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hey yo epps let these [ __ ] know welcome back to the audiovox i'm your host tonez
and on this episode we got the one and only dj abs yo what up baby how's everything toned
good good man good to see you man appreciate you man appreciate you how's everything been going for
you man uh i'm blessed i'm blessed you know what i mean woke up this morning two feet on the floor
got a beautiful family oh yeah still relevant in this music industry that's the most important thing that keeps uh the drive going so yeah i'm good hey it's a lot of work to stay relevant
and it's a lot of homework and just hustle definitely definitely i mean you know if you
don't have the hustle mentality you you're not going to make it in anything you know i mean so hustling grinding um and and staying humble is one of my three keys of being successful you know
and um and the relevant part like i tell everybody you know every january 1st i just
you know tell myself okay what i what am i going to do different this year that i didn't do you
know last year so i got to just switch it up and somebody was explaining to me on the phone today
like you know that's that's the major key you know i mean that's one of the major keys because
staying relevant and switching it up all the time it is hard you know i mean some people are
just comfortable where they at so you know you you know a lot of haters not mad at you because
you still keep on doing it you know i mean and they don't know how you keep on doing it and
you know you you keep on winning and that that's that's definitely uh uh a key in my
success that you know just staying relevant and just switching it up all the time yeah and you've been on the hustle since way back i remember uh a fun fact about this story i probably you're
not gonna remember but i remember i think we went to slippery slide and we had picked up uh
some vocal some session or something like we had picked it up and then we went to a gas station and we're in your little tahoe with the 26 is some guy popped out your abs with a cd yeah yeah that's
what i was like yo i felt good i was like yo i feel famous too yeah i'm writing shotgun here
you know so i i kind of do remember that you know what i mean i think we was picking up a
a session for mike smith or something like that a freestyle i remember something like that
and um you know that that's just part of just moving around but with technology these days you know i mean ain't no picking up no more just send the vocals over
you know i mean and and keep it moving but yeah that hustle mentality always has to be in my body
yeah the facts yeah yeah that's why i liked also how you did um because i was literally
talking about days before about telling uh this artist uh hey yo put your music on a usb
type the dj i don't know like you know try to develop a bond but give them something every time
you go out because if you're going out and you're going to the vip and you're popping bottles you're you're not even trying to communicate you know you should try and hustle it
and boom i see your post you know giving you a step by step i was like yes this confirms you know
it's cool that you know it's a little fighter i was like look if you didn't believe me he said it so they're like they're like okay i'll do it i'll do it i mean you know and that post was coming off
that you know situation that wiz khalifa ran into in his album release party you know i mean um and
and and you know as i looked at it i kind of got mad at wiz for putting his hand on the dj or the
mc whoever it was i agree yeah i mean i was just really upset about that and i was even more upset
that the next day you took a four to six hour drive to the next town and you got on the radio
and you stated that you had to put your hands on the dj like like okay you know i i get it it was
a mistake the first time but if you're going to go on the air like that's totally disre disrespecting all the djs all around the world like you didn't have to do that you know what i mean so you know
when i put that post out it was it was a it was really for you know both parties whiz and the dj
like you know if you're an artist i don't care if you're drake or wiz khalifa or your upcoming
independent artist like you got to roll around with your usb you got to roll around with your
your music you know i mean have a manager or your rep roll around with the key on the chain the usb
on the keychain whatever something but you have to have your music on you yeah i mean it's just
a a known fact to promote yourself you got to go build yourself you got to go network
like how to work yeah how can you not do that like and and and on on on you know on another note on
that side like us djs we do not like it when you talking to us in the middle of rocking a party
and you telling us uh can you pull my song up on youtube or spotify you know time for that like are
you we could curse right yeah are you [ __ ] crazy like come on man like really like we gotta go do
your management work for you like no like be prepared and come prepared absolutely um you know
and same thing for the dj or on wiz's part you know i mean like how did you not know you doing
wiz khalifa's album release party like have that album ready absolutely you know what i mean and
serato you know there's no excuse serrato has a a a a title uh uh uh a button from title
so you can have a title in account you know you press that button and even if you don't
have whiz album go to title on serato and they'll pull up for you right so you know no matter what
the dj had no excuse he should have been prepared for that this is california this is wiz khalifa album release party me as dj epps i would have went from the first wiz khalifa single uh uh
and work her way to black and yellow and all the way to his new album i would have [ __ ] that party up like how can you not be that dj to prepare yourself
to to for the release yeah yeah you know what i mean and not only that make yourself look good
not in front of just the massive but in front of wiz like oh my dude did his homework i'm [ __ ]
with the [ __ ] you know what i mean building that bond really exactly exactly so that's where that
post came from but you know at that you know in a day all artists need to come to the party prepared
and build that relationship you know i mean buy a mistake get them a lab dance whatever the case is
like build that right yeah you know what i mean take care and respect the djs no for sure because
that's the only way you will be able to progress and you guys are two musical artists in different
ways all right you're spinning the music so you have control of the audience and stuff that's as a dj right so you have to control so you're the artist that's the wiz it's the artist and
there they just could have you know synced up a little bit better but like you said how he started acting tough and all that and i'm a big whiz fan i was like ah they're like don't do that you know
yeah you know don't act too hard for this and i get it's your night and it could have been the shots and all this [ __ ] it had to be like and it's his night you know there was there was there
was there was like a couple of incidents that led up to it so i could see the frustration the
frustration and finally snapped snapped the wrong way but you know you snapped in your mind you know
and that's happens when you work out a lot but you got to understand too like you know you could book
wiz as a dj he dj's oh [ __ ] that's right so i think the dj kicked the dj mentality kicked in
his brain like dude like i could do a better job than you like you know come on so i think that's
where that kind of came from too as well not just the alcohol but all of that bundled up in one i'm
pretty sure man so let's talk about uh stations because you've worked in uh many stations what
was the i guess the first station that gave you a person but yeah the first station that i guess uh
you pretty much said hold up uh at least got your way in or practice and not practice but you know
got put on from that station because then you started moving up to where you're at right now which is great which we'll get to that one um well i guess we could start with underground radio
stations in miami florida you know at this time underground radio stations was very popular and
because we could play whatever we want and so on so um you know between blaze 1047 that was owned
by my man dj griot and and everybody know the other radio underground station mix 96 you know
those two radio stations you know playing on them was pretty fun and a learning process of how to
