Marquis Walker on the Virtual Sessions presented byThe DJ Sessions 6/23/25

The DJ Sessions has an engaging conversation between host Darran and guest Marquis Walker on The DJ Sessions Presents The Virtual Sessions. Marquis, a Boston-based podcaster, writer, and artist, discusses his THHC Podcast (The Hip-Hop Connoisseur Podcast), where he reviews classic and contemporary albums with a focus on hip-hop culture. With over 250 episodes, Marquis emphasizes sharing factual, fun, and heartfelt insights into music, often dissecting tracks with guests to explore personal connections to songs.

 

The dialogue spans Marquis’s creative process, including his use of composition notebooks for planning, his transition into writing books about hip-hop and family bonding, and his recent ventures into music production. Darran and Marquis also reflect on hip-hop’s evolution, contrasting its roots with modern trends like mumble rap, and stress the importance of preserving the genre’s history.

 

A highlight is their discussion on AI’s impact on entertainment, from automating tasks to generating music and misinformation. Marquis advocates for embracing technology responsibly, while Darran shares concerns about authenticity in content creation. The conversation concludes with Marquis promoting positivity, urging listeners to support one another and seek out quality hip-hop through his platforms.

 

The episode blends music nostalgia, industry insights, and forward-thinking tech talk, showcasing Marquis’s passion for hip-hop and community-building. Listeners are encouraged to explore Marquis’s work via his YouTube channel and Instagram (@severely_yours_). Darran wraps up by directing fans to The DJ Sessions website for more content, merch, and virtual events.

 

Host: Darran (Seattle, WA)
Guest: Marquis Walker (Boston, MA) – Podcaster, Writer, Artist, and Executive Producer

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Key Discussion Points

1. Introduction & Marquis’s Background

   • Marquis shares his journey as a lifelong hip-hop fan and creator of The Hip-Hop Connoisseur (THHC) Podcast, which has surpassed 250 episodes.

   • The podcast focuses on reviewing classic and contemporary albums, blending factual insights with personal storytelling.

2. The THHC Podcast Format

   • Guests join Marquis to dissect albums track-by-track, sharing emotional and analytical perspectives.

   • Example: Breaking down Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall—discussing lyrics, production, and personal memories tied to each song.

   • Episodes air live every Friday at 8 PM ET, typically running 30 minutes to 2 hours.

3. Hip-Hop’s Evolution & Cultural Impact

   • Darran and Marquis reflect on hip-hop’s golden era (Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, N.W.A) vs. modern trends (mumble rap, drill).

   • Marquis advocates for respecting hip-hop’s roots while acknowledging new subgenres: “Hip-hop is a tree with many branches.”

   • The importance of underground artists keeping the genre’s essence alive.

4. Marquis’s Creative Ventures

   • Writing: Self-published author of books analyzing hip-hop/R&B albums (Severely Chronicles series) and family activity guides.

   • Music Production: Recently released singles like Good Times, collaborating with indie artists and producers.

   • Voice Acting: Lends his voice to other artists’ projects.

5. The Rise of AI in Entertainment

   • Debating AI’s role in music, journalism, and social media:

     • Pros: Efficiency in content creation (e.g., drafting articles, generating ads).

     • Cons: Risks of misinformation and losing human authenticity (e.g., fake AI influencers, deepfakes).

   • Marquis experiments with AI tools but stresses the irreplaceable value of genuine creativity.

6. Industry Challenges & Advice

   • The grind behind content creation: research, marketing, and overcoming “shiny object syndrome.”

   • Marquis’s mantra: “Stay updated on technology, but use it ethically.”

7. Personal Inspirations

   • Marquis credits his mother—a construction worker, artist, and writer—for his resilience and multifaceted career.

8. Closing Message

   • Marquis urges listeners to support quality hip-hop and check in on loved ones, sharing a poignant story about a friend’s suicide.

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Where to Find Marquis Walker

• THHC Podcast: [YouTube/Streaming Platforms]

• Instagram: @severely_yours_

• Music: Stream Good Times on DSPs

• Books: Severely Chronicles series (Amazon/eBooks)

• Mission: Spotlighting electronic music, hip-hop, and industry innovation since 2012.

Final Thought: “Hip-hop isn’t dead—it’s just underground. Dig deeper.” – Marquis Walker

[Darran]
Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the DJ sessions presents the virtual sessions I’m your host Aaron and right now I’m sitting in the virtual studios in Seattle, Washington And coming in all the way cross country of the United States of America I have none other than Marquis Walker coming in from Boston. How’s it going this evening Marquis?

[Marquis]
What’s good, man? How you going? How’s everything going man?

Thanks. Hey, thanks for having me man. I appreciate this man Absolutely.

[Darran]
No, you know we reach out to podcasters and and like to talk you know, we expanded our show from just electronic music DJs to Producers and now just industry professionals and pretty much if you’re using Electronic music electronic gear in your artistry or work in any way shape or form We’re kind of like reaching out to a lot more artists and a lot more people and creators that way As we revamped our brand a little bit over the years we can get more into that later But we’re here to talk about you and I can talk about me all day long You’ll find that out quickly not but you have a show You’re our guest today and you have a series that you started while back about 250 episodes in congratulations on that You know, that’s a small feat in itself We’ll talk about that and just a little bit about how the success is starting out and everything, but it’s called THHC podcast or aka the hip-hop connoisseur Podcast tell us about the hip-hop connoisseur or podcast and what all that entails if I were to come watch it I don’t know or I know nothing about it

[Marquis]
Well, let me give you a little I’ll give you a little preview man You know, this is uh, these are these composition notebooks man. They’ll be famous one day man, because they basically Compromise, you know everything from you know, the podcast to the additional things that I do on at that channel, but the THHC podcast is basically out You know, I’ve been a hip-hop fan forever, man, you know, I think you know probably coming out the Pampas or some I was you know, you know coming out probably You know breakdancing or something, you know But uh, you know, so it’s been in my blood ever since man and you know when I started the podcast I just wanted to share factual information about hip-hop in a fun way and So I started the podcast and started to review Classic albums or just albums in general or just great music To listen to period in every genre, you know

[Darran]
My early days of hip-hop or rap music go back to the 80s Yeah, yeah pretty much the 80s when I started getting into it, you know, I grew up in kind of you’d say white suburbia For the most part out here on the west coast Upper Pacific Northwest west coast so not really in the ghetto the hood or you know, wherever you want to Call that socio-economic Area rubber neighborhoods rubber neighborhoods, you know, but uh, you know, I I kind of got into hip-hop music Through I guess you could say cross out what interest was interesting enough My brothers were into rock and roll hip or like like Iron Maiden back sabbath very punk rocker Yeah, Iron Maiden type stuff of the 80s, you know Ratchet stuff that the right. Yeah, exactly. And so, you know when the crossover between Aerosmith and run DMC came out, you know That was kind of big and that you know MTV was just booming at that time and they wanted something hot That crossover with Aerosmith and run DMC kind of got me and obviously run DMC Which then London the more Def Jam which led into you know, my mom bought me Skis are pleaser by UTF Oh because the guy in the music store and like somewhere up north This is this is way out. Like you wouldn’t expect to find this album, you know Like yeah, Roxanne Roxanne on it in a record store in Washington outskirts of Seattle, Washington to in Seattle’s From more part and parts of the most part.

