Episode 162 - DJ Scream
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How did DJ Scream describe his mixtape hosting style and early grocery store encounter?
Yeah, yo. Woke up in the morning and to God be the glory. Thankful for another day to tell my story. Put my opinions in the universe and let them orbit. I'm from the dirty south with a dirty mouth. Might need orbit. Miss, thank you. The white boy told me that like a year ago.
And, you know, I get weary. I still like to go to the grocery store, buy my own fruits and vegetables and shit. It's funny because he was just saying he worked at Publix on South Cobb and used to see me in there. I still like to go to the grocery store. I don't care how fucking whoever I become, I got to go get my own food, right?
Right.
So a white boy is walking up to me. And, you know, a random white boy walking up to you, you just get a little uneasy, like, what is going on? You know what I mean? You're like, dude, this gets so fucking high to you and Juicy J's mixed in here.
You know that blue dream? Yeah. Yeah. He was like... Man, when that motherfucker hit the street, though, that shit would turn, man.
That shit was crazy. I know. He's like, thank you, man. I was like... You got that under order now? Like, yo, yeah, nah, man. I'm sober now, man. But back then, I was in college and... I was like, that shit is crazy, man.
You were part of... You got a couple of... Bro, it's a couple of motherfucking... mixtapes that you was, like, Ply's early on. Ply's was a sleeper. When, you know, I'm the type of person, like, whenever I discover a new artist, whether it be off a hit or anything, I'm always trying to figure out, like, where the fuck that motherfucker come from. So I go back and listen to, like, all their music. Anything they dropped before. There was a time when you could only find Ply's, like, on YouTube.
Yep. when he's going through all that label shit.
Man. But he had some shit though. That's when I was like, because my cousin, my cousin, the person that put me onto the Real Testament, my cousin was like, he said, bro, this is one of the illest intros you've ever gone hear on a mixtape. Ever. Period. Point blank. Yeah. And he said, after this, you pretty much locked in with this nigga. Like, whatever, wherever he gonna take you after that, you gonna be good. So, man, we listened to that motherfucker. I was like, man, what else he got off? And my cousin's like, nigga, that ain't enough. I said, I wanna know everything. Like, cause how the fuck he get an album? I'm smart enough to know when I'm younger, like, motherfuckers don't just come out of nowhere. They had to do something.
They're bigger. And they're bigger, sold up Florida. And then he did... It went bigger drama screen in that order. But he did a different one with, mine was a little more gritty, per se. Drama's was a little more, you know, what it was. But, yeah, we had, that shit used to go crazy. True Hurts, that was the name of it. Yeah, True Hurts. Yeah.
Because it was, because it's you, DJ Scream, and then it's Hood Rich. Mm-hmm. And then that Heavy in the Street. Mm-hmm. Look, all right, we got, hey, is we rolling? We're rolling. All right, I thought so.
Look.
You know, in the mixtape days, it's like, y'all niggas was taking full advantage of plugging yourselves, bro. You better, you better. We better. It's like, it was a, it was like, it was like almost like clearly a very like cohesive decision. Like, look, if we got to run this bitch back full time, we're going to make sure we plug ourselves. So it's, It's the DJ scream like, okay, this is how I know the intro coming. And then it's like, do we run that bitch back? I'm like, okay, all right. It's the modern day graffiti, bro. Y'all is tagging the fuck. It's the modern day graffiti, bro. Yeah. That's what it is. When y'all would submit that to artists, did y'all get any pushback from artists about that?
Nah, man, they wanted that. Like the pushback would be sometimes I'd be like, man, I'm gonna tone it down a little bit. They'd be like, bro, you ain't go hard. You must not be fucking with my music and all this other stuff. Like they don't want me to go crazy. You know what I'm saying? So like I said, it's like the modern day graffiti is like it's an art to it.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
How did DJ Scream describe his mixtape hosting style and early grocery store encounter?
0:04–4:30
2
What made mixtapes like Dirty Sprite and I Am Legend culturally important in Atlanta?
4:30–33:50
3
How did the mixtape economy work—duplicators, strip clubs and street distribution?
33:50–47:34
4
How did DJ Scream transition from mixtapes and touring to making DJing his full-time career?
47:34–49:27
5
What early mixtape moments and artists helped DJ Scream build his brand and fanbase?
49:27–55:47
6
How did Big Facts podcast start and how did COVID change their media strategy?
55:47–1:02:03
7
Why does DJ Scream emphasize fairness, Atlanta’s ecosystem, and gratitude in sustaining his success?
1:02:03–1:29:55