um build your brand underground wise in miami and to learn how to do radio stations
so you know i started that and then now i end up in mainstream radio you know
i started off at 99 gems um doing mixed shows for uncle luke when he had his show which was a fun
factor because that's where you know me khaled irie we you know i think sosa in the kit too
um was doing make shows for his radio show and you know we we we would turn the city up um
nice but you know unfortunately i didn't get to stick around to be honest with you because of uh i
felt like it was um not your vibe yet no what i end up finding out and i end up finding out
many many years later down the line that somehow someway i wasn't wanted
okay your presence you felt like you uh like i was being hated on okay and and and
you know they try to utilize the proper channel way to exit me out at that time and era and like i
said i learned this many years ago so i wasn't um used to you know uh being let go because of oh you
went to germany no yeah yeah i gave everybody a full warning that i'm leaving out of town
oh you hated because i went to europe and you're letting me go because of that yeah when i fully gave everybody a full warning you know what i mean but whatever so i wasn't
used to that type of stuff so after that was um uh what was it i want to say it was uh
power 96 okay no um no i'm i'm lying it was 103 fighter beat first 103 fighter b came in when
it was clear channel at that time and it was a good um building process because
i learned from some great pds how to develop my skills and be a great radio jock and mixer
you know and due to the fact that that station didn't stick around you know
me and you know rest in peace prince marky d we stayed on that ship till it sank you know
what i mean so there wasn't no letting go apps i was just dead till the end and watched it not
make it and you know clear channel you know didn't really stick around and turn into i heart
so right after that i went to power96 um you know this was pretty much a pitbull era
okay you know so it was good to to to learn edm music pop music
not just hip hop you know what i mean so that was a cool situation and um you know i always
um love power like they always showed me a lot of respect nice and and love different from
the hip-hop side okay um the 99 jams and 103.5 different vibe yeah more connection there yeah
you know but you know at the same time um 1035 came back as iheart and offered me something that
power didn't really give me yet you know i mean power was kick you know giving me a couple of
spin jobs here and there you know what i mean 1035 came back as i heart and say look you know
we'll give you your own mixed show monday to friday eight o'clock it's a decision i gotta make
you know what i mean and you know respectfully um the pd in power they understood uh my decision and
i i went to back to 103 fighter beat and did that now as i'm doing that
and this is why i say it's kind of embarrassing because you know me as being the biggest dj from
miami as as everybody sees me as to be bouncing around radio stations like that
that just tells you that these radio stations didn't really take my brand seriously you know what i mean and i'm still here doing what and i can't even wait to go to the ending
of this story because that's what shows what a real station is supposed to be so as i go back to 103 fighter beat and started doing this eight o'clock thing um great run
but at the same time you know as every dj is probably doing they're walking on
eggshells in every station they gotta wash their back with other djs hating on them
and so on politics politics playing the same old 25 songs you can't play no miami records
it it just gets you know sad and disgusting in my eyes after a while and behind the scenes a lot
of people in miami don't realize that of course my boss is a dj you know i mean um you know and
this guy was just hating on me he was not from the crib he was from chicago somewhere you know what i mean so he came in the crib and honestly i felt like you was hating on me
you was doing things use throwing bad energy bad energy where sometimes i'll probably will snap and
bring back a bad energy too and everybody knows that's not me that's not my character
unless you really push that envelope so you have a pd that that a p that's a dj and and he's very um
uh full of himself i'm gonna be honest with you i'm not even gonna say his name he knows who he is he's full of himself and now you also got a music director which is an assistant apd you know what
i mean okay and this guy's also a dj you know what i mean and to have two djs on your back like that
doesn't work for eps you got to let epps beat eps and let him do what he do as well as
epps knows how to um work around the station guideline you know i mean don't tell me
don't come and pull me in the office and ask me why are you playing uh this record because oh my god you had it on the record list that's why i'm playing it
you know what i mean this is why i'm playing because you had it on the record list what what's the problem now you're using all type of excuses to get me upset and push me out
i learned this from the legendary fat man scoop i learned this from dj last because
um it seems like they went through it back in the days you know i mean whether you know his his
situation that power or a scoop situation that hot 97 they explained to me like yeah these pd's will
do things to you to upset you to push you to the limit where either they fire you or you
just walk out one thing they're not gonna fire me i'll walk out this [ __ ] before
they'll fire me so once that was happening at 103 fighter b it was just like okay you know what
you know uh ap apd you know i mean i could see you want my job i i could see you want my slot like
you want to answer to this guy he wants to uh uh put you in a position to tell me how to do things
and control it yeah you know what i mean like he and he doesn't see that this guy is using him
you know i mean i heard this once upon a time with a story with red alert and dj enough like you know the same thing happened to red alert at hot 97 that's why
red alert left hot 97 because the pd was using enough to you know you know what i mean um this
was all talked about on drink champs with red alert so i recognized that type of behavior
see you for the connection right there i saw that i felt i it was the same exact thing
so and and and that dj from the crib you know one of our friends one of our guys out here
he doesn't realize it but at the same time is is being done to apps so they was like you know
what um i forgot what situation it was i think i i i i sent an email in the corporate i heart
to them and and not cursing but just saying um something that i felt out of my heart and
yeah venting and it they felt like it was disrespectful in the corporate business
hey i'm gonna keep it 100 with you all right sorry if i'm not uh into corporate emails and
people getting the wrong type of vibe of apps but i'm going to keep it 100 with you oh just because
of that email we're going to take you off at 8 o'clock and we're gonna pitch you on the weekend um no you're gonna keep your eight o'clock and weekend vibe i'm out the door
like i'm not gonna be disrespected like that i'm not a fool i'm not a sucker like you're not gonna
do that to me and um you know the higher ups you know you know one of them is a good friend of mine
alex tier you know i mean great guy and he pulls me over and he he was like yo abs how can we work
this out where we keep you i'm like alex there is no working out if those guys cannot respect me as
a man as a dj as a co-worker as whatever it's not gonna work out you know what i mean like the pd
actually you know stepped up to me at cafe i'll never forget this day stepped up to me as cafe iguana like he wanted to fight me no way dude i had to and a bunch of zoes
in cafe iguana on a saturday night a future concert oof you know themselves by my side they
saw that and i had to i had to give up you know give them a silent signal like it's cool i'm good
and thanks for papa keith for coming in between us no [ __ ] like you know like guys we shouldn't be doing this like doing what like never in my life in miami florida i got
tried like this in front of everybody in public like this by this sucker ass pd i'm not standing
for it it's just total disrespect so that's why i never looked back and i said 103 fighter beat
i'm out of here now best thing i'm gone like you can't do that you can't do that you can't come
from another crib and disrespect the crib like that and disrespect somebody else i don't care how
if you're a pd for i heard you know it's just pure ego yeah so i didn't allow it i