It was small back then. Yeah Has a major much Microsoft haven’t hadn’t even really hit I don’t think till like 87 So we were more of a really blue-collar Boeing market factory kind of market in that sense. It wasn’t a big tech central.

It is today. And so, you know Getting into that run DMC. The first concert I ever went to was The Beastie Boys though.

My brothers were big into the Beastie Boys Obviously, they were on Def Jam.

[Marquis]
Yes, man. Your guess is just in the camera.

[Darran]
Oh, this is my kid This is Doja the DJ sessions mascot.

[Marquis]
Okay, there you go.

[Darran]
It’s dinnertime in 10 minutes He’s like, I know you’re staring and I’m gonna look and get in the way of whatever I do No, he’s a one-year-old Doja the Doja the cat is his name.

[Marquis]
Okay. What up, dude?

[Darran]
I didn’t name him he’s trying to he’ll try to hear it try to crawl up under here and get all up under the Wherever Darren’s eyes are at. That’s where Doja want to be wants to be right in front of All eyes on me But long story short, yeah going back and gotten the Beastie Boys first concert I went to was Beastie Boys and Fishbone in 86 came back when they did the tour with run DMC in 87 and You know, it’s kind of hooked after that Later on my musical taste developed and I kind of moved away from him But I got into like too short pretty big and West Coast rappers and obviously Biggie talk all the you know All that fun stuff, but um, yeah, and then I out of high school I started working on a hip-hop television show In public access in 1992 called the cool-out Network, you know Not to focus all on me because we’re gonna talk about you And so, you know you you starting a hip-hop show, you know, it’s something funny I didn’t want to go back on though you brought up your your your Notes, you know.

Yes. Yeah This is only Going back to What’s the if I can date this one? This only goes back to well, let’s see the first one I can date on this will be Now I’m gonna make a coffee book table of these one day This goes back.

Actually. I got some in here from 2023

[Marquis]
Yeah

[Darran]
2023 March of March of 2023, but I also have my other one I’m gonna put these on to a notebook and then do anecdotes in between them of different chapters of the years where I was at Coffee table book and this will be like this makes no sense I’m gonna go and people like you were paying all these bills and then here’s your notes and here’s like This makes no sense to me, but it’s like this is what it took to make me successful Yeah Another slew of these things to that’s something people don’t see behind the scene nothing You don’t see behind the scenes and it’s you know to guys like you and I that’s golden because it’s like I

[Marquis]
I

[Darran]
Was talking with my friend today and it’s like you got to understand I might write Trash that means take out the trash one simple task I might say contact this owner of this major blog site publication Now if anyone saw that if you saw that I might just write the name of the publication now But the keyword to me goes this is gonna be a huge conversation I’m talking about a partnership and syndication and all the sub what it means to me So I got stuff like that mulling around in my head over here But the layman are they looking oh, so what’s up with this website? You’re gonna be contacting Oh, let me tell you about the thesis about that information.

You know, yeah, it could be something simple to take out the trash or Strategic partnership, you know, and I can only I can decipher it, you know I really want to give you props on on keeping those notes because that does help you It also is there’s a sense of I think it’s I think there’s dopamine ephedrine Serotonin I always forget what the fourth one is, but there’s one of them that but you get a natural high When you actually cross something off a list And it’s not one in just checking a box I don’t think checking the box off the list like if it’s a note on your phone does the same thing It’s like literally looking at that and crossing out like I am done It moves it’s like does this Awesome, like energy thing break.

I should look that up and we should talk about it in the show I could probably bring it up later. But yeah, just that sense of a good wash over feeling that yeah I can’t remember which is the one that it gives you it might be serotonin or dopamine I now I want to look it up cuz I’m not a doctor and I don’t play one on TV I only play a DJ on TV.

[Marquis]
It could be dopamine man. That sounds about right. Yeah Like you know, I mean like it gives you like that that That energy and I don’t know if you ever, you know, not to say not dope but if you took anything anything that made you kind of Lucy-goosey, you know saying so yeah Yeah I’m looking this up right now a wonderful thing.

[Darran]
We have this Yeah, it is what a to-do item is finished the brain releases dopamine a neurotransmitter Associated with feelings of happiness pleasure and motivation This reinforces the behavior of task completion making you feel a sense of accomplishment and encouraging you to continue tackling your to-do list Essentially finishing a task triggers a positive feedback loop making you feel good and motivating you to do more Task list that I swear by him now.

I swear by him, you know, and it’s just yeah, so Right. Is that a GPT system? The what the what I did that what I just read off.

What did you just look it up under? I just typed in what releases in your mind when you finish it.

[Marquis]
Do I appear on Google just on Google? Yeah, I’ll do this for that you using it using GPT. I don’t know which one.

No, there we go Okay, you just okay now I was like I was like, you know AI and GPT a lot of that’s big now So I was wondering if you had a specific one you were using that you could tell us about just Google

[Darran]
But I do love chat GPT we could talk about that in a moment because that’s one of our topics We’re gonna be talking about automation and jobs being automated and the rise of AI in entertainment

[Marquis]
Yeah

[Darran]
So again 250 episodes. Congratulations on that. That’s not a small fee.

How often do you air an episode?

[Marquis]
Every Friday, okay, a day 8 p.m. Live and a lot of show.

[Darran]
How long is a typical episode of THHC?

[Marquis]
Um, it could be between you know, 30 minutes, I mean, you know to You know two hours but usually They average 45 minutes, you know about 45 minutes and we were talking pre-show about it.

[Darran]
Yes, and that’s what yes yeah, we’re talking pre-show about it and you kind of say you sit down with somebody and you kind of Dissect an album. Am I correct on that? Is that the right term to use or is it?

[Marquis]
So let’s just give them an example so yeah, I have you on the show Pick an album right right quick. Just pick an album for the for this exercise Michael Jackson off the wall Okay, Michael Jackson off the wall. You tell me that album.

I’m gonna Dissect it, but I’m gonna give you some homework too. So say it’s 10 tracks I figure how much it how many tracks right but this is to go with 10 So each track I want you to write something how much you feel or You want to talk about the music or do you want to talk about how his lyrics make a saying? What do you what do you want to scream when he says what?

What does this song mean? Like what’s going on in your mind when this song’s wrong? That’s all I want from you.

