By Marko Purgaj, 28 december 2009 - 11:14 | Permalink
What the fuck?? I'm all for being inked up, God knows I have a few. But tattooing your eyes is fucking bananas! I guess going to prison does mess with your mind.
By Marko Purgaj, 11 december 2009 - 00:02 | Permalink
To Louisana Andersson aka Levis (fake ass DJ # 1): Even if you're trying your best to fuck my game up by spamming the venues where I'm playing it won't work. You see I built up my career by actually spinning with records (can you imagine that?) and I've never lied or made any gig up (I've warmed up for 50 Cent in Stockholm, The Game, John Legend, etc). You've on the other hand have lied and decivied from day one. Nice try though! See you when I see homie.
By Marko Purgaj, 19 november 2009 - 01:36 | Permalink
My letter to Santa: Yo mister Santa Claus sir, can I get the new 2010 Triumph Rocket Roadster in matt black and loud pipes for christmas? I've been a very good boy this year. Huge fan since I was one years old, so keep on rockin the bells Santa!
By Marko Purgaj, 3 november 2009 - 01:10 | Permalink
I thought I would give everybody a little update on my crusade against these fake-ass DJs .
Since my blog post about Levis (I'm not even gonna put a “DJ” before his name, that would be an insult to the DJ community) all of you who know me know my true intention behind the post. A lot of people are very positive and glad this shit came out in the open. All of you who think that I did it because of selfish reasons, you don't know me. The response from fellow DJs has been great! They understand and can definitely relate to my frustration, most of them have had to put in shitload of time and dedication into DJing. None of us can't fucking stand these new breed of DJs that cut corners in this digital day of time and show NO respect to the true art of DJing.
Let’s get back to the story. Levis has been running around bragging (as always) about him teaching at the Gothenburg DJ School. To all of us DJs in Gothenburg that was a big slap in the face. Not only is Levis getting shows where he is playing mixcds, this guy is giving out DJ lessons?? What possible can Levis teach the youngn’s? How to be a fake DJ? Mix songs in the computer and pretend to play it? Scary thought.
So Bobby told me that he wrote an email to the school letting them know about Levis deceiving ways. Inspired by this, me and a bunch of others cats (DJ Neno, DJ Sole, DJ Dainja, DJ Chulo, DJ Phil and many others) wanted to make sure that the DJ school knew the real deal Holyfield. Within a couple of hours I got a phone call (I left my number in my email) from the school! A representative from the school, Daniel, wanted to meet up with me and get the whole story. Daniel knew a lot of us and knew our reputation as DJs. He understood that this wasn’t a “let’s get Levis because we’re all jealous” stunt. This was a bunch of people that we're concerned of the simple fact that dude can’t spin and has obviously problems telling the truth. How the fuck can somebody teach other to DJ when he needs to sign up to a DJ class himself?
So Daniel and me had a long talk. The next day he had a meeting with staff at the DJ school. They’re we’re outright shocked on some of fucked up remarks Levis wrote on his blog about the DJ school, among other things. Now the funny thing is that he wasn’t actually a teacher there. Nothing officially. This was just something he made up to make him look even more serious. The school was impressed, at first, by his resume. But little did they know dude is a master of making shit up and obviously loves the attention. As I mentioned before, people like Levis live in a dream world. Well sometimes you need to wake up and smell the coffee homie.
I know that Levis thinks that this is some personal shit between him and me. But believe me homie, I'm might be the one that's putting it out there (as far as the blog, Facebook, etc) but there's a lot of people that can't stand they way you present yourself and the DJ culture (I mean, the name of his blog is: ”Stick around and you might learn something”. C’mon!!). I personally know a lot of big artist and DJs, and they are all pretty much humble. It all comes down to how you are as a person. No matter how many competitions I’ve won or how many shows I’ve played, I’m always being me. Humble and down to earth. I’m all for the new young generation being all cocky n’ shit. But you know what? You better walk the walk if you talk the talk.
I’m sure that Levis is a nice guy but he needs to tone it down a bit and show a little more respect to the DJ community and to people in general. His blog is filled with a lot of cockiness and attitude. He can’t be surprised that people get offended and want to confront him. Especially when he is not putting in any time on actually learning to DJ properly.
I have to make one thing clear: this whole thing wasn’t a witch-hunt. This was a unanimous stand to anybody that is faking it and doesn't want to take responsibility for their actions. Luckily, Gothenburg DJ School put their foot down and that shows one thing: in Gothenburg, real does recognize real.
Statement from Daniel Angbah, from Gothenburg DJ School: “Levis was never a teacher at Gothenburg DJ School and never will be. We’re a professional institute and want to get kids the chance to get involved with DJing the right way. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this all might have caused.”
