Dev Likes Her Beats Fast and Her Bass Down Low

If you want to get with me there's some things you gotta know.

And we've got baby goons, hot, marijuana and guns.

Interesting crew.

Amazing people.

I like my beats fast and my bass.

I'm Oliver here at Young Hollywood Studio with the young and talented Dev. How are you?

I'm good, how are you?

Good, thanks for coming in.

Thank you for having me.

For anyone that doesn't know Dev, Dev sang that song that stuck in my head and couldn't get it out. Um like a G6. How was that? Suddenly a song coming out and it's everywhere. Number one.

It was amazing. The Cataracs and I had been working together for a long time since 2008. Um but no, I actually put up a random a couple random songs I recorded into my MacBook on GarageBand. Um and put it up on my space and the Cataracs found it and we haven't stopped working since.

I love that. I'm kind of confused by some of the lyrics. I'm not that hit.

No, it's okay. Looking at me you probably thought I was. And would assume that I was really hit, but it's all just hard work.

Okay. Um sipping sizzurp. What's that?

It's a reference to cough cough syrup.

When you're not sick, even if you haven't got a cough, you'd sip cough syrup.

Okay.

Okay, that's strange. Um, so that's the other one the drank the purple drank. That's probably a cough syrup endorsement deal for me somewhere. I was thinking. I was thinking I was gonna have, you know, truckloads of cough syrup delivered to my house.

Yeah, NyQuil.

Boom. NyQuil, if anyone's watching in the promotions team, Dev, look it up. I mean, come on. You're only 21, right?

21? Yeah, I'm about to be 22 on the 2nd of December.

What are your birthday plans?

I have a show.

I like that little shimmy.

You like that?

It doesn't somehow look as good when I do it. It looks like I've got Tourette's or something. I was like How. Okay. We just done with a British band JLS. Yes. On their track. They're mental. They give me a complex because they don't stop doing sit ups.

I know, isn't it crazy?

Does my head in. We did we shot a video together and they were doing dance moves in tank tops and backflips.

Oh, I can do all that too.

You can? Okay.

I just choose not to.

Yeah, of course. Why do I want to do backflips and stuff and, you know, work out? Exactly. Um, you've got to work with some amazing people already.

Uh-huh.

I've got a little thing for you. Um, you have to tell me the first thing that comes to mind when I say their name.

Oh god.

And you can be honest. Okay. Travis Barker.

Marijuana.

I love your honesty. Timbaland.

Marijuana.

I knew that was going there. Ah, it's so bad.

And No, it's only us. And beatboxing. He beatboxed a lot.

Okay.

With his mouth. Isn't that cool? Like I get to beatbox.

Can you beatbox?

No, not at all. I wish I could.

Can you?

I can.

Get out. You can?

Yeah.

Can you do it?

I don't think it counts as beatboxing.

That's beatboxing. Okay. Well, then maybe I can do it. Go on, then try it.

No.

David Guetta.

Um camera phone.

Okay.

He like bombarded me in the booth and just started recording.

Mm-hm.

I've never had anybody do that to me, not even like my friends.

Yeah, that's very invasive. So it was cool. It was cool. I find that invasive. Especially when I'm in the shower and people just charge in with a camera phone. It's just weird. The fact that I don't know them is even stranger. Um, 50 Cent.

Guns. I think I did I did a lot of singing about guns and body bags on the song we did together.

Usher, who you've recently toured with.

Hot.

Really?

Yeah, he's so pretty.

I I can't really comment on that. He's a little hot. New Boys.

Uh, they're my baby goons. They have a lot of swag. Those two.

Okay. So we've got baby goons, hot, marijuana and guns. Interesting crew.

I work with amazing people.

Who haven't you worked with that you'd like to work with?

Probably Nicki Minaj. I think she's really cool. I've actually I kind of stalked her um website yesterday.

I'm glad you said website at the end. stalked her website. Yeah. The new album? It's called The Night the Sun Came Up. And it's a bit different as well, isn't it? It's not just got like upbeat songs and stuff.

Yeah, I know. There's a lot. This was my chance to finally sit down. And the Cataracs as well. And put out an album, so there's a lot of good stuff on there. Some slow ones. Some ballady stuff. See a different side of this. My heart a little bit. You can see my heart.

We'll wrap this up before I get a little bit too close.