Cx1DJs We Do Things Different Podcast "Untold Stories of Louie Vega" hosted by DJButterrock

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DJs.
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We do things different.
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Podcasts untold stories of Lula Louis.
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Lula Louis Vega.
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But he liked to be called Louis Vega.
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We're going to call Louis Vega tonight.
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How y'all doing tonight, man?
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CX1 DJs.
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Shout out to my one of my hardworking producers, Punkerfoot the Panty Girl.
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Hey, Punkerfoot is an artist model, and we're going to talk about we're going to talk about Punkerfoot tonight because she worked so hard the last couple of days, man.
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Get making sure we have everything right for our shows.
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See, she's not only an artist, she's a producer.
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So we're gonna gotta give love to Punkerfoot the Panty Girl.
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We couldn't do listen to me.
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I show on Thursday was crazy.
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And I want to shout out to Punkinfoot for that.
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She made she made it make sure I'm I'm in the mic.
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Um, she made sure that everything went well.
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So we definitely want to give kunos to punkinfoot, the panty girl, making sure that we stayed on.
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I want to I want to give another shout out to Julia Simmons, the PR for uh for CX1 DJ's We Do Things Different Podcasts, and my business partner and the head uh our business partner Troy Wallace also NJC promotion and um uh NJC promotion, smoking Joe Promotion.
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Um Troy Wallace was also the one of the head marketing promotion companies for the Budweiser Superfest back in the early 80s and 90s.
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So we get we're gonna get into it.
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Um we're gonna shout out to Bill Watson, Troy Wallace, the whole CX1 DJs that was been a part of the Latin Quarters event, uh uh Untold Stories of Latin Quarters on Thursday.
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That show started a little late, but one thing I say they they stayed in there.
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Shout out to uh DJ Money, president of CX1 DJs, checking in early.
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Appreciate that.
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Um we did the Latin quarters show.
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It started late, but I got I gotta give up to Punkerfoot, the panty girl.
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Not because she'd be in the studio all the time, just because she was on it.
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She made sure everything was good.
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And uh Punkerfoot, the the two ladies, Julia Simmons, Bill Watson, Holly never be on here at Thursday.
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Uh Troy Wallace, everybody that actually checked in late, being it was a late show.
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Troy Wallace, uh Bill Watson came in town from Houston, Texas, by the way of New York City.
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He's from Manhattan.
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I tell everybody he's not Troy's not from Houston, Texas.
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I mean, I said wrong.
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Bill Watson is not from Houston, Texas.
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He lives in Houston.
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All right, and uh Troy Wallace lives in Manhattan now.
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And um, both brothers, both partners from CX1 DJs is from New York, I'm from New Jersey.
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We got a real dope show tonight.
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Louis Vega, Louis Vegas, DJ Louis Veger, producer, Grammy Award winning Louis Vega.
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We can't we, you know what?
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I was sitting down talking to some of the executives from Atlanta Records that I that I know personally, and um they like, yo, you know you gotta do something on Louis Vega.
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I said, Yeah, I met Louis Vega a bunch of times.
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We're gonna get into it.
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And uh I I wanna I gotta give props to Louis Vega for a couple of reasons.
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We're not even gonna, you know, I waste times.
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I you know, sometimes I do these uh untold stories, I do my announcements, but guess what?
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Tonight I'm gonna not do announcements because I gotta give flowers to Louis Vega tonight.
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All the artists that we give flowers to, they're not obligated to repost, share, because it's something that CX1 DJs and um the our new podcast is doing.
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We we we we own our own radio station, CX1 DJs, 247 radio.
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So we we we tell people we give flowers, we give love, we we we we we have the the viewers, the the fans voting who they think, and then we have our producers, and then we hook up with the PRs and the record companies and shit like that.
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So Louis Vegan, we we've been putting this together for about six months, and um we we we like to surprise the artists.
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You ever had a surprise birthday?
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So this not you I tell artists, you don't gotta know the artists, your people behind the scenes might know the record companies, the whoever was over your career, like when you got in the game, know what we are doing.
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But I tell the artists that we are doing, giving the giving the respect and the the kunos, and we are paying homage to.
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We don't want them to know until a day before.
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Because it makes sense to me.
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Like, oh what the hell?
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Because I want people, I want the shock factor like untold stories.
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Are they gonna say something negative about me?
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No.
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Untold stories is to give you pay homage, give you flowers, recognize.
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It's some people that don't know who Louis Vega is.
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A lot of people don't listen to house music.
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We got what we got young people.
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I don't want to say YN's, we're gonna keep it professional tonight.
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We got young people that text me, like, who the hell is a Louis Vega?
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I like watch the show tonight.
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And if you watch it later on, you'll know who's D DJ Louis Vega is a house music.
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He's not just a house music super producer, he is a he he paid, he is a DJ of all DJs.
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You I want people to say you gotta pay you to say that.
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Nah, nah.
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I met Louis Vega a bunch of times.
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Louis Vega probably forgot who the fuck I was, who I am, and so I frustrated his memory.
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Louis is 60 years old, born and raised in the Bronx, uh uh, you know, start his DJ career.
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We could I'm a lot of stuff is untold to everything I say about Louis Vegas, and so many people is not familiar with Louis Vega, it's gonna be all new to you.
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So let's talk to the non-Louis Vega fans that's on my podcast that might watch this.
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So if you're not used to who Louis Vega is, this this might not be um not my not my not might be for you.
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Also, we're gonna get into this.
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Louis Vega started DJing.
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His words, he was a bedroom DJ.
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I know a I know about a thousand bedroom DJs.
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I know a bunch of them that they wake up in the morning, they start DJing in their room, in their bedrooms, they start uh playing music, they start um um um uh uh you know promoting a set, trying to get their name out there.
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It's nothing wrong with being a bedroom DJ, but it's something wrong when you don't want to move to the next level.
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The next level is making sure that your ass pit your career first.
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Shout to T Cap.
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Um, and make make it making sure that while you in your bedroom, you are practicing your set for the club one day when you hit the club.
