Music, DJing, Radio & Women

Letting People In On Your Dreams

2011-12-19T10:57:00.001-05:00

People love to comment on your dream… like they know better than you what you should be doing with your life. I firmly believe that by the time you are 20 years old, you should make your own decisions on the direction you want your life to go in. And then don’t tell anyone!

Everyone sees the world through their own prism. So when you tell someone about your dream, they comment on it like it is THEIR dream, and they critique it based on whether they think THEY would go down that path. Their words place doubt in your mind, making you less certain about your decision to follow your dream. After you have made the decision and have made it most of the way down the path, THEN tell whomever you like. At that point, you’re at the “no turning back” point and their words won’t weigh as much.

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The Vibeology MixCast "R&B For The Hip-Hop Generation™" October 24th, 2011

2011-10-26T14:49:00.001-04:00

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Okay, I'm back! A little extended hiatus… settled into my new place in Everett, MA (I live on the North Shore… weird) and I'm well rested and ret-to-go!

Here is another edition of the Vibeology MixCast, yours truly "Big Chicago" Reggie Beas (@DJReggieBeas) in the mix… thank you for all your suggestions on how to make this better for you. I'm feeling more comfortable on the mic also, getting back into the groove I had on the air at Hot 97.7, 97.7 WILD-FM and Hot 102.9. I'm looking forward to working on a weekly schedule so every Monday you'll get a fresh edition of the Vibeology MixCast.

All I ask is if you like what I do, pass on the link to this post to your friends. Thank you for your support!

Segment 1

Best Thing I Never Had (Lil Jon & DJ Kontrol Remix) Beyoncé (@beyonce)

Only Wanna Give It To You Elle Varner (@ellevarner)

You, Yourself And You Tiffany Villarreal (@1misstiff)

Champagne Life Ne-Yo (@neyocompound)

Attention (f/Raphael Saadiq) Kelis (@iamkelis)

Every Day Of The Week Jade

Trouble Bei Maejor (@beimaejor)

Stay Ne-Yo (@neyocompound)

Someone To Love Me (Naked) Mary J. Blige (@maryblige)

Holdin' You Down Jazmine Sullivan (@jsullivanmusic)

Too Easy Tyrese (@tyrese)

Segment 2

She Ain't You (f/SWV) Chris Brown (@chrisbrown)

Back In The Day Erykah Badu (@fatbellybella)

Stay Together (f/Jaheim) Ledisi (@ledisi)

Lonely Girl DJ Rogers Jr.

Crazy Love Ne-Yo (@neyocompound)

Repercussions Lauryn Hill (@mshillmnvgtrgt)

Vibin' Boyz II Men (@boyziimen)

Make It Last DJ Jazzy Jeff & Ayah (@djjazzyjeff215) (@ayahmusic)

Me And U Montell Jordan (@montelljordan)

Segment 3 (Vibeology Sidestage)

Groove Me Guy (@teddyriley1)

I Like Guy (@theaaronhall)

Do Me Bell Biv Devoe (@bellbivdevoe90)

If I'm Not Your Lover (f/Slick Rick) Al B. Sure (@officialalbsure)

Here We Go Again Portrait

I Want Her Keith Sweat (@ogkeithsweat)

Why You Getting Funky On Me Today (@bigbubtoday)

I Found Lovin Jeff Redd (@therealjeffredd)

I'm Dreamin' Christopher Williams

Remember The Time Michael Jackson

Segment 4

So In Love (f/Anthony Hamilton) Jill Scott (@missjillscott)

Already Taken Trey Songz (@treysongz)

Just In Case Jaheim (@officialjaheim)

Givemorelove Musiq Soulchild (@musiqsoulchild)

Hey Mr. DJ Zhane

6 AM f/Lalah Hathaway Rahsaan Patterson (@mynameis2long)

Good Life (f/Faith Evans) Funkmaster Flex (@funkmasterflex)

The One (f/Drake) Mary J. Blige (@maryblige)

Betcha'll Never Find Chantay Savage

Anything (f/Swizz Beatz) Musiq Soulchild (@musiqsoulchild)

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New Music Alert or I'm Doing My Snoopy Dance!

2011-10-18T11:28:00.001-04:00

I love it when I stumble upon a song and it demands my attention. Don't know who @dee1music is, but this just came across my computer and it is my new favorite song. Mostly because this is exactly how I feel about the many females who have come and gone in my life (or, in reality, have come and put me in the friend zone). I've had love songs that tapped into my thoughts, but never a hip-hop song. This may not be a hit, but it resonants with me.

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One Great DJ is better than 4 Average DJs or DJ Roulette

2011-10-11T18:20:00.001-04:00

I hate it when I go to one of my favorite night spots and the regular DJ has been replaced with another DJ who sucks is not doing the job. I would much rather hear my favorite DJ be lazy, playing the same great songs again, than DJ Minute Mix acting like a live action iPod on hyper-shuffle.

A great DJ sets the tone for the night. That consistent vibe is what is missing when you keep switching DJs. Let me make this clear… a night doesn't become great because of multiple DJs, but a great promoter or promotion can overcome inconsistent DJs and make a great night. An iconic night marries a great DJ with a great promoter… that is the holy grail every nightclub is looking for.

The key to having one resident DJ is having someone who can switch up the music every week without the quality suffering. The reason why promoters use multiple DJs is because 1) DJs get lazy and play the same songs in the same way every week; and 2) DJs can't ask for more money because there are always 2-4 DJs waiting in the wings to take that spot for the same money you're turning down (promoters don't want you to realize that, DJs).

It's easy to fall back on the routines and sets you know already work, but that's the mark of a great DJ, to be able to keep people interested week after week. Yes, you do have to play the hits, and yes, we all are pulling from the same basic music, but instead of playing Poison, play Do Me Baby. Instead of playing Award Tour, play Electric Relaxation. Instead of playing Rock The Boat, play Back and Forth.

(Easy DJ Tip) One easy way to keep from getting into a rut, playing the same songs over and over again, is going to hear other DJs spin. What, you're too good to listen to other DJs? They ain't got nothing on you? Doesn't matter. Go listen to other DJs, and steal see what songs work for them. Add those songs to your mental rolodex of songs.

(Advanced DJ Tip) Clear the dance floor by playing a hot new song that you know your crowd doesn't know, but will want to soon. Or you can play a throwback that nobody has heard in years. If you trust your talent, you will be able to get them back on the dance floor easily. But remember, there is a difference between playing a hot new song in the middle of a hot set and throwing a grenade, killing your dancefloor for 15 minutes or more. A great DJ knows how to recover from a grenade… once again, if you know your music and trust your abilities, you can move people from the sidelines, to the dancefloor, to the bar and around again at will.

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Friday Funnys or I'm Cryin' Ova Here

2011-09-30T10:00:00.001-04:00

This is simply the funniest thing I have seen all year! DO NOT watch this at work if you can't laugh out loud. I am not responsible for you getting fired.

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My Favorite Blogs or Procrastination At Its Finest

2011-09-29T10:54:00.001-04:00

One of the best and worst things about the Internet is that everyone is at your fingertips. I have signed up for so many self-help, informational, "be a better man" sites, that my email is completely clogged up… and I end up only reading a select few. Google Reader is even worse, because I get full news stories every minute of every day. I'm so backed up that I just found out that Kim Kardashian just got engaged! I'm just playing, but only slightly.

But here are 3 blogs/sites that I read religiously and am excited about. Some are about the life I want to live and some are just escapism. But all are cool enough for me to clue you in about.

Black 'n Bougie

I absolutely love this blog. I understand that in the Blackiverse "bougie" has a terribly negative connotation, but Michele Grant @onechele celebrates bougie as upscale, upwardly-mobile, socially-savvy Black folks. I'm with it.

Grantland

Bill Simmons @sportsguy33 (pictured) is my favorite writer on ESPN (aside from Jemele Hill, who gets my vote for more than just writing ;-)). He became so successful that when the idea for Grantland came up, ESPN let him run with it. I must admit, the website design overwhelms me most of the time (it's not very easy to figure out what stories I missed). But every time I'm there, one of his many world-class writers is shedding light on a topic, whether related to sports or not, in a way that is enlightening.

I Will Teach You To Be Rich

Crazy title, right? Let's be real, if it was easy to be rich, we'd all be driving around in Maybachs. But Ramit Sethi @ramit is not handing you a magic elixir to drink, asking you to swallow blue and red pills or passing you the combination to the secret lair of the Illuminati. He is giving you systems, scripts, and new ways of thinking about how to find and get your dream job and how to maximize the money made from that job. He gets you to answer hard questions about exactly what you want to do, and gives you proven ways to attain it. But he makes no bones about it… it is hard work. His theme for 2011 was "hustling"… that doesn't sound like he's opening up the back door to the bank, does he? But that's why I'm in it 99%, and seeing if that extra 1% is worth it (you'll understand when you go to the site).

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The Vibeology MixCast "R&B For The Hip-Hop Generation™" September 26th, 2011

2011-09-28T08:12:00.001-04:00

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Beautiful—Noel Gourdin
Joy—Blackstreet
Say Aah vs. Step In The Name Of Love (BeasMix)—DJ Reggie Beas
4evermore f/Algebra—Anthony David
Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)—Usher
Only You—112
Holdin' You Down—Jazmine Sullivan
Joy—Ledisi
Sending My Love—Zhane
Heard It All Before—Sunshine Anderson
Freaky In The Club—R. Kelly
Champagne Life—Ne-Yo
Don't Mess With My Man—Lucy Pearl
Borrow You—Eric Roberson
When You Get Home—Montell Jordan
Sumthin' Sumthin'—Maxwell
Walking—Mary Mary
Let Me Love You—Lalah Hathaway
Sweet Thing—Mary J. Blige
Everything—Mary J. Blige
Love No Limit—Mary J. Blige
Love No Limit (Remix)—Mary J. Blige
I Can Love You—Mary J. Blige
Mary Jane (All Night Long)—Mary J. Blige
My Love—Mary J. Blige
I Love You—Mary J. Blige
Reminisce—Mary J. Blige
Reminisce (Remix)—Mary J. Blige
Love Is All We Need—Mary J. Blige
Family Affair—Mary J. Blige
Be Happy—Mary J. Blige
Be Happy (Remix)—Mary J. Blige
Oooh—Mary J. Blige
Not Today—Mary J. Blige
You Don't Have To Worry—Mary J. Blige
All That I Can Say—Mary J. Blige
You Remind Me—Mary J. Blige
You Remind Me (Remix)—Mary J. Blige
Enough Cryin'—Mary J. Blige
Real Love—Mary J. Blige
Real Love (Remix)—Mary J. Blige
You Bring Me Joy—Mary J. Blige
Back 2 Life 2001 (f/DJ Clue)—Mary J. Blige
MVP—Mary J. Blige
The One—Mary J. Blige
Just Fine—Mary J. Blige
Just Fine (Treat 'Em Right Remix)—Mary J. Blige
My LIfe—Mary J. Blige

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The Comforter Speaks… or A Whole Bunch Of Quotes

2011-09-27T09:46:00.001-04:00

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I joke that I have a reality radio show called The Comforter, where I talk to my female friends about their relationship issues. Sometimes I tell them what they need to hear, sometimes I tell them what they want to hear and sometimes I don't want to hear it. In the course of talking I come up with statements that speak to reoccurring themes with my friends. If you read something that resonates with you, please take it and run with it. At some point, each of these quotes will be a blog post of their own.

Relationships are easy, people make them hard.
We are so busy trying to figure out what's wrong with a person rather than looking for what's right.
Trust that the person whose hands you are putting your heart into has your best interests at heart. That trust goes both ways, ladies and gentlemen.
Many of the problems people have in relationships are the expectations we place on each other.
Find the person who is already the person you want them to be instead of trying to make that person into what you want them to be.
Don't be afraid to be alone… your self-worth is not tied into having a mate.
Be the right person instead of looking for the right person.
When a person shows you that they are trifling, and you continue to deal with them, you have no right to complain, because you chose to still deal with them.
Look for an amazing person who thinks you are amazing.
If you are doing what you need to be do in a relationship, you have no need to worry about your other half cheating.

