Digital Social Hour - Avoid These Programming Pitfalls: A DJ's Insights | DJ Bonics DSH #811

Episode Date: October 19, 2024

🎧 Tune in now to "Avoid These Programming Pitfalls: A DJ's Insights" on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🌟 Dive deep into an epic conversation with DJ Bonics as he shares his journey from spinning records to navigating the cannabis space. Discover how his passion for music and culture fuels his unique perspective on life, success, and staying true to oneself. 🌿 Packed with valuable insights, this episode explores the crossroads of music and cannabis culture, DJ Bonics' adventures with hip-hop legend Wiz Khalifa, and the transformative power of psychedelics. Don't miss out on insider stories from world tours to personal growth. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets! 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Join the conversation and be part of a community that values authenticity and creativity. 🎤 #DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #Podcast #DJBonics #CannabisCulture #MusicJourney #StayTuned #debugginglife #programminginsights #techeducation #webdevelopment #developerhumor CHAPTERS: 00:00 - DJ Bonics brought some goodies 02:24 - Involvement with Hardin 04:47 - Journey into DJing 06:34 - Relationship with Wiz Khalifa 11:42 - Current Hip-Hop Scene 12:38 - Reprogramming Mindset 16:55 - Experience with Ayahuasca 20:16 - Exploring Psychedelics 22:15 - What's Good For You 27:00 - Favorite City to Perform 29:22 - Life Beyond DJing 30:35 - Becoming Selfless 34:52 - Where to Find DJ Bonics APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: DJ Bonics https://www.instagram.com/djbonics https://www.youtube.com/djbonics https://x.com/djbonics LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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you know, regular people who are obedient employees. I've been to a few shops out here, but Hardeen always feels different, different approach. And it's still wild west. So I love how just one little shop in Las Vegas has a lot of attention around the world dj bionics in the building brought me some goodies thanks man oh yeah man i hope uh they help you know with your brain yeah help me sleep at night man i'd be laying in bed for hours goddamn yeah um cannabis is a proper tool yeah i had to i used to be a runner okay that's the main reason i stopped smoking but i used to love cannabis dude yeah now i get anxiety from it too yeah i guess it depends you know um because of like terpenes and all that stuff so yeah that's cool i think you know it

might come back in a season so yeah we'll see i'm not ruling it out completely but i just feel like it's way stronger than it was when we were growing up definitely it's nuts now dude definitely i mean it's like what 20 percent tsc now i mean there. Definitely. It's nuts now, dude. Definitely. I mean, it's like, what, 20% THC now? I mean, there's the ones that are like 37% and then there's infused and then there's all the, you know, like, what do they call it? Like shatter and batter. So many different levels of it. My first time ever getting high was off a dab and I started hallucinating and it was

late as fuck at night. So I was at my friend's house. I started seeing and ghosts i had to run home dude my first time uh i think i smoked a cigarette and weed in the same night and i was a bad asian kid so i like was mad at myself like oh my god i can't believe i did this and then here we are uh many moons later damn my mom was asian too too and she didn't even know what weed was. She didn't know what weed. Yeah. Moms don't think they don't think about that at all. Asian smoke it.

Yeah. No I would literally have it in the house. She would be like what's that smell? And I'd be like I don't know. Yeah.

It's weird too because I'm like grown man and I still try to hide it from my mom. Oh she still doesn't know? Well she knows. I mean I obviously

tour with Wiz and stuff so she knows but she'll catch me on like the ring like I'll try to smoke with whiz and stuff so she knows but she'll catch me on like the ring like i'll try to smoke weed right in front of her house and then she'll be like i saw you damn i'm you know a grown man but i still feel bad wow maybe you should have a sit down with her and tell her like no she's good she's good i mean she knows i work at hardeen and do the whiz stuff so you know but to her i'm probably just her sweet little boy love that how'd you get involved with Hardeen?

