DJ Drama Breaks Down His Amazing Mixtape Run, His Grammy with Tyler, the Creator, and the Wild Tale of His Rico Arrest

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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This live episode from the ON-AIR Fest in Brooklyn, NY, contains what is quite simply one of the best stories in the history of this show – DJ Drama telling the wild tale of his RICO arrest for making mixtapes. But that’s not all the episode has to offer! Drama also gives deep insight into his many massive collabs, his upcoming album, and his creative relationship with Tyler, the Creator. If you want to understand how mixtapes have shaped hip-hop... this is the one for you.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented
0:08.0	co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our
0:12.8	episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,
0:18.5	subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts. Now, a college kid doing mixed tapes for the
0:26.0	culture, you end up getting rated by the feds, the feds in conjunction with the RIA, you would
0:34.9	charge, or Rico charges, raccotterian charges. They pulled out M16s on you. They treated you like
0:40.8	a big drug kingpin. And I want to point out that these two and him and Don Ken and got rated
0:47.3	at the same time when Target and Best Buy were selling gangster grills mixed tapes.
0:51.9	Was it no Target, no Walmart, no Best Buy rated, just these two gentlemen. Can you break down
0:56.9	that story for us and take us to what was going on at that? It was 2007. I had, we were just coming off of
1:05.7	M.O.K., Holiday Weekend, and we were at the studio working on my album. It was Tuesday.
1:16.4	And I actually got a phone call. Somebody tipped me off like, you know, I heard them boys coming
1:23.6	down there like, you know, I didn't to watch out. And I was like, all right, what are they coming
1:28.4	down here for? Like they're coming to see me. And so I told everybody in office, like, yo,
1:33.4	I just got a weird phone call. Like I said, the police coming over here. So I went outside to go
1:40.2	move my car. And as I walked outside, next thing, you know, I just seen these black taut holes
1:47.0	with the lights on them and helicopter flies over and swipes jump out like 10, 15 of them,
1:55.6	M16s drawn telling me to, you know, scream and tell me to get down, lay down. And like, I always
2:02.3	remember just how calm I was in that situation. I think that was the first time I'd ever even put
2:07.4	a hammer like a gun pulled on me. I got down and I'm still thinking it's like some mix up
2:13.9	at this point. Like they're not coming over here. Like maybe it was some other studios at some
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