DJ Irie
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67 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And I thought he just wanted, you know, cause he was always rapping, right? So he's like, cool, I'll come help you out. So I go over there and he's like, no, no, no. Like a DJ studio, I wanna learn how to DJ. I was like, what? He goes, yo, I really, really love it. I wanna learn how to DJ. I said, all right, cool. So we put the equipment in, and you know what?
He would go out and do an away game, get back to Miami at two o'clock in the morning. He's calling me up, hey man, meet me at the house. And he's ready, he's putting the time in, he's putting the time in, putting the time in, putting it in, putting it in. He didn't want to fake the funk. He didn't want to just have the look. He wanted to truly, truly understand it.
And the dude put in countless, countless, countless hours. And it shows because you see where he's at today. And that's when he told me, he says, hey, man, I want to play what I want to play, right? And I want to travel the world. I want to tour. I want to really, really, really do this. And if you don't have that level of passion for it, it doesn't matter what your name is.
Yeah, you might get a gig here or there, but you're never going to truly excel. Shaq has excelled at it. DJ Diesel is a thing. For sure. DJ Diesel is a hard ticket act. For sure. That's not easy. It's not easy, right? It's not easy moving thousands of tickets, you know, especially as a DJ, and he's doing it. And he's not doing it because of, you know, his past, you know, doing dunks, right?
Or NBA championships. They do it because they love what he's playing, right? And how he's playing it. And he's developed that, you know, he's honed that over years, right? So if you don't have that approach, honestly, you can forget about excelling.
It's very simple. When you're out doing that date for free, and you also have a call to do something else, and you're getting five bucks for it, now you know you're onto something, right? Because it's your time, right? It's your time, and you have to put a value on your time, right? So you're right. All those dates we did for free, that wasn't for free. That was you investing in yourself, right?
That was an investment. Investments, when done correctly, guess what? Yield a return, right? So now you start getting that call. Hey, I want you for this date. Oh, you know what? I have some on there. Well, shoot, will you consider my offer? I want to pay you $2,000. Yep. there was your return. Maybe I'll do this instead, right? And that's what it is.
You get out there, you get your name out there, you get people to start hearing your style, you get people to get a taste of what you can do and start creating that demand, right? And creating that demand will yield that return.
Honestly, you know why? Because it's not easy, right? It's not easy, and it's necessary. The thought process behind doing it in the first place was – I was getting calls constantly, Dan Marino, hey man, we're having something for the kids, would love for you to come out, they'd love to see you, if you can be a part of it. Absolutely, let's do it, right?
Udonis Haslam, hey man, we have something going on, let's do it. Alonzo, hey, let's do it. Shaq would call, right? All these amazing, you know, Dwayne, you know, and I would always try to be there. You know, the Special Olympics, you know, big brothers, big sisters, make a wish, we're all, hey, we're having something. As long as it was physically possible for me to be there,
I felt it incumbent upon myself to do it as my form of giving back. And moving around and seeing what's going on in my community, I started noticing areas where like, well, I don't think this is getting enough attention, right? I don't think this area is getting any kind of visibility, right? And I think this is important.
And I was like, well, I'm not one to be like, well, hey, someone should do something. Right. I'll do it. Right. And how do I gather the resources to start focusing on things that I believe are important in society? And that is OK, well, shoot, maybe I should. make some calls and see if they'll come and support me. Right.
And the most amazing thing about it was when I figured out what I wanted to do, I started making some calls and it was absolutely Of course, I'll be there. What else can I do? And it was just overwhelming. And that's how we got it off the ground. And year after year to see, to me success is how many kids can we help? How many scholarships can we send out? How many kids can we get cars?
How many things can we do to support them to be successful in their endeavors and get them out of their situation? And as long as we can do that and convert these lives and put them on a path to success, this hard work is worth doing. And we're going to continue doing it.
I'm thrilled with that, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know what? It's a great question, right? And it's funny. I was talking to... A friend of mine, just the other day, I won't say who he is, but he's worth about six billion, right? And he's a really, really good friend of mine. And we go on vacations together. He lends me his yacht. It's unreal, you know? And I'm like, you know what's funny? He called me. This was like two days ago.
He was telling me about a situation. He wanted to get my advice on something. He was talking about a situation of someone who I know as well, and he kind of gave me the rundown. And I was like, damn. This is kind of a messed up situation because it was a really close friendship that kind of went over money. And I was like, wow. Never once... Listen, I've been... Dan, listen, man, I'm blessed.
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