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17 DJ Sharad: The 12-Page PowerPoint · The Heavy Hitter DJs Podcast

• 0:00
  VO: This is a Merrick Studios podcast on this week's show.
• 0:05
  DJ Sharad: And she was like, you can't just go to a meeting with DJ Enuff. He's a legend. You can't just talk. You gotta have a presentation.
• 0:11
  DJ Sharad: So we made a whole 12 page PowerPoint Oh, graphs and charts. I have that. I'm gonna find it one day. I'm a bring it. I'm a show you guys. Did Enuff
• 0:20
  DJ Kast One: really skip through a 12 page PowerPoint? In
• 0:22
  L. Boogs: three, two, one. I'm DJ Enuff. I'm DJ
• 0:26
  DJ Camilo: Camilo.
• 0:27
  L. Boogs: I'm DJ Kast One. And I'm Len Boogs, a.k.a. L. Boogs. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, everyone worldwide, this is the heavy hit of DJs podcast.
• 0:42
  L. Boogs: Sir. And welcome once again to another episode of the Heavy Hitter DJs podcast. Crowd Mover and Boogs.
• 0:50
  L. Boogs: That's Camilo Boogs. Help, Boogs.
• 0:53
  DJ Camilo: We here. Yes, sir. We got Camilo
• 1:09
  DJ Sharad: basically Long Island at this point. Oh, no.
• 1:10
  DJ Camilo: We came in Queens. Hold on. What part of Queens? What part of Queens? So
• 1:15
  DJ Sharad: I lived in LeFrak at birth. Okay. Alright.
• 1:19
  DJ Sharad: We lived on 55th Ave, and then I lived by 108th Street. Well, my temple was at 108th Street. Mhmm. So Back in the days, you
• 1:27
  DJ Camilo: ever bumped into N.O.R.E. and No. And those
• 1:30
  DJ Kast One: guys Yo. Camilo Camilo's doing the queen's check.
• 1:33
  L. Boogs: Uh-huh. Okay. You were just okay. I was
• 1:35
  DJ Sharad: I was a baby, you know, and then when we we moved out to Long Island when I was very young.
• 1:40
  DJ Sharad: And then when I went to college, went back to Queens, and I went to Saint John's. So Oh, Saint John's University. Okay. Well,
• 1:46
  L. Boogs: well, we welcome you, my man. And and not only are you a DJ exec, but you you a businessman. You're an entrepreneur, and we won't get into all that right now.
• 1:54
  L. Boogs: So okay. So Queens wait. I gotta ask.
• 1:56
  L. Boogs: There's some Queens people are you a Mets fan?
• 1:59
  DJ Sharad: No.
• 2:00
  L. Boogs: Oh, yeah. Oh, really? Wow.
• 2:04
  DJ Camilo: That's why I moved to Long Island.
• 2:08
  DJ Sharad: Long Island's full of Mets fans. It's crazy.
• 2:10
  DJ Kast One: That's a fact. I think there's more Mets fans in Long Island than in Queens, to be honest with you. That that is a
• 2:15
  DJ Sharad: thing.
• 2:16
  DJ Sharad: Baseball to me is very simple. If if the Mets are if the Mets Mets are going to win the World Series, I'll root for them. If the Yankees are going to win the World Series, I'll root for them.
• 2:26
  DJ Sharad: And I know that's Yeah. That's that's I'm not a real baseball fan. So But you're
• 2:30
  L. Boogs: a Knicks fan for me. I'm a New
• 2:31
  DJ Sharad: York fan. I'm definitely a Knicks fan.
• 2:33
  DJ Sharad: 100%.
• 2:34
  L. Boogs: He's a Knicks fan for real for real.
• 2:35
  DJ Sharad: Heavy. Heavy Knicks fan. Yep. So,
• 2:38
  L. Boogs: Sharad, what what year Enuff. I don't know anybody. What what year was it that you joined this immaculate amazing crew? What year was that?
• 2:46
  DJ Sharad: I got put down in 2021, but I feel like I've been down since, like, 2012.
• 2:55
  DJ Sharad: In my heart in my heart, I've been rocking.
• 2:59
  DJ Sharad: But, you know, I finally got the call in'21 from Coz. Coz said Coz just texted me one day and said, yo.
• 3:07
  DJ Sharad: Send me a picture, pop. I said, for what, bro?
• 3:10
  DJ Sharad: And he said, just send me a picture, and that was that. And then I told my wife, and I was like, but I don't know. So, like, I don't wanna get my hopes up.
• 3:21
  DJ Sharad: And I just left it at that. And then But it was for a minute because
• 3:23
  L. Boogs: I remember your name your name bouncing around in conversation here and then, and you would you because you have another situation going on that you would hire some of us, etcetera, and, like, trying to build something. Like, I remember you like, yo. I remember I reached out to Sharad one time. I was like, yo, man. Put me on these the weddings and them parties and private jewelry. He goes, why you wanna do what we do? Because we wanna do what you guys do. You know what saying? He couldn't get it through his head. Like, why the hell you wanna do this? I wanna be on the radio, on the club. Uh-uh.
• 3:52
  L. Boogs: Then Enuff. Right? Enuff. You you had a convo with E or something like that?
• 3:56
  DJ Sharad: Yeah. Juggernaut Juggernaut connected me and and E, and I had this whole presentation made.
• 4:05
  DJ Sharad: You know, it was like, oh, my wife was corporate. My wife, you know, she worked at JPMorgan. She worked at Bloomberg. So she was super corporate.
• 4:12
  DJ Sharad: And she was like, you can't just go to a meeting with DJ Enuff. He's a legend. You can't just talk. You gotta have a presentation.
• 4:17
  DJ Sharad: So we made a whole 12 page PowerPoint
• 4:21
  DJ Kast One: Oh, graphs and charts. I have that. I'm
• 4:23
  DJ Sharad: gonna find it one day. A bring it.
• 4:24
  DJ Sharad: I'm a show you guys. But bottom line is that was 2012.
• 4:29
  DJ Sharad: And, you know I have a question. What's up?
• 4:34
  DJ Kast One: Did Enuff really snip through a 12 page PowerPoint? Yeah. Yeah. It was I think Enuff
• 4:39
  DJ Sharad: was there. Jug was there.
• 4:41
  DJ Sharad: Freddie P was there. Wow. I'm impressed. V might have been there too. I don't remember if any was there. But That means he
• 4:48
  DJ Kast One: really liked you, bro. Facts. Yo. So you
• 4:50
  L. Boogs: know, he was through the whole the I
• 4:52
  DJ Sharad: was limited. Do the whole presentation?
• 4:55
  DJ Enuff: Yo. I'm a tell you the truth now.
• 4:57
  L. Boogs: Here we go. Here we go. Let's get to it. Here we go.
• 5:00
  DJ Enuff: Sure. I saw the role podcast that you did. Good great job anyway by that. Thank you.
• 5:06
  DJ Enuff: And you rep you rep this, you know, very proudly, and we love your story.
• 5:10
  DJ Enuff: Now in the podcast, he mentions how after his wife gave me the PowerPoint presentation, we talked for a second, and then it just went ice cold and went dead.
• 5:22
  DJ Enuff: Right?
• 5:23
  DJ Enuff: And then a bunch of years went by,
• 5:26
  DJ Sharad: nothing happened. Rod?
• 5:29
  DJ Enuff: Now the reason why nothing happened because, honestly, I was afraid of you.
• 5:34
  DJ Enuff: I was very afraid of you, my brother, because you had organization with your DJ USA brand and how he was running that company that I said, this guy could come in here and just take Heavy Hitters away from me at the at the click of it, whatever.
• 5:49
  DJ Enuff: But what I didn't put together was how much of a asset you really Right. Could be to the organization as opposed to be being afraid of you.
• 5:57
  DJ Enuff: Mhmm. So it took a few months and a few times you just continuing and continuing to hold Heavy Hitters down, to hold me down, to hold whatever it was down, that I was like, this is a
• 6:11
  DJ Kast One: good guy. Right. Right. And, you know, I
• 6:13
  DJ Enuff: I shouldn't be afraid of him. I should just I should just honestly embrace him and then and, you know, bring him down with down with the clan. Yo,
• 6:21
  DJ Camilo: Sharad, thank you for not taking the crew and running away with it. But wait. Wait.
• 6:25
  L. Boogs: Wait.
• 6:26
  L. Boogs: Before the embrace before the embrace, who the fuck should Sharad think he is trying to fuck with my crew? I will punch him in the fucking face. And I was like, excuse me. Why are we talking
• 6:39
  DJ Sharad: like this? Excuse me? What? Where is this coming from? I've held that in my hey.
• 6:43
  L. Boogs: I've held that in my pocket for years.
• 6:45
  L. Boogs: Enuff was so mad at Sharad. He was like, yo. Who the fuck? I will punch him in the fist. I was like, wait a minute. He's a nice guy. He goes, nah, bro. Wow.
• 6:53
  L. Boogs: Yo.
• 6:54
  L. Boogs: So then when Enuff turns around and goes, I like the guy. I was like, first of all, you're crazy. But then I guess Wow. That that was the point that Enuff was like, nah. I shouldn't punch him in the face. I should embrace it because we're all gonna win together.
• 7:08
  L. Boogs: Was years ago. Enuff Enuff was really that upset at Sharad, but then I guess they saw the pluses and Enuff realized, like, he's not trying to take over. He's just trying to add something better to it. You know I'm saying?
• 7:20
  L. Boogs: Look at Sharad's believes in adding value anywhere
• 7:22
  DJ Sharad: I went. Like, I feel like you can't be in a place.
• 7:26
  DJ Sharad: Mhmm. Yo. Is it me or is Boogs freezing up, or is that just me? Yeah.
• 7:30
  DJ Kast One: Definitely freezing up. Boogs sounds like shit. Yeah.
