Great dj craze interview
i found this pretty interesting and thought I’d share
man! i really really love this dude! had a chance to have a short chat with him, when i was in miami. he da coolest!
thats dope man! i met em when he was in saskatoon, hes a really down to earth guy and played an incredible set
Love that dude. Would like to hear more of his philosophy on being a dj and what he really thinks of the ISP’s.
Really dug that.
Really awesome vid. Funny that he says that “Dj’ing isn’t as popular as before”. It would actually look as if every kid do wants to be a Dj now as I see it…
I think he was referring to the style of dj’ing.
djing as in turntablism I think is more along the line.
very nice!
thats what i got out of it too. i really liked his point about musicality and technicality. its something that ive been thinking about a lot over the last year and i think he really hit the nail on the head
To much scratching
I think there are less hip hop dj’s cuz its probly the most expensive way to get into it now, 1st off you need tsp or serato then 2 turntables that 400 quid then a decent mixer then 80 quid on needles each month. your looking at around 1700 to get started. or just buy somthing like an s2 and ur a dance dj.
I know its not that simple but the entry point for being a dance dj is lower, plus sorry guys but the skill entry point is lower as well. know a bit about how music is structured hit sync(or learn to beat match ur done. hip hop djing, its beatmatch, cut a few scratches each take longer to learn proply than beat matching.
this is why you dont see celebs doing hip hop sets its allways dance. I am not slating dance dj’s there is still alot of time and effot that goes into it
^^I dont buy it, I think there is less hip hop dj’s/turntablists because crap like rhianna and the black eyed peas passes for hip hop these days. The rugged spirit has gone and just replaced with a bunch of rich celebrity wannabes. If there was still good tunes being made there would still be good hiphop dj’s, turntables are not the problem as you can easily get a set of Super OEM’s “which are better for scratching than tech’s imo” for a couple of hundred, you can get a used vestax or rane for a couple hundred, soundcard if your going to use software and your pretty well done to get you started. your setup can ofcoarse grow and become more refined over time but thats all you need to scratch, well accept for awesome inspiring tunes but that is dominated by dance music.
im not slagging dance music off, far from it. There is still good hip hop about ugly duckling to name one massive example. your point doesn’t stand up as all the artists u mention also make dance music that dominates the chart. with both the genres you still have to search for the good stuff, you do have big name acts that are also good in both genres tho. I think wat craze is saying is people produce which pushes them down the dance route. also people make music in a different way now. before you might have 5 or 6 hardware synths if your lucky now uv got hundreads.
the other thing that has changed is the law, if a band tried to put out pauls botique today it just couldnt happen and that is sad. which has lead to things like the black eyed peas just sampling a single song in there record
that’s half my point… rnb doesn’t even make rnb they make commercial, but if you look at the grammy’s or whatever BEP will still win “best rnb artist” or and chingy or ludacris will win “best hip hop”…
I don’t particularly love the rap/hip hop scene anyway but I respect the quality stuff, but the youth in hiphop has gone and that’s where the innovation comes from. Now it’s reasonably old dudes representing what hip hop was not living it now because it doesen’t exist like that any more, it was fed massive amounts money, started inbreeding and mutated into the crap you hear today. there was a few that escaped the money machine like krs-one, hieroglyphics, mop (maybe not but I still love their older stuff), immortal technique, dialated peoples etc… but as said they are all pushing 40 and while they may still be able to smoke weed all day rapping about the same stuff they did 15 years ago, most of their former fans don’t have that luxury and stop listening.
The torch was never passed onto a new generation as you needed to know people in the industry to get a deal, kids discovered you can now make dance music in your bedroom and release it on the internet and create your own path so hip hop died, we all shed a tear but realized it was time to let it go and turned up the bass!
Craze is one of my favs! Awesome vid too. Im using a set of techs he used at a Yelawolf/Krit show back when he was touring with Yela, I’ll never let 'em go 
Dang that Dr. Dre/Snoop juggle at the end was so sickkkkkk! Great post!
+1
+1 sad but very true
the same is true for dance music, lol went to a so called house night and it was all pretty much chart stuff. I used to love abit of house, never really got into it but enjoyed listening to it. dubstep is getting commericailised. as i said before alot of hip hop records of the past just could not be released today due to the legal mess. So I think it has effected the quality of music in all genres all im saying is hip hop djing is generally harder, music that is strick 4x4 with nice long intros is so much easier to mix