I was an ambassador at first. So they, at the beginning of their, you know, journey, they were reaching out to different people. And, you know, a lot of DJs, man. That's the one thing I love about Hardeen is that they really, like, support the culture. Right. And, you know, where did you hear about weed?

Probably music and, you know, movies. So I feel like that for them to, you know, give back you hear about weed? Probably music and, you know, movies. So I feel like that for them to, you know, give back to the DJs, that's kind of where it started for me. And so, you know, I'd have a residency here with Wiz and we'd come and, you know, they'd invite me into the shop and et cetera. And then it kind of blossomed to a great relationship. And now I kind of oversee their ambassador program and, you know, help people bring in the shop. And I like to call myself like a in-house artist. I don't know if they'll look at it that way yeah but i like to look at myself as that like hey man you know i'm running around i'm still doing with stuff djing and get my hands in

certain things but uh being able to bring people to the shop and having people who like we're we're a part of the culture or are part of the culture yeah you got to love that because i think there's a lot of people in the cannabis business that are just kind of like for hire people and not necessarily people who you know thugged it out and you know almost got arrested or have gone arrested or did time for it um so i think it's important to have those types of people in you know in the cannabis space not just like you know regular people who are obedient employees yeah no you definitely feel it because i've been to a few uh shops out here but hardeen always feels different yeah it feels like you're there it's cool it's a different approach and it's

still wild west so anything that we do or anybody does in this business is um we're always creating so uh and you know the rules are all weird still so it's hard to navigate but i love how just one little shop in las vegas has a lot of attention around the world and people come here just to go to hardeen thanks to a lot of the ambassadors and of course a lot of the like kind of marketing plays but it really is lifestyle man yeah um yeah they do some interesting ads i've seen some in some interesting places yeah no it's cool it's cool. It's all in-house made. A lot of the people in it are local influencers, are influencers or employees. So just that whole thing is cool. Not just hired looking girls. Like, no, these people work here. They know about the business. And I love that aspect of it is that we're using people who are actually not just front facing, but they're with the culture.

Absolutely. So how did you get into DJing, and what was that first breakthrough moment for you in that space? I mean, I just like music, and growing up in Philly, by default, you're listening to some of the best DJs in the world, and you don't even know it. You're just like, Kick off an exciting football season with BetMGM,

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Must be 19 years of age or older. Ontario only. Please gamble responsibly. Gambling problem? older ontario only please gamble responsibly gambling problem for free assistance call the connex ontario helpline at 1-866-531-2600 bet mgm operates pursuant to an operating agreement with i gaming ontario used to it so you know when i went to college i got into college radio i literally walked into this uh buddy's house and he had turntables there, and it literally was like love at first touch and kind of took that. And college radio, local clubs, on the regular radio, performing in Pittsburgh, really like a culture play, man.

I was a supporter. You're going to hear that word a lot maybe in this interview where you know i was a part of the thread yeah and then when that culture sees you thrive or sees you work they're going to support you and now you know i feel like pittsburgh because that's kind of so you know i went to college in pittsburgh is kind of where i started my dj journey is that you know i can always go back there and have that support but you know i went up right the rankings rankings. College parties, clubs, radio, stage, whiz worldwide, and now I'm here in Vegas. Wow. How long did all that take? I mean, I guess I'm almost 25 years in DJing, which has definitely put my 10,000 hours in.

And honestly, I like the idea that you know i moved to probably like five different cities through my journey because of radio but i love i'm meeting new people all the time and i have this new audience every city that i moved to that are like holy shit you do a lot and i'm just like man i've been at this pace for a while but i just love growing in and just growing and still doing it at 43 years old to me is just like um it's amazing man you know i've been able to uh do a lot with with hip-hop and and just now in cannabis it's great that's so cool how did you develop a relationship with wiz because he probably had thousands of djs coming out of it yeah so um he was like 13 and i was uh friends with where he was like after school

recording i shout out to id lab shout out my boy edan and wiz was like 13, and I was friends with where he was like after school recording. I shout out to ID Lab, shout out to my boy, Edan. And Wiz was like coming after school with a group of kids who were freestyling and making music. And Edan was like, hey, this kid Cameron is very talented. And they kind of just, I watched a whole team kind of grow around him. And of course, I was on the radio and did all that. So I made sure that I did what I could do with my platforms. And eventually, when I was ready to leave iHeartRadio, which was Clear Channel at the time, it was around the same time Wiz needed a new DJ.