left and you know i started doing more hustle in the street where i'm more respected at and
later down the line here comes siriusxm rock the bells
like ll you know and and and thanks to prince marky d again rest in peace you know ll
was you know he's just started rock the bells radio station and he's looking for talent to
take it to the next level you know i mean and he brought um a couple of uh old school cats on there
which made sense but at the same time he he let me know that he needs somebody also fresh young
green but at still understands the the uh the sound of of yeah that has that knows the
old school music catalog as well so he's doing these all day city detroit all day city miami
all day city new york where he concentrate on that city and he'll bring in everybody from that
city to either do a mix or do an interview so he did all day city miami and it was me
luke khalid lass you know i mean we all did our part cooling dre we did what we did to
shine miami on rock the bell sirius xm and he was like your abs do a an hour and a half mix so i did it i shut it down and the next day he just calls me was like
dude that mix was phenomenal like incredible i i just fell in love with your style and the way
you carried yourself the way you mixed the way you talked on the mic and you kept the party rocking
and um celina's he's calling me i'm sitting in my backyard watching my wife puff a blunt and
hear me and i'm listening to him and i'm like you know i'm getting goosebumps you know like this guy telling me this and he was like you know a legends caller yeah yeah yeah
yeah and that next day he calls me and he's like i want to offer you a contract i fought for what
you could have your own show on rock the bell so i was like wow yeah
wow what an opportunity you're like like i can't get that in my own hometown you know what i mean
but it takes an outsider to come grab me and put me in the right position to do the right thing
at the right time so i was like okay i'm with it you know and we talked about different ideas and
you know he was like what do you think about you know having your own show on saturday night
getting people ready for the clubs and this and this and that and not only rock old school music
but you could throw in a reggaeton song here you could throw in a haitian song here or ahsoka here
i'll say give you some freedom man freedom is not the word tone like you know also you
could play a hot new artist song it could be a big no no it could be somebody from
you could play a hot new song but just keep it that format that format and sure enough man
we started hitting it off and a whole year it's been a whole year and six months now nice
i he lets me do my own programming he lets me do my own show like he lets me be f something that
all radio station needs to let djs do like i could go to new york and i could hear funk master flex's
handcuff i could hear that it's pre-recorded like you don't want to go in there no i could hear that
it's not authentic no more those type of radio stations you know i mean but for a year and six
months to go by and i'm gonna rock the bells and my pd which is you know jay hudson dion summers
one of the best pd's i ever worked with in my life for them to not call me all year round to tell me
abs slow down apps why you playing this record apps uh micromanaging everything
and my show ends up becoming the number one show on the weekend on siriusxm yeah congrats like
that's the definition of real radio like you know what i mean and i hope i hope that everybody
understands and sees what happened to me now i don't want to go like somebody said oh 1035
uh or another p like the the pd i was talking about before he's not there no more they let him go for whatever reason so i guess another pd came in and it was like yo apps you know
you want to try to come back again no i don't you know hell no i have the freedom and what i built in right like i'm pretty sure right now you know like you know once you have that control
yeah you have that freedom you have that control you have that freedom you have the respect very important yeah you know what i mean and of course i'm getting i get more paid more money doing
one show on the weekend than i'm doing working my ass off over here in the crib like no i'm not
looking back now um only thing i would look back is 99 jams okay why united name james why because
they were the first one to ever give me a shot
radio wise mainstream radio wise so that's that's always somewhere in my heart with the crib
miami 99 jams fine i'm not and they don't have to give me a full show i'm okay with that if you
want to call me to do a guest spot let's go knock that out easy i'm good with that but i'm not gonna
go back to and you know there's there's things now saying there's people now saying that radio
stations and in in markets in different markets they're not it no more uh you possibly could be
right because everybody's listening to spotify or podcasts or yeah all i listen to is xm radio
so when i heard you there and i hadn't spoke to you in a minute and i heard you i was so happy i was like wow this is where i like to hear abs right now you know i heard you with your drops
i heard you you know i heard the session on on saturday and i was like yo this is awesome for you you know and because i listened to satellite radio so i never listened to regular radio because
nothing against commercials or nothing like that it's just like you said it feels controlled so it's like you're gonna get me hype and then you're gonna stop or you play something so that's
why i like the whole environment on satellite radio oh man it's a it's a gorgeous thing it's
a gorgeous thing and it's the fact that i could play a new artist sometimes whenever i want to
that's crazy because you would have thought you can't because of the format though that's old school radio or whatever wants me to do it like he wants me to play a new artist whether it's a
a big it could be beyonce i don't care it could be her new you know song i mean or it could be
a tr a little trap homie from kodak you know what i mean like i played kodak's brand new joint with
uh king comb the other day like you know what i mean nice not only because it made sense they had the the little kim crush on you sample whatever but this is it's a simple fact that we are still
helping the culture no matter what facts that's what ll loves he wants to make sure
the culture is staying alive and that's why he did that rock the bell festival and was so
successful with it talk about that how was that that was so legend legendary like it was so
beautiful and to know his story about he didn't he didn't have the rock the bell festival um
title to do concert it was some other uh promoters that was doing it some i don't know where they
were from but i would see the rock the bell promoter but you would know it's not a l okay
so last year or two years back he went to court to go fight for the name oh you're right because
i've been to a rock the bell show and it wasn't a part of i was different artist performing and stuff yeah different promoters so he went to court to go fight for that festival name and won nice
so what you saw this past summer was his first concert his first rock the bell and for me to
even be part of that first concert yeah that's legendary right there it was not just legendary
but it stamped and approved that i'm gonna be part of a whole mess later i have a bunch of contents
that's going to come out soon like i still haven't even put up all the pictures i put i'm posting on
instagram yet you know i mean there's still more videos and pictures and um to be part of that it
was just awesome phenomenal legendary and great um so you know and it was it was well put together
um what was your favorite performance oh man oh man i i told people onyx was one of my favorite
evenings yeah you know they bought they bought the energy there like you know people were just
still settling in getting uncomfortable but when they got on they set that tone like this is gonna
be the show you know what i mean so onyx shut it down buster of course shut it down um you know
nori hasn't performed for about four to six years from my understanding and he came and he shut it down you know him and uh capone or just him he brought capone out oh nice he
brought capone out and they did that legendary capone noriega blood money all that stuff you
know what i mean and it was it was it was a blast to see that um who else little kim did her thing
um you know and the fact that when i said and promoted for three four months on the radio
on siriusxm channel 43 rock the bells every saturday night at 9 00 p.m and 1 o'clock in the
