Being the child of military parents, this DJ has heard it all. You know children with parents in the military move from state to state so you know on the music side of things you get exposed to many sounds. Right now DJ Dublee is holding it down out in Baltimore in the clubs making the crowd go wild. Whether it’s go-go music or the popular Baltimore club music DJ Dublee will put it on for his city.

Making his grind known to support the unsigned hype is his show Revolt Radio. Hey, it’s said that today’s so-called hip-hop DJ’s don’t support the underground, but this man is here to prove that statement wrong. Currently cosigning and supporting the talented and upcoming phenom Wordsmith, Dublee lives up to show he’s here to break artist. Artist also read how to get heard on Revolt Radio too and even if he don’t like the music, get feedback on how to improve your craft for the next time. I agree 100 percent, this is somebody who really deserves the title of DJ!

Sixshot.com: Your mentioned how your parents was in the military and how you lived in various places from San Diego, Hawaii, and Maryland. Being a DJ you get exposed to many sounds, especially living in one particular area. With that being said with all the places that you lived in how did you focus on the one sound that you wanted to put o ut as a DJ?

DJ Dublee: You know growing up with my parents they played a lot of different music in the house. With my mom she played a lot of Selena and a lot of funk music with James Brown and all that stuff. She used to keep updated with the real current music so I was really exposed to music growing up. From there when I would throw parties I would take people through a journey so they can learn their history. One thing that I got from my audience was I made them real open and had them take their journey with me.

Sixshot.com: Right now you live in Maryland and ya’ll have the Go-go scene popping real heavy, are you a big fan of that music?

DJ Dublee: Yeah, I’m a big fan of go-go, because I grew up in southern Maryland which is about an hour from D.C. Everybody down there listens to go-go. I went to school in Baltimore and saw it up here too. It’s kind of funny as D.C. and Baltimore are only forty-five minutes away, but there is a big beef going on between the two with Baltimore club and go-go. The go-go scene is pretty big.

Sixshot.com: I’m not gonna lie though, I like the Baltimore club music better.

DJ Dublee: Yeah, I guess it depends on what your feel is, I actually enjoy it myself. A lot of D.C. cats are getting (go-go) out there like my man Wale. They getting national exposure so they really putting D.C. on the map right now as far as go-go goes.

Sixshot.com: What you think about Wale and how you think he will have the D.C. movement going, you think he will be the flagship to put D.C. on the map?

DJ Dublee: It is kind of hard to say, that’s a tough question right there. I hope that he would, but you know how people are with their own style of music. I guess it depends on who they have songs with like how he got that song with The Roots right now.

Sixshot.com: Well that’s your job as a DJ to support him if you like him right?

DJ Dublee: Yeah, support them if you like them.

Sixshot.com: Your doing your thing in the clubs often. How does it feel as DJ when your doing your job as a DJ playing hot music to keep the crowd hyped up?

DJ Dublee: I know I’m doing my job when I look around when everybody is in the zone and when I throw something out I get a big reaction from the crowd. When I throw on a song you get that two seconds of everybody screaming. You know those certain tracks you throw on when everybody is screaming? That’s when I know I’m doing my job. I know I’m doing my job when I throw on any song and people like it.

Sixshot.com: What makes DJ Dublee a hot club DJ and different from the other DJ’s in the area?

DJ Dublee: A lot of DJ’s play everything that’s already being played on the radio. They don’t take chances and want to break records with underground artists. They don’t like chances and show love to hot artist like Wordsmith, they just want to play all the mainstream stuff. I like to go around everywhere taking it back playing one track to another. I like to play stuff cats never heard about as that’s what DJing is all about, breaking new artists.

Sixshot.com, Right and that’s what I wanted to ask. I interview DJ’s every week for Sixshot, and you always hear stories of DJ’s scared to take chances. What is the main reason why they scared to take chances?

