DJ Khaled Gets Ready to Host the KCAs & Drops Date For New Album

Young Hollywood, what is happening? We are with the Father of Shot himself, DJ Khalid. First, I got to congratulate you. You've been living, dreaming so large. You're hosting the iconic Yes. Legendary It's incredible. Kids' Choice Awards? What's this moment like?

Man. It's it's it's a great moment for being a father and it's also a great moment because I'm really a fan of Nickelodeon. You know, and I know my son is and I know all the kids around the world is like you said the iconic award show. So, for me to be um picked to be the host it's like, when I got the call I'm like, absolutely. I'm ready to go.

Did you ever think like, was this like ever in your thought process this would happen?

Yeah, I thought I definitely thought I would be on the stage at Nickelodeon. As a kid I knew I wanted to be great. And Nickelodeon's great. Oh, yeah. So, it's not just anything that's great I knew I was going to be a part of.

I know a shot, he's always busy. He's going to be back home working on the album or is he going to be making an appearance?

You never know. You never know. With a shot, you know, he might pop up. All right. You know, we are finishing the album so he might stay in the studio. And he, you know, he got school too. So, he got a busy schedule and he got swim lessons. And you know what I'm saying, he being a shot but I know he's a hustler though. I know he's like your dad, I know he's like the dad. I mean we'll see, I'm going to talk to him. I'm going to talk to him. We'll see, we'll see.

I know you're going to be dressed to the nines.

Oh, yeah, you know I got to do it big at all times. You know what I'm saying? I'm the Chuckman 23 Team. You know, I love my Jordan, especially these right here. This is like your favorite right here. My favorite because they're just clean, they're the threes, they're iconic. All of them are.

My main question is, are you ready to slime and get slime?

The key is to always be ready and stay ready. Okay. So, absolutely, you know what I'm saying? I'm ready to get slime and I'm ready to slime people too. You know, and just any advice out there. Get slmed at, yeah stay ready. To get slimed at Nickelodeon is That's that's legend, that's iconic. That's like legendary. Legendary. You know what I'm saying? So, if you don't want to get slimed at a Kids' Choice Awards and like

You're in the wrong place.

Yeah, you're not you're not focused. You know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Now, someone attending or someone that you would just love in your group, who would you love to slime?

You know what I'd like to do? And I want to talk to the producers at Nickelodeon. I would like to hit a switch and slime the whole building.

Ooh.

Just finish it up one time. And the show. Yeah, let's do it. You know what, we need to do that. Imagine ending the show, boom, just one time, one big slime.

We can't go away without doing some album talk.

Yeah. Just the name alone, I know how much this project means to you. My 11th album and it's my biggest album. I'm not to saying that to be honest with you. Every time I make an album, that's what I I feel. It's my biggest one. But this one is like not only my biggest one it's super personal, meaning as in it's a legacy talk. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? It's like

You put your son's name on it.

Yeah, my son's name is on it and it's like every artist I worked with, I explained how serious it is. So, you know I'm great at bringing the greatness out of great and I'm also great at making greatness. That's what I do. So, just imagine all that energy I'm talking about now in the studio. It's like, it's like I'm pinching myself because it's so unbelievable. But it's you better believe because it's happening. And I got so many surprises like because you know, fan love worldwide they give me an inspiration that's just no words can describe. I want my fans to know that this is a album title of we can do anything we want to do. Yeah. As long as we have a clean heart, clean face, good soul, clean soul, positive mind state and weather storms, overcome them and you know, don't look down, look up. Keep your head up. Just stay focused. You know what I mean? Cuz I'm I put my whole life into this album, you know what I mean? And I'm proud. This the album, this album right here the bar going to be set so high after my album come out. The bar is going to be like this high. It's it it it's high.

There it is. And you've you've set so many bars before. So, we already know We know that bar's going to be high. I ain't going to lie. You're very intelligent. Yeah, big news though. You also have big news.

Oh, we got a we got a date. All right. Don't be late. Don't be late. Um it's going to be May 17th. 17th. May 17th right around the corner. Father of Asad May 17th. Now and when I say the Father of Asad, you know, not only the father and love relationship and the family relationship of the title Father of Asad, you know the journey that I've been through and the obstacles and the struggles and the blessings all in one of me climbing this holy mountain to be the father of The Father of Asad. Is a new bar going to be set. It's called the highest one ever. Let's go. Let's go and that's it. We out.