• 7:32
  DJ Enuff: He does. Yeah. Boogs is always
• 7:34
  DJ Camilo: freezing up. He got that b x Wi Fi.
• 7:37
  DJ Sharad: Yeah. That Wi-Fi is crazy. Wait. Wait.
• 7:39
  DJ Kast One: Wait. Wait. Why does it have to be BX Wi-Fi? Why can't it just be Frank Dykman Wi-Fi? Wait. Wait a
• 7:45
  L. Boogs: minute. We have very good we have very
• 7:46
  DJ Kast One: good Wi-Fi in The Bronx, by the
• 7:48
  L. Boogs: way. I offended. Yo. Yo. Yo, man. Shut
• 7:50
  DJ Camilo: up. Is that bullshit is that bullshit Westchester
• 7:54
  L. Boogs: shit?
• 7:56
  DJ Camilo: Yo, Sharad, so you we need to know you need we need to know to other people what exactly you do. A lot. You know? Yeah. You got the DJ in front of Sharad, but people out there, and they don't know what you do. So tell tell everybody what you do. So first and foremost,
• 8:12
  DJ Sharad: I'm a DJ. I've always DJed. Like, before anything, before I got to do anything else in life, DJ. So I've been DJing since the mid nineties. I came up being a fan of hip hop, but I always was into Indian music and my own culture too.
• 8:31
  DJ Sharad: And when we were coming up you you might remember, like, 74th Street Jackson Heights. Like,
• 8:36
  DJ Kast One: we had one forget. We had one block.
• 8:38
  DJ Sharad: Like, it was all Latino around those blocks, but we had one block, 74th pretty much. And it would be like, we'd go there and we'd buy that would be our Indian spot. Yep. But surrounding it was all hip hop. Right? So I kinda lived this duality where I loved hip hop and I loved the culture. I grew up in a predominantly white area.
• 8:59
  DJ Sharad: And then I'm also repping my Indian shit, and I had to put it all together.
• 9:03
  DJ Sharad: And the only way I could do that was through music. Like, because now I'm able when I started DJing, I had the same records you had. You know? I had Onyx and Mobb Deep and Fu-Schnickens and Black Sheep and Das EFX, but I also had all the Indian shit.
• 9:21
  DJ Sharad: So I was always doing that together.
• 9:23
  DJ Sharad: And through DJing, early on, I just realized, like, I didn't wanna just DJ. I wanted to throw my own parties. Eventually, wanted to own my own sound. Everything I wanted to do, I wanted to always keep it in house, you know, and I always had a crew with me. And I actually came up, like, even, like, being a fan of Strictly Live.
• 9:43
  DJ Sharad: Like, I was a huge like, I remember those, you know, days when you were around, like, Uter and Dizwan and Spin Spin one. One and that that whole crew. Like, so we came up seeing that, but, you know, no one was checking for us. So a lot of the stuff I did was I emulated what Strictly Live was doing. I would emulate what the Heavy Hitters was doing, but I also made it a business, if that makes sense. Like, I just That's dope. And so
• 10:09
  DJ Kast One: when you you mentioned that, you know, like, I'm just I'm skipping a lot of things. But you mentioned that at some point, you started wanting to do your own parties and throw your own events. Mhmm. Now was that because it was hard to get into other events, or is that just because you wanted to exert control?
• 10:28
  DJ Sharad: The first couple parties I did, I got hired. I DJ'd.
• 10:33
  DJ Sharad: Like, I started in clubs. Be clear. Like, all you guys don't know me from that era. Camilo, you might remember, but you might not too, but I hired you in 1999.
• 10:43
  DJ Camilo: Wow. Webster Hall? No. Before that, I hired
• 10:46
  DJ Sharad: you in the hood in Jamaica at Caribbean Tropics.
• 10:49
  DJ Sharad: Oh.
• 10:50
  DJ Sharad: I hired you I brought I brought you to Caribbean tropics in 1999.
• 10:55
  DJ Sharad: Yes. I paid you $500 back then. How do you remember that? I do. I remember exactly how much I paid every one that I got them. Sharad might
• 11:04
  DJ Kast One: still have the invoice. There was no invoice,
• 11:07
  DJ Sharad: bro. Because we see he has it written
• 11:08
  DJ Kast One: down somewhere. Like, yo, Camilo, $5.
• 11:11
  DJ Kast One: He has the budget written down.
• 11:13
  DJ Sharad: Yeah. I I remember hiring you in 1999.
• 11:17
  DJ Sharad: It was you.
• 11:18
  DJ Sharad: It was a a West Indian DJ because I was a West Indian neighborhood, and I was East Indian. So but I also wanted to bring a Latin crowd in. I want to mix everything together. So I brought Camilo.
• 11:27
  DJ Sharad: I brought a DJ called DJ Sage, not the Sage that we know, but Sage who used to run Hot Wax on Jamaica Ave.
• 11:34
  DJ Sharad: Sage was a DJ for us, Camilo, and a West Indian DJ called DJ Hem and then my crew. And we opened up, and then we let Camilo and everybody else take the the main slots. But Right. Right.
• 11:46
  DJ Sharad: Right. Right. That was 99. And then again, I hired Camilo and Webster Hall.
• 11:50
  DJ Sharad: Here's a great thing too, which I don't know if you remember. You def you might not remember, but I called Camilo for a date once, and I said, yo, I need you to DJ this. It was a big ass Indian holiday, and Camilo was, like, scorching. I think that's when, like, lights out, you know, the reggaeton show was on, and reggaeton had become crazy, and Indians were really fucking with reggaeton.
• 12:11
  DJ Sharad: And he was like, yo. I'm booked. I'm in Miami. I was like, well, then who should I get?
• 12:16
  DJ Sharad: And right away, without question, you were like, yo. Call Enuff. I'm a set you up with Enuff.
• 12:21
  DJ Sharad: I don't know if you remember that. I
• 12:23
  DJ Camilo: I I don't. I remember what I saw, but I don't. But that that was always my thing. Like, you know, the next guy is, you know, according if Enuff couldn't do it, then there was somebody right behind him that, you know, that was down with the crew that I would that would I would pitch in as, you know, as it should be. You know what I'm saying? Now that Enuff do the gig? Because I can't So so you gave
• 12:44
  DJ Sharad: me Enuff's number.
• 12:46
  DJ Sharad: I called him, and then he never called me back.
• 12:51
  DJ Kast One: Still right? That sounds about right. And all
• 12:54
  DJ Sharad: the all the people that and all the people that I was doing the I was a DJ, but I was also the one booking the club. And then all the promoters were actually part of my team. So all the promoters are like, yo.
• 13:05
  DJ Sharad: We need flyers. We need to go. Like, this was before Instagram. We needed to go every college, every high school, everywhere, and just move the flyers.
• 13:13
  DJ Sharad: So we ended up booking Cipha Sounds, who did a good job, but it obviously wasn't it wasn't the middle of war. Know? Is
• 13:19
  DJ Camilo: great. Yeah. Yeah. But dude, man. So he'll
• 13:21
  DJ Sharad: remember those Indian parties too. You also like, this is real history shit. We were so into hip hop, and I had a big India Day Parade after party. Camilo DJ'd.
• 13:33
  DJ Sharad: And I said, yo. I need a artist.
• 13:35
  DJ Sharad: And Camilo is actually the one that facilitated MIMS for me. This this might come back in your head now, but MIMS had this is why I'm hot. This was scorching. He was scorching. Six, o seven ish. It was o six, o seven. Exactly. Yeah. So he got me MIMS, and I remember I paid MIMS $4,000 for that gig.
• 13:53
  DJ Sharad: Look at that. Hold on. Go go get
• 13:55
  DJ Kast One: the go find the Sharad budget. No. He
• 13:57
  DJ Sharad: had to look at it now. I'm telling
• 13:58
  DJ Kast One: you, bro. That's in my head. Lifted. How
• 14:00
  DJ Sharad: can you forget that stuff? You can't forget that type of stuff. Yeah. That's crazy.
• 14:05
  DJ Sharad: And he also brought Maino ended up coming to that party. Maino had 'Hi Hater'.
• 14:10
  DJ Sharad: And, you know, the DJs were supporting the Heavy Hitters so heavy at that time. I mean, the artists were supporting anywhere a heavy hitter was. Like, artists would just pull up.
• 14:18
  DJ Sharad: So we knew if Camilo was there that, you know, the hip hop community would just know about it, and that's what ended up happening. So Isn't that isn't that so interesting
• 14:26
  DJ Kast One: about New York the way, like, so many scenes are happening at one time? And if you're not involved in it, you might not even know what's happening. Like Right. I had no idea this was happening. Like You know?
• 14:35
  DJ Camilo: No one had zero idea. At first when Sharad would call me, I'd be a little skeptical. It's an Indian party. Like, what do I play? You know what I'm saying? They're like, not just do you. I'm like I
• 14:45
  DJ Sharad: know. Was crazy. But that's that's when I
• 14:47
  DJ Camilo: got to learn about, like, Punjabi and and what it meant. And then in Bangladesh, and and and they didn't get along with the Pakistani?
• 14:58
  DJ Camilo: Pakistani? Yes. Everyone had beef. Everyone had beef
• 15:02
  DJ Sharad: at some point. That was another thing. The
• 15:03
  DJ Camilo: Indian party, used to love to fight, bro.
• 15:06
  DJ Kast One: What?
• 15:07
  DJ Kast One: What? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It would get
• 15:09
  DJ Camilo: crazy.
• 15:11
  DJ Camilo: It'd get crazy. But Kast, it was real
• 15:13
  DJ Sharad: gangs. It was gangs.
• 15:15
  DJ Kast One: Look at hold on. Let me write that down in the Sharad in the Sharad bio.
• 15:19
  DJ Kast One: Sharad gang members.
• 15:22
  DJ Sharad: I was down with all of them. That was the best part.