So And then I do the same thing and we come together and we say Number one, whatever the song is right and I Explain number one is something something and beat it whatever or something right and I talk all this how it make me feel I like to put my white socks on and bring them up to my whatever whatever it is, right? You know, I like to get my galetic love out or you know It might give me some type of a good feeling, you know what I mean? And it’s just good content because it’s like you see different people loving music Together at the same same album, but differently, you know, I mean, you might say something completely different I was in 12th grade heard that mouth dance on a shorty.

You know I’m saying like That’s your yeah. Yes your thought behind that record. You don’t I mean, so it just makes it fun and entertaining and then you know We maybe play a game, you know about verses and have a fun game about that Or we might do some like, you know, something clever or and then we you know, ask a couple questions We might have a pan or a guest people might be in a you know Chat asking questions and we just you know, and then we just after that we usually just you know Show love and promote promote promote and it’s all about love man. It’s all about, you know music hip-hop your passion Let’s talk about it.

Let’s let’s let’s let’s get more people to know your name If that’s what you want, you know, and let’s let’s just help each other, you know Populate and you know get better be better, you know, I like that

[Darran]
That’s that’s really the concept the original concept of the DJ sessions Which actually came out of another project that I had a broadcast television series called ITV They have featured independent artists and businesses and gave them a platform to a broadcast television market which was much wider of a market than Public access at the time because when I started there was public access and there was broadcast television That’s all you had to get video out there.

[Marquis]
Yeah

[Darran]
If you didn’t know how to work the broadcast game you’re really only medium you could put something out there was on was on public access and You know Once I figure out what I would call the keys to getting something on broadcast television When I left the public access world after about eight years I started doing broadcast television shows produced my first show Fox affiliate here in Seattle And then again came back and went to the NBC affiliates Here in Seattle and then at one point had like nine or ten separate shows approved up and down the West Coast on like 13 different stations and You know and then the video iPod came out yeah kind of game over for internet distribution And then YouTube came out right at that time about Basically around 2005 is when it kind of got a little bit more like oh look at this medium where we can upload videos Online and share them around the world for free. Whoa So kind of put a big damper in the public access from it held no Weight anymore. It was nice to have a public access channel, but who’s gonna tune up to channel 77?

Wow, and then watch it on TV when everything’s in your pocket on the go You know and then obviously the advent of the iPhone give us an internet anywhere in the world. Well, okay now It’s like I want it on the go of this on-demand Culture has what it’s called now is like I want it now. I want it here I want it now give it to me now and you know, you can be you know Now there’s a lot of competition out there to get attention So You know But our concept was to feature independent artists and help and spread community and help other people get access to technology They didn’t have and it’s still Interesting because a lot of people think I was just talking about this in an earlier interview earlier that It’s really oh, it’s just easy you just sit in front of a camera you talk to people or oh you just point a camera You thought I’m like, no, I got research we got I mean I can do a reality television show on myself I’m just starting at 8 o’clock in the morning and let it play in the background people like that’s what you do all day No, I just sit around And Facebook all day long and then when an interview comes up I hit record and then I Know it’s not how this works.

[Marquis]
I mean, no, what’s that good? I mean, I mean there are people that you know comedian legends that are that good off the cuff But like, you know, we’re not that good.

[Darran]
We got a research We got actually, you know, they’re probably still gonna have a production team somewhere in the back Celebrity is if a celebrity is taking in even if they’re taking in 500,000 a year. They’re gonna find some small team producer an editor or maybe You know producer editor director and there isn’t really much directing when you’re sitting in a green room when you’re sitting in a booth and you Got a camera and you’re talking to guests, you know They might obviously the biggest probably one thing that one one is a publicist You know to get them press and set up interviews and arrange everything for them and probably a writer to write some questions You know people don’t understand when those credits roll in a movie or they roll on a show They don’t understand that it really takes that many people when we’re out here doing it Indy like ourselves We’re the producer the director the executive producer the money the accountant the marketing person lighting the lighting like the audio the you know the All the stuff that goes into that and and a lot of people think it’s just easy to do and you know wardrobe I’ve coached a lot of people on how to do podcasts and given advice over the years and it’s like start with this and you Know we were doing a little pre-show You know how you know It’s very hard people can get easily distracted by the next shiny object, especially when it comes to entertainment I’ve had a same for years.

It’s usually money a New shiny object lack of funds and I think there’s more money over the over on the other side of the fence Could be what’s called in some industries pukies people just basically dogging. I’m you’re never gonna make it You’re never gonna know. It’s a global blood such a tough industry and you know, just overall just lack of nowadays because the instant on or the Self gratification, you know the tick-tock and YouTube and I can put a show on that instant gratification doesn’t come because they do all this work And they think oh, I got a great idea.

I’m so smart I’m gonna put the shot there and people are gonna watch it and then nobody watches and like well I’m doing this and nobody’s watching it. Well, what did you do to market it? Well, I go and post on Facebook Well, you know Facebook only lets 5% of your people see your shit.

Yeah, no Instagram, you know, are you putting me? Are you talking to the influencers? Are you interviewing anyone that has any?

Credibility they can start adding that weight to your show to get more creditably people on the show You know if you keep filming people that aren’t gonna draw you’re just having instant conversation or what is your scripting like? You know if you’re coming in with a who what why where when tell me about yourself And you’re just using that same format for every show Are you doing any research, you know, did you go to I mean you don’t have to go to college and get a college degree to Do this, you know But did you grab podcasting for dummies which cost thirty four dollars and ninety five cents and you can probably get an outdated version on Amazon for 12 bucks Fifth edition, you know, did you pay 50 bucks to get a ring light? Did you pay 50 bucks to get a microphone?

You know, I mean did you put it in a quiet area? Yeah, I don’t know I can keep going on and on But you know, it sounds like you’re doing good.

[Marquis]
You’ve we all start out somewhere though you know get back to some of my old episodes and kind of be like People were watching Yeah, he was cringing like, you know You see the old video or the audio or what you said back then and how you how you felt back then? Yeah You know

[Darran]
I mean I had people thinking that I was on drugs for half of my episodes in the early days because I was dancing around for four Hours, you know Bouncing up and down for four hours Because there was no audience we were doing a DJ show and how you gonna motivate the and this was no business Totally pre pandemic before anyone thought of watching DJs mainstream online or watching a music show online I mean even you watch a concert in your house and you pay per viewed it You’d still be probably sitting on the couch with a beer watching the show Like you’re watching the Emmys the Grammys or you know and or a Super Bowl halftime show You’re not a dancing with the halftime show cuz you’re watching the halftime. I pay for that. Yeah Pay for the I pay for the Holyfield fight or the Tyson fight.

I’m watching the fight. I’m like, it’s it there But yo, what’s up? What’s up?

What’s up? What’s all you knocked up? I missed it, you know So people weren’t used to that now They’re used to getting content delivered that way But on top of all this, you know the THC podcast you’re a writer now podcaster Entrepreneur and artist tell us a little bit about your writing.