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Dreams… You Got One?" or "In My World, I'm That Dude!

2011-09-25T22:23:00.001-04:00

I talk to my friends all the time about following their dreams. I am completely amazed at how many of them don't have a dream! They are unable or unwilling don't take the time to paint the picture of their future selves. Now, I understand needing to make money in the now… the future seems so abstract. But dreams are necessary. Just the simple fact of having that dream in your head pushes you closer to making it a reality.

From now on, I'm not going to talk about dreams. I'm redefining the term "dreams" as "creating my reality." Creating my reality means looking forward and figuring out how to make the reality I desire happen. It's like starting at the end and working back to where I am now… reverse engineering my life, if you will. I'm going to illustrate creating my reality by writing about what I'm doing to do just that in my DJ life. What you read in my real life experiences may be the catalyst you need to start down the path of creating your reality yourself.

The reality I'm currently creating is having COMPs (club owners/managers/promoters) consider me the premier upscale urban DJ in the world. COMPs fly me out to their city, put me up in an elegant hotel, and let me do what I do on the ones (shoutouts to @msalissap). It is a concept I started actively working on a year and a half ago when I became the resident DJ for 30+, a monthly upscale event in the Boston area catering to the urban socialite.

Meditation is a big part of what I do, visualizing exactly, in the present tense, what the whole experience looks like. I visualize what I'm packing for the trip. I visualize how comfortable I am in first class. I visualize the customs officer putting a stamp in my passport. I visualize the person with the hand-written sign saying "BEAS" who leads me to the limo. I visualize getting dressed in my 5 star hotel before the event. I visualize the email from the bank telling me another 4-figure deposit has hit my account. I visualize the line outside the event that I'm about to rock. I visualize a sea of beautiful people dressed in suits and ties, dresses and heels, dancing in every corner of the venue to my blend of old school, neo-soul, house, smooth R&B and hip-hop. And I love visualizing the COMP's excitement in their event being a smash hit.

But visualization is not my only weapon. I also write out in detail the whole process. It's like writing a script for my life, how I want it to play out. It helps slow my mind, letting the visuals stick in my brain, allowing my body to "feel" the experiences. I go to 750words.com and do just that, writing my reality in 750 words (or more) a day. It sounds crazy, but ever since I started writing my reality in March of 2010, I have been more successful in my nightclub DJ career than I was when I was on the radio as the program director and afternoon personality at 97.7 WILD-FM in Boston and Hot 102.9 in Dayton!

Practice is very important also (yes, AI, we're talking about practice). About three years ago I realized that practice helps me even though I'm already great at what I do and I've been performing for many moons already. Practice allows me to 1) know exactly how to get in and out of every song I play while keeping the crowd partying; 2) get away with playing new music without losing the dance floor; 3) bring back old songs that everyone forgot that they loved; and 4) freestyle when I need to, because sometimes the crowd is going left when I'm going right.

And my actual gigs help create my reality also. When I'm performing at 30+, I'm visualizing myself rocking the industry after party for the BET Awards. When I was on stage opening for Musiq Soulchild at Showcase Live in Foxboro, MA, I was visualizing myself on stage at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. When I'm creating The Vibeology MixCast, I'm visualizing myself doing a radio show on WBLS in New York City or WGCI in Chicago. I call my gigs paid practices because every time I'm performing, I'm practicing for the next time I'm performing, trusting that the next time is on a bigger stage.

This is just a sliver of the total reality I'm creating for myself… I've created a whole alternate universe in my head! It is all about how I move through the world… health, dress, relationships, how I'm living, what I drive. It sounds delusional, but the more I visualize, the more I write, the more I know exactly how I want my life to be, the faster it becomes a reality.

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So You Want To Be A "Celebrity"* DJ, Huh?

2011-09-24T19:40:00.001-04:00

It's not how good you are.

It's not even how great you are.

It IS "what makes you special?"

The key is getting club owners/managers/promoters (COMPs) to understand that your name will bring people in the door, that your skills will keep people in the building, and that their patrons' experience will get them to come back.

How to do that? Have easily identifiable attributes that resonate with the COMPs you are trying to reach. What are your unique selling points? What are the things about you that compels a COMP to say "I need to hire you?"

Idris Elba (picture 1) spun before he became famous, and he still spins now. Selling point. Sky Nellor (picture 2) is a female former model turned DJ. Selling point(s). ?uestlove (picture 3) spins when he is not drumming for the premier Hip-Hop band, The Roots. Selling point.

Now, 99.9% of DJs don't have those selling points, but there are plenty of DJs who have parlayed their unique selling points into gigs making thousands of dollars a night. Some of them are on the radio. Some are doing remixes. Some dominate their city to such a degree that their name travels on its own.

What are not selling points:

Playing the best music (you're SUPPOSED to play the best music!)

Being great at cutting and scratching (almost every Hip-Hop DJ can do that… it's only special if you are a turntablist), or at blending (that is rule #1 for House/Electro/Dance)

Rocking the mic (depends on the COMP, whether they value it or not)

What ARE selling points:

Other people consider you the best/most prominent/go-to DJ in that genre. Your name is the first that comes up. In Boston, Chubby Chub is that dude for Hip-Hop. DJ Bruno is that dude for Deep House. Junior Rodigan is that dude for Reggae. I'm that dude for Old School.

An affiliation bigger than yourself. I had never heard of DJ Spider, but he was a "Myspace DJ" (waaaay back in 2008 when that was a big deal). DJ Mark Da Spot is down with Monster Cables. There are a bunch of DJs that are signed with agencies such as Deckstar, Moodswing 360 and S.K.A.M. Artists that are the Ford, Elite and Wilhelmina's of the DJ world.

A tag line next to your name that is impressive. Or at least "sounds" impressive. I love DJ Dru Nyce's "The Most Requested DJ". Las Vegas' DJ G-Squared looks nice because we know only major DJs play in Las Vegas. NBA DJ Dallas Green makes you look twice. DJ Timbuck2, tour DJ for Lupe Fiasco… sweetness. I'm still wrestling with a tag line I can go everywhere with. Big Chicago Reggie Beas, the Upscale DJ, is cool, but that doesn't have that "umph" that tips the needle (and it makes it seem like I'm spinning in a tux).

Ultimately, it really comes down to your value. If a COMP spends $3,000 on you, will that translate into higher profits at the door and bar than spending $300 on DJ WTF? It doesn't even have to be true, the COMP just has to be convinced that your value is worth the extra expense. Your goal is to define yourself in such a way that COMPs see the value in flying you in, putting you up and letting you play.

*I put "celebrity" in quotes because anyone who is traveling worldwide as a DJ I consider a "celebrity" DJ, not just celebrities who decide to DJ.

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Favorite New Song: Elle Varner f/J. Cole "Only Wanna Give It To You"

2011-09-23T13:34:00.001-04:00

My litmus test on whether I like a song or not: do I jump around the room, scream "yes", then do my Snoopy dance?

This song made me do my Snoopy dance. Just one of those cool songs that is instantly identifiable, yet unique. It has that "IT" factor that I know when I hear it... too bad I can't bottle "IT" and sell it. This song may not be that one that breaks her out, but this is that buzz record that puts her on the radar of tastemakers everywhere.

DJ Reggie Beas | Live Performance @ Saint (Boston, MA) | November 6th, 2010

2010-11-08T12:44:00.001-05:00

Booking Info: 857-249-5016 cell • ReggieBeas@aol.com • http://facebook.com/ReggieBeas • http://twitter.com/DJReggieBeas