By Marko Purgaj, 28 oktober 2009 - 11:10 | Permalink
So let me introduce to you the biggest DJ poser in Sweden: "DJ" Levis. This guy takes the crown. To get the full picture of this guy we have to back about a year ago. Me and two other guys (Bell and Bobby) we're running Club Soft. Bell heard of this guy called DJ Levis that supposedly opened for Kanye West at a big festival out here called Way Out West (that's funny, I was there and there was NO DJ warming up before Kanye, lie # 1 many more to come).
Since we embrace new blood in the DJ scene, we wanted Levis to spin at Club Soft. That particular night I wasen't in Gothenburg, I had a show in Malmö. But this is what happened. Levis shows up (carrying only a couple of cds, big warning sign right there) and the plan is to let him spin in the beginning of the night so that we can check out how he spins. When Bobby asks him to start playing some slow tracks his reply is: I only have 130 bpm songs. He didn't mention anything about any artist he only said that he has 130 bpm songs. Bobby was a little astonished by his answer but though "fuck it" and so he startedt to spin. After a while the people were droppin' in and so Bobby told Levis to start spinning.
He got up (all nervous n' shit) but proceeded to start playing. Bobby went down to the bar to listen to his set. And so the shit got started! The music was commercial (one beat mixed with a thousend accapellas type-a-shit, The Voice stylee) as fuck but that wasen't the problem. The problem was that it sounded too perfect (Bobby has been a DJ for 15 years so he knows that it is IMPOSSIBLE to do accapella switch ups that fast). So he went upstairs to the DJ booth and stood behind Levis. What he saw was down right shocking: he saw that Levis was playing mixtapes! Because he could hear the mix but he didn't see him actually mix two records. He was twisting the knobs acting like is mixing!
So Bobby got pissed off and told him to stop playing. When Levis asked him why he told him that what he was doing was FUCKED UP. This is the weird part, he confessed that he was playing mixed cds, he just said that was the way he does it. What??? So Bobby tried to explain to him what DJ:ing was all about. From what Bobby told me he kinda got it at first but as soon as the conversation was over he was like. "fuck that, I gonna keep doing my thing".
So what this guy is basically doing is DJ:ing playback. On top of that he is lying about opening for Kanye West. He is lying about opening for The Game (he even wrote that on his own blog!). And his is lying about warming up for Chris Brown. There are NO pictures at all of him doing any of these things he so eagerly claims.
Basically this guy has made up his whole DJ carrier with lies. And the icing of the cake? Levis is giving out DJ lessons! What possbile can this guy teach? How to be FAKE?? He's is constantly bragging how he gets show but if people (and promoters) knew the truth he wouldn't get a single show. Who they fuck wants to pay somebody for playing mixtapes? Just download a mixcd and let your grandma stand behind the decks.
This is a recent blog post the so called "DJ":
"Såg på vägen hem från stan att flyers för fredagens fest var uppe överallt! Alltid kul att se mitt vackra ansikte pryda Göteborgs Stad =)
Jag fick även höra att jag var så grym idag med att hantera alla DJ-intresserade (wannabes) att jag ska börja lära ut för GBGs DJ Skola också! Då lär jag ut på två ställen varje vecka, vad snäll jag är va?
Det är så roligt att se alla intresserade som frågar hur man anmäler sig och sen när dom får höra hur mycket det kostar så blir dom heeeltointresserade på en sekund! OBS! Detta gäller blattarna då, suedis har ju pengar så dom är det lugna puckar med! Men så fort blattarna hör orden "det kostar" så blir dom ointresserade och försöker slingra sig ur på en gång!
Well well, vissa DJ's får knappt någon spelning alls, medans andra knappt vet hur de ska hinna från en spelning till en annan mellan städerna! Hahaha =)".
And to all of you who think I am jelaous or mad because he gets shows I'll tell you this: if this is what people consider a DJ is, if people don't see the difference between what we are doing and fakers like Levis, then I rather stop playing today. I gave my heart and soul to DJ:ing, only to see it getting abused of people who don't even like music. They love the fame and the attention they get but that's it.
I hope that people will take a stand against these fuck and by looks of it they already do. Ya'll are not dumb, ya'll know that there are fake imposters in all genres of music (especially in hiphop). But next time you see them, let them know what you think. I will. And to all you who think that I'm full of shit, go to the clubs and stand behind these so called "DJs" and see for yourself.
DJ lessons anyone? The story behind this is that there is a female DJ that calls herself DJ Shy (out in LA). The REAL DJ Shy got alot of bullshit from people who confused him with the LA DJ Shy because they heard her DJ sets (she can't mix for shit). He decided to put this video out =)
By Marko Purgaj, 27 oktober 2009 - 08:44 | Permalink
My friend told me about this clip, some dude giving serbian lessons. At first it didn't sound that interesting but since the guys clearly has issues these are some funny clips!
