Water Street’s Days Are Numbered? Ray Nitti Breaks It Down

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Water Street’s Days Are Numbered? Ray Nitti Breaks It Down

The Grapevine · Tue Sep 15, 2026

Jasmine Tyler

What up, Milwaukee?

It's your girl Jazz Tyler.

We are live and direct.

Listen, it is five o'clock.

We are changing gears, right?

But I'm carrying one word with me that is in fluid.

So elected officials aren't the only people who are shaping communities.

DJs shape culture too.

And my next guest, help break.

Milwaukee artists tour with digital underground and watch hip-hop evolve through multiple generations.

We are talking about DJ Newstiles.

Hey, what's happening?

Jasmine Tyler

Thank you so much for joining us.

Sure.

We're going to dive into it before we get into this conversation.

I want to take this last call from Chad.

You got to comment on David Crowley's county executive David Crowley's press release as it pertains to holding elected officials accountable.

Chad, are you there?

I'm here.

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Thank you so much for tapping in.

How are you?

I'm good.

I'm good.

How are

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you?

Well, you have a comment about the press release.

Yeah, really, my comment is just about all politicians.

Everybody knows it already, but people still supporting them, people getting behind them, acting like, you know, their people, whichever side it is, either one is, you know, 100% pure saints.

They're all saints.

They all doing the same thing.

My grandma used to be like that.

Oh, this guy, you're a perfect son.

And then next thing you know, he's.

found cheating on his wife, North Carolina, who's dying of cancer.

You know, people, politicians, every single one of them, Republican or Democrat or whatever in between, they all get into it for one reason, for themselves.

They ain't getting into it for us.

They don't care, but yet all these people feel so passionate.

They're gonna bet their people are so great.

These people, I'm from Chicago.

the last five or whatever seven of the last whatever uh governs and had went to prison

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yeah

chicago

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is like a gang over there they running like the mafia those

are like the deficiencies everywhere it's everywhere yeah i guarantee you they're you know look at these people they get into it and they die they're still working or supposedly working until the day they die look at lindsay graham uh graphically in iowa he's like 150

Who's that dude, McConnell or whatever, Mitch McConnell?

He doesn't even look like he can take a breath and he's still, you know, sending money, Switzerland or wherever.

They're all 100% corrupt either side.

And this country's not going to change until something major happens.

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Absolutely.

Thank you so much, Chad, for tapping in.

I agree with you.

That's reality, most definitely it.

Listen, we are shifting gears.

We got DJ Newstiles in the building.

I am excited.

I know you guys, if you just now joining earlier, I talked about a lot of the things that this man has done.

And one of them was he is officially the DJ who broke my single in the club.

I think I'm telling our age, but Stiles, thank you for joining me today.

Before we start, I just want to publicly acknowledge you and give you your flowers.

We talk about you often on here the work that you have done.

I don't think that a lot of people Understand right?

I'm gonna say that because you get a lot of love but some people may not understand the amount of work that it took back then To get our club our singles played in the clubs.

It was not popular in the beginning.

It was not a thing that was like hey

Yeah, we're supporting all Milwaukee artists.

Like the DJs had to fight, the DJs had to play their part and you are one of them.

From textures to everywhere.

Nottay, all around the city, you have been a huge part in all of our careers.

And I thank you for that.

My first question before we dive into you is, how did you make that happen, Styles?

I don't think it was just me.

But playing local music, that was the easy part.

You know, when you did your own night, per se.

You

know, we had a couple different, you know, Lionel Northen.

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Yeah.

That was really home cultivated.

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You know what I

mean?

You play what you want.

We book who we want.

You know, it was really the city's night.

But, you know, it's like when you're going into, you know, the bigger clubs, you know, you're going into these spots that

Like you said, like now, local music is a lot bigger in the city to where it's accepted and everybody is listening to it all.

And back then, you know, like, you got a local, you want to play something like that, okay, is it going to work?

Right.

It's

always a question.

I don't know.

And then fast forward to like the texture days.

That's why I say like it's not necessarily just me.

when,

you know,

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club owner, you know,

you got knowledge, you know, it was on the radio, then you had, you know, the club owner, Donato.

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Shout out to Donato and Papa Sal.

I know Rest in Peace, Papa Sal.

Definitely.

You know, a lot of people might not know who these guys were, but these were like, you know...

They were pillars in the nightclub community that always had clubs, you know, since we were younger.

Yeah.

But the noddle let me and Scott Knox kind of

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basically curate

the whole club.

Yes.

You know, um...

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Knox had to join upstairs from Texas.

Man, come on, now selling

nachos from

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upstairs, yo, after

bar.

But they really allowed us, I mean, like, what nightclub was producing mixtapes and giving them

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home to people.

Come on, come on.

Come on, you know, we

had we had a whole mixtape with all Milwaukee artists from start to finish and these are songs that we played in the club every single

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night

and people knew who these guys were and to support.

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But

it took, you know, a certain vibe and element to make that happen.

There was nothing like that.

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Yes.

And you write, you know, like you weren't the only person.

But the reason why I highlight you the most is because you never stopped no matter which club you went to.

You never stopped.

And the communication between you and knowledge.

So we know that knowledge was on a radio.

Whatever you were playing, then he would break it on the radio.

Whatever he would play, you would break it in the

clubs.

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Red Zone Sundays.

And a huge shout out to Denado because there was not a lot of clubs that allowed all of us to perform.

And we were performing.

You would think we was famous.

The next

big whatever.

But that's how it felt, though.

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The

love felt like that.

And people, I don't know if it was because we were constantly feeding the city with the music.

You know, everybody had their records and they were doing it.

You had your run, your music.

You know what I'm saying?

It was just

so

many.

You know what I'm saying?

Nitty had his.

You know, the streets do about it, but when they saw it live, it was just so different.

It was magic, almost.

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Everybody knew to be at Textures on Sundays.

Everybody knew.

Everybody knew to be at Textures on Sundays.

I think by the time we got to live on North, it was like, yo, we really made like a completely different impact.

I

knew, you know, I've been a part of the hip-hop here in the city for well over 30, I'd say 25 years.

We might as well say 30.

Nah, we dating

ourselves.

But during that time, like the support, when I saw how people was really

Jug into local music.

I'm like, I'm sorry.

Man, I've never seen it.

Yeah.

You

know, prior, you know, it was love, but it wasn't to this level.

And then

now taking it from there to seeing what, you know, the Internet has made.

Yes.

It's almost unbelievable.

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Yes.

Yeah.

And they support it.

You guys supported us.

But what it did, this is the important part for me.

I can't speak for everybody.

Um, but.

what it did for me was it taught me stage presence.

It taught me how to perform, how to properly hold the mic, how to interact with the crowd, how to interact with the DJ.

You know what I'm saying?

These are all things that a lot of artists are missing now.

They don't have, because they A, they don't think sometimes they need the DJ.

B, they're not willing to perform unless it's opening up for somebody big, right?

And if they do go into the clubs, it's all about them.

Whoever they bring it, it's not about the artist's development piece.

In a sense, I guess, Nigel, you said like that, I guess texture almost did.

Developers.

That kind of A&R,

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you know what I'm saying?

Artists to DJs, because it did connect anybody that I didn't know.

You

know what I'm saying?

That Knox brought in like, oh man, let's do X, Y, and Z, da, da, da.

And the cool part about how we did it was, I'm not sure if you understood the formula.

A lot of times, we would just make sure there were no breaks

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in

between

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artists.

Yes.

Yes.

That was like Donato's only thing, like, as long as the music doesn't stop.

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Yeah.

It doesn't matter.

Let's just do it.

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You know what I'm saying?

Let's

do it.

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Well, you rail made.

Uh, she bad by young legend, by Nitty.

She jazzy by me.

He made booty hop by Oki.

So everything flowed to get, uh, Miss Perfect even flowed in there.

That was produced by somebody else.

But all of it, it flowed perfectly.

Some

more heater after heater.

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Like you can

just, it was just like all locals, but fire.

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Yes.

Like they're international artists.

Artists.

But we used to, so we did a national artist, a local, did a national

artist.

Never did everything back to back.

So the crowd wouldn't know

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the difference.

That's right.

And then what

happened was people started getting started knowing what's going on.

Oh, this is okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Then now we can do whatever, but that's how we kind of.

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Yes.

Yes.

Shout out to DJ L Boogie.

So I was in, um, what is it called favorites?

And I hear every, every one to the two to the three.

When was this?

This was just like a couple months ago.

I said, how you even still got that?

That was me and Scotty Knox.

That was on a mixtape.

I recorded that record.

What do you mean?

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I was like, what?

Wait, hold on a minute.

Where you get that from?

I

don't even have

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that record.

I don't even have any of the styles.

I got a head up.

That's

crazy.

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But no, like it was when we talk about that, because I was obviously talking about the situation with the garage when that happened.

And these are moments that I was referring to, right?

When you talk about Milwaukee music, rap, I think a lot of them just look at the industry now.

They don't understand the amount of work that went into building it up.

But it's a different type of work now to build it up,

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you know what

I mean?

But still, that hands-on with how to interact with a DJ, like a lot of cash don't necessarily,

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and

I only think it's nothing personal.

It's just how they move,

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you know what I

mean?

Bruh, we

playin'

the music, come say, what up, bro?

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I

ain't never really met you like that.

How you doin'?

But, you know, like I said, it's a different age, you know what I'm sayin'?

Different hurdles, and I'm not sure if the DJ is on the radar of the hurdle of, hey,

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this is

somebody I need to talk to.

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Listen, we gotta go to break, but what I will say before we go to break is respect the DJ.

Respect the DJ point blank period.

It don't matter if you understand or not, without the DJs,

Our records will not be broken.

You can have it on the stream.

Social media can go viral, all of that.

But you still need the DJs just like you need the producers.

Industries for locals.

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Industries for the men.

You got to.

We're going to break.

When we come back, we're going to dig into new styles.

His background, touring with digital underground, all of the above, what he has brought to the city of Milwaukee as it pertains to music.

Do not touch that.

Dow should grow a jazz title of one on one, seven of truth.

It's your girl, Jazz Tyler.

We are live and direct at the American Family Insurance Studio in the beautiful heart of downtown Milwaukee.

And I got my homie, my player partner, sitting right with me.

DJ Noustals.

Thank you, sir.

Listen, you are iconic to me, Styles.

I promise you are so iconic.

Before we go too far out, man, congratulations.

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Thank you.

This

is another level.

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Thank you.

Success for you.

You

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know what I'm saying?

Like,

you know, who would have thought, you know.

Doing shows and rapping and, you know, being creative on that side, you would end up on this side.

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Here, never.

I promise you, like I've never thought about it.

I never, I never foreseen it.

I always wanted to do radio, but I just never placed it, you know, as a priority.

And before we went to break, we was talking about how you all help kind of shape like who we are today.

So as you think about that, it's like those moments does play a huge part into who we are today.

You never know what's going to.

come into, you know, for wishing or how it was going to work, but

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man.

Yes.

That's how I go.

Yes.

So, Styles, before you became DJ New Styles, who are you?

We know you are Marry Edwards, but so, but that's the question.

What about my

government name?

Who is Marry?

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Who are you?

Who is Styles?

Where did you grow up?

Where did you come from?

How did you come from?

East out of Milwaukee.

East out of Milwaukee, man.

before it was River West.

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You know what I'm saying?

Before you look at the

sign, River West, this was never here.

You know what I'm saying?

But, you know, man, just good old 414.

Eastside, living, hung out on the Southside.

Southside, kind of like the first place that gave me my start, my first gig of being older nightlife.

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You

know what I'm saying?

I always DJ my middle school dance.

That's

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how long I've been doing

it.

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Come on out.

Right.

Um, but the South side kind of like, you know, Tony Niels, the Doc B's, they

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had

the North side downtown locked up.

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You know what

I'm saying?

So, you know, my thought process was, you know, I think like in hindsight, you know, looking backwards, man, why fight?

Yeah.

And, you know, I could go over here and the South side really wasn't playing a lot of hip hop.

Yeah.

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Went

over there, brought the hip hop over there.

People love me on it.

Like, oh man, you know.

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Yeah.

That's, that's kind of like really.

Where I started?

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Where was one of the first clubs you DJed at?

First club club?

You know what?

I don't even know the bar name, to be honest.

But instead of that, my first big, big club would probably be Clubhouse, the clubhouse.

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Oh, snaps!

Oh, that's back back in the day.

Clubhouse,

yes.

The clubhouse is better than some of these grown folk

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clubs nowadays, okay?

I wasn't ordering them to get in the clubhouse, but my cousins was.

I used to see a lot of pictures.

Man, telling you like that.

All sides of Milwaukee came

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to the clubhouse.

What?

Yeah.

That moves on, what, higher 100?

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And that was a teen club, right?

Teen club.

First, it was teen club.

They used to let, you know, stay open till like

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four o'clock in the morning.

Can't do that now.

No.

And they changed that the next year.

They licensed came up too.

They was like, I ain't gonna stay up

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until.

Can't do it.

No.

Um, so who introduced you to DJing?

How did that come about?

Uh,

a guy named Image.

Kobe McDaniel, when I was in, uh, grade school.

So, yep, he, long story short, he had a rap group called CFA cause for Alarm.

We was kind of like, they were kind of like the ABC and other

bad

creation

back in the day.

You know

what I'm saying?

But you know, he had him kicking like more, uh, you know, uh, uh, intellectual raps.

Yeah.

