DJ Vice

All right, thank you very much for tuning into Young Hollywood. One love, baby. Throw your pinkies up. It's it's not obscene, it's absurd. Welcome to Young Hollywood. Hi, I'm Jill Wildman with Young Hollywood. We're about to hang out with one of Hollywood's most infamous DJs, DJ Vice. We're going to take you inside to see what he does to prepare for a gig and then we're going to take you inside the club to see the method behind his madness. So, let's go inside. You've made such a a career out of being a DJ. How did this all come about?

Uh, so I've been doing this for a while now. I started when I was 13. I was in eighth grade. A very good friend of mine, who's still a friend of mine today, uh, he was a DJ. So I would go family friend and he'd be, you know, on turn tables and I'd be checking him out like, whoa, this is crazy.

Now, you mentioned turn tables, so much has changed. We're now doing more computer.

It's we're still on turn tables. We use uh two turn tables and a mixer, same way same way I started, except now instead of flipping through records and switching records every song, we run our laptops and our laptops have uh programs called Serato Scratch Live. And it's what it is, it's it's a it's basically like it holds all your iTunes, your music collection in there and it lets you control your MP3s and you control them by your turn tables. So you're actually still scratching back and forth and cutting back and forth with the fader, but you're just reaching over on your laptop and looking through your laptop as a crate. Kind of looking like a nerd like scrolling through like I'm checking emails, but I'm really I'm like digging through my collection or my library and finding out what the next hot track is to throw in and get the crowd crazy. See, I'm giving away all my secrets here. You're actually in my house. You heard it first. Looking at my goods.

So we have a pretty big gig that we're going to tonight. What does it take to get prepared for something like this?

Tonight, well first of all, I just flew in like two hours ago from Vegas, so my schedule's always like this. I'm bouncing around. Um tonight I come in, I'm back home in LA. I have I haven't played in LA on a Saturday night in like two years, so it's kind of good to be back home. I'm playing at the Highlands tonight. I'm doing their five-year anniversary. They're revamping the whole night around uh bringing me out to kind of welcome everyone back to the club and I guess welcome me back to LA on a Saturday. Young Hollywood, it's DJ Vice, live in my studio. About to grab the laptop, head to the Highlands and show you what I do and I hopefully uh will rock this crowd tonight. You guys can check it out. Young Hollywood, let's go.

Are you ready to go inside?

Yeah, we're at the Highlands five-year anniversary. I'm ready to tear it up. We're over a thousand people inside. It's gonna be crazy. Yes, the fashion show's going on. Right when this is done, I jump on and I rock all the way to 3:00 in the morning. So, I'm excited. It's it's already a good vibe in here, a lot of energy. I'm ready to go.

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DJ Vice live on stage at the Highlands. We're ready to go.

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