February 6, 2025 • 37 mins
Episode 360 - “DJ Holiday” Feat: Ferrari Simmons & You Know BT Produced by: Baller Alert
Topics Include: DJ Holiday’s Beginnings With Gucci Mane, Yo Gotti, Nicki Minaj, Elevating Others, Having A Family, Advice, and More
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They get a list. They called me. Broadcasting live from Atlanta,
George Joe, Welcome to the ball Show. I go by
the name of Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sim I go by the name you know, b.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
T DJ Holiday of the Building Holidays. See he got
a couple of them. It's holiday, Seize it, bitch.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah. I never got a Ferrari one though LIKERI got
this got him aggressive ass. It's d J holidays, bitch ass.
Nigga moment. All the DJs, all the DJs have them.
This nigga had to do like three thousand drops one
day everywhere.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
First and foremost, we appreciate you pulling up on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, man, first June, for all those that don't know,
and for the people who are new. DJ I came
under DJ Holliday's wing. DJ Holliday named me him and
Gucci Man named me Ferrari.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We was at Folly's. He called me Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You remember that. It was It was two times. I
know you were struggling with the name. Damn bro, you.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Gotta say all that you was.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I thought that was the Ferrari.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Now you know, it's saw that one or two at
and he said, Ferrari, your name is Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, because I said, I said, because you really want
to go fast. So it was a method. He was
slow down. Yeah, I was like, you gotta get down
in the crowd and talk to people. And even if
she a fat girl, talked to her, you know whatever,
like just talk to be a people person all around.
I think they started it.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Uh, there was a problem and I'll never forget. We
was at Follies and instead of Sean Simmons, he said,
he told.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Man, it was like, I like that name, that's that's
your name.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I said, damn right, that's my name. I never changed
it after that. Follies, by the.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Way, Damn man, some of the great.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
DJ Holliday, the world famous DJ Holliday. I used to
always tell him this funny story. He used to download
all his mixtapes illegally, and yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Was definitely doing the same things.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yep, I don't understand. I don't know how I can
properly introduce this guy. Uh, this is one of my
first major co signs in Atlanta. You know, he took
me under his wing. I was around him for a
very long time. I learned how to do radio him
(02:34):
and sticks alone allowed me to He was doing a
live broadcast, Yeah, live broadcast at Harlem Knights, and he said, man,
just come to the radio STATIONE. I was like, what
I'm gonna do? He was like, we'll figure it out.
And I came to the radio station. This is this
is way back. It's maybe twenty twelve. Damn, I'm dating it.
(02:54):
But and then added me to the commission. A lot
of people don't know about the commission.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Man commission. Yeah, commission was at one point.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, yeah, that was.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
That was like you want you want to got my commission?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah? You was pressing.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
One time for Jay Rock.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah. But I think I don't know what we took
a blow. I think after COVID, Yeah, and I think
you know, everybody, everybody and the DJ world got a
little weird and if you really couldn't stand on your
own too, it just some people had It didn't make
sense for me and Sticks, I mean me, Sticks and
Jay Rock to keep pouring into something, you know, and
(03:36):
I and I knew Ferrari with you know, standing alone
by itself and do amazing. Everybody mind you you know,
they're all you know, around doing their own thing, and
we're proud of that. But you know, reward shows, giving
Frank Ski Awards and people like that. It was an
amazing time.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So stop it, man, let let's let's go all the
way back from the East side way in Germany.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Though Germany people don't know you. Was born in Germany,
born in Germany. I was born in Germany because of
my mom. My mom was in the army years I
lived on army basis.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Mom on top of Mama Holiday.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Hey, Mama, Mama Holiday. But now yeah, born in Germany,
raised in Germany. Moved here in the sixth grade. I
think total culture shock. Had to learn how to walk
out y'all, talk like y'all, you know all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, stop Holiday. Was a really good football player.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Really good, really good. Got a full athletic scholarship grades.
Wasn't amazing to go to D one for sure, but
uh and I didn't want to go to JUCO. I
wanted to play right then and there, so went to
Fourth Valley State University. Just my coach go Buck Gottfree
Rashaun at Leave's mom Dad, sorry, she he pushed me
in that direction just to go to a HBC you
(04:49):
get that college experience, and you know, just to get
a free ride. My mommy had to pay for something.
I thought that was a big gift, you know, so
to do that now.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But so you started DJing in college?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Or was it before I come and call it DJ?
And I had two CD changes and I was putting
CDs in and everybody was coming to my house in
the living room will be packed. Jay rock Can attested
this and we just had a great time. But I
wanted to control the music. That's where the bug started.
Then I found this older cat in Fort Valley and
he taught me how to like blend and scratch and
(05:23):
you know the concept of music and read the crowd
and all that type of stuff. And that's why I
kind of got the bug for it. And I spent
my loan check on some CDJ Now.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I noticed two thousand asked this question, what was your
first DJ name?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh? Man, it was almost no, it wasn't. I really
didn't have a name. It was Avery because my last
name was Avery.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But wait, I heard something.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Cat eyes. Why would you bring that up?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But no, yeah, yeah, it was something. It was no
that was never on a fly. Yeah. Yeah, you can't
find you something nard worship and that's cool, but you know,
it was it never it never stuck. So it was fun.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
It was where did Holiday come from?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Holiday came from a lady by the name of U M.
She was the program director at the local radio station
in Fort Valley and I stayed over the holidays and
I used to just DJ all the students in the
party and it was ten twenty people that out of
DJ for them. And I remember when somebody called up
to the radio station was like, oh man, you killed
(06:43):
it last night. Man, what's your what's your DJ name?
And I don't know. She was like, man, you're always
here for the holidays and the holiday thing. I just stuck.
Wow yeah something like that. Yeah. Yeah. So then I
wrote it down, like on a piece of paper. I
journal a lot, and I wrote it and I was like,
DJ Holiday, but the street niggas represent this ship, will
you know? Girls like it? But it had it had
(07:06):
a flow to it. And I remember the first time
I told my partners about it, they was like, it's
all see what you do, but it ain't gonna be
no DJ, no DJ drama though, like that.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Whoa wait, So drama was drama was out before you?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah? Yeah, for sure. Trapper Died was like the Bible
in college, Bro, like that ship was like, I don't know,
I couldn't even explain it. I just thought that she
was the most magical ship in the world outside of
our clue.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I was gonna say Drama had trapper Die, but he
also had dedication, he.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Had Nah, No, I ain't, No, it was trapper Die.
Trapper Die was my my senior year, going into like
moving back and forth to Atlanta, and I just thought
that she was amazing. That BMF area all that stuff.
So you wasn't even out then.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
This This is how see, this is how you know
back then you would get music like later on, because
when I was back in Arkansas, it was like DJ
Hall to day, DJ Drama, DJ Scream, like djes was
like the big DJs.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's that's early. This is early eight oh you know,
six o eight oh seven or eight something like that.
Because I remember Bro, I was an intern at the
radio station and I helped put up posters for Jez
that when when they booked GZD comes Gesu had one
record over here. That was it. He came over here
that one record and that club was packing was the
(08:28):
Thursday Thursday so something metal, but it wasn't making Georgia
and that ship was lit and I was like, bro,
this is and I and I was just I got
the book, I want to DJ this, I want to
host this, and I want to be a part of
all this.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Wait wait, wait, you're also in uncharted territory because this
is like new to the genre of hip hop, like
in the South, you know what I'm saying, Like it
was we saw northern representation, West coast representation, even a
little west, but we didn't really see Southern large influential
DJs outside of drama calibning, popping, popping, popping.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yea, and people didn't even know Cali didn't. I mean,
drama didn't hit like star status all the way there
until like I would say.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I say, when he got arrested.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, but then also like them them like them for
Real tapes and and all that type of ship and
them Tia, Like I thought that ship was big, like
you know, and that's when we was like, damn nigga,
like how much you getting in you know, ship like that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So when the Gucci Man come, Gucci Man.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Was Mike away. Bro, it was like early in between
me like putting out these weird mixtapes that nobody liked.