I

mean, I wanted to be a rapper.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

So I'm like, you know,

let me be a rapper.

He was like, man, I don't have no place for you.

I already got my two rappers.

You

can.

do the music in the background.

Yeah.

So I'm like, eh, I don't want to do this, but hey, I don't want to be a part of the

group.

Yeah.

So it just went from there and I kind of like molded into the DJ and end up happy that I end up DJing

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because I

can't

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rap.

That's what I was going to

ask you.

No.

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Are you like, if you could do it over, would you be a rapper or would you just be a DJ?

I tried

rapping like one time,

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wrote a rap, it

was

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trash.

At least you came to your realization.

One day I

took it took one trying to write a couple bars and it

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was like, yeah.

We good with that thing.

Do you remember the first equipment you ever touched?

Oh, yeah.

We go dating ourselves again, right?

So my mama bought me a Gemini mixer.

That's the little thing to go in between the two turntables I had.

A mixer before I had two turntables and a tape and two tape decks.

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Come on now.

Right?

Yes.

Going back and forth.

Trying to be Doc B. Trying to be Tony Neil.

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Trying to, you

know what I'm saying?

Trying to be them guys and then one Christmas my mama bought me a turntable.

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Come on.

Oh my God.

I mean, I could still smell fresh turntable to this day.

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Yeah.

Like

brand new car to me.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Well, I had a tape deck and a turntable.

Worked them to death.

And then my pops bought me this cheap turntable.

So then I learned how to rock on a real cheap turntable.

So it kept my hand steady.

Yeah.

When I got the better stuff on this side.

Yeah.

Can't nobody, you know what I'm saying?

Do nothing with me because I'm cold on this piece of trash turntable.

So from there, I ended up getting two techniques and then started doing little gigs here and there.

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And you so cold, like, if you ain't never seen Styles DJ, especially when he be scratching, it reminds me of the scene on Jews.

So I'm into the

competition type stuff and the club rock.

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Yeah.

You know, so, you know, people are like, oh, what's the competition?

Like really going city to city.

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Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

And proving yourself to who call they self the best

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of the best.

Yup.

I've seen you.

It remind me of that scene out of Juice.

Yeah.

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And it's

crazy.

Juice, that whole scene was like now looking at it as a DJ, it was so fake.

You know what I'm saying?

Oh my God.

But when I was little watching, I'm like, oh, this is so crazy.

Shout out to the DJs too, like Scratch or whatever.

That's who really did the back scratching in the background music while they acted it

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out.

But yeah, that's super fake.

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How long did it take you to learn that technique where you can scratch, turn around, scratch with one hand?

I mean, literally, I tell people, if you dedicate yourself an hour to an hour and a half a day for a year, you can be real

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cool.

Go do it.

Real cool.

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Yeah.

But, you know, you got to catch DJing in a couple months.

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Yes.

You know, it just depends on what you put into it.

You know, but the technical stuff is going to take a little bit, but it's all muscle memory, like shooting in the gym.

That's it.

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Who is the person that influenced you the most when it comes to DJing?

I would say in the city, it would probably be Doc B.

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Yeah.

Oh, he's a legend for sure.

Probably Doc B.

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Yeah.

Always.

From all that equipment to the cases, I just wanted to be,

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you know what I

mean?

Just like him, you know what I mean?

So that's kind of... Doc B is one of the best.

Absolutely.

One of the best, best,

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best.

Hands

down.

I put him down.

I don't

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know.

We go

through this every day.

I talk to Doc B. Almost every day.

We go through this every day.

I'm the best.

I'm the best.

I'm the best.

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That's dope, though.

That's super dope.

I want to get into the youth, right?

Because a lot of times when I teach my students, we have the DJ and equipment up there and I show them how to do it.

Obviously, it's not like the, you know, traditional tables and stuff.

But they don't understand so when they think of DJs now they think of somebody who are who is on YouTube You know and they have they streaming channel and they just up there like like a mix show Like you

mean like like an academic type.

That's a DJ.

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Yeah, that's what they think that is just like We're not academic but more so like I you know I go on YouTube and I see a playlist is is DJs that has like a mix show live where they

DJing live and they might mix to another song.

That's just it, right?

Right, right, right.

So they thinking like, that's all DJ DJing consists of.

Okay, that's their perception of what?

Like the pinnacle of a DJ.

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Exactly.

You

two, okay, got you.

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So what I tell them is that, and to me and the era I grew up in, DJs are the people that break records.

Right.

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And they don't.

We live in a society where a lot of the younger generation don't understand what breaking a record means because they are so caught up in viral moments.

Let me put this clip of my song or video on social media and then it's going to go viral and now I just broke myself.

Let's tap into that.

What does it actually mean to break a record and why is it important for artists to work with DJ so that they can break a record?

I mean breaking record long without going super in depth is presenting a record.

new record to people that they never heard before That's breaking the record, but it takes more than just playing a record one time, you know, you have to Putting that record in the right place

at the

right time at the spot Yes, also being the right spot to play such record is a

big

deal.

Yes,

so it gets technical on

truly breaking a record, but you need you need months, you know, and and budgets.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, to break records right.

Yeah.

But all in all, you got a new record.

You're presenting this record to your crowd that they may or may not heard before.

Yeah.

And and you you you put that record in your arsenal to have a specific effect.

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Yes.

So I would put a new record in between two hot records.

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strategy

so the crowd is just not like what is this

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yeah

and hopefully by mashing that record you know sandwich that record in between the two the flow and then you can really get to see how it works in real time yes in between you know the heightened you know and depending on what time you play the record as

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well yeah that's right that's right that and it worked for me

Y'all did that with she Jazzy when with bow and she perfect like whenever you hear she perfect by major you're gonna hear she Jazzy whenever you hear bow by nitty or booty hop by okie you're gonna hear she Jazzy and it works it works like oh my gosh that brings back so many memories we bought we coming up on a break when we come back from break I want to tap into you Torn and DJ and for digital

underground

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what that was like how that came about

Uh, that is that you go you got it like for real like you go to that one for real for real not even just because it's digital underground but just because of obviously who's all involved and I think a lot of a lot of people don't understand how uh important situations like that is like what it does for the city, right?

Um, so we're gonna go to break.

We're gonna, when we come back, we're gonna talk about that.

We got DJ Newstiles in the building.

She grew up Jazz Tyler, one-on-one stepping the truth.

do this right here pretty warm it's something you should know

We

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are live and direct at the award-winning 101 Step in the Truth.

I got one of my favorite people in the building, DJ Newstiles is here live and direct.

Listen, we've had a great conversation about DJing, but I want to know about digital underground.

So, how did this come about?

Like, what was... Walk me through the process of...

How you reacted when you got the news when you first met them all of that?

So this is real life like, you know Right place right time type deal.

Um, I Was doing an underground rave party, um Hindsight on that while I was there had a guy that always booked me for different type of parties like this.

He was like, man, I'm gonna open my own club one day

And I mean, I'm gonna have digital underground come.

That's my favorite rap group.

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And this was here in Milwaukee?

No, this is, no, this is like in the sticks.

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Okay.

Some Monashia,

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Nina.

Oh, okay.

Wisconsin, like

that type of back, you know.

So my homeboy Mitch, shout out to Mitch.

He had, he bought his club, little bar, and brought digital underground.

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Come on now.

I'm

like, okay.

So he booked me, kept his promise or whatever.

I was late to the gig.

So I was scheduled to go on before them.

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Yeah,

so I get there like dang, bro My bad, I'm late.

Yeah, you still got a spot for me.

So even though if I was on time their flight was late So there's no way he would have saw me

he would

have saw me

Yeah,

or anybody for digital for that matter.

Yeah,

so he was like, all right, bro.

I'm gonna put you on Inside the last hour that cool

Cool.

I take whatever slot you got.

Yeah.

Cool.

So.

Ripping the room, you know, it's EDM playing.

You understand?

So I changed the EDM to hip hop.

Yeah.

Rocket.

G behind me.

I don't even know.

Yeah.

He go, hey, you got a microphone.

I'm like, no, but I got these headphones.

Yeah.

So

I don't know if people know you can use the headphones in reverse.

You can take the headphones out of the jack and put it in the microphone and it works like a

microphone.

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Wait, what?

Yes.

These headphones right here.

If you plug this into the microphone, Jack is going to act in reverse.

So I passed the headphones as a microphone to shock.

Gee,

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learn me some stuff.

You feel me?

So piece to shock.

Gee, rest

in peace to my boy, man.

Um, he started rapping.

Yeah.

I'm doing my thing.

Teteruma.

Come on.

Time to go.

Time to go.

All right.

Cool.

Everybody.

My guys like, I got to after party.

Yeah.

And like, like this was like, you know, like.

Sunflowers, you know sunflowers.

This is a party in the middle of something like sunflower field.

You know what I mean?

So I'm like, all right, cool, whatever.

I'll meet you there.

Shocked, gee, go.

I'm jumping in with you.

That's cool.

And I'm like, with me?

Yeah.

What?

Yeah.

So I got the Monte Carlo with the Spiderman blue and red guts, y'all

said.

OK, keep my comments cool, whatever.

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We'll be out

here.

So we get to the spot.

He go, man, you ever thought about touring?

Not as you said

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that.

No, I tell you I'm trying to keep it cool, right?

I'm like, yeah, you know, that'd be cool.

You know I'm saying he was like cool.

Let's get in here You know I'm saying lounge around.

I'll catch you in a minute.

We uh, you know Wrap it up.

You know see we can do I'm like damn.

I'm getting here And we ain't gonna be to find each other.

Da-da-da-da before we got out the car He was like man.

Give me a piece of paper.

Give me a number You know I tore a piece of paper gave it to him the manager called me on Monday

Like, hey, I don't know who you are, but Shock says he want to do some shows with you.

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Come on, Stiles.

The first show was in Oregon.

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Killed it.

I'm sorry, Utah.

It was in Utah.

What's out in Utah?

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Shock said, here go the songs.

This is with records, right?

You know what I'm saying?

It's like probably old five.

Yeah.

Gave me the records.

Let's do them in this order.

or whatever, and I want you to put a solo right in the middle.

I'm like, my first show, this guy, let me

do a

solo, that's crazy.

Let me dictate the whole show.

He was like, me, matter of fact, change the first song, God, you just do an instrumental.

At that time, it was, you know what I'm saying, yin gang was cracking.

So he was

like, okay, cool, we'll wrap over the yin gang.

So I basically put the whole set together.

First time playing with shot in digital, and the rest was history.

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What was your relationship like with like what type of person wish I GI him and to park our two people I really wish I got a chance to meet

man the most genuine caring

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yeah

smart super intellectual You know genius yeah, you know geniuses, you know, they Prince is on this level.

You know,

I'm saying like

Prince Mike like his thought process was was on another level.

Yeah

He saw Pac.

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He

saw what was in him.

It was like, yes.

Money B brother gave his seat up on the bus for

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Pac.

And

that's how a lot of that just transpired.

Who knows what would have happened.

You know what I'm saying?

What Pac would have been into, you know what I'm saying?

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If he didn't get

on that bus.

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Yeah.

Yeah.

Come on.

So he's saying it to you.

That's why he told you to take that solo.

Come

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on.

Yep.

Every single show there never been a show without a solo.

No, make sure you got it in there.

Yes.

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What did that do for you by coming from Milwaukee coming from the east side?

I'm gonna tell

you what though coming from Milwaukee got me ready for

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the

shows live shows putting on them shows doing them live shows with rappers.

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Yeah

I'm on stage all the

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time with rappers.

I get it.

Yeah, I

know where I'm at We're supposed to be on stage and I was shine.

I know I'm not the rapper

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Yeah,

you know I'm saying

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like

but Milwaukee

Doing shows

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helped me

and prepped me for those that specific moment

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and you know was crazy What he did for pocking them you did for us Like you came and rocked the house and played our music like you didn't have to because let's be real a lot of people got to pay DJs to play they

right

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Like we didn't I'm not gonna say everybody but I know like for the majority of the people that try to rock with it wasn't y'all one just

Extorting us like hey, you got to pay this like you would generally rock the record because you rock with

y'all had but y'all had That's

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the

difference like like y'all had yeah, it wasn't like we were playing anything

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Yeah,

y'all had the best production, you know No, you know saying

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on

the you know production on the yummy recording everything so y'all had everything was top-notch.

Yeah,

you just stop gas and

know

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Oh No, but But no in my eyes like it's similar to what you said how he saw a pot and how he see people I feel like as a DJ it was the same thing with you like you learned that you came back home and Did the same exact thing that they did you know I'm saying being fruitful

And D.U.

came back and showed love to the city multiple times.

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You know

what I'm saying?

Came in and got a texture.

I don't know if you was ever there

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when... No.

Shocked it was that texture.

My birthday brought them up here.

Wild times.

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Yeah.

Fun.

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Yeah.

Yeah.

I can imagine.

I can imagine.

What did it teach you about professionalism as a DJ?

Touring with them or just just just the ropes like that was the first group I've ever been on the road with

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yeah,

and and They just it just taught me everything about being on the road, you know Try on touring you be there five minutes before them saying you supposed to you know saying get to a place So you know where you're going leave a little bit early,

you

know, um And like the road is the road to eat you up

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boy.

What road to eat you up.

I listen

Don't I know it?

Either you gonna do right or the road gonna do

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it for you.

Well, I'm trying to tell you.

All habits.

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Yeah, yep.

Yeah, it's the quickest way to become addicted to something if you are not careful.

I promise.