What what type of writing do you do? Is this business in the music field or is this in like literary? What what type of writing do you do?

[Marquis]
Well, I figured I would start Writing. I’ve been a writer like, you know, like I just never wrote like, you know shared my you know My creativity to a certain extent, you know but And I wrote everything and you know, I had genres of you know doing, you know Prime novels doing music talk about music, you know doing all types of stuff But I figured since I was you know doing all this podcast and then doing all these reviews for music Let me start off with something I know right and then people will believe that I know because they see me for a year or so Speaking about hip-hop and rap. So the first couple of books are about hip-hop and Rap, you know and you know a little bit of probably R&B or whatever, you know Maybe a couple rock and roll albums or so, but the first two books That I published were about classic albums or close to classic albums or music that I think that I That People I think people should should know about right, you know I mean like say an album that you know I think you guys should discover because I discovered it and it’s fantastic So those are the first two books and then I started like, you know, I found out learning Through publishing that I can self-publish.

So when I learned about self-publishing I found out I can you know, save money Then I started self-publishing my own books So I do that now currently so I do more ebooks than actual books now and My last ebook actually, you know, my last ebook is it went back to speaking about? EPs because they called EPs neat loves to because a lot of people just do albums sometimes hot singles They don’t really mess with the EPS. So I got a series called EPS me love to and that’s uh, you know, oh, you know on ebooks and I break down six, you know Great EPS, you know with six records a piece and I really like get you know detailed and what information and try to have some fun and humor into it and Highlight the artists and the producers and the drummer or whoever did whatever’s going on.

Somebody’s playing the flute I’m talking about it, right? You know, I mean the triangle right whatever So, you know, I try to give a lot of love, you know for the music, you know, but I do have an ebook About the family and family generations and trying to get them closer together Meaning like if you got two or three generations living it’s an activity book But you can buy as an ebook and you can just you know It’s fun like a funny book of questions and stuff and activities that y’all do together each generation So y’all can learn about and respect each other more, you know before people start dying off Write this stuff as a journalist you pass it on down down to each family member stuff.

[Darran]
It’s you know, it keeps it Yeah, and does this just keep going through the generations after generations?

[Marquis]
Yeah That’s cool. You something like that. So so you’re like and then I’m into my next books, you know I’ve been writing them by just having to put them out yet, but I want to speak about financial independence I want to get people to think about Investing thinking about people doing getting passive income I want people to start thinking differently because you know, like we said you was talking about off-air We stumbled, you know AI and you know things taking taking over a lot of jobs and stuff like that computers and robots you know, so You know, there’s a lot of things that we need to be helping each other on, you know, supporting each other with you know You know connecting each other with using each other’s Connections, you know, you know I can use you but I don’t have to I don’t misuse you You know I’m saying is it different right? So, you know, we just got to keep doing that. So yeah, so the books man I got nine books to That physical form and this is the severest Chronicles volume one and two.

This is the first ones I started You know and you know if they follow me they can you know They can get these books and then the rest of ebooks that you know, like I said the ebook series You know, and then I got the activity book for the family and stuff like that. So yeah, man I’ve been having fun writing and I got other books coming out to like I told you the financial book But then I got other books coming out like, you know erotic books, you know stuff that we can’t party talk about it So I write like that too. I got an imagination.

I Was young once right? Yeah, so Things like that. So but yeah, you know, I love writing.

[Darran]
So yeah I’m gonna take just a quick pause here really quick. I normally don’t do this in mid episode But really quick is my microphone coming in a little bit hotter now Do you notice it by any chance? Check one two, two, two one check Nice it sounds pretty good.

[Marquis]
You mean hot? I mean I got you right here.

[Darran]
How about how about now? Check one, two, two, two one check Still coming in You just did something Okay, I think I figured out what was going on with my microphone earlier in another show okay, I think there’s a Yeah, there’s noise suppression and okay, I said auto gain control I Got it. I see what’s happening.

[Marquis]
You correct me correctly. You got it. You got it

[Darran]
Yeah, I was just making sure that it wasn’t flex because I noticed my input volume was down really low But I think it adjusts to make sure the audio doesn’t go in and out of the show like through a process I didn’t know that was turned on so I was like, oh, okay cool, but back to the show I want to know what right over your right right shoulder should be right left shoulder How many podcasts must get dissed? What is that all about?

[Marquis]
that’s a Podcast that’s I started It’s just a verbal podcast on all the DSPs and it’s called how many podcasts must get this and it’s and it’s different from you Know the visual one I always try to make I made that one and I was and I kind of was doing those more than anything else So there’s like probably a good I don’t know man a good four or five hundred of them You know so people can you know people got to catch up like it’s like and it’s various artists and you got it’s your favorite artist and I you know, I talked to you know About you know their projects and whatever they got going on and I just do detailed breakdowns about you know Who they are, you know and just try to show love man and just show gratitude to who they are as artists and what they do You know in this bow down basically to to them for once in a while, you know, I’m saying so

[Darran]
nice in addition to being a Writer books you all that we just covered you just had a new single to drop to tell our DJ sessions audience about that

[Marquis]
Oh, yeah, so I started like I said, I love music. I love hip-hop and I’ve always had a good ear for music So like I was black. Oh, that’s gonna be a hit.

That’s gonna be a hit like, you know I just hear something and then it’s a hit people like how you know that I’m like, I don’t know so I Always wanted to exactly produce music. So eventually I got into music, you know from doing these podcasts From reviewing people’s music connecting with artists connecting with producers now. We’re talking on the phone now We’re connecting we’re exchanging information emails what he’s on my show.

She’s on my show You know what, you know all sharing stuff and then you know, I’m doing You know the action for my voice and it’s stealing my voice for their projects using my voice for their projects acting for my voice for their projects and You know, I’m just on people’s projects. And then next thing I know I’m like People love my what was going on? And then I got an idea to start doing You know Stories through music so I got a lot of that going on, you know So I kind of created an artist for myself But what I really mainly do is an executive producer and I work with rappers producers singers Anybody that you know, but you know, that’s that’s willing to work and put out quality music So my most recent single I put out is called Well, I just put out two single but I’m gonna tell you about this one’s called Good times this one’s got good time, you know, like the show good times the show back in the day So it’s called good times it’s featuring rapper main the medicine and rapper son Lee and some leaves a female rap actually so so, you know, they going back and forth and you know and it’s produced by skip the kid and Mix and master by kebby music and executive produced by me.

