talking about? Who comes up with fragrances for toiletries in the hotels and stuff and how do we get them to calm down? Like why can't a hotel's body wash, soap lotion, whatever, just be a simple oat, just a honey, you know, maybe even one citrus. Last time I went to a hotel, I forgot to bring my own body wash with me. Went to go take a shower. The soap they had was like rosemary mint julep, pomegranate. I'm like, I am not a holiday bird. I'm not coming in here to baste myself and be prepared for a feast. I just want to wash up. And I'm afraid with my sensitive, delicate Afro American skin that you could give me something. Just make the soap regular soap. Most of y' all bitches in the position to make these choices. Just started washing your legs like, five years ago, so just calm down. Calm down. Calm down. The public soap doesn't have to be like, Reese's peanut butter cup scented. You bitches are tripping. By George. I think he's got it. Who's George? And is it like. Like by George, like, near George, like, by him? Is it, like, in the name of George? Is George bisexual? Who? What? Who's George? It's probably a book thing. I should have Googled it. Coming soon. Stores in shopping centers and malls make me indescribably uncomfortable, and I'm not entirely sure why. This isn't a joke. I'm unpacking this thought live with you right now. I don't. There's something dead about it. It feels like a store that was there died. Or like it sits upon the land of various dead managers and they're going to build something. There's nothing there, but there should be. It takes up space. It's in the way for no reason. There's things happening inside of this block, but you can't see. There's just something creepy when they shut down Claire's or whatever, and they're like, coming soon. Ajamba juice, whatever. And it's just this big Minecraft block and you can't see anything in it. It just makes me think of dead things. This should be a Tubi horror movie. I should write a horror movie. I looked at some clips earlier this morning. I don't know why YouTube gave me, like, funniest Tubi movie moments or some shit. And I realized, oh, y' all just go outside with your phone and you just shoot whatever, and then you can put it on Tubi. So maybe what I'm talking about is that a horror movie centered around coming soon blocks in the mall. It could be, like, end eight. I don't think that's what it's called. You know, it could be like that, like, subway horror thing, Subliminal space, and Was that there a second ago? Wait, where am I? It could be like that, or you're, like, lost in a mom. I'll work on it. Nearly every time that I interact with white women in the wild, I ask myself why niggas are so obsessed with them. I'm already gay, so p ssy Attraction is just generally confusing for me. I'm just like, okay, here's another one. Here's another one. Here's another one. Now I know that there can't be, like, some underground subterranean village of white bitches that are, like, the Elite kind. Maybe there are. Because every single time, and I'm talking about even the pretty, even, especially the bad ones, I was like, you wanted to put a ring on and keep this. Have at it, bro. I don't even know why we'd be arguing with these about it or you be arguing with these about it. I stopped a long time ago. I would just let everybody lay where they want to, literally and figuratively. But, yeah, what's that? What is that? But you know what? You niggas don't actually listen to the women in your lives anyway. So you have a whole family with this white bitch, and you have absolutely no gauge or understanding of her personality anyway, because she speaks and you just stop listening. Never mind. I'm back. I figured it out. That's about it for my Furious Thoughts today. I will just leave you with one more. Who wants a cherry on top? And why of all the fruit and for what? Like, what does that do? Have you ever specifically got a dessert that didn't have a cherry on it? And we're like, oh, please. And if you did, why? We'll be right back. Hey, all, welcome back to Furious Thoughts. I have a very special guest with me. He's a dj, he's an. An event creator. He's a photographer. He's an underground legend, okay? Creator of the popular dance party for black, brown, queer and trans folks sex tapes. That's no vowels. And actually a very good real life friend of mine and fellow Kid, DJ Kid is in the house with us tonight. Kid with two Ds. I'm very happy to have you here. I. Some of my followers may be familiar with the times I went by DJ Kinky Twists, and I would upload mixes to places like Tumblr and soundcloud for the fuckery. All that to say, I have many DJ friends from all the different generations of my life. I really, really respect what you all do bring to the table and how you have historically been and still should be. Excuse me. The really, like, the pioneers and the tastemakers and, like, the expressive force of what's going on musically. So what would you say or when was, like, your first inclination that you had, like, an artistic energy that drew you to music? When did you learn that Addison Rae does not?
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Well, I learned about Addison Rae just now because I don't listen to her.