And they basically were like, this fall we're gonna go on a tour tour bus tour was his first tour he just got signed to atlantic nobody knows yet we're gonna do this he's gonna drop this song called black and yellow and um imagine black and yellow drops we're on a world or uh you know u.s tour and then the steelers go to the super bowl so it was the timing was just man the timing was crazy you couldn't plan that you could not plan that that was p quiz man i remember that song right god damn yeah that was big yeah going on tour with him during that time frame you see anything crazy i mean it was just crazy you had like 15 dudes on a bus driving around the country for the first time so you know we definitely saw some things i shouldn't talk about uh but also like you know

there were different times where we would like like, you know, maybe getting fights locally with, like, you know, it was like a crew from Pittsburgh just running around for the first time. And, you know, smoking weed everywhere and dodging, you know, the police and and then also man i just remember because i'm older than wiz about eight years older him but i just remember doing these shows and watching these kids like rap word for word and i'm like yo people in pittsburgh don't even know like how big wiz is you know so to do that world tour or to do that first tour bus tour um you know we i think we sold over um i don't want to say a million tickets or something but we sold a hell of a lot of tickets that tour and it was just crazy to see a song called you know black and yellow represent represent pittsburgh go worldwide like i never thought that that would actually when they first played it to me i was like this song's dope

because i live here in pitts. But how will it be received? And fuck, it was a big song. Dude, I still bump that song if it comes on. Yeah, it's a good song, man. It's a banger. It's a classic. He's got so many hits, too. He's got good anthems, man.

Not a lot of artists last that long. What do you think contributed to that longevity for you guys? Culture. You know, seeing him, you know, be a proponent with weed. Because here's the thing. Like, a lot of artists have to survive off hits and whiz has hits but there was a time where we were on tour and i'm like why is whiz out here why isn't this artist this artist we're actually in europe and that's what i recognize though

is that whiz actually representing a Now, let's bring it out. Any culture could get you deep. If you love puppies and you're just like, know all about puppies, someone might call you and be like, yo, we need your puppy expertise. Wiz riding with the weed culture, you may not know his music,

but if you go see him at the festival, you know what he's going to be about, right? Oh, this is a safe place for me to smoke weed. He's a proponent a la Bob Marley or something um so it's cool to see whiz is actually like uh you know he caters to like a wide audience you know not just like hip-hop heads or uh you know urban um you know like his music is worldwide he's pretty eclectic with it so just seeing these people from you know jap japan to south korea to you know fucking all over europe to brazil south america it's like man um watching someone in africa wearing a fucking pittsburgh hat you're like geez this is international crazy yeah yeah and i think i agree with you i think we definitely played a role because that is

international language well that's what i'm saying it's an international language so uh like we just were in costa rica recently and someone in costa rica was like whiz is the fourth art hip-hop artist to ever perform in costa rica in my mind i'm like well who are the other three artists one of them was t pain one of them was lloyd banks but i was like a club show and the third one was uh cypress hill so um you know cypress hill obviously have great songs but they probably got there too because the weed culture you know i mean and of course snoop dog is international language so yeah um i just actually had the opportunity to to tour with snoop he took me to europe with him and just like being with that legend and everyone kind of still being like he's still the weed god you know so culture man i think it's super important yeah him and snoop dog man that was the duo mac and devon baby yeah man that's a classic