morning just in case you missed the first show um sorry for the plug but uh uh to to tell the world
that i'm gonna bring the entire miami florida up to queens new york and we gonna come shut it down
we did that like ross came and shut that thing down and new york gave us so much love like it was
awesome trina came and shut it down you know i mean i even consider nori us now because he
lives here you know definitely so when i said i was bringing the whole entire miami like to even see the fan base take a flight out and go stay up in new york and get an airbnb or a hotel just for
that concert miami was deep in queens new york and i was happy to say that i helped make that happen
nice yeah i mean yeah so it was legendary rock the bell festival and it should be coming into
uh different markets in your town soon nice yeah not bad that's a fast he has a lot of plans for
rock the bells that's that's a great fight for that name i'm pretty sure he has a lot of plans for that yeah yeah i mean it was you know it was not just a festival but the fact that he has
other plans i can't really talk about but what he had um told me what some of his uh uh management
have told me i'm like wow this is gonna be big it's not only gonna be big but it's gonna be
a movement like a huge movement and and it's it's needed for the culture that's what it is
it's needed for the culture because a lot of people forget where hip-hop came from i agree
r b came from you know i mean a lot of people is disturbed with diddy saying that r b is dead
he might possibly be right yeah because it's now you got rappers trying to sing what which is cool
but now i feel like more genres or it's just music has has taken a toll that it's changing a lot
and i feel like uh if you always go back i'm considered old because i listen to hip hop now
nah you're considered wise sorry i'm like listening to the right person you know what
i mean not to say that music is not bad the trap music is awesome for sure i love like you know
listening to money back yo i think he's one of my favorites right now you know what i mean and you know the little babies the babies uh kodak like you know i as a dj i support all of that but
at the same time we grew up at a golden sound you know what i mean and we watched it go through hell
for sure everybody trying to get signed and deals and not this and how to make music going bro come
back from this album it goes deeper than that like getting murked getting oh yes you know running
situations yeah addicts like you know we've seen it go through a lot um it's like it's like
you watch those artists um grow and you feel like you're you're a cousin of them
you know what i mean like you possibly may not even know nas never seen naz but
if you grew up listening to nas you feel like yo that's my bro for sure now is my favorite
pretty sure i'm pretty sure now this is a lot of people's favorite rapper and you know you'll be hearing who's your top five definitely nozzles in there
absolutely hell yeah nas is definitely in there yeah yeah he's a classic i know i'm gonna go now
see him with the wu tang in september that's gonna be classic yes that's gonna be classic
oh yeah can't wait to see it especially now with the whole hulu explaining more of the wu tang series and more of the characters i feel now more connected with the wu because it was
they did a big rockets that i didn't know it's when i was growing up i was just like
we're so [ __ ] dope i was more into the clothes i liked the music a couple records and then like
looking at their show i was like yo they really wanted a mission to get themselves out there and [ __ ] you know and that's part of hip-hop back in the days on us growing like you know we had the
the the woo wear we had the unit gear we had uh even like adidas nikes the fubu's like we had that
and we backed that but it's like what clothing are we wearing right now like you know what i mean
yes now it's more depends it's either street wear more hype or plain tees
plain tees you know and i don't mind supporting people but it's just like they're not there and
if they are there they're not reaching out to be like your apps you're doing great content can you
slap that on your on your chest while you do the next interview with so-and-so and you know me tone like you're super thankful yeah trust me when i see you uh when i was uh with
doing daze now you see pictures with you with 50 with uh right everybody right every i was
like yo yo was right on my chest in the middle of everybody else like yo thank you i was like
so appreciated for that and that's the type of person i am like you know i mean like i have to help out anybody that helps me because i remember where i came from and i circled back if i have to
um and at the same time we all whether it's haitians latinos blacks we got to support each
other that's what it's all about it is but there's none of that it isn't i only see it honestly
more lately on the spanish trap like more you'll see the latinos are like five people in a song i i
you know what i don't want to say there isn't that there isn't that in our crib there's none of that
in our crib in miami florida there is none of that atlanta i roll up in atlanta them boys are all
there's crews that be having beef with each other and i noticed that they still support each other like the money is important before the beef but we still got beef
stay over there but let's go perform and let's let's let's you know let's go shine
let's go build atl up i see that [ __ ] here in miami djs don't want to [ __ ] with this dj
this dj hates on apps this dj uh this rapper and this rapper don't get along or this rapper
they get along but they just their egos cannot get together and build the city up
now the latinos forget about it man like between reggaeton and dembo and and and all of that man
and making them hits they're all getting a check for some split something they're all working together exactly and if they're in like another country and they can't come into the states they
finding ways to still show support and make things happen for them like i went to santo domingo and
i've seen and heard a bunch of dope rappers that cannot come to the states but but they found a way
to you know whether it was el folke or you know i mean the radio stations down there whether they
they send their music to the states to get heard they support each other and that's how
it's always supposed to be yeah i mean i'm the hottest dj in miami period facts but the
support system in my crib is horrible it is the city's like that for some reason i i i
get more support outside of florida versus in my own city don't get me wrong my city loves me
but the support system i used to have them guys and girls they got a little older they
got a family they can't really go out and i understand that and they probably support me
from uh uh just like how you said like damn i hear you and i i love that you know i mean i get that
but that new era generation you know i'm the [ __ ] to [ __ ] break your record absolutely
ain't gonna be it ain't gonna be the radio station in your hood it ain't gonna be that dj at uh on south beach it ain't gonna be this that dj it's eps period like you gotta come to me
for me to at least get a jump started because that dj ain't gonna do it that's just total
facts i hate when they'll be like who's the top five djs in miami and they don't put
my name in there i feel like you're even more connected with the underground more than any dj all of that tone like from the bars and beats or beats and bars from that from you know from going
club to club from going out the country not just state to stay but out the country there ain't no
djs in miami that go out the country and shuts it down i'm going to colombia next after i just came
back from mexico like you know what i mean like no other dj's doing that from the crib
no other dj is supporting local artists from miami to lauderdale or west palm like i do
and still support other people from other states and bring their music to my crib
they know what the dj doing there is no other dj that promote their own party five years straight
in the worst night of the week and i'm talking about playhouse monday five years straight
if you're a dj you're supposed to have your own party if you can't rock your own party promote your home party you're cool but you ain't eps five years straight monday night playhouse not
only getting girls naked and dancing to making them money but also hey come perform on stage
come throw some money come perform on stage come you know me come rock and still have celebrities come hang out on a monday night yeah no other dj so it it i'll be laughing when they be like who's