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Louis Vegas states hey man, I started being in the in the in my bedroom.
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I was a bedroom DJ, just just learning the crap how to DJ.
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So I tell a person you gotta start from some fucking well.
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So all you TikTok DJs in your bedroom in the in the in the corner in your in your in your man cave and you're trying to be a good DJ.
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This guy right here started off just like you back in the 80s, back in 1985, be exact.
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So don't never have a person say, Man, that motherfucker just a bedroom DJ.
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You could be a now, guess what Louis Bay is?
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So he's a multi millionaire.
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Multi moti multiplaques after plaques, plaques after plaques, award-winning, Grammy Award-winning DJ.
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So he went from being in the bedroom DJing back in the eight and the eighties to be a Grammy Award DJ.
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Now, one nigga I give Louis Vega, we're gonna get into his story.
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Because I know Louis Vega personally, and uh I met him many a times in the 90s and the early 2000s.
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We're gonna get into it.
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I got receipts, you know.
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DJ Butter, you know, I uh I don't I like I tell all my people, I don't usually do untold stories unless I know the history, or I either met the person, did business with the person, or know the person.
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I you know, if it ain't it ain't a top of my agenda, then I like all right.
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Well, that we that could wait.
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That that ain't that and that ain't that important.
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It's not a top of my agenda, but we made sure this would have what's going on, y'all.
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We know we we made sure the Louis Vega show was gonna be at a top of the agenda.
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Shout out to everybody checking in, make sure you share, like, share, share, subscribe.
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Subscribe.
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This is a dope show.
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We're giving love and props to Louis Vega tonight.
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So I need everybody sharing.
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I know some people just probably saw this live, and you know, you know, just just check in, check in, check in, everybody.
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I love everybody.
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So let's understand one thing.
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Louis Vega, you cannot.
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How you doing?
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How y'all doing?
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How you doing?
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Louis Vega cannot be duplicated.
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It's only one Louis Vega.
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A lot of DJs come up in this DJ world and start being in competition.
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One thing I'll give Louis Vega from watching Louis Vega play.
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I ain't just a I'm not just a D, I'm a DJ myself.
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But the first person that I watch DJing, that I say, yo man, I I'm a I'ma sit back and be a student.
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I'ma sit back and shut the fuck up and watch this man play live.
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Not too many fucking DJs, and I've been DJing since 1988.
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Not and I'm and I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm 52, a little younger than Louis Vega.
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Vega is 60.
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But in not too many DJs, I would actually sit and say, yo, I want to be not like him, but I want to study his craft.
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Louis Vega is one of the persons that I actually set, actually went multiple times.
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I'm gonna get I'm gonna get into my history of Louis Vega, my personal history.
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Y'all, y'all walk with me.
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I ain't even do my announcements, I went right into it.
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So I'm in I'm in multiple clubs, I'm gonna get into it.
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Not saying that I'm a DJ, I'm in there on other things.
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I'm gonna get into that.
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I was I met Louis Vega and Barbara Tucker on other things.
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So I'm gonna freshen their memory when they see the video, and if they, you know, hopefully that you know they're they'll remember because I got receipts.
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So before I get into that, let's get into the experience.
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I'm in multiple clubs in New Jersey and New York, and I'm watching him play.
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And everybody knows that I'm a I'm a I'm a I'm a dancer.
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I'm still a professional dancer.
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I you know, I I gained a little weight, but I still I'm I'm a dancer, been a professional dancer since I, you know, since I was DJing.
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I was dancing and DJing at the same time.
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So always know how to dance.
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And then I then I started training with with Tyson that used to dance for um Janet Jackson, and he taught me some stuff, and uh went to dance school.
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So I I was always a dancer, okay?
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So we're gonna get into that.
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So I'm at the I'm at the nightclub.
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I'm gonna get into the name of the nightclub in a minute.
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And I was dancing, then I met an artist by the name of Kim Cummins.
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I was at Club Zanzibar in Norfolk, New Jersey.
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Y'all walk with me, and I'm gonna tell you what year it was 1992, and I was dancing.
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Kim Cummins had that song added, Your Attitude.
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Okay, I went to the club.
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I I went to DJ Danny Boy Perez, he was the DJ at Club Zanzibar at the time.
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I said, Danny boy, you because he's my man from Nork, New Jersey.
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I said, Danny boy, who that?
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He said, That's Kim Cummins.
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I said, Man, I would like to dance for her.
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So Danny Boy Perez, after Kim Cummins performed, he he uh told me he told me to go on stage.
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He said, All right, her manager's right there.
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So I spoke to Jimmy Fox.
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Jimmy, Jimmy Fox, that was her manager.
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He said, I say, man, I would like to dance with Kim Cummers.
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He said, All right, all right.
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So Jimmy Fox was from East Orange, New Jersey.
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Y'all walk with me.
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It's a story.
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We're gonna get into how I met Louis Vager.
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This we got it.
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I'm gonna warm you up to it.
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So Jimmy Fox gave me his card.
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Okay, we left Club Zanzibar.
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I called him, he said, called him next week.
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That was on a Saturday.
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I called him on the Tuesday, and he said, Yeah, all right, man.
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I'm in uh we're doing auditions.
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And uh this ain't got nothing to do with my DJ shit, all my rapping shit.
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It's got to do with me dancing.
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So he said, All right, come to East Orange.
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I went to East Orange, I met Kim Cummers, and he gave me the song.
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He said, All right, we got a show at the Sound Practical Bar in New York City in two weeks.
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So he gave me the uh the cassette tape.
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We talk about 93, man.
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92 was going into it was like I think that was New Year's Eve.
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So it was like 93 at the time.
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I was 92 went into uh no, no, I said it wrong.
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It was 93 going into 94.
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All right, so he gave me the thing.
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I went and practiced.
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I won, they they they picked me, it was me and another girl danced with Kim Cummers.
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So we we we practiced, we practiced, we practiced.
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Okay, we got booked.
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Kim Cummers got booked to perform at the Sound Factory Bar in New York City, which that was promoted by the Underground Network, and that was the a promotion company that was ran by Barbara Tucker.
