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ever played for a hip hop crowd? I'm scared...

lol...so ya I was invited to play afterhours at this big warehouse party. During regular hours its going to be all hip hop and rap. I'll be starting off the afterhours and I'm guessing I will have to keep it real housey. Prolly real dirty bangin electro house sounding.

Anybody with any experience playing for a crowd like this?

Playn fidy cent or dey is gonna pop a cap 'n yo' ass.
Remixes of rnb n hiphop + whatever scratching, looping, juggling, etc you can do.

Re: ever played for a hip hop crowd? I'm scared...

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Originally posted by xstalkrx I'm guessing I will have to keep it real housey. Prolly real dirty bangin electro house sounding.

i have frinds who listen to hip hop and they love that stuff.
you should be fine playing that

just start out playing for you, if the crowd digs your vibe then you wont have to sell the music to them...make sense?

The hip hop crowds in the US can be real demanding at times but if it's afterhours their guards will usually be down.

thats waht pisses me off.. here, all the clubs( 2 of em )are hiphop,reggaeton, and other shit music

they sa house as one of the details but i dont even think their djs know what house is .. cuz they have a dj playing hiphop and house.. like wtf


but yea, start off housey and work on in

There is nothing more depressing then when you are playing some house and some idiot comes up and asks you to start playing house.

I play for both, the hip hop scene, and obviously the EDM scene. Honestly, it all depends on what type of hip hop crowd it is. If it's a latin crowd, forget it. You'll be lucky if you get away by playing radio cheese before someone comes up to you and asks "EXCUSE ME, CAN YOU PLAY SOME HIP HOP?"

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Originally posted by T-Soma Playn fidy cent or dey is gonna pop a cap 'n yo' ass. Remixes of rnb n hiphop + whatever scratching, looping, juggling, etc you can do.

i have no idea on how to learn scratching. and whats juggling? Point me to any sources that can teach scratching?

The last time i ended up playing for a "hip hop" crowd my mixer was almost intentionally destroyed by a giant lummox who continuously demanded some "Fiddy," and upon being informed that house music was the soup du jour, he proceeded not only to deck 3 people I was with (sending one to the hospital with a broken nose), but also shoved two girls to the floor, and quite litereally "destroyed" the party.

there is a hiphop crowd @ afterhours? maybe im used to atlanta, which is big in hiphop


but the hip hop kids go to sleep after 3am.... and non of them last till 8 or 9am

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Originally posted by DJ RJT The last time i ended up playing for a "hip hop" crowd my mixer was almost intentionally destroyed by a giant lummox who continuously demanded some "Fiddy," and upon being informed that house music was the soup du jour, he proceeded not only to deck 3 people I was with (sending one to the hospital with a broken nose), but also shoved two girls to the floor, and quite litereally "destroyed" the party.

sounds like this guy i know who we called "The Curgan"...yea as in the Curgan from the movie highlander, the kid has his throat slit from ear to ear, lived only cause the stupid chick who cut him didnt cut deep enough...6'6" and like 300 lbs...freaked out in a college dorm and the cops came to arrest him but they ended up havin to have almost every campus cop and like 10-15 state troopers come to take him out...it was hilarious and scary all at the same time..

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Originally posted by DJ RJT The last time i ended up playing for a "hip hop" crowd my mixer was almost intentionally destroyed by a giant lummox who continuously demanded some "Fiddy," and upon being informed that house music was the soup du jour, he proceeded not only to deck 3 people I was with (sending one to the hospital with a broken nose), but also shoved two girls to the floor, and quite litereally "destroyed" the party.

lol wtf

play baltimore club music... the shit is da bomb!!!! the dj's after you will not be able to touch you if you play dat shit yo!!! its just like spinnin house/trance, only its high energy hip-hop

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Originally posted by T-Soma There is nothing more depressing then when you are playing some house and some idiot comes up and asks you to start playing house.

lmao, that made me piss myself.

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Originally posted by T-Soma There is nothing more depressing then when you are playing some house and some idiot comes up and asks you to start playing house.

I find it more annoying when playing a house/trance set and having people ask for hippy hop.

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Originally posted by discobiscuit play baltimore club music... the shit is da bomb!!!! the dj's after you will not be able to touch you if you play dat shit yo!!! its just like spinnin house/trance, only its high energy hip-hop

Baltimore club is fucking awesome.