• 15:25
  DJ Kast One: Gang Denver.
• 15:26
  DJ Kast One: He updated the notetaker.
• 15:29
  DJ Kast One: But I got to learn I got to
• 15:30
  DJ Camilo: learn how how some songs, like, they just rock anywhere and everywhere. Like like like, back then, you know, obviously, you know, you play Panjabi MC, and everybody would light up the room. You know what I'm saying? Because it was a known record, but I got to learn, like, wow. This guy's playing all this other stuff that I never heard, and the crowd is going fucking nuts.
• 15:52
  L. Boogs: Really? And then ten minutes later, it's hip
• 15:54
  DJ Camilo: back to hip hop or reggae or the Diwali Mad reggae. Mad reggae. Like, reggae song.
• 15:58
  DJ Camilo: Yeah. Mad reggae. Yeah. All all the all
• 16:00
  DJ Sharad: the reggae that, like, Kast has on the mixtapes and all that, that's the same rhythms we play. Right. You know? We were just so in the cut in our own world Right. That, like, no one's I I keep telling people, like, no one was checking for us. Nobody believed us.
• 16:15
  DJ Sharad: Like, our gangs, the only people they will fight with was each other. Yep. Put them up against put them up against some Dominicans or some black dudes. No. We're not fighting.
• 16:24
  L. Boogs: We're good. Right. Right. Like, we would never
• 16:27
  DJ Sharad: fight outside our culture. We would never go outside our culture. You know what's crazy? Talking
• 16:31
  DJ Camilo: going back to Jackson Heights, 74th Street where that was, like, your strip. Right? Only
• 16:36
  DJ Sharad: street. But now it's multiplied times fucking
• 16:39
  DJ Camilo: three. I don't know. Like, it's it's not it's it's a bigger community now. It's But
• 16:44
  DJ Sharad: all all the Indians left.
• 16:46
  DJ Sharad: Right.
• 16:47
  DJ Sharad: See? Now it's on Nepali and Bangladeshi.
• 16:50
  DJ Camilo: Right. The Indians bounced. And we look the
• 16:53
  DJ Sharad: same. We're all brown. Right. But we moved out and then they moved in.
• 16:57
  DJ Sharad: Right. So, like, we go there. We don't know anybody anymore. Back to Sharad that's one
• 17:01
  L. Boogs: of the things, though, because obviously Camilo, because when you go to a Sharad event, like, you get all that out of it, bro.
• 17:07
  L. Boogs: Like like, Sharad will play his his vibe, and then you throw the hip hop on, and then he'll bring out a drummer, then he'll bring out a fire thrower. Like and it all mashes up together perfectly, bro. And like you said, people not checking for you made you look like, yo. We got some shit over here, dawg. You know what I mean? So, like, your brand of entertainment, bro, it's like it's in a class by itself, and I think that's pretty fire the way you move. And, like, you give us your culture through the music, basically, and then you teach everybody else like, yeah. But we also fuck with this queen shit, this Brooklyn shit.
• 17:40
  L. Boogs: Know I'm saying? And that's commendable, bro.
• 17:43
  DJ Enuff: All day.
• 17:44
  DJ Enuff: The first time I ever seen an Indian party, like, for real, for real, was I used do this thing in Toronto called Caribana. Right?
• 17:52
  DJ Sharad: Yeah.
• 17:53
  DJ Enuff: And rest in peace to Fatman Scoop.
• 17:56
  DJ Enuff: Me and Fatman Scoop, he's like, yo. He used to call me Spanish. Yo. Spanish.
• 18:01
  DJ Enuff: Before we go to your party, come with me to my party one time. So I was like, alright. Let's go. Go to his party. It's all Indian.
• 18:10
  DJ Enuff: I'm like, what the fuck is this? Unplug it. But then Scoop performs Crazy. His greatest hits.
• 18:18
  DJ Enuff: Yo. The fucking party loses its fucking Bananas upside down. It's like a fucking circus in there.
• 18:27
  DJ Enuff: And I was like, holy shit.
• 18:29
  DJ Enuff: This is crazy.
• 18:31
  DJ Enuff: And I never I never knew the importance of, like, you brown guys doing your fucking thing. And then years later, Sharad comes to my crib and hands me a Jay Z album on vinyl.
• 18:45
  DJ Enuff: Remember that? Yeah.
• 18:47
  DJ Sharad: My man did it. So what was the
• 18:49
  DJ Enuff: what was the what was the the project?
• 18:51
  DJ Sharad: That was Jay z. They took all Jay z classics and put them over Indian beats. There was Fire. There was another producer. I forgot who did it. They did Jay Z over the Beatles. Remember that? Yeah.
• 19:03
  DJ Enuff: Yeah. Yeah. And that was kinda, like, inspired
• 19:06
  DJ Sharad: by my man, Kunal, who's one of the biggest Indian house producers in the world right now. My man, Kunal, did hip hop, Indian Indian hip hop beats with Jay z. It was a bull leg, but You know? Like a a the the
• 19:20
  DJ Enuff: The Grey Album or some shit like that?
• 19:22
  DJ Sharad: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay.
• 19:24
  DJ Sharad: It was right after that. Fire.
• 19:26
  DJ Camilo: So how many times have you been to how many times you've to India to DJ?
• 19:31
  DJ Camilo: Twice.
• 19:32
  DJ Camilo: Tell us that. Like, what what's the world like out there? What are they what are they fucking with? What are they into?
• 19:38
  DJ Sharad: So one time I went because people from America brought me there. So that was, like, all Indians from here. Going there, they rented out a castle and did a massive three day event. Work. Another time I got hired from there.
• 19:55
  DJ Sharad: But when you when you go there, the amount of labor is very cheap. Like so when I landed, I had a whole receiving party for me.
• 20:07
  DJ Sharad: You know, it's like when you've gone to Asia, it's like, they just walk you through the airport. Yeah. It's just like like There's
• 20:12
  DJ Camilo: fucking three vans outside. You're like a king.
• 20:15
  DJ Sharad: Like, when you come there, you're like a king. Like, anything. The red carpet is rolled out.
• 20:20
  DJ Sharad: I had this is right when Serato came out. It was, like, 2008, 2009, and I take my laptop.
• 20:27
  DJ Sharad: For every wire that I had to plug into the mixer, there was one guy to do that. So, like, it was the Serato box, the SL 1. So imagine, like, there's five dudes trying to hook up my SL 1.
• 20:40
  L. Boogs: No one knows what the fuck to do,
• 20:41
  DJ Sharad: but they all wanna be part of it and help you. Right. Right. So, like, one guy's taking one RCA wire.
• 20:47
  DJ Sharad: One guy's taking another RCA wire. That's just another And other guys nuts, bro. The best part, they couldn't get it working because, like, Serato was still sewn due.
• 20:58
  DJ Sharad: So they could've and I'm tech. Like, I'm not that tech smart. Like, I'm not really that tech. So, like, collectively, between them five, six guys that were hooking up my Serato and me, it might have took in, like, forty five minutes. We couldn't figure it out.
• 21:11
  DJ Sharad: And I ended up having to go aux out for a whole gig in India because my Serato wasn't working. It was one of the toughest DJ experiences ever. Talk about that.
• 21:21
  DJ Camilo: Like, that I used to hate that shit.
• 21:23
  DJ Camilo: Walking to when we first converted to Serato, bro, walking with that box and getting behind that mixer while the other DJ was on trying to figure shit out, bro, that was the worst the worst. Like, I was like, I can't fuck. I'll go back to records and shit. I used to hate that shit.
• 21:39
  L. Boogs: You might have unplugged too long shit.
• 21:41
  DJ Camilo: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A 100%. So so
• 21:44
  DJ Sharad: listen. I'm at this gig. I'm DJing for a very famous Indian actor.
• 21:48
  DJ Sharad: It's his event, and I'm aux out I'm aux out from the headphone jack with, like, a single Serato. Like, you couldn't even do the two thing in Serato yet.
• 21:59
  DJ Sharad: You couldn't even have a left deck and a right deck.
• 22:02
  DJ Sharad: So I'm aux out. And then while that's happening, I have a second laptop. My man's with me, and he's burning me CDs Oh my lord. Off the thing so I could do the rest of the gig with, like, five five or six CDs.
• 22:14
  DJ Sharad: Figured it out, though. You figured it out.
• 22:17
  DJ Sharad: Yeah. Absolutely. So now I travel anywhere I go, I travel with two laptops.
• 22:21
  DJ Sharad: If I don't travel with two laptops, I travel with a second person who's a DJ.
• 22:25
  DJ Sharad: I never go anywhere by myself to DJ.
• 22:27
  DJ Sharad: And if I do, I have two laptops because of these experiences that we get in life. We've all been there. Right? Yep. We've all been there, like, some technical bullshit Yeah. That you just can't figure out, and
• 22:39
  DJ Kast One: I'm it's I'm kamikaze cats. I'm not doing none of that.
• 22:42
  DJ Kast One: I'm hoping to god I'm hoping to god everything works out. When I used to have vinyl
• 22:47
  DJ Camilo: and try it with vinyl, I would have my five crates, but there was always, like, your crate might not make it the second or third crate. So I always had a bag with me just in case bag.
• 22:58
  DJ Sharad: Yeah. Happened. That way, I could at least
• 22:59
  DJ Camilo: get through fucking thirty minutes of, you know, whatever the situation is. Yeah, you always gotta be ready for anything at that point. Carrying two laptops back then, you know, that was the work that have. The during the during
• 23:11
  L. Boogs: the CD times precisely, and I got booked
• 23:14
  DJ Enuff: of gigs. When I owe Boogs.