your five top djs in miami my name is not on that goddamn list oh you just saying that name cause
you surprise your boy i get it but put the [ __ ] facts out there who is the [ __ ] man out there
like efn even though he don't really dj's that much you gotta give that man his [ __ ] props for
building whatever he built back in the days with chp all the way to drink champs right now
like i i hate it when they when big names go on his show and call him effin [ __ ] efn
ain't no goddamn vodka it's efn give that man his [ __ ] props irie irie all right
from from fiu to miami heat to yo like the man put in work like to go back to efn um
i do remember though uh one time we were at the beach but more day we weekend passing
on cds and he was with garcia the artist and he was pushing garcia we were trying to give him a demo he just waved his hand at us like no i'm like damn why'd you do that
so and i get it it could have been at that moment he was trying to cross the street at the same time probably not to [ __ ] get hit by a car i get it but i didn't get hurt but the artist did you feel
me like damn bro he didn't want to listen to my music didn't take my cd or nothing and i get it it's like it happens but now at the end of the day it's uh i gotta say the artist is always
gonna remember how he made him feel you know i can't i can't speak for eo on that first sir but
it could have been the fact that you know he was there for doing something for garcia and he was
not looking anywhere else or i don't know man i don't know but you know people just tend to
not realize how important it is to be a timing yeah you know what i mean and and even though
epps is busy or eps whatever like i'm not gonna be like nah i'm okay i don't need your stuff that
makes me look like a total dick no it does and and unless you have a good way to finesse it but
still like you just want to always make somebody feel appreciated yeah like yo you know email it
to me or whatever the case is but for sure but for for you to not you know take somebody's music when
they look up to you and that hurt homeboy you know that guy's gonna remember that till this
day for sure that's why i had to say something now because obviously he's not gonna say anything that's why a lot of artists there will not be an artist i hope there's no artist out there that
will ever say your abs didn't you know rejected me you'll never catch that you'll never catch that um
not even on my bad day you'll never catch that because that's just totally like i said that's
that's that's rude that's a [ __ ] move that's the total being an [ __ ] and that's why everybody
um protects my name don't talk about epps i [ __ ] with apps like you know what i mean
we need epps he's one of the last of the the breeds out here though that's one of the real ones out here definitely i tell you this much in the hood when i'm shooting videos in it they love you
so when i bring up oh he [ __ ] webs i honestly have never heard nothing bad for me it's not gonna
happen because never oh i know him everybody just knows you oh i know him i'm like you know him because i really know him do you know that so everybody knows you and it's always good feedback
and at least in the streets they love you that's facts for sure hey that that's part of keeping
your brand alive and you know you know a lot of people was like how come you're not a uh you know
as big as this person or this person how do you know well just because we have a different uh
a house or a different money bracket or something i've been big since the 90s like and i've been
still and i'm still doing it a lot of people's not seeing the lights of a party no more
you know i mean so i have a beautiful family i'm still out there you know grinding
and and and putting that work where i'm being recognized by not just my peers but you know
big name celebrities i'm great hell yeah ella cool just calling you i mean that's a legend of hip-hop
yeah i think that was just the the the the icing on the cake of of the work i've put in
in so many years because progress yeah you know what i mean because of course i i've i've worked
with the ditties the the busters or the jim jones or the tory lanez or whatever you know i mean no
matter what all these guys respect my brand you know what i mean and if they come in miami they
hit me up abs we over here come [ __ ] with us you know most of the time i'll chill home because
that's not me to go chill on top of couches you know what i mean oh i get it and and and act like um um um really it looks like a uh uh
what's the what's the a male groupie okay that's what it really looks like if i do go out it's cuz
maybe i had a long day and i just like you know what i don't want to hear the kids scream no more whatever the case is go out for a little bit let me just step out and let me go
what let me go hear what is new out there what what what what djs are rocking that's how i kind
of do my homework sometimes you know i mean step out and see what what moves the crowd because you
got to do that once in a blue moon so not to see what's out there yeah definitely you still [ __ ] with the shadyville djs or yeah i mean that's the family you know i mean they've always been the
family but you know one thing i i i've not tried to do anymore is join dj cruz okay you know i mean
shadyville was like one of the the the best one that showed me mad love but you know i you know
you're i'm dj epps and the way i took it and with all due respect i'm here to make your brand hot
you know what i mean yeah absolutely you're you're brand new and you're right like there was no you
know i didn't see what you know all these dj crew could or would do for epps you know what i mean
like there was no bookings there was no you know it was just more a part of a crew yeah you know
what i mean so you know i i just say you know what and somebody put it in my head like eps you know
your your name is bigger than these dj crews like try not to be with them because they are obviously
using you to make their [ __ ] hot or their retreat hot or you know they're dj squad hot but
what in reality are they doing for you and i had to sit back and realize that you know i mean
you know i would be on the shadyville dj call and who could not come on there not once i'm like
that's an eye raiser right yeah like like you know we have in this conference and the headman
of shadyville dj is not even coming on the call not once like i i didn't understand that but you
know i i i respect all of them you know shadyville core djs mp3 wax heavy hitters i think they all um
built their status and their djs to a point that it makes their brand looks good but you know
like i said none of those made apps yeah it wasn't it wasn't reciprocal it's not the word
i'm looking for it wasn't you know yeah didn't feel it you didn't see it back the result nah
nah and you started uh [ __ ] with with like a 50 or like g unit before
uh after or during shadyville before and that's that's the only reason i thought that's the only
reason why i got put into shadyville because it was just it just made sense like when 50 asked me
to start doing his um campaign down here in miami you know after a while you know the shadyville squad was like yo you you just got to be part of it and it made sense i get it
yeah because you're like the red for out here yeah i get it let's do it but it was after a while that i just realized that i'm not joining no more crews no more i'll shout
you out i'll help you out i'll do whatever we could make a movie we could work with each other but i don't care to be oh i'm i'm with this squad dj nah man it's dj epps and that's it
yeah and uh as far as in the g unit obviously i'm gonna ask this uh with the whole yayo situation
talking about uh he said on black tv so that about his team running up on you or something like that
and not his team he was saying a street team his street team no he was saying i was his street team
okay he was saying fat joe street team was running up on me oh [ __ ] and i'm looking at this [ __ ]
interview like yeah yo why the [ __ ] would you say something like that one you're making me look like a [ __ ] [ __ ] out here like stop that that that khalid fat joe themselves will tell you
that never happened and it probably no it would never happen because that's not their character
don't get it twisted you know back in the day is you know fat joe might have smacked a couple of
[ __ ] up way back in the days but this time this era it was there was no room for that and you were
cool with that that was the whole problem like i was just guilty by association you know i mean