Download Bio & Demo at: http://www.mediafire.com/DJReggieBeasEPK

More mixes at http://Soundcloud.com/ReggieBeas

Song listing of my live DJ set at Saint in Boston, MA

1. B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me)? - Bell Biv DeVoe

2. Intergalactic - Beastie Boys

3. Yeah (Clean f/Lil' Jon & Ludacris) - Usher

4. Bojangles - Pitbull

5. Freek-A-Leek - Petey Pablo

6. Got Your Money (Clean Version) - Ol' Dirty Bastard

7. Rump Shaker (Teddy Riley Remix) - Wreckx N Effect

8. Hands High (Dirty f/Ace Hood, Brisco, 2 Pistols, Tom G.) - DJ Noodles

9. Bonanza (Belly Dancer) (Promo Only Clean Edit) - Akon

10. King Of The Dancehall - Beenie Man

11. Mamacita - Collie Buddz

12. Plane To P.R. (CLEAN Ft. will.i.am) - Daddy Yankee

13. Pepe pepe - Doble t y el crok

14. Lay Away Luv (party break mix feat. Fatman Scoop) - Notch

15. Turn Me On (Album Version) - Kevin Lyttle

16. Tempted To Touch - Rupee

17. Flap Your Wings (Clean) - Nelly

18. Pump It Up (Clean) - Joe Budden

19. Mo Money Mo Problems (Clean) - The Notorious B.I.G.

20. This Is How We Do It (f/Slick Rick) - Montell Jordan

21. Nothin' On You (Instrumental) - B.o.B.

22. Nothin' On You (f/Bruno Mars) - B.o.B.

23. Jump Around - House of Pain

24. Jump - Kris Kross

25. My Neck My Back (Clean) - Khia

26. Tambourine (Clean f/Swizz Beatz) - Eve

27. Touch It (Clean) - Busta Rhymes

28. Salt Shaker (Clean) - Ying Yang Twins

29. Headsprung - LL Cool J

30. Never Leave You - Lumidee

31. Single Ladies (Ut Ohh On It) (BeatBreaker Blend) - Dj BeatBreaker

32. Crazy In Love (f/Jay Z) - Beyonce

33. Get Me Bodied (Clean Extended Mix) - Beyonce

34. I Just Want To Love You (Give It 2 Me) (Clean) - Jay-Z

35. Get Right f/Fabolous - Jennifer Lopez

36. Bring Em Out-Party Break (Clean) - T.I.

37. Ladyz - Crooklyn Clan & Chooze One

38. Gasolina (Remix f/Lil Jon, Pitbull, Noreaga, Gem Star, Mato) - Daddy Yankee

39. Dale Don Dale - Don Omar

40. Oye Mi Canto (Clean) - N.O.R.E.

41. Coca Cola Shape (Dat Sexy Body Remix) (Clean f/Fatman Scoop) - Sasha

42. Give It Up To Me Remix (Lethal Dizzle Clean) ft Keyshia Cole - Sean Paul

43. Everyone Falls In Love - Tantro Metro & Devonte

44. Ms. New Booty (Clean f/Ying Yang Twins) - Bubba Sparxxx

45. Back That Azz Up (Clean Radio Edit) - Juvenile feat. Mannie Fresh

46. Lean Back (Clean) - Terror Squad

47. Hypnotize (Clean) - The Notorious B.I.G.

48. Say Aah (Acapella) - Trey Songz (feat. Fabolous)

49. In Da Club - 50 Cent

50. In Da Club [Clean Acapella] - 50 cent

51. Unfinished Business Riddim - DASECA

52. David_S_So_Hard_Reggae_Quick (Unfinished Business Riddim) - DAVID S

53. So Special (Unfinished Business) - Mavado

54. No Games (New Classic) Unfinished Business Riddim - Serani

55. Blame It vs. Unfinished Business Riddim (Another Reggie Beas Blend…) CLEAN - DJ Reggie Beas

56. Drop It Like It's Hot (Clean f/Pharrell) - Snoop Dogg

57. Donk (Clean) - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em

58. Donk Di De Dunk (Clean) - Heavy Grindaz

59. Gold Digger (Clean) - Kanye West

60. Imma Be (Transition 92-121 BPM) Clean - Black Eyed Peas

61. DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love feat. Pitbull (Clean) - Usher

62. Move Your Body(X-MIX) - Nina Sky

63. Move Ya Body (Acappella) - Nina Sky

64. Dynamite (Album Version) - Taio Cruz

65. Alors on dance - Stromae

66. Alos On Danse f/Kanye West, Gilbere Forte - Stromae

67. Only Girl (In The World) - Extended Club - Rihanna

68. Dance Rock Shake Pop (Reydon Club Mix) - Jump Smokers feat. Alex Peace

69. Put_Your_Hands_In_the_Ayer_no_Florida - Flo-rida vs Fedde Le Grand

70. Hey Hey (Mixshow Edit) - Dennis Ferrer

71. ILikeToMoveIt_NicolaFasanoMix(DJintro) - Reel 2 Real

72. Nicki Minaj feat. Will.I.Am - Check It Out (Tommie Sunshine's 5AM Edit) -

73. OMG (DIY Acapella) - 10B - 130.01 - Usher ft Will.I.Am

74. Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix) - Kid Cudi

75. Barbara Streisand (Original Mix) - Duck Sauce

76. Low (Clean) - Flo Rida

77. Freak featuring Kardinal Offishall (Extended Remix) - Estelle

78. Let The Bass Kick - DJ Chuckie

79. Put Your Hands Up In The Air - Daft Punk

80. Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now) - Bob Sinclair

81. Pon Di Floor (Extended Edit f/Afrojack, Vybz Kartel) - Major Lazer

82. Work It Out (Feat. Pitbull) [Prod. By DJ Chuckie] - Lil' Jon

83. Put Your Drinks Up (Clean f/Kardinal Offishall) - DJ Mad

84. Shots - Clean - LMFAO feat. Lil' Jon

85. Favorite DJ Feat. Jermaine Dupri & DJ Class (DJ Edit Clean) - Clinton Sparks

86. Like A G6 - Far East Movement

87. Whip My Hair (Album) - Willow

88. Good Life (Clean f/T-Pain) - Kanye West

89. Upgrade U (f/Jay-Z) - Beyonce

90. Its Goin' Down (NRC Reggae Dub - Clean) - Yung Joc

91. Buy U A Drank (BeasWax Ghetto Story Remix) - DJ Reggie Beas

92. Bossy (Eighty Five Riddim) - Kelis

93. Ghetto Story Remix ft. Alicia Keys (Radio Edit) - Cham

94. Empire State Of Mind (Clean f/Alicia Keys) - Jay-Z

95. Public Service Announcement (Big Chicago Version) - Jay-Z

96. On To The Next (Clean f/Swizz Beats) - Jay-Z

97. Swing Ya Rag (Clean) - T.I.

98. Drop It Low (Clean f/Chris Brown) - Ester Dean

99. Fancy (Clean f/T.I. & Swizz Beatz) - Drake

100. Get Like Me (Clean f/Chris Brown & Jim Jones) - David Banner

101. Hot Tottie feat. Jay-Z (Clean) - Usher

102. Independent (Clean f/Lil Boosie and Lil P) - Webbie

103. Hood Figga (Clean) - Gorilla Zoe

104. Throw It In The Bag (Clean Remix f/Drake) - Fabolous

105. Teach Me How To Dougie (Clean) - Cali Swag District

106. I'm Goin' In (Clean f/Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy) - Drake

107. My Chick Bad (Clean f/Nicki Minaj) - Ludacris

108. I Can Transform Ya (f/Lil Wayne) - Chris Brown

109. Wipe Me Down (Dirty f/Webbie, Foxx) - Lil Boosie

110. Walk It Out - DJ Unk

111. 2 Step Remix (Clean Ft. T-Pain, Jim Jones, E-40) - DJ Unk

112. Stanky Legg - G Spot Boyz

113. Wasted (Feat. Plies) - Gucci Mane

114. Bottoms Up feat. Nicki Minaj - Trey Songz

115. Turn My Swag On (Clean) - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em

116. Soulja Boy-Swag On (Acappella) - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em

117. Flex (Club Mix) (Prod By DSF Productions) - DJ Mr. Rogers ft. Party Boyz

118. Kryptonite (Album) - Purple Ribbon All-Stars

119. All I Do Is Win - DJ Khaled f/T-Pain, Ludacris, Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg

120. Say Aah (Clean f/Fabolous) - Trey Songz

121. The Franklinz (Clean) - Crooklyn Clan

122. Stop The Party (Ted Smooth Remix) - Busta Rhymes

123. Monster (Clean f/Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj) - Kanye West

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An Open Letter to DJs asking me how to get better as a DJ

2010-03-06T14:45:00.001-05:00

I get a lot of DJs asking me to teach them how to do what I do. The hardest thing for me to do is teach what I hear in my head. The hows and whys on what songs I mix together. I've been spinning professionally for 25 years, so a lot of the stuff I know is hard to articulate. But within the last 2 years I have reinvented myself as a DJ, and I can tell you what I did to get to where I am now.

I go and listen to as many DJs as possible, especially "celebrity" DJs, because they are already at the level I'm working hard to attain. I listen to what they do that makes them special. How is Kid Capri so fast? How does Jazzy Jeff use the echo to transition from song to song? What made DJ AM (R.I.P.) considered greater than both of them in many people's opinion? I even listen to trash DJs, because I can learn what not to do and I think about what I would do differently.

Every time I'm in a club, I'm listening to the DJ, even when I'm talking to a woman! It's a part of me I can't turn off. I'm listening and watching for songs that work and don't work. I'm listening to the transitions from song to song. I'm hearing things I can put into my own set, whether it is a type of scratch, something that was said or the part of the song the DJ rocked.

When I was in Chicago last month, I was listening to DJs that would start the song at the chorus or at a popular phrase in the song, then bring it back to the beginning (like starting Poison near the end, then bringing it back to the beginning). I incorporated that style into my skill set, because when you do it right, it is really hot. Anything you can do to stand out, to make people turn around (in a good way) and say "damn, that was hot," that's what you do.

Take different things from different DJs and spin it into your own unique style. I like the way DJ Riz loops pieces of a song, then brings another track underneath it. I appreciated hearing DJ Chachi play chick anthems to soccer moms at Shrine. I was impressed by DJ Timbuck2 and DJ 33 1/3 in Chicago starting songs in unusual places instead of always bringing in the next song at the beginning. I love Kid Capri and DJ Ace's speed getting in and out of songs, sometimes only playing a phrase, then on to the next one. Listening to Open Format DJs opened my mind to mixing Electro with Rock with Old School Funk with Hip-Hop. I'm amazed at Clinton Sparks' mic work. All of these things I have either incorporated into my style, worked at getting great at or dusted off those skills I had let rust.

Whatever you do best behind the decks, keep doing it. Do you have a great voice? Find witty things to say on the mic and use your voice to help transitions. Are you clean with your scratches? Everyone thinks a Hip-Hop DJ must scratch, so they do it even when they do it badly. Master a few key scratches and use them in performances. Can you blend? Blending is a lost art, but if you can't do it, don't do it. Find the perfect spot to break out of a song, and then go!

Know your music backwards and forwards. It helps in so many ways. Looping or repeating phrases… going from song to song at precisely the right moment without vocals on top of vocals… blending a cappellas on top of instrumentals so it sounds like a remix… being able to get in, play a small piece of a song then get out quickly…

And know your music library! Yes, you have 35,000 songs, but how many of them are you really playing? When I was program director running 97.7 WILD-FM in Boston and Hot 102.9 in Dayton, OH, my old radio consultant used to say "tighter is righter." We may have disagreed on how tight the playlist should be, but he is right in making sure you cut out the filler. Bad DJs can get away with being bad DJs if they play strong songs. Can each song that you play stand on its own? Are you playing the best of the best songs?

Play the hits! Don't worry about playing the newest music unless you have the reputation of playing new songs and your audience comes to hear you play those songs. We all can't be Chubby Chub, we can't all be Funkmaster Flex… they have built their reputations on playing the newest music and we appreciate them for that. But even Chub and Flex play the hits when they are at the club! We all get new music that we love that we want to play right away, but you must have restraint. You have to gain the trust of the audience.

Sandwich your new music between a bunch of hits. Not one hit, then one new song, then one hit. Not even 2-1-2. I'm talking 8-9 bangers in a row, then slip in that new song, then another 8-9 bangers. By playing a bunch of joints in a row, you get the audience's trust, then you can play that new song. If they like it, they keep dancing, or if they don't, they will go to the bar and come back to the dance floor after that song is over.

Record and listen critically to your performances, not just your mixtapes/CDs/practice sessions. I have thousands of tapes, CDs, MP3s & AIFs of my performances and live mixshows I did on on the radio, and I listen to them after each performance to make sure what I thought I did I actually did! Pick apart every mix, every song choice, every transition, every talk break, and remember what you did and what the crowd reaction was. You don't want to be predicable and play the same things in the same way every time, but you do want to know what works and what doesn't so you can repeat the feeling every time.

Work towards raising your skill level to impress other DJs. When other DJs give you dap, you know the audience will love you. But don't worry if they if they don't actually say something to you. Think about all the times you listen to a DJ and you were impressed, but didn't say anything to them. You want to get to a point where when you listen back to your performance, you are impressed and you know anybody else would be impressed with what you did.

Put your crates on Serato together like you were carrying crates of records. Back in the day, Kid Capri brought 13 cases of records to every gig. None of us could ever do that, so we had to pare it down to exactly what we knew we wanted to play. Now we would never play everything in our crate, but at least we knew that everything in the crate was playable. I have figured out it is a curse to have 35,000 songs in your library. With all those songs, you can't just scroll down the list, you end up searching for the next song. The funny thing is, because you are searching off the top of your head, you end up playing the same songs you always play! But you can scroll down 1000 songs and find something quickly, especially if you have all the BPMs set.

Which is another thing… learn how to use BPMs (beats per minute). It helps you become a better, more versatile DJ. Ask The DJ Chubby Chub about how watching me use BPMs at Hot 97.7 and incorporating that into his thought process helps make his life so much easier behind the tables. It does not inhibit your creativity, it enhances it. You can put together songs together that you would have never thought possible. You don't have to guess about if the speeds are right, you just have to make sure the songs sound good together. You don't have to search your whole library for the next song, you can search through just the songs in that BPM, or the all the songs +/- 2 BPMs (anything more than +/-2 and you have to change the pitch too much, or the next song is going to be jarringly faster or slower and will sound off).

Finally, and this is something I just started doing, is to think of yourself as a performer, not as just a DJ. When you are spinning, you are performing. When you are in the DJ booth, you are on stage. The crowd in the club is the audience. When you think of yourself in that way, it naturally steps up your game. A performer doesn't go on stage with just anything on, they have outfits they perform in. A performer doesn't go on stage and just wing it… they practice extensively beforehand so their performance is flawless for the audience. A performer plans what they are going to do on stage, but has wiggle room for improvisation. A performer analyses what they did each performance so every next performance is better.

I hope this helps you get better. Any questions on what I wrote, call me at 857-249-5016.

Reggie Beas

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Listing of Song on Reggie Beas' Lost Classics Show | February 11, 2010

2010-02-16T19:52:00.001-05:00

Check out my live streaming Old School show Thursday nights from 9pm to 11pm EST at http:/ustream.tv/channel/beaswaxusa. Below is the song listing of my set on Thursday, February 11, 2010.