Whether it's women, men, money, drugs, food, all of it.

It's a certain lifestyle.

You gotta be built a certain way too.

I did one tour.

I did the loyalty over loyalty tour.

with J Stone, which is Nipsey's best friend and artist, and then Fast Shine,

who was

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signed to Bass Appeal.

And it was, I'm not gonna lie, like, it sound like, you know, hey, we touring, right?

I'm the assistant tour manager.

Man, what?

Come on, it takes a lot, a certain type of person.

Like, everybody's not built for that.

I love waking up in a new city every day.

Like, it doesn't bother

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me.

Train, boat, tour bus.

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That part of it is fun, but you gotta be built health-wise.

Because it's sleepless nights, you're coming in from the show.

If y'all got to have to party, that's something different.

You got to wake up, go to the next city.

It's so many moving parts.

I'd rather do a bus and flight tour.

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Absolutely.

All you got to do is get on

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the bus.

Absolutely.

That's all you got to do.

But for me, I guess it was a little bit different because I wasn't entertaining.

I was doing the logistics.

So it's like, why they get to sleep?

Like

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I'm up like it's a lot, you know, I'm saying but but no, that's uh, that's dope man is going on tour with digital underground is is like getting a Grammy

Loki

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for real.

I mean, it's just the the man riding in transportation and hearing pop stories or just just stories hip-hop.

Yes

royalty.

I mean I play with every single old-school hip-hop artist

Ever man seeing slick Rick do a jewelry change from from white gold to yellow gold.

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Yeah

Immaculate.

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Yeah, let's talk about it.

I want to get into that I want to get into some of the artists you work with and who's your favorite We got DJ new styles legend deal DJ new styles in the building with your girl Jazz Tyler We got to go to break do not touch that down when I want to step in the truth

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Jazz Tyler, you are officially tapped in.

I got a legend in the building.

I know a lot of people like to use that word a lot, but this indeed is a true legend, not just a Milwaukee legend, but.

Legendary DJ, DJ Newstiles.

What's good with it?

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Listen, Digital Underground.

Went on tour with Digital Underground.

Met ShockG, got to work with them.

Who are some of the other amazing artists, like legendary artists that you had a chance to work with where it was almost like, because I know you know a lot of people.

So it's probably not a lot of people that shock you like, oh, but who is the one person that's like, oh my gosh.

Man.

Slick Rick was one of them.

M.C.

Light.

I was completely like, you know, we

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were in

catering and I'm like.

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Is M.C.

Light?

Yeah, it's like.

Wow.

You know what

I'm saying?

Yeah.

Um, treachery from Naughty by Nature.

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Okay.

Super.

One hunnid, cool dude.

You know what I'm saying?

Got to kick it party with dude.

You know what I mean?

I think it was two shows we all did back to back or whatever.

But, um, that was like some of the off top of my head, like memorable.

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Yeah.

I

mean.

Man,

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George Clinton.

Oh, come on now.

Like, come on now, Stiles.

You hold it now.

What was it like with George Clinton and Slick Rick?

I mean, Slick Rick, it wasn't a whole bunch of, you know, you know, convo and stuff like that, but he's just like, you know, it's cool as the demeanor is, as cool as the fantasy

was, you know

what I mean?

I don't know if it was off, off, you know, off the microphone, whatever, he was a commercial, but man, like the coldest thing was.

This man in the middle of his show, wardrobe change in his jury,

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went from the white

gold to the yellow

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gold.

Yeah, they still changed the

patch on you.

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Uh!

Nasty on him.

Uh!

Yeah.

So, yeah, that was crazy.

Big Daddy Kane, come on now.

Yeah.

I was like, all one show, Big Daddy Kane, light.

You know what I'm saying?

Slick Rick.

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That's crazy.

One show, D.U.

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That's crazy.

And styles.

Same.

You, to me, are going down in history as one of the best DJs ever who just so happened to be from Milwaukee.

Do you feel like you get the flowers you deserve?

Now, yes, because a lot of people don't understand.

They just get to see me on a level of club rocking

and

party rocking and stuff like that.

But social media has allowed.

the world to see, you know, what you got going on, you know,

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and

I'm part of a group called Treat Yourself.

And we do something, we do a

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lot

of get together.

Yeah, that's a little biz on

it.

Yeah, me, biz on the sway tracks or whatever.

And

first Sunday we were at Summer 85.

Yeah.

And we put on a clinic of party rocking and skills all at the same time.

So

you really get to see three DJs and we're all DJ at the same time on six turntables.

Yeah.

Nine stops.

So the music is just.

Completely.

Yeah, and you never know.

It's like three chefs in the kitchen cooking.

Yeah, you know I'm

saying and there's no menu.

Yeah,

you just gonna

get Yeah, and so

with that being said like the World Wide Web, you know has has you know, I mean got videos that have done almost a half a million views You know, I mean and then you the love that you get you know, man, you know, I hope to do that

that the things that you guys do, you know what

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I'm saying?

I

want to do a treat yourself to something like that back home, you know, so like that.

So in that sense, yes, definitely.

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The first time I see you two perform together was when we did the Super Bowl party in Green Bay last year.

Oh, right.

Right.

Right.

And that

wasn't even the whole the

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whole squad.

Yeah.

No.

And then I started seeing the videos and I'm like, like you invited me last Sunday and I promise I got to stop.

Like I be one too and I get up.

I be so tired.

I'm

just

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gonna call you.

No, for real.

Jazz, you gotta come.

But you know what's crazy?

85, Summer 85 is my spot now.

Oh, that's your spot

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now?

Yeah.

I don't really like clubbing anymore, because we did it so much.

You understand, like, oh my gosh, wait, people don't get it.

They be like, come on, I'm like, no.

That's all we did.

Mondays.

Lived.

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Tuesdays.

Lived.

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Mondays was live on Earth.

Got Taco Tuesdays questions.

Wednesdays was texture suit.

Thursdays, ladies night.

Friday is some Saturday.

Sunday, red zone.

Every day of the week.

We moving around.

Real fun

though.

Not like,

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eh.

Right.

Real fun.

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Party and party.

So like, yeah, liver need help

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at the end of the

week.

You know what

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I'm saying?

Like why you don't want to kick it?

That's

why I

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don't want to kick it.

But no, Summer 85 is so dope to me.

So I'm saying that to say I most definitely have to make it my duty.

Um to come down there and check you all out because our first show out of town

too and well in Vegas You know I'm saying

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that's the hole into

this month.

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Yes.

That's dope um for up-and-coming DJs What advice do you have for them?

learn The craft yeah, you know not this is not play music learn what it takes to play the music

Yeah,

understanding you got a you know the board in front of you, you know Learn your board.

Yeah

learn some of them basics

So you can stand out from everybody else.

So that's the thing, like everybody sound like everybody.

And

eventually they're going to be a app that's going to be able to play the music like y'all plan

it.

So you

have to make sure you set yourself apart because eventually one of these bars are going to be able to pay a subscription fee for music that just blends.

You see iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Music, what they do, you'd be like, man, that blended, that sound like a DJ.

Yeah.

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And you know what's crazy though?

I don't even like it.

I don't like the way Apple, like, to your point, like, some of it is cool, like, the idea that technology can, but it's nothing like an actual mix from a DJ.

Right,

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but if you

don't, if you don't set yourself apart from that, that's going

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to get better.

Yes.

And

you're going to sound just like

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that.

Horrible.

Not horrible, but I don't like it.

I don't like it whatsoever.

What is your favorite thing about DJing?

When you play a song and then somebody give you the stank face, you know what I'm saying?

Like, that's how you know, you know, you're doing what you're supposed to be doing.

Because, you know, you completely, you're giving somebody a feeling.

And then you play that song that just, whether that's a remix or a different version of the song that they like, or you remixed it, you know what I mean?

When they go.

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Yeah.

That's nasty work.

Yeah.

That's when you know.

Okay.

Yeah.

High five.

So I

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know I did this at the Unity Barge and I felt so bad, but I know I say that because I know what the answer go be.

What is the most annoying thing that happens as a DJ?

I

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think

I don't have a problem with requests.

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It's how it's how it's how

it's how you bring the request.

I don't know why DJing is the only job that people can't see when you doing something.

That's crazy.

There's you

can't right now

nobody's gonna walk up to you like hey Yeah, they're

not

gonna go to the booth and be like hey guys.

Yeah dog when you DJ agent people just start

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talking

Damn, I'm trying to make sure the BPM line up everything.

You don't even know what I'm doing.

You see I'm here and then you just I'm talking about full blown conversation.

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I'm not

talking about like, hey, man, you know, can you play this?

Oh, man, this is my favorite

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song.

And wow.

In the club, I can't hear you anyway.

You drunk anyway.

But you know, you got to you

got to still play it like.

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Yeah.

And you don't want to

be that guy.

You feel me?

But yeah.

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Yeah.

Don't talk to, bro, name a job, you can just go talk to somebody just to talk to them and they just, it's okay.

It doesn't matter.

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That's what I hear.

Come up here, offer me a drink and nothing.

Anna, the play bad bunny.

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Oh, my God.

With the thing,

with the phone.

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Oh, that's the thing.

Oh, man, come on.

Play.

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DJ, this is the only job where you can't see I'm busy right now.

Like somehow or

some way.

You just can't see it.

All right, I guess.

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What is your top three favorite clubs of all time in Milwaukee that you've DJed at?

Jack Jammers, I don't know if cats remember Jack Jammers, but Jack Jammers was insane.

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Is it on the south side?

It was.

It was on Cold Spring, but their setup was so nice.

Yeah.

Almost like three levels.

The first two levels, they met each other as dance floor, but then you can go upstairs.

where the DJ booth was hanging off a balcony and it was closed off.

You couldn't get to the DJ.

We

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had like our own

suite.

It was like having your

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suite.

Yes.

No distractions.

Cracking.

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Cracking.

Cracking.

No distractions.

Then probably probably the clubhouse.

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Yeah.

These all

teen clubs.

Yeah.

These all teen clubs.

Yeah.

Crazy.

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Going down.

Going down.

Man, I, you know, and I talk about it a lot, but my favorite spot.

And course texture.

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Textures because you have to up in now.

I do too.

Don't forget.

You're wrong patio.

You're wrong patio.

Like and then it was a it was such a dope combination.

Like you knowledge, real skills.

Um, who else was there?

Y'all know it was just your house DJs, right?

Yeah.

They brought in people every blue moon,

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but

not really.

And yeah, that was it.

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Yeah.

Like it was that was you can go up, you can go down, you can go on a patio.

Um, but.

Just watching you work throughout all these years, right?

Inaction.

Less still.

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Man, Styles.

One of the coldest to ever do it for real.

Still.

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Still doing it.

And what is you eating?

Because you don't age.

Man, listen,

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I gotta look

for real juice.

You gotta know somebody, you know.

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Listen, you ain't.

I mean,

likewise, you can chill out.

Come on, Jazzy.

Come on.

We all look way younger than

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we are.

Yeah, we do.

No, we do.

And given the amount of party that we did.

That's how you know it's something different.

It's something different back then than what it is now.

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For real.

For real.

And listen, I don't say this lightly.

Like every day, every day, every single day we was out.

That grind is a beast.

I'm almost out every day now.

But still.

But yeah, that was a lot of party.

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Yeah.

It was it was before you get out of here.

Do you have any shout outs?

Oh, yeah, you know what?

Actually, we still in the texture building.

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Oh, yeah.

OK.

You know, over Katrina, well, I mean, to kill it, we do to kill a Sunday's over there.

Super fun.

You know, you can probably catch me there twice a month.

Jabalter.

Yes.

Throughout the week.

Dream lounge.

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Oh, come on.

Shout out, Joe.

What day is it?

Once a

month.

You just got to check my page, you know what I'm saying?

My Instagram on

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my

Facebook.

You know, on my Facebook, my government name on Marriott or my Instagram, DJ New Styles.

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OK.

Styles with a Z. New in you.

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Yeah.

So, yeah.

That's where we at with it.

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Let's go.

Let's go.

Thank you so much, Styles.

For stopping, dude.

We got to pull up on you.

Whenever y'all get a chance, please make sure y'all hit them up on Instagram.

Check out this page.

N-U-S-U-Y-L-E-Z, man.

It be going down.

It be going down.

I'll be watching.

I'm going to get the energy one day, Styles.

I got to come rock

with you.

Hey, meet us all in October.

The first Sunday of October, Jazz is going to be there.

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Yeah, let's go.

Let's do it.

Next up, we got DJ GA.

Do not touch that down.

It's your girl, Jazz Tyler.

One on one, 7 of Truth.

What up, Milwaukee?

It's your girl Jazz Tyler.

We are live and direct.

Listen, it is five o'clock.

We are changing gears, right?

But I'm carrying one word with me that is in fluid.

So elected officials aren't the only people who are shaping communities.

DJs shape culture too.

And my next guest, help break.

Milwaukee artists tour with digital underground and watch hip-hop evolve through multiple generations.

We are talking about DJ Newstiles.

Hey, what's happening?

Jasmine Tyler

Thank you so much for joining us.

Sure.

We're going to dive into it before we get into this conversation.

I want to take this last call from Chad.

You got to comment on David Crowley's county executive David Crowley's press release as it pertains to holding elected officials accountable.

Chad, are you there?

I'm here.

Jasmine Tyler

Thank you so much for tapping in.

How are you?

I'm good.

I'm good.

How are

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you?

Well, you have a comment about the press release.

Yeah, really, my comment is just about all politicians.

