- Hello, I'm professional DJ Cody Ko,
and this is my protege, Dillon Francis.
(house music)
- [Both] And we're here to find the real DJ.
(imitating record scratching)
- I'm a DJ.
- I'm a DJ. - I'm a DJ.
- I'm a DJ. - I'm a DJ!
- I'm a DJ.
(house music)
- [Cody] Let's go down the line.
- [Dillon] Mhmm.
- Give us your real name and then your DJ name.
- My name is Rocco, AKA DJ Lovelike.
- My name is Gabriel, AKA DJ Meeks Master.
- Meeks Master?
- Yeah. It's a play on my last name, Meeks.
- My name is Jade, AKA J Nikole.
- Is that your last name? - No, it's my middle name.
My middle name is Nicole.
But I needed to make it sound like super,
you know, pizzazz-y.
- Okay. - Okay, cool.
- My name is Jess, AKA Rain Girl.
- Rain girl?
- My middle name's Lorraine, so, it's an homage to that.
- You guys are all, I like the middle name derivative.
It's almost as if you're copying what the last person did.
Hmm...
- What's up, I'm Tommy. Also known as DJ Evil Laugh.
You know, I might hit it a little-
- Is your middle name Evil Laugh?
(all laughing)
DJ Evil Laugh?
- I got a little, (laughing maniacally), you know?
- Hopefully that's a recording 'cause that one sucked.
(all laughing)
- Yeah, I got a audio thing. I don't do it myself.
(maniacal laughter)
- Hi, my name is Cassandra, AKA DJ Afi.
- Afi? What's that mean?
- The Samoan word for fire.
- [Cody] Ooh!
- [Dillon] Do you guys like music?
(all laughing)
- [Gabriel] Love.
- [Dillon] He laughed.
- He did, he did the evil laugh.
Do you guys like music?
(imitating maniacal laughing)
He said, I love it!
- Yes. - [Cody] You love music?
- Dude, you have no idea.
- [Dillon] What are your DJ pet peeves?
- When a drunk white girl goes up to you
and asks you to play their friend's song on SoundCloud.
It's not even on Spotify.
- Oh my God.
- Yeah. That was very specific.
- [Dillon] I don't think I've that one before.
- Mr. Brightside. The Killers.
- [Dillon] Okay.
- I am so sick of being asked to play
Mr. Brightside by The Killers.
Every single gig, it comes up at least once.
(exhales)
- When someone has their phone requesting a song
and they're like eight miles in the crowd
and I can't see it.
So I'm just like DJing like, what?
- [Cody] Yeah, okay.
Jade did this and she went (imitating disc scratching)
She didn't do the (imitating disc scratching),
but she, you know, did the hand gesture.
That's like the classic like cliche
that you don't actually do.
- Yeah.
- Because like you don't like play on vinyl.
- Yeah.
- When you show up to a bar and it's a different setup
than you're used to and you're trying,
like you've got five minutes before you're going on
and you're trying to figure out, like,
that's my pet peeve, when my stuff doesn't work
at a place that I'm playing, so.
- Okay.
- I think mine is probably like when you cut the beat
to have them sing along and they don't (record scratch)
and then you're like, oh my bad.
(all laughing)
I was just playing y'all. Yeah, forget it.
- That's when the evil laugh comes in.
- That's when you hit the evil laugh!
(maniacal laughing)
- When people that you're working with
don't have their equipment.
You know, I feel like people always come to the DJ.
(bell ringing)
- You know what my favorite track to play is, ever?
- What?
- Subscribe to Jubilee. It goes off in the club.
♪ Subscribe to Jubilee, Subscribe to Jubilee ♪
- I'm not familiar with that. I'm gonna it Shazam it.
- Shazam it.
♪ Subscribe to Jubilee, Subscribe to Jubilee ♪
- Oh, it's just called Subscribe to Jubilee.
(dramatic music)
- [Cody] (bleep), I don't know.
(dramatic music)
- Yeah, yeah.
(dramatic music)
- Sorry, Jade. - Sorry, Jade.
(buzzer sounds) - [Jade] Damn.
- [Cody] Sorry.
- [Dillon] Sorry, nothing personal.
- [Cody] DJ Nikole!
- Jade's name actually stood out as suspicious to me.