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1. Caribbean Queen - Billy Ocean

2. Just A Touch of Love - Slave f/Steve Arrington

3. It Should Have Been You - Gwen Guthrie

4. 17 Days - Prince

5. Love Bizarre - Sheila E.

6. Love Is The Message (Remix) - MFSB

7. Happy Music - The Blackbyrds

8. Let's Start The Dance - Bohannon

9. Love Sensation - Loleatta Holloway

10. Running Away - Roy Ayers

11. In My House - Mary Jane Girls

12. Thanks To You - Sinnamon

13. Is It All Over My Face (Larry Levan Mix) - Loose Joints

14. Hot Shot (Extended) - Karen Young

(Start of Download) 15. Let No Man Put Asunder - First Choice

16. Do You Love What You Feel - Rufus & Chaka Khan

17. Who's That Lady - The Isley Brothers

18. Disco Nights (Rock Freak) (12'' Remix) - GQ

19. Baby Get's High - Peter Brown

20. Shake Your Pants - Cameo

21. You Wear It Well - DeBarge

22. Body Music - The Strikers

23. I'm Ready - Kano

24. Don't You Worry About A Thing - Stevie Wonder

25. Dancing In The Streets - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

26. It's The Same Old Song - The Four Tops

27. The Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

28. Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong

29. Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder

30. Don't Stop (Extended) - Sylvester

31. Turn The Beat Around - Vickie Sue Robinson

32. (Push, Push) In The Bush - Musique

33. Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb

34. Ghetto Musick (Instrumental) - Outkast

35. Get Off - Foxy

36. The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.

37. I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance (Oops!) - Gap Band

38. Just An Illusion [Extended] - Imagination

39. Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown

40. let_me_clear_my_throat (Accapella - Acapella - Vocals - DJMixSource.com) - Dj Tools

41. Stayin Alive - The Bee Gees

42. Living For The Love Of You - The Isley Brothers

43. I Wanna Be Where You Are - The Jackson 5

44. My Girl - The Temptations

45. Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club

46. I Can't Wait [Dance Mix] - Nu Shooz

47. Down Under - Men At Work

48. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2

49. Notorious - Duran Duran

50. Cruel Summer - Bananarama

51. Need You Tonight - INXS

52. Voices Inside My Head - The Police

53. Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

54. I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Hall & Oates

55. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds

56. Heart Of Glass - Blondie

57. Changes - David Bowie

58. Centerfold - J. Geils Band

59. Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen

60. Take A Look At Me Now - Phil Collins

61. BILLIE JEAN (INSTRUMENTAL VERSION) - Michael Jackson (End of Download)

62. Fresh - Kool & The Gang

63. You Dont Know Remix (Timmy Regisford Mix) - Serious Intention

64. Woman - Barrabas

65. Keep On - D Train

66. White Lines - Grandmaster Flash

67. Disco Circus - Martin Circus

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DJ Reggie Beas | Live @ Blue Wave (Boston, MA) | February 12, 2010

2010-02-16T19:27:00.001-05:00

Booking Info: ReggieBeas@aol.com • http://facebook.com/ReggieBeas • http://twitter.com/DJReggieBeas • 857-249-5016 cell

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Mashups: http://Soundcloud.com/ReggieBeas

1. Got 'Til It's Gone - Janet Jackson feat. Q-Tip & Joni Mitchell

2. Stutter (Allstar Remix) - Joe

3. Me And U - Montell Jordan

4. Buddy - Musiq Soulchild

5. Steelo - 702

6. Funkdafied (Clean) - Da Brat

7. Keys To The Range - Jagged Edge

8. No More Games - Skin Deep

9. Make Her Feel Good (Clean) - Teairra Mari

10. Rock The Boat - Aaliyah

11. Slow Down - Bobby Valentino

12. Summer Rain - Carl Thomas

13. Excuse Me Miss - Jay-Z

14. Be Happy - Mary J. Blige

15. On The Hotline - Pretty Ricky

16. Tainted (Clean) - Slum Village

17. No Scrubs (Dirty f/Left Eye Rap) - TLC

18. Between Me And You (Clean F/ Christina Milian) - Ja Rule

19. One Minute Man (Clean f/Ludacris) - Missy Elliott

20. Can't Help But Wait - Trey Songz

21. Only You (Album) - 112

22. Get Me Home - Foxy Brown

23. Step In The Name Of Love (Long Remix) - R. Kelly

24. Let It Go (Extended Version Featuring Missy Elliott & Lil Kim) - Keyshia Cole

25. Juicy (Clean) - Notorious B.I.G.

26. Heard It All Before - Sunshine Anderson

27. Wifey - Next

28. Home Alone (Dirty f/Keith Murray) - R. Kelly

29. Sufferer (DIWALI RIDDIM) - Bounty Killer

30. (Diwali Riddim) Party Time - Danny English feat. Eggnog

31. (Diwali Riddim) Top A Tappa - T.O.K.

32. Elephant Message (DIWALI RIDDIM) - Elephant Man

33. Rump Shaker (Teddy Riley Remix) - Wreckx N Effect

34. The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground

35. Got Your Money (Clean Version) - Ol' Dirty Bastard

36. Hey Mr. D.J. - Zhané

37. Before I Let You Go - Maze f/Frankie Beverly

38. More Bounce To The Ounce - Zapp & Roger

39. Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll - Vaughn Mason

40. Candy - Cameo

41. Encore (Extended Version) - Cheryl Lynn

42. Set It Off - Strafe

43. Just Got Paid (Friday Night) - Johnny Kemp

44. Poison - Bell Biv Devoe

45. Rub You The Right Way (Remix f/CL Smooth) - Johnny Gill

46. Let The Beat Hit 'Em (Ultimix) - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam

47. Ownlee Eue - Kwame'

48. It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock

49. The Breaks - Kurtis Blow

50. Me Myself and I - De La Soul

51. Treat 'Em Right - Chubb Rock

52. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - Michael Jackson

53. Mr. C's Cha-Cha Slide (Live Platinum Band) - Mr. C The Slide Man

54. Cupid Shuffle (Clean Remix ft. DJ UNK, Fabo) - Cupid

55. In Da Club - 50 Cent

56. Romie - Beenie Man

57. Memories - Beenie Man

58. Who Am I - Beenie Man

59. Old Dog (Stink Riddim) - Beenie Man

60. (Filthy Riddim) Let Him Go - Beenie Man

61. Dick (f/J) - Beenie Man

62. Dude (f/Ms. Thing) - Beenie Man

63. Bookshelf (Bookshelf Riddim) Classic - Beenie Man

64. Tight Up Skirt - Red Rat

65. Ting-A-Ling - Shabba Ranks

66. Tour (Remix) - Capleton

67. I Just Want To Love You (Give It 2 Me) (Clean) - Jay-Z

68. Bring Em Out-Party Break (Clean) - T.I.

69. La, La, La (Excuse Me Miss Again) - Jay-Z

70. Headsprung - LL Cool J

71. Be Faithful (Clean Extended f/Fatman Scoop) - Crooklyn Clan

72. Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool

73. Candy Girl - New Edition

74. This Is How We Do It (f/Slick Rick) - Montell Jordan

75. Mo Money Mo Problems (Featuring Mase & Puff Daddy) - The Notorious B.I.G.

76. Feels So Good - Mase

77. Lights, Camera, Action! - Mr. Cheeks

78. Yeah (Clean f/Lil' Jon & Ludacris) - Usher

79. Turn Me On (Album Version) - Kevin Lyttle

80. Tempted To Touch - Rupee

81. Roll It Gal - Alison Hinds

82. Wukking Up - Patrice Roberts

83. Hot Wuk (Shel Shok Soca Remix) - Mr. Vegas

84. Culo Remix f/Sean Paul, Lil Jon (Coolie Dance Riddim) - Pitbull

85. (Coolie Dance Riddim) Unknown Language - T.O.K.

86. Dutty Wine (Clean) - Tony Matterhorn

87. Just Fine - Mary J. Blige

88. Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn

89. All I Need (Clean) - Method Man & Mary J. Blige

90. Doin' It (Clean) - LL Cool J

91. Black Cop - KRS-One

92. Lost Ones - Lauryn Hill

93. Nuthin' But A "G" Thang (Dirty f/Snoop Dogg) - Dr. Dre

94. My Mind Playin' Tricks on Me - Geto Boys

95. Still Not A Player f/Joe - Big Pun

96. Whoa!(Explicit Lyrics) - Black Rob

97. Touch Me Tease Me (Dirty f/Foxy Brown) - Case

98. Crush On You Remix (f/Lil Cease) - Lil Kim

99. One More Chance (Remix) - The Notorious B.I.G.

100. Public Service Announcement (Big Chicago Version) - Jay-Z

101. Move Bitch - Ludacris

102. We Fly High - Jim Jones

103. Ruff Ryders Anthem - DMX

104. Get Money f/Lil' Kim & The Notorious B.I.G. - Junior M.A.F.I.A.

105. Down For My Niggas (Dirty f/Mystikal, Magic, Snoop Dogg) - C-Murder

106. Blame It (Ted Smooth) - Jamie Foxx

107. Drop It Like It's Hot (Dirty f/Pharrell) - Snoop Dogg

108. The Franklinz - Crooklyn Clan

109. Get It On The Floor - DMX

110. Hypnotize - The Notorious B.I.G.

111. Best of Me (Dirty f/Jay-Z) - Mya

112. Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix) - Beyonce

113. Ladyz - Crooklyn Clan & Chooze One

114. Single Ladies (BeasWax Acappella) - Beyonce

115. Single Ladies (Clean) - Beyonce

116. Flipside (Dirty f/Peedi Crakk) - Freeway

117. Blow The Whistle (clean) - Too $hort

118. Tambourine (Dirty f/Swizz Beatz) - Eve

119. Salt Shaker Feat. Lil Jon - Ying Yang Twinz

120. My Neck My Back - Khia

121. Work It (Clean) - Missy Elliott

122. Ruffneck - MC Lyte

123. Ain't No Future In Your Frontin' (Clean) - MC Breed

124. I Gets Crazy (Clean f/Lil Wayne) - Nicki Minaj

125. Say Aah (Clean f/Fabolous) - Trey Songz

126. Baby By Me (f/Ne-Yo) - 50 Cent

127. Who's Real (Clean f/OJ Da Juiceman, Swizz Beatz) - Jadakiss

128. I Get Money - 50 Cent

129. I Wanna Rock - Snoop Dogg

130. Hard feat. Young Jeezy - Rihanna

131. On To the Next One (Dirty f/Swizz Beatz) - Jay-Z

132. Imma Be (Transition 92-121 BPM) - Black Eyed Peas

133. Empire State Of Mind (Clean f/Alicia Keys) GOOD - Jay-Z

134. Throw It In The Bag (Clean Remix f/Drake) - Fabolous

135. I'm Goin' In (Dirty f/Lil Wayne) - Drake

136. Wipe Me Down (Dirty f/Webbie, Foxx) - Lil Boosie

137. Wasted (Clean f/Plies) - Gucci Mane

138. How Low (Clean) - Ludacris

139. Pop, Lock & Drop It (Clean Remix f/Bow Wow, T-Pain) - Huey

140. Welcome To Jamrock (PO Clean Edit) - Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley

141. Come Around (Radio Version) - Collie Buddz

142. Bam Bam - Sister Nancy

143. Flex - Mad Cobra

144. Boom Bye Bye - Buju Banton

145. Little Freak (Dirty f/Nicki Minaj) - Usher

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DJ Reggie Beas | Live @ Saint (Boston, MA) | February 13th, 2010

2010-02-16T19:08:00.001-05:00

Booking Info: ReggieBeas@aol.com • facebook.com/ReggieBeas • twitter.com/DJReggieBeas • 857-249-5016 cell

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Mashups: http://Soundcloud.com/ReggieBeas