Everybody knows it already, but people still supporting them, people getting behind them, acting like, you know, their people, whichever side it is, either one is, you know, 100% pure saints.

They're all saints.

They all doing the same thing.

My grandma used to be like that.

Oh, this guy, you're a perfect son.

And then next thing you know, he's.

found cheating on his wife, North Carolina, who's dying of cancer.

You know, people, politicians, every single one of them, Republican or Democrat or whatever in between, they all get into it for one reason, for themselves.

They ain't getting into it for us.

They don't care, but yet all these people feel so passionate.

They're gonna bet their people are so great.

These people, I'm from Chicago.

the last five or whatever seven of the last whatever uh governs and had went to prison

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yeah

chicago

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is like a gang over there they running like the mafia those

are like the deficiencies everywhere it's everywhere yeah i guarantee you they're you know look at these people they get into it and they die they're still working or supposedly working until the day they die look at lindsay graham uh graphically in iowa he's like 150

Who's that dude, McConnell or whatever, Mitch McConnell?

He doesn't even look like he can take a breath and he's still, you know, sending money, Switzerland or wherever.

They're all 100% corrupt either side.

And this country's not going to change until something major happens.

Jasmine Tyler

Absolutely.

Thank you so much, Chad, for tapping in.

I agree with you.

That's reality, most definitely it.

Listen, we are shifting gears.

We got DJ Newstiles in the building.

I am excited.

I know you guys, if you just now joining earlier, I talked about a lot of the things that this man has done.

And one of them was he is officially the DJ who broke my single in the club.

I think I'm telling our age, but Stiles, thank you for joining me today.

Before we start, I just want to publicly acknowledge you and give you your flowers.

We talk about you often on here the work that you have done.

I don't think that a lot of people Understand right?

I'm gonna say that because you get a lot of love but some people may not understand the amount of work that it took back then To get our club our singles played in the clubs.

It was not popular in the beginning.

It was not a thing that was like hey

Yeah, we're supporting all Milwaukee artists.

Like the DJs had to fight, the DJs had to play their part and you are one of them.

From textures to everywhere.

Nottay, all around the city, you have been a huge part in all of our careers.

And I thank you for that.

My first question before we dive into you is, how did you make that happen, Styles?

I don't think it was just me.

But playing local music, that was the easy part.

You know, when you did your own night, per se.

You

know, we had a couple different, you know, Lionel Northen.

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Yeah.

That was really home cultivated.

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You know what I

mean?

You play what you want.

We book who we want.

You know, it was really the city's night.

But, you know, it's like when you're going into, you know, the bigger clubs, you know, you're going into these spots that

Like you said, like now, local music is a lot bigger in the city to where it's accepted and everybody is listening to it all.

And back then, you know, like, you got a local, you want to play something like that, okay, is it going to work?

Right.

It's

always a question.

I don't know.

And then fast forward to like the texture days.

That's why I say like it's not necessarily just me.

when,

you know,

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club owner, you know,

you got knowledge, you know, it was on the radio, then you had, you know, the club owner, Donato.

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Shout out to Donato and Papa Sal.

I know Rest in Peace, Papa Sal.

Definitely.

You know, a lot of people might not know who these guys were, but these were like, you know...

They were pillars in the nightclub community that always had clubs, you know, since we were younger.

Yeah.

But the noddle let me and Scott Knox kind of

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basically curate

the whole club.

Yes.

You know, um...

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Knox had to join upstairs from Texas.

Man, come on, now selling

nachos from

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upstairs, yo, after

bar.

But they really allowed us, I mean, like, what nightclub was producing mixtapes and giving them

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home to people.

Come on, come on.

Come on, you know, we

had we had a whole mixtape with all Milwaukee artists from start to finish and these are songs that we played in the club every single

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night

and people knew who these guys were and to support.

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But

it took, you know, a certain vibe and element to make that happen.

There was nothing like that.

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Yes.

And you write, you know, like you weren't the only person.

But the reason why I highlight you the most is because you never stopped no matter which club you went to.

You never stopped.

And the communication between you and knowledge.

So we know that knowledge was on a radio.

Whatever you were playing, then he would break it on the radio.

Whatever he would play, you would break it in the

clubs.

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Red Zone Sundays.

And a huge shout out to Denado because there was not a lot of clubs that allowed all of us to perform.

And we were performing.

You would think we was famous.

The next

big whatever.

But that's how it felt, though.

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The

love felt like that.

And people, I don't know if it was because we were constantly feeding the city with the music.

You know, everybody had their records and they were doing it.

You had your run, your music.

You know what I'm saying?

It was just

so

many.

You know what I'm saying?

Nitty had his.

You know, the streets do about it, but when they saw it live, it was just so different.

It was magic, almost.

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Everybody knew to be at Textures on Sundays.

Everybody knew.

Everybody knew to be at Textures on Sundays.

I think by the time we got to live on North, it was like, yo, we really made like a completely different impact.

I

knew, you know, I've been a part of the hip-hop here in the city for well over 30, I'd say 25 years.

We might as well say 30.

Nah, we dating

ourselves.

But during that time, like the support, when I saw how people was really

Jug into local music.

I'm like, I'm sorry.

Man, I've never seen it.

Yeah.

You

know, prior, you know, it was love, but it wasn't to this level.

And then

now taking it from there to seeing what, you know, the Internet has made.

Yes.

It's almost unbelievable.

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Yes.

Yeah.

And they support it.

You guys supported us.

But what it did, this is the important part for me.

I can't speak for everybody.

Um, but.

what it did for me was it taught me stage presence.

It taught me how to perform, how to properly hold the mic, how to interact with the crowd, how to interact with the DJ.

You know what I'm saying?

These are all things that a lot of artists are missing now.

They don't have, because they A, they don't think sometimes they need the DJ.

B, they're not willing to perform unless it's opening up for somebody big, right?

And if they do go into the clubs, it's all about them.

Whoever they bring it, it's not about the artist's development piece.

In a sense, I guess, Nigel, you said like that, I guess texture almost did.

Developers.

That kind of A&R,

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you know what I'm saying?

Artists to DJs, because it did connect anybody that I didn't know.

You

know what I'm saying?

That Knox brought in like, oh man, let's do X, Y, and Z, da, da, da.

And the cool part about how we did it was, I'm not sure if you understood the formula.

A lot of times, we would just make sure there were no breaks

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in

between

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artists.

Yes.

Yes.

That was like Donato's only thing, like, as long as the music doesn't stop.

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Yeah.

It doesn't matter.

Let's just do it.

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You know what I'm saying?

Let's

do it.

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Well, you rail made.

Uh, she bad by young legend, by Nitty.

She jazzy by me.

He made booty hop by Oki.

So everything flowed to get, uh, Miss Perfect even flowed in there.

That was produced by somebody else.

But all of it, it flowed perfectly.

Some

more heater after heater.

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Like you can

just, it was just like all locals, but fire.

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Yes.

Like they're international artists.

Artists.

But we used to, so we did a national artist, a local, did a national

artist.

Never did everything back to back.

So the crowd wouldn't know

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the difference.

That's right.

And then what

happened was people started getting started knowing what's going on.

Oh, this is okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Then now we can do whatever, but that's how we kind of.

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Yes.

Yes.

Shout out to DJ L Boogie.

So I was in, um, what is it called favorites?

And I hear every, every one to the two to the three.

When was this?

This was just like a couple months ago.

I said, how you even still got that?

That was me and Scotty Knox.

That was on a mixtape.

I recorded that record.

What do you mean?

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I was like, what?

Wait, hold on a minute.

Where you get that from?

I

don't even have

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that record.

I don't even have any of the styles.

I got a head up.

That's

crazy.

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But no, like it was when we talk about that, because I was obviously talking about the situation with the garage when that happened.

And these are moments that I was referring to, right?

When you talk about Milwaukee music, rap, I think a lot of them just look at the industry now.

They don't understand the amount of work that went into building it up.

But it's a different type of work now to build it up,

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you know what

I mean?

But still, that hands-on with how to interact with a DJ, like a lot of cash don't necessarily,

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and

I only think it's nothing personal.

It's just how they move,

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you know what I

mean?

Bruh, we

playin'

the music, come say, what up, bro?

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I

ain't never really met you like that.

How you doin'?

But, you know, like I said, it's a different age, you know what I'm sayin'?

Different hurdles, and I'm not sure if the DJ is on the radar of the hurdle of, hey,

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this is

somebody I need to talk to.

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Listen, we gotta go to break, but what I will say before we go to break is respect the DJ.

Respect the DJ point blank period.

It don't matter if you understand or not, without the DJs,

Our records will not be broken.

You can have it on the stream.

Social media can go viral, all of that.

But you still need the DJs just like you need the producers.

Industries for locals.

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Industries for the men.

You got to.

We're going to break.

When we come back, we're going to dig into new styles.

His background, touring with digital underground, all of the above, what he has brought to the city of Milwaukee as it pertains to music.

Do not touch that.

Dow should grow a jazz title of one on one, seven of truth.

It's your girl, Jazz Tyler.

We are live and direct at the American Family Insurance Studio in the beautiful heart of downtown Milwaukee.

And I got my homie, my player partner, sitting right with me.

DJ Noustals.

Thank you, sir.

Listen, you are iconic to me, Styles.

I promise you are so iconic.

Before we go too far out, man, congratulations.

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Thank you.

This

is another level.

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Thank you.

Success for you.

You

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know what I'm saying?

Like,

you know, who would have thought, you know.

Doing shows and rapping and, you know, being creative on that side, you would end up on this side.

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Here, never.

I promise you, like I've never thought about it.

I never, I never foreseen it.

I always wanted to do radio, but I just never placed it, you know, as a priority.

And before we went to break, we was talking about how you all help kind of shape like who we are today.

So as you think about that, it's like those moments does play a huge part into who we are today.

You never know what's going to.

come into, you know, for wishing or how it was going to work, but

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man.

Yes.

That's how I go.

Yes.

So, Styles, before you became DJ New Styles, who are you?

We know you are Marry Edwards, but so, but that's the question.

What about my

government name?

Who is Marry?

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Who are you?

Who is Styles?

Where did you grow up?

Where did you come from?

How did you come from?

East out of Milwaukee.

East out of Milwaukee, man.

before it was River West.

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You know what I'm saying?

Before you look at the

sign, River West, this was never here.

You know what I'm saying?

But, you know, man, just good old 414.

Eastside, living, hung out on the Southside.

Southside, kind of like the first place that gave me my start, my first gig of being older nightlife.

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You

know what I'm saying?

I always DJ my middle school dance.

That's

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how long I've been doing

it.

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Come on out.

Right.

Um, but the South side kind of like, you know, Tony Niels, the Doc B's, they

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had

the North side downtown locked up.

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You know what

I'm saying?

So, you know, my thought process was, you know, I think like in hindsight, you know, looking backwards, man, why fight?

Yeah.

And, you know, I could go over here and the South side really wasn't playing a lot of hip hop.

Yeah.

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Went

over there, brought the hip hop over there.

People love me on it.

Like, oh man, you know.

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Yeah.

That's, that's kind of like really.

Where I started?

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Where was one of the first clubs you DJed at?

First club club?

You know what?

I don't even know the bar name, to be honest.

But instead of that, my first big, big club would probably be Clubhouse, the clubhouse.

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Oh, snaps!

Oh, that's back back in the day.

Clubhouse,

yes.

The clubhouse is better than some of these grown folk

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clubs nowadays, okay?

I wasn't ordering them to get in the clubhouse, but my cousins was.

I used to see a lot of pictures.

Man, telling you like that.

All sides of Milwaukee came

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to the clubhouse.

What?

Yeah.

That moves on, what, higher 100?

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And that was a teen club, right?

Teen club.

First, it was teen club.

They used to let, you know, stay open till like

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four o'clock in the morning.

Can't do that now.

No.

And they changed that the next year.

They licensed came up too.

They was like, I ain't gonna stay up

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until.

Can't do it.

No.

Um, so who introduced you to DJing?

How did that come about?

Uh,

a guy named Image.

Kobe McDaniel, when I was in, uh, grade school.

So, yep, he, long story short, he had a rap group called CFA cause for Alarm.

We was kind of like, they were kind of like the ABC and other

bad

creation

back in the day.

You know

what I'm saying?

But you know, he had him kicking like more, uh, you know, uh, uh, intellectual raps.

Yeah.

I

mean, I wanted to be a rapper.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

So I'm like, you know,

let me be a rapper.

He was like, man, I don't have no place for you.

I already got my two rappers.

You

can.

do the music in the background.

Yeah.

So I'm like, eh, I don't want to do this, but hey, I don't want to be a part of the

group.

Yeah.

So it just went from there and I kind of like molded into the DJ and end up happy that I end up DJing

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because I

can't

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rap.

That's what I was going to

ask you.

No.

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Are you like, if you could do it over, would you be a rapper or would you just be a DJ?

I tried

rapping like one time,

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wrote a rap, it

was

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trash.

At least you came to your realization.

One day I

took it took one trying to write a couple bars and it

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was like, yeah.

We good with that thing.

Do you remember the first equipment you ever touched?

Oh, yeah.

We go dating ourselves again, right?

So my mama bought me a Gemini mixer.

That's the little thing to go in between the two turntables I had.

A mixer before I had two turntables and a tape and two tape decks.

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Come on now.

Right?

Yes.

Going back and forth.

Trying to be Doc B. Trying to be Tony Neil.

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Trying to, you

know what I'm saying?