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There you go.
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B
So thank you for educating me today.
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Yeah.
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B
All right. I think that my inclination towards music began when my mom taught me how to burn CDs back in the early 2000s. Work mom yeah, and even before that, I remember having. I remember. I don't know why this is such an early memory of mine, but I had the Mulan score on cassette tape and I would listen to that going to bed same. And that was like, when I was like, oh, yeah, I'm music. I love music, and I need music to sleep. And then when I learned how to burn CDs, that shit was a rap.
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When will my reflection show on you know who I am and psy eyed burning CDs takes me back. Did you ever hustle on the. On the CD burning situation? Because these hood rat bitches in Miami did not have Kaza, Napster, Limewire, none of that shit. But they did know that they wanted Nivea on a CD to go and do things they shouldn't have been doing. And I definitely knew how to do those things. And so I just started burning CDs with people in charge of work. It's probably the best experience I had in high school.
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I should have made a business about that. Yeah, no, yeah, I did not do that. I just burned CDS for myself.
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Where do you think you got, like, your musical taste from or like musical faves? What was played around a lot for you when you were young?
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It was a lot of 90s hip hop and R and B. I think that was like, that was it. Especially between my mom and my dad, I learned, I'm learning as an adult now that I wish that I had a house music influence when I was younger. That's new to me.
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How many of us did?
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Yeah, I mean, apparently so. I know a lot of black people that are house heads, and I guess, you know, they grew up in Chicago, Detroit, New York.
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Exactly like the places where it's. It's that.
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Right? But I mean, we got our. Our 90s hip hop and our California LA hip hop and R and B here.
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So I'm appreciative for it, loving it. Yeah, I love it so much. And I want to dance in the spirit of it, of the west coast hip hop when I hear it. But I understand that some of those sectors of west coast hip hop dance can lead to homicide, multiple homicides. You know, the girlies told me, just watch where you do it. Just do it at home, do it at the house. And I respect that. It's not where I'm from, so I just plot, you know, try to play it safe. So how did you get your start DJing? Like, when did you realize that's what you were gonna do?
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I lived in San Francisco from 2011 to 2020. And so I think in like the 2018, 2019 of things, I was doing event photography for a hip hop party that was every Sunday. And that party started to go downhill after the resident DJ left and, like, they kept rotating in these really terrible DJs that were playing like top 40 in pop shit. It's like, why are we hearing Ed Sheeran at a hip hop party? Why are we playing, you know, just like the pop. So I think after like months of telling the promoter that we need to have new DJs come in at the same time, like, we. I would go out with my friends and like, be making like, playlists and of like real hip hop. And I'd be like, oh, yeah, this is the. That we want to listen to at the club.
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Right?
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And so at some point I hit up my friend and was like, hey, like, you know how to dj? Can you teach me some stuff? And he taught me. We had like one lesson. And then that day I went home and bought my first controller and then started practicing from there.
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Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Like, I think that what makes the difference in, in nightlife and in parties is when you just come across a DJ that has a genuine passion because unfortunately, a lot of party goers have no taste and no intention. And a lot of the girlies, especially the gay girlies, are there for, well, drinks. Sniffies. Sniffies connect and yeah, just play Britney or whatever, I guess, and they will go home happy. Like, no one's really challenging. Yeah, the space. So I get where that, that can be tricky. And for those of us who do go out, and I'm like, hey, there are like 500 goddamn songs that came out this week, right? And you are playing Belle, Bib, Duvo,
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Poison, and mind you, this was pre pandemic when I got my start too. So I think a lot of things have shifted, but it was, it was also a lot more about the quality of the night. You know, I think that right now we're even more starved for quality and people paying more attention to it now. Yeah, but back then it was really just kind of like, nah, we love this music. And. And it wasn't even like, we need new music, it was just like we need black music. Especially in San Francisco. That white ass place. Are you kidding?
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Yeah.
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Are you kidding?
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Yeah, I love San Francisco. That has. It kind of has a similar hood narrative as Miami, which is. I'm from the other side of the bridge. Miami, you know what I'm talking about. But it really applies to the Bay too.
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Yeah.
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Because Oakland. Oakland A time. Oakland A time. Sometimes a little too much time, but Oakland is a blast. So LA parties are BAE parties. La, yeah.