1. Carry Out f/Justin Timberlake - Timbaland

2. Sexual Whisper (DJ Doug Collins Mashup) - Ying Yang Twins vs. Marvin Gaye

3. We Trying to stay alive - Wyclef Jean

4. 1 Thing - Amerie

5. Naughty Girl (Album Version) - Beyonce

6. Hey Mama (Remix)(Clean) - Black Eyed Peas

7. U And Dat (Clean) - E-40

8. Baby Don't Go (Instrumental f/Jermaine Dupri) - Fabolous

9. Baby Don't Go (Clean f/Jermaine Dupri) - Fabolous

10. You Can Do It - Ice Cube feat. Mack 10

11. Never Leave You - Lumidee

12. Ghetto Superstar - Pras Michel

13. Hips Don't Lie - Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean

14. I Wanna Love You (Instrumental) f/Akon - Snoop Dogg

15. I Wanna Fuck You f/Akon - Snoop Dogg

16. Hate It Or Love It (Instrumental) - The Game

17. Hate It Or Love It (Clean f/50 Cent) - The Game

18. Run It (RMX) f/Juelz Santana - Chris Brown

19. Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake

20. Beautiful (Clean) - Snoop Dogg

21. Work It (Clean) - Missy Elliott

22. Get Up Everybody - Salt 'N' Pepa

23. Every Little Step - Bobby Brown

24. Rollin' Wit Kid N' Play - Kid 'N' Play

25. Got Your Money (Clean Version) - Ol' Dirty Bastard

26. Weekends - Black Eyed Peas

27. Stronger - Kanye West

28. Yeah (BeasWax Stronger Remix) - DJ Reggie Beas

29. Love Games - Lady Gaga

30. Turn Me On (Album Version) - Kevin Lyttle

31. Tempted To Touch - Rupee

32. Buzz Riddim (Instrumental) - Sean Paul

33. Gimme The Light - Sean Paul

34. Toy Friend (buzz riddim) Classic - Beenie Man

35. I Like That Featuring Chingy,Nate Dogg & I-20(Instrumental) - Houston

36. I Like That f/Chingy, I-20 and Nate Dogg (Clean) - Houston

37. So Excited (RMX) f/Fatman Scoop, Fabolous, Khia & JD - Janet Jackson

38. Holla Back (Clean) - Fabolous

39. Holla Back vs. The Way I Are (Another Reggie Beas Blend…) CLEAN - DJ Reggie Beas

40. The Way I Are Part 2 - Timbaland

41. The Way I Are (Clean) - Timbaland

42. Treat Em Right (Funkymix) Summertime Remix - Chubb Rock

43. Poison - Bell Biv Devoe

44. Iesha - Another Bad Creation

45. Let The Beat Hit 'Em (Ultimix) - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam

46. Ownlee Eue - Kwame'

47. It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock

48. Milkshake - Kelis

49. 4 Minutes To Save The World f/Justin Timberlake - Madonna

50. Bad Romance - Lady Gaga

51. Tik Tok - Kesha

52. Forever - Chris Brown

53. Patron Tequila (Dirty f/Lil Jon) - Paradiso Girls

54. Culo Remix f/Sean Paul, Lil Jon (Coolie Dance Riddim) - Pitbull

55. Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body) - Three 6 Mafia

56. Don't Stop The Music - Rihanna

57. Fire Burning (Instrumental) - Sean Kingston

58. Fire Burning (Radio) - Sean Kingston

59. The Anthem (Clean f/Lil Jon) - Pitbull

60. Sweet Percolator - John Farruggio

61. Temperature (X-Mix) - Sean Paul

62. Dutty Wine (Clean) - Tony Matterhorn

63. JASONDEE_SEXY_BITCHES_PUT_EM_UP_WITH_AKON_DIRTY - JASON DEE

64. Birthday Sex - Up-Tempo (Bonus Track) - Jeremih

65. Salt N Calabria - Mix Killers Inc.

66. I Gotta Feeling (David Guetta Remix) - Black Eyed Peas

67. I'm The Ish - Dirty Remix f/Kanye West - DJ Class

68. Independent Transition [130-87 BPM] CLEAN - Discotech

69. In Da Club - 50 Cent

70. We Fly High - Jim Jones

71. Move Bitch - Ludacris

72. Blame It (Ted Smooth) - Jamie Foxx

73. Drop It Like It's Hot (Dirty f/Pharrell) - Snoop Dogg

74. I Wanna Rock - Snoop Dogg

75. I Get Money - 50 Cent

76. Imma Be (Transition 92-121 BPM) - Black Eyed Peas

77. Dude (Remix f/Ms. Thing, Shawnna) - Beenie Man

78. Murder She Wrote - Chaka Demus & Pliers

79. Unfinished Business Riddim - DASECA

80. No Games (New Classic) Unfinished Business Riddim - Serani

81. Heads High (Kill'Em With It Remix) Filthy Riddim - Mr. Vegas

82. Gasolina (Remix f/Lil Jon, Pitbull, Noreaga, Gem Star, Mato) - Daddy Yankee

83. Tour (Remix) - Capleton

84. Ladyz - Crooklyn Clan & Chooze One

85. Single Ladies (BeasWax Acappella) - Beyonce

86. Single Ladies (Clean) - Beyonce

87. Single Ladies (Ut Ohh On It) (BeatBreaker Blend) - Dj BeatBreaker

88. Crazy In Love (f/Jay Z) - Beyonce

89. I Just Wanna Love You (Give It To Me) Dirty - Jay Z

90. Headsprung - LL Cool J

91. Breathe and Stop - Q-Tip

92. Bring Em Out-Party Break (Clean) - T.I.

93. Be Faithful (Clean Extended f/Fatman Scoop) - Crooklyn Clan

94. Salt Shaker Feat. Lil Jon - Ying Yang Twinz

95. Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool

96. Disturbia - Rihanna

97. Shots - NASA Gettin' Drunk Intro - LMFAO ft Lil Jon

98. Low (Clean) - Flo Rida

99. Move Shake Drop (Remix) - DJ Laz

100. Shooting Star (Party Rock Remix) v2 Ft. LMFAO, Pitbull & Kevin Rudolf - David Rush aka Young Boss

101. Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now) - Bob Sinclair

102. I Took The Night - Chelley

103. TIK TOK (ELEKTROBANGER) - BLEND BROTHERS - JEFFREY B

104. Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix) - The Ting Tings

105. Let The Bass Kick (Dirty Remix f/Jermaine Dupri) - DJ Chuckie

106. De Breakz - DJ ADRIAN V

107. Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix) - Kid Cudi

108. Empire State Of Mind (Clean f/Alicia Keys) GOOD - Jay-Z

109. Throw It In The Bag (Clean Remix f/Drake) - Fabolous

110. Drop It Low (Remix) (Feat. Chris Brown, Ester Dean) - Lil Wayne

111. Public Service Announcement (Big Chicago Version) - Jay-Z

112. On To The Next (Clean f/Swizz Beats) - Jay-Z

113. The Boss (Dirty f/T-Pain) - Rick Ross

114. David_S_So_Hard_Reggae_Quick - DAVID S

115. Can't Believe It vs. Unfinished Business Riddim (Another Reggie Beas Blend…) CLEAN - DJ Reggie Beas

116. Say Aah (Clean f/Fabolous) - Trey Songz

117. Baby By Me (f/Ne-Yo) - 50 Cent

118. Get It On The Floor - DMX

119. Hypnotize - The Notorious B.I.G.

120. Nuthin' But A "G" Thang (Dirty f/Snoop Dogg) - Dr. Dre

121. Doin' It (Clean) - LL Cool J

122. My Adidas - Run DMC

123. I Got It Made - Special Ed

124. I Get Around (Explicit Lyrics) feat. Shock G & Money B - 2Pac

125. Get Me Home - Foxy Brown

126. Back That Azz Up (Clean Radio Edit) - Juvenile feat. Mannie Fresh

127. Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest

128. Gangsta Bitch - Apache

129. Nobody Beats Tha Biz - Biz Markie

130. Da Butt - E.U.

131. Wasted (Clean f/Plies) - Gucci Mane

132. BedRock feat. Lloyd - Young Money

133. Stanky Legg - G Spot Boyz

134. 2 Step - DJ Unk

135. Video Phone (Album) - Beyoncé

136. Go DJ (Instrumental) - Lil Wayne

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One Year, One Month & One Day Ago Today...

2009-12-18T01:56:00.001-05:00

I’m still excited to be back in Boston. Every time I walk downtown and notice the skyscrapers, I am thankful. Walking along the Charles looking at the Boston skyline, I reflect on the road I’ve travelled in the past 4 years plus.

Attaining my dream job of program director at 97.7 WILD FM in Boston.

Losing that job through the sale of the station 8 months later.

Rebounding to get more experience as a PD at Hot 102.9 in Dayton, OH.

Losing that job through the sale of that station a year later.

Dedicating a year in a failed attempt to find a new radio position.

Moving back to Boston exactly 1 year, 1 month & 1 day ago today.

Deciding to give up pursuing radio.

Completely reconstructing my DJ style so I can pursue my big hairy stretch goal of becoming a “celebrity” DJ in high-end nightclubs.

*Not to mention getting caught up as “the other man” in a domestic violence situation that was almost fatal.

I can’t really say I miss Ohio. There are only a few people I would go back to Dayton or Cincinnati to see. But I do appreciate the experience. The cost of living was great! I loved my apartment. I became much more spiritual. More confident in my abilities. But the one thing I took away from Ohio is their “I don’t give a fuck, we do it this way, and you’re just going to have to adjust to us” mindstate. They gon’ play their local artists. They gon’ play independent arists, They gon’ play their mixtape cuts (with the DJ drops on them). You can literally set your calendar to their events... Third Thursday, Final Fridays, Second Saturday, Soul Food Sundays every 1st & 3rd Sunday... I ain’t mad at them!

The main reason why I love being back in Boston is because finally, I’m where I want to be. When I first moved to Boston many moons ago, I thought I’d be here for 3 months, then go back to school. 3 months turned into 18 years! But every moment I kept looking at the greener grass in other cities. When I moved to Dayton, I KNEW I was only going to be there for 2 years. Of course, I didn’t know that one of those years I’d be unemployed (or, rather, self-employed... that sounds better, doesn’t it?).

When I decided to move back to Boston, I looked at the pros and cons. Yes, I’m from Chicago, but I left in 1984. I don’t know anyone there anymore. Atlanta and DC are the meccas for Black folk, but I would be starting from scratch, without the benefit of being on the radio, and going against DJs native to the area. I learned my lesson in Dayton & Cincinnati trying to steal gigs from DJs who went to grammar school with the promoters! I love Miami, but once again, with the benefit of radio, I’d be on the outside of a tightly-knit group of DJs, promoters and owners.

Now, I have supreme confidence in my abilities. I wish there was something like a blind taste test to rate DJs. But I realize that promoters don’t usually hire the best DJ. They hire the DJ they know, the DJ they have heard of, or the DJ recommended by someone else. Which is a problem if I go to another city and try to get gigs. They don’t know who I am, they haven’t heard of me, and nobody they know knows me!

In Boston, however, I know almost every promoter. They have heard of me through being on the radio for 7 years or spinning in Boston clubs since 1988. And they can always find someone in the industry with an opinion of my work. So going back to Boston was a no-brainer.

So this time, I choose to be in Boston. For all its warts, this is a great city. This is a destination city for many White people and, surprisingly, many West Indians, Puerto Ricans and Cape Verdeans. The nightlife, while unfortunately not catering to Blacks, is very wide-ranging for those with an open mind. I have an incredible array of friends from all walks of life. And my name still means something in this city. You may not know me personally, but if you lived in Boston between 2000 and 2006, you heard the name “Big Chicago” Reggie Beas on your FM dial.

Over the past year, month and day, I’ve been doing a lot of reading. Specifically about goals, intentions, visualizations, affirmations, meditations and manifestations. I’ve sat down and written down my goals... tons of them. I’ve turned my goals into affirmations, verbalizing to infinite intelligence my intentions, holding the visual of the attainment of my goals during my meditation.

Once I boiled it all down, I realize that I have only one goal I need to focus on. This one goal allows me to shape my world into the vision I have for myself:

Becoming financially independent through consistently working as a touring performance DJ, spinning at high-end nightclubs worldwide.

You know how you always hear people say “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know?” That’s not quite right. It should be “it’s not what you know, it’s who knows you.” So I guess my real goal is this:

Getting club owners, managers and promoters to know who I am, know what can do for them as a performance DJ, and have them excited to fly me into their city to rock!