that was a good time oh man were you in high school for all that or what yeah i was literally in high school when i came out so it's so relatable you know yeah wearing camo shorts yeah i love that classic uh what do you think about current hip-hop scene do you have any artists you really like right now uh current hip-hop scenes cool i mean i i do like i do like what the earth gang is doing uh spillage village i don't know if you know those guys um jid i kind of like that yeah i kind of like that whole lane and what they're doing uh i've actually um just getting into like a lot of uh like newer jazz music i do a jazz show in unlv wow uh which is dope every saturday night and so i don't know i've kind of been on like this instrumental tip because i've been saying this like i don't like to be influenced right now necessarily with words like yeah i know you know i definitely respect people's poetry and

and how they express themselves. But like, I also don't want to be influenced right now. I'm kind of like in my deprogramming stage. So I kind of like don't listen to a lot of words with music right now because it's helpful. Literally saying, dude, I've been trying to deprogram the past few years ever since I found out I was programmed.

Right, right. And yo, that's like, I'm gonna tell you my road to that was really um interesting if we could talk about that so i was wondering you know i felt like a lot of times even doing this for so long like i feel like i have imposter syndrome or like i'll step on stage or i'm about to dj and i'm just like you know uh and and i and i would kind of like hate on myself a little bit like what am i Am I good enough to be here? Blah, blah.

And even doing it for so long. But someone said to me once, they were like, well, it's natural to feel that way about yourself, to doubt yourself. And so I thought about that. And I went back to when I was born in my brain. And I came out the womb. And I said, well, what's natural there about hating myself? Right? I thought about

that specifically like i came out the womb and for what reason would i doubt myself there's nothing that tells me that that's a natural thing and then what i realized is like oh no we were programmed this whole time you know i'm too chubby my teeth aren't straight my skin is this i'm too short i don't belong and then you know even being a person of color and growing up um you know like i realized that that's not normal and we literally were programmed to doubt ourselves to not think we're good enough to compare ourselves constantly so i just feel like that that deep programming is happening now and giving myself like hella grace to be like well maybe what i think success is, isn't my

version, you know? So now it's about me actually focusing on that and also deciding what the definitions of words mean to me, I think is really important because if we take on other people's definition of words, then we may not really see the magic. So for example, if someone's like, that's hard, well, like we want to avoid things that are hard, right? So when we, so sometimes I'll change that into, well, what's necessary, you know? And I think that sort of owning the words is so important to reprogramming because when, you know, we wake up every day and and people see they see two things on their social media one perfection and they see if you're not perfect we're going to ridicule you right and that's a very hard space to be in so that's what i recognize is like we're

still contributing to that and and we're and we're uh volunteering ourselves for that validity which is we shouldn't we should not we should not at all it's tough though because negative headlines get way more views so i see it from the media's point of view right because they're trying to get eyeballs right and if they have a positive headline it won't get as many views but the the important thing i think is that you see it in that filter though like hey look they're just trying to sell this shit not instead of actually taking on that emotion and be like fuck them they shouldn't like all right yo chill out like you know what they're doing they're trying to get hit so i think it's about like walking around with that filter and just seeing like if you're dealing with someone

and they you know don't respond in a certain way like a lot of times it's like, well, he's just programmed to think that way. So I can't be mad at him because he's like, you know, he's, you know, maybe hasn't realized that he's been programmed. Yeah. I actually don't watch videos on drama anymore. Like I used to watch Drama Alert. I used to watch Jamari, I think, whatever his YouTube is, talk shit about rappers. But yeah, I don't watch any of that anymore. I don't watch a lot of it, which is kind of weird because i feel like i should be like a historian and but i don't

watch a lot of shit right now i don't watch a lot of i was just telling someone i don't really watch a lot of tv i don't i listen to like only a few certain podcasts because i'm really right now just testing the whole like waters for myself of like well how deep am i programmed in certain things or not you know facts because i used to watch the news i used to read every day yeah npr all this shit and i used to think i was listening to good guys and bad guys and whatever but you know i think covid definitely that era you got to watch people like become zombies for whatever side that they were and i'm glad they were passionate about it. But someone said to me something one time.