Trying to be them guys and then one Christmas my mama bought me a turntable.

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Come on.

Oh my God.

I mean, I could still smell fresh turntable to this day.

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Yeah.

Like

brand new car to me.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Well, I had a tape deck and a turntable.

Worked them to death.

And then my pops bought me this cheap turntable.

So then I learned how to rock on a real cheap turntable.

So it kept my hand steady.

Yeah.

When I got the better stuff on this side.

Yeah.

Can't nobody, you know what I'm saying?

Do nothing with me because I'm cold on this piece of trash turntable.

So from there, I ended up getting two techniques and then started doing little gigs here and there.

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And you so cold, like, if you ain't never seen Styles DJ, especially when he be scratching, it reminds me of the scene on Jews.

So I'm into the

competition type stuff and the club rock.

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Yeah.

You know, so, you know, people are like, oh, what's the competition?

Like really going city to city.

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Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

And proving yourself to who call they self the best

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of the best.

Yup.

I've seen you.

It remind me of that scene out of Juice.

Yeah.

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And it's

crazy.

Juice, that whole scene was like now looking at it as a DJ, it was so fake.

You know what I'm saying?

Oh my God.

But when I was little watching, I'm like, oh, this is so crazy.

Shout out to the DJs too, like Scratch or whatever.

That's who really did the back scratching in the background music while they acted it

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out.

But yeah, that's super fake.

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How long did it take you to learn that technique where you can scratch, turn around, scratch with one hand?

I mean, literally, I tell people, if you dedicate yourself an hour to an hour and a half a day for a year, you can be real

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cool.

Go do it.

Real cool.

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Yeah.

But, you know, you got to catch DJing in a couple months.

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Yes.

You know, it just depends on what you put into it.

You know, but the technical stuff is going to take a little bit, but it's all muscle memory, like shooting in the gym.

That's it.

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Who is the person that influenced you the most when it comes to DJing?

I would say in the city, it would probably be Doc B.

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Yeah.

Oh, he's a legend for sure.

Probably Doc B.

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Yeah.

Always.

From all that equipment to the cases, I just wanted to be,

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you know what I

mean?

Just like him, you know what I mean?

So that's kind of... Doc B is one of the best.

Absolutely.

One of the best, best,

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best.

Hands

down.

I put him down.

I don't

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know.

We go

through this every day.

I talk to Doc B. Almost every day.

We go through this every day.

I'm the best.

I'm the best.

I'm the best.

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That's dope, though.

That's super dope.

I want to get into the youth, right?

Because a lot of times when I teach my students, we have the DJ and equipment up there and I show them how to do it.

Obviously, it's not like the, you know, traditional tables and stuff.

But they don't understand so when they think of DJs now they think of somebody who are who is on YouTube You know and they have they streaming channel and they just up there like like a mix show Like you

mean like like an academic type.

That's a DJ.

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Yeah, that's what they think that is just like We're not academic but more so like I you know I go on YouTube and I see a playlist is is DJs that has like a mix show live where they

DJing live and they might mix to another song.

That's just it, right?

Right, right, right.

So they thinking like, that's all DJ DJing consists of.

Okay, that's their perception of what?

Like the pinnacle of a DJ.

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Exactly.

You

two, okay, got you.

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So what I tell them is that, and to me and the era I grew up in, DJs are the people that break records.

Right.

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And they don't.

We live in a society where a lot of the younger generation don't understand what breaking a record means because they are so caught up in viral moments.

Let me put this clip of my song or video on social media and then it's going to go viral and now I just broke myself.

Let's tap into that.

What does it actually mean to break a record and why is it important for artists to work with DJ so that they can break a record?

I mean breaking record long without going super in depth is presenting a record.

new record to people that they never heard before That's breaking the record, but it takes more than just playing a record one time, you know, you have to Putting that record in the right place

at the

right time at the spot Yes, also being the right spot to play such record is a

big

deal.

Yes,

so it gets technical on

truly breaking a record, but you need you need months, you know, and and budgets.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, to break records right.

Yeah.

But all in all, you got a new record.

You're presenting this record to your crowd that they may or may not heard before.

Yeah.

And and you you you put that record in your arsenal to have a specific effect.

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Yes.

So I would put a new record in between two hot records.

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strategy

so the crowd is just not like what is this

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yeah

and hopefully by mashing that record you know sandwich that record in between the two the flow and then you can really get to see how it works in real time yes in between you know the heightened you know and depending on what time you play the record as

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well yeah that's right that's right that and it worked for me

Y'all did that with she Jazzy when with bow and she perfect like whenever you hear she perfect by major you're gonna hear she Jazzy whenever you hear bow by nitty or booty hop by okie you're gonna hear she Jazzy and it works it works like oh my gosh that brings back so many memories we bought we coming up on a break when we come back from break I want to tap into you Torn and DJ and for digital

underground

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what that was like how that came about

Uh, that is that you go you got it like for real like you go to that one for real for real not even just because it's digital underground but just because of obviously who's all involved and I think a lot of a lot of people don't understand how uh important situations like that is like what it does for the city, right?

Um, so we're gonna go to break.

We're gonna, when we come back, we're gonna talk about that.

We got DJ Newstiles in the building.

She grew up Jazz Tyler, one-on-one stepping the truth.

do this right here pretty warm it's something you should know

We

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are live and direct at the award-winning 101 Step in the Truth.

I got one of my favorite people in the building, DJ Newstiles is here live and direct.

Listen, we've had a great conversation about DJing, but I want to know about digital underground.

So, how did this come about?

Like, what was... Walk me through the process of...

How you reacted when you got the news when you first met them all of that?

So this is real life like, you know Right place right time type deal.

Um, I Was doing an underground rave party, um Hindsight on that while I was there had a guy that always booked me for different type of parties like this.

He was like, man, I'm gonna open my own club one day

And I mean, I'm gonna have digital underground come.

That's my favorite rap group.

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And this was here in Milwaukee?

No, this is, no, this is like in the sticks.

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Okay.

Some Monashia,

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Nina.

Oh, okay.

Wisconsin, like

that type of back, you know.

So my homeboy Mitch, shout out to Mitch.

He had, he bought his club, little bar, and brought digital underground.

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Come on now.

I'm

like, okay.

So he booked me, kept his promise or whatever.

I was late to the gig.

So I was scheduled to go on before them.

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Yeah,

so I get there like dang, bro My bad, I'm late.

Yeah, you still got a spot for me.

So even though if I was on time their flight was late So there's no way he would have saw me

he would

have saw me

Yeah,

or anybody for digital for that matter.

Yeah,

so he was like, all right, bro.

I'm gonna put you on Inside the last hour that cool

Cool.

I take whatever slot you got.

Yeah.

Cool.

So.

Ripping the room, you know, it's EDM playing.

You understand?

So I changed the EDM to hip hop.

Yeah.

Rocket.

G behind me.

I don't even know.

Yeah.

He go, hey, you got a microphone.

I'm like, no, but I got these headphones.

Yeah.

So

I don't know if people know you can use the headphones in reverse.

You can take the headphones out of the jack and put it in the microphone and it works like a

microphone.

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Wait, what?

Yes.

These headphones right here.

If you plug this into the microphone, Jack is going to act in reverse.

So I passed the headphones as a microphone to shock.

Gee,

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learn me some stuff.

You feel me?

So piece to shock.

Gee, rest

in peace to my boy, man.

Um, he started rapping.

Yeah.

I'm doing my thing.

Teteruma.

Come on.

Time to go.

Time to go.

All right.

Cool.

Everybody.

My guys like, I got to after party.

Yeah.

And like, like this was like, you know, like.

Sunflowers, you know sunflowers.

This is a party in the middle of something like sunflower field.

You know what I mean?

So I'm like, all right, cool, whatever.

I'll meet you there.

Shocked, gee, go.

I'm jumping in with you.

That's cool.

And I'm like, with me?

Yeah.

What?

Yeah.

So I got the Monte Carlo with the Spiderman blue and red guts, y'all

said.

OK, keep my comments cool, whatever.

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We'll be out

here.

So we get to the spot.

He go, man, you ever thought about touring?

Not as you said

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that.

No, I tell you I'm trying to keep it cool, right?

I'm like, yeah, you know, that'd be cool.

You know I'm saying he was like cool.

Let's get in here You know I'm saying lounge around.

I'll catch you in a minute.

We uh, you know Wrap it up.

You know see we can do I'm like damn.

I'm getting here And we ain't gonna be to find each other.

Da-da-da-da before we got out the car He was like man.

Give me a piece of paper.

Give me a number You know I tore a piece of paper gave it to him the manager called me on Monday

Like, hey, I don't know who you are, but Shock says he want to do some shows with you.

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Come on, Stiles.

The first show was in Oregon.

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Killed it.

I'm sorry, Utah.

It was in Utah.

What's out in Utah?

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Shock said, here go the songs.

This is with records, right?

You know what I'm saying?

It's like probably old five.

Yeah.

Gave me the records.

Let's do them in this order.

or whatever, and I want you to put a solo right in the middle.

I'm like, my first show, this guy, let me

do a

solo, that's crazy.

Let me dictate the whole show.

He was like, me, matter of fact, change the first song, God, you just do an instrumental.

At that time, it was, you know what I'm saying, yin gang was cracking.

So he was

like, okay, cool, we'll wrap over the yin gang.

So I basically put the whole set together.

First time playing with shot in digital, and the rest was history.

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What was your relationship like with like what type of person wish I GI him and to park our two people I really wish I got a chance to meet

man the most genuine caring

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yeah

smart super intellectual You know genius yeah, you know geniuses, you know, they Prince is on this level.

You know,

I'm saying like

Prince Mike like his thought process was was on another level.

Yeah

He saw Pac.

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He

saw what was in him.

It was like, yes.

Money B brother gave his seat up on the bus for

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Pac.

And

that's how a lot of that just transpired.

Who knows what would have happened.

You know what I'm saying?

What Pac would have been into, you know what I'm saying?

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If he didn't get

on that bus.

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Yeah.

Yeah.

Come on.

So he's saying it to you.

That's why he told you to take that solo.

Come

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on.

Yep.

Every single show there never been a show without a solo.

No, make sure you got it in there.

Yes.

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What did that do for you by coming from Milwaukee coming from the east side?

I'm gonna tell

you what though coming from Milwaukee got me ready for

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the

shows live shows putting on them shows doing them live shows with rappers.

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Yeah

I'm on stage all the

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time with rappers.

I get it.

Yeah, I

know where I'm at We're supposed to be on stage and I was shine.

I know I'm not the rapper

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Yeah,

you know I'm saying

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like

but Milwaukee

Doing shows

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helped me

and prepped me for those that specific moment

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and you know was crazy What he did for pocking them you did for us Like you came and rocked the house and played our music like you didn't have to because let's be real a lot of people got to pay DJs to play they

right

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Like we didn't I'm not gonna say everybody but I know like for the majority of the people that try to rock with it wasn't y'all one just

Extorting us like hey, you got to pay this like you would generally rock the record because you rock with

y'all had but y'all had That's

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the

difference like like y'all had yeah, it wasn't like we were playing anything

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Yeah,

y'all had the best production, you know No, you know saying

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on

the you know production on the yummy recording everything so y'all had everything was top-notch.

Yeah,

you just stop gas and

know

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Oh No, but But no in my eyes like it's similar to what you said how he saw a pot and how he see people I feel like as a DJ it was the same thing with you like you learned that you came back home and Did the same exact thing that they did you know I'm saying being fruitful

And D.U.

came back and showed love to the city multiple times.

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You know

what I'm saying?

Came in and got a texture.

I don't know if you was ever there

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when... No.

Shocked it was that texture.

My birthday brought them up here.

Wild times.

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Yeah.

Fun.

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Yeah.

Yeah.

I can imagine.

I can imagine.

What did it teach you about professionalism as a DJ?

Touring with them or just just just the ropes like that was the first group I've ever been on the road with

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yeah,

and and They just it just taught me everything about being on the road, you know Try on touring you be there five minutes before them saying you supposed to you know saying get to a place So you know where you're going leave a little bit early,

you

know, um And like the road is the road to eat you up

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boy.

What road to eat you up.

I listen

Don't I know it?

Either you gonna do right or the road gonna do

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it for you.

Well, I'm trying to tell you.

All habits.

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Yeah, yep.

Yeah, it's the quickest way to become addicted to something if you are not careful.

I promise.

Whether it's women, men, money, drugs, food, all of it.

It's a certain lifestyle.

You gotta be built a certain way too.

I did one tour.

I did the loyalty over loyalty tour.

with J Stone, which is Nipsey's best friend and artist, and then Fast Shine,

who was

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signed to Bass Appeal.

And it was, I'm not gonna lie, like, it sound like, you know, hey, we touring, right?

I'm the assistant tour manager.

Man, what?

Come on, it takes a lot, a certain type of person.

Like, everybody's not built for that.

I love waking up in a new city every day.

Like, it doesn't bother

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me.

Train, boat, tour bus.

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That part of it is fun, but you gotta be built health-wise.

Because it's sleepless nights, you're coming in from the show.

If y'all got to have to party, that's something different.

You got to wake up, go to the next city.

It's so many moving parts.

I'd rather do a bus and flight tour.

Jasmine Tyler

Absolutely.

All you got to do is get on

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the bus.

Absolutely.

That's all you got to do.

But for me, I guess it was a little bit different because I wasn't entertaining.

I was doing the logistics.

So it's like, why they get to sleep?

