- I'm Diplo,
and we're gonna "Throw it Back" with Billboard.
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- The first photo is my first time at the Grammys.
I was nominated for Record of the Year
with Switch cause he mixed it,
I produced "Paper Planes," and I had a flask.
I didn't think I was ever gonna be invited
back to the red carpet,
so we were acting like complete assholes at the Grammys.
But it's a good photo.
♪ Biggie bounce, biggie bounce. ♪
- Oh this is a video from "Biggie Bounce."
A great video.
We shot this in Atlanta 'cause I was there for a layover
and we had like five thousand dollars and we went to like a
Union Hall or whatever.
There were people that were playing poker.
They were playing checkers or something.
Bingo.
And we just, said could we shoot there.
I brought a little DJ setup
and I played and all the elderly people were excited.
We danced on the tables.
I miss that shirt.
I used to wear suits when I DJ'ed.
Like three piece suits.
That's Major Lazer.
This is actually what my life was like, actually.
This kind of party.
♪ Blow a kiss, fire a gun. ♪
This is me doing some dance moves in India,
for the "Lean On" video.
Another like, kinda low budget video we shot.
But this was a huge hit.
It was actually the first independent record
to go No. 1 on the Top 40 Radio,
and I think it reached the top two or three
in Billboard's Hot 100.
We self-released it, shot the video in India.
During three shows, we had two days off
and Karen MØ flew to Bombay
and we shot the video in the suburbs,
on an amazing set and the girls were so good.
The dancers were great.
We learned the choreography like in 20 minutes
and you can kinda tell but the girls look good
and Karen looks awesome.
And that was "Lean On,"
one of the biggest records I wrote.
Alright, next one is my Instagram, talking to Madonna,
about how much I love her.
Yeah I love Madonna so much.
I used to be a huge fan of Madonna.
One of my first vinyl records ever was 'Physical Attraction'
Basically she was like my first, like idea of a pop star.
So when I got to meet her and hang out with her
and work with her it was like a dream come true.
And I've done I think like four songs,
six songs with her now.
And we're friends, we speak a lot so,
she's one of my heroes, I love her.
This is my very first Grammy performance.
I thought I would never get invited back but they did.
And I pretended to play the keyboards here
for "Where Are U Now," which won two Grammys, Jack U song.
I actually did play the drums live
but the keyboards were kinda like,
little, it wasn't really that real.
And then the drummer was the drummer from Incubus.
And then Justin Bieber forgot some of the lyrics.
♪ I'm gonna get it right ♪
- This one is "Get It Right,"
we shot like a one shot video of us
dancing to a song we made together.
That came out on Mad Decent.
It was super fun to make the video.
The video set looked awesome, great lighting.
And I learned to do this choreography
and if you check out my Instagram
you'll see me dancing all the time, I'm a great dancer.
♪ Roof on fire, we be high like a wheelie ♪
That was a great video, I actually never watched this video,
all the way through.
I'm skydiving in it, it's the song I did with Lil Pump,
French Montana, Zhavia Ward.
If you go to any sports game this year or last year,
you've heard this song it's like a huge arena song
for basketball games, football games.
It went Platinum, it was the lead single for
the 'Deadpool 2' movie
and the video is actually really dope.
Yeah LSD was a secretly kinda big album.
Maddie taking the place of Sia in the video,
she's an amazing dancer.
This was the biggest song, "Thunderclouds."
Got over 300 million streams.
And the video was so amazing,
we had the same director do a couple videos for us
and it has this sort of psychedelic,
trippy world that we're in.
As the band and the way we dress and the way we sound.
And I love that project, I hope we can do some more.
I have a song with Sia and Labrinth
on the next Major Lazer album though,
so it's as close as we get to a new LSD project.
Alright, this is my promotional Instagram,
that's probably my most viewed Instagram.
I'm dancing to Dua Lipa and Silk City's "Electricity."
Silk City is another group I've started with Mark Ronson,
we do kind of a New York house music sound.
And this song was like No. 1 dance record
for many many weeks, on Billboard.
Wow, the spin.
The thing.
No wonder it's got five million views,
this is a good video.
This is another good video of me winning a Grammy last year.
I found it at 7/11.
I forget what Grammy that was.
Oh the "Electricity" Grammy, that's the one I won.
Anyway that's my all my accolades.
Lot of Grammys in here, a lot of Grammy moments.
Good stuff.
The best thing was probably the Travis Porter video
for "Biggie Bounce" at the VFW in Atlanta,
that was like probably the most unique highlight.
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