They're like, if you feel the need to be right, be kind. And I think that kind of is very important, especially today where everything's polarized. I love that. This is very interesting to me. So is this why you took ayahuasca recently? Well, so that was a couple of years ago. And ayahuasca, first of all um i just want to put this out there like i know that a lot of people feel funny about talking about that yeah um and

not not for it to like necessarily come off as like uh um i don't know like an escapism or just like uh i don't know what the right word i'm looking for but it wasn't for sport you know you had intention yeah i had intention and it was just literally to what is it about and so when i agreed to it i didn't think about it i literally was like yes because i do feel like that it comes in your life at a time like i don't if you're invited so i just said yes and it was like six months before and uh i ended up going and i'll just say that it prepared me for the next few months which was like some of the darkest times of my life wow um to go through something which i don't want to be that specific about but i think it helped me kind of purge

because it's what it is like a purger yeah kind of helped me it took things out of my life that shouldn't have been there and those things you know i'm not going to say those things are good or bad he just was like yo let's let's uh we got to purge this out um and i'll tell you man it was a wonderful experience not only the actual sort of um ceremony but the people that were there you know i i went with one friend and then there was 22 other people probably from all over the country and yo these are the people seeking you know everyone was there for a different reason. But to be around those types of people who basically are like non-judgmental of like, wow, you are here. Because like when

you're doing the ceremony, like people are crying or screaming. You didn't know any of these people? I only knew one of them. Got it. And, you know, by the end of the week, it was a week, I did three sittings. Yeah. And man, it's's amazing i cannot wait to go back but i also um i have to go in with like a different mind frame and and uh it was beautiful man i mean it really like uh it really just helped me with a lot of different perspectives and um i was waiting for the whole like scary moment yeah yeah And it didn't really happen. But it also made me think that I was doing the right work to get to that place. And whatever I expected, that's the problem, is that you have expectations.

So it really was, you know, one day we'll get specific about it, but it was just a beautiful freeing, and you felt super connected, and it really made a lot of sense and it really prepared me for those next few months um because i don't know if i didn't i may have not survived that situation the way i did if i didn't go through like it was like an ego death basically yeah you know that is crazy and then you know was so weird. We didn't know if the industry was coming back. Well, I have no work, pinching pennies. So it was a great thing.

But it brought me to Vegas, man. Like the whole circumstance kind of when you zoom out, it brought me to Vegas. And, you know, still working with plant medicine out here. Yeah, crushing out here. Now I'm hearing of ketamine therapy out here. My friend just tried that. I'm very curious. i don't know if you've dealt with that yeah no i saw i'm a little weary of it because i've had some hard stuff in the past and i know that and i could be wrong so whoever corrects me cool i think ketamine kind of slows that down so um i'm not there yet you know i definitely want to do more uh. I want to try toad.

Oh, I've seen that. I've had a few guests do that. Yeah, so I think it'll get trippy again. I can't wait for that. I'm not a fan of how they burn it on your skin, though. Yeah, I see. It's one of those things, again, where I don't even want to look at it and dwell on it. I'm just going to be like, yes.

And then, so who knows? It's kind of scary though it's cool to see you open up to psychedelics man because i feel like it was kind of a negative taboo maybe 10 20 years ago i mean look i feel like we live in upside down world right anything that they tell us that's bad for us i actually think is probably good for us and you know things that they say that's good for us is probably bad for us. So, you know, I know that mushrooms is like a hot button right now in a great way, man. But it's just like, dude, plus one, like this shit comes from the earth. So it just feels like it feels like the right thing.