Like

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I'm up like it's a lot, you know, I'm saying but but no, that's uh, that's dope man is going on tour with digital underground is is like getting a Grammy

Loki

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for real.

I mean, it's just the the man riding in transportation and hearing pop stories or just just stories hip-hop.

Yes

royalty.

I mean I play with every single old-school hip-hop artist

Ever man seeing slick Rick do a jewelry change from from white gold to yellow gold.

Jasmine Tyler

Yeah

Immaculate.

Jasmine Tyler

Yeah, let's talk about it.

I want to get into that I want to get into some of the artists you work with and who's your favorite We got DJ new styles legend deal DJ new styles in the building with your girl Jazz Tyler We got to go to break do not touch that down when I want to step in the truth

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Truth nation should grow.

Jazz Tyler, you are officially tapped in.

I got a legend in the building.

I know a lot of people like to use that word a lot, but this indeed is a true legend, not just a Milwaukee legend, but.

Legendary DJ, DJ Newstiles.

What's good with it?

Jasmine Tyler

Listen, Digital Underground.

Went on tour with Digital Underground.

Met ShockG, got to work with them.

Who are some of the other amazing artists, like legendary artists that you had a chance to work with where it was almost like, because I know you know a lot of people.

So it's probably not a lot of people that shock you like, oh, but who is the one person that's like, oh my gosh.

Man.

Slick Rick was one of them.

M.C.

Light.

I was completely like, you know, we

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were in

catering and I'm like.

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Is M.C.

Light?

Yeah, it's like.

Wow.

You know what

I'm saying?

Yeah.

Um, treachery from Naughty by Nature.

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Okay.

Super.

One hunnid, cool dude.

You know what I'm saying?

Got to kick it party with dude.

You know what I mean?

I think it was two shows we all did back to back or whatever.

But, um, that was like some of the off top of my head, like memorable.

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Yeah.

I

mean.

Man,

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George Clinton.

Oh, come on now.

Like, come on now, Stiles.

You hold it now.

What was it like with George Clinton and Slick Rick?

I mean, Slick Rick, it wasn't a whole bunch of, you know, you know, convo and stuff like that, but he's just like, you know, it's cool as the demeanor is, as cool as the fantasy

was, you know

what I mean?

I don't know if it was off, off, you know, off the microphone, whatever, he was a commercial, but man, like the coldest thing was.

This man in the middle of his show, wardrobe change in his jury,

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went from the white

gold to the yellow

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gold.

Yeah, they still changed the

patch on you.

Jasmine Tyler

Uh!

Nasty on him.

Uh!

Yeah.

So, yeah, that was crazy.

Big Daddy Kane, come on now.

Yeah.

I was like, all one show, Big Daddy Kane, light.

You know what I'm saying?

Slick Rick.

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That's crazy.

One show, D.U.

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That's crazy.

And styles.

Same.

You, to me, are going down in history as one of the best DJs ever who just so happened to be from Milwaukee.

Do you feel like you get the flowers you deserve?

Now, yes, because a lot of people don't understand.

They just get to see me on a level of club rocking

and

party rocking and stuff like that.

But social media has allowed.

the world to see, you know, what you got going on, you know,

Jasmine Tyler

and

I'm part of a group called Treat Yourself.

And we do something, we do a

Jasmine Tyler

lot

of get together.

Yeah, that's a little biz on

it.

Yeah, me, biz on the sway tracks or whatever.

And

first Sunday we were at Summer 85.

Yeah.

And we put on a clinic of party rocking and skills all at the same time.

So

you really get to see three DJs and we're all DJ at the same time on six turntables.

Yeah.

Nine stops.

So the music is just.

Completely.

Yeah, and you never know.

It's like three chefs in the kitchen cooking.

Yeah, you know I'm

saying and there's no menu.

Yeah,

you just gonna

get Yeah, and so

with that being said like the World Wide Web, you know has has you know, I mean got videos that have done almost a half a million views You know, I mean and then you the love that you get you know, man, you know, I hope to do that

that the things that you guys do, you know what

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I'm saying?

I

want to do a treat yourself to something like that back home, you know, so like that.

So in that sense, yes, definitely.

Jasmine Tyler

The first time I see you two perform together was when we did the Super Bowl party in Green Bay last year.

Oh, right.

Right.

Right.

And that

wasn't even the whole the

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whole squad.

Yeah.

No.

And then I started seeing the videos and I'm like, like you invited me last Sunday and I promise I got to stop.

Like I be one too and I get up.

I be so tired.

I'm

just

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gonna call you.

No, for real.

Jazz, you gotta come.

But you know what's crazy?

85, Summer 85 is my spot now.

Oh, that's your spot

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now?

Yeah.

I don't really like clubbing anymore, because we did it so much.

You understand, like, oh my gosh, wait, people don't get it.

They be like, come on, I'm like, no.

That's all we did.

Mondays.

Lived.

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Tuesdays.

Lived.

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Mondays was live on Earth.

Got Taco Tuesdays questions.

Wednesdays was texture suit.

Thursdays, ladies night.

Friday is some Saturday.

Sunday, red zone.

Every day of the week.

We moving around.

Real fun

though.

Not like,

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eh.

Right.

Real fun.

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Party and party.

So like, yeah, liver need help

Jasmine Tyler

at the end of the

week.

You know what

Jasmine Tyler

I'm saying?

Like why you don't want to kick it?

That's

why I

Jasmine Tyler

don't want to kick it.

But no, Summer 85 is so dope to me.

So I'm saying that to say I most definitely have to make it my duty.

Um to come down there and check you all out because our first show out of town

too and well in Vegas You know I'm saying

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that's the hole into

this month.

Jasmine Tyler

Yes.

That's dope um for up-and-coming DJs What advice do you have for them?

learn The craft yeah, you know not this is not play music learn what it takes to play the music

Yeah,

understanding you got a you know the board in front of you, you know Learn your board.

Yeah

learn some of them basics

So you can stand out from everybody else.

So that's the thing, like everybody sound like everybody.

And

eventually they're going to be a app that's going to be able to play the music like y'all plan

it.

So you

have to make sure you set yourself apart because eventually one of these bars are going to be able to pay a subscription fee for music that just blends.

You see iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Music, what they do, you'd be like, man, that blended, that sound like a DJ.

Yeah.

Jasmine Tyler

And you know what's crazy though?

I don't even like it.

I don't like the way Apple, like, to your point, like, some of it is cool, like, the idea that technology can, but it's nothing like an actual mix from a DJ.

Right,

Jasmine Tyler

but if you

don't, if you don't set yourself apart from that, that's going

Jasmine Tyler

to get better.

Yes.

And

you're going to sound just like

Jasmine Tyler

that.

Horrible.

Not horrible, but I don't like it.

I don't like it whatsoever.

What is your favorite thing about DJing?

When you play a song and then somebody give you the stank face, you know what I'm saying?

Like, that's how you know, you know, you're doing what you're supposed to be doing.

Because, you know, you completely, you're giving somebody a feeling.

And then you play that song that just, whether that's a remix or a different version of the song that they like, or you remixed it, you know what I mean?

When they go.

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Yeah.

That's nasty work.

Yeah.

That's when you know.

Okay.

Yeah.

High five.

So I

Jasmine Tyler

know I did this at the Unity Barge and I felt so bad, but I know I say that because I know what the answer go be.

What is the most annoying thing that happens as a DJ?

I

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think

I don't have a problem with requests.

Jasmine Tyler

It's how it's how it's how

it's how you bring the request.

I don't know why DJing is the only job that people can't see when you doing something.

That's crazy.

There's you

can't right now

nobody's gonna walk up to you like hey Yeah, they're

not

gonna go to the booth and be like hey guys.

Yeah dog when you DJ agent people just start

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talking

Damn, I'm trying to make sure the BPM line up everything.

You don't even know what I'm doing.

You see I'm here and then you just I'm talking about full blown conversation.

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I'm not

talking about like, hey, man, you know, can you play this?

Oh, man, this is my favorite

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song.

And wow.

In the club, I can't hear you anyway.

You drunk anyway.

But you know, you got to you

got to still play it like.

Jasmine Tyler

Yeah.

And you don't want to

be that guy.

You feel me?

But yeah.

Jasmine Tyler

Yeah.

Don't talk to, bro, name a job, you can just go talk to somebody just to talk to them and they just, it's okay.

It doesn't matter.

Jasmine Tyler

That's what I hear.

Come up here, offer me a drink and nothing.

Anna, the play bad bunny.

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Oh, my God.

With the thing,

with the phone.

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Oh, that's the thing.

Oh, man, come on.

Play.

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DJ, this is the only job where you can't see I'm busy right now.

Like somehow or

some way.

You just can't see it.

All right, I guess.

Jasmine Tyler

What is your top three favorite clubs of all time in Milwaukee that you've DJed at?

Jack Jammers, I don't know if cats remember Jack Jammers, but Jack Jammers was insane.

Jasmine Tyler

Is it on the south side?

It was.

It was on Cold Spring, but their setup was so nice.

Yeah.

Almost like three levels.

The first two levels, they met each other as dance floor, but then you can go upstairs.

where the DJ booth was hanging off a balcony and it was closed off.

You couldn't get to the DJ.

We

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had like our own

suite.

It was like having your

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suite.

Yes.

No distractions.

Cracking.

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Cracking.

Cracking.

No distractions.

Then probably probably the clubhouse.

Jasmine Tyler

Yeah.

These all

teen clubs.

Yeah.

These all teen clubs.

Yeah.

Crazy.

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Going down.

Going down.

Man, I, you know, and I talk about it a lot, but my favorite spot.

And course texture.

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Textures because you have to up in now.

I do too.

Don't forget.

You're wrong patio.

You're wrong patio.

Like and then it was a it was such a dope combination.

Like you knowledge, real skills.

Um, who else was there?

Y'all know it was just your house DJs, right?

Yeah.

They brought in people every blue moon,

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but

not really.

And yeah, that was it.

Jasmine Tyler

Yeah.

Like it was that was you can go up, you can go down, you can go on a patio.

Um, but.

Just watching you work throughout all these years, right?

Inaction.

Less still.

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Man, Styles.

One of the coldest to ever do it for real.

Still.

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Still doing it.

And what is you eating?

Because you don't age.

Man, listen,

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I gotta look

for real juice.

You gotta know somebody, you know.

Jasmine Tyler

Listen, you ain't.

I mean,

likewise, you can chill out.

Come on, Jazzy.

Come on.

We all look way younger than

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we are.

Yeah, we do.

No, we do.

And given the amount of party that we did.

That's how you know it's something different.

It's something different back then than what it is now.

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For real.

For real.

And listen, I don't say this lightly.

Like every day, every day, every single day we was out.

That grind is a beast.

I'm almost out every day now.

But still.

But yeah, that was a lot of party.

Jasmine Tyler

Yeah.

It was it was before you get out of here.

Do you have any shout outs?

Oh, yeah, you know what?

Actually, we still in the texture building.

Jasmine Tyler

Oh, yeah.

OK.

You know, over Katrina, well, I mean, to kill it, we do to kill a Sunday's over there.

Super fun.

You know, you can probably catch me there twice a month.

Jabalter.

Yes.

Throughout the week.

Dream lounge.

Jasmine Tyler

Oh, come on.

Shout out, Joe.

What day is it?

Once a

month.

You just got to check my page, you know what I'm saying?

My Instagram on

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my

Facebook.

You know, on my Facebook, my government name on Marriott or my Instagram, DJ New Styles.

Jasmine Tyler

OK.

Styles with a Z. New in you.

Jasmine Tyler

Yeah.

So, yeah.

That's where we at with it.

Jasmine Tyler

Let's go.

Let's go.

Thank you so much, Styles.

For stopping, dude.

We got to pull up on you.

Whenever y'all get a chance, please make sure y'all hit them up on Instagram.

Check out this page.

N-U-S-U-Y-L-E-Z, man.

It be going down.

It be going down.

I'll be watching.

I'm going to get the energy one day, Styles.

I got to come rock

with you.

Hey, meet us all in October.

The first Sunday of October, Jazz is going to be there.

Jasmine Tyler

Yeah, let's go.

Let's do it.

Next up, we got DJ GA.

Do not touch that down.

It's your girl, Jazz Tyler.

One on one, 7 of Truth.

Truth Nation,

it's your girl, Jazz Tyler.

You are officially tapped in.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi.

Thank you so much for tapping in.

That's true.

You're listening to the Tapping with Jazz Tyler, where culture and community come

Jasmine Tyler

together on the award-winning 1017.

Don't just check in.

Shout out to the entire Truth Nation.

We need people to tap in for real conversations from real people.

and you expressing it with such great clarity, I just say, you're strong and brave woman and good woman and keep up the good work and God bless

you.

I'm like, bro, I really like this girl.

Like, she's people with so much conviction.

I really, like, love to hear her talk.

I don't think I've been listening to everything I've just been talking

about.

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This show is geared around real situations and real people.

So just so you know,

the cat crew, we the cut up crew.

That's what we do.

So, shout out to the crew and the cat.

I just wanted to show y'all some love.

Y'all are funny.

I'm like, let me call it.

Authenticity is for the culture.

We do want it for the

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culture.

We do got the other cats in our ears basically trying to guide us the right way.

I come from the trenches.

I come from the mud.

I come from the dirt.

I was never given anything.

Everything that I had in my life, I had to work for.

Keep on with it.

This is my first time listening to you.

I'm gonna keep on listening to you, baby.

And I might just keep on calling you and tell you some other stuff too.

