Ever heard of a little old website called White Folks Get Crunk? The website that has taken the DJ community by storm and averages about 30k hits a day was started by my next featured DJ, Real Juicy. It’s a website and forum for DJs to share mixes and chat.  He is part of the up and coming F.A.M. crew headed by my boy and fellow DJ, Marcus Sims out of L.A. Lots of up and coming up cats are added to this label as of late, and it is really starting to make waves in the scene. I have not had the pleasure of meeting Juicy J. yet but from what I have heard, read and listened to, I am the one missing out. This DJ and his site are going places. Stay tuned fam!

Meet Real Juicy.

Hometown: Peoria, IL

Residencies: #NoGaga Thursdays at Cam’s (Peoria), Locker Room Boom (Peoria), Sushi Saturday (Peoria), White Folks Get Crunk Fridays (East Atlanta)

Style of DJ/ genres: White Folks Get Crunk

According to J’s website and the culture in general, White Folks Get Crunk means “Its really sort of just a play on words. Crunk derived from dirty south rap for cranking it up long ago. Then one day Lil Jon brings us a whole bunch of tunes in the same style that make it to top 40 radio and the crunk genre is born. We could argue now about the state of the actual genre of crunk music but it no longer has the presence it once did on pop radio. Remember when you heard Usher’s ‘Yeah’ every single day? In its passing Lil Jon has moved on somewhat and if you notice his last few big records, even sense the inception of this site, have been heavily dance/electro influenced. Check out Pitbull’s ‘The Anthem’ (Samples Calabria which has wound up in even Wal-Mart commercials) and ‘Go Crazy’ both featuring Lil Jon and are pretty much loops of classic tracks. My bet is these trace back to Lil Jon or Pitbull’s notice of the whole mashup culture which are also a large portion of this site. Go Crazy samples the same record, ‘Cream’, following the uber-popular mashup with Soulja Boy’s ‘Crank Dat’ by Dave Nada. The list goes on and on with these songs being made both mashup style and now released commercially. Also you will find a slew of Lil Jon voice samples in probably about 40% of B’more remixed tracks these days. It is almost as signature as the drum samples used. So in conclusion 1) We are not racist 2) I have never ever had a person with any skin color other than white think it was inappropriate (every black person’s reaction I have received actually was quite good!) and 3) White people get crunk to a different kind of music.

How did you get started as a DJ? Saved enough money from stupid jobs when I was 16 to buy decks. I guess before that I was making tapes by using two cassette players lol. That goes back to when I was in like 3rd or 4th grade. Read More→