Yeah. No, I agree. I mean, look at the food pyramid they taught us as a kid and how much of a joke that is. Everything. And just all of of it you know um it's it's weird though because i also do think that there's like media out there that's basically trying to have you i like re you know rewire everything but listen man our grandparents lasted a whole fucking long time drinking milk and doing all these things that they said was bad for us and i'm not saying they are good for us

but i just think the answer is somewhere in the middle yeah you know what i mean yeah you got to look at who's funding the new source and then from there that's all you need to know it's crazy we can go down we can go down we can go down those but we'll probably get banned right we talk about it yeah no it's scary i mean it's i was just thinking about this today like what's good actually good for you you know um water is scary i appreciate glass bottles of course um i just kind of i purchased a condo recently and i was having this guy look at plumbing and he basically was like we're gonna replace all this copper uh you know and give you plastic and uh you know i for some reason i had this i had this like content coming up where basically like, you know, copper is actually good. Like I have a copper pot.

It charges your water. Yeah. And the reason why that they probably use copper in, I'm not an expert in this. So, you know, I'm just going by what I hear and see is that it actually charges your water for good. So like I didn't want to get rid of any of the copper in my place. Hell no, not for plastic, bro. God damn. I just found out last night that toilet paper has carcinogens in it so now i just had to buy a bamboo toilet paper what's that like i just bought it this morning on amazon uh amazon

costco has it too really yeah bamboo toilet paper so the one you're probably using now i'll send you the video but yeah it might cause some health issues because it's going in your bloodstream when you wipe your ass. Right. You know what I mean? Man, plastics. Plastics, dude. That's scary.

Even like your toothpaste, bro. Right. The fluoride. All of it. Literally everything you used and used on a daily basis your whole life. Yeah, so I use non-fluoride toothpaste as well. Shampoo and conditioner. I don't actually use shampoo and conditioner.

Oh, really? I just use soap to wash my hair. Is it natural soap, though? It's Dove, so it probably is not. I know. Even that has persimmon juice. I know. So literally everything, bro.

I know. I know. I got to do that. And there's levels to it. So now there's people that aren't even showering because of the tap water. Right. I used to use the Dr. Bronner's for a while. What's that?

Dr. Bronner's. It's a very popular hippie soap, I guess. Oh, okay. But it's like super natural. You should check that out, Dr. Bronner's. Yeah, I's a very popular hippie soap, I guess. Oh, okay. But it's like super natural. You should check that out, Dr. Barnes. Yeah, I'll check it out. It's pretty, you can buy it at Target and all that. The food is the main concern.

I know. You got to spend a lot of money to eat healthy these days. So I don't eat chicken, pork, and beef right now. Wow. It's been like four or five years. So you're a vegetarian? I'm not saying I have a perfect diet. I eat fish and all that.

Okay, pescatarian. But I do feel like that sort of break from it has helped me slim down a little bit. And then I feel like I don't, knock on wood, is there wood in here? I don't get colds and stuff as much. And I don't know if that's the weed or this or that, but I feel like my family, like I smoke weed and and i'm out constantly like this is a lack of sleep shit but i feel like some of my family members they get colds all the time they're always sick i used to get colds monthly bro and i it might be because i was eating shitty quality meat honestly yeah what's your diet like so i'm very conscious about meat i do eat meat but

it has to be really high quality because if the animal is killed in an inhumane way the stress can leach onto the meat and that can affect you spiritually so i don't eat cheap cheap meat organic uh there's grades i forget the highest grade what it's called prime i think right i'll only eat that yeah i'm thinking about going back into the meat game because i feel like i'm missing like man i want to eat some good filipino food that i've been missing out but uh i don't know i appreciate that i appreciate anyone that actually can have that discipline yeah i mean it's interesting a lot of spiritual people don't eat meat and i just don't know if i'm there yet right but it's interesting to me right i just don't know if i'm missing out on like proteins and this and that but there's a lot someone actually

said to me before they're like um like cows like big ass animals, they're not eating meat at all. They're eating shit. No, they're eating fucking grass. Yeah. So the grass isn't what it used to be. Yeah, that's true too. The soil, I just had a doctor on, our topsoil will be gone in 20 years. So we're pretty much-

Save the soil. I know, right? We have a soil epidemic right now. Man, everything's bad for you. But, you know, I just feel like that everything will yin and yang itself. You know what I'm saying? Like, we just have to adjust. And, again, there's people who've been living kind of program lives that are healthy and successful. That's true.