It was just a whole bunch of songs with popular songs,
and they would giving back to me because it was
just like songs that didn't have exclusives on it, and
they would never put my ship in the front of
the store. So that was my whole idea, just to
(09:57):
get to that position where I could put my CIT's
in the front of the store and everybody would buy them.
So Gucci Man came from you gotta find a dope
ass artist in your city that's gonna support you, but
let you get exclusive songs that people like, by the way,
and put them on a song a CD and tell
them and you know that kind of came with uh theytove.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Okay, thank you man, you got one of the most
You got one of the most influential songs to me
in Gucci's catalog.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Bricks All White Bricks. That's a DJ holiday.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Song and you're talking all on the song with Gucci
mane the beat.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, yeah, we made that. The house is his basement.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And Yo Gotti on the beat actually is on.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Their to My name was only mentioned on that song
because well, once I got got told, i'n there, So
I'm just I'm getting blunts, I'm getting chicken, I'm getting
whatever these niggas want. And but I'm also flying on
the wall, learning and soaking up. And I tell you
they house man boy, that shit could be it could
be a book about that place. Zay's bottom of his
basement bro zytoven you will see, I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Rock And it's crazy because Heavy in the church.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, you know he doesn't. He do his beach. Bro
do his beach. Y'all do whatever y'all want to do,
rap out what you want to wrap about. But he
do them beachs. He played that piano and you know,
he's the coolest, dopest dude ever. But he gave me
opportunity just to be around. And I just I did
whatever I could do. So this whole time I'm playing double.
That's like, hey, Gucci, I do this, I do that.
(11:26):
You gotta have value to these niggas, man. You know,
if you don't have no value, then what are you
going to you know, bring to the table because they
meet everybody every day.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Now, how did that make you feel when when they
when Yo got he said your name on the song.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Uh, well I didn't know it at the time. What
it was gonna be. I just knew. I mean, because
like I said, we're doing a body of work, we're
doing a mixtape. But I remember when he told when
he when he said it, I just happened to be
the nigga standing in front of the booth when he
was in there and I pushed the button because I
was interning at the time. Oh so he saw you, Yeah, yeah,
but he knew who I was because I'm helping. I'm
(11:58):
the nigga that moving around the ship. So when I
pushed the mic, I go, bro, you know, oh, it's
my niggas, all of that, my niggadj holiday keep keep that?
What keep that? And they kept it. And I don't
know what happened in between that, but when the tape
came out, I was like, holy ship. And then I
(12:20):
remember I want to say he was. I think he's
like he moves around with my money bag. Yo, now
t tse somebody Memphis. Man. He called me in. You know.
It was like that ship from Back to the Future.
It was like listen to this and the whole club
was like, DJ, that's hard and I was like, oh ship.
And after that, man, the phone started ringing, and that's
(12:41):
why I really knew the true meaning of a hit
because every DJ called me and was like, broking, I
had that clean? Can I have that without you talking
on it? And I was like, absolutely not, but you
but you got it clean though I gotta clean. I met.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
But that's how you know perception is reality because if
you just listen to that, nobody would think you was
in that intern I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Like, that's your song.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You come over here and get on my song.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Preparation, man, preparation, getting ready for the moment. I didn't
know what the moment was. I've been doing this hustling,
bustling ship every day in my life. I wake up
every day do the same thing, work, hustle, connect the dots.
And then it turned into that and that's all I
can say being prepared. But every night I'm going out
me rob everybody. We're going to the club area. We
(13:26):
popping it like we already got a song with my
name on it. So then when you get in a
song with a name on it, it just matched that
intensity of like oh, ship were here, and then you
know we got on the road with it. Everything you're
supposed to do, you just pressed the button pressed No,
I pressed the button, but it's my mixtape.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
No no, no, I'm saying, like I know that, but
it's like the way the song came out, like you.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Would have already thought you was like you was this
huge DJ. It was, but not to y'all yet right
in the world of next Tape and shit like that.
So just imagine me getting I'm taking Ea Sports Center
back to that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That store that told me no I was about to
get there.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
And I'm putting that shit in front of the store,
like all right, nigga, there's twelve songs with Gucci Man
and OJ the Juice Man and those people you don't know,
and it's a mind and Zatoven need the beats? All right?
Can my shit stand in front of the store down?
And then fifty copies turned into one hundred copies, A
hundred copies turn in a thousand copies. Next thing, you know, nigga,
I ain't gotta go to the goddamn airport no more
(14:27):
and throw bags on them planes. I ain't got a
motherfucking go be a bellman at Georgia Tech Hotel. These
are my real jobs I had. I ain't gotta sell
we with my cousin no more. It's a rap Nigga.
I made a thousand dollars, a thousand dollars in a day.
I'm making a fifteen hundred a week. And that shit
turned into two grand, and that shit turned the five grand,
(14:49):
and that shit turned into ten thousand. Off of mixtape
Nigga Crazy and mind you Gucci man is on the
road and bricks is blowing up and don't forget about
my jury and swing my dough and sick and taller Man.
That nigga was going crazy and we just Bro, I
couldn't tell you Thursday from Sunday Nigga. That shit just
(15:10):
was flowing, and you was just happy to be in
the mix of that ship. So it be at a
high level of that doing that, you know in clubs
and touring and ship. Bro, I could tell you, Bro,
I got on the truck on a bus and when
we got off the motherfucker, I ain't know what day was.
We just were working and hustling and grinding, and you know,
we'd be any city, bro, like you know, hey, why
(15:31):
DJ said he tore a lot and then he DJ
and said the wrong the city name of the city.
I've done that before. Oh you did, I really did
not know what city I was in. I forgot. Do
you know a city? You know a city that happening.
I want to say it was like Saint Louis or
something like that. It was at the time like it
was a city in Saint Louis, Like what happened? What happened?
(15:52):
I don't know, man, I know Boosy or somebody was
like headlining, but we was like second to last something
like that, and I said.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Like, now, thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Now this is DJ Holliday And I'm so appreciative of
these stories because he's a crazy he has more center
come out. And you're talking about the reach. When when
was the moment that you saw that you said, damn,
this ship is really moving because I know someone had
to call you that you was like, how do you
(16:22):
get my number?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And such and such.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Fun Master Flex had hit me wow, and I think,
I like you. I'm an emotional person when it comes
to ship like that moments and stuff. And when he
hit me bru and got my number. I don't even
know what you know Outlet was doing on man, but
he hit me and was like, yo, bro, I need
that clean or I need that I'm like funk Master
(16:45):
Flex stop one moment and let me take this ship
in your funk Master Flex the nigga wo be rapping
on them, I mean talking on them tapes and ship
just with Clue. I said, Clue and Flex are like
coorse drama. But that ship was unreal. And when that happened,
and then I think I woke up in the in
the one morning and MTV Jams had put me as
(17:07):
like a breakout DJ the Year or something like that,
and it was showing like a little clip of me
and Nikki doing something in the studio.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh yeah, I forgot Stop.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You did Nicki Minaja's first mixtape only mixtape, Damn, she
only did one ever beat me Up Scottie. And if
you actually listen to the remix that she does and
she got a Holidays talking on the version.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Version, that's the version.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, but you you met her. I met her before
she blew up. She was here in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
She she you know, Deb has this training camp thing.
Deb is a Waker's mother, uh shouts.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Reply to my d M is dead.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But no, her her coming, her coming here was just
uh you know, she was just an artist that she
was around. She was helping her build her brand. And whatnot.
And Nikki was just like anybody else. Man. She be
in that b room while Gucci and everybody was in
the room and she was working and perfecting her craft. Man,
I just happened to peek in there a couple of times, like, hey, sit,
she's good. You need anything, yeah, you know, And it
(18:16):
turned into a relationship where we hung out, went to
the club. I took her to the made a couple
of times. Uh, you know, had to you know, find
out about some niggas and shit like that, you know,
just friend friend stuff, you know. And she and she
totally respected me, you know, coming up in my brand
and day to this day, to this day, when she
(18:39):
came to Atlanta, Man, we went to the show. I
took my niece, my wife. We had an amazing time. Man.