So I got everybody together I get the producers I get the beats Sometime my body beats sometime I get they give them to me for free because but you know We’re friends and you know family kind of now But you know, we we’ve been knowing each other two three five years through Twitter through Instagram, you know Never really met these guys, but I feel like that my brothers or my sister when I’m talking to them You know on the phone or whatever, you know I’ve met some of them, you know, I met some artists some artists came to Boston some I went to go see, you know So, you know, it’s like, you know, these these these relationships are becoming real, you know, and so I’m getting you know Favors from them, you know, they gave favors for me. So, you know, it was helping each other out and trying to build so yeah That’s that’s that’s that’s the gist of it.

[Darran]
You know, I Had that on because some sirens are going Connections that you make in the industry, you know, I was doing an interview with somebody last week They’re in New York’s the surfing DJs and this time, you know, I got to make it back as New York I love going there. I love that city. There’s some awesome nightclubs.

I can’t wait to get back out there again hopefully this year and They were just like you’re seeing really cool. You know, you gave us an awesome interview We got a spare bedroom come stay with us. We live in lower Manhattan.

I’m like, okay Around the world, you know Traveling and like hey, if you get over here have some fun with us, you know, we’ll show you where to go We’ll show you where to have fun. So it’s fun knowing locals in the town that know. Yeah.

Yeah, you got to do

[Marquis]
The craft beer spots, they know the good good, you know, they know the agent spots that are great

[Darran]
They know the chicken spots or whatever you into my biggest one is knowing where the best food spots are

[Marquis]
the wine spots or whatever

[Darran]
You know I’m going into You know hip-hop that’s kind of your overall, you know your background what you really cover getting all in that We’re normally electronic music show But there’s a question I’ve always been itching to ask and we’re starting to reach out a little bit more and more to people More more genres of music as it gets out there because DJs DJs don’t just play electronic music. They play hip-hop. They you know, they play down tempo They can you know play polka if they really wanted to, you know, I have a polka DJ, you know, yeah, but you know Here’s a question.

I’ve been wanting to ask for why I said hip-hop has had a Turntablism culture for many years. I mean like scratching and mixing and in DJing, you know Yeah, do you feel that EDM DJs electronic music these I hate using the word EDM Electronic music DJs Should become a bit more creative when it comes to mixing on average as opposed to you know You see a hip-hop DJ and they’re gonna mix Mix it up tear it up, you know, but electronic music you see a lot and they’re they’re mixing they’re bringing it together but there isn’t any I Don’t want to say not there’s no technique. I’m gonna get I’m gonna get murdered for saying this probably I Mean I say there isn’t technique, but I mean that I mean there are tricks you can do with the different functions And you know, but you see a lot of DJ and they’re just mixing the music. They’re not Throwing a bunch of effects and I’m not saying all these some DJs do do that Some DJs get have fun playing with those effects and really getting in and creating interesting music I mean Carl Cox when I saw him answer him a couple years back three years ago, you know He was reinventing himself all over again in a sense and he goes here’s what I want to do now I have a laptop and I have one CDJ with me and I’m making music live on the fly I might use the CDJ to crack in a track and mix it in with what’s going on to play a top song But I’m making a show and you’re never gonna see the same performance twice You know and I might put this song in but I might throw this over top of it I’m gonna make a completely different show every single time and he goes that’s where DJs could transcend and go to that level it almost like a Hip-hop show the hip-hop DJ. They’re not gonna hit my go but at the next show you see my mic You know, yeah, that’s my scratching sound I’m not the guy from But yeah, but I mean they can do a little bit more get a little bit crazier with you know, I Would say I would almost say there is turntable ism and then there’s mixing tracks I guess do you see a distinction there?

And do you think that should blend more in to the electronic music world?

[Marquis]
No, I think It’s funny that you said that because I think they Have their own lanes. Let’s put it that way. Like I don’t yeah You know these times I want to listen to maybe these times I want to listen to Was it electronic what’s this called?

I don’t want to call it EDM say electronic what no electronic music Yeah, electronic music, whatever. Sometimes if I want to listen to electronic music and those DJs those type of DJs I Expect that it’s like going to a reggae club and I know they’re gonna play two seconds each record And if they don’t I’m not in a reggae club You know a real reggae club Club man, they play three seconds Oh, that’s my song you get up to dance by time you get to the dance floor They got three of the songs that played I’m like

[Darran]
Yeah

[Marquis]
The whole record it’s already a man. Yeah, man. I’m promoting promoting stuff.

We got this tonight clock tonight, man You’re like what? So that’s the real, you know, so EDM you got you got hip-hop, you know Oh, they want to call a boom bap or you know, when you say hip-hop yeah, I guess you want to say more hip-hop than rap because Scratches the element and then it goes into hip-hop rap is an element that goes into hip-hop.

[Darran]
You know I’m saying rapper hip-hop is different And if you could change one thing that bothers you from a hip-hop music scene today What would that be? And how would you go about doing it?

[Marquis]
If I was like president of hip-hop or something like that man, I would I would have to you know, I won’t I won’t do the dictatorship like like Trump but I probably would uh, I have some some good rules and regulations and Get get a good cast of members around me get some good legends around me like some MC lights and some some Um, you know some some I don’t know eat, you know, Eric Sermons around me that you know Some people that are smart, you know and then Well, you know what we’ll talk about You know how hip-hop should Have rules and regulations, you know what I’m saying? You can have another branch of hip-hop You can have drill or you’re gonna have whatever it is the new kids. It’s calling whatever right?

You can have that but you have to learn and respect and have another history of the actual roots You know, you can have that branch, you know, because it’s already a tree hip-hop’s a tree. It’s different branches now You know, but the roots man the roots

[Darran]
You know, you know, I think that was a that was the thing is, uh, you know growing up you know there what I Always used hip-hop is like intelligent rap music, you know, it wasn’t necessarily gangster rap which really kind of started taking over in the mid kind of mid the late 80s certainly in that way, but I would go back and you know, I really liked like the KRS-one boogie down productions tribe called quest, you know Those early era days of where you had this educated rap poetry rap Okay, I’m not saying it isn’t all poetry that isn’t all music that sense But it wasn’t about you know, like the M&M album said when he’s getting chewed out on the album He’s like, you know why Dre’s album is just sound so well It’s about blunts 40s and bitches you’re rapping about homosexuals and bike it in get the shit out of here.

You’re not coming out It’s not coming out, you know and and and seeing that you know that change of even you know I mean I was heavily into NWA love NWA love too short You know and then it started getting in the you know, the biggie Tupac and then you know To all the others. I know I’m dropping some big big names. There were a slew of other names Yeah, of course the big names if you don’t remember everybody, of course, but you know you know just I And now you get into this like I don’t want to say that I’m the old dog I mean, I’m 50 just turned 50 last year 51 this regulation, but thank you.

Thank you. I just the mumble rap I’m just like I don’t get it.

[Marquis]
I Mean, I guess it has a thing and that’s the thing. Don’t get it and then go don’t get it.

[Darran]
Yeah Yeah, I mean, I don’t knock it.