- Yeah, same. I feel like if you had to
make up a DJ name on the spot,
you would use your middle name.
- Yeah. But didn't Meeks Master do that too?
Wait, didn't the whole line of people do that?
- Yeah. Yeah. His name was actually Evil Laugh.
(maniacal laughing)
- His middle name! - Yeah.
(upbeat music)
- All right, so setting the scene.
They got me, DJ Lovelike, here in the building.
So your boy gotta turn it up, fo sho.
(EDM music)
(panting)
Jubilee, what the (bleep) is up?
What? No, this isn't Spotify.
I can't just download stuff, like, this is Serato!
Jubilee, one, two, three, let's go!
(EDM music)
- [Cody] Fast as (bleep). Oh my God, yeah.
- [Rocco] (vocalizing)
Drop the beat! Ay, ay, ay.
(bell ringing)
- Nice work. Very high energy. Super (bleep) fast.
- I think if I were to take anything out of the routine,
I would take the machine gun shooting beats.
- Yeah. - It's in the moment.
- I'm gonna digest that fully.
- What genre of music were you playing?
- Indie. - Indie?
(all laughing)
DJ Meeks Master.
- All right. - [Dillon] Okay!
- [Cody] What's the scene?
(both chuckling)
- What up, party people?
As we're heading on further into the evening-
- He's from NPR.
- Here's Metallica.
Now, we're coming up with a commonly requested song.
Coming up next, we've got none other than Mr. Brightside!
Let's turn it up!
(rock music)
- Bro, you listened!
He listened!
- [Dillon] Thank you.
- [Cody] Thank you.
(rock music)
Oh, what's that?
(clock ticking)
(bell ringing)
- DJ Meeks Master, that was fantastic.
I also like that you were using the tempo as
like a theremin flute.
(both laughing)
- Gotta hit 'em with what they don't see coming.
(both laughing)
- Rain Girl.
- Rain Girl. Let's see what you got.
- It's a weekend. Half the group in the crowd,
they like what I'm playing.
- [Dillon] Okay.
- The other half is there to get drunk
and listen to throwback songs.
(electronic music)
How we all feeling tonight, everybody?
- I'm (bleep) up!
- Hell yeah, you are!
I'm DJ Rain Girl.
Thank you guys so much for coming out tonight.
I know I've been playing a lot of house
and a lot of dubstep music,
but this is a shout out to the guy in the corner
that wouldn't shut the (bleep) up about wanting throwbacks.
- Don't mind me, I'm just bringing a bottle.
- This one is for you.
- [Cody] Yo Dill, let's take a shot.
- Hey, T-Pain says it best,
let me buy you a drink, everybody.
- Ooh!
- Cody, listen to me. Just play Buy You a Drink by T-Pain.
You'll get the crowd back.
You dealt with all of the things we threw at you very well.
- I felt like I was there. Thank you guys.
- All right. I gotta sober up a little bit.
- Yeah, sober up.
I think we didn't get to actually really see.
- Yeah, I didn't really actually, absorb any of her set.
- I had to bring a bottle to you.
- I was drunk the whole time.
She killed it.
- It was a good show.
- She killed it. - It was a good show.
Next up, DJ Evil Laugh.
- All right, all right, all right.
(maniacal laughter)
First off, headphone placement.
You know, one ear off.
- Okay.
- Sometimes I do a little head lean, you know what I mean?
- No.
- Getting in there.
This is like just paying the bills, right?
A wedding.
- Just paying the bills.
- And I see a grandmother in the corner,
you know what I mean?
She just had a hip replacement.
She hasn't danced since Charles died.
You know what I mean?
I'm like, you're gonna need another hip replacement
when I'm done, okay?
(Dillon laughing)
I put on the Montell Jordan, all right.
You know, the walkers are moving,
people are getting out there, you know, it's like--
- ♪ This is how we do it ♪
- And I'm like okay,
but I got a secret.
I got something coming over here.
I hit the beat repeat, right?
(vocalizing)
- Ooh!
- A little Benny Benassi! (vocalizing)
Granny's moving. I'm like, okay!
- Yeah, get in there, granny. The hip's working.
- I love this (bleep) song.
(bell ringing)
- That was good. - That was good.
A little bit too much of the music coming from the mouth
rather than like seeing the DJing part.
- Yeah.