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Louis Vega was the head DJ in there, and we're talking about '93.
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I remember it very clearly.
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So we get to the sound factory bar.
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Um, we of course we was in a limo, we was VIP status.
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We get to the sound factory bar.
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Immediately we met Barbara Tucker.
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And if you guys don't know who Barbara Tucker is, you guys just gotta Google her.
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I'm not, I'm not gonna get into all that.
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Well, Barbara Tucker, she one of the sings beautiful people deep inside, very beautiful queen.
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She's just the she's the queen of house music.
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I don't care what nobody says, give it up for Barbara Tucker.
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Um, so I met Barbara Tucker, and Louis Vega was DJing and just said he had the fucking club jamming.
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I mean, the sound factory bar was the place that Louis Vega was DJing every weekend in New York City.
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You cannot, if you the underground network had New York on Smash.
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If you was going somewhere in the 90s, the Sound Pactic Bar was the place for any up and coming house music artist.
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So if you was up and coming, just got signed to a major, and Kim Cummers was signed to a major label at that time.
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I forgot the name of the label, but I was just a dancer.
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They was paying me to dance, and I'm we talk about 93 to 90.
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I danced with Kim Cummers from 93 all the way up to 95, and we went around the world, meet Kim Cummers overseas.
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We went around the world just dancing, just dancing.
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So Louis Baker was DJing.
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I met Louis Baker, he was a very good person.
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This style of DJing, he was so dope.
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I was dancing on the floor, me and the other female, my dance partner, and we danced for like an hour before we had to perform.
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So Kim Cummer said, Damn, y'all, yeah, yeah.
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She can't even say, Yeah, yeah, y'all need don't need to be dancing until we perform.
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We all got paid to perform.
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So when it's time for us to perform with Kim Cummings on stage, me and a young lady was tired.
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So I looked at Barbara Tucker, she was she she was she was laughing, y'all.
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We gonna lie, she was like, them motherfuckers falling on it.
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We fall on each other.
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We I was bumping to her, she was bumping to me.
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And Barbara Tucker, if you remember that shit, we talk about 90 1993 in Sound Factory Bar in New York.
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Uh Kim Cummins.
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Attitude, your attitude in the things that you say, and the thing that song.
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They know who I'm talking, they they know what I'm talking about.
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So Barbara Tucker, she was laughing at us, and we fucked up that night.
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And we got in this, we got in the limo, and the manager cursed me and the other artists out, the other dancers.
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She said, he like, yo, why the fuck was y'all dancing before y'all started performing?
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So Louis, of course, Louis Vega was dancing.
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He was jamming.
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So that's one my one one of my stories about Louis Vega.
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I met him, and um, Louis Vega didn't laugh at us, he was kept jamming.
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That is a badass fucking DJ.
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I don't, like I said, I can't meet I don't know too many DJs, house DJs.
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And Louis Vega played hip hop, he played reggae, he played all that shit.
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But he specialized in the house music.
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So that's one of my one story.
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Okay, so we we take to another story.
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This time I was D actually DJing in Club Zanzibar in North, New Jersey on Broad Street.
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Any of y'all know about the Zanzibar?
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So I was DJing on that Friday.
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It was um this time, I think it was Thanksgiving.
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So this Underground Network, they booked the they booked Saturday.
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Listen to me, y'all.
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I want y'all to listen to what the fuck I'm saying.
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And Louis Vegas, you know about this shit.
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So they booked Saturday.
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Nigga.
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Saturday came.
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We had Friday.
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It was me, me and DJ Danny Boy Perez.
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All right, at Club Zantabar.
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That was Friday, come Saturday.
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Louis Vega had the shit unlocked.
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The doors open at 7 o'clock.
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Louis Vega was playing at 8.
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Listen to me.
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DJ Louis Louis Vega.
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Louis Vega was playing from 8 p.m.
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until 6 a.m.
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straight.
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You motherfuckers ain't hear what I said.
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Louis Vega played on that Saturday, it was Thanksgiving.
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He played from 8 a.m.
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PM 8 a.m.
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No, 8 p.m.
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Excuse me.
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I'm so excited.
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8 p.m.
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to 6 a.m.
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straight DJing.
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I'm quite sure he had a railrail and you know some of the DJs.
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But I didn't see him.
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He probably took a break, but I uh Vega was on the turntables.
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We talk about turntables, not no CDJs.
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At that time in '93, it was no fucking computers.
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So that's straight vinyl.
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He was breaking records from overseas.
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Let's get into the crowd.
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Everybody that was in the crowd was a different crowd.
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It wasn't a regular New Jersey crowd, it was New York.
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It was people overseas.
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It was you had people that flew in to see this guy.
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Let's give him props now.
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We had people from all over the world that came to see DJ Louis Vega play at Club Zanzibar in Norc, New Jersey.
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I was like, oh the fuck.
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It was packed.
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If you former New York and New Jersey people that remember Club Zanzibar in New Jersey, you couldn't be a house music head.
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You couldn't be in the everybody that you from hip hop to house music performed at Zanzibar.
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From Drutched, from Onyx, from goddamn Queen Latifah, the Fuji's, everybody performed at Club Zanzibar.
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So they had the hip hop, RB to house music.
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All right.
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The biggest DJ I saw in Zanzibar was uh uh Louis Veger and DJ Tony Humphrey.
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And was a couple other people.
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And that's another I'm missing some names, man.
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But um I and I'm not of course I DJ'd there.
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I'm I consider myself a big DJ.
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Shit.
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Wow.
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You gotta you had to know how to DJ, the DJ at Zanzibar.
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And you had to have a following.
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You had people had to come fucking see you.
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You couldn't just be a good DJ.
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When I when I played, my people came to saw me.
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I had my own little core fan base.
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Some of these people knew me from dancing, so when I when they saw I was I could I was a DJ, they still came and supported me anyway.
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You have to have your own following back.
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You still had that shit now, need it now.