Jasmine Tyler

One-on-one seven the truth you are officially tapped in we should grow a jazz Tyler is Taco Tuesday Happy Tuesday, Milwaukee.

Happy Tuesday It's a ugly day outside, but it's beautiful.

It is beautiful Today today is a great show.

I'm super excited about the guests that I have one here

We got DJ new styles coming in at five o'clock at six o'clock DJ GA.

These are two very influential people, not only in the city of Milwaukee, but.

New styles is the first DJ to break my record in the club.

Very first DJ to break my record in the club.

We go back many years.

He's toured with digital underground.

He's done some amazing things.

So I'm I'm excited to sit down and have a conversation with him.

Um, DJ GA.

So back in 2015, DJ O was the person who would assist me at, well, I would assist him at V 100 on the weekends.

He began to show me how to work at radio and DJ GA followed right behind as mentors.

Uh, these are two very, very good brothers.

And again, I'm just excited to sit down and have some, some conversations with them.

So we're going to have some conversations about.

Music about breaking records crypto all of the above but first Got to take care of some business.

There was an article that came out yesterday Yesterday I was covering the black agenda as it pertains to David Crowley and County executive David Crowley who as we know is running for a governor Unveiled an anti-corruption proposal

and reading that story sent me somewhere deeper.

So obviously this question is a question that we all have the answer to, but what exactly is political corruption?

That's what I want to talk about today.

And why does America seem to use different language for a crime, dependent on who is accused of committing it, right?

That's criminal versus corruption.

I talk about this all the time, depending on what you look like, what you dress like, what you sound like.

And what type of work you do depends on if you are a criminal or if you're involved in corruption, according to America.

So we're going to hop right into it.

So Crowley's proposal would ban elected state officials from trading individual stocks and participate in prediction markets, require investments to be placed in diversified funds or blind trust.

created a two year waiting period before energy companies come hire former regulators and address a Wisconsin records law gap that allows individual lawmakers to delete records such as emails.

Crowley says the goal is greater transparency and accountability.

The proposals would require legislative approval.

So,

This article came out yesterday on, um, urban Milwaukee and, uh, Crowley says, was constant nights to people who pay their public official salaries.

They deserve transparency.

They deserve accountability for how their money is being spent.

They see politicians across the state in, in Washington doing better than them.

They are doing fine.

And in many cases they are thriving.

And how can that be when diesel right here in the state of Wisconsin is nearly $6 a gallon?

The proposals, again, including banning elected state officials from participating in prediction markets, they'd also be banned from trading stocks and would instead have to place investments in diversified funds or blind trusts.

Crowley says we have seen lawmakers try to hide how they spend taxpayer dollars on things that absolutely in no shape or form Serves the public he said that he'd include the proposals in his first state budget if elected to become law they ultimately need legislators approval in a statement Republican candidate Tom Tiffany said he shared he shares Crowley's goals

But will even go further so First and foremost I want to say this we all know that corruption exists We all know that there is corruption in the state of Wisconsin as well what I love about this race so far is that Finally we have Someone who is given direct details outside of what they discussed in the forum

Telling us plans that they have and I've never heard an elected official speak about plans to end corruption Haven't I'm not saying he's the first person.

I'm just saying that I haven't heard it.

So Again, I have this conversation with a lot of youth Especially those who want to be entrepreneurs.

I want to go to the terminology of this all right Because oftentimes we know that when we talk about crime

If a black person does the same thing, a white person does.

For example, let's say they're an elected official.

If they're black, it's considered crime.

If they're white, typically it's considered corruption.

A crime is conduct prohibited by criminal law.

Public corruption is the abuse of public office or entrusted power for an improper benefit.

And here's the important part.

Corruption can be both corruption and criminal.

Bribery is a crime.

Fraud is a crime.

Extortion is a crime.

Money laundering is a crime.

Corruption describes the kind of abuse of power we are talking about.

It does not magically make criminal conduct less criminal.

But culturally, listen to the language.

When wrong doing happens at a street level, we tend to focus on the person, right?

We label them as a criminal, a thug, a suspect.

whatever the case may be.

When wrongdoing happens inside of powerful institutions, suddenly things change.

We begin to hear things like ethics concerns, scandal, corruption investigation.

So the problem isn't the word corruption.

The question is whether we extend the same precision, humanity in, in a sense, to everybody.

If we don't know nothing at all, one thing black people know,

is what happens when crime is associated with our neighbors.

One person does something and sometimes the entire community gets described through that conduct.

Oh, this is a high crime neighborhood.

This is a dangerous area.

This is a troubled community.

But when an elected official is convicted of bribery, nobody calls the legislator a high crime workplace.

Nobody tells tourists, hey,

Don't go up there to Washington Hill because them corrupt politicians is in there, right?

So why does street level wrongdoing so easily become a statement about the character of a person or an entire black community while elite wrongdoing is often discussed as institutional failure?

Why does street level wrong doing so easily become a statement about the character of a person or an entire black community while elite wrong doing is often discussed as institutional failure?

Make it make sense Research on crime news framing has documented racial disparities in how black and white defendants are portrayed including differences in mugshot use

and other visual cues.

That does not mean every story follows the same pattern, but it gives us a factual bias for asking how race and class influenced the public image of who looks criminal, right?

Crime can wear a hoodie and crime can wear a $3,000 suit.

The clothes does not determine the crime the conduct does.

So when we're talking about, again, criminal.

Versus corruption for some odd reason black people when we do similar things we are always labeled as criminals and Our counterparts are labeled as people in a system that is corrupt So the entire system gets blamed instead of that one individual or that one race um My other elephant says come on just the end the institutions make the rules their rules their ways.

Yeah, they do make the rules

It doesn't mean that what I'm saying isn't right.

Like, it's the truth.

They can make the rules.

It's their system.

You're right.

It is their ways.

Still does not defeat the purpose that whenever it comes to them is never labeled as criminal behavior.

It's always labeled as corruption.

We gotta go to break.

After the break, we are talking street crime versus suit crime.

Which can take more from a black community, the person still in on the corner or the person with access to a public budget.

Let's talk about it.

I want to hear from you 833-212-1017.

It's your girl, Jazz Tyler.

Do not touch that dial.

You are officially tapped in with your girl Jaz Tyler.

Happy Tuesday Milwaukee.

We are currently talking about this article that came out yesterday where Milwaukee County exec David Crowley says that he plans to combat corrupted elected officials.

And my question was not more so pertaining to what he's talking about because I absolutely agree with holding elected officials accountable and I haven't really heard too many elected officials other than Jasmine Crockett talk about accountability in this matter.

But my question is more so pertaining to criminal versus corruption.

Oftentimes when black people do things, we're labeled as criminals.

When our counterparts does it,

the entire system instead is labeled as corruption, which to me is just a way for them to take no accountability, right?

So we're talking street crime versus crime.

Street crime has, obviously it has a victim, right?

Somebody steals your car, you see the empty parking lot, somebody robs the store, you begin to calculate what is missing, but public corruption can hide the victim.

If somebody manipulates a government contract for a personal benefit, maybe you never know what your community lost.

It does not mean it didn't happen though.

It just means that they did a better job at hiding the crime.

Maybe it's the youth program that never gets funded.

Maybe it's the inflated contract taxpayers paid for.

Maybe it's the qualified small business that never got a fair shot.

Or maybe it's public policy shaped around private interest.

Right.

At the end of the day, it is still happening.

So I pose a question to you all.

Which threatens the community more over time, street crime or corruption by people who control public institutions?

And I want to be very clear, right?

I don't want the solution to be that we casually call everybody a criminal.

If somebody is accused, we're going to say if cues, if they are charged, we're going to say charge.

If they plague not guilty, then we're going to say that, right?

But at the end of the day, the racial issue isn't that corruption is a soft word.

Corruption is a legitimate category of wrongdoing.

The issue is whether society gives powerful defendants more careful language than it gives poor defendants and black defendants, right?

Talking about corruption versus being a criminal.

So.

Some of the things that Crowley is mentioned in this article is about stocks.

He's talking about stocks.

So the proposal includes banning elected officials from participating in prediction markets.

They'd also be banned from trading stocks and would instead have to place investments in diversified funds or blind trust.

That is a lot.

Obviously, this is something that has to be passed by legislators.

But I'm eager to see when he becomes elected, what this is going to look like.

Tom Tiffany said that he agrees, right?

And he added his two cents, but I won't highlight it because what he says doesn't matter to me.

He's not my governor.

He's not going to be my governor.

But I'm eager to see.

Which side of the aisle is actually going to be okay with this piece of legislation once quality is Elected and I say is because I don't like to say if so Let's break it down Bending elected state officials from participating in prediction markets so officials couldn't place this means that officials wouldn't be able to place money on contracts That pay based on whether a future event is happening

For example, they couldn't bet on whether a certain bill passes, who wins an election, whether the government shuts down, or potentially other political economic events covered by those markets.

When you talk about ban from trading stocks, this means that they couldn't personally buy nor sell individual company stocks while serving in office.

The concern is that an elected official may learn more information Through their government position before the general public does or may participate in decisions that affect a company's value That should be illegal now Like the fact that it's not obviously if they're in those positions.

They they receive information before us But it's crazy the things you find out that that is not illegal currently

diversified funds.

So that means this means that they still could invest, but instead of choosing individual companies such as Apple, Tesla or pharmaceutical companies, they would be able to put money into a broad mutual fund or index funds containing many different companies.

And then as far as the blind trust, this means that their investments could be placed under the control of an independent trustee.

The official generally would not be making the day-to-day investment decisions, reducing the opportunity to use their office to benefit particular investments, right?

So the purpose of this all, the reason why it is considered as anti-corruption, imagine a state legislator learns privately that Wisconsin is about to award a company a huge government contract, right?

And if that legislator buys,

uh stock in that company before the announcement and profits when the prices rises that raises serious conflict of interest and potential legal questions you can also imagine if lawmakers are deciding whether to pass legislation that could hurt a company while some of those lawmakers personally own that company stock in that company right so to me this makes sense um

To me this makes a lot of sense The purpose being is because a I'm not quite sure why this isn't illegal already It seems that this has been the name of the game for quite some time and maybe this is what's been happening in the state of Wisconsin and we haven't really been privy to this information, right?

Maybe that has been the name of the game when it comes to elected officials.

I was on Facebook yesterday.

I'm not even going to say this like the official What's the name name but somebody was going in on his brother.

Oh My gosh, they was they was going in on him so hard saying that He'd be taking money and the reason why certain storefronts aren't open is because nobody is coming with that back in

Nobody coming with the back end money.

Nobody came with a large enough money.

Let me tell you something.

I'm not going to say all elected officials are corrupt.

But the politics system overall most definitely is corrupt.

It's all about ego.

It's all about pride.

It's all about power.

It's all about who can scratch my back.

Who do what?

Right?

That's the name of the game.

in politics.

They've been doing it forever.

Hell, the system itself.

The system itself is not set up.

Obviously, it's not set up for certain people to win, hit certain people, being black people or poor people for that matter.

It always has been corrupt and will always be corrupt.

But I wholeheartedly support what David Quali is talking about.

I support it.

There is no reason why any elected official should be able to buy stocks or purchase stocks inside of a company knowing that that company is going to get grant money or any type of money.

Like it's a setup.

It is a setup.

That's like betting on that's like betting on a game on the NBA game and is rigged, right?

The refs, you got to deal with the refs.

They're going to purposely make calls to ensure that you win that bet.

This is the same thing.

The fact that this is already, this is something that is currently not illegal is mind boggling to me.

But most importantly, if it does take effect and legislators do pat and legislators does decide to pass this law, what does that mean for people who have been doing it?

For so many years My other elephant said this time they don't even hide it anymore.

They don't They don't hide it because they know that they can get away with it and if you decide to come for them, they might just Man, I've never seen I've never seen so many Gangsters in mafia behavior in politics a lot of elected officials move like that because they know that they can

And a lot of times the reason why stuff like this is never out in the open because typically there's more than one person involved.

When you expose one elected official who is corrupt, you expose multiple elected officials who are corrupt.

That's typically how that goes.

But again, this is something that I'm in support of and I wonder how many legislators

and elected officials are in support of this as well.

And the fact that he is mentioning this to me just shows that another reason why he has the best interest of the people, right?

Another reason why he has the best interest of the people, that's just my personal opinion.

We're about to get ready to go to break.

After this break, I'm going to give you actual names and actual legal statuses.

convictions, guilty pleas, and one trial that opened today.

No rumors.

We now talk in Facebook facts.

We are intentionally crossing race and party lines because corruption does not belong to one political party.

And when we come back from break, we're going to pull up the case of Bob Menendez, the former U.S.

Senator who is a Democrat.

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Jazz Tyler one on one, seven the truth.

You are officially tapped in with your girl Jazz Tyler one on one seven the truth today.

We are talking about what this first hour we are talking about Criminality versus corruption, right?

Why is it that when black people do the same thing they are or we are labeled as criminals versus our counterparts?

They are labeled as correct

or it being a corrupt system.

Earlier, we talked about Milwaukee County Exec David Crowley released a statement press conference yesterday.

I read it on Urban Milwaukee, where he's talking about creating legislation that would stop elected officials from being corrupt.

And when I read this article, I began to think about the difference between the titles, how they label us,

criminals and label what they do as corruption.

So the next 30 minutes gonna compare and contrast, right?

So former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was convicted in July 2024, following a federal jury trial.

The Justice Department says his convictions include bribery, honest service, wire fraud.