• 23:16
  L. Boogs: What?
• 23:18
  L. Boogs: Hey. In human form. But, yo, Precise and I I just bought cash when I owe
• 23:23
  DJ Enuff: Boogs. I'm just saying. Hey. It worked out
• 23:25
  L. Boogs: for you, Yo.
• 23:27
  L. Boogs: Precise and me showed to the gig. Yo.
• 23:29
  DJ Sharad: They had no equipment.
• 23:32
  L. Boogs: They had no equipment. Precise had to DJ with two Oh, yeah. With two CD Walkman joints, like, literally, and a mix. I was like, Precise.
• 23:40
  L. Boogs: You're a fucking genius, bro. Like, a genius.
• 23:44
  L. Boogs: And I had to do, like, the segue at least. Yo. But like I said, figured it out. You know what mean? Like, you know, you figured it out. Bring two humans with me instead. Yep.
• 23:53
  DJ Sharad: I got a question for you guys.
• 23:55
  DJ Sharad: How do you how both Kast, Enuff and Camilo specifically.
• 24:00
  DJ Sharad: How do you guys DJ in all the spots you DJ with and how did you adapt to this whole transition of really good equipment to having the shittiest, most beat up, fucked up controllers at the level you guys are at. You guys are the biggest in the world. I believe that.
• 24:20
  DJ Sharad: Right? So how do you go into these uptown spots and these Steinway spots that have all fucked up equipment and be comfortable?
• 24:29
  DJ Camilo: Listen. I, you know, I come from the era of vinyl, mixtapes.
• 24:34
  DJ Camilo: We've seen it done it all at this point. You know? So when you walk into a spot nowadays and and your fader's broken or your your your left side's not working, you kinda use you kinda got we went through boot camp.
• 24:48
  DJ Camilo: You know what I'm saying? Every day. We went through boot camp so we we know how to deal with that bullshit. And it's unacceptable, to be honest. It's really unacceptable.
• 24:57
  DJ Camilo: But when you in the hood, you just gotta rock. Well, there's no there's you got a crowd be in front of you. That's the only the the excitement, at least for me. It's we gotta get this shit done. Gotta make it work. You know?
• 25:08
  DJ Camilo: And and And you know what? Go ahead,
• 25:10
  DJ Kast One: Camilo.
• 25:11
  DJ Camilo: Honestly, it's 2026. We shouldn't be going through this, like Right. At all.
• 25:15
  DJ Camilo: But it is what it is, and execute and keep it fucking moving, bro. Bro, like,
• 25:20
  L. Boogs: hosting a whole party on a headphone is crazy, but we had to make sure. You
• 25:24
  DJ Kast One: know? It's actually part of of just being a DJ or or just being that's part of just what you do.
• 25:32
  DJ Kast One: Right? Like, sometimes you go you're gonna go certain place. You're not gonna have all the tools that you have that you want at your disposal to do your job. That goes with anything. You could be a mechanic, and you could show up somewhere, and they don't have the exact same tire iron they use. You gotta figure it out, mate. That's part of that's kinda like part of the gig. Like, whenever we travel a lot, of course, you might send a rider or whatever, but you never know what you're gonna walk into. Right? So you gotta have to be able to know how to do it all kinda sorta. You gotta be able to know, yo. I might be have to play internal at night. I know how to do that. I might have to play on one side today. I know how to do that. I might have to play with one turntable and this mic and just keep cutting it off. Blah blah blah blah talking my shit and then putting the other song on. It's just part about being adaptive.
• 26:13
  DJ Kast One: Yo. And it's something that I I also I was I always tell the younger DJs that you listen. Don't get too comfortable in your space.
• 26:20
  L. Boogs: Yeah, man. All
• 26:21
  DJ Kast One: the time, you're not gonna be in your space. And I go with anything, Turn DJing, life, whatever. You know what saying? You get too comfortable in your space. There's been scenarios
• 26:29
  DJ Camilo: where the left the left side is fine.
• 26:30
  DJ Camilo: The right side, the picture just doesn't work.
• 26:32
  DJ Camilo: 100%.
• 26:33
  DJ Camilo: Headphones don't work.
• 26:35
  DJ Camilo: Or the jack is like this and you every time you gotta just move the jack a little bit just to here, like, bro, it it you know? Yo. Done it all.
• 26:42
  DJ Kast One: Kept Sometimes sometimes you're gonna be walking in the city and it's gonna start raining. You got shorts and a t shirt on. Figure it out.
• 26:49
  DJ Kast One: You feel me?
• 26:51
  DJ Kast One: But it is. It sucks. It sucks. And
• 26:52
  DJ Camilo: not every not every gig is club live where everything's immaculate, and you have a sound man, and your shit is in in full force. And if that doesn't work, they have a backup. Not every club's like that. And you know what?
• 27:03
  DJ Camilo: I I like to call it hip hop.
• 27:05
  DJ Camilo: It's just hip hop. Like Sure. You know what I'm saying? It's hip hop. So when you go to these uptown gigs, it's it's just perfect that you say uptown because it happens uptown all the time. You just it's just hip hop, man, and you fucking keep them with no complaint.
• 27:17
  DJ Camilo: Now mind you, these are gigs that are not the biggest gigs in the world, but they're for me, they're important because Those are
• 27:24
  L. Boogs: important. Street. They're the street.
• 27:26
  DJ Camilo: You're not gonna get you get in the culture right there. You're getting the bottom of the pot.
• 27:31
  DJ Camilo: You know what I'm saying? And I love that shit. And now now that you say
• 27:35
  L. Boogs: culture, Sharad, real quick, do do you feel like you being a hip hop head and then representing your chords, do you have to work a little harder just to show people like, yo. I rap this and this together.
• 27:46
  L. Boogs: You know what I'm saying? Wait. Wait. I
• 27:47
  DJ Kast One: have one I'm sorry, Boogs. I'm sorry. I have one more thing to say on that topic about the mixes.
• 27:52
  DJ Kast One: There might be times where things that's immaculate and you just don't mess with. Like, as y'all know, I got beef with the DJ DJM-A9 whatever the hell that Pioneer I hate mixer.
• 28:03
  DJ Kast One: Yo. DJs give me shit for that. I I hate that mixer. That mixer is the worst mixer ever made, but people love it.
• 28:10
  DJ Kast One: Venues love it. DJs love it. A9.
• 28:12
  DJ Sharad: I hate the DJM-900.
• 28:15
  DJ Sharad: I hate those mixes. And and and production
• 28:18
  DJ Kast One: companies love using that mixer. So I show up, and I'm like, here we go. Anyway, go ahead. Sorry. I
• 28:23
  DJ Camilo: blame the sound man for that because the sound man, they think well, you know, it's actually awful, to be honest, because we should be ahead of the game. Like, what what do you have? No. I can't I hate that mixer. Let's not have it tonight. But the sound man think the newest, hottest, and cleanest sound is what every you know, what he wants, obviously. Because sound man bro, sound man hate controllers.
• 28:45
  DJ Camilo: They hate controllers. So do I. The the the the high-tech Club owners love them. Club
• 28:50
  DJ Sharad: owners love them. Club owners love them. High-tech
• 28:52
  DJ Camilo: guys can't stand it because they don't they don't produce enough power. They don't give you the best quality sound. But we love controllers because it's a one star Woah. Woah. Woah.
• 29:00
  DJ Kast One: Speak for yourself, buddy. Hey. Listen. It's a
• 29:02
  DJ Camilo: one stop shop. Most I'll do them. Most DJs love controllers. It's a one stop shop, man. You get the fucking shit done. Everything is there. Sound effects, pads, you know, feel feel great, man. Know. Just
• 29:13
  DJ Kast One: don't say we.
• 29:16
  DJ Sharad: We. He says we, he means me.
• 29:19
  DJ Kast One: Anyway, I'm sorry. We're sorry. Boogs, continue. Sorry.
• 29:22
  DJ Kast One: What's the hold on. Just the reason why
• 29:24
  DJ Sharad: I asked that question Uh-oh. Is because I just wanted to like, I knew where you're coming from because I know the clubs that you guys do, and I see what you guys do every single week.
• 29:34
  DJ Sharad: But when I start when I moved away from clubs, like, I got into the private game. And when I got into the when I got into the private event game, I was like, fuck this.
• 29:45
  DJ Sharad: Everything I do is gonna be, like, the top equipment. I'm never gonna have bullshit equipment.
• 29:50
  DJ Sharad: I'm always gonna have, like, whatever my mixer is, my CDJs, my turntables, whatever I want.
• 29:55
  DJ Sharad: So I got so used to playing on a set that's the exact height, that's exactly what I want, that's exactly what I need, that going out of that comfort zone was like a no no for me. And anywhere I'd went, I'd be like, yo. I need this, this, and this, and I have these specifications.
• 30:14
  DJ Sharad: Yeah. Eventually, I started, you know, hanging out around Clark Kent a lot. And when I was around Clark Kent, he had his rider, and he would send his rider out.
• 30:25
  DJ Sharad: And I remember going to spots with him, and his rider wouldn't be accurate or would be missing something. And he would just be like, cool.
• 30:34
  DJ Sharad: I'm gonna sit here, and you guys are gonna figure this out, And I'll just sit and wait. I already got paid because the money's coming in advance.
• 30:44
  DJ Sharad: I have nothing to prove, and I'm not here to work on shit that I don't wanna work on. So I either have my shit or I'm gonna sit right here and fucking hang the fuck out.
• 30:55
  DJ Camilo: And I Clark Kent, man, for sure. Bro,
• 30:58
  DJ Sharad: I adopted that mindset.
• 31:00
  DJ Sharad: I adopted that. I took that. I was like, fuck that.
• 31:03
  DJ Sharad: Wherever the fuck I go, I'm gonna have my shit, and I'm a make sure it's there.
• 31:09
  DJ Sharad: Only a year ago and I believe it's because I'm a Heavy Hitter.
• 31:14
  DJ Sharad: Only a year ago, I dropped that mentality, and I was like, fuck it. I gotta go places alone.