She gave me a whole suite, you know, you know,
it was just us four. I wish I had known
she was giving me a sweet I would invite everybody,
but it was like four suite with food. And then
we went backstage and she was sick too, man, by
the way, and she killed the show and she gave
(19:00):
me a hug and we took a picture. She met
my niece and everybody was amazing. So just to have
that that relationship still with her is so dope. And
then all the fans was outside, like hundreds of them
just waiting, and you know, they she wouldn't come out
that door, but they seen me and it just went
absolutely bananas. And I appreciate that. All the bars, thank
you so much. Now.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I know you probably so proud of her, you know,
because nothing is better than seeing a friend, you know,
just elevate. Yeah, And what I would say, has Nikki
always had that personality?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Man, she just always had that intensity and aggression to
just be somebody. I just know she wanted to be
somebody regular more than the person that she was, you know,
I guess sought out to be like you know, we
always respected Kim and everybody like that and Foxy and shit.
But I just knew nikkiy shit was gonna work, bro,
because I, like, I ain't I got that whole ear
(19:53):
of I never heard this before this. I think this
is gonna work. It sounds amazing. And man, she just
had that dedication in that grind and everything about it.
She was you know, animated and everything. Man, it just
it just made sense in so many words.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
All Right, I've had the honor and blessing to be
around you, and one I feel like at the height
of your career, and I want to just give you
your flowers. Man, I felt like you put me in
position to win very early in my career to where
I kind of was starting to get frustrated because I
(20:29):
was like, damn, man, I think I felt like I
was dope. Why don't nobody else believe in me? But
like I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I was only around you maybe a month, and you
was like, nah, we putting Ferrari in position. Any type
of big birthday party you had with all the big artists,
you had me hosting any type of event you had,
you always had me yet super Bowl Yeah, my man.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, the Super Bowls in Atlanta, how they had me.
I was the official DJ for the Super Bowl. I
had to sign all this paperwork with the NFL network,
all type of stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But like I say that, that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
A lot of niggas don't understand that.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
But see that's why I so what you did to me.
I try to do that for bt DC, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But BT would always tell your time to see you
in the club or something. I know it'd be loud
to be drunk, but always say good job yep. But
elevate yep. Don't be settled. I know you Arkansas, you
made it to Atlanta, got on the radio. We was
all that streets. Then you elevated even bigger. So it's
cool with the biow Wow vibes and ship bow Wow
is a great guy be around and be on TV.
(21:35):
But they elevated to this. Yeah, and even bigger.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yet, yes, you always get holiday always you know him
him the Infamous.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They like my big brothers.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
They always be like BT coming. But they don't do
that to everybody.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I know, if someone knows them to do that, I
feel like it is an honor.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So I just want to take you number one.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Thank you because didn't do it us.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I appreciate you man so much, but I don't know why,
Like we always just had a plan to be like
yo man, when we get our shot. You know, let's
just put niggers on. Because I heard from another person
like if you put somebody on, they're always gonna keep
your name.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You know, good and just be wanting information and we
should be giving our information. And it's like, you know,
shout out to you Holiday, cause even you probably don't
even know this. I don't think I ever told you.
But like even when I did make that transition moving
from Arkansas to Atlanta, like I remember, I was like, bruh,
I called my homebiy Like, bro, I'm in here with
(22:35):
DJ Holiday, bru It's crazy bruh Like. And just to
be around you, like I remember, I used to just
be on your shoul and I'll just be studying like
even you know, when you had your afternoon, like I'll
just be studying like your work ethic. And he would
always just like be to you. Always gotta you know,
you always got to keep it going. You always got
to make sure that you're doing things outside of what
(22:56):
your what your bas is.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I don't I think everything anything in your life, working wise,
preparation is the sister of success, the twin sister. Actually,
you know, you just got to work hard at it, man,
and stay focused at it. You know, I wake up,
like I said, with the same same attitude every day
man that I want to be great and bigger because
at end of the day, like I said, I'm chasing
(23:19):
I'm chasing other motherfuckers. I'm with them and I'm seeing
them and I'm like, damn Jamaane, God, Damn such and
such and he and the clubs and you know, and
he telling me the deal is he doing it? I'm like, oh,
hell no, I gotta go harder. Yeah, And that's that's
me at my level of my stage now. Now, when
I was chasing drama and you know all that, and
you know, I saw it out, I felt like I
accomplished that and get to that level when I wanted
(23:41):
to be on radio every day. I did that, you know.
But it's it's levels to anything that you want to see,
you know, taking it to the next level. So that's
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Well, shout out to your beautiful family. Yeah, shout out
to the wife, to the kids. I like to see
when people evolve, you know what I'm saying. When I
met you, you didn't have a fan like we were.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Lion was around for that house. I know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Them We had some fun. We had fun. It was
a good time. It was a good time.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
She was just no diddy. It was all nice. And
I'm staging good guys. It was it was some good
fun just happened.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I just said, we just had some It was some
good times.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Man, we had a good party. You never would go
to the edge with me. You're not a guy. You
would always play them games and I always put you
to the side of the missing everything going. One day,
I remember when I had I got this house. I
had this house far out, hour out and strange things having.
(24:47):
But Ferrari came, Oh he did. He came one night
and you know, I got the house. He came to
the house and you know, it was just one of
them vibes and everybody was there and having a good
time and just you know, whatever you want to do,
you could do. Yeah. And I think, I don't know
(25:12):
if you had a girl at the time or something
like that. But he was very stuff going on in
the situation. And I told him, I said, if you
want to exit left you can. Yeah. It wasn't like that.
It was just I know it wasn't It wasn't as bad.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
All I know is he had a light saying yeah,
big ass pool boy. Yeah it was a good time.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Man, what you supposed to do the house like that?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
But I want to get back to it. Shout out
to your family, shouts to your beautiful wife.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That says, what up? Says e j uh.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Ryan Michelle Ryan, Michelle Easton Easton. Yeah, man, that's like
the cool ship to do. Yeah, have kids, all my
exact friends and DJ friends who you know.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It's just good to see it.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Sometimes you see you see the crash out and you
be like, damn, yeah, I don't want to go that way,
you know.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I just I was talking. I think I seen a
big bank on here and he was talking about getting old.
I was like, to get old, to get old, bro,
Like I would rather go spend four five racks on
taking my kids to see some ship they ain't never seen.
My kids got passports. I ain't have a passa. I
was twenty two years old.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Talk.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
You know what I'm saying. So my thing is for
my kids to say they didn't travel and they got
multiple stamps in that ship. That's cool to me.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
My kids are actually my kids have their own room.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
My kids, my kids had clipper rooms, We got arcade,
we got a movie theater, everything we want, bro.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Because at the end of the day, how they got
a nice house.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
And that's good to see, you know. That's healthy to see,
like to no, go ahead that it all came from
DJA my mind and that's crazy and that's the cool
part about it. Man, speaking of dj we just had
a few.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
DM Yeah, we do, got we got wrapped about ten.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
But let's let's get let's let's get that.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
We had a few DJ went viral and they and
they was talking to see you said you you lived
this beautiful life from DJing. Now, how what's some advice
you would get a DJs, because you know, it's a
lot of DJs across the world that's kind of frustrated
with how they're being treated as far as like with paying,
you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Are you speaking on the episode just in general?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Because that episode was was more so of a highlight
of what's happening.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Anytime you put start a conversation with DJ and and
things like that, because it's such a big population of people,
you're gonna get different emotions and things like.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's a very passionate.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It's a very passionate job. But at the same time,
you know, I love it the same way I love
it from the first time when I DJ with for
one hundred people. You know, it's the same for me,
like now, granted, like I said, I think you had Vaughn, Yeah,
amaze and talents. I've booked them before. They are great
(27:54):
guys in there that there. I say, where they're at now,
it's like stage three of their career because it's like
being with an artist and making amazing money like that.