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Reggie Beas Live @ Saint|October 10th, 2009

2009-10-12T10:05:00.001-04:00

Reggie Beas Live @ Saint

Boston, Massachusetts
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
Booking: ReggieBeas@aol.com; facebook.com/ReggieBeas; twitter.com/ReggieBeas; 857-249-5016

1. Change for Me - Eric Roberson
2. Cream - Frederico Franchi
3. Feel It - DJ Felli Fel
4. Groove Is In the Heart (Armand Van Helden White Label Mix) - Deee-Lite
5. Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust
6. Club Lonely - Lil Louis & The World
7. Good Girls Like Bad Boys - Jadyn Maria
8. She Got A Donkey - Will.I.Am
9. Don't Cha -DJ Mix Radio Edit - Tori Alamaze
10. Thong Song (Clean) - Sisqo
11. Move Your Body(X-MIX) - Nina Sky
12. Lovestoned / I Think She Knows (Album Version) - Justin Timberlake
13. Live It Up (Clean f/Pharrell) - Twista
14. Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body) - Three 6 Mafia
15. Walkin' On The Moon *PO Clean Edit* - The-Dream feat. Kanye West
16. The_Club_HeadLiners_-_Take_Axel_F_There - THE CLUB HEADLINERS
17. Freeze (f/Chris Brown) - T-Pain
18. Damaged - Danity Kane
19. Universal Mind Control (Dirty f/Pharrell) - Common
20. I Got It From My Mama - Will.I.Am
21. Poker Face - Lady Gaga
22. Lose My Breath - Destiny's Child
23. Smack That (Instrumental) - Akon
24. Smack That f/Eminem - Akon
25. Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
26. Holiday - Madonna
27. Feels Good - Tony Toni Tone
28. Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc
29. Legalize It - Sean Paul
30. Sexyback (Clean Version) - Justin Timberlake
31. The Way I Are Part 2 - Timbaland
32. The Way I Are (Clean) - Timbaland
33. Go Girl Ft. Young Boss & Trina - Pitbull
34. Everybody Dance Now - C+C Music Factory
35. It Takes Two (Wicked Mix) - Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
36. Milkshake - Kelis
37. 4 Minutes To Save The World f/Justin Timberlake - Madonna
38. 1,2 Step - Ciara
39. Boy Stop (Clean f/Bow Wow) - Dondria
40. Caught Up f/Fabolous - Usher
41. Holla back girl instrumental - Gwen Stefani
42. Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
43. Lay Away Love (Remix f/Fatman Scoop) - Notch
44. Lay Away Luv (party break mix feat. Fatman Scoop) - Notch
45. Young'n (Holla Back) - Fabolous
46. Getting Jiggy Wit It - Will Smith
47. The Power - Snap
48. Let's Talk About Sex (Original Recipe Club Mix) - Salt-N-Pepa
49. Hot In Herre - Nelly
50. I Like That f/Chingy, I-20 and Nate Dogg (Clean) - Houston
51. Come Baby Come - K7
52. Jump Around - House of Pain
53. Yeah (Clean f/Lil' Jon & Ludacris) - Usher
54. Love Games - Lady Gaga
55. DJ_NOVA_THe_Roof_Transition_105-130_(Pella_Out) - DJ NOVA
56. Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now) - Bob Sinclair
57. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
58. Put Your Hands Up In The Air - Daft Punk
59. Low (Clean) - Flo Rida
60. Shots - NASA Put Your Hands Up Intro - LMFAO ft Lil Jon
61. Salt N Calabria - Mix Killers Inc.
62. The Anthem (Clean f/Lil Jon) - Pitbull
63. Just Disturbia - Lady Gaga & Rhianna
64. Disturbia - Rihanna
65. Temperature (Clean) - Sean Paul
66. Baby Got Backed Up (Transition) (128-96) (1 Verse) - LNP
67. Single Ladies (BeasWax Acappella) - Beyonce
68. Single Ladies (Clean) - Beyonce
69. Crazy In Love (f/Jay Z) - Beyonce
70. I Just Wanna Love You (Give It To Me) Dirty - Jay Z
71. Get Right f/Fabolous - Jennifer Lopez
72. Bring Em Out-Party Break (Clean) - T.I.
73. Like Glue (Give Dem A Run Remix f/Fatman Scoop) - Sean Paul
74. OPP - Naughty By Nature
75. Slam - Onyx
76. Gasolina (Remix f/Lil Jon, Pitbull, Noreaga, Gem Star, Mato) - Daddy Yankee
77. Murder She Wrote - Chaka Demus & Pliers
78. The Franklinz - Crooklyn Clan
79. In Da Club - 50 Cent
80. Drop It Like It's Hot (Dirty f/Pharrell) - Snoop Dogg
81. Regulate (Clean f/Nate Dogg) (Classic Hip Hop) - Warren G.
82. Da Butt - E.U.
83. Juicy (Clean) - Notorious B.I.G.
84. PitbullFeatNicoleScherzinger-HotelRoomService(remix) -
85. Cascada-EvacuateTheDancefloor -
86. Put Your Drinks Up (Dirty f/Kardinal Offishall) - DJ Mad
87. Whoomp! (There It Is ) - Tag Team
88. Tootsee Roll - 69 Boyz
89. Da Dip - Freak Nasty
90. U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
91. Whoot There It Is - 95 South
92. Dazzy Duks - Duice
93. Fergalicious - Fergie
94. FergieSaltNPepaJJFad-PushItFergasonic(DJAxelMashup) - DJ Axel
95. Crank_That - Soulja Boy vs DJ Riz
96. Don't Stop The Music (KW Remix) - Rihanna
97. I'm in Miami Bitch! - LMFAO
98. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) - Michael Jackson
99. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - Michael Jackson
100. Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
101. Fire Burning - Sean Kingston
102. Cupid Shuffle (Transition) (120-144) - LNP
103. Party Like A Rockstar - Shop Boyz
104. Lollipop (Clean f/Static Major) - Lil Wayne
105. Turn My Swag On (Clean) - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
106. Every Girl (Clean f/Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Mack Maine) - Young Money
107. Stanky Legg - G Spot Boyz
108. Cyclone f/T-Pain - Baby Bash
109. Stuntin' Like My Daddy (Clean) - Baby & Lil Wayne
110. This Is Why I'm Hot (Clean Remix) - Mims
111. Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin') Clean - T-Pain
112. Live Your Life (Extended f/Rihanna) - T.I.
113. Best I Ever Had (Clean) - Drake
114. Snap Ya Fingers (Clean) f/Sean Paul & E-40 - Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
115. Put It In Your Mouth - Akinyele
116. It's Goin' Down - Yung Joc
117. Run This Town clean edit - Jay-Z Rihanna Kanye West
118. Good Life (Dirty f/T-Pain) - Kanye West
119. Big Poppa - The Notorious B.I.G.
120. Paper Planes (Kids with Boom Raised Chorus) - M.I.A.
121. Throw It In The Bag (Clean f/The Dream) - Fabolous
122. I Got 5 On It (The Right Clean One) - Luniz
123. Blame It (Clean) - Jamie Foxx
124. Can I Get A… (Dirty f/Amil & Ja Rule) - Jay-Z
125. Get Your Roll On - Big Tymers
126. Public Service Announcement - Jay-Z
127. Move Bitch - Ludacris
128. We Fly High - Jim Jones
129. No Games (New Classic) Unfinished Business Riddim - Serani
130. The Boss (Dirty f/T-Pain) - Rick Ross
131. No One (Funkymix) - Alicia Keys
132. Jackin' Jay-Z (Wonderwall Mash) - DJ Danny Diggz
133. Get It On The Floor - DMX
134. Heads High (Kill'Em With It Remix) Filthy Riddim - Mr. Vegas
135. I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) (75 Brazil Street) - Pitbull
136. Put_Your_Hands_In_the_Ayer - Flo-rida vs Fedde Le Grand
137. The Black Eyed Peas - Rock That Body - _124074 -
138. Sweet Percolator - John Farruggio
139. Sweet Dreams - Beyonce
140. Patron Tequila (Dirty f/Lil Jon) - Paradiso Girls
141. Birthday Sex (Roy Barboza RMX) Extra Clean - Jeremih
142. Just Dance f/Colby O'Donis - Lady Gaga
143. Treat 'Em Right - Chubb Rock
144. Bust A Move (Classic Hip Hop) - Young MC
145. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
146. Into The Groove - Madonna
147. Respect (One Rascal Mix) - Aretha Franklin
148. Poison - Bell Biv Devoe
149. Rump Shaker (Teddy Riley Remix) - Wreckx N Effect
150. This Is How We Do It (f/Slick Rick) - Montell Jordan
151. Stronger - Kanye West
152. Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool
153. California Love - 2Pac
154. People Everyday - Arrested Development
155. Paul Revere - The Beastie Boys
156. Gold Digger (Dirty f/Jamie Foxx) - Kanye West
157. Hypnotize - The Notorious B.I.G.

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Reggie Beas Live @ The Blue Wave|October 9th, 2009

2009-10-12T09:54:00.001-04:00

Reggie Beas Live @ The Blue Wave

Boston, Massachusetts
Friday, October 9th, 2009
Booking: ReggieBeas@aol.com; facebook.com/ReggieBeas; twitter.com/ReggieBeas; 857-249-5016

1. Rising To The Top - Keni Burke
2. Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye
3. Human Nature - Michael Jackson
4. Step In The Name of Love - R. Kelly
5. Tainted (Instrumental) - Slum Village Feat Dwele
6. Tainted (Clean) - Slum Village
7. Missing You - Soul II Soul
8. Act Too (The Love of my Life) featuring Common - The Roots
9. Get Down - Craig Mack
10. Shy Guy - Diana King
11. Wanna Be Where U R Feat. Mos Def - Floetry
12. Gyrlz, They Love Me - Heavy D & The Boyz
13. Things We Do For Love (Clean Remix f/Jay-Z) - Horace Brown
14. Let Me Love You - Mario
15. Not Today (Clean f/Eve) - Mary J. Blige
16. Like This And Like That - Monica
17. Fallen (Video Edit) - Mya
18. Written On Ya Kitten - Naughty By Nature
19. Happy Days (with Rap) - Silk
20. Candy Rain (Fixed Remix f/Heavy D) - Soul IV Real
21. Right Here - SWV
22. Like I Never Left f/Akon - Whitney Houston
23. You Should Be Mine (Clean f/Mase) - Brian Mcknight
24. Turned Away - Chuckii Booker
25. Summertime (dj jazzy jeff's mix) - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
26. Keep Rising To The Top - Doug E. Fresh
27. I Like It - Grand Puba
28. Lost Ones - Lauryn Hill
29. Luv U Better - LL Cool J
30. Just A Friend 2002 - Mario
31. You Rock My World - Michael Jackson