• 31:21
  DJ Sharad: I gotta play on these FLX10s and these bullshit ass fucking broken Steinway fucking mixers, and I I just started doing it. Yeah.
• 31:29
  DJ Sharad: And I'm like and my guys are like someone someone came up to me. He like, yo, Sharad. Why are you here right now playing on this set? I was at a club in Midtown recently, and I was just like, yo, I'm here.
• 31:38
  DJ Sharad: And the same reason is because I fuck with the people. And in order to stay close to the people, sometimes sometimes you have to drop your standards, and you have to be Right. And and
• 31:48
  DJ Camilo: Listen. There's a time and place for everything.
• 31:49
  DJ Camilo: There's a time when you can pull out your writer and say this is what I need if you want me. You know what I'm saying? You can't do that everywhere. So it's either you risk a gig you risk a gig or or you or you just go all in no matter what the fuck it is and and make it happen. Me, I don't like to stay home, bro. I get upset when I'm home. Clearly. Tycoon. Bro. You you said clearly.
• 32:12
  DJ Kast One: Listen. I love being at home. I love oh my god. I I I have a new squad and a group chat and, you know, with my guys, and we call the group chat enjoy your mortgage.
• 32:23
  DJ Camilo: Right. But but also
• 32:25
  DJ Kast One: to that point of going to clubs and do don't you find, like, Sharad, wasn't it fun, though? Wasn't it adventurous? Be like, yo.
• 32:31
  DJ Kast One: Will I be able to do this on this tonight?
• 32:34
  DJ Kast One: And at the end of the night, when you did do it, you're like, it can't fuck with me. I'm Sharad, baby. All out.
• 32:40
  DJ Sharad: Hook me up with this Bangladeshi promoter from Steinway.
• 32:43
  DJ Kast One: Okay.
• 32:44
  DJ Sharad: Named Russell Seven Star. I don't know if you know him from that. Oh, Rusto.
• 32:48
  DJ Kast One: I got Rusto. He's
• 32:50
  DJ Sharad: Bengali.
• 32:51
  DJ Sharad: You know, we're we're neighboring countries.
• 32:53
  DJ Sharad: He's like, yo, He's like, I'm Bengali, but I I really do Spanish and black parties.
• 32:58
  DJ Sharad: I don't really do desi parties, brown parties. So, you know, I wanna start it. Can you can you come to some of these spots and start DJing for me? So every time he would hit me, I'd be like, yo.
• 33:08
  DJ Sharad: Well, what what they got in there? And he'd send me some picture on WhatsApp, not even on a regular tone, WhatsApp, with some, like, bullshit ass fucking thing, and then I'd send that in my DJ USA chat. Be like, guys, does anyone have a driver for this? Does anyone know this? How do I use this? And then I'd find one ahead.
• 33:26
  DJ Sharad: I'd practice with it in my office, and then I'd go to the gig. And I'd go people be like, can I roll with you? I'd be like, nah. I'm going solo, and I'm a suck it out. Right.
• 33:35
  DJ Sharad: And I did that all the, like, year.
• 33:37
  DJ Sharad: All year, I've been doing that. This brings
• 33:39
  DJ Kast One: up something that's kind of been the elephant in the room that we haven't addressed yet.
• 33:42
  DJ Kast One: So at what point did you decide that you were gonna move from doing clubs and those kind of parties to having your own company and producing these events and just having this whole different mindset with everything?
• 33:58
  DJ Sharad: It wasn't a point. It was just like natural progression. Like, I was doing the same clubs. Like, I've heard, you know, you guys talk about, like, the CIN parties at deep and, like, that whole era. I was around that era. We had our own parties, but eventually, my crowd that was coming to my parties started hitting me to do private parties.
• 34:19
  DJ Sharad: And once it really got to the money, like, the money was just too different. Was just I mean, you're talking ten twenty x of what I'm getting in the club to get in a single night of a party 100%.
• 34:31
  DJ Sharad: Where it almost became like, how could I keep doing this when this is like, they're throwing it at you. And I'm like and it was natural progression.
• 34:42
  DJ Sharad: And then I started realizing, like, these people don't want, like, classical music at their shit. They still want hip hop. They want reggaeton. They want reggae. They want bhangra. They want Bollywood.
• 34:52
  DJ Sharad: And I have to bring that, plus I have to bring the sound, plus I have to bring the lie lighting, plus I have to bring the stage. Guess what? Everything was a line item. And that's where my business acumen was like, yo.
• 35:02
  DJ Sharad: I if you want me to DJ, it's this. If you want sound, it's this. If you want lighting, it's this. And so on and so forth. And it just got to the point where, like, I couldn't mentally and capacity wise do both anymore.
• 35:12
  DJ Sharad: And now I now the clubs I do, I don't look at it as a financial thing. It's I do it to get that itch out. Like, because I I still love doing it, but I'll hit a club once or twice a month max.
• 35:22
  DJ Camilo: Kast One, to answer your question, it was the bag.
• 35:26
  DJ Sharad: Yes. Yeah. I think I just said that.
• 35:28
  DJ Sharad: Buying the bag. But I enjoyed it too.
• 35:30
  DJ Camilo: But, you know, doing like I said, doing the clubs listen. When I'm getting into these venues, I already know what I'm going into.
• 35:35
  DJ Camilo: So I know it's a fucking hole in the wall. But, like, once again, it gets you close to the people.
• 35:40
  DJ Camilo: It gets you close to what the fuck you need to you learn right then and there. Oh, this is what's popping. They fuck with this.
• 35:46
  DJ Camilo: You can't get that nowhere else, bro. You can't go on YouTube. Tick yeah. You could get on TikTok. Oh, this shit is fucking a fire on TikTok. No doubt. But once you see it work on a dance floor, there's no other experience. There's no other homework.
• 35:59
  DJ Camilo: And that's that's why I do it. Yes.
• 36:01
  DJ Camilo: The bag is smaller. Yes. Listen. I've gotten I've gotten a gig at a bar mitzvah.
• 36:07
  DJ Camilo: Okay? We're talking about a couple of thousand dollars.
• 36:11
  DJ Camilo: You know what I'm saying? Easy money for 40 in a couple.
• 36:15
  DJ Camilo: Yeah.
• 36:16
  DJ Camilo: You know? And and how do you say no to that? You don't. What? Do I love Do I love it? No. But I go do it, get the bag, keep it fucking moving, and and then get back to my my regular program. And I understand, you know Sharad, like, explain to us, though, you got a company because I don't think people understand what your company does.
• 36:36
  DJ Camilo: And and maybe with some of the the the the the the shows that you've produced, like
• 36:42
  DJ Sharad: the baby.
• 36:43
  DJ Sharad: So the company I have started as a DJ agency, DJ USA.
• 36:49
  DJ Sharad: I told Enuff once. One time even a few months ago, was like, yo, E. I you know, you guys are still in the clubs and radio.
• 36:55
  DJ Sharad: I feel like I sold out a little bit. And I remember you telling me, like, no. You didn't sell out. Hell no. You you just set yourself up. I remember, like, Kim clearly telling me that. And at the end of the day, I started with me as a DJ.
• 37:08
  DJ Sharad: I couldn't DJ everywhere, but I was getting called to do all these private events.
• 37:12
  DJ Sharad: So then I looped all my friends friends in. All my friends who were DJing, I started bringing them up.
• 37:17
  DJ Sharad: And, eventually, what was just me DJing private events ended up becoming, like, a squad of us. 14 of us now, that's the DJ USA crew, all South Asian DJs, all really dope at what they do. It's like my crew. It's my crew. It's my crew that's not the Heavy Hitters. That's my own, like, community crew. And it's 14 of us, and I oversee bookings.
• 37:41
  DJ Sharad: I oversee everything that comes in, and it gets farmed out to the team and who's gonna deal with what. But it started with DJs.
• 37:47
  DJ Sharad: The DJs then led to everything else, sound, lighting, production.
• 37:51
  DJ Sharad: And after a while, corporate clients started to catch on.
• 37:55
  DJ Sharad: And I I landed some really good corporate clients when I was young. You guys all know BX Sports. I I've continually told the story. Of course. Yeah. BX Sports was the first guys that put me in the game with, like, the brand activations.
• 38:08
  DJ Sharad: And now I saw ding ding ding DJ USA. I'm doing the wedding stuff, but then BX Sports connected me Mhmm. To their shit. And when they put me into the game of that, that was a different kinda whole workflow, money flow, and it always was hip hop. It was never not hip hop. It was just hip hop done in a way that was digestible and easy for brands and people to invest in. So, you know, once I started working with b x sports, they connected me to Adidas. From there, it was like it would just became a web, and I started doing production for everything from I've done the Super Bowl events, NBA All-Star Weekend multiple years.
• 38:51
  DJ Camilo: What can I ask what's been your biggest event? Like, biggest and that that has be financially, but, like, what what's been your biggest, like, woah.
• 38:59
  DJ Camilo: We did this shit. My biggest event was
• 39:01
  DJ Sharad: probably producing everything full on for Megan Thee Stallion. Like, full ons built her stage, built her video out, built audio, built the lighting design, worked three, four months on a single day gig Wow.
• 39:20
  DJ Sharad: To just I mean, that that's a that's a multimillion dollar production. Production. Right. You know, that's probably the biggest gig that I produced, if you will.
• 39:28
  DJ Sharad: In terms of DJing, I've just DJed so much. So you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But,
• 39:32
  DJ Camilo: like, production line. Includes stages, lighting.
• 39:35
  DJ Sharad: Everything. It's I mean, that's that's months of that security protocol.
• 39:39
  DJ Camilo: Right. That's her green room.
• 39:42
  DJ Sharad: That like, people don't see and understand what the BTS is of all this. Like, wait. She wants how many packs of Skittles?