That's great, But just for me, and I'm thinking about
DJ Holliday in my head where I was at, I
just was like, this is cool, but it also frustrated
(28:16):
me because I'm more of a future thinker. I'll be like, oh, man,
what if he don't rock with me no more? What
if he cut me off or something like that, And
this is just artists or whoever. I always thought of
an exit route for that, and I didn't. I never really.
It just didn't sit well with me when flyers would
come out and say Gucci Man's DJ and not say
DJ Holliday. That's all So that's just me And it wasn't. No,
(28:38):
it didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
You didn't, It didn't bother you. It just it didn't
bother me.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
But they put a hunger in me to to say, well,
I want the flyer. This says like fum mask the
flex or DJ Dramma. I want my picture on that period.
I want to be the headline respectfully. Like I said, tone,
those guys are killing it. Them niggas is hard. But
at the same time, like I said, it's levels to it,
(29:03):
and it's gonna get to another it's gonna get to
a level where you're gonna have to pivot and think
about what you're gonna do next from that now infamous,
my brother for Life, my Day one A one. He
would ludle Chris that Nigga is a an artist is
never gonna goddamn go out of style. He been. He's
literally a super Bowl a couple with last year, and
(29:23):
he do shows every weekend. You take that and you
make that money and you put it into something else.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
From the pancakes, he got a pancake spot.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
He's taking that money and he's pivoted to something else
that's not had nothing to do with music now. And
I know all three of those guys are very, very
talented and smart, and you know, look where they're at.
They're doing great things with great artists. But uh, you
know that just for me, it always was always I
want to be bigger than that. Yeah, do you feel
like the pay is messed up though, absolutely yeah, and
(29:53):
then shout out to you' ill promote an episode. Uh
you know, But I see it on both sides of
the fence because I don't think those worlds exist together. Now,
if I'm DJing for millions of people on tour, how
does that translate to this guy who wants me to
do his club with three hundred people and sell sections
they That doesn't That doesn't work for me. And I
(30:14):
feel like, because I warn both shoes as a DJ
and as a promoter who's throwing parties and book DJs,
that doesn't work. But like I said, if you're a
popular guy here a popular guy. But if you can
bring people out there bisections and you got that network
and you got that vibe, you can get the d
boys and the scammers that come out and pop bottles
with you and shit, you know, then you good money.
(30:35):
But promoters, I think.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
They they view it, they view it different different.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, So just to be on both sides of the fence, DJs,
just get your brand to that level where it's of
value to a promoter. You know, I never not tried
to walk in the club with at least fifty people
or thirty people or something like that, you know, or
just call my partners and say, hey, man, I'm DJing
the night. Get a section and pop bottles and turn
off for me. You know, I'm saying it's gonna look good.
(31:01):
Or you know, a promoter like you know, I'm not
booking no guy who who can't you know, get the
crowd going to the next level or help me sell
sections and it should be separate, I think.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But yeah, I was just gonna be throw on my
own functions. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I do me a nice little setting funk way, I'd
be making my bag and I'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well that's what I transitioned to.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Listen, I go where I'm celebrated and wanted. You're celebrated,
not tolerted. And and I'm not mind you now. I
love my city. I can go to any club and
fuck it up quick bad. And but but you know,
I think me doing seven nights a week or four
nights a week in the club is just that I
don't want. I used to be with you that I
(31:43):
don't want.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
To do and I feel like sometimes like that hurts
your brand because because I I used to. I used
to think that way, like, man, I need to host
as many club as possible to make the money.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But then I realized it's like the stuff that I
do outside.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Of this is going that's going to elevate my brand,
to elevate to where I can charge people what I want.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
And I know how to say no. Yeah. You would say,
like I said, do you feel like you've outgrown Arkansas? Yeah? Exactly,
So there you go saying the same thing with me.
I feel like I've outgrown Atlanta. But that's why I
DJ and Dubai. That's why I have in Vegas. That's
why I go places like that, and these people will
(32:20):
pay thousands of dollars to watch me play bricks plus
travel plus travel plus wife. You get to go and
it's a vacation. And that's the cool thing about me.
I can take my friends and my wife and my family,
you know, and I DJ. This is some ship I
would do for free anyway, for sure. And I'm going
to the club and DJ in another country or state
and having a fucking ball. And then I got my
(32:43):
wife is my beautiful wife, and she shopping on every
chicken so and then that's that's certified ass for the
night too. That's my wife and I'm going home with
a beautiful woman who's my wife. By mind you So
everything that how my mind was trained when I was younger,
and how I wanted to DJ when the DJ killer party,
(33:04):
fucking fuck a girl, get some money, all that has
been consolidated into a beautiful life that God has given me.
Uh you know, with my my family and my wife and.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
And his growth and what I what I do want
to say, how does it feel being official DJ for
for the Hip Hop Awards?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Been doing that for a long time Jesse College. Yeah, man,
I also want to say that to you know, don't
always ignore the person that uh that's you know, by
the bar or whatever man asks and networking. Know, that's
why I still kind of do like holler pal losers
and things like that. Those are all instruments which he
by the way, yeah yeah, uh that asked you to
(33:42):
put you in positions where you're gonna network. That was
Networking was always a big thing in my in my
career and still right now to this day. That's why
we do all of losers and we sell out. But
I was saying it to say that just keep working
and put yourself in position and do those type of
things because you never know who you're gonna meet. So
get that back. To answer your question, I love it.
I appreciate it. But shot at to Jesse Collins, who
(34:04):
I seen at the bar when I was djaing a
party early and you know, he was there and I
asked him what he did. He looked like an interesting person.
He told me he was an executive producer of the
bt A War Show. And I said, hey, man, anything
I can do to help that, please, was at the
bar at the bar, anything I can do? Please tell me?
(34:25):
Please tell me? And I got you. I set out
two years, but it gave me tickets and I went
and I said, not chilled. I don't know what happened
in between whoever was in front of me at that job,
but when I got my turn, I secured it. But
but but then that, but then that turned into Rhythm
and Flow. He's the executive producer Rhythm and Flow.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
As well, the last one on your Birthday, Yeah, season two.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
You know with season two now and shot to dre
t yeah he won and all the contestants, man, but
just to have those Tyler Perry checks. And now oh man,
it's just it's still DJing to a certain extent.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But it's like Noah, for sure, the littlest thing your
pivoting and evolve and.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
When you get those checks then you kind of like
TV checks is different. Yeah, you say, you know, and
then you sideline the club DJ for four hours playing
trap shit, make these niggas pop bottles and all that shit.
That ship is over with, but you know I still
do it.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
We appreciate you pulling up on his brother.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Thank you, brother. I appreciate y'all. Man. I had a
great time. Any shoutouts, Shout out to God, shut out
to my life, Shout to my wife, shout to my kids,
Shout out to you guys for doing this shot the
ball alert, shout the holiday season, Yes, sir, hallapalooza since
the nineteen shot a sticky low shout the little crank.
Shout out to everybody man who's involving what we got
(35:45):
going on. Man, I'm working with grinding. We know you
always working. Halle plus already sold out to by the way,
so see all in Texas. In Texas, Yes, March fourteenth
and fifteen.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
That's what I'm coming to that right there, isn't that
you're right race a board.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I don't know if I damn bro Kie, what's up?
Bro It ain't that that's not south By Southwest?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yeah, but you know how I got you. I gotta
get your man.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Go ahead and go ahead and putt put your vacation
in Jay Rock Baby, I did the one last year.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
I'm not missing I'm missing Boston, Texas missing them.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Can I say this shot the BT man for holding
down what it feels like one of the best nights
in Atlanta club wise.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
One time of BT.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Lady Lady, I bought a table like five years straight up.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
I haven't done a birthday party in years. I did
my birthday party last year Wednesday or.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
A glints For a simple moment, it felt like.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Man, it's it's so it's so good man, and it's
so fun. Like it's like everybody in there having fun.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Y'all got the y'all got the heartbeat. That's all I
can say. I don't know what's gonna turn into, but
Nigga keep going because that's why Nigga will spend his money.