you guys had problems you know i mean and just cause um 50 offered me a check truck with rims
and that truck you were sitting here it was all cuz of 50. like you know i mean like he's like
you got to do guerilla market i like i didn't know how to do this promoting thing for an artist so
that was like you got you got a a truck i was like no i got a um a nissan quest you know what i mean
you want to rap that he's like nah man sent me a check went and got me the yukon truck you know
what i mean and and and you know we started doing promos for his get richer diet trying for mop deep
for yayo and all of that and of course he's in the midst of having problems with fat joe at that time
and 50 would never come down to miami so it would really be fat joe's territory
cause of khaled you know so here i am doing what i'm doing as a businessman
i don't care about that beef cut me a check i'm gonna do my job sure but you know you you you
you it you know khaled understood but at the same time i could tell he didn't respect it or me
but he still [ __ ] with me you know what i mean i got you it's like it's like a it's like a a a friend that's a cop but you stay over there you know i mean got you i get it i get it
but it never went down to a point that we run into a street and we're about to
yeah run oh my god something was gonna happen fight all over washington avenue like no
hell's no so when he made that statement i was very upset like why the [ __ ] would you say
something like that you know what i mean and khaled and fat joe they are my friends fine we
couldn't really bond at that time of era because of whatever the case was but they are my friends
you know i mean how do these guys you know and it made me look at hip-hop different like you
know hip-hop is so [ __ ] fake like you know it's real in a sense but it's really fake
yeah it's cloud it's friends are [ __ ] fake as hell it's it's the people the friends that
really disrupts my my my uh my spirit like i i i i know what it is now you know what i mean like
if fat joe could pull me in the back of a concert and say yo let me talk to you for a second like
even though he was having problems with 50 or whatever let's let's dead whatever is happening in
miami like i had to you know he came up to me like yo let's yo let let's go back here and talk right
quick nah man let's talk right here and like you know i mean i ain't going back there with you i don't know what you're about to do we're gonna do this right here in front of everybody and you know
he's like abs let's just talk so and we talked and he's like yo let's just dead whatever is
happening in miami i'm like dude there's nothing that happened in miami like you know what i mean
your little goons which you don't have now these days that you got rid of them for some reason
like those little goons they're the one that was really trying to impress you
but never ran up on me never chased me down no street no back alley are you crazy like come on
man [ __ ] out of here there's something called zolpound and they ready for me to [ __ ] make a call anytime till this day like epps are you okay if they see me disruptive maybe a bad instagram
saying something they recognize that [ __ ] and be like your abs you good yeah they call yo you good
red eyes yo you good like i mean i heard this i'm good red eyes i mean don't worry about it
ain't nothing when it when it gets serious trust me i and thank god i never had to make that call
okay so you know i i really was bothered and and you know i told vlad i'm like yo vlad
you know and and maybe i shouldn't have called vlad but i i i was telling vlad like you know
so you called him god i i had him up on instagram we talked on instagram and i was like yo you know
like yo why would y'all say something like that and then he was like yo yo stands by his word
i'm like all right let him stand by his word but if this would ever get um put out i'ma let
you know yo that never [ __ ] happened never will all right like come on when i say khaled
and fat joe are friends how do these guys give me plaques before g unit do i don't got no 50
plaque i don't got no yayo plaque i don't got no lloyd banks plaque i don't got no g unit album
play i don't got none of that [ __ ] that [ __ ] never appreciate it i i love them to this death
because that's just the haitian in me i'm good i'm we cool i'll but i remember but i'll remember
y'all never [ __ ] appreciated that nelson that ran that whole company for them then them guys
never sent me a plaque i don't got you see my red wall when i do my lives you don't see not one g unit plaque up there at all you'll see a terror squad plaque you'll see a khalid plaque
like you know what does that tell you like i'm here in the belly of the beast why you having
problems with this other guy at that time and i'm posting up all the unit in my city
you know what i mean and they don't like that but they gonna have to see it and respect it
regardless why because ain't no bronx guys or out of town guys gonna tell me what i could do
how i do it in my city of miami that's never gonna happen so guess what if you're gonna
i was i was respectful if you throwing a party in amnesia street team don't don't disrespect
them like that go elsewhere and go promote that's the type of person i was like
keeping it real with it keeping it 100 and keeping it real don't do that
but you can't tell a miami [ __ ] don't
don't put up no g unit flyers here don't are you [ __ ] crazy i'm gonna put more of them
exactly like you know my little goons would would you know they would get a little heated that i was
like abs let's go handle them [ __ ] no don't do that that's they respect you no matter what
cause you working work little [ __ ] don't worry about that and if anybody runs up let me know
so that never happened like i was really bothered by it because once you put something on the internet it's there forever yeah so
anybody here just sees this that [ __ ] never happened so whatever yayo spit out on vlad's tv
never happened what happened was epps gave g unit numbers when every album came out in
miami eps is the one that responsible for putting the numbers the sales numbers up
for g unit that's what happened but you want to go and say something negative like that
like kind of like lost my respect man like and i i kind of felt like it was forced because when he he
didn't have to even bring it up they didn't ask no it didn't just it didn't look flat it's just like
i i think he was hearing wrong from other people okay yeah i mean
i think he was hearing wrong from other people or people that he he that want to impress him can be
yeah he heard wrong but like i said fat joe khalid rich the player all them [ __ ] on that side they
gonna they'll tell you straight up we never ran up on epps and we'll never will like that's that's
you know what i mean we grew up with epps ain't no problem he ain't burning down my house he ain't [ __ ] my wife he ain't [ __ ] steal my money out my bank we don't got no problems with apps
yeah some people so on a more uh i'll say positive side um what's up with the the tv
show not tv is it a tv show the one with montel um yeah you know that was an opportunity that was
presented to me and you know i'm i'm riding that wave respectfully because i i thought it was um
it was great for lifetime tv and bran star to choose me to be um the dj of
uh uh uh once upon a time the greatest host of talk shows of america you know what i mean yes you know yes he went through some things so now that he's
back at it and they want to put a dj back then they chose me it was an honor like it was like
you know no brainstorming yeah let's do it you know what i mean i like how they actually give you
let you get feedback and talk they interact most djs you know they either play some music might say
one or two things but i kind of like how like at the end you could be able to say your input and stuff like that i love that too you know what i mean and and and you know to see that he he's
back at it doing what he does best and you know lifetime is supporting lifetime tv is supporting
him on that you know i'm glad to be part of it you know i mean they recently let me know i'm i'm probably lifetime's first dj that that that's on the network so you know loki i i
was kind of happy and smiling about that as well oh yeah congrats yeah so you know every uh quarter
um you know he he does a show to to you know build his brand back up i mean a lot of people thought
it was like a everyday thing like wendy williams and you know that that might be a little stress
coming back from what he came what he went through you know what i mean so they chose to do it every