- Love that you were actually also mixing songs together
all in one. - Yeah.
- Hey, here we go.
Okay, so I am playing at my residency at Kahuna Tiki.
- Okay. - It's in North Hollywood.
Randomly sometimes we got like a big Samoan family in there.
So that's what's happening.
Thank you everyone so much for coming.
My name is DJ Afi.
We're gonna give a huge manwea to Rex Tiumalu
for winning his third fire knife championship out in Laie.
Everyone gimme (screams) YA-HOO!
- Ya-hoo!
- All right, here we go. All right, here we go.
- She seems like she works at a bar
that is Hawaiian themed.
I think she might be a bartender.
And it also sounded like they were like
prize winner number five.
- Yeah. It seems like they were doing
like trivia or something like that.
- Yeah. Which she could be a DJ with that.
Yeah. I don't know.
- And uncle's over there going crazy
because there's always that drunk uncle over there.
Let's go Uncle!
Usos are going crazy over there. Here we go.
Ta-hi!
(clock ticking)
(bell ringing)
- [Dillon] I dunno if it's him at all.
- [Cody] Neither do I.
- I don't think he's...I'm gonna choose him.
I don't know.
- Wait, really? You're really?
- Yeah. - Okay.
(dramatic music)
- Nothing personal.
(buzzer sounds)
Nothing personal. - Sorry.
- [Rocco] Thank you guys.
- See, I thought you voting him out was wrong
because he just seemed most like his name.
Everything seemed like-
- Lovelike is definitely a DJ.
- It is DJ-y.
- DJ-y.
But yeah, no, trust me, I got this one.
- I trust you.
What BPM do you guys usually play at?
- Ooh, round 180.
- Oh, okay.
- (bleep), dude. - Jesus Christ.
Thinking about that combined with your like soft voice.
- That's crazy!
- I wanna see your (bleep) show.
- I'd be happy to show you.
- I'm there. I'm there.
We know what BPM--
- I should be in?
- You've said house the whole time.
- Yeah. Super house. 124 to like 128.
- Okay.
- Yeah. I'll start at like 120,
and then could go up to 130, down to 110.
- Well, you were playing like hip hop.
- Yeah, that's what I was about to-
What BPM is the the track that you love so much,
This is How We Do It?
- That's a little bit slower. That's more like 90.
- It is. - Yeah.
- Okay. - Okay. Damnit!
- But the Benny Benassi is quicker,
so you gotta like ramp it up
to match tempo, you know?
- What is Benny Benassi's BPM at?
- That's 120. - Oh, okay.
- Is it? A little off.
- It's a flag right there. - Yeah.
Okay, give us a good countdown before the beat drop.
(intense music)
- Alright everybody.
(both laughing)
- [Dillon] (bleep)! (bleep)!
I love you. I want to see you DJ.
Even if you're not a DJ, I want to see you DJ.
- Are you playing in a library?
- No. You gotta get up close to the mic.
You gotta ASMR that.
All right, everybody. All right, everybody.
Three, two...
(imitates explosion)
- You didn't even say one!
- Yeah, because the moment they hear one,
they know it's coming.
- Okay.
- You gotta hit 'em with it slightly before then.
- [Cody] Forgot about that, yeah.
- I want him to be the DJ so bad.
- I want it like, I need him to perform
so I can buy tickets to his show.
- Yes.
- Because I would love every second of it.
- Oh man. When he says, all right guys.
- All right everybody.
- I melt. - I melt.
- So I'll do Take It Off like by FISHER.
- Okay.
- Dun dun dun dun, and everyone's like, okay.
And I'm like, alright guys, 3, 2, 1.
It's like, take it off!
And then there's slow, steady, undressed
and everyone's like, vibing.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Little bit. - Yeah. I felt that.
- I felt that.
- I'll hit him with, are you guys ready for a throwback?
Come on, make some noise! I ain't hearing it right now!
It's coming at you.
5,
4,
3,
2.
♪ If you wanna go and take a ride with me ♪
(both laughing)
♪ Ay, must be the money! ♪
- Okay. - Thank you.
- Why are you guys DJs?
- Love. - Love.
- Love. (jazzy music)
Alright. You know, back in the day people would compile a
mix tape for their sweethearts?
- Yeah.
- Right? I view DJing as doing that for an entire crowd.