Thank you, guys,
They get a list. They called me. Broadcasting live from Atlanta,
George Joe, Welcome to the ball Show. I go by
the name of Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sim I go by the name you know, b.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
T DJ Holiday of the Building Holidays. See he got
a couple of them. It's holiday, Seize it, bitch.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah. I never got a Ferrari one though LIKERI got
this got him aggressive ass. It's d J holidays, bitch ass.
Nigga moment. All the DJs, all the DJs have them.
This nigga had to do like three thousand drops one
day everywhere.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
First and foremost, we appreciate you pulling up on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, man, first June, for all those that don't know,
and for the people who are new. DJ I came
under DJ Holliday's wing. DJ Holliday named me him and
Gucci Man named me Ferrari.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We was at Folly's. He called me Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You remember that. It was It was two times. I
know you were struggling with the name. Damn bro, you.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Gotta say all that you was.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I thought that was the Ferrari.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Now you know, it's saw that one or two at
and he said, Ferrari, your name is Ferrari.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, because I said, I said, because you really want
to go fast. So it was a method. He was
slow down. Yeah, I was like, you gotta get down
in the crowd and talk to people. And even if
she a fat girl, talked to her, you know whatever,
like just talk to be a people person all around.
I think they started it.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Uh, there was a problem and I'll never forget. We
was at Follies and instead of Sean Simmons, he said,
he told.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Man, it was like, I like that name, that's that's
your name.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I said, damn right, that's my name. I never changed
it after that. Follies, by the.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Way, Damn man, some of the great.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
DJ Holliday, the world famous DJ Holliday. I used to
always tell him this funny story. He used to download
all his mixtapes illegally, and yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Was definitely doing the same things.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yep, I don't understand. I don't know how I can
properly introduce this guy. Uh, this is one of my
first major co signs in Atlanta. You know, he took
me under his wing. I was around him for a
very long time. I learned how to do radio him
(02:34):
and sticks alone allowed me to He was doing a
live broadcast, Yeah, live broadcast at Harlem Knights, and he said, man,
just come to the radio STATIONE. I was like, what
I'm gonna do? He was like, we'll figure it out.
And I came to the radio station. This is this
is way back. It's maybe twenty twelve. Damn, I'm dating it.
(02:54):
But and then added me to the commission. A lot
of people don't know about the commission.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Man commission. Yeah, commission was at one point.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, yeah, that was.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
That was like you want you want to got my commission?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah? You was pressing.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
One time for Jay Rock.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah. But I think I don't know what we took
a blow. I think after COVID, Yeah, and I think
you know, everybody, everybody and the DJ world got a
little weird and if you really couldn't stand on your
own too, it just some people had It didn't make
sense for me and Sticks, I mean me, Sticks and
Jay Rock to keep pouring into something, you know, and
(03:36):
I and I knew Ferrari with you know, standing alone
by itself and do amazing. Everybody mind you you know,
they're all you know, around doing their own thing, and
we're proud of that. But you know, reward shows, giving
Frank Ski Awards and people like that. It was an
amazing time.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So stop it, man, let let's let's go all the
way back from the East side way in Germany.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Though Germany people don't know you. Was born in Germany,
born in Germany. I was born in Germany because of
my mom. My mom was in the army years I
lived on army basis.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Mom on top of Mama Holiday.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Hey, Mama, Mama Holiday. But now yeah, born in Germany,
raised in Germany. Moved here in the sixth grade. I
think total culture shock. Had to learn how to walk
out y'all, talk like y'all, you know all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, stop Holiday. Was a really good football player.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Really good, really good. Got a full athletic scholarship grades.
Wasn't amazing to go to D one for sure, but
uh and I didn't want to go to JUCO. I
wanted to play right then and there, so went to
Fourth Valley State University. Just my coach go Buck Gottfree
Rashaun at Leave's mom Dad, sorry, she he pushed me
in that direction just to go to a HBC you
(04:49):
get that college experience, and you know, just to get
a free ride. My mommy had to pay for something.
I thought that was a big gift, you know, so
to do that now.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But so you started DJing in college?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Or was it before I come and call it DJ?
And I had two CD changes and I was putting
CDs in and everybody was coming to my house in
the living room will be packed. Jay rock Can attested
this and we just had a great time. But I
wanted to control the music. That's where the bug started.
Then I found this older cat in Fort Valley and
he taught me how to like blend and scratch and
(05:23):
you know the concept of music and read the crowd
and all that type of stuff. And that's why I
kind of got the bug for it. And I spent
my loan check on some CDJ Now.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I noticed two thousand asked this question, what was your
first DJ name?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh? Man, it was almost no, it wasn't. I really
didn't have a name. It was Avery because my last
name was Avery.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But wait, I heard something.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Cat eyes. Why would you bring that up?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But no, yeah, yeah, it was something. It was no
that was never on a fly. Yeah. Yeah, you can't
find you something nard worship and that's cool, but you know,
it was it never it never stuck. So it was fun.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
It was where did Holiday come from?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Holiday came from a lady by the name of U M.
She was the program director at the local radio station
in Fort Valley and I stayed over the holidays and
I used to just DJ all the students in the
party and it was ten twenty people that out of
DJ for them. And I remember when somebody called up
to the radio station was like, oh man, you killed
(06:43):
it last night. Man, what's your what's your DJ name?
And I don't know. She was like, man, you're always
here for the holidays and the holiday thing. I just stuck.
Wow yeah something like that. Yeah. Yeah. So then I
wrote it down, like on a piece of paper. I
journal a lot, and I wrote it and I was like,
DJ Holiday, but the street niggas represent this ship, will
you know? Girls like it? But it had it had
(07:06):
a flow to it. And I remember the first time
I told my partners about it, they was like, it's
all see what you do, but it ain't gonna be
no DJ, no DJ drama though, like that.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Whoa wait, So drama was drama was out before you?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah? Yeah, for sure. Trapper Died was like the Bible
in college, Bro, like that ship was like, I don't know,
I couldn't even explain it. I just thought that she
was the most magical ship in the world outside of
our clue.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I was gonna say Drama had trapper Die, but he
also had dedication, he.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Had Nah, No, I ain't, No, it was trapper Die.
Trapper Die was my my senior year, going into like
moving back and forth to Atlanta, and I just thought
that she was amazing. That BMF area all that stuff.
So you wasn't even out then.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
This This is how see, this is how you know
back then you would get music like later on, because
when I was back in Arkansas, it was like DJ
Hall to day, DJ Drama, DJ Scream, like djes was
like the big DJs.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's that's early. This is early eight oh you know,
six o eight oh seven or eight something like that.
Because I remember Bro, I was an intern at the
radio station and I helped put up posters for Jez
that when when they booked GZD comes Gesu had one
record over here. That was it. He came over here
that one record and that club was packing was the
(08:28):
Thursday Thursday so something metal, but it wasn't making Georgia
and that ship was lit and I was like, bro,
this is and I and I was just I got
the book, I want to DJ this, I want to
host this, and I want to be a part of
all this.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Wait wait, wait, you're also in uncharted territory because this
is like new to the genre of hip hop, like
in the South, you know what I'm saying, Like it
was we saw northern representation, West coast representation, even a
little west, but we didn't really see Southern large influential
DJs outside of drama calibning, popping, popping, popping.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yea, and people didn't even know Cali didn't. I mean,
drama didn't hit like star status all the way there
until like I would say.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I say, when he got arrested.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, but then also like them them like them for
Real tapes and and all that type of ship and
them Tia, Like I thought that ship was big, like
you know, and that's when we was like, damn nigga,
like how much you getting in you know, ship like that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So when the Gucci Man come, Gucci Man.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Was Mike away. Bro, it was like early in between
me like putting out these weird mixtapes that nobody liked.