quarter and it's pretty cool i'm i'm very proud to be part of that uh shout out to montel williams
and branstar for that and lifetime tv hell yeah so now uh since uh i know you're still plugged
with with the underground and stuff um new music mondays what's uh what's that about new music
mondays it it was it it's part of something i created coming out of the pandemic so as as as um
when the pandemic hit you know everything got shut down including clubs so i'm here at home you know
like i mean like what the hell am i gonna do now you know and um you know i see djs getting on the lives they're spinning and everything and a lot of people
and my fan base was like yo you should jump on the live and and throw a set and stuff like that and
i was like yeah why not but i wanted to do it different you know what i mean so i'm watching
of course the godfather d nice he was the one that you know started all of that but i'm looking at other djs and you know djs put their equipment on their kitchen counter and
i mean in their bathroom you know what i mean in the tub some people in the back of their
car and they're mixing i thought that one was the one creative i think it was tony touch that did that he was in the back of a taxi yet he put the controller that he started dj'd
i thought that was one of the best creative ones but i said like how can i do this different and
somebody is like do what you do best like play new music from everybody and i was like ah alright so as i'm doing my mixes
and i said you know what i'm gonna do it every night five times a night you know weeknights
and i chose an hour like you know i watched everybody everybody would go at eight o'clock everybody would go at seven o'clock or when people coming out of work at six o'clock
um but there was like nobody around ten o'clock i know not that i know of so i said let me do it
ten o'clock monday to friday but let me not just spend let me just every day do something different
so i said monday i'll do new music mondays play a bunch of new music from everywhere uh tuesdays
i would interview celebrities like all my friends celebrities and whatnot um so we started bringing
in where there was like you know jason dorello or uh we producers like pete rock or little john
you know i mean all types of celebrities and then wednesday i would throw down an hour mix
and thursdays i would do indie thursdays where i give opportunities for all indie artists to
tap in with me and my fan base and we play your music and review it or you know talk
whatever and then friday you know it's friday's turn up so you know if i'm not djing at a club you know i'll turn up that hour at 10 o'clock so you know i kind of have a set
schedule all week long on my live at 10 o'clock and um i linked up with um my tech guy who had
recently moved back to miami because he was at in atlanta and you know he's finding things to do
and trying to fit in and you know i got him into in a position where he's like my tech guy so
you know he teach me about obs okay you know i mean he need talk like look when you go on
live here on on your instagram now you could go live on your twitch facebook live youtube live
all of that at once and i thought i was kind of genius you know i mean now i'm all around and my numbers are growing and growing and i'm i'm here putting content out and then
um as i'm doing this you know and that's how the new music mondays came out you know for that
but as i'm doing this too you know i'm noticing you know facebook is sending me checks like you know twice a month nice you know it started 70 dollars then it went up to like 120
a couple of months [ __ ] reached up to like a thousand sometimes nice i'm like where is this
money coming from like i haven't really i'm not a computer geek i'm not you know i don't know
things about i didn't know nothing about obs computers i'm not as i'm going i'm learning
and i'm asking my tech guy do me a favor look at all my facebook posts and see did i put some money in something that's generating money or
am i promoting something or if somebody you know i mean so he went back and look and he can't find it
and then i ran into a friend of mine that works for facebook and there was like eps
what you're doing is what every dj was supposed to do coming out of a pandemic and i was like what's
that keep the consistency of of of being on the live as much or as long as you can
so that was like we see you we noticed that instagram gave you badges i didn't
know that facebook owned instagram at the time whatever or they bought it whatever
so you know they gave badges to me i didn't know what badges was until i figured it out and
i noticed everybody's sending me money through badges i was like yeah every time you
get money from a badge from somebody every 15 minute it just the money just pounds it accumulates it piles up you know what i mean and i'm like and that's how the check and
when facebook sees that by the first they send you a check i'm like wow and then the reels started
popping up and you're getting money through reels now and the reels give you money on the 15th
so every time i would post content on my reel it was just money was piling up so that's how i'm
noticing that's how he made me realize what i was doing right without even knowing that i'm doing it
yeah you're marketing correctly yeah and giving content out and and and and and at that time
you know the club's back open and all the dj's are gone like they're not doing that [ __ ] on
the live because there was either um getting cut off because the copyright or their numbers wasn't
you know uh fantasizing them or making them feel like they should be on live when they only have like 13 people on there like you gotta stay consistent and grow that [ __ ] and promote
your [ __ ] and you know so you know wifey was like she was on that first quarter why facebook
sending you money like that that's what caught me out i'm like i don't know but i'm gonna get down
to the bottom of it so when i found out and i told her what was happening she was like wait a minute
you know you got to keep continue doing this right like keep going and i was like yeah that's
extra money that you know could pay cable light everything you know i mean yes anything yeah and
i'm like so you know i had to keep the dj epson friends rolling monday to friday 10 pm um except
for if i'm djing somewhere that night i can't make it then you know my fan base understands they know and they see it so that's how that came about with new music mondays and and me um
uh what's the word i'm looking for reinventing myself at a time a nasty time the pandemic
you know i mean and like okay i don't even got to leave my driveway i could pick and
choose what party i want to do when i'm making money here on my social media and now it's even
um i recently somebody recently contacted me in the metaphor world metaverse world excuse me
okay and what for some nfts or something no they these billionaires that contact me
they they watch me and they see me you know i guess they ran into my situations
and there was like we want you to come they built a world in the middle verse okay right a couple of
people are doing billionaires are doing this some some i went to a couple of worlds and they cool
but the ones that i'm with man they built not like these people built a couple of buildings these
guys built a world a serious world where there's a condo there there's a gym fitness there there's a
couple of clubs here very detailed yo they showed me this club called level where each
level is a different um genre music okay and you know i walk in the club and i see you know
the dj booth and everything it's not even it's it's launching like in a couple of a month now
they're building it to a point where like there's offices and you could you you could have a meeting
with roc nation without even flying out to california or whatever you could just put on the metaverse and sit in the office and in in that world and invite them like
they even sold it to me they they put a banner on top of a building saying dj f's coming soon
you know to club level or to this yacht party they have a boat they have a couple of yachts and one of the yachts says dj f's live so that'll be another place where i'm gonna be djing on the
yacht so you know and there's like yeah you already got the internet thing down packed
all your tech got a tech guy got to do is patch your turntables into the obs or
the the the metaverse um oculus okay and you you'll be you know they built me a uh uh uh
uh is it an avatar yeah yeah you know what i mean they built to my look they even put some chains on me and i mean made me look you know geed up and and