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Louis Veger built his fan base from the 80s and still today is dominant the DJ world, getting books from multiple countries, multiple continents for him to play in not only clubs, stadiums.
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You gotta be a bad motherfucker.
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So you could just be a good DJ, but are you a world DJ?
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Louis Vega is a world DJ.
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I met him, I watch him play.
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I'm not just a motherfucker on here giving my uh flowers to a person I didn't meet.
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I met him, I watch him play, not on the internet, I watch him play live in the 90s.
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I experienced that some of you DJs and some of you DJs that think you DJs need to see and might learn something.
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So today, when we get into the video part of this, when I play some of the videos of Louis of the current Louis Vega, I'm talking about what he's doing now, 2026.
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Rocking stadiums, rocking festivals, rocking real venues that fits hundreds, 30,000, 80,000 people.
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To get to that status, you can't be a fucking hater.
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You gotta want to work with everybody.
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Like even some of these DJs now, some of these DJs now don't know what love is.
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They think everybody just wanna.
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Right off the coattail because they show no flowers is flower.
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One thing about Louis Vega, when we was promoting him when CX1 DJs, DJ Butter Rock, Julia Simmons, Bill Watson, when we promoted Louis Vega and we tagged him in his stories, he re-posted it back in his stories.
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He was not playing like he didn't see the post.
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He reposts my posts.
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And for that only, I'm gonna give him fucking flowers.
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Just sitting around, we're talking about a Grammy Award, multi-platinum, world DJ.
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He reposted my post.
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I tagged him in it, he reposted it.
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Much love and respect to Louis Vega.
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When I have some motherfuckers that that's not even on the level is DJ Louis Vega, they'll see my post and ignore it when I'm trying to give them flowers.
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They thinking, oh, they they're trying to build off of us.
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I don't give a fuck how he edited.
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I don't care what he did to the post, he reposted it.
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I'm talking about Louis Vega.
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And I have to give him flowers, but that only.
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Man, this man meet millions of people already.
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I met him in the 90s, in early 2000s.
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I met him again.
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And where did I met him at, man?
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It was 2000 and 2000.
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It was somewhere in uh Manhattan.
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Um I forgot, I forgot the name of the club, I ain't gonna lie.
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No, I remember.
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He was DJing at Lomelight.
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And I bumped him to a Lomelite, and he gave me love in Lomelight.
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Actually, he was he was um he was he was pushing another artist at that time.
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Lomelite, Lomelight.
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Actually, yeah, he was pushing India, his ex-wife.
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And um, and he gave me one of her promo vinyls of India.
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And uh that was the last time I saw him in 2000.
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That was 26 years ago.
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But guess what?
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26 years later, DJ Butterock is here on the CX1 DJs.
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We do things different podcasts, giving love and respect to the legendary little Louis Vega.
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He goes by Louis Vega now, so we're gonna we're gonna respect his gangster and call him that.
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So his he's he he came from a musical background, though.
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You know, most people that's in his industry comes from a background.
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They don't just get in the music industry.
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His father was a jazz, jazz band player, into the jazz uh production and stuff like that.
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Louis Vegan knew he wanted to be somebody when he was in the Bronx.
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He wanted a better life for him and his family.
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So, you know, he started, you know, he went and got vinyl and he got gifted a lot of stuff.
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Being Latino, you know, from the Bronx, you know, you gotta come, you gotta come with it.
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You from the Bronx, you gotta come with it.
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So he started, like I said, he was the Beverroom DJ according to his words, not mine, his words.
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I did my research.
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And shout out to my my PR, Julia Simmons.
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This right here, you know, I'm gonna give out to uh Amor Windham from Atlanta Records.
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He said, Butter up.
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Atlanta Records, like, yo, we yo, Louis did a lot of production for us, won a music group.
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And also, I'm gonna shout out to Louis Vegas for producing and remixing Punkinfoot Shake Your Body, that uh you know was put out by Atlanta Records and won a music group, but I appreciate that song, the remix uh Punkinfoot the Panty Girl, Shake Your Body.
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And we want to thank the beautiful queen Lonnie Clark for allowing us to use that.
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And uh and listen, Lonnie Clark and State, we love you, and we we're gonna continue to um support you, Lonnie, Lonnie Clark, the great late Lonnie Clark.
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And I I just got some this is some good stuff here.
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Um let me move that over here.
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Let me uh let me put this.
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Hold on, hold on one minute, y'all.
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So we're gonna give um I might put this over here.
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We're gonna give a good good shout out.
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And I'm gonna I'm gonna say um for the late Lonnie Clock.
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We love you, and we keep your memory alive and your music alive over here at CX1 DJs.
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So Louis Veger, pretty much I got a water.
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Hey, hold on, you can move that water.
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I'm talking about Pedro.
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I don't need that.
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So Louis Vager, like I said, bedroom DJ kind of stuff.
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He said it, I ain't say it.
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I don't like saying I don't like saying bedroom DJ.
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It's something about that I don't like.
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Because I think all DJs, it don't matter how you start it.
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Let me move my mic up.
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How you started, you alleging at your own right, and and and what you call yourself is what I'm gonna I'm gonna respect and say what he said.
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He called himself a bedroom DJ, but I how you start ain't how you end.
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I tell a person, you can start one way and end another.
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Multi multi-platinum records that he let this don't get off the fact because I don't leave nothing out.
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Because y'all know as I ain't reading it because most of the shit I know.
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I studied the information from the PR, I uh uh uh information I got from one of the music group.
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So Louis Baker DJ'd and produced for a lot of major labels.
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He did a lot for Atlantic Records, a lot for Universal, a lot for the uh underground um boutique labels, uh Man at Work, can't forget Man at Work, his production company.
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Um he did a lot of shit.
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And uh let me get into something.
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I'm gonna go open up my uh my my work, my my my uh paperwork here I got here, and uh I try not to read too much.
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So people like, okay, when he was at the sound factory bar, Butter Rock did how many times you went to the sound bar?
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I'm reading my notes with my email.
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A couple of my um fans.