It was just a whole bunch of songs with popular songs,
and they would giving back to me because it was
just like songs that didn't have exclusives on it, and
they would never put my ship in the front of
the store. So that was my whole idea, just to
(09:57):
get to that position where I could put my CIT's
in the front of the store and everybody would buy them.
So Gucci Man came from you gotta find a dope
ass artist in your city that's gonna support you, but
let you get exclusive songs that people like, by the way,
and put them on a song a CD and tell
them and you know that kind of came with uh theytove.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Okay, thank you man, you got one of the most
You got one of the most influential songs to me
in Gucci's catalog.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Bricks All White Bricks. That's a DJ holiday.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Song and you're talking all on the song with Gucci
mane the beat.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, yeah, we made that. The house is his basement.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And Yo Gotti on the beat actually is on.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Their to My name was only mentioned on that song
because well, once I got got told, i'n there, So
I'm just I'm getting blunts, I'm getting chicken, I'm getting
whatever these niggas want. And but I'm also flying on
the wall, learning and soaking up. And I tell you
they house man boy, that shit could be it could
be a book about that place. Zay's bottom of his
basement bro zytoven you will see, I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Rock And it's crazy because Heavy in the church.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, you know he doesn't. He do his beach. Bro
do his beach. Y'all do whatever y'all want to do,
rap out what you want to wrap about. But he
do them beachs. He played that piano and you know,
he's the coolest, dopest dude ever. But he gave me
opportunity just to be around. And I just I did
whatever I could do. So this whole time I'm playing double.
That's like, hey, Gucci, I do this, I do that.
(11:26):
You gotta have value to these niggas, man. You know,
if you don't have no value, then what are you
going to you know, bring to the table because they
meet everybody every day.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Now, how did that make you feel when when they
when Yo got he said your name on the song.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Uh, well I didn't know it at the time. What
it was gonna be. I just knew. I mean, because
like I said, we're doing a body of work, we're
doing a mixtape. But I remember when he told when
he when he said it, I just happened to be
the nigga standing in front of the booth when he
was in there and I pushed the button because I
was interning at the time. Oh so he saw you, Yeah, yeah,
but he knew who I was because I'm helping. I'm
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the nigga that moving around the ship. So when I
pushed the mic, I go, bro, you know, oh, it's
my niggas, all of that, my niggadj holiday keep keep that?
What keep that? And they kept it. And I don't
know what happened in between that, but when the tape
came out, I was like, holy ship. And then I
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remember I want to say he was. I think he's
like he moves around with my money bag. Yo, now
t tse somebody Memphis. Man. He called me in. You know.
It was like that ship from Back to the Future.
It was like listen to this and the whole club
was like, DJ, that's hard and I was like, oh ship.
And after that, man, the phone started ringing, and that's
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why I really knew the true meaning of a hit
because every DJ called me and was like, broking, I
had that clean? Can I have that without you talking
on it? And I was like, absolutely not, but you
but you got it clean though I gotta clean. I met.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
But that's how you know perception is reality because if
you just listen to that, nobody would think you was
in that intern I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Like, that's your song.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You come over here and get on my song.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Preparation, man, preparation, getting ready for the moment. I didn't
know what the moment was. I've been doing this hustling,
bustling ship every day in my life. I wake up
every day do the same thing, work, hustle, connect the dots.
And then it turned into that and that's all I
can say being prepared. But every night I'm going out
me rob everybody. We're going to the club area. We
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popping it like we already got a song with my
name on it. So then when you get in a
song with a name on it, it just matched that
intensity of like oh, ship were here, and then you
know we got on the road with it. Everything you're
supposed to do, you just pressed the button pressed No,
I pressed the button, but it's my mixtape.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
No no, no, I'm saying, like I know that, but
it's like the way the song came out, like you.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Would have already thought you was like you was this
huge DJ. It was, but not to y'all yet right
in the world of next Tape and shit like that.
So just imagine me getting I'm taking Ea Sports Center
back to that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That store that told me no I was about to
get there.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
And I'm putting that shit in front of the store,
like all right, nigga, there's twelve songs with Gucci Man
and OJ the Juice Man and those people you don't know,
and it's a mind and Zatoven need the beats? All right?
Can my shit stand in front of the store down?
And then fifty copies turned into one hundred copies, A
hundred copies turn in a thousand copies. Next thing, you know, nigga,
I ain't gotta go to the goddamn airport no more
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and throw bags on them planes. I ain't got a
motherfucking go be a bellman at Georgia Tech Hotel. These
are my real jobs I had. I ain't gotta sell
we with my cousin no more. It's a rap Nigga.
I made a thousand dollars, a thousand dollars in a day.
I'm making a fifteen hundred a week. And that shit
turned into two grand, and that shit turned the five grand,
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and that shit turned into ten thousand. Off of mixtape
Nigga Crazy and mind you Gucci man is on the
road and bricks is blowing up and don't forget about
my jury and swing my dough and sick and taller Man.
That nigga was going crazy and we just Bro, I
couldn't tell you Thursday from Sunday Nigga. That shit just
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was flowing, and you was just happy to be in
the mix of that ship. So it be at a
high level of that doing that, you know in clubs
and touring and ship. Bro, I could tell you, Bro,
I got on the truck on a bus and when
we got off the motherfucker, I ain't know what day was.
We just were working and hustling and grinding, and you know,
we'd be any city, bro, like you know, hey, why
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DJ said he tore a lot and then he DJ
and said the wrong the city name of the city.
I've done that before. Oh you did, I really did
not know what city I was in. I forgot. Do
you know a city? You know a city that happening.
I want to say it was like Saint Louis or
something like that. It was at the time like it
was a city in Saint Louis, Like what happened? What happened?
(15:52):
I don't know, man, I know Boosy or somebody was
like headlining, but we was like second to last something
like that, and I said.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Like, now, thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Now this is DJ Holliday And I'm so appreciative of
these stories because he's a crazy he has more center
come out. And you're talking about the reach. When when
was the moment that you saw that you said, damn,
this ship is really moving because I know someone had
to call you that you was like, how do you
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get my number?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And such and such.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Fun Master Flex had hit me wow, and I think,
I like you. I'm an emotional person when it comes
to ship like that moments and stuff. And when he
hit me bru and got my number. I don't even
know what you know Outlet was doing on man, but
he hit me and was like, yo, bro, I need
that clean or I need that I'm like funk Master
(16:45):
Flex stop one moment and let me take this ship
in your funk Master Flex the nigga wo be rapping
on them, I mean talking on them tapes and ship
just with Clue. I said, Clue and Flex are like
coorse drama. But that ship was unreal. And when that happened,
and then I think I woke up in the in
the one morning and MTV Jams had put me as
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like a breakout DJ the Year or something like that,
and it was showing like a little clip of me
and Nikki doing something in the studio.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh yeah, I forgot Stop.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You did Nicki Minaja's first mixtape only mixtape, Damn, she
only did one ever beat me Up Scottie. And if
you actually listen to the remix that she does and
she got a Holidays talking on the version.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Version, that's the version.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, but you you met her. I met her before
she blew up. She was here in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
She she you know, Deb has this training camp thing.
Deb is a Waker's mother, uh shouts.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Reply to my d M is dead.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But no, her her coming, her coming here was just
uh you know, she was just an artist that she
was around. She was helping her build her brand. And whatnot.
And Nikki was just like anybody else. Man. She be
in that b room while Gucci and everybody was in
the room and she was working and perfecting her craft. Man,
I just happened to peek in there a couple of times, like, hey, sit,
she's good. You need anything, yeah, you know, And it
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turned into a relationship where we hung out, went to
the club. I took her to the made a couple
of times. Uh, you know, had to you know, find
out about some niggas and shit like that, you know,
just friend friend stuff, you know. And she and she
totally respected me, you know, coming up in my brand
and day to this day, to this day, when she
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came to Atlanta, Man, we went to the show. I
took my niece, my wife. We had an amazing time. Man.