[Marquis]
I’m just like People like oh you had the new this and knew that I’m like, that’s not my steel. Oh, that’s not my style You know if I do hear some drill or some trap That’s you know, you know acquiring to my eardrums I will review it, you know, yeah It could it’s just like that for anything country. It could be like that for you know R&B or whatever whatever it is out there, you know, so I’m open to just good music quality music I never got offended when you know The youngsters or the Y ends or whatever.

They want to call themselves when they when they have their own lane.

[Darran]
We had our own lane Yeah, yeah fair enough fair enough. I mean, yeah, just it’s interesting with the progression of it is going You know, but will there be a resurgence of getting back to that? What I was called like classical Rap where it’s like or being used to further a political message Don’t see that’s the thing.

[Marquis]
A lot of people say you got to look for that type of rap if You just follow me on my youtube channel You see that type of rap. You don’t have to search for it. You’re gonna find all the Groups that sound like public enemy that took over for public in you’re gonna find all the groups that took over for tribe called quest But they’re not named tribe called quest.

They’re called something else You know what? I mean? Like you’re gonna find all the rock Kim’s, you know, but they might be named different names You know, but they’re on my channel I’m doing all the research in a deep dive in when people say, you know, where’s the rock Kim’s?

Where’s the Nazis? Well, what about ransom? What about?

rim, what about You know Rome streets, you know What about great God you what about Aida? What about Taj Malik like I’m naming some of these rappers that? You know are just as good as the ones that we all know and love mm-hmm and then stay stuck in that genre hip-hop has never been lost like It’s just been underground and it’s been you know, it’s been like what they say kind of like crafted to Only be trapped or crafted only to be you know, like that the top labels only wanted This you know if they wanted quality hip-hop they know where it’s at they know who they know who’s and sometimes some of that quality those quality rappers are ghostwriters for Those pop stars and that’s how they still stay paid and stay stay living

[Darran]
Yeah That’s gonna be I’m glad you brought that up because that kind of segues into another topic I want to talk to you right after right after we roll up at this one You know AI and the influence of AI and how that’s coming in and some stuff there But before we get into that topic who has been your biggest influence when it comes to your career as an artist Podcaster writer.

I mean, I guess I’m giving you you could have one for each of those categories But is there anyone that comes to mind really when and even entrepreneur, you know, I mean to do all this really Yeah, I like the fact you put in writer podcaster and artists because those are three to me those fall on the artist side of Things you put it entrepreneur the business side of things people sometimes don’t focus on you know But is there one that comes to mind that culminates all of that together and says this is somebody I really Admire strive to I read their works.

I followed them or their teachings are awesome or just You don’t have to really go that deep. It’d be like this person inspired me Do you have somebody that that is or a name or two it is all goes back to my single mom’s that’s it Hi, thank you.

[Marquis]
My mom’s raising me man raising me and my sister Doing construction. She’s an artist too and she’s a writer and she’s the right place she even had one actually be you know be performed and But she’s also a cop at the construction worker. So I saw her Kind of like a manly role at the time back then, you know, you know black woman She had a lot of strikes against the black woman construction worker and She was killing it.

She was one of the best, you know But they would still look over her for their boy that they order cousin. They just hired, you know I came in for one week and she’s been there for two years, you know Yeah, you know he’s in a union but the Union act like they support him, but they’re not she’s black and she’s a woman So Seeing her Go through a lot made me Stronger it made me like who I am kinda, you know, I’m saying like it made me do bad things to help her out Because we was in tough situations in the projects, but you know Eventually when I can do good things You know and I got got college degrees and I became you know, a good father and started doing good things I started using that energy for good things like like like you see you read the bio my body like wow This guy does everything does he does he is he the president too? Is he is it who is this guy, right? but if I don’t spend that energy in writing reading researching and You know podcasts and all this other stuff I’ll probably be you know in Rikers Island or so, you know, I’m saying like I probably you know, and you know I just you know, I probably be somewhere I shouldn’t be you know, so

[Darran]
with the advent of having to do it like you and I probably I Don’t want to say other people haven’t put in the hard work the labor the blood sweat tears But you know the term going out and pounding the pavement Back when I wanted to research stuff and I was starting out becoming a Going from a production assistant to an over glorified an over glorified production assistant to the official title of associate producer I would go to Barnes & Noble and I didn’t have money to buy the books and I would just plop one of the books off the shelf plop on the chair sit down read the book and make notes and put it back on The shelf and say have a nice day because you couldn’t find the Barnes & Noble books necessarily in the library

[Marquis]
Yeah, yeah, you’re right.

[Darran]
Not the ones you wanted to that in the self-help books. They didn’t have every bars

[Marquis]
No, the real good ones are the ones that just came out, you know, it just came out

[Darran]
Yeah, they didn’t have that

[Marquis]
So, you know, they only had like two or three copies and they got they’re going back and forth to six libraries

[Darran]
Yeah, you know and even even Amazon was still, you know You probably buy them but you could buy the book online and download but still had to buy it to get access to it And you know, it wasn’t yeah Basically, I guess that pound of the pavements being out on the streets in the cold weather Walking uphill both ways in the snow with no shoes on, you know You know, I think that was we’re talking about that a little bit earlier about how so many people can go Oh, it’s so great. Look at me. I’m an influencer.

I can pick up. I’m an influence.

[Marquis]
I’m an info I’m an info and it’s like yeah, and it works with some people and it works, you know good for them, but you know, it kind of it kind of defeats the purpose of us doing a lot of hard work and not a Yeah rhyme then, you know, we get you know, you know, a hundred hundred likes and they get three thousand because they got Curves or something or they look pretty or something.

[Darran]
I don’t know Well, I mean I just had a guy take a video of our truck less than a minute video of our mobile studio driving through Seattle the other day last Friday and at last count as of this morning Both on tik-tok and Instagram and had a total combined of over 60,000 views Wow, just that just that one video going to one day or 30 on 30,000 on each Platform. Yeah, and I like wow. Well, I’m gonna invite you to come on my show I know like come on over

[Marquis]
You connect like and that’s how like I don’t really chase the fame but I chase People I like and hopefully they give me those views So if you see all the guests at all my shows These are actual people I really want to interview that I had questions for without even thinking about You know I’m saying like without even research and I’m just looking at somebody and I’m like, oh, oh, yeah Okay, if I interview this person they say yeah, I already got ten questions for him I don’t even have to think about it and do research like because I’m such a fan, right? So most of the people at least probably 99.9% of the people you’d see me interview on the THAC podcast and we break down Albums together and we talk and have fun. There are people I really want to speak with you know, so you’re gonna see like genuine Conversation genuine fun like we’re really at those are real conversations.