• 39:50
  DJ Sharad: Like, that's filtering through us. You understand what I'm saying? It might not have been Skittles, but you understand what I'm saying. Like Yeah. It's
• 39:56
  DJ Kast One: very it's very, very technical, very detailed. That's the word that I'm looking at. And think a lot of
• 40:02
  DJ Camilo: people don't know that's these are the some of the things that you do. And that's why I wanted that's why I'm asking, like, people don't understand that or have no idea. You know what I'm saying? They don't, and I don't talk about
• 40:11
  DJ Sharad: it. And I've never really talked about it.
• 40:13
  DJ Sharad: And one thing my father always told me, and this is, like, this weird place I'm in, but my father would always be like, yo.
• 40:22
  DJ Sharad: Whatever you do, like, move in silence.
• 40:26
  DJ Sharad: Don't Oh. Don't put it out there. Don't talk about it. Just continue to just work and and and and feed your family. Right? So that was all my father's shit. Taking notes.
• 40:39
  DJ Sharad: And so for years, I've been behind the scenes on so much stuff.
• 40:43
  DJ Sharad: Like, when you work for companies and you work as a consultant for a brand like a Foot Locker, a Nike, an Adidas, a Champion, a Timberland, you get these six-figure budgets week in and week out. Week in and week out, they're handing you all this money.
• 41:01
  DJ Sharad: A part of what they're handing you is a job, and you're working for them. You're working on behalf of them. So you're almost like, in so many cases, NDA'd, not to say that you're doing this job or that you don't work for the company. I'm a consultant.
• 41:16
  DJ Sharad: I'm outside. I'm not their employee, but you're working on behalf of these people.
• 41:20
  DJ Sharad: So I did so much for twelve, thirteen years behind the scenes that it just became normal. It just became, like, every day. Like, I'm just behind the scenes, so I'm not building my own brand.
• 41:32
  DJ Sharad: And, honestly, after becoming a Heavy Hitter, I had to switch my mindset a little bit because multiple people were like, yo.
• 41:38
  DJ Sharad: Like, yo. You do all this shit. You don't really talk about it. You don't really put it out there. You don't market it.
• 41:43
  DJ Sharad: So that's why in the last three, four years, you'll see me put videos out about that stuff where before I wasn't doing that.
• 41:50
  DJ Sharad: I was just doing it low key, working on the back end behind the scenes, and kinda playing my role, if that makes
• 41:56
  DJ Camilo: sense. Now in 2026, you've done this so many years. Right? Have you seen business change? Have you seen corporate companies move different? Have you seen budgets get bigger, smaller?
• 42:05
  DJ Camilo: Have you seen maybe AI kind of affect your your your your your your business? You know? Like like, 2026, like, where we at?
• 42:18
  DJ Sharad: Me, personally, I think the money is there.
• 42:20
  DJ Sharad: You gotta just go find it. Right. I think there's I think we're all hustlers. Everybody on this call, everybody in this room, everybody in our crew work hustlers.
• 42:27
  DJ Sharad: We know how to figure it out. I think the business is changing, and I think every few years, there's a changing of the guard Guard. Or the changing of what's happening or implementing technology.
• 42:38
  DJ Sharad: Like like, even if you think back to something as simple as Serato, which is very complex, but, like, were all four of us on this call eager to jump on Serato the minute it came out?
• 42:50
  DJ Sharad: Were you eager to jump on Serato?
• 42:52
  DJ Camilo: No. Fuck no. I was the biggest hater.
• 42:54
  DJ Camilo: What
• 42:55
  DJ Sharad: about you, Kast?
• 42:56
  DJ Kast One: No. I wasn't. I wasn't until until well, honestly, it was e. It was two people. Until I wasn't eager about it until I saw it. Once I saw it, I was like, oh, this is gonna change the game. Right?
• 43:08
  DJ Kast One: And I think I've told that story before, whatever. We're down in Virginia, and we saw somebody that was on it. Actually, was Ronnie
• 43:13
  DJ Enuff: B. Was it Ronnie B? It was Ronnie
• 43:15
  DJ Kast One: B that was on it. Yeah. And, you know, we were down there doing a party for his birthday. It the first time I actually seen it in action.
• 43:21
  DJ Kast One: And Enuff was like, on the way back, he was like, yo, it's over for these records and CDs. We done with that shit. I'm buying a laptop as soon as we get to back to the city and we figuring this shit out. That was kinda it. You know what I'm saying? So now to your point, you're right. Like My point is you
• 43:35
  L. Boogs: have to kinda roll with the punches. We
• 43:37
  DJ Sharad: didn't embrace the technology yet. We're all forced to use the technology.
• 43:40
  DJ Sharad: Similarly, we're talking about the changing of the game, where is AI taking us.
• 43:46
  DJ Sharad: Right now in my company, I have 12 people that sit in my office every day.
• 43:50
  DJ Sharad: Every single day at the office, there's 12 of us. All those people demand a salary.
• 43:55
  DJ Sharad: Half of the stuff that's being done, I could put a couple of months of work into AI and and get rid of half those people.
• 44:02
  DJ Sharad: Right. At some point, I might have to.
• 44:04
  DJ Sharad: Right now, we're okay, but we're already we're already in the talks with the programmers of, yo. How do we automate this? How do we automate that? How do we do this?
• 44:13
  DJ Sharad: And it's already happening. So I feel like we have to change with the times and implement the technology where we have to as and that goes across with any the whole vertical of who you're working with. Like, if you're working with a client, like, they're gonna expect things faster and cheaper because they know that this deck you used to charge me $10,000 for creative, I could put this shit in in in
• 44:38
  DJ Kast One: ChatGPT. GPT, whatever, and
• 44:39
  DJ Sharad: get a deck in five minutes. How are you charging me $10,000 for this? Right. Like, literally, there's there's a hip hop artist that whose name I won't mention, who hired me.
• 44:50
  DJ Sharad: I charged them$10,000 to do design work for a studio that they wanted to build.
• 44:57
  DJ Sharad: And they gave me a deposit.
• 45:00
  DJ Sharad: My team did a fucking amazing studio design for this person, and the deal was at the end when you approve the design, I get my money.
• 45:09
  DJ Sharad: As soon as they saw the final design, they took it.
• 45:13
  DJ Sharad: They're like, thank you.
• 45:14
  DJ Sharad: They didn't use it, so now they're saying they don't like it.
• 45:18
  DJ Sharad: And they're like, we're not paying you the balance. And then a day later, their studio gets designed in AI and fucking built. And Wow. Wow.
• 45:28
  DJ Camilo: And It's the game. But but you now you live and learn, and now you know, you know, what what's out there and what could happen. So Facts. You know, you gotta go you gotta go through the motions to just to learn, like, okay.
• 45:40
  DJ Camilo: This ain't this ain't happening again. I bet you won't happen again.
• 45:44
  DJ Sharad: No. Because I don't work for rappers anymore.
• 45:53
  DJ Sharad: Damn.
• 45:56
  DJ Kast One: It's raining. Out here. Yeah. It's tough. It's
• 45:58
  DJ Camilo: tough out there. It's tough. It's a challenge.
• 45:59
  DJ Sharad: Unless the manager I'm dealing with someone else.
• 46:01
  DJ Sharad: I'm not going directly to no rapper. It's just it's not happening.
• 46:05
  DJ Camilo: Right. So what's what's in the future for DJ USA?
• 46:08
  DJ Camilo: I mean, do you see, like, next level or what's the next goal? Or I mean, you know? No. We're still rocking. I think
• 46:14
  DJ Sharad: the best thing that we just were able to do is buy a building.
• 46:21
  DJ Sharad: Oh, yeah. I was renting for the whole career. I was always renting, and I would put a lot of money into these spots I was renting.
• 46:28
  DJ Sharad: COVID hit, and my landlord, who was also a friend of mine, I asked him for rent reduction or a way to pay the rent later. He said, absolutely not. I gotta pay a mortgage.
• 46:39
  DJ Sharad: I'm like, bro, I've been renting for you for twenty years. Like, you can't cut me some slack? My I'm a DJ. My business is over. We have no money for the next god, no you remember COVID? Like, no one knew what the fuck. I thought. I
• 46:50
  DJ Camilo: got a story too. Yeah. Yeah. So
• 46:53
  DJ Sharad: my bottom line is my landlord gave me no rent reduction and was like, look. If you wanna leave, you could leave. I said, just like that, I just put hundreds of thousand dollars into building this place out a few years ago, and now you're telling me, like, because I can't pay the rent, I gotta leave?
• 47:09
  DJ Sharad: He's like, no. You can leave. But if you wanna stay, you gotta pay me in full. So me and my team took that as a disrespect, and we didn't like that.
• 47:16
  DJ Sharad: So we ended up renting this little small little spot, which, Kast, you've been to. Enuff's been here.
• 47:22
  DJ Sharad: It's a small little spot in Long Island, and that was a temporary spot with the intention to always buy. Finally, we we got the right deal.
• 47:29
  DJ Sharad: We bought a building, and I think You
• 47:31
  DJ Enuff: want my office in there yet? Yeah. Well,
• 47:33
  DJ Sharad: you use the whole building is yours, bro.
• 47:35
  DJ Sharad: Right. And this is the truth Here's here's something very I haven't heard of this
• 47:40
  DJ Enuff: shit.
• 47:41
  DJ Sharad: Here's a very, very, very, very true thing.
• 47:43
  DJ Sharad: And I built this place so we have a ground floor, which is our office for the team. There's extra offices in inside that building because we know we're gonna And we know that if anybody needs the space for whatever, a client meeting, anything, you like, you have access.
• 48:01
  DJ Sharad: Kast is like, yo. I don't wanna be at home today. I just wanna come sit in the office and, you know, do my label stuff there or whatever. It's available.
• 48:09
  DJ Sharad: I have a warehouse, but then above all that, I have three rooms, which is right now a kitchen, a room, and another room.
