New Jack dj's getting the 3rd degree on twitter!
matamatic
488 Posts
Damn I didn't really check for twitter all that much. Checked it out a lot when all that Jazzy Jeff stuff went down last week. But man today Cosmo just went in on dj's today! His whole rant should be called the "Dj Commandments" or something along those lines. Funny.. F%ck it Ima paste it since his twitter isn't protected....i remember when it was biting if you sounded like someone else & you weren't part of their crew or at least from their hoodI remember when biting was considered weak and people got called out for it. What the F*ck happened?I remember when DJs had their own particular unique style motherfuckers weren't so genericI remember when particular records were attributed to DJs, back when every damn fool didn't have every damn record at their fingertipsI remember when DJs had to work HARD to unearth joints, or drop serious cream.I remember when DJs had to work hard when they perform, not look like they're checking their f*cking emailI remember when DJs broke new records in the club, not letting kids ringtones dictate what I should be playing. You can get the bozakI remember when my community of artists wasn't so f*cking APATHETIC. "Well you know dude, you gotta play the game..." F*ck all that, turkey!I remember when people actually got EXCITED when the new hot joint came on in the club, and the recognized itYeah, I have records where the labels have been washed off / blacked out. What of it? I don't give a F*ck, get your own recordsPS - BITING IS NEVER ALLOWED. Beatbiters get the herbalz in they mouthAnd for a lot of you motherfuckers who are on some "Well that's just the way it is these days" shit..... I feel you but yall motherfuckers just using that shit as a crutch. Step you're f*cking game upAlso, PS - Dude, you wouldn't BE a DJ if they never invented Microwave. Don't think you can speak to me.Matter of fact, don't even address me unless its that real live offical shit. All that other shit's to the curbIf you don't have double copies of "Dance to the Drummers Beat" in one sleeve, do not even address me, sonI remember when Kool G Rap "its The Demo" would set the f*cking party off RIGHT. Now it's all 130BPM+ wobble wobble. All good, just sayingHey DJ - what's the next trend to hop on? f*cking Mosquito-Tech-Step? Go fly a kite while I listen to The O'Jays..Better yet, no matter where in the world you are right now, put on Donald Byrd "Love Has Come Around" and GET f*cking RIGHT!Rest In Peace DJ Donald Stone - a true Philly original and innovatorEvery real HIP-HOP DJ keeps 2 copies of "Before I Let Go" in their cratesPeace to DJ Cash Money - that's a real motherfucking DJ for you...Try to copy Cash's scratches for a week straight while locked in your room, then speak to me. NO BITING ALLOWED!"Yo, what the F*ck was that record Red Alert just played" - THEN come speak to me, motherfucker. Not before...Straight up I do this shit because I have no other choice. I didn't choose to be a DJ - DJing chose me. This aint no popularity contest.Sucker ducks and beat biters can get to stepping. Real rap NO BITERS. You get called on it for now on...Don't speak to me unless you can rock a party with a shoebox of 45s and a pair of busted headphones. GET YOUR WEIGHT UP. But for real...Step your f*cking games up. I know you will. Wheat separated from the chaff. Let's go. Its about that time...Yo Cool Guy DJ - YOU HAVE NO RECORDS. Step off...Also, if you can't beatmatch without looking at WAVE FILES you should just pack it in right now and go home. UPS is hiring, son...I'd rather work at Taco Bell than be a weak-ass DJ. This is going out to a whole bunch of you dudes out there, HOLLERI don't give a F*ck, I'm from Philly and we have the hardest crowds in the world.I've been straight booed off the set before. It's only made me better. STEP YOUR GAMES UPI don't give a F*ck ill tell you right now - the shit I hear on the radio these days has NO f*cking EDGE to it.Cue the apologists: "dude you're so disconnected from the yoot and the skreets." Nah son you're just unoriginal and have bad tasteI'll see all you lames when you grow tired of being DJs and move onto whatever your next "passion" is. Pottery maybe? Tarot cards? SuckersSomeone recently spoke on how we "Used to police ourselves and be our OWN quality control" (@Sake1derful maybe?)Let's get back to that all call that weak shit for what it is. Weak shit is to the curb, g.How about dropping the record when that shit was on 45? Oh yeah you digiDJs never