Extortion under color of official right.

Obstruction of foreign agent offenses.

Evidence included cash, gold bars, and a luxury car.

In January of 2025, he was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison in order to forfeit more than $922,000.

Menendez is, or he appears to be a Caucasian male.

What I don't know is if he's going to actually do the full 11 years, or if he's going to be able to buy his way out of that situation.

And again, this happened in January of 2025.

It happened in January of 2025.

Evidence again was gold bars, cash, and a luxury car, right?

Those are facts.

That is a federal conviction.

So guess when we call a public corruption, when we call it public corruption, understand that he also has been convicted of crimes.

Corruption describes the abuse of office, but it doesn't sanitize it.

So you got Menendez who faced 11 years or was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison.

order to pay $922,000 and I'm gonna go back and take a look at the case the entire details and see out of those 11 years how much time did he actually get how much time did he actually get in if

Indeed he had to pay nine hundred and twenty two thousand dollars So when we when we talk about the evidence they talk about cash gold bars and luxury cars and all of that stuff I don't see anything about assets.

I don't see anything about properties I don't see anything about that which means that if indeed and I want to make this clear too if I'm not mistaken when this does happens I Don't believe that everything they have Is is obtained for instance

If they put in their business's name or if they give it to someone else, I could be wrong.

Somebody correct me.

I'm not a lawyer, but again, I am eager to see out of 11, uh, the 11 years that he was sentenced, how many of those 11 years where he will, uh, he served.

Next, former New York congressman, George Santos.

Um, he pleaded guilty in August of 2024 to wire fraud.

and aggravated identity theft.

The Justice Department says the conduct included fraudulent FEC reports, misuse of campaign donor funds, identity theft, unauthorized credit card charges, unemployment benefit fraud, and false house disclosures.

He was sentenced in April of 25 to 87 months in prison.

Plus restitution.

in a fortune.

His sentence was later commuted in October of 2025.

The commutation did not erase the conviction.

According to pbs.org, President Donald Trump says Friday he had commuted the sentence

former US Representative George Santos who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft charges.

Y'all hear what y'all president did?

That's corruption.

That is actually the perfect example of corruption, to be honest.

That's the perfect example.

Dog did identity theft.

This is a US representative.

Campaign donor funds, identity theft, unauthorized credit card charges, unemployment benefit fraud, false house disclosures.

He got 87 months in prison and Trump still came and reduced his sentence.

That indeed is the perfect example of corruption, corruption at its finest.

Moving right along, I promise I don't want to

Butcher, his name, I actually remember when this story in this case came out, this situation.

I think it's Chokwe N. Tar Lumumba, the former Jackson, Mississippi mayor.

So in July of this year, former Jackson mayor, Lumumba pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, wire fraud and money laundering.

in a federal public corruption case.

So according to the Guardian, the former mayor of Mississippi was politically prosecuted on these charges.

He was a mayor of Jackson, Mississippi in November of 2024 when he was indicted by a federal grand jury after an FBI investigation and sting operation.

in which he and two other elected Democrats allegedly accepted illegal payments to secure a real estate deal.

At the time, he was first elected in 2017, denied the charges were politically motivated to harm his 2025 reelection campaign.

He said, to be clear, I have never accepted a bribe of any type.

As mayor, I have always acted in the best interest of the city of Jackson.

Listen.

Some of y'all favorite elected officials are corrupt.

I'm just going to tell you right now.

I'm not saying no names.

I don't know who are, but just know that some of your elected officials right here in Milwaukee are corrupt.

And this is common.

We got a caller on the line.

Al, are you there?

Well, the reason why they say black people are so bad because black people don't play highball.

That's why first of all black people don't want to get that white man guy back because every time black people pray the white man wake up with his heaven on earth and the land number two when they hit black people on the face black people want to put their hand out and give them a hug instead of whooping over their whole body and taking them beneath hill number three when they go low black people want to go high versus going down the hill and opening the devil's doubt

That's why black people get treated like they treated.

every time they do something to black and then black people black people cry when it comes to the white man now we pick up the phone and you call a cps on each other because you don't like how she raised her kids but when it comes to the white man and y'all got everything to crush him make him commit suicide over his last two dollars y'all always want to play the bigger person that's why we don't go and then on top of that you got too many bojangles and coons who don't want to stand with black people think about this

Black people are the original people who talk white people how to clean and white they am.

Black people are the real chosen ones.

But for some reason, y'all keep playing a bigger person.

And then don't nobody want to talk when something is done bad by white people.

Or we don't want to say that, yes you do.

How is it you big and bad with your own?

But then when it comes to somebody who look like Jesus, you don't want to put your hands around their neck and squeeze it till their eyes pop out like catfish.

Talk about it.

I'll hang up and listen to your reply.

Okay.

Bye.

Bye.

Jasmine Tyler

Thank you so much for tapping in Al.

I actually agree.

I feel like we are too hard on ourselves.

I would mean that our people and yet we don't hold our counterparts accountable, right?

Or it's almost as if we are scared.

And I think to me from some of the things that I've seen and experienced is because

They do it they play the game better than we do They put you in positions to blackmail you or to take away whatever it is you got going on to take care of your family and then for some reason Us as black people we become so afraid They got something on us.

They got something over our head.

We got to do whatever it is They say we got to do you scratch my back.

I scratch yours That's politics.

That's exactly what happens

That's why some of your favorite elected officials You don't see them doing some of the things that they should because of these reasons and that is still a part of corruption as well to be honest You came blackmail somebody into doing something you want them to do I mean just creating laws in general not all the time but sometimes again it goes based off of who rocks with who okay if you got this piece of legislation

Then you do this for me.

I'm going to do this for you.

Everything is about if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.

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One-on-one stepping the truth that you go jazz time that we are live and direct So today we are talking about when this first hour we are talking about Criminal versus corruption and why is it that when black people do similar situations?

We are labeled as criminals instead of the entire system just being corrupt, right?

Listen, I Don't want to spend too much time on this because y'all know I don't really like

I don't like talking about politics all the time.

We were talking about politics yesterday, but this came about from an article, a press conference that, uh, county, uh, Milwaukee County executive David Crawley had yesterday where he talks about creating legislation once elected, um, that would stop elected officials from pretty much corruption from indulging in corruption.

Um, he says that there was constant nights, the people who pay

Their public official salaries, they deserve transparency.

They deserve accountability for how their money is being spent.

He said they see politicians across the state and in Washington doing better than them, right?

So some of the things that he talked about will be banning elected officials, banning state elected officials from participating in prediction markets.

They'd also be banned from trading stocks.

And would instead have to place investments in diversified funds or blind trust, right?

What does that mean?

That means that they wouldn't be able to place money on contracts.

that pay based on whether a future event happened.

So for example, they couldn't bet on whether a certain bill passes, who wins the election, things of that nature.

But one of the things that really stood out to me was the bid from trading stocks, right?

They couldn't personally buy or sell individual company stocks while serving in office.

Why?

Because the concern is that an elected official may learn information through their government position before the general public does or may participate in decisions that affect a company's value We all know that you know that that's typically how it goes if there is contracts or funding Whoever it is.

So let me break it down for you.

What happens is They have someone who owns a large corporation

and this person, um, corporation is in their district, or they just have a relationship of some sorts that benefits each other, right?

Another you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.

I'm going to fund your campaign.

I'm going to pull up a lot of money for your campaign and in return, when you get that seat, whatever it is that I need from you, as it pertains to my business and these contracts, I need you to take care of.

So this person gets elected and now there are already on they probably don't see it that way, but that's exactly what happens Alright, you gave me campaign money now.

I got to do whatever it is that you need me to do Let me make sure you get these contracts when they come my way and because I am a part of Getting the contracts for you meaning at a state level or whatever level city level

country level I'm also going to invest in stocks in this company because I know that you are about to be awarded this amount of money and I know what your corporation is going to do once you receive these contracts which means that I am now benefiting both ways I'm benefiting because you paid you donated to my campaign

I'm benefiting because I am purchasing stocks and I know for a fact that you are going to be awarded these contracts.

That is corruption.

That is the name of the game.

That is what they've been doing for years.

It's not anything new.

Another thing that was mentioned in the proposal is diversified funds.

They could still invest, but instead of choosing individual companies such as Apple, Tesla, or pharmaceutical companies, they could put money into broad mutual funds or index funds containing many different companies.

Talk about blind trust.

Their investments could be placed under the control of an independent trustee.

The official generally would not be making the day-to-day investment decisions.

reducing the opportunity to use their office to benefit particular investments.

Again, I support this.

So apparently, Tom Tiffany is in agreement with Crowley.

He stated that he wanted to make it easier for it was constantized to search through how government agencies spend money.

and called for a modernization of existing open book program which tracks government.

He also called for tighter rules bar and legislators from subcontracting with lobbyists.

So to me, it sounds like he just took whatever Crowley said, whatever his idea was when it comes to making sure that elected officials are not corrupt and just added something to it.

He didn't really.

Come up with anything that's that's different, but because he did agree with it when Crowley wins I'm eager to see once he pushed this legislation through which side of the aisle is actually going to vote for it Right.

I think this is a defining moment.

That is going to be a defining moment It is truly going to tell who's a part of that those games and who's not It's clear as day Soon as you present it people are forced

Their hand is forced.

If you don't support it, then you're probably a part of the person who is benefiting from it.

Right?

And I'm going to tell you, Crawley Clean House, go ahead, yep, push this legislation.

We need to get all the corrupt assets out of office so we can know where our money is going and have people who are there to do whatever it is that they need to do.

Black leadership and accountability.

So, black representation matters historically.

We've been locked out of power, right?

So I understand the instinct to protect black leadership from unfair treatment, right?

But I can also protect black leaders from racism and still ask black leaders for results.

What does that mean, Jazz?

That means that some of your favorite elected officials are a part of the corrupt corruption as well.

That's just what it is.

I've seen some stuff.

I don't know if it's true, but I've seen some stuff on Facebook last night and they was lighting one of your favorite elected officials up.

They was putting fire up under his tail.

And again, I don't know if it's true, which is why I won't say his name.

But in the event it is, man, you got to be careful for real.

You have to be careful.

To me, all of that leads back to pride and ego and

uh thirst for power just get in there and do your job get in there and do your job that's all we require right to take a seat and to try and benefit off of it in every way you can just because you can just because you have the power and when people don't do what you do want them to do then it becomes an issue yeah get a monitor period

Get a monitor.

That's the name of the game.

Criminal versus corruption.

We have a caller on the line.

Sandra, are you there?

Yes, I am.

Hi.

Jasmine Tyler

How are you?

Thank you so much for tapping in.

I'm fine.

How are you doing?

Jasmine Tyler

I am well.

OK.

What I want to say was, like, I was watching this documentary on the Smithsonian Channel, and I think it was New Jersey.

and they were going through the corruption in New Jersey, and they were seeing these gangsters run, they run a politics.

So the gangsters, the politicians, and the churches, they're all involved in this.

And they went through the whole, you know, like they go through the whole thing, they went through the whole thing about the Republican Party, how it got built, and they said that was built up in Wisconsin.

And so they go through a lot of this stuff,

And so you see why it's corrupt because now you've got all the church people, the right-wing church people following Donald Trump.

And they know religion by religion, a lot of stuff he's doing is not right.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

And then

this stuff with the, yeah, real quick, this stuff with the jail.

Now I've mentioned it before and I don't like to mention it all the time.

I had a son, he died in prison and he got a lot of years and he was bounced around one body.

bounce around all these different times to the supermax, blah, blah, blah.

Your hands tied up, your feet tied up.

So what can you do in the superman?

Right.

I was just saying, our people, and then you look at the percentages of the black men and prayer that the black men should be aware and black people should be aware.

The first thing they do like you were saying, we're all labeled as corrupt when one person do it.

And I'm getting to the point, don't come in and say, we did this.

It ain't weak.

It's one person that did it.

That's

right.

So

don't come and blame all of us in that same basket.

And so by the time they sent him all over the place, he was, um, they sent his family to the mental institution.

Think about crazy that he's had in 24.

So I'm kind of glad he's don't have to go through that no more.

Jasmine Tyler

I'm sorry for your loss, Andrew.

And I thank you for calling that out because everything that you said is absolutely true Everything absolutely true.

I agree and I'm gonna ask you one last question before you go How do you feel about quality introducing this legislation and if indeed he does become

governor?

Epstein Island this man was supposed to be tried before he ran for president again.

Yes.

He was a citizen just like us.

Yep.

Now they get to get away with murder by islands as far as I know their own island.

They have big banquets.

You know, I mean, they just live luxuriously off our dollars, our tax dollars.

So no, I just don't want them to hurt him.

Jasmine Tyler

Yes.

Yes.

Thank you so much, Miss Sandra, for for tapping in with us.

Listen it's been a great conversation when you get a chance you can most definitely go to To urban Milwaukee or just Google it and you can pull up the article Regarding this the press conference that County Executive David Crowley held yesterday when he mentioned that he would pass or attempt to push legislation that would stop corruption inside of

uh, the offices of elected officials and I agree with them.

I believe that something should be done.

Um, this is my first time of even hearing an elected official other than Jasmine Crockett, who has been, who has took a stance on making sure that they are, um, on the right side of the fence, right?

We talk about, uh, not abusing authority, uh, all of those things.

We have a call, another caller on the line chat.

Are you there?

Okay.

I'm sorry, Chad.

We got to go to break.

We got to go to break.

When we come back, we're going to talk to Chad.

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