to a point where they took me to a tour to this metaverse world like yeah you know what
i mean when we when we're ready to launch we can have a condo for you right there yeah i mean you
you have your own apartment you go and you go dj you invite people to your apartment whatever
um and i went to other people's i went to ball alerts um party i saw they have one they had a
dance contest it was cute i thought it was dope but it just allowed me to understand where the
world is going to now yeah that web 3 is yeah like if i'm going to be making money at home djing in
a metaverse like i'm not trying to go to you know no strip club i ain't trying to go to no clubs and
yeah i mean no of course not you're gonna be there at a better comfort and it's it's a different it's
it's you know your own home like you don't gotta drive like don't get me wrong i'll pick and choose the parties i'm going to want to do but i'm also going to be careful with it you know i
mean i ain't trying to go to the trap i ain't trying to go to the hood i ain't trying to go then you've done them all i remember at one point you're like yo tones my goal is to get
booked every day of the week and then i just started looking at your page i'm like oh hey i
think you're getting booked like twice a day every day of the week here no man there was a point that
there was a point in my life i was getting booked every day but now it's like i don't want to get booked every day yeah you want to have a life yeah you know i mean but at the same time
you know it was cool back in the days with the word residency to me only time the word residency
is cool to me if i'm in vegas okay that's the only time but residency in your own hometown
doesn't make sense for me because people get tired of the same drinks same girls
same uh whatever everything you know i mean it it gets i seen it every era every uh decade people
get tired of it so they move on yeah i mean real talk in miami ain't no more clubs here hey no
more club it's just live story and and and booby trap yep no definitely you will know for sure like
those are the top three that i know of you know i mean i heard of mr jones but till this day i i
haven't got invited to go rock mr jones like but that's you know and that's another thing too these
promoters have their own uh djs you know i mean that they prefer like you know i remember one day
uh um somebody was trying to book me and it was like nah man epson's played out out here
why just because i i live a legacy since the 90s like but i'm still here rocking you know what i
mean and i'm better than your dj trust me oh for sure i think that you're honestly one of the most
resourceful dj's from the people you know from the way you uh spin the music and stuff and it's
just i don't know you've always showed me love and i've seen it just not on me i see it to others and
stuff like that and you've always tried to put everybody to together so i feel like uh people
just i guess we're not seeing i guess the process or progress that you've got into for that right
so who you've um since you're into this uh you know like we're talking about the underground music who do you think in south florida right now is somebody we should be paying attention to
um there's a lot you know i mean i just think you know it's hard for them because it's either their
work ethics or the people that's managing them or the label that's not properly pushing them
okay but there's a lot you know i mean that you know to this day there's there's like you know um
you know the grimace they're my team i'll say them first green my stitches you know what i mean whedom's owes um and you got also you know mike smith you also got kiddo marv
you got you know i mean v stuck you got a lot of people ball greasy till this day i think he should
be ahead of his game but for some reason you know it's just management or something i don't know
what it is but he he should be further where he at right now because he's a badass yeah he is so
talented talented and he got them girls in the palm of his hands like you know what i mean but
for some reason and that goes back to what we were saying in miami the support system is just
it's just not there is it because you think miami is more of a a party city there's just too many
i don't know because it's true there's no support system really to it's more of a show-off system look what i got look at this yeah yeah but it's also
miami's fault that they let all these out of towners come in our city and i agree
run things do things [ __ ] our hoes whatever the case is like how does drake come to miami
and was it was it where he go to um and he gave a bunch of money to some people yeah like
i haven't heard that from certain people that made it out here from the crib like
you know i mean that's true so it's like you know where's miami's head when it comes to that so
that's why i like to think outside the box and just do things outside of miami because that's
what keeps my name alive from here to europe to asia to the middle east to south america like
they they they you know they love my style they they love how i dj and they love how i keep it
humble so what's next for apps um you know it's hard to say what's next for epsom and
i just go with the flow when it comes to the music industry like one thing i i i i can say is that um
that um you know i i i didn't care as much to put out music anymore
but somebody made me realize that epps the records that you did put out were dope
but you didn't have the support system that you have now like put your [ __ ] on tick tock
put all of them on tic tac on on every type of social media and just let it go and let something
hit back whether it's a a network or movie might be like listen we like this song and we think it
fits for this section for our movie like something may hit somewhere this is how it's gonna go
versus you trying to you know guerrilla market yourself in your own city to to to to
you know i mean and you don't have that radio station back in like khalid hat with 99 jams or you know what i mean or or you know certain um certain uh artists even you know i mean they
didn't have that type of backing with the label so it's really hard when now you're independent
distro kid and tunecore and all these type of social medias and stuff like that is out there so
you know maybe you should just throw the music out even the old songs you got
revamped them put them out and i was like you know what that's pretty i think that's a good idea
i shouldn't ignore it you know so i think i'm gonna go ahead and start back
that and um also continue my beats and bars because everybody said they were big fans of that
um we was 23 episodes so i guess you know we're just run some more especially if i'm meeting new
artists too you know i mean there's a lot of talented artists and and uh even old school artists they they love the fact that i bought them to beat some bars and to be part of that and
make a movie so um you know the tv thing definitely want to uh try to
get um placements with um certain scripts they trying to push me um to do some scripts now and
i'm getting ready to do some acting schools so oh nice yeah okay do that and once again let's just
put more music out there and and and learn more technology as we go because that keeps advancing
yeah yeah definitely definitely and hopefully have a podcast of my own soon you know i mean take it
off the the instagram and build my own podcast and i got you i can help you with that and that's
not a problem with that i'm with that for sure with that and with that being said man everybody
just hit me up at dj epps everything you know i mean you can check out the website djebs.com and check me out on my gram monday to friday 10 p.m eastern dj epps and yeah man
just hit me up man well i appreciate everything uh for making time i know you're a busy person oh
man thank you for having me man and uh anytime i cut i i sit back and catch up with an old friend
i feel like you know it's therapeutic for me like it's you know likewise yeah you know i mean you
know you get to talk you know talk it out you know there's some things that you know i never
got to express to anybody but you know sometimes you got to let it out um i think uh uh i said it
on on a post the other day that i heard jay-z said the other day that um you know in order to
in order to heal you must reveal you know what i mean just let things out yeah that's how you
get it out yeah you just don't have to worry about it as much anymore it's like [ __ ] it yeah yeah yeah definitely man so thank you tony i really appreciate this you know what
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