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Toure Show

DJ Drama–I Am the Culture

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

DJ Drama is a legendary mixtape DJ who’s become a music industry powerhouse. He’s running the label behind Lil Uzi Vert and Jack Harlow as well as still producing Gangster Grillz albums like his new one for Jim Jones. We talk about getting arrested for making music, how he turned Lil Uzi Vert and Jack Harlow into megastars and how he turned himself into a power player. Toure Show Episode 312 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, ready.

0:01.0

You think what you know, things she's something.

0:18.4

I think about everyone you need

0:21.4

all in these things are brutal,

0:23.8

now I'm out here, seeing you wanting you, hey.

0:29.3

Good sort of race show, okay, though. Good sort of race show, okay though. The tour ratio, okay though.

0:35.0

That might be the best question I've ever been on. You got two of the biggest names in the game who you plucked and grew into massive stars in

0:58.0

little Uzzievert and Jack Harlan. What did you see and hear in Uzi

1:05.4

that made you say, I need to sign?

1:08.1

Because that's your first big signing, right?

1:10.2

When it came to Uzi, a lot of what I saw in him was that him being from Philly and me knowing what the history of like Philly rap was and is and how different he was in a sense.

1:26.6

When I first had to explain the verd or people were like, what are you working on?

1:30.7

And I was like, hey, we just sign this kid Uzi and people were like oh okay at the time the only way I could explain it was he is to Philly what I would see like a the A SAP movement was to New York New York in a lot of senses in a way of like there's this

1:46.4

there's this new culture coming from kids who they're not spitting the way that

1:52.1

respectfully me or Siegel was spitting in the

1:55.6

sense like he's coming you know left field with it and you know he has rains

2:00.3

when it comes to you know melodies and songs and so that was that was a big thing we saw

2:05.6

in him early and you know just a lot of it was just in his confidence and and where he where he saw himself going you know

2:15.3

DJ drama is one of the most important names in hip-hop culture over the last several decades

2:21.0

he went from making the gangsteragrills Mix Tapes to Running Generation Now records,

2:26.5

which has Little Uzzie Verte and Jack Harlow. He's got an incredible story about getting arrested by the feds for making mixed tapes.

2:37.0

We're going to talk about that.

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