Start of Part 1 of podcast
32. Just Friends - Musiq Soulchild
33. So Sick - Ne-Yo
34. Rock Dis Funky Joint - Poor Righteous Teachers
35. Did You Ever Think - R. Kelly
36. Step In The Name Of Love (Short Version) - R. Kelly
37. Can't Help But Wait [Instrumental] - Trey Songz
38. Can't Help But Wait - Trey Songz
39. Only You (Album) - 112
40. Off On Your Own ( Girl ) - Al B. Sure
41. Get Me Home - Foxy Brown
42. The Boomin System (Remix) - LL Cool J
43. I Got It Made - Special Ed
44. Big Momma Thang - Lil Kim
45. Best of Me (Dirty f/Jay-Z) - Mya
46. Coca Cola Shape (Dirty f/Fatman Scoop) - Sasha
47. Give It Up To Me Remix (Lethal Dizzle Clean) ft Keyshia Cole - Sean Paul
48. Trailor Load - Shabba Ranks
49. Everyone Falls In Love - Tantro Metro & Devonte
50. Tour (Remix) - Capleton
51. Rock The Mic (Dirty f/Freeway) - Beanie Sigel
52. Still Not A Player f/Joe - Big Pun
53. Hypnotize - The Notorious B.I.G.
54. Juicy - The Notorious B.I.G.
55. Real Love (Remix f/The Notorious B.I.G.) - Mary J. Blige
56. You Bring Me Joy - Mary J. Blige
57. Enough Cryin' - Mary J. Blige
58. Heard It All Before - Sunshine Anderson
59. Wifey - Next
60. Too Close - Next
61. Home Alone (Dirty f/Keith Murray) - R. Kelly
62. Crazy In Love (f/Jay Z) - Beyonce
63. Just Got Paid (Friday Night) - Johnny Kemp
64. Rub You The Right Way (Remix f/CL Smooth) - Johnny Gill
65. Candy - Cameo
66. Got To Be Real (Su Who Version) - Cheryl Lynn
67. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
68. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - Michael Jackson
69. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) - Michael Jackson
70. Push It (Extended) - Salt-N-Pepa
71. I'm Ready - Kano
72. Planet Rock (Extended Version) - Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force
73. Whoomp! (There It Is ) - Tag Team
74. U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
75. Tootsie Roll - Sixty Nine Boyz (69 Boyz)
76. Tootsee Roll - 69 Boyz
77. Doo Doo Brown (Classic Hip Hop) - 2 Live Crew
78. Cupid Shuffle (Clean Remix ft. DJ UNK, Fabo) - Cupid
End of Part 1 of podcast

Start of Part 2 of podcast
79. Public Service Announcement - Jay-Z
80. Crush On You Remix (f/Lil Cease) - Lil Kim
81. Ruff Ryders Anthem - DMX
82. We Fly High - Jim Jones
83. It's All About The Benjamins (Remix) f/The Notorious B.I.G., Lil Kim, & The Lox - Puff Daddy & The Family
84. In Da Club - 50 Cent
85. Top Billin' - Audio Two
86. Get Money f/Lil' Kim & The Notorious B.I.G. - Junior M.A.F.I.A.
87. No One (Funkymix) - Alicia Keys
88. Blame It (Ted Smooth) - Jamie Foxx
89. Mic checka (remix) - Das EFX
90. How High (Dirty Remix) - Method Man & Redman
91. One More Chance Remix (Stay With Me Radio Edit) - Notorious B.I.G. & Mary J. Blige
92. One More Chance (Original Dirty) - The Notorious B.I.G.
93. I Got To Have It - Ed OG & Da Bulldogs
94. You're All I Need f/Mary J Blige - Method Man
95. Heads High (Kill'Em With It Remix) Filthy Riddim - Mr. Vegas
96. Murder She Wrote - Chaka Demus & Pliers
97. Bam Bam - Pliers
98. We Hot (Remix) Classic - Anisha Cole
99. Tight Up Skirt - Red Rat
100. Ting-A-Ling - Shabba Ranks
101. Rich Girl - Louchie Lou & Michie One
102. Take it Easy - Mad Lion
103. Freaks (f/Doug E. Fresh) - Lil Vicious
104. Ghetto Red Hot (hi - Super Cat
105. Ladyz - Crooklyn Clan & Chooze One
106. Do My… f/Jay-Z - Memphis Bleek
107. I Just Want To Love You (Give It 2 Me) (Clean) - Jay-Z
108. You Will Never Find Another Lover Like - In Essence
109. La, La, La (Excuse Me Miss Again) - Jay-Z
110. Ain't No Nigga - Jay-Z
111. Headsprung - LL Cool J
112. Get Low - Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
113. My Neck My Back - Khia
114. Ain't No Future In Your Frontin' (Clean) - MC Breed
115. Be Faithful (Clean Extended f/Fatman Scoop) - Crooklyn Clan
116. Tambourine (Dirty f/Swizz Beatz) - Eve
117. Scenario (Dirty-Quick Edit At End) - A Tribe Called Quest
118. Watch Out Now - The Beatnuts
119. Dance With Me - 112
120. Party Up (Up In Here) - DMX
121. Salt Shaker Feat. Lil Jon - Ying Yang Twinz
122. Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool
123. Poison - Bell Biv Devoe
124. It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
125. Let The Beat Hit 'Em (Ultimix) - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
126. Iesha - Another Bad Creation
127. Me Myself and I - De La Soul
128. C'mon Baby f/The Flip Squad - FunkMaster Flex
129. Treat 'Em Right - Chubb Rock
130. Hot Music - Soho
End of Part 2 of podcast

131. Set It Off - Strafe
132. Follow Me - Aly-Us
133. Show Me Love - Robin S
134. Making Happy (12'' Mix) - Crystal Waters
135. Got a love for you (12" mix) - Jomanda
136. Nookie f/Elephant Man (Remix) (Nookie Riddim) - Jamesy P
137. King Of The Dancehall (Nookie Riddim) - Beenie Man
138. Pull Up (Remix) Soca 2005 Nookie Riddim - Mr. Vegas
139. Tek Weh Yourself (Dutchie Pot Riddim) - Mr. Vegas
140. soca 2008 - Machel Montano - Whining Season -
141. Wukking Up - Patrice Roberts
142. MarioFeatSeanGarrettAndGucciMane-BreakUp -
143. Diva (Clean) - Beyonce
144. Pop, Lock & Drop It (Clean Remix f/Bow Wow, T-Pain) - Huey
145. Turn My Swag On (Clean) - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
146. Every Girl (Dirty f/Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Mack Maine) - Young Money
147. Make The Trap Say (Brick in hook) Clean f/Gucci Mane - OJ Da Juiceman
148. Stanky Legg - G Spot Boyz
149. U Dont Know - Jay-Z
150. What Up Gangsta - 50 Cent
151. Always Strapped (Dirty f/Lil Wayne) - Birdman
152. Good Life (Dirty f/T-Pain) - Kanye West
153. Independent (Dirty f/Lil' Phat & Lil' Boosie) - Webbie
154. It's Goin' Down - Yung Joc
155. Upgrade U (f/Jay-Z) - Beyonce
156. Blame It (Clean) - Jamie Foxx
157. God In Me (Album Version) - Mary Mary feat. Kierra "Kiki" Sheard

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Reggie Beas Live @ The Blue Wave|Sept. 25th, 2009

2009-09-29T14:26:00.001-04:00

Reggie Beas Live @ The Blue Wave
Boston, Massachusetts
Friday, September 25th, 2009
Contact Info: ReggieBeas@aol.com; facebook.com/ReggieBeas; twitter.com/ReggieBeas; 857-249-5016

Part 1

Live @ The Blue Wave|September 25th, 2009 (Part 1)

The Urban Jam Session Podcast

Just Got Paid (Friday Night) - Johnny Kemp
The Breaks - Kurtis Blow
Me Myself and I - De La Soul
The Breaks - Kurtis Blow
It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
The Breaks - Kurtis Blow
Treat Em Right - Chubb Rock
Poison - Bell Biv Devoe
She's Got That Vibe f/Public Announcement - R. Kelly
Iesha - Another Bad Creation
Jingling Baby (marley marl remix) - LL Cool J
Rump Shaker (Teddy Riley Remix) - Wreckx N Effect
Mo Money Mo Problems (Featuring Mase & Puff Daddy) - The Notorious B.I.G.
This Is How We Do It (f/Slick Rick) - Montell Jordan
Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool
Whoa!(Explicit Lyrics) - Black Rob
Crush On You Remix (f/Lil Cease) - Lil Kim
Touch Me, Tease Me f/Foxy Brown (Clean) - Case
Blame It (Clean) - Jamie Foxx
Public Service Announcement - Jay-Z
We Fly High - Jim Jones
I Get Money - 50 Cent
Down For My N's (Clean f/Mystikal, Magic, Snoop Dogg) - C-Murder
Drop It Like It's Hot (Clean f/Pharrell) - Snoop Dogg
One More Chance (Remix) - The Notorious B.I.G.
Rock The Mic (Dirty f/Freeway) - Beanie Sigel
The Franklinz - Crooklyn Clan
Get Money f/Lil' Kim & The Notorious B.I.G. - Junior M.A.F.I.A.
Unfinished Business Riddim - DASECA
So Special - Mavado
Mrs. Officer vs. Unfinished Business Riddim (BeasWax Blend) - Reggie Beas
No Games - Serani
Nuh Linga - Elephant Man
Slew Dem - Capleton
Life (Is What You Make It) - Frighty & Colonel Mite
Who Am I - Beenie Man
Old Dog (Stink Riddim) - Beenie Man
Memories - Beenie Man
Romie - Beenie Man
(PUNANY RIDDIM) Caan Dun - Shabba Ranks
Dickie - Buju Banton
In Da Club - 50 Cent
Get Your Damn Hands Up-Break Beat (Clean) - AV8
Get It On The Floor - DMX
Who's Real Ft. Swizz Beatz And OJ Da Juiceman - Jadakiss
Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix) - Beyonce

Part 2

Live @ The Blue Wave|September 25th, 2009

The Urban Jam Session Podcast

I Got It Made - Special Ed
Dancing On Me *PO Clean Edit* (Remix) - DJ Webstar feat. Juelz Santana & Jim Jones
Headsprung - LL Cool J
La, La, La (Excuse Me Miss Again) - Jay-Z
Ain't No Nigga (Clean f/Foxy Brown) - Jay-Z
Do My… f/Jay-Z - Memphis Bleek
Bring Em Out-Party Break (Clean) - T.I.
Whateva - Remy Ma
Work_It -
Salt Shaker Feat. Lil Jon - Ying Yang Twinz
My Neck My Back - Khia
Tambourine (Dirty f/Swizz Beatz) - Eve
Ain't No Future In Your Frontin' (Clean) - MC Breed
Be Faithful (Clean Extended f/Fatman Scoop) - Crooklyn Clan
Lights, Camera, Action! - Mr. Cheeks
Lights, Camera, Action! (Dirty Remix f/Missy & P. Diddy) - Mr. Cheeks
Flap Your Wings (Album Version Dirty) - Nelly
The One (Ft. Drake) - Mary J. Blige
Pop, Lock & Drop It (Clean Remix f/Bow Wow, T-Pain) - Huey
Like A Pimp - David Banner
Down Bottom - Drag-On
Party Like A Rockstar - Shop Boyz
Kryptonite (I'm On It) (Clean) f/Purple Ribbon All Stars - Big Boi
Knuck If You Buck (Feat. Lil Scrappy) - Crime Mob
Turn My Swag On (Clean) - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
Stanky Legg - G Spot Boyz
Every Girl (Clean f/Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Mack Maine) - Young Money
Gettin Some (Main) - Shawna
Neva Eva (Dirty ft. Lil' Scrappy and Lil' Jon & Tha Eastside Boyz)) - Trillville
I Don't Give A Fuck (Dirty f/Mystikal, Krazie Bone) - Lil Jon
Nolia Clap (Dirty f/Wacko, Skip) - Juvenile
Got Money (Dirty f/T-Pain) - Lil Wayne
Snap Ya Fingers f/Sean Paul & E-40 - Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
Knock You Down *PO Clean Edit* (Main) - Keri Hilson feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo
Its Goin' Down (NRC Reggae Dub - Dirty) - Yung Joc
Bossy (Eighty Five Riddim) - Kelis
Good Life (Dirty f/T-Pain) - Kanye West
Diva (Clean) - Beyonce
MarioFeatSeanGarrettAndGucciMane-BreakUp -
Come Around (Radio Version) - Collie Buddz
Welcome To Jamrock (PO Clean Edit) - Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley
Flex - Mad Cobra
Boom Bye Bye - Buju Banton
Best I Ever Had (Clean) - Drake
What Up Gangsta - 50 Cent
Ruff Ryders Anthem - DMX

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Advanced Dance Therapy #9 (The PollyEsthers Edition)

2009-08-17T15:41:00.001-04:00

Many people already know my resume. Program director and afternoon personality at WILD-FM in Boston and Hot 102.9 in Dayton, OH. Nationally syndicated mixshow DJ with Superadio. Midday personality and mixer for Hot 97.7 in Boston. Touring performance DJ with past residencies in almost all the major New England nightclubs.