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Sorry, girl. Well, I don't know. It's hard because I think the season and the reason I, I say la, I think I'm a little biased because I'm from la, but I'll say LA parties. I think, like the production of it is better.
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That's fair.
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But the essence of Bay Area parties is better. I think people dance, people love on each other. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So I, I'm. I'm kind of biased towards either way, I guess it really just depends on what you're looking for.
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Yeah, LA will have fire breathers. Pennywise the clown, Bitches dropping from the ceiling. The Powerpuff Girls come and perform, Bitch, they got like hot ice cream. Tyra Banks is in the bitch. But I'm never gonna dance because nobody has fun.
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Nobody has fun. Nobody's having fun.
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So. But you've been able to like find a healthy blend of that. But we'll get to that in a second. I want to know what are some of the pros and cons of a typical night out for you as a dj? Like, what are just like the stuff you can pretty much look forward to. Some of the things will likely get on your nerves that people might not expect.
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That people might not expect.
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There's some, some obvious ones.
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Okay. The pros, I think, is always going to see, like seeing my friends, seeing people love on each other, seeing people come out, seeing the regular people getting to leave the house. Because I don't like to do that. That's a pro.
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Each other.
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Listen, I'm the introvert dj. I don't like to, I don't like to be outside. I do. I don't know.
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Yeah,
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the pros, my negative ass. I don't know.
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Well, you can. I mean, I think that was sufficient.
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The cons. People get on my nerves. The song requests, the. I could get into micromanaging managers and promoters and stuff like that. But, you know, that's for another.
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I mean, you can.
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No. Cause I'm gonna start naming names and I'm gonna get in trouble.
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So actually, my next question is something that you just brought up. How do you feel about songs that hit top 40? And the hook is like, tell the DJ he should kill himself unless he plays my. You know, like, what is that like? Because sure, when I was like 18 and ignorant, I didn't really see the problem with the Song request or something. Because I guess I just figured, like, oh, what's the problem? You do that at the cookout. And it did not take me long enough to learn that a let them do what they're doing. Yeah. And then. But more than that, if I have to ask you to play a song, they probably shouldn't have booked you, Is that crazy? Like, unless I'm gonna ask you to play, like, Bjork at a hip hop party, right? It's like, okay, well, what were you thinking? You're the problem.
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Yeah, I think people. People get impatient. I think that's the thing too. It's like, if you just let the DJ cook a little bit, you're gonna hear the songs that you want to hear. We're not gonna play that first thing out the gates. You know what I'm saying?
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But can you imagine when Not Like Us comes out and you just got here, you're like 25.
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And that happened.
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I know it does.
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And that happened.
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I know that it.
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Yeah. And it's play Not Like Us.
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Like, you have to want to fight.
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But I think that's the thing about the culture nowadays anyways. People are so quick with everything. They just want everything and that immediate gratification. Everything.
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Yeah.
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And that's why. And that's one of the things that I can't stand about just the way that the music is being churned out right now. And I'm noticing that as I'm playing music, because it's like these songs, they come out and you play it the first weekend, everybody's standing around looking stupid. Nobody really knows a song. Give it three weeks, let that shit cook. And as soon as soon as the night starts, you got people, give me the song, Give me the song. Give me the song, Give me the song. You can play the song two or three times a night. A month. After that, nobody cares anymore.
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It's so true.
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It is like, it's crazy. And no matter. Like, it's no wonder why all these singles are getting burned out. Because it's like. Like we just. We want it so bad. We don't care about the quality of, like, the buildup to that song and the context of the song in the night.
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And yeah, and I even said this to you the other day. I felt like the labels really need to covet and cozy up to the DJs more. Like they should still be pulling out singles, records with extended stuff. Like, take this music that we're putting all this energy behind and mix it, fuck with it, play it. You Know what I'm saying? Like, they. You guys are essentially beacons for them and their artists.
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Just thinking how I missed the era of the dance remakes. Like what? Like, I'm sure that's gonna come back soon. But I was listening to some. I was listening to, like, the early 2000s, Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Mariah Carey remixes. I was like, this actually hits, and I wish that we can have that again.
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Y' all not ready. Watch my booty Shake.
