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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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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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I’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.
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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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I’m not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I like it.
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There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.
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It’s always important to me to play something other DJs aren’t playing.
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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.
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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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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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