Right? Managing to get people where they're at
and bring them something new like Prometheus.
- I love you.
- Yeah. That was awesome.
- Love you. - Yeah.
- I love you.
- What about me? - I love you too.
- For me, DJing is about like mental health.
So I use like music a lot to kinda like process my feelings
and my emotions and so I like to be able to like
be a person to do that for other people too.
- That's great.
- I love being the glue.
I like bringing people together
and just finding ways to get people from all different types
of society to just kind of share a common moment.
And also growing up, like I had terrible taste in music
up until like Pandora came out
and then I was like, it just opened up a whole world
of like, wow, I have all this access, like LimeWire.
And then after that I just kind of,
music became my obsession and yeah, I've just tried
to hear every single genre after that.
- Okay. (bell ringing)
- [Producer] You're gonna write the name of
who you think is the real DJ.
- Oh, okay.
- Oh, wait, you were gonna- - Yeah.
- What? - Yeah.
- Who do you think it is then? That's what I'm saying.
- Most convincing.
- Yeah.
(intense music)
(upbeat chime)
(intense music)
(upbeat chime)
I don't actually believe that he's a real DJ,
but I want him to be.
(all laughing)
- [Producer] All right, so the person exiting the square
is Tommy. (buzzer sounds)
- Bye Tommy.
- (laughing maniacally)
- [Producer] If the person who is the real DJ
is still in the square,
the lights will turn green.
- It's gonna turn red. - [Producer] If they're not-
- It's gonna turn red. - A hundred percent.
- [Producer] If they're not in the square,
the lights will turn red.
- What if the first person we got (laughing)
- Yeah, it could be.
(intense music)
- Of course. - (bleep).
- It was Lovelike.
- I think it was.
- [Producer] Can the real DJ please step forward.
(intense music)
- What?!
- I called it!
- No!
- I knew it. - Oh my God!
- Yeah. That hurt.
- Oh my God, 'cause you went like this.
- I know, but I was nudging, you know, trying to beat mash.
- Oh my God.
- I'm feeling disappointed in ourselves.
- I just can't believe we failed so fast.
- So fast.
- And then spent the rest of the time sussing out people
that just weren't even in.
- Just falling up.
- Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
- [Cody] (bleep)!
- [Dillon] Okay. Tell us about yourself.
- Well, my name is J Nikole.
I am a nightclub and festival DJ.
- Okay. - And I love it.
- What music do you play?
- So I do EDM and hip hop. So I'm moreso open format.
- Nice. - I love it all.
Honestly, I'm so hurt right now,
but I'm not even surprised
because I can't tell you how many times I've shown up
to a gig and people don't even think I'm the DJ.
They're like, oh, you're the DJ?
I'm like, yeah, why I got this backpack on me. Like what?
- My name isn't Lovelike. I just pulled that
outta my (bleep).
I'm an indie bedroom pop musician.
- Okay! That's why you said indie.
- I'll be real. I read a Wikipedia article about DJing.
- Oh, no, we know. - We know.
(all laughing)
That makes perfect sense.
- Yeah, I'm still just trying to find a way to monetize
my voice so y'all saying that y'all want to hear me DJ-
- Yes.
- Or radio just means the world to me.
- You should absolutely.
You should be a voice actor for sure.
- Oh, believe you me. I'm trying.
- Oh, there you go, Hollywood, cast this man.
- Yeah. So I'm not a real DJ.
- You like house music though?
- I love EDM.
- She loves house music.
- Big, big house music.
- Prep wise, I put on this beanie.
(all laughing)
I make comedy rap music with my buddy.
- Okay.
- Evil Laugh is my producer name.
- Oh, it is? Okay.
- Everybody thought it was funny.
- I have a small cultural entertainment company.
I'm a Polynesian dancer.
- I could see you pulling from that during the DJ set.
It was good. - Yeah.
- Yeah. Jade, we're sorry.
(all laughing)
We clearly shouldn't be here judging
because we don't know.
- Or we shouldn't be DJs I guess.
- Yeah. I don't think we should be DJs, so.
- We are retiring. - Yup.
- ♪ Jubilee, what the (bleep) is up? ♪
(panting)
- Let's turn it up!
- (vocalizing)
- ♪ It's getting hot in here ♪ (vocalizing) ♪