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There was some. I forget the remix, but there was some remix of Lose My Breath, but it was like a disco house version. I was like, this slaps. I forget I've heard that. I forget the name of it. Let me try to see if I can find it.
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And the gag is why people do it all the time. Okay. And then release a remix project that's longer than the EP because every song has three different DJs mixes on it.
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What I think is, no, it's not the Frank movies. Oh, it's the Maurice New Soul Mix. Maurice's New Soul Mix. And that shit is like a seven minute long track. And it's so good. And it's just like, Yeah, I miss that. And interestingly, I know Honey Dijon just put out a new song with Chloe.
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Yeah, I saw that.
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I'm like, dance music was on its way back.
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I was so happy to see that.
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I was like, dance music is coming back and I want more club remixes of that song and more. You know what I mean?
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Yeah. I think Chloe kind of gets.
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Oh, she does.
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So it just made sense. You know what I mean?
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She gets it in the same way that Kelly got it.
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I thought you were gonna say don't.
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Or John. Yeah, or John. John.
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And Kelly, let me tell you something about dance black ladies getting it, chopping it, and telling you, one day, if not today, you'll get it. Kelly, who did I just say?
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Dawn?
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Kelly Dinashard? Kelsey.
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Oh, I need to jump back into Khalees. I need to get into her catalog. And really, because I was. I'm looking for a new black dance artist, too. Just like the shit that we don't get to.
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There's so many of them we don't know about.
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Right. I was just on a deep dive. And I need to add Khalees to that list, too.
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Have you heard her album Acapella?
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Yeah, I haven't listened to it in forever.
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Yeah.
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But Stamped, we can bring that back to the stamp, to the dance floor. Yeah.
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What's taking Tinashe so long? That's like A question just in general.
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That's a good question. I mean, she's on her little DJ career, her little DJ kick now, so. Which, I mean, it could be a good thing. Maybe we can get some dance remixes too. The more she realizes she needs to put her own music in there, she's
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such a jack of all trades that I could see her actually just being good at it. Like, I could see. Oh, yeah, sure, you can sing and dance and act and direct or produce and play, whatever the fuck. You could probably DJ too. Or by playing. But it's like, what's the, what's. What's going on over there?
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I have some questions for her. I just, I just want to know. Like, I want, like I'm so.
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I. I don't see her doing anything wrong.
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No, absolutely not. And that's. Those are the questions that I have. Those are the questions that I have because I've been following her since she was making music in her bedroom. And I like that the come up is. Needs to come up a little bit harder for me.
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For me, there's somebody else that just reminded me of her too. Like another. A relatively new black artist or black artist has been around for a while. And I'm like, are they gonna Tinashe this chick? Maybe it was Chloe.
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I was literally about to say, it sounds like Chloe.
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I think maybe I'll be Chloe. I was thinking when the Honey Dijon record came out. Well, one thing about it, we love the girls, us, we'll have them booked at A Pride until they go on the ground.
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Okay?
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So it's not like they're not gonna work since you actually brought it up. Cause this is my question after this, so I'll just ask now. What are your thoughts on celebrities wearing the DJ culture now? Like a coach purse, all the delay. Oh, these little famous people just getting some over the ear headphones and taking a picture behind the mixer and going, oh, yeah, I DJed Balenciaga. Did you? I don't know if you can count, so how could you?
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You know what's funny is that like I. On one, one half of me is. Is like irritated by it because of course not. The other half is like, girl, okay, like that. It just kind of reaffirms what I'm doing. Because I'm like, if you can get booked, then that. Then I know that. I know that I can be up there too. But then it's like I'm. I'm sitting there and I just got booked for an opening slot. And you get in prime Time. And all you're actually doing is pushing buttons and that shit be like.
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It's like, come on, we really just don't have taste. I feel like I've a countless amount of times I have been out at a party, DJ I've never seen before is tearing ass and I go up to them and I say, what is your name? Whatever you've been doing and whatever brought you to this place, you keep your head up high and you keep doing it. You fuck this shit up because.
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And thank you for that. Because we do need that. Because we do need that. Because sometimes, sometimes the promoter or the
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club owner, whoever's homie's nephew gets put up before you or after you being. Or in between fucking up your shit and you're just like this person. I don't even know if this person can hear.