[Darran]
Those ain’t there’s nothing fake or stage, you know, so I don’t do that And speaking it speaking about, you know faking it Just recently heard this isn’t probably the last two weeks You know, we hear the whole rise of AI chat bot chat GPT all that fun stuff I’m even taking some back-end courses right now. Just have a basic understanding of Yeah, watch each of these ten things do because I you know And somebody said if you’re over 40 years old and you’re using chat GPT like Google you’re using it wrong, you know What can I do to increase and I’ve done some really cool innovation some cool stuff using AI to help me out with certain tasks Is it cheating or is it helping me out?

[Marquis]
You know, I’m like It’s not cheating. You know, I I always thought that too. It’s not cheating because if you when you Because I use GPT and I just use one I use a Deep seat, you know, it’s the China one.

It’s supposed to be better, right? So anyway so It’s just you know, that’s all I’m saying. It’s supposed to be the best.

But anyway, so I’m using the best whatever So it gets to know you every time I’m asking questions so I could ask something from three months ago It’s gonna be like yeah, I remember we had that conversation The da da da da da da and tell me what’s going on and like give me more information on it or whatever So, um, and it’s it’s becoming it’s kind of like becoming you in a sense, right? It’s like it’s kind of so it knows your your writing style a little bit, you know So if I said, yeah, give me a quick note About this this and that and I want to post it on Instagram. So I wanted to be too long Everybody did it and I’ll be reading and going I was Yeah, I would have said that like, you know, it’s just not really cheating It’s just sometimes you take you don’t take the whole thing.

You just You just read it and then you just go. Oh that parts kind of good.

[Darran]
I’ll take that and then reword that You know, my question is is this is this is interesting that you start saying it gets to know you and know your behavior My question is this Do you see this could be a question to you or just the general rhetorical but do I Should let me word it like this Do you think people should be saying like to Siri or to AI? When they ask it to do something, do you think they should be thanking AI as in like if I go? Hey Siri Set an alarm for 15 minutes Thank you, Siri Now if AI is tracking your conversations in a way you’re interacting with it No, would AI now start to have a more pleasant experience with you as a user interface as opposed to Hey Siri I’m not gonna go.

I’m gonna say something bad, but I’m gonna do that.

[Marquis]
I Get your point, but you know what?

[Darran]
Give you a better experience or what? It’s like fine. I’m just gonna give you a cold answer.

[Marquis]
I’m not gonna be personable It becomes more personable. It’s yeah, Gary’s homes.

[Darran]
It’s that scary Sorry, goodbye, Siri Think about it.

[Marquis]
It knows everything that’s ever been written on a computer. Yeah, right So, you know and then it’s like updating every two seconds or whatever right and then you know, I mean so and it’s fact-checking like Like it’s like insane Places like it’s making sure like it gives you the closest, you know information. That’s factual And then yeah, you can double check that if you want, you know

[Darran]
And that’s the one thing they say about AI is, you know, if people are using it to create malicious stuff That’s one thing like I created a whole website That I could have wrote myself, but I created it You know a few pages had chat GBT go in and say create this page create this page create this page create this page Keyword keyword keyword do do do do do do all of it was 100% factual information on my silent disco headset company There was no there wasn’t say make it sound like it’s the greatest thing in the world.

It’s gonna replace this in it You know, I didn’t know it was all just factual information about silent disco headset and silent discotheque based based on copy that I already had Created myself and it just wrote it was like damn. This is kind of really cool But I was watching something the other day or saw something probably a while ago Maybe six months maybe more than six months ago tile de grassy It’s not as full tile. No, no, see you Kneel kneel grass.

Thank you kneels aggressive. He came out saying the problem with AI it’s gonna basically destroy social media Because you’re not gonna know if somebody’s if that’s a them really posting it be they throw it in chat GBT and copy pasted See, is that even a real person? You know and they just did it it was during that I think it was during the NBA Finals.

It was either Final Four NBA Finals. This company went out and made a commercial and Where they would have spent $50,000 plus production on the commercial or haul this money just make this commercial. They went out generated a commercial in AI for two thousand bucks And put it up during the during the games and you’re looking at all the people and everything’s going crazy in this commercial going This looks like a well-produced high fidelity badass commercial for 30 seconds.

[Marquis]
They produce this for 2,000 bucks Yeah They paid 2,000 bucks I could find some some free AI on there and Drawing programs and video programs and music programs for free and shoot. I’m surprised they paid 2,000

[Darran]
The executive producer took 1,500 of it

[Marquis]
But you know, yeah exactly so but yeah, man is a I scary but I think You know, this is how they’re gonna do cuz you know, they’re gonna talk about security security security You know, this is how you tell, you know Whatever if you have this button on and you have to pay a monthly fee from Verizon and whoever else You know

[Darran]
Get that meta badge of certification

[Marquis]
Yeah, it’s gonna be it’s gonna be you know, it’s gonna be saw another cost

[Darran]
Well, it was interesting because also recently, you know Timberland Signed the first ever AI artists that the first AI artists signed

[Marquis]
And it’s I gotta stop.

[Darran]
You gotta Where does that go? No, he got it. You gotta stop and if the artist is cranking out music and it’s selling albums You gotta stop now.

Here’s the thing like but does somebody own that entity? Is that like a cart like owning Mickey Mouse and that person is in control of what that artist produces? Or how does I’m wondering how that deal?

[Marquis]
Here’s the thing. Did you see how you see Lupe? He did the experiment?

Who paid he asked go to rapper, huh? Didn’t see the experiment, you know He I think he teaches classes at MIT now or Harvard one of those one of those so anyway, and He’s he takes this You know rap he raps with AI He raps with AI AI gives him a verse he has a verse they get the other verse and So what he does he really puts the song out, but it gives AI credit Right and he does the and he shows the whole Song process is how he did it. They work with AI and Sometimes use a verse sometimes use that sometimes didn’t use it. So if he did use it, he gave AI credit So, I don’t know AI gets paid.

I have no maybe it’s a company that does that AI. I don’t know I don’t know if you have to X XM, right?

[Darran]
But yeah, I mean like who gets the royalties who’s a Train, I don’t know.

[Marquis]
Maybe maybe just maybe he just does I’m not sure But I could see you experiment with it and getting to know with it because you’d like you said you’re gonna you’re learning about it Yeah, I mean I’m learning about it. I’m Behind you. You don’t want to be left behind.

You got to learn about it. You got it. Don’t be scared of scared of it Don’t run.

[Darran]
I had I have a guy I Work with this magazine that I’m Affiliated with where I’m gonna start publishing articles and the magazine guy goes look I have worked with writers with this magazine I’ve known them for years and they used to write their own articles now We’ll throw them through the AI generator say is this article that they wrote is this AI generated and boom It comes up red flag and going this whole thing was AI generated.

It’s like these. Yeah articles aren’t even Peter That’s why I love like our formats You can’t fake the funk on this unless I make myself an AI character my AI characters interviewing you But the spontaneity, I mean, is it gonna be that quick where it’s like, oh that is I’m gonna be like max headroom Hey, hey, hey, hey drew Him from the 80s, you know, you know, it could I become could I would I ever have the first AI? DJ on my show and interview them and what would that interview look like or It might happen.