DJ Dublee: I guess their afraid, they don’t want to play something they know their people is not gonna like. I guess they think “Since everybody is playing it, it’s on radio, let me throw this in there, then I don’t have to worry about people looking at me differently.”  They just afraid to take chances and I think that’s what it all comes down to.

Sixshot.com: You just mentioned Wordsmith, Wordsmith is good people that’s my homey. Ya’ll do the thing too on Revolt Radio in which you play a lot of his music, but talk about the initial relationship on how you met Wordsmith?

DJ Dublee: I met Wordsmith off his MySpace from doing his thing with “Mama Chula” and other tracks he had out. We met on myspace sending each other several messages on how he was doing and finally in November he hit me up wanting me to DJ for him for a couple shows. Before we started the whole month from November to December I was hitting him up asking him when he wanted to rehearse. He would just keep passing me off and finally in January 1st I went to his house. We meet up, talked, rehearsed, and he tells me “The whole month I wasn’t just blowing you off, I was just giving you a test to see if you was hungry”.

Sixshot.com: Well you can’t get mad at him for that, he was just trying to see if your about business.

DJ Dublee: Yeah, he was saying he messed with a lot of DJ cats in the past and I guess they wanted stuff to happen overnight. They don’t realize that new artist just don’t come out overnight. They probably put in a good four, five years of hard work and was at the right place at the right time. They don’t realize all the initial work they had before they blew up.

Sixshot.com: What you like most about working with Wordsmith and what you respect about his craft as an artist?

DJ Dublee: He sounds better than most cats that are out there right now. He’s talking about real things and the thing about Wordsmith he doesn’t just record things he promotes his stuff too. He gets things done, that man has a crazy schedule I don’t know how he does it.

Sixshot.com: One of my best songs that I ever heard from him is “Wordz of Remediaz”, you ever heard that?

DJ Dublee: Yeah, I heard that actually I got most of his track’s on my Serato’s right now. Wordsmith has about six, seven albums worth of songs out right now.

Sixshot.com: I usually get a lot of your emails with Revolt Radio that you promote, what’s your whole mission with that?

DJ Dublee: On most of the local radio stations you have a lot of the same songs playing across the whole country. We wanted to put cats and people you haven’t heard of on Revolt Radio. On the first thirty minutes we have about 8-10 singles of signed artists and we have another portion called The Unsigned Mixshow where we play unsigned artist every week. We have a lot of people send us their music and we go through a review hitting them back whether we gonna play it or not. It started in March and right now we have about twenty episodes deep. We getting good numbers and a lot of people gives us feedback good or bad.

Sixshot.com I ask DJ’s this all the time about artist when they send them music. Let me ask you and be honest with me. Out of all those records you get how many are good?

DJ Dublee: I say about a good ten to fifteen percent.

Sixshot.com: It’s that low?

DJ Dublee: Yeah, it is that low you should know that.

Sixshot.com” [Laughs], Yeah I’m coming from a journalist perspective, but I want to know how it is for the DJ’s if they got to listen to all the wack stuff too.

DJ Dublee: Yeah I say about 10-15 percent. I give a song a chance until the second hook comes on and if I don’t like it I’m deleting it out of my inbox. I try to give the artists feedback, what they need to work on which is a thing a lot of DJ’s are not doing. They need these critiques as they only have their homeboys saying it’s hot. When they send out their music to these A&R’s, record labels, execs, or DJ’s they wondering why they don’t like it.

Sixshot.com: Can you please them in this interview how important is sound quality?

DJ Dublee: Sound quality is very important, because if you play low quality on a high sounding system it not gonna sound to good. A good song is a mixture of sound quality, the flow, the lyrics, all that.

Sixshot.com: How can artist get their song featured on Revolt Radio?

DJ Dublee: Send it to me at Djdublee@gmail.com, shout out to my man Black Knight out in New York hosting Revolt Radio holding it down with me. Send it in and we’ll give you feedback if were going to play it or not. If we don’t play it we will tell you a reason why. We not just gonna delete it and not get back to you.

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