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So when we was at the sound factory bar, I I went there when I performed with Kim Cummers, and then after that, I said, you know what?
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I don't just want to come because I'm performing, I want to see the experience of Louis Vegan.
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So I continue to go go and support the sound factory bar, I continue to go support the underground network.
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It wasn't just about them paying us because they paid us to come there.
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Kim Cummings, I was dancing with Kim Cummins.
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Um and uh when we wasn't on the road, I went to the Sound Factory Bar and I would give to Barbara Tucker and everybody at the Sound Factory.
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We they never charged me to get in.
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It was a long line.
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I was VIP since the 80s and the 90s.
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Barbara Tucker always let us in.
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Me and the other dancer, we used to go there to practice, and Louis Vegas was still warming up the hits, warming up the damn uh the dance floor.
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So let's get let's go a little before the sign for the bar.
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Louis Veger also DJ in the uh the 80s, the late 80s at Studio 54, which I know by Studio 54 in New York City.
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You have to be a New York City head or a club head or person that's international that like to travel to actually know about the scene.
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If you don't know about the scene, this is foreign words I'm saying to you.
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So he he DJ at Studio 54.
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That's one of he was a guest DJ.
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He also DJ at the Palladium.
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Louis Vega DJ at the Palladium.
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I never saw him at Latin Quarters, but I'm quite sure he went there.
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We talk about the 90s, and of course, from the 80s into the 90s, as he built his DJ career from Studio 54 and the Palladium.
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I saw him at Lomelig, I saw him at the tunnel, I saw Louis Vega at a bunch of places that that the PR didn't get give me.
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So I'm gonna plug him in.
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So the 90s, definitely the Sound Factory Bar was his home.
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That was a place that he got paid to do.
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As his name got bigger, he it in the production he um he started doing with men with men at work, uh, start remixing records, start doing a whole lot of remixes of a lot of people.
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I'd be here all night saying all the records that Louis Vega did.
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We don't have all night, we only got one hour.
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Louis Vega produced uh thousands of records.
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Like I said, I'm continuing to give him his flowers.
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Grammy Award winning producer.
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You you can't you get I'm trying to think how how how more better can you get to say this man is Grammy Award winning.
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Let's talk about the overseas stuff.
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When I went with Ken Cummins and we uh went to London, Louis Veger was already in London for like six months when we got there.
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He was actually doing a run with India, his ex-wife.
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I gotta throw that in there.
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And when we got there, we was playing at the um, I forgot the name of the venue.
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Uh I forgot the name of it.
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We talking 9097.
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We was playing at this, this, this, this, this, it was outside, it was an outside venue, and it started raining and shit.
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All right.
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Vega was at a whole nother club.
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So they canceled, they rescheduled the the event that we was at with Kim Cumbers.
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So we went over where Vega was at, and we had, they opened up the door for us like with flowers, man.
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Like it was, it was love.
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Like, we ain't even supposed to have been there.
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They didn't book us, but being our event was canceled to the next day.
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We went over there and in Vega.
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People let us come in and we was chilling.
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And you gotta understand something.
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I I personally didn't have a relationship with Louis Vegar.
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Kim Cummins' people had a relationship with Barbara Tucker.
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And at this time, Barbara Tucker was not with Louis Vega in London, it was Louis Veger and his team, and the the other promoters did not know who the fuck we was.
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Louis Veger gave us love because Barbara Tucker.
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So that should show you the respect Louis Vega had for Barbara Tucker.
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We met Vega through Barbara Tucker.
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So that should show you what kind of stand-up guy.
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We was in London, nowhere in the USA.
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He could have said, man, this ain't this don't got nothing to do with them.
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:38.720
This ain't a Kim Cummings booking.
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We was with Kim Cummins.
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This don't got nothing to do with Jamie Foxx and his people over there, but Louis Vega remember us, he remember us performing at the Sound Factory Bar in New York City.
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:57.279
Underground Network was not nothing to be fucked with back in the 90s.
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And one thing about Underground Network, if you support them, you support day night at the club, you support what they do, and they will support you.
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And at that time, Vega was actually just promoting getting his name and that night built at that club.
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Because even now in Atlanta, you do you do an event, the club owners want to know can you pack the motherfucker?
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:24.480
Can you pack it?
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It got, you know, we get you know, we had to get there early.
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I'm talking when we performed at a sock factor.
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Let's get back to New York.
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.559
When we performed as a sound recording bar, we got there early.
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:33.839
All right, was nobody in there.
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:38.240
Man, this place was big, but not big.
00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:43.359
Vega had to line around the corner, it was packed, and then you couldn't move in the fucking place.
00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:46.400
And I believe that was what day was that?
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:52.319
I think we performed on uh I know it was not the it was a Thursday, it was a crazy, it was it wasn't even a weekend.
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:56.480
It was a I do remember it was either Thursday or Wednesday we did that.
00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:59.680
Yeah, we talked about shit 30 years ago, y'all.
00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:01.359
We talked about 93.
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But that's when I met him, and I'm gonna stay on that.
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:07.759
So back to London.
00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:17.199
So we was uh we was in the UK, Louis Vegas showed us nothing but love, and um he was playing in multiple fucking clubs in London.
00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:21.920
When I say multiple bro, when I say everybody listen to me.
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:29.840
When I say multiple venues in London, we talk about '97, 1997.
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:43.760
Go for meeting him at the Sound Practice Bar in '93 to see this man performing in major big clubs in 1997.
00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:47.360
That shit is unbelievable.
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I said, yo, I don't know what the fuck.
00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:53.280
I want to be like that guy right there.
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:57.280
I said, when I get back into my DJ bag, and at that, I wasn't, I was dancing.
00:34:57.360 --> 00:34:58.960
I wasn't thinking about fucking DJing.
00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:01.039
At that time, I was dancing, y'all.
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:03.760
In the 90s, DJ Butter Rock was dancing.
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:11.199
I put my I started DJ in 1988, but I put the DJ shit up because that DJ shit for me wasn't paying the bills at that time.
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:18.159
Me dancing, doing that house music shit, that techno shit, that shit.
