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We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn’t designed to work. But it’s fun.

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At the end of the day, Fool’s Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There’s a ton of great music coming out.
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End Fool Gold Grab Hear Label Music Myself
A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.
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Genre Music Play Purity
I’m still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.
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Inspirational Label Limitation Myself Potential Production
I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.
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Manifestation Music New Sample Sound
Right now it feels like we’re playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That’s a very rare thing in a person’s life to be able to be a part of that. It’s a responsibility I take seriously.
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Culture Myself Play Responsibility Right Serious
I think one of the biggest things that’s changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We’re getting closer and closer to an artist performance.
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Artist Change Music Myself Performance Rap Song Thinking
I’ve been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.
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Goodness Interest Music Myself Play Record Sound Young
I have a radio show on Sirius XM. I put it up as a free download on my Soundcloud and on iTunes. That’s a portal for me once a month, to play songs I know aren’t getting played on that station the rest of the week.
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Download Listen Month Myself Play Radio Song
It’s always important to me to play something other DJs aren’t playing.
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Important Music Myself Play
We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn’t designed to work. But it’s fun.
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Early Fun Music Myself Run Song Wake Up
Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I’m very glad that it’s happening.
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Build City Connection Fans Life Myself
The essential component of being a DJ is setting the mood; it’s playing to the context. So that if you’re not able to adapt from one context to another, then you’re not a DJ.
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Adapt Component Essential Mood Oneself Play
There’s a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.
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Direction Follow Ideas Knowledge Myself Production Purity Skills Technical
I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would’ve been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.
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Dance Explode Music Myself Thinking
That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn’t necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music – I’m still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
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Challenge Fun Heart Hip Hop Music Require
I’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.
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DJ Music Myself Style

We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn’t designed to work. But it’s fun.

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