[Marquis]
Yeah, it might happen. I’m sure You’re thinking like Like like it’s going out because it could happen Because all this other stuff is happening and it’s you know, it’s and you got to think about this. I tell people all the time The stuff that we have access to now Is 30 years old.

[Darran]
That’s true 100% I tell people that all the time when I when I was working for Apple you got to understand there are indeed development people are 30 years sometimes way ahead of what they’re doing the future that won’t be released for years to come I mean when they were working on switching Mac computers Over from the IBM chip. I know this is computer talk, but they were on from the IBM chip to the Intel chip I was in LA when Steve Jobs announced this and it was kind of a closed circuit It wasn’t a broadcast open wide as a internal company wide thing. He was talking about and And he talked about the switch he goes Shows a camp map of Cupertino campus.

He goes by the way Have you guys all been wondering what’s been going on up here in this map in this corner of the building? This is where we’ve been dealing this with with the Intel chips for the last five years See, so they were already working on Intel chips five years knowing they were gonna phase out IBM No, and they were gonna do that stuff. That’s what the super secret team is doing.

I can’t you think they were doing that for five Years, they were probably doing it longer than that and the iPhone How long do you think the before in 2007 for the iPhone got cracked it went boom how long they were developing that I Worked for Apple. You could see little bits and pieces of it coming out in the operating system has new things were coming out going hmm widgets Widgets became apps on a condensed version of iOS You know, they were putting in an OS in the operating system. She’s like, wait a second.

Here’s a widget. Here’s a widget Well now you have the weather app which was a widget on a computer on the desktop widget You know, here’s your stock market widget or here’s this widget which went right into iOS and they were doing a lot of beta testing I’m people man. Yeah, they’re way ahead of the game

[Marquis]
Now AI is AI and just just the technology in general man is really important and it is key that if you are Capable of you know taking care of yourself that you need to know And be upgraded to whatever’s going on just put it that way now if you’re like, yeah, you’re too young to take it yourself Of course, you don’t need to know you’re too old to take it Of course, you don’t need to know but somebody like me and you I don’t care we’re 50 years old or not, we need to know what’s going on and he didn’t know how to operate it and maybe Create things from it make money from it use it in a positive manner. I mean and that’s That’s it’s funny.

[Darran]
You bring that up if you don’t stay in touch with it That was another video is gonna bring up on Facebook the other day I saw this some random guy don’t know who he was posted a video and he said I had to show this and share this to my grandparents Today and I showed him the video first and they said Just like even in the video at the end of the video says this was all generated with AI This was generated with AI. This is this crowd was generated with AI This video and everything news reporter doing everything looks just like if you didn’t know You wouldn’t even know what to look for you like Holy shit, you know, this was generated there and how much misinformation is gonna be out there You know, it’s even happening. I won’t get into current politics, but it’s happening out there, you know Yeah, it is happening.

[Marquis]
And this is why I did I do my show was I want True hip-hop facts to be out there from you know, of course, I’m not gonna solve it myself But I could be at least someone to help there’s others that you know other podcasts is that you know We group up and talk and you know, I mean, you know have a conversation. So, you know, there’s other Allies, you know, so we’re just trying to make sure There’s not a lot of hip-hop trumps going on like it’s recently Jim Jones Jim Jones been running around saying he’s better than Styles P Jim Jones said he’s better than Nas like I think I saw something about that and they were Like What like Jones you gotta you got Jimmy you gotta relax you gotta relax

[Darran]
Yeah You know, yeah, you bring that up and it’s um, oh there was something I was gonna

[Marquis]
But I’m just saying like, you know, it’s fake news in a sense, you know that you don’t you want to talk about You know, whatever but that is that’s what it is, you know

[Darran]
Well, you know that’s that’s what I was gonna bring up but that’s the one thing I was talking about earlier about an article being generated in AI or sometimes I get you know, I won’t knock anyone’s way. They want to do press, but you know, I’ll get articles sent to me that That I’ll get a request for an interview with me and they’ll just send me ten questions and have me fill in the blanks When I get those I’m like, right you’re gonna get 5,000 to 7,500 words Have fun either publishing that whole thing or you’re gonna have to do some editing.

I’m not gonna bring that down so long story short, you know, I’m glad that now what we do is I transcribe all my episodes and and that way obviously, it’s gonna be picked up by Google the Internet and it’s gonna be out there and all that and and You know that fun stuff, but you know, hey, we were been rapping for a while here. And you know what? I know it’s getting late out there I’m gonna I’m gonna wrap things up here with the show, you know and Nice use of that little private chat room, by the way.

I love that feature Marquis is there anything else you want to let our DJ sessions fans know about before we let you go?

[Marquis]
No, I just want them to tap into quality real hip-hop I want people to stop saying hip-hop is dead and they they looking for hip-hop just come to my channel on YouTube Follow me on Instagram, you know at severely yours underscore Yours underscore on on on Instagram man, you can find Quality hip-hop. I mean all types of hip-hop is on everything that you like in the 90s I have artists that sound just like them You know and saying that I review and talk about so on so many occasions So just follow me join me join my movement. It’s all about positivity.

It’s all about quality Music in general not just hip-hop but music in general and just having fun man And you know I’m saying and you know trying to put a smile on someone’s face, you know, and I want everybody to check on The strong check on the weak check on a cat check on the old the new whatever because I just had a friend recently commit suicide man, and it’s not it’s really depressing and He was one of the one of the leaders so so imagine so I want you guys to check on not just the weak people But the strong the people that you think got it all together you know, so and Everybody needs love everybody needs everybody. You never know what someone’s someone’s going through something, you know I mean so check on your people’s love your people Hug your friends check on your friends text them call them do something.

[Darran]
I’m something Absolutely, absolutely good messaging there good message. Well, we’ll follow up We’ll catch up with you here in the near future future to see what’s going on Marquis was a pleasure having you on the show, you know again That was severely severely yours severely underscore yours underscore there. It is up again on the screen Once again, go check out Marquis Walker coming in from Boston.

All right I’m your host Darren and you know what? That’s another episode of the DJ sessions presents the virtual sessions Don’t forget to go to our website the DJ sessions calm. We have 2,600 past episodes 700 plus news stories a month that go out there our merch stores there help donate to the cause get us going We just launched a new music section there You’re gonna see more artists coming out there all different genres Super excited about that the site wide player to listen some tunes while you’re browsing through the site our virtual reality nightclub Also in VR chat look for more stuff happening in there You can find out all that and more and our socials just go to the DJ sessions calm once again, I’m Darren That’s Marquis coming in from Boston I’m in Seattle for the DJ sessions and remember on the DJ sessions the music never stops