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I've worked gigs where they've interrupted me to put somebody on and then they did so bad that they wanted me to come on after them and I was like, no, you took me off. What are we talking about? And it's because it really is that favor culture and like trying to put people on and, and just the commodification of the DJ and it's like, like you, like you're interrupting flow, you're interrupting talent, you're actually interrupting people's trajectory to put in whoever the.
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Yeah.
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And it like, it, it's hard because at the same time it's kind of like I think it's inspiring people like me to just move out of the way and do your own shit.
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Yeah.
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And that's more fruitful anyway.
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Yeah. You know what are some artists records right now that you are just non stop playing, super inspired by. Got you final like trying to find things to mix it into. What are you listening to?
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Like I said, the new honey, Dijon Chloe. That's been like number one on repeat for me. Interestingly, Dustin Conrad's new jazz album.
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Love Him.
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Oh. I've been trying to figure out how to. How to house and dance that up. Even though I'm pretty sure it's like an insult to the jazz of it itself.
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Maybe.
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But I lately have been trying to find ways to house and dance ify things that you wouldn't really consider like the jazz album. What else have I been listening to? I've actually been kind of getting back into hip hop. Like I really lost my way with it.
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Hasn't been super inspiring lately.
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Yeah, I was very true. Right now because it's Halloween, I'm actually trying to like find New Halloween shit, too. I've been getting into tech house, which I hated for such a long time.
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No, what is that?
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It's. It's like white people house music, to be honest with you.
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Is it less for a frenetic than, like, edm?
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Yes, I would say so. It has, like, the rises and the drops of edm, but it's. It's a little bit more. It's just a little more. More techie. I don't know.
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I'll look it up.
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But if you have a tech house beat and you have, like a rap song over it. Yum, love that. Yum, love that. I love a Megan. I love a sexy red over a EDM beat.
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Okay.
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B
But I mean, that's kind of the basis of what we do, or part of what we do as sex tapes, too.
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Yeah.
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As you know.
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We're gonna talk about that in a minute. Yeah, Yeah, I love that. I've been listening to, like, skeptics doing a lot with, like, text so long. Like, he just did something with Fred again.
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Okay.
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A
Which I thought was awesome. And other than that, I'm. I think I've been also falling back into love with hip hop across the board. And when trying to find, like, peculiar
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B
to throw it over, you actually inspired me to do that a little bit more, too, with the mixes that you were doing. Thank you. Just finding, like, different beats, not even house beats, but, like, there's a Afrocentric type of rhythm called bubbling. Have you heard of it?
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A
Of course.
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B
Yeah. Like, that, like, that's new to me. But, like, throw in a fucking Megan or a Beyonce on top of that. Whoa. And it takes. It takes that warehouse sound that I love and I'm really, like, working for. Takes it to, like, that next level, but still keeps it very, like, black and Afrocentric, which is all. All that I ever try to do.
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A
Let me say something. I don't know if you know this. Jamaicans love dance parties. They love house, they love edm. Them niggas love everything from a honey Dijon to a Skrillex. They love. And obviously our reggae Soca all is, like, different island music. Yeah. But I think people might be surprised how much Jamaicans rage. So, like, I love that.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Well, I complain to you quite often about the talentless DJs and, you know, just spreading the streets with wanton chaos. What are some of your DJ kid do's and don'ts for anyone out there, it's just them. Hey, little bit of my advice, as someone who has talent and artistic presence,
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B
do's and don'ts do mix and Key when you're doing mashups. I know that that's a big talking point right now, but it doesn't really seem to be getting through to people on the streets. Anybody that could just pick up a DJ board like Mix and Key mix with the correct phrasing. I can't tell you how many times I've heard mashups on TikTok and on Instagram where it's like just off. And people are like, people are really in the crowd hyping it up. And I think that that, like that culture don't stop if you hear something bad. If you hear something, say something. Something tell them that they're bad.
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A
Something tell them.
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B
Tell them that they're bad.
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A
But they have to know they're bad.
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B
They, again, you. They have to know. And tell me if I'm bad like, that I'm not exempt from this. Tell me. Be like, hey, girl, that didn't work.