Another anoyying thing that just happend last night.
Annoying Slutty Treo of Girls: "Can you play something with words"
Me: "Uh..."
Trance Track: "*Vocals*"
Annoying Slutty Treo of Girls: "One with real words"
Trance Track: "*Verse then corus*
Annoying Slutty Treo of Girls: "Can you just play rnb?"
Me: *sigh*

In a sense they where right... rnb is more so just words then signing is it not?

I didnt care all that much since everyone else was enjoying it. There is always those three annoying girls who want to hear some crappy track so they can rub up against some guy who knows how easy they are.

baltimore club would have shut those bitches up lol!

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Originally posted by T-Soma Another anoyying thing that just happend last night. Annoying Slutty Treo of Girls: "Can you play something with words" Me: "Uh..." Trance Track: "*Vocals*" Annoying Slutty Treo of Girls: "One with real words" Trance Track: "*Verse then corus* Annoying Slutty Treo of Girls: "Can you just play rnb?" Me: *sigh* In a sense they where right... rnb is more so just words then signing is it not? I didnt care all that much since everyone else was enjoying it. There is always those three annoying girls who want to hear some crappy track so they can rub up against some guy who knows how easy they are.

Big ass bump to this.

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Originally posted by DJ RJT The last time i ended up playing for a "hip hop" crowd my mixer was almost intentionally destroyed by a giant lummox who continuously demanded some "Fiddy," and upon being informed that house music was the soup du jour, he proceeded not only to deck 3 people I was with (sending one to the hospital with a broken nose), but also shoved two girls to the floor, and quite litereally "destroyed" the party.

heh, the EDM scene has a history of being beaten up by other genre's. Physically.... i guess we're not the type to start fights and beefs and try to be tough like guys into hard rock and hip-hop...

I played for an RnB crows. I started with vinyl, and acapellad D12 stuff with some trance to start off with. then just played vocal after vocal, and made sure I mixed in tracks as quickly as possible (even if it was a roughish mix), to minimise how long it takes before the next vocal comes up...

The crowd didn't seem to mind it. It was a very small crowd anyway. I still played a bit of RnB. Though they were into RnB, they didn't seem to react to badly to trance. I did get asked to play rnb by some girl though.

Best is to play both use looping if u have to, to mix from one genre to antoher. Use a tapping beat counter if you have to, and u'll master mixing into and out of rnb from 4x4 EDM no problems.

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Originally posted by T-Soma There is nothing more depressing then when you are playing some house and some idiot comes up and asks you to start playing house.

LMAO!!!

I think i just found a new quote

I still say baltimore club is your best bet if you're a house/trance dj playing for a hip/hop rap crowd...

DON'T DO IT !!
NEVER PLAY FOR A HIP HOP CROWD !

TRUST ME !

hip hop crowd have absolutly no interest in edm music
you will end up playing for 10min and then hip hop will be back on

Believe me, you're getting yourself into a lot of trouble if you start messing with the hip-hop crowd. I was a resident at a local Hip-Hop club for about 6 months, and I wasn't allowed to play anything that had even a remotely 4/4 beat to it.

The best bet I had was to play 4/4 remixes of Hip-Hop/Top 40 songs. Otherwise I would be harassed by people until I put the Promo Only CD back on. Believe me, that was NOT fun...

Your best bet is to go with remixes of the major Pop hits, but even then you won't be able to play more than two of them in a row. You can find some good Top 40 remixes on the Ultimix/Funkymix CDs (a remix service series)...

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Originally posted by T-Soma Another anoyying thing that just happend last night.

I've had some shit like that happen to me as well:

Drunk Chick: Hey DJ, can you play something I can dance to?
*House music is playing*
Me: This is 'Dance' music. Other people are dancing to it.
*There WERE people dancing*
Drunk Chick: No I mean music that I can dance to!

Here's the problem with the local Top 40 clubs: You can't please everybody, no matter what. You play 50 Cent, they ask for Yung Joc. You play Yung Joc, they ask for 50 Cent. Play too much 50 Cent, and they ask for House or Trance (usually it's "can you play that Crazy Frog song? I LOVE Techno!!!"). You play the cheesy Dance song, they ask for Hip Hop again. You can NEVER WIN in a Top 40 club.

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