She gave me a whole suite, you know, you know,
it was just us four. I wish I had known
she was giving me a sweet I would invite everybody,
but it was like four suite with food. And then
we went backstage and she was sick too, man, by
the way, and she killed the show and she gave
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me a hug and we took a picture. She met
my niece and everybody was amazing. So just to have
that that relationship still with her is so dope. And
then all the fans was outside, like hundreds of them
just waiting, and you know, they she wouldn't come out
that door, but they seen me and it just went
absolutely bananas. And I appreciate that. All the bars, thank
you so much. Now.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I know you probably so proud of her, you know,
because nothing is better than seeing a friend, you know,
just elevate. Yeah, And what I would say, has Nikki
always had that personality?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Man, she just always had that intensity and aggression to
just be somebody. I just know she wanted to be
somebody regular more than the person that she was, you know,
I guess sought out to be like you know, we
always respected Kim and everybody like that and Foxy and shit.
But I just knew nikkiy shit was gonna work, bro,
because I, like, I ain't I got that whole ear
(19:53):
of I never heard this before this. I think this
is gonna work. It sounds amazing. And man, she just
had that dedication in that grind and everything about it.
She was you know, animated and everything. Man, it just
it just made sense in so many words.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
All Right, I've had the honor and blessing to be
around you, and one I feel like at the height
of your career, and I want to just give you
your flowers. Man, I felt like you put me in
position to win very early in my career to where
I kind of was starting to get frustrated because I
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was like, damn, man, I think I felt like I
was dope. Why don't nobody else believe in me? But
like I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I was only around you maybe a month, and you
was like, nah, we putting Ferrari in position. Any type
of big birthday party you had with all the big artists,
you had me hosting any type of event you had,
you always had me yet super Bowl Yeah, my man.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, the Super Bowls in Atlanta, how they had me.
I was the official DJ for the Super Bowl. I
had to sign all this paperwork with the NFL network,
all type of stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But like I say that, that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
A lot of niggas don't understand that.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
But see that's why I so what you did to me.
I try to do that for bt DC, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But BT would always tell your time to see you
in the club or something. I know it'd be loud
to be drunk, but always say good job yep. But
elevate yep. Don't be settled. I know you Arkansas, you
made it to Atlanta, got on the radio. We was
all that streets. Then you elevated even bigger. So it's
cool with the biow Wow vibes and ship bow Wow
is a great guy be around and be on TV.
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But they elevated to this. Yeah, and even bigger.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yet, yes, you always get holiday always you know him
him the Infamous.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They like my big brothers.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
They always be like BT coming. But they don't do
that to everybody.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I know, if someone knows them to do that, I
feel like it is an honor.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So I just want to take you number one.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Thank you because didn't do it us.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I appreciate you man so much, but I don't know why,
Like we always just had a plan to be like
yo man, when we get our shot. You know, let's
just put niggers on. Because I heard from another person
like if you put somebody on, they're always gonna keep
your name.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You know, good and just be wanting information and we
should be giving our information. And it's like, you know,
shout out to you Holiday, cause even you probably don't
even know this. I don't think I ever told you.
But like even when I did make that transition moving
from Arkansas to Atlanta, like I remember, I was like, bruh,
I called my homebiy Like, bro, I'm in here with
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DJ Holiday, bru It's crazy bruh Like. And just to
be around you, like I remember, I used to just
be on your shoul and I'll just be studying like
even you know, when you had your afternoon, like I'll
just be studying like your work ethic. And he would
always just like be to you. Always gotta you know,
you always got to keep it going. You always got
to make sure that you're doing things outside of what
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your what your bas is.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I don't I think everything anything in your life, working wise,
preparation is the sister of success, the twin sister. Actually,
you know, you just got to work hard at it, man,
and stay focused at it. You know, I wake up,
like I said, with the same same attitude every day
man that I want to be great and bigger because
at end of the day, like I said, I'm chasing
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I'm chasing other motherfuckers. I'm with them and I'm seeing
them and I'm like, damn Jamaane, God, Damn such and
such and he and the clubs and you know, and
he telling me the deal is he doing it? I'm like, oh,
hell no, I gotta go harder. Yeah, And that's that's
me at my level of my stage now. Now, when
I was chasing drama and you know all that, and
you know, I saw it out, I felt like I
accomplished that and get to that level when I wanted
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to be on radio every day. I did that, you know.
But it's it's levels to anything that you want to see,
you know, taking it to the next level. So that's
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Well, shout out to your beautiful family. Yeah, shout out
to the wife, to the kids. I like to see
when people evolve, you know what I'm saying. When I
met you, you didn't have a fan like we were.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Lion was around for that house. I know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Them We had some fun. We had fun. It was
a good time. It was a good time.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
She was just no diddy. It was all nice. And
I'm staging good guys. It was it was some good
fun just happened.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I just said, we just had some It was some
good times.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Man, we had a good party. You never would go
to the edge with me. You're not a guy. You
would always play them games and I always put you
to the side of the missing everything going. One day,
I remember when I had I got this house. I
had this house far out, hour out and strange things having.
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But Ferrari came, Oh he did. He came one night
and you know, I got the house. He came to
the house and you know, it was just one of
them vibes and everybody was there and having a good
time and just you know, whatever you want to do,
you could do. Yeah. And I think, I don't know
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if you had a girl at the time or something
like that. But he was very stuff going on in
the situation. And I told him, I said, if you
want to exit left you can. Yeah. It wasn't like that.
It was just I know it wasn't It wasn't as bad.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
All I know is he had a light saying yeah,
big ass pool boy. Yeah it was a good time.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Man, what you supposed to do the house like that?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
But I want to get back to it. Shout out
to your family, shouts to your beautiful wife.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That says, what up? Says e j uh.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Ryan Michelle Ryan, Michelle Easton Easton. Yeah, man, that's like
the cool ship to do. Yeah, have kids, all my
exact friends and DJ friends who you know.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It's just good to see it.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Sometimes you see you see the crash out and you
be like, damn, yeah, I don't want to go that way,
you know.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I just I was talking. I think I seen a
big bank on here and he was talking about getting old.
I was like, to get old, to get old, bro,
Like I would rather go spend four five racks on
taking my kids to see some ship they ain't never seen.
My kids got passports. I ain't have a passa. I
was twenty two years old.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Talk.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
You know what I'm saying. So my thing is for
my kids to say they didn't travel and they got
multiple stamps in that ship. That's cool to me.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
My kids are actually my kids have their own room.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
My kids, my kids had clipper rooms, We got arcade,
we got a movie theater, everything we want, bro.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Because at the end of the day, how they got
a nice house.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
And that's good to see, you know. That's healthy to see,
like to no, go ahead that it all came from
DJA my mind and that's crazy and that's the cool
part about it. Man, speaking of dj we just had
a few.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
DM Yeah, we do, got we got wrapped about ten.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
But let's let's get let's let's get that.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
We had a few DJ went viral and they and
they was talking to see you said you you lived
this beautiful life from DJing. Now, how what's some advice
you would get a DJs, because you know, it's a
lot of DJs across the world that's kind of frustrated
with how they're being treated as far as like with paying,
you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Are you speaking on the episode just in general?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Because that episode was was more so of a highlight
of what's happening.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Anytime you put start a conversation with DJ and and
things like that, because it's such a big population of people,
you're gonna get different emotions and things like.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's a very passionate.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It's a very passionate job. But at the same time,
you know, I love it the same way I love
it from the first time when I DJ with for
one hundred people. You know, it's the same for me,
like now, granted, like I said, I think you had Vaughn, Yeah,
amaze and talents. I've booked them before. They are great
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guys in there that there. I say, where they're at now,
it's like stage three of their career because it's like
being with an artist and making amazing money like that.