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A
If I've been having McRibs my whole life, and then you made me some real barbecue, I'm gonna go back to McDonald's and go, what the was this? Are you wealthy? Do better. That's the only way I have to experience good DJing. But I think that some people. And you know something? A lot of people as crucial as DJing and music at the party is a lot of the. All of the clientele, all of the night life partygoers barely paying attention, drunk, right high, right horny, backwards and forwards. You play the fucking magic school bus theme song in that in bar. Like a lot of them wouldn't even know what day it is. And that's unfortunate too, but that's not either one of our damn problems, now is it? So talk to me about your life and event planning. I was honored to be able to host parties for you, including sex tapes and splice. And they've both been a lot of fun. I actually don't host parties or parties for others very often. You're the homie and I've been to your party, so I knew I would have. If your parties were trash, I would have politely told you no. But the thing that's really magnificent about the events is just a sea of black people, black queer people, black trans people who are having fun. And it's really sad state of affairs that that's not. That energy is not plentiful, at least from my perspective here. Lots of good parties. But at a sex tapes, at a DJ kid event, people are sweating from dancing motherfuckers Are smiling, making friends, happy to be there, you know what I'm saying? Just the energy there is like, it's very free and liberating and. Yeah, what is it that inspired you to make your own lane in the underground dance space and what's that been like?
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B
Well, I started doing parties in. When I lived in San Francisco, I did a daytime party called Reunion and it was 90s and early 2000s throwbacks and we actually did like cookout vibes. And that was the first time in San Francisco that there had been a party that came out with a tagline like a black and brown queer and trans party. And it was really successful and very needed. And then I moved back to la, tried to bring it to la. It didn't really hit the same. And so from there, where I spent a couple of years trying to just kind of with a question back in my mind of like, what is. What does a black event in LA look like? And just started going out to events and started going out to circuit parties in the warehouse parties and seeing a growing section of black people every time I would go, like for the first year there was maybe like 10 or 12 black people off in the corner just kind of like in their own little pocket. And that pocket just kind of grew over time and. And then I also got a lot of inspiration when I worked for Deviant. When they came out to LA for the first time, they hired me to DJ for them. And listening to, I think it was Josh J. That dj, that event, it was a Halloween.
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A
I love Josh.
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B
Yeah, me too. And he had that black circuit sound down. Even though it's not circuit music. It was just, you know, very high paced tech house music. That was the first time that I'd seen black people in that space with that sound, with that vibe in, you know, all together. And it was a really inspirational night for me. And through that, like I kind of started to build my sound with that vibe in mind. Starting sex tapes just kind of came from all of those pocket of pockets of inspiration. Plus my business partner Gary, who knows how to throw an event in his sleep, okay. We kind of just were going around going to all these different circuit parties, white ones basically, and just kind of like talking, just like they're not good, like the programming isn't good, the music isn't good. No one is actually caring about the quality of these events. They're just worried about ticket sales and, and throwing big names up and booking these DJs and not really curating anything, right? So just kind of spur the moment type shit. We were just kind of like, hey, let's, let's start this and like, let's actually put some intention on it. And I think that intention was just to have a space where we can highlight not only the black people that were coming, but also all this undiscovered black talent, all this local black talent that constantly have these other hip hop parties to go to, but don't really have the space to play all the other that they want to play.
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A
Right.
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B
And that's really like the, the backline mission of talent when it comes to sex tapes. It's like you can come over here and do whatever the fuck you want to do. We have a sound, we have a, we have a brand. We have this like very high paced warehouse, but shit. We have DJ Monte Cristo who come in and at the end of the night that will play some R and B and he's like, let's slow it down. Some of the girls hate it, but other girls be in there grinding and shit. And it's like, yeah, like this is really showcasing like our music. And we're giving context to a lot of this music that we don't really get at hip hop parties.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Um, so it's been a process of building that mission out, you know, because I think that it really just started from like a place of let's do this. And now it's turning into how can we continue to grow this showcase of all of these different aspects of black nightlife, black music, black entertainment, black fashion.
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A
Right.
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B
So, yeah. And I like, I think that we have a long way to go with it too. And that's the thing. That's really nice.
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A
Yeah.
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B
A long way to go. And also trying to pace ourselves in finding what that is. You know, it's just like, I think that's the beauty of it is just discovering the personality of this thing that we've kind of now pushed out of ourselves.