had that issue did you.Shout to @stretcharmy a real f*cking DJ everyome else sit downi used to buy EVERY copy of a particular record to protect my sound. one time i bought 8 of em... ME TOO MY DUDEBut before I go, just hear me on this one - you go out and you hear a DJ really f*cking DOING IT? Let that motherfucker know...And all you fakers and BEAT BITERS from this day on we're calling you the F*ck out.Oh yeah, forgot one thing - DJs, learn to let that f*cking record LIVE. I mean, play that f*cking recordLotta dudes these days on some "Let me play 10 records in 60 seconds" shit - which is cool, and an art in itself...But motherfuckers cutting records off WAY before its time. That's a prime example of DJs playing tunes that they JUST DON'T KNOW...Like man, these dudes back when they were constructing these songs, they knew what they were doing. TRUST THESE DUDES. TRUST TOM MOULTON...TRUST LARRY. TRUST SHEP. These records have a natural way of coming into their own maturity over the 7/8/9 minutes that they run.Cutting them off before they've fully matured to appease to some fuckwad's nonexistant attentian span does this music a grave disserviceI'm on some "playing all three verses" on the hip-hop tip these daysAlso to you dumb motherfuckers who come to the clurb and ask for hip hop but really don't even know what that means..... I'll play some Super Lover Cee & Cassanova Rud for ya? Boo hoo this aint Rihanna or some assorted "Lil" or "Yung" character, IDGAFIt actually occured to me that if you aint listening to Cameo right now then you aint shit...and to think I was about to sell off all of my doubles.... 
Comments
I feel you, though. Well, on like 93% of it.
i love you cosmo.
YES !!!!!!!!!!!!! tell em
I couldn't agree more. Too many Microwave users think the only thing that matters is how fast you can switch over to the next song. Some DJs really got that down, but when the whole club is going crazy over a song and you hear the DJ play one verse of it, then mixing over to some lukewarm terd of a record... It just makes me sad.
b/w
"get off my lawn" type steez.
I like it.
yr not playing records so the crowd can play spot the track they recognize, theyre supposed to enjoy the music for what its doing functionally, not on some "omg remember this?" shit every 30 seconds
but really, really tired of going to a club & having to stop dancing every 24 secs when the dj totally switches up the groove or the style just to keep ppl going. its like they think ADD Djing will make up for being shitty at getting people to dance
Some gems:
"I remember when DJs had to work hard when they perform, not look like
they're checking their f*cking email"
"I'll see all you lames when you grow tired of being DJs and move onto
whatever your next "passion" is. Pottery maybe? Tarot cards? Suckers"
"If you don't have double copies of "Dance to the Drummers Beat" in one
sleeve, do not even address me, son"
I just read that while, "Cowgirl in the Sand," was blasting in my left ear.
Now, I'm off to do the visuals for a concert with the following 'luminaries':
Main-No
Flo Rida
Soulja Boy
T-Pain
Akon
Etc Et al...
This will help me get through.
(though, I will say, Akon always PERFORMS. Dude puts on a show, no doubt. Fun on a big screen.)
Or they don't realize that they're supposed to be getting people to dance, not flossing the fact that they're eccentricly tasteless.
sounds like alot of fun[/eyeroll]
Carry some crates for the og young bitches.
Hurt your back djing!
Passion about this. Whether right or wrong, thts what's been missing.
Passion.
Props my dude.
But really, everything he said is
I TAKE THIS SHIT SERIOUSLY
He played Odyssey "Going Back To My Roots" in it's entirety last time we played together, when is the last time you witnessed a DJ do that on a Saturday night?
I'm all about this right now, especially songs with quite parts and epic builds. Although I tend to go ADD sometimes when I have a ton of music I want to play.
Ha
and cominatit from the other end...several of my buds, established dj's, were trying to keep their game up just around '02-'03 and thought that meant going digital. I shrugged, wished them luck, then bought their records.
Major cosine on this I call it ADDDJ-ing just let the tunes play and do there thing
This makes me sick!!!
I feel like bringing rotten fruit to the club these days!
I was picturing (in my head) Cosmo spitting these gems of wax wisdom in a '10 crack commandments' type track...
"Rule number uno never let no one know, what records you spin at a show...etc"