00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:20.559
I was, you know, I was trained by Tyson.
00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:22.000
Y'all know who Tyson is.
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:23.199
Go look up Tyson.
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He's a model, and he also danced with Janet Jackson.
00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:28.559
He the one that trained me how to dance.
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And I still, even though I gained some weight, I'm still bad.
00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:32.960
I'm still rolling from these feet.
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You play the right music, I'm dancing.
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:38.880
I'm a dancer.
00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:40.480
So I by heart.
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But I I went to school for that shit.
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And I know I know how to do it.
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You know, so um I made money with that.
00:35:48.159 --> 00:35:50.000
I met a lot of people dancing.
00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:55.199
I met a lot of people like Louis Vega, Barbara Tucker, um, Kim Cummings.
00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:57.760
I met a lot of people dancing.
00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:00.719
But we had a good run with Kim Cummings.
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:02.079
We went to a lot of places.
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:03.840
I I met a lot of people.
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:06.239
Um, and uh shot at Kim Cummins.
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:12.719
She she she she's she's last time I heard, she was in Wilmington, North Carolina, but she moved back to uh New York.
00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:15.280
So most respected Kim Cummins.
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:28.559
Uh, spoke to her a couple of years back, and um she told me a lot, she taught me a whole bunch of things about being in the music industry and uh meeting people like Louis Vega.
00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:32.239
I you know, I I gotta give and continue to give him props.
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:38.800
Now, this talks into some of these DJs that that text me, like who the they're like, who the hell are Louis Vega?
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:42.320
I like Louis Vega because you know we ain't put the DJ, he don't want the DJ by his name.
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:46.639
Like most of these legends, they want to drop the DJ because they mourning a DJ.
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:51.039
When you mourning the D, I I've been DJ Butter Rock my whole life.
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:54.159
Even when I was dancing, I was DJ Butter Rock, y'all.
00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:55.840
They're like, who's the dancer?
00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:56.800
DJ Butter Rock.
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:01.920
When they call me when Barbara Tucker asked me what my name, what was my name?
00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:04.079
I said DJ Butterock.
00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:07.679
I didn't never change the DJ out of my name.
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Even if I wasn't DJ and I'm still DJ Butter Rock.
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:18.960
So make a long story short, some of you DJs want to know who Louis Vegas been pitting in work a very long time.
00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:27.119
More than a lot of you niggas that that that that you know, I know some DJs that have been in a game longer than Vega.
00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:30.239
You might ask them, why are you not overseas?
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:33.840
You might ask these DJs, why you're not booked.
00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:40.000
It takes years of grind to get to the level of DJ Louis Vega.
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:42.719
It takes relationships.
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:48.719
You don't need relationships, you just need people that remember you from the 90s, like I remember him from the 90s.
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:53.599
You just have to have people that remember remembered that Louis Vega was a stand-up person.
00:37:53.840 --> 00:38:01.440
You just have to have people like me that remember that when he came out, he gave you every dime that you paid for.
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:10.480
When I saw Louis Vega, he wasn't just bullshitting talking, he wasn't just running around with an attitude.
00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:13.119
Let's talk about Louis Vega.
00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:19.039
You DJ's linked to hear what I'm about to say to y'all.
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:20.320
Okay.
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:23.199
Louis Vega.
00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:25.119
The night I met Louis Vega.
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The night I met Barbara Tucker.
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They was in the club from 4:30.
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Listen to me.
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:37.679
This is when I was performing there.
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:39.280
Because I had to go to rehearsal.
00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:42.320
They got to the club at 4 30 p.m.
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:44.960
For all you niggas that be getting tired.
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:46.719
I want you to pay attention to this.
00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:48.239
And this, I'm not taking a shot.
00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:52.639
I'm just letting y'all know this is how this music business fucking works.
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:59.280
So if you want to be in a music business, any kind of fucking business, listen to what the fuck I'm about to tell you.
00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:03.199
The day I performed at the South 30 bar, because I don't forget shit.
00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:08.159
I don't do drugs, I don't get high, I don't drink, I drink water and I eat food.
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:08.960
That's it.
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:11.039
So my memory is never hazy.
00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:12.960
Especially when I was getting paid.
00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:14.239
So we had to go rehearsal.
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:16.400
So we leave, we left the hotel.
00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:19.599
We were talking about 1993 when I was dancing for Kim Cummins.
00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:22.559
Y'all keep with me because I'm bounced, I'm back, I'm bound back and forth.
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:24.079
But we're gonna talk about Louis Vega.
00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:28.480
All you DJs, anybody trying to get his music in the street, this is what this is the shit you gotta have.
00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:33.760
They be booked around the country and other states and other continent on other continents.
00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:38.559
You gotta have this kind of hustle, this kind of work effort.
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:43.119
When I went to rehearsal, guess who was already at the club at the sound factory bar?
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:45.440
Louis Vega, Barbara Tucker.
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:47.760
It was like, I'm gonna give it, I'm gonna give it a take.
00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:49.599
It was like 3:30 p.m.
00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:52.880
in the afternoon on that day we performed.
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:54.719
We rehearsal, we left.
00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:01.760
Louis Vega and his team were still at the sound factory bar getting ready for the night.
00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:03.440
Y'all don't think they was tired.
00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:04.960
Y'all don't think they were sleepy.
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:10.480
They was there from 3 all the way up into 7 in the morning.
00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:14.239
The sound factory bar didn't close to 7 a.m., y'all.
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:18.800
The DJ did he was the house DJ.
00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:21.119
The house DJ can't fucking leave.
00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:23.039
You haven't been a house DJ, niggas?
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:24.960
You're some of you, I'm talking you DJs.
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:26.000
You haven't been a house DJ?
00:40:26.079 --> 00:40:28.800
I'm looking at I'm not even gonna take my fucking eyes off the camera.
00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:30.239
Well, have you been a fucking house DJ?
00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:31.440
Yeah, I've been a house DJ.
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:35.599
Okay, well, you gotta be there because you the house DJ.