• 48:16
  DJ Sharad: That I already got the cosign. I don't know if you heard, but we're gonna have our own studio in there, and I wanna implement like, I want it to be the heavy hitter studio where we have had to all day, every day, you know, twenty twenty four hours a day where, you know, podcast space, vocal vocal booth. Camilo, we don't like that.
• 48:38
  DJ Enuff: We love that. We love that. Full digital
• 48:40
  DJ Sharad: workstation.
• 48:42
  DJ Sharad: And then separately, what I was always doing with my DJ USA studio, which is, like, the DJ content.
• 48:47
  DJ Sharad: So collectively
• 48:48
  DJ Camilo: Sounds like a place where we'd be be shooting the new Heavy Hitter podcast.
• 48:52
  DJ Camilo: Listen. I mean, that's that's what we're doing
• 48:54
  DJ Sharad: it for. And, like, a lot of people talk about stuff. I'm with it. I'm with
• 48:57
  DJ Enuff: it. A lot of people talk and say
• 48:59
  DJ Sharad: they want they want to, I wanna do this, we're gonna do this.
• 49:03
  DJ Sharad: We anything I talk about, I will bring it to existence. I will it will never be discussed by me if I'm not really doing it. Kast knows. Like, me and Kast have talked so much. Like And that's that's
• 49:15
  DJ Kast One: I I actually was gonna bring that up and ask you that question as far as executing.
• 49:20
  DJ Kast One: Like, how difficult it is. Because for some people, it's very difficult to visualize something and get from the visualization point to the actual executing point.
• 49:31
  DJ Kast One: Have you ever, like, felt barriers doing that or you just go all the time?
• 49:36
  DJ Sharad: You gotta have no fear.
• 49:38
  DJ Sharad: You gotta trust people. You gotta have a team.
• 49:42
  DJ Sharad: You gotta believe in your team.
• 49:44
  DJ Sharad: If your team says they're gonna do it, you gotta take it for face value. If if I got a guy that's with me and he says, yo, like, I could get that fixed. I could do that. Then you gotta believe him. And you gotta until they prove you otherwise, put the team in play and let everybody rock. You could be the visionary.
• 49:59
  DJ Sharad: You could have the goal. You you also should be able to get down and do the work yourself because there's been many times, like, I'll sweep my own floor. I'll clean the the toilets in my in my building.
• 50:10
  DJ Camilo: Yep. So someone the other day fucking left
• 50:12
  DJ Sharad: my bathroom a mess. It was a Friday.
• 50:14
  DJ Sharad: And I was like, yo. What the fuck is that? I was the last one in the office. I'm like, fuck this shit. I'm a just clean it myself.
• 50:20
  DJ Sharad: And so a young employee came. He was like, yo. The cleaning lady's coming tomorrow. I'm like, this shit can't wait. This is nasty.
• 50:26
  DJ Sharad: And, like, that's that's my mentality in everything.
• 50:29
  DJ Sharad: Like, you have to be able to do the bottom level shit and still be able to execute the highest of high level shit. Like, I deal with CEOs.
• 50:38
  DJ Sharad: I'll deal with the janitor the same way.
• 50:40
  DJ Sharad: Ultimately, like, they're all on your team. You gotta figure it out. That's why you're you're successful,
• 50:45
  DJ Camilo: Sharad. Right. And that's that's that's one of
• 50:48
  DJ Kast One: the things that stands out also because I don't specifically remember when or how we met.
• 50:55
  DJ Kast One: But what I do remember day we met.
• 50:57
  DJ Kast One: Okay. So you could tell that story. But what I do remember is everybody around me telling me, you need to meet this guy.
• 51:05
  DJ Kast One: Oh, you don't know this guy? You need to meet this guy. Like, that was fat fingers.
• 51:10
  DJ Kast One: That was Clark Kent. That was even Enuff at a certain point. Oh, you don't know you don't you don't Sharad? You know I'm saying? So I don't mean, go ahead. You could tell them when we first met. I don't remember specifically, but what I do remember is is everybody speaking to your just speaking to your accolades and be like, yo, this he's a great guy. He he he is what he talks about. He he says what he's gonna do, and he's a perfect he's a good person to have a connection with.
• 51:35
  DJ Sharad: Absolutely.
• 51:36
  DJ Sharad: And that's that's definitely something you learn over time.
• 51:40
  DJ Sharad: You know? I think all we have is really our word. You know? If you if you say you're gonna do something and you don't do it if I tell you I'm a be here and I don't show up, or if I tell you I'm a get this done and I don't, how would that make you feel?
• 51:54
  DJ Sharad: Like, how would you feel about me?
• 51:56
  DJ Sharad: So it's like, if you can't do it, it's also okay to say no.
• 52:00
  DJ Sharad: Like, it's it's also okay to be like, yo. I don't think I could get that done right now. And that's something I think you learn with mature maturity.
• 52:07
  DJ Sharad: And over time, I've made many mistakes, and I think all of us as human beings, how many mistakes do we especially in this game. Like, this information and calls and you need to be in a thousand places at once. Like, how do you do it all?
• 52:20
  DJ Sharad: We're we're human beings at the end of the day. So, ultimately, you gotta you gotta be able to, you know, stick by your word.
• 52:28
  DJ Sharad: If you say you're gonna do something, do it. If you say you're gonna pay this money, pay it. If you say you're gonna deliver this thing, deliver it. And sometimes when you say you can't, like, Enuff calls me for shit all the time.
• 52:38
  DJ Sharad: And sometimes I'll even feel bad. Like, yo, I can't get this done. But now, like like, even though Enuff's the boss, I'll be like, yo, you know what? I gotta tell him I can't go. Like, as much as that hurts me to be like, yo, I gotta tell Enuff no sometimes.
• 52:51
  DJ Sharad: Like, he understands because he's been there too.
• 52:53
  DJ Sharad: So, like, even the other day, like, wanna do that? You wanna go here? I'm like, Enuff. I can't. You know, I have a basketball coaching commitment or I'm always just trying to
• 53:02
  DJ Enuff: keep him in the loop because I know he's big on Yes. His brown people being represented, and he wants be So I always want him to be a part of the the talks, the part of anything we do with the radio show on Shade 45. I want you know, that kind of shit. And, honestly, to be the to be 100 straight transparent with you, the only two people I feel super safe to set me up before I DJ is him and DP One. That's it. Go school. There's nobody else.
• 53:35
  DJ Enuff: When I know they're there, I know I'm good to go. Nothing's going wrong. I got
• 53:38
  DJ Sharad: a great story about that too. I'll be
• 53:40
  DJ Kast One: good to go. I got a great story
• 53:41
  DJ Sharad: about that too. We're talking about riders and stuff. Yeah. Go ahead. A few months ago, he hits me. He's like, yo. I got a DJ at Brooklyn Bowl.
• 53:50
  DJ Sharad: I said, I bet. What what do they have in there? He's like, come with me.
• 53:53
  DJ Sharad: I said, cool. No problem.
• 53:55
  DJ Sharad: I said, what do they have in there?
• 53:56
  DJ Sharad: He said, I don't know. You know Enuff.
• 53:58
  DJ Sharad: He's like, I don't know. Fucking they have the equipment in there. I'm like, what do they have? He's like, I don't fucking know.
• 54:03
  DJ Sharad: I was like, you know what? We're gonna bring a controller. We're gonna bring a rev seven in the truck just in case. Like, whatever the fuck they have there, we're bringing a REV7. So we bring because I like the REV7.
• 54:14
  DJ Sharad: I I if it's if I'm gonna use a controller, it'll be that one. So we bring REV7. We go. We pull up.
• 54:20
  DJ Sharad: We're right outside, and we go inside.
• 54:24
  DJ Sharad: And there's no DJ equipment set up at all. Wow. So I go to the sound guy. I'm like, yo.
• 54:30
  DJ Sharad: Where's the DJ equipment? And Enuff's like, yo.
• 54:33
  DJ Sharad: Just go go bring the REV7 with you when we walk in. I'm like, no.
• 54:36
  DJ Sharad: Like, this is not how we're gonna move here. Like like, we're not doing that. We're not taking it out of the car if they already have shit in there. I'm not doing extra work unless we need to.
• 54:46
  DJ Sharad: So the sound guy's like, oh, I don't know.
• 54:48
  DJ Sharad: You know these sound guys at these spots.
• 54:50
  DJ Sharad: They don't give a fuck. They're like, I don't know. I turn on I don't know.
• 54:53
  DJ Sharad: I turn on my camera light, and I look down below. I'm like, CDJ-3000s. I see two a set of CDJ-3000. I'm like, yo. What are those things right there? He goes, oh, I don't know. The sound guy goes, I don't I said, can I use them? He goes, yeah. You could use them. So I take out the CDJ-3000s.
• 55:11
  DJ Sharad: And then I'm like, where's the mixer? Sound guy's like, I don't know. I go I go underneath the table, and I see a fucking S11 there.
• 55:20
  DJ Sharad: That's my favorite mixer. Everyone loves S11, and I know Enuff will be comfortable with that mixer. So I'm like, alright. Let's set up the S11, the CDJ-3000s, and get this shit fucking moving.
• 55:31
  DJ Sharad: And, you know, it just shows you, like, sometimes you just gotta you gotta you gotta set your guy up.
• 55:38
  DJ Camilo: I forgot to mention you were talking about how do you get into these gigs that got trashed equipment. I do carry a backup in my trunk. You have to.
• 55:46
  DJ Camilo: A little joint. It's a little joint, and it saved me, like, four times. What is
• 55:50
  DJ Sharad: it? The REV, the REV1, or what is it? A REV1. Little joint.