Yeah, I try not to focus on it too much because you could just live that way and be fearful of every single thing, but that's not a fun way to live. Right, exactly. Here's a thing that I like. Here's a good piece of advice I like to say. If you're going to eat the donut, don't cry about it. You know why?

Because look, if the donut's bad for you, okay, it might be bad for you. But if you're going to cry about it, then you're doubling down on the bad experience. True. So enjoy the fucking donut. You only live once. Don't talk about it, then you're doubling down on the bad experience. True. So enjoy the fucking donut. You did. Don't talk about it yet

because some people complain about, oh, why did I eat that? Exactly. You chose it, man. Enjoy it because I actually do think that the energy that you're carrying is just as important, right? So pray over your food.

I'm all about energy. Speaking of energies, what was your favorite city to perform at where the energy just felt really good? I mean, it's always cool to go back to Pittsburgh because that's where we were in the trenches. So just to be on the big stage every summer at the pavilion and seeing the love that we get is amazing

because I saw we were all in the trenches together before, like where people didn't think we would do it, or people didn't believe in us, or we were performing for two people. But now, taking that big stage and going back to Pittsburgh, and that was such a great era. Like Wiz, Mac Miller, you know what I mean? Yeah.

Pittsburgh had a moment, and it's still continuing to grow and prosper. Nice. Great place. Who are your favorite djs artists growing up i mean jazzy jeff of course fresh prince jazzy jeff seeing him on the show a lot of the philly djs uh seen touch tone on power 99 and man there's a whole countless amount of um kid swift was very important for me uh and then you know when i actually like that's what kind of planted the seeds in philly but in pittsburgh there was a you know the cult i like to say like when you're in a small city you like try to compensate that you're from a small city so it's like the knowledge you try to like be overcompensate like

because you think when you're gonna you know go against people in bigger cities, like, of course, they have more resources. Yeah. And I think we do it to we overcompensate it so that when we actually like got to those different cities and DJed, I'm like, oh, shit, I'm actually I can compete against these cats. Because, you know, when you're when you start from like a small city you want to try to swing a big sword right so um there's been a lot of uh paul dang this guy ishka bibble dj selecta um uh there's so many and the genres out there like you know from between drum and bass and reggae it was it was it's so plentiful so pittsburgh's a great a great uh Pittsburgh was a great place when we started. I've never been there.

I got to get out there. Yeah, no, it's cool, man. I mean, City of Bridges. It's beautiful. The Andy Warhol Museum is there. Oh, nice. So definitely worth checking out. And good food.

And the Steelers are out there, too. And the Steelers, baby. That's right. If you weren't DJing, what would you be doing? Do you think this is your true passion um i well you know it i was trying to say this is like okay the dj part is what it is it's a it's a part of me but i think the bigger thing that and i don't like to necessarily like say this because i don't want it to sound like braggadocious like i just like helping people so whatever whatever again if I was a master of puppies,

I'd probably be helping people with that. And so it's just helping people to me. Music is my vehicle to help people and help recognize their greatness and the program. So I've like a message for a long time about love and really trying to spread that and use love is like a big message but i've been kind of filtering and not kind of spewing that too much um because i need to be the example i think when you realize that we need to be example i could tell a bunch of motherfuckers

how to live their life but if i'm still doing not you know if i'm still doing shit that i shouldn't be doing then who am i to like be telling people how to live their lives so i'm just trying to be the example at this point i love that and most people i would say that you meet are pretty selfish so how did you change that mindset to want to help people out were you always like oh i think i was always like that man i'm definitely my mom's son you know she's uh every year we send stuff to the philippines and she's always giving if you know um if you worked with my mom she's just like everyone's mom and so i just think that's that's a part of me uh so something i did like i'll give you an example when i was living in minneapolis i did this thing called 10 000 hoodies for the 10 000 lakes and my mind frame was and i like to i like to speak the message

from where people can understand it in a way then that's that's just different than hey why don't you donate like to me that's like it's not that's fake it's fake and like yo you got all these like celebrities who are rich as shit trying to ask you for money, like didn't make sense. So the way I launched it through the radio station I was there with, and basically I said, as hip-hop kids, as music lovers, the culture is all about stuff, right? Like you go to how many fucking hoodies have you bought at a concert or whatever, right? And I'm just like, we bombard the messages to our next generation, to kids that like, if you don't have the illest sneaks, if you don't have this.