00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:50.159
Even you got somebody open up for you, you still gotta be there and make sure he don't fuck up or his set don't fuck up, his equipment on anything can fuck up, and you are the house DJ, so it's your job to make sure everything goes right at the house.
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:53.119
True or not, house DJ niggas.
00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:56.960
Because I have I be I got a lot of hate when I was promoting Louis Vega.
00:40:57.280 --> 00:40:59.199
I'm like, what the fuck?
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:01.280
And it's all from DJs.
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:03.280
So let's get this straight.
00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:07.119
Don't hate on Louis Vega, hate on your grind ain't there.
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:08.079
Let's get back to it.
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:11.840
Because I'm gonna stay on with the point I'm trying to reach here.
00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:17.199
So we were there, we rehearsed it, we took our lazy ass back to the hotel, went to sleep.
00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:25.840
We came back to perform Louis Vega and Barbara Tucker and everybody that's with that production company for Underground Network was still there at the Sound Factory Bar.
00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:35.760
And after we performed, we were tired, we danced, we did what we needed to do on stage, they paid us, and we got in a limo and drew back to New Jersey from New York.
00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:38.719
Louis Vega still was there.
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:39.920
Of course, we ain't just leave.
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:42.559
We performed, we stayed about one o'clock in the morning.
00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:44.800
I said, I asked Barbara Tucker, I said, What time are your clothes?
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:45.440
She said 7 a.m.
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:47.360
We don't leave until all these children leave.
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:49.280
They that's what they call it children.
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:50.960
They call the children.
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:52.800
You had gay and streets.
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:55.280
We're not leaving child till all these children leave.
00:41:55.360 --> 00:41:56.880
That's what Barbara Tucker said to me.
00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:57.920
I'll never forget it.
00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:59.920
Because Barbara Tucker was back, she was pretty.
00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:01.840
She's older now, but she was real gorgeous back then.
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:03.280
Oh my god, she had the big old afro.
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:05.840
I love you, Barbara Tucker.
00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:11.360
And I think I was I was promoting too much on Barbara Tucker page, but I love you, Barbara Tucker.
00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:13.599
But um, I remember that.
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:16.800
And she said we close at seven, we close at 7 a.m.
00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:18.800
dollar and that's how Barbara talk.
00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:21.920
And like, well, shit, I ain't staying here no 7 a.m.
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:24.559
The limo came and got us, and we left.
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:39.920
But when I think about certain shit, you gotta be in the grind, you gotta be early, you gotta wanna stay late, you gotta lose sleep, you gotta lose time, you gotta lose anything you think you gotta lose when you're trying to make it in this industry.
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:50.159
And then when you sit back and seeing people on tour, or you seeing niggas flying to different countries, or you seeing Butter Rock here and there, like nigga, I don't go the fuck to sleep.
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:51.440
I might take an hour or two sleep.
00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:53.760
I'm back at this podcast shit.
00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:56.880
And I'm gonna be starting doing some DJ shit on the road, too.
00:42:56.960 --> 00:42:57.760
Why not?
00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:02.800
Louis Vega uh he aspired me to want to get back into the DJ shit.
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:05.119
And I figured I'd tell him that today while I'm giving flowers.
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:06.719
Louis Vega, camera one.
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:14.719
When I was dancing for Kim Cummers, when I first met you and Barbara Tucker, you aspired me to go back to DJing.
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:18.079
I I want to say that right now on this fucking camera, man.
00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:21.599
On this mic, on his untold stories of you, Louis Vega.
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:26.559
Because I was like, damn, because I'm a good ass DJ, but I'm like, yo, I DJ at the Zanzibar.
00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:29.360
I did Lom Light, I DJed at Lom Light.
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:30.639
I definitely did that.
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.960
Um I DJ'd a couple of places, man, but it was nothing.
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:38.639
Club Zanzibar was the best place I DJ'd at.
00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:44.320
That's that that was the one of the that when you DJed there, you had thousands of people jumping while you DJing.
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:52.559
But when I started dancing, that was the shit that actually made me, it made me closer to a lot of industry people.
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:54.639
I met a lot of people dancing.
00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:56.559
I'm not gonna, I'm not even gonna lie.
00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:59.599
I met a lot of people on that on that dance floor dancing.
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:01.760
met a lot of fucking people.
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:07.519
So um I'm quite sure a lot of people are gonna watch this later on.
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:09.920
And I want to leave I'm gonna leave people with this.
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:12.400
Hard work payoff.
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:17.920
Without hard work and being tired that that shit just at it like this.
00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:28.079
If you sleeping, if somebody else while you sleeping, there's somebody else making it making moves and there's somebody else out here doing some shit that you should be doing.
00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:36.559
It's always a race that's running that shit do y'all know let me move my mic I gotta do I like this I like this mic stand I like I like it I like it I like it.
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:37.920
Thanks to Bill Watson.
00:44:38.320 --> 00:45:23.760
He brung that he said hey butter I got something better so make all that noise he said um it's a race going on the race ain't gonna stop because you went to bed while you sleeping is somebody still running the race to get to the next level or get to that bag you sleeping is not going to stop that money from being made I'm I'm I want y'all to hear what I just said when you sleep it's always somebody still running that race the race don't stop because your ass went to sleep and when the person win the race and have all the accolades the awards the money the houses the cars the flight tickets the the the because everybody can have the same favor of the next person.
00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:24.960
Does that make sense?
00:45:25.519 --> 00:46:11.679
Why I don't got what butter wrap because nigga you ain't you you either you fell at the race you was late at the race or you wasn't at the race so you can't get nothing once the race is over and I say that any DJ any artist any rapper any anybody any want to be in the podcast lane it's hard in the beginning nobody want to get up and work nobody want to work overtime no one want to go to one job and go to another because this to me a lot of people that that that's in this got multiple jobs multiple incomes and I tell a person their second job might make you the money I was dancing bro I was DJing and dancing the dancing made me the money you never know what the fuck is gonna make you the money y'all and I was sleeping on the dancing shit.