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A
Yeah. And the world is still relatively new.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And has been doing, I think, pretty impeccable work. I feel like you always get rave reviews. I always have a good time when I come. Where are. Well, I'll ask you this. What are some like upcoming plans or ideas that you, you think you'd like to. To put out there or put into works for both sex tapes and for your individual creativity. Cause you know, I'm always on your ass about moving sex tapes and going out to Atlanta, going out to the New York, to Chicago and all this stuff. And I know that that will come. But how are you feeling. Is there anything else that you're really interested in doing with your creative creativity right now?
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B
With my creativity, I think I'm trying to separate my brands, which is sex Tapes on one side and DJ Kid on the other side. So that's kind of where my creative juices are going right now. But I think within the world of sex tapes, we're looking to expand for sure.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I do want to go to all of the black spaces, so, you know, the Atlanta, Chicago, New York, D.C. we have some stuff that we're working on right now. I just can't talk about it. You know, keeping those cars close to the vest.
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A
A classy business.
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B
And that's really my. My thing, too. I don't really like to tell people what I'm about to do until I do it.
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A
Same.
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B
So there are things working. Yeah. And then I think, personally, like, I really want to get more into playing other parties that are traveling to. I want to get to festivals and concerts and things like that. Get out of the club thing. I love warehouse parties, so I'm always going to be there. But I think I want to move more into. Into, like, the underground sex tapes.
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A
Coachella sex tapes, Not Burning Man.
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B
I mean, you never know. You never know.
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A
Yeah, you really. I've never been to Burning Man.
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B
I don't.
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A
I have.
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B
I don't really have a desire to go to Burning Man.
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A
I don't think I do either, but I swear it stinks a mile out.
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B
There are a lot of black girls that are trying to get me to go out there.
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A
Why?
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B
Because they said that they love it.
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A
Okay?
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B
Somebody told me they'd be shitting in buckets. And that's what I'm saying.
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A
This is what I'm saying. This is what I'm saying. On the way.
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B
You shit in buckets on the way, then you get stuck in floods on the way out or some shit. That happened one time. I don't know. Apparently it was raining so hard when they were out, so they had to wait to get, like, wait on the one road out of the area for like six or seven hours or some shit. I know people are probably online screaming, that's not what happened, bitch.
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A
I don't wanna hear that. I don't wanna hear that. What are you talking about? What kind of adventure? Cause every time I see these pictures from Burning man, it looks like insurrectionists fresh off Ayahuasca out there dressed like Paul Bunyan mixed with Wolverine, breathing fire and doing cartwheels and.
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B
Yeah,
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A
I'm good. Coachella is just the cast of Vanderpump rules wearing flowers, so.
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B
And you liked Coachella, though?
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A
No, I had a good time. Except for when I tried to kill myself. I mean, well, but everything up to that.
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B
We're not going to talk about that.
- [42:05]
A
I've spoken about it plenty fierce. A Coachella hanging.
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B
A Coachella hanging. Maybe I'll try.
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A
The girls are just like. And every time I bring it up, it's like, oh, Fury, don't. I tried to kill me. I can't talk about it and make a joke. I'm here. I'm not still trying to do it.
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B
I stole your joke. Anytime there's somebody or something serious, I would call it a bbl now.
- [42:28]
A
Yeah, yeah. When I had my bbl.
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B
When you had your bbl.
- [42:33]
A
So stupid. Okay, last question. And this one is a question that I ask everyone, and it is, what are you trending? And what that means is if there was a trend that you could create, doesn't have to be in DJing. It could be related to music, whatever you want. But if you can make a global trend worldwide right now, what would be Anything you want?
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B
How do I say this correctly? No perfectionism in politics. We're never going to have a perfect candidate. Please vote. Please vote so that we can stop losing our rights.
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A
And with that, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for tuning into this episode of Furious Thoughts. I want to thank my very good friend and guest, the one and only DJ Kidd. Thank you for having me for joining us. Can you please tell the people your socials and the places where they can follow you?
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B
You can find me on Instagram @bigworldlittlekid with 2DS. Yeah, and everything else is linked there. So you can find me there 2DS
- [43:51]
A
because he has double D pecs, which you will see once you get to his Instagram.
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B
I took those pictures down because I'm trying to be corporate friendly these days. Girl, why?
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A
You're fine. Why would you ever do that when you're. I'm going to argue her. We have about that later. Thanks for watching. Talk to you soon.