• 55:53
  DJ Camilo: But, you know, it saves you for an emergency. My daughter uses that pro. Exactly. That's
• 55:58
  DJ Sharad: what I'm saying. The
• 56:01
  DJ Camilo: other thing I used to do back in the days when it was a big gig, like, let's say, which is a big room, you know, sometimes they equip me with that. I would call somebody that made sense, you know, financially, and I would get a sound guy to come in and put in my own speakers in the front, my own setup, you know, monitors, set me up on stage, and I did that a few times. You did that with
• 56:25
  DJ Sharad: me.
• 56:26
  DJ Sharad: You did that with me, bro. I did
• 56:28
  DJ Camilo: yeah. I did it with you. No. Hold up. Did it with you a few times.
• 56:32
  DJ Sharad: Once.
• 56:33
  DJ Sharad: Once. Once. I did it with you once.
• 56:35
  DJ Camilo: Right. And then and then I did it a few other times. Because you know what is the other thing is this.
• 56:39
  DJ Camilo: You wanna look good. You wanna sound good.
• 56:41
  DJ Camilo: Budget ain't great.
• 56:43
  DJ Camilo: So you gotta you gotta think, okay. What makes sense?
• 56:47
  DJ Camilo: Do I use this guy for a thousand dollars or they use this guy for $400, and I could still kinda get away with it? Kinda sort of. You know what I'm saying? But but it's important. I kinda learned that, you know, a few times. I played with addict sensation, and he was doing the same shit. I was like, hold up. This makes sense now.
• 57:03
  DJ Camilo: You know? So you'll invest in your own
• 57:06
  DJ Sharad: additional equipment and stuff? Money take out of
• 57:09
  DJ Camilo: my money to put it you know? I
• 57:10
  L. Boogs: I I and and and because the president's
• 57:12
  DJ Camilo: everything, but it's gotta make sense too. You know what I'm saying? The room's gotta make sense. The budget's gotta make sense. All these little things I have to make sense. Then fuck. Take a little l, but at least I look great and sound great.
• 57:23
  DJ Kast One: And you you know what else?
• 57:26
  DJ Kast One: Speaking to Sharad and your company, never fails to amaze me, bro. Thank you. A couple a couple months ago, I get a call from Sharad. Was like, hey. You know, we're doing this we're doing a party at Manhattan. I think it was Manhattan College. Manhattan Manhattan College. Right?
• 57:42
  DJ Kast One: He was like, yeah.
• 57:44
  DJ Kast One: You know, it's gonna be your party at Manhattan College, whatever whatever whatever. I'm like, alright. Cool. He's like, what do you need? I'm like, I don't know. You know, regular shit. Whatever. Like, you know, control of some. I don't I don't really think about it much. Now we've all done college parties and homecoming and all that stuff.
• 58:00
  DJ Kast One: So I'm whatever. I'm expecting whatever.
• 58:03
  DJ Kast One: Bro, I walk into this. It's in the gym.
• 58:07
  DJ Kast One: It's a when I tell you a full on production, you think it was Madison Square Garden.
• 58:12
  DJ Kast One: This dude had, like, fifty fifty foot long LED screens with the stages and the eight monitors and the 30 foot high speakers. It was wild. Right? And it just and everything. Right?
• 58:28
  DJ Enuff: Yeah. Trust and everything. Right? Yeah. But it
• 58:30
  DJ Kast One: just goes to show the level of production that, you know, Sharad and his company and thought that they put into thing. It's not a run by night where you're just gonna go into a place and hook up a speaker stack and call it a day. Right?
• 58:39
  DJ Kast One: Like, you guys have to understand the scope of what we're talking about and who and what we're dealing with here. Like, when he says these activations were, like, Nike and Timberland Yeah. You can't believe it. This is not little thing. These are not little things. This is a really big official production.
• 58:55
  DJ Kast One: You know, I just wanna give you your props and your company your props to be able to, like, put all of this together and have the the the I don't I don't even know the word I'm looking for, but just getting this job done is not as easy as most people think it is.
• 59:07
  DJ Kast One: Like, people think it's just like, hey, you know, you call us up. Yo. What do you need? We're having a party. We need a couple of speakers. Did you get a couple of call in a day? It's not.
• 59:13
  DJ Kast One: Any every single one of these events take sometimes months of planning in advance for one event that might last four hours. Right? And it's not a little thing, you know. So I just wanna give you a props on that. And you and your team do great work and continue to do great work. And you guys been impressing me from day one. Because then I think the first event I did with you guys is probably the big sports thing. And from day one until now, it's just been, like, continuous movement and continuous
• 59:42
  L. Boogs: Come on. Come on, little girl. You
• 59:45
  DJ Kast One: know what I'm saying? Shout out you and your whole squad. It's coming back. Where the
• 59:48
  DJ Sharad: whole team. Where the Boogs? Our Boogs is
• 59:49
  DJ Kast One: gone. Yo, don't bring up Boogs, bro. Don't don't talk about this is why
• 59:53
  DJ Sharad: this is why Enuff's always mad at Boogs.
• 59:55
  DJ Sharad: You see?
• 59:56
  DJ Sharad: That bullshit. You you ever seen that movie?
• 59:58
  DJ Kast One: That cartoon movie? What's the cartoon movie where they don't talk about Bruno? We don't talk about Bruno. We don't talk about Boogs.
• 1:00:04
  DJ Camilo: Sharad, before we go, like, to any upcoming Indian DJ Uh-huh.
• 1:00:11
  DJ Camilo: Like, that wants to get in a game, that wants to be that guy. Like, do you have any words speaking to you know, any guy coming up? Any advice. It's a hard game. It's 2026. It's different. Right?
• 1:00:25
  DJ Sharad: I think the key the key is always just put the music first. I think if you're like, this whole game oh, Boogs.
• 1:00:32
  DJ Sharad: He's back. I think this whole game is so diluted with, you know, what a DJ really is. And, you know, it's this whole Internet stardom and the shit as you've seen so many ups and downs already with guys that it's it's such a limited time frame that I believe, like, you gotta put the music and your skill set first. And I I preach this to the young DJs. I was like, I don't I don't care if you have 2,000 followers, 200 followers, a million followers.
• 1:01:00
  DJ Sharad: If you're not fucking with your music every day and you put the words DJ in front of your name, you're doing yourself and the entire DJ community a disservice. Let's face it. This whole DJ shit made you, made you, and made you.
• 1:01:15
  DJ Sharad: All of us will have not be who we are if if we didn't have that DJ stamina and have those words DJ in front of us and put that real work in.
• 1:01:26
  DJ Sharad: And putting the work in is the priority.
• 1:01:28
  DJ Sharad: I think so many young DJs got it twisted, like, that they just do these little clip mixes, thirty second mashups, and they get going viral. It's like people really value virality as currency, and that shit is gonna be short lived.
• 1:01:41
  DJ Sharad: And at the end of the day, you have to put the work in, put the music, put the knowledge of the culture first, and everything else will follow. Yep.
• 1:01:50
  DJ Camilo: Yep. And a lot of free gigs in the beginning.
• 1:01:53
  DJ Sharad: That's fine, bro. Listen. I'll do free gigs now. If I wanna do a free gig, I'll do a free gig. I have that choice. But, ultimately, you have to put that music first. And Fact. Everything else comes secondary, bro. Like I
• 1:02:07
  DJ Kast One: agree.
• 1:02:07
  DJ Camilo: I agree a 100%. Rod. Thank you. Sharad,
• 1:02:10
  DJ Kast One: my brother. Big honor. You for you to
• 1:02:12
  DJ Enuff: be here with us. We love you. Loving you guys too, man. You a thing. But, gentlemen, before we leave and say goodbye, I wanna acknowledge the Heavy Hitters Foundation because all our supplies got to Colombia yesterday.
• 1:02:28
  DJ Sharad: Nice. That's amazing. Alright? We we collected over
• 1:02:31
  DJ Enuff: 2,000 I mean, we collected enough supplies to kind of, like, hit 2,000 people individually.
• 1:02:37
  DJ Enuff: I wanna shout out my wife, Vee, everybody who contributed, everybody who bought stuff on Amazon, everybody who helped with the cause because the people of Colombia really needed it.
• 1:02:48
  DJ Enuff: Shout to Vee's son, Jacob, and his and and his girlfriend, Nathi, who actually carried the bags and went to we partnered with JetBlue, and JetBlue paid for all our bags. Wow.
• 1:03:02
  DJ Kast One: Wow. Shout out to JetBlue. Shout out to
• 1:03:04
  DJ Enuff: Freddie P. Shout out to everybody who who helped.
• 1:03:07
  DJ Enuff: And, you know, it's just you gotta sometimes, you know, recognize the people who work hard behind the scenes to get things done. Yo. And and big
• 1:03:15
  DJ Camilo: ups big ups to Vee also because she puts that heavy work in. Like, she always pushing to give out give out. This earthquake happened in Colombia. She's like, guys, we gotta do this. We gotta here's the link. Get to it. Push it. Boom. Bye. And then
• 1:03:29
  DJ Enuff: there's you go. And we'll talk in less than twenty four hours. We we received mass shit.
• 1:03:34
  DJ Enuff: Crazy.
• 1:03:35
  DJ Sharad: One day That takes a special individual. That takes a committed person.
• 1:03:39
  DJ Enuff: And shout to Vee also during Jackson Day.
• 1:03:42
  DJ Enuff: She got a a award, a citation from the borough the Queens Borough President for, you know, just her hard work and everything she does for the community. So I wanna shout her out. Shout to Jacob. Shout to the Heavy Hitters Foundation.
• 1:03:55
  DJ Enuff: And thank you again, Sharad, for being here with us, my brother. You guys Heavy hitters suck up.
• 1:04:01
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• 1:04:14
  DJ Enuff: guy, DJ Enuff. I'm DJ Camilo.
• 1:04:17
  DJ Kast One: And I'm DJ Kast One.
• 1:04:19
  DJ Camilo: Heavy Hitter.
• 1:04:21
  DJ Camilo: Sucks up.