00:46:12.000 --> 00:47:24.639
I met Louis Vega by dancing I didn't meet him by DJing I met him by dancing being a professional dancer for a professional house major artist Kim Cummers and I danced with a lot of other people I danced with uh um I danced with Kim Cummings I did some shit with uh with uh um who what's the name of the other rapper I dance with the other singer I dance with a lot of people shit I'll be here all day is all house music people and it ain't about me it's about Louis Vega but um like I said I saw Louis Vega working every time I see a flyer and we can't forget Louis Vega was also DJ and he was the on hot 97 every um saturday after flex because flex been on the radio forever after flex went on Louis Vega came on you had Louis Vega on hot 97 you had DJ Tony Humphrey on WBLS what y'all know about that shit well he was on no no double no the the Tony was on kiss that film excuse me I wanna fuck it up because I want nobody curse my ass out.
00:47:24.800 --> 00:53:17.119
Tony Humphrey was on kiss that film but um it was a beautiful fucking time I want to let everybody know this before we get into the video portion of this interview DJ Louis Vega Louis Louis Vega Louis Vega is somebody you might want to be a part be like if you never heard of him he's the master in house music he's a multi Grammy award winning producer he is a networker came from the grime nobody gave this man shit the millions of dollars the mansions the band he got the multiple he hire a bunch of bands he employed a bunch of black people is no racist bone in Louis Vega body most of his band players is black I know personally one of his band players is the brother of my my manager that passed away um um JS His brother plays for Louis Vega you know as I plug that in at the end my manager JS Jeffrey Snell his brother plays for Louis Vega and he lives in New Jersey it's not about him it's about Louis Vega but I'm gonna let you know because people thought he was he didn't really give black people a shot I had another DJ hit me up Louis Vega shitted on me he I said when we do the untold stories of Louis Vega we giving him flowers I'm not gonna bring up nothing he did everybody don't have a good relationship with everybody everybody gonna have a different relationship like uh people might say I did bad did things bad to them and I might have did I might have said fuck a nigga but that don't mean that relationship is with everybody everybody want to be the man in this shit if everybody the fucking boss who's the worker you ever ask anybody ever turn around and ask they something that if you a boss you a boss who the fuck is the worker if everybody's over everybody who the fuck is the worker and uh I ask people that if everybody the boss I I don't have no problem with everybody being a boss I don't think Louis Vega have a problem with anybody but but if you were the boss you gotta do boss shit you can't be the boss and act like a fucking worker that shit on that where the where the fuck did that shit make sense at so everybody have a problem with you know saying what Louis Vega did to them I don't give a fuck Louis Vega showed me love um if I wanted to be a DJ under Louis Vega at that time I'm quite sure he would have gave me the ropes I was a dancer I'm doing you know I'm doing my DJ shit now and my podcast shit now and I you know to me in 2026 it's about stick it move you know what a stick it move mean you do this move on to the next thing you don't be on the road i my job ain't to be on the road forever and Vega tell you Louis Vega tell you he don't gotta he don't gotta be on out of the country all he likes to do what he do um you know if somebody says all right man we got a hundred grand for you who the fuck is gonna say all right I retired I've been DJing since the 80s I don't want to take at 60 years old I don't want I don't want your hundred grand you'll be a fucking fool Louis Vega is 60 years old and uh he's continuing to take the the the pay that he's worth he's continuing to go on tour he's continued to do what he does best he's been DJing since 1985 and it's 2026 and the pay is going up it's not going down who the fuck will retire at 60 years old when the pay is going up you'll be a damn fool I'm here to tell you and I and I'm gonna I'm gonna give him flowers again because Louis Vega didn't have to do we're not asking no one to repost nothing this is these is flowers it's no a favor for favor we we appreciate those that do acknowledge that we we are doing for them and like I said it's a surprise it's more like hey we know that we are doing it's not a surprise so every untold stories we work with the management we work with the record labels major record labels we work with the marketing companies or the publicists and I tell everybody we don't need the artists we have tagged the artists in it when we bought the the day before the show like we always do to let them know what we are doing and we are not I'm never gonna cancel untold stories even if somebody says I don't want to do it then I'm gonna ask them why don't you want me to do an untold untold story on you what do you got to hide if you I always put the notes underneath we are giving you homic we paying homits we are giving you props I don't want to say you know you know we we're giving you flowers because drink drink champs say that but I agree we are giving everybody we brung uh bring on here or do a story on or do a one hour special it's only one hour that we are giving you your flowers a lot of people that's young don't know who Louis Vega is but Louis Vega is an icon in the music industry not only house music but he is an icon and I want to give him flowers DJ Louis Vega Louis Louis Vega we appreciate you my brother and um I'm quite sure you know your team gonna hit my team up behind the scenes and we will get some of the other stuff going on for all you featured DJs that want to be a Louis Vega let me let me give you some notes be humble be on time and be there when no one else is there.
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And also understand this nobody owe you shit but God.
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Let's get into this video part a part a part of this Louis Vega let's go somebody take me somebody until stories next week I'm using let's go do it did y'all see the equipment he was using that's the same shit I got goddamn pioneers baby hey I might need to uh hang up them damn turntables ain't nobody traveling the world with no goddamn turntables Louis Vegan man Louis Vegan I love I love I love I love him yeah them turntables get kind of heavy when you're going overseas I thank you everybody for from joining joining us tonight CX1 DJs we do things different podcasts um shout out to all my members shout out to uh DJ Money president cx1 DJs vice president t cap everybody that that that tuned in and everybody that's watching on we got 8000 people watching on road call shout out to Bill Watson uh Julia Simmons Punker put the panty girl uh my whole team don't for don't forget tomorrow hey listen to me tomorrow on industry sunday that's gonna be April 13th we got the untold stories on biggie smalls b I G Biggie smalls is the illest tomorrow 8 p.m 8 p.m okay east coast time right here on the CX1 DJs we do things different podcasts at CX1 DJs we do different we do things different podcasts if you watch this podcast later on please like share and subscribe and I love everybody God bless and good night peace