And to me, there's got to be like a responsible part of it that's like reuse, recycle. Like how many hoodies are you sitting on that you don't wear? A lot. And guess what? In Minnesota, it's cold as fuck, right? So like as a culture look cool if you work hard and you want to buy stuff by all means celebrate but as a culture how are we showing the next generation that we got to be able to like reuse recycle be economic about how we spend in the hip-hop culture because it's like if you're going broke buying the coolest fucking shoes and so like,

let's give that, let's push that because you know, there's what I realized going through that. It was that there was a lot of homeless. There's a lot of kids that go to school and they're homeless, you know? And so I reached out to a whole bunch of people like, listen,

send me your hoodies. I was getting hoodies from around the world, but imagine just a kid and you know, maybe we're teaching them a little bit of people like listen send me your hoodies I was getting hoodies from around the world but imagine just a kid and you know maybe we're teaching them a little bit of commercialism at that but imagine a kid who is homeless and you got him like a just a dope Nike hoodie that someone wasn't wearing and that kid might just feel a little bit more confident at school and and so that's why I just think it's important to reuse recycle and to reprogram ourselves,

not to thinking that we need all this shit. Like on my birthday this year, I promised myself that for the rest of the year, and it's kind of bleeding into this year, that I wasn't going to buy any clothes at all, shoes or clothes. Now, when I went to the Philippines, I was like, listen, let's not extreme here you know i'm going to grab this or grab a piece of merch or something like that but that shit just really helped me unlock that habit and that programming of i need this i need this and then what i realized was it was actually making me value what i had already you know what i mean so going back to minnesota i was able to collect i didn't hit 10 000 i hit like 7,000.

That's so insane. Which is a lot. And I had to fucking deal with it, package it. And I donated it to a bunch of shelters and Salvation Armies and distributed all these hoodies. And there was some fly ass shit that people were sending. And I was like, can you imagine all of this is just sitting in people's closets? So I'm trying to find out what that version is here in Vegas. And I'm looking to do something for the community here um but i'm going to figure that out i want that to come naturally and not force it or just be like hey guys donate for this

like i want it to be meaningful and i want it to help someone who needs to get rid of shit like you know yeah i'd love to help with that man i got probably 50 clothing items that i don't even wear and that's what i'm saying is that i think that we can be cool and have the cool clothes and flashy or whatever but we also can be conscious about what we're doing with our extra uh and i think that's important in hip-hop how many times you hear a motherfucker in hip-hop saying like recycle and reuse and you know i think it's important yeah they buy the thousand dollar jackets and use it once i heard that's what i'm saying and you know i i love that like i'm again but man support local and just be a crew you know be creative of how we do that not just don't just

be a consumer you know be a conscious consumer absolutely yeah bonics where can people find you and what you're up to oh at dj bonics twitter facebook instagram twitch um they can find me at hardeen during the week or you know know, on stage with Wiz or at different clubs here in Vegas, been moving around a lot. So please reach out to me. We'd love to connect with you. And yo, thank you for, you know, having this platform and having me on it and congrats to your success, man. And seeing all the people that you have on here, the numbers and, you know, you know, just being a cool dude, man. Thanks, man. It means a lot. I think this this episode was great i think people can take a lot out of this one yeah thank my asian bro half asian bro over here man he's got to stick together appreciate you big shout out to hardin

real quick thanks for rocking and we're yeah shout out to my favorite dispenser got some cbd products for tonight see you guys next time let's go