That's great, But just for me, and I'm thinking about
DJ Holliday in my head where I was at, I
just was like, this is cool, but it also frustrated
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me because I'm more of a future thinker. I'll be like, oh, man,
what if he don't rock with me no more? What
if he cut me off or something like that, And
this is just artists or whoever. I always thought of
an exit route for that, and I didn't. I never really.
It just didn't sit well with me when flyers would
come out and say Gucci Man's DJ and not say
DJ Holliday. That's all So that's just me And it wasn't. No,
(28:38):
it didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
You didn't, It didn't bother you. It just it didn't
bother me.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
But they put a hunger in me to to say, well,
I want the flyer. This says like fum mask the
flex or DJ Dramma. I want my picture on that period.
I want to be the headline respectfully. Like I said, tone,
those guys are killing it. Them niggas is hard. But
at the same time, like I said, it's levels to it,
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and it's gonna get to another it's gonna get to
a level where you're gonna have to pivot and think
about what you're gonna do next from that now infamous,
my brother for Life, my Day one A one. He
would ludle Chris that Nigga is a an artist is
never gonna goddamn go out of style. He been. He's
literally a super Bowl a couple with last year, and
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he do shows every weekend. You take that and you
make that money and you put it into something else.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
From the pancakes, he got a pancake spot.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
He's taking that money and he's pivoted to something else
that's not had nothing to do with music now. And
I know all three of those guys are very, very
talented and smart, and you know, look where they're at.
They're doing great things with great artists. But uh, you
know that just for me, it always was always I
want to be bigger than that. Yeah, do you feel
like the pay is messed up though, absolutely yeah, and
(29:53):
then shout out to you' ill promote an episode. Uh
you know, But I see it on both sides of
the fence because I don't think those worlds exist together. Now,
if I'm DJing for millions of people on tour, how
does that translate to this guy who wants me to
do his club with three hundred people and sell sections
they That doesn't That doesn't work for me. And I
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feel like, because I warn both shoes as a DJ
and as a promoter who's throwing parties and book DJs,
that doesn't work. But like I said, if you're a
popular guy here a popular guy. But if you can
bring people out there bisections and you got that network
and you got that vibe, you can get the d
boys and the scammers that come out and pop bottles
with you and shit, you know, then you good money.
(30:35):
But promoters, I think.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
They they view it, they view it different different.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, So just to be on both sides of the fence, DJs,
just get your brand to that level where it's of
value to a promoter. You know, I never not tried
to walk in the club with at least fifty people
or thirty people or something like that, you know, or
just call my partners and say, hey, man, I'm DJing
the night. Get a section and pop bottles and turn
off for me. You know, I'm saying it's gonna look good.
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Or you know, a promoter like you know, I'm not
booking no guy who who can't you know, get the
crowd going to the next level or help me sell
sections and it should be separate, I think.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But yeah, I was just gonna be throw on my
own functions. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I do me a nice little setting funk way, I'd
be making my bag and I'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well that's what I transitioned to.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Listen, I go where I'm celebrated and wanted. You're celebrated,
not tolerted. And and I'm not mind you now. I
love my city. I can go to any club and
fuck it up quick bad. And but but you know,
I think me doing seven nights a week or four
nights a week in the club is just that I
don't want. I used to be with you that I
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don't want.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
To do and I feel like sometimes like that hurts
your brand because because I I used to. I used
to think that way, like, man, I need to host
as many club as possible to make the money.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But then I realized it's like the stuff that I
do outside.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Of this is going that's going to elevate my brand,
to elevate to where I can charge people what I want.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
And I know how to say no. Yeah. You would say,
like I said, do you feel like you've outgrown Arkansas? Yeah? Exactly,
So there you go saying the same thing with me.
I feel like I've outgrown Atlanta. But that's why I
DJ and Dubai. That's why I have in Vegas. That's
why I go places like that, and these people will
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pay thousands of dollars to watch me play bricks plus
travel plus travel plus wife. You get to go and
it's a vacation. And that's the cool thing about me.
I can take my friends and my wife and my family,
you know, and I DJ. This is some ship I
would do for free anyway, for sure. And I'm going
to the club and DJ in another country or state
and having a fucking ball. And then I got my
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wife is my beautiful wife, and she shopping on every
chicken so and then that's that's certified ass for the
night too. That's my wife and I'm going home with
a beautiful woman who's my wife. By mind you So
everything that how my mind was trained when I was younger,
and how I wanted to DJ when the DJ killer party,
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fucking fuck a girl, get some money, all that has
been consolidated into a beautiful life that God has given me.
Uh you know, with my my family and my wife and.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
And his growth and what I what I do want
to say, how does it feel being official DJ for
for the Hip Hop Awards?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Been doing that for a long time Jesse College. Yeah, man,
I also want to say that to you know, don't
always ignore the person that uh that's you know, by
the bar or whatever man asks and networking. Know, that's
why I still kind of do like holler pal losers
and things like that. Those are all instruments which he
by the way, yeah yeah, uh that asked you to
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put you in positions where you're gonna network. That was
Networking was always a big thing in my in my
career and still right now to this day. That's why
we do all of losers and we sell out. But
I was saying it to say that just keep working
and put yourself in position and do those type of
things because you never know who you're gonna meet. So
get that back. To answer your question, I love it.
I appreciate it. But shot at to Jesse Collins, who
(34:04):
I seen at the bar when I was djaing a
party early and you know, he was there and I
asked him what he did. He looked like an interesting person.
He told me he was an executive producer of the
bt A War Show. And I said, hey, man, anything
I can do to help that, please, was at the
bar at the bar, anything I can do? Please tell me?
(34:25):
Please tell me? And I got you. I set out
two years, but it gave me tickets and I went
and I said, not chilled. I don't know what happened
in between whoever was in front of me at that job,
but when I got my turn, I secured it. But
but but then that, but then that turned into Rhythm
and Flow. He's the executive producer Rhythm and Flow.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
As well, the last one on your Birthday, Yeah, season two.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
You know with season two now and shot to dre
t yeah he won and all the contestants, man, but
just to have those Tyler Perry checks. And now oh man,
it's just it's still DJing to a certain extent.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But it's like Noah, for sure, the littlest thing your
pivoting and evolve and.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
When you get those checks then you kind of like
TV checks is different. Yeah, you say, you know, and
then you sideline the club DJ for four hours playing
trap shit, make these niggas pop bottles and all that shit.
That ship is over with, but you know I still
do it.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
We appreciate you pulling up on his brother.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Thank you, brother. I appreciate y'all. Man. I had a
great time. Any shoutouts, Shout out to God, shut out
to my life, Shout to my wife, shout to my kids,
Shout out to you guys for doing this shot the
ball alert, shout the holiday season, Yes, sir, hallapalooza since
the nineteen shot a sticky low shout the little crank.
Shout out to everybody man who's involving what we got
(35:45):
going on. Man, I'm working with grinding. We know you
always working. Halle plus already sold out to by the way,
so see all in Texas. In Texas, Yes, March fourteenth
and fifteen.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
That's what I'm coming to that right there, isn't that
you're right race a board.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I don't know if I damn bro Kie, what's up?
Bro It ain't that that's not south By Southwest?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yeah, but you know how I got you. I gotta
get your man.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Go ahead and go ahead and putt put your vacation
in Jay Rock Baby, I did the one last year.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
I'm not missing I'm missing Boston, Texas missing them.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Can I say this shot the BT man for holding
down what it feels like one of the best nights
in Atlanta club wise.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
One time of BT.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Lady Lady, I bought a table like five years straight up.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
I haven't done a birthday party in years. I did
my birthday party last year Wednesday or.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
A glints For a simple moment, it felt like.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Man, it's it's so it's so good man, and it's
so fun. Like it's like everybody in there having fun.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Y'all got the y'all got the heartbeat. That's all I
can say. I don't know what's gonna turn into, but
Nigga keep going because that's why Nigga will spend his money.
Thank you, guys,
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