But do you remember my 3 year stint at PollyEsthers/The DancePlex in Boston from 1999 to 2002?

When I say I'm the most versatile DJ in New England, I'm not kidding. I worked at PollyEsthers playing Funk, Disco, Classic Rock & New Wave for a 99% white crowd between the ages of 25-50. At one point in 2000, while at PollyEsthers I was also doing mixshows on Hot 97.7 playing Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae for blacks 18-34; Jovan's in Providence, RI, playing R&B, Old School and Hip-Hop to a 95% 25 plus black crowd; and the Charlie Horse playing Top-40/ Dance/90s Hip-Hop for a 85% young white crowd. Mind you, this is well before Serato Scratch Live!

I've always had a incredibly wide range of musical tastes, so for me to hop around to different clubs and play to their crowd, whether white, black or mixed, is nothing. Plus I'm blessed with the ability to put together hit songs that don't seem to go together, so the new Open Format/mashup format that has come out is completely up my alley.

This mix was inspired by DJ Chachi, who I heard spinning at Shrine at the MGM Grand in Foxwoods. The way he had those bachelorette parties screaming was impressive! I love listening to other touring performance DJs, because I always pickup new ideas that I can incorporate into my own style. Once I made the the mix, I realized that this is what I would have been playing at Pollyesthers/The DancePlex if it was still around in 2009!

Download, enjoy, subscribe... and share with your friends!

Reggie

P.S. Playlist below...

Advanced Dance Therapy #9 (The PollyEsthers Edition)

Advanced Dance Therapy Podcast

http://advanceddancetherapy.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-08-17T07_43_12-07_00

The Incredible DJ Reggie Beas

Recording of live StickAM.com broadcast
Mixed August 17th, 2009

Bookings: ReggieBeas@aol.com | 617.354.5164 | facebook.com/ReggieBeas

1. Everybody Everybody - Black Box
2. Soul Man - Blues Brothers
3. Time - Culture Club
4. Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
5. Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
6. Don't You Want Me - Human League
7. Sexyback - Justin Timberlake
8. The Pleasure Principle - Janet Jackson
9. Just Got Paid - Johnny Kemp
10. Dangerous f/Akon - Kardinal Offishall
11. Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
12. Holiday - Madonna
13. Lucky Star - Madonna
14. Dr. Beat - Miami Sound Machine
15. I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince
16. Peg - Steely Dan
17. Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles
18. Every Breath You Take - The Police
19. Nasty Girl - Vanity 6
20. Funky Cold Medina - Young MC
21. Touch Me (All Night Long) - Cathy Dennis
22. Le Freak - Chic
23. Double Dutch Bus - Frankie Smith
24. Boogie Nights - Heatwave
25. Celebration - Kool & The Gang
26. Thriller - Michael Jackson
27. Ay Chico (Lengua Afuera) - Pitbull
28. Get On The Dance Floor (Danny D Remix) - Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
29. Maria - TKA
30. Hit The Floor Ft. Pitbull - Twista
31. Smack That f/Eminem - Akon
32. Stand By Me - Ben E. King
33. Strike It Up - Black Box
34. Treat 'Em Right - Chubb Rock
35. Lose My Breath - Destiny's Child
36. Poker Face - Lady Gaga
37. Together Forever - Lisette Melendez
38. Don't Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
39. 1999 - Prince
40. Give It To Me Baby - Rick James
41. The Roof Is On Fire - Rockmaster Scott
42. Because Of You - The Cover Girls
43. When I Grow Up - The Pussycat Dolls
44. Jungle Love - The Time
45. Teenage Wasteland - The Who
46. I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston
47. Always Coca-Cola - <unknown artist>
48. The Look Of Love (Part One) - ABC
49. Jump To It - Aretha Franklin
50. Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
51. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
52. Girls On The Dance Floor - Far East Movement
53. Girls On The Dance Floor Remix f/Fatman Scoop - Far East Movement
54. Don't Stop The Rock - Freestylers
55. Now That We've Found Love - Heavy D
56. Birthday Sex (Roy Barboza RMX) - Jeremih
57. Control Myself f/Jennifer Lopez - LL Cool J
58. Girl Can't Help It - LMFAO
59. Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch
60. Oochie Coochie - MC Brains

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Reggie Beas Performance DJ Bio

2009-08-05T10:11:00.001-04:00

Bookings: ReggieBeas@aol.com
Management: N/A

Reggie Beas is one of the rising stars in the performance DJ universe. He has gone from local club DJ, to nationally syndicated radio mixshow DJ, to running successful radio stations in Boston, MA and Dayton, OH. Now he has become one of the most sought after performance DJs.

Reggie Beas rocks parties… period. At 6’5’‘, 235 lbs, he looks like one of the athletes in the VIP rather than the DJ making the VIP jump. He is calm behind the console, but ferocious sounds emanate from the speakers. Reggie flies through hundreds of crowd favorites and future classics throughout the night. Building the energy level with quick mixes, he plays the right song at the right time, bringing it in at exactly the right point to get the audience screaming. Cutting the music to let the crowd sing. Rocking the mic to increase the already insane party vibe. He leads his audience on a musical journey, effortlessly jumping between eras, genres and cultures to create a tapestry of sound that becomes a classic in its own right. Every song is better than the last. Impossible? He’ll show you how it’s done.

His uniqueness as a performance DJ comes from an unparalleled versatility. Hands are in the air when Reggie Beas goes Open Format. He gets the Urban crowd grinding on the dance floor. The old school crowd gets to two-steppin’ and doing the Kid N’ Play in no time. Everyone sings like drunken soccer fans when he drops Funk, Rock, Soul and Disco classics. And the baby powder is flying anytime Reggie takes it to his hometown roots of Chicago and gets deep into his first love, House. Reggie rocks each event in his signature BeasWaxUSA™ style.

“I get really bored playing the same music in the same way all the time. Even when I’m playing at the same club every week, my sets are never even close to the same, but they always work for THAT crowd on THAT night. There are way too many great songs out there for me to be playing the same 150 songs every week. The staffs at the clubs I work for LOVE me, because there are only so many times you can hear Pour Some Sugar On Me, Before I Let Go, Boom Boom Pow, Poison, Dancing Queen, Mirror Dance or Blame It On The Alcohol before you start going insane!”

Reggie Beas is the perfect synthesis of the old school party rocking DJ and the new school performance DJ. He comes from the era where lugging crates of records was a rite of passage; 2 copies of every song was needed to really rock a party; mashups were done LIVE with a cappellas and instrumentals; and turntable tricks were done on turntables, not via effects machines and computers. But he has also grown with the times, mastering Serato Scratch Live and teaching how to become a better DJ by using the program effectively. He creates mashups/blends for the urban community. He has gained raving fans worldwide through his podcasts and live streaming of his performances.

“I started doing my podcasts because I love SO many types of music. Sometimes I just have to do a mix for my personal enjoyment. But once I started posting the mixes, I realized a lot of people have the same tastes as me and appreciate what I do with the music. What’s cool about these mixes is that they find an audience, instead of me making mixes for a particular audience. It’s almost like having my own cluster of radio stations! One of my favorite podcasts is The Lost Classics, because there are so many great songs I’ve forgot that I loved. Another favorite is Leaders Of The Old School, which is all Classic Hip-Hop and R&B from the 80s, 90s & 2000. I even paid homage to legendary program directors Sunny Joe White from Kiss 108 in Boston and Frankie Crocker from WBLS in New York by mixing songs by White artists that crossed over to Urban radio. When I see thousands of downloads and subscribers to my podcasts, I know I’m doing something right!”

Originally from the South Side of Chicago, Reggie Beas grew up listening to the original Hot Mix 5 on WBMX, and his style reflects that upbringing. Hearing Underground Disco, Freestyle, R&B and Imports mixed up with original House recordings, Reggie learned early on how to draw from various sources to create a signature sound. Moving to Boston after being the top DJ during his time at Oberlin College near Cleveland, OH, Reggie quickly became one of the DJs other DJs went to go see, spinning at some of the biggest clubs in New England and headlined many major shows and events. He jumped at the opportunity to spin and host on the legendary WILD-AM in Boston, becoming the last in a stellar line of DJs to spin on the iconic mixshow, TheThunderstorm. He then became the initial hire for the first Black FM station in Boston, Hot 97.7, rising from mixshow DJ/morning show producer to midday host. When Hot 97.7 changed into 97.7 WILD-FM, Reggie was picked to become the program director and afternoon personality for the Urban/Urban AC hybrid, helping lead Radio One to their highest ratings in Boston. Along the way he hooked up with Superadio and supplied over 40 stations around the country with Classic Soul and Old School Hip-Hop and R&B mixes.

After a stint leading Hot 102.9 in Dayton to a #1 ranking, as well as holding down the #1 afternoon show (both for 4 straight quarters, unprecedented in their history), Reggie made a u-turn back to the Bay State. “Once I got back to Boston, I decided to reinvent myself as DJ. Now I already get tons of people blowing me up, telling me how great I am, so I could have sat on my ass and chilled. But I knew how much better I could be, especially after hearing other performance DJs like Kid Capri, DJ Ace, DJ Spider, A-Trak and DJ Riz. It’s kinda like when Tiger Woods revamped his golf swing to make it better, even though he was already the best in the world. But I forgot that I used do performance DJ-styled mixing back in college, similar to Julian ‘Jumpin’ Perez and Bad Boy Bill (both on B96 in Chicago), and I had to slow down when I came to Boston. So ramping back up, especially with Serato, was a layup.”

Reggie Beas is writing the next chapter in a book that has already had a lifetime of twists, curves and bends, adding performance DJ to an already tremendous resume. Since he returned to Boston in late 2008, Reggie has reassumed his role as the hardest working DJ in Boston. He holds down weekly, bi-weekly & monthly residencies at Saint, The Greatest Bar, The Blue Wave and the First Fridays franchise. In addition, he is one of the masterminds behind Kings And Queens Sundays, a roving bi-weekly party that fills a need for upscale, classy lounge events for the Boston Urban community, and gives Reggie the freedom to play deep Funk/Soul classics, New Jack Swing, underground Disco, Neo-Soul, Smooth Hip-Hop, deep House and 90s Hip-Hop Soul to an appreciative audience. He continues to create mixes for his various podcasts found on podOmatic.com. And he continues to move bodies onto dance floors at nightclubs and major events across the country. Stay tuned…

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Reggie Beas Birthday Club Tour (Aug. 21-Sept. 13)

2009-07-30T17:09:00.001-04:00

Yes, I celebrate for a month, and I want to celebrate with you!
Promoters, club owners & managers, I'm taking bookings for my birthday
club tour, both locally and nationally. I'm also looking for a major
sponsor for the tour, so if you have any contacts with liquor or energy
drink companies, clothing companies or DJ equipment companies, have
them contact me at 617-354-5164 or ReggieBeas@aol.com as soon as
possible.

Dates booked so far:

August 27th: The Greatest Bar (Boston, MA)

August 29th: Private Event (Brockton, MA)

September 6th: Kings & Queens Sundays at Red Sky (Boston, MA)

Tentative dates (until the deposit comes in, they are open dates):

August 23rd, August 30th, September 3rd, September 6th, September 10th,
September 13th

The Reggie Beas Entertainment Company

facebook.com/ReggieBeas

twitter.com/ReggieBeas

ReggieBeas.posterous.com

myspace.com/ReggieBeas

617-354-5164 home

http://stickam.com/ReggieBeas (Live Streaming Video/Audio-check
Facebook for calendar)

http://Soundcloud.com/ReggieBeas (BeasWax Blends/Mashups)

http://LOTOS.podOmatic.com (Classic Hip-Hop and R&B from the 80s, 90s &
2000s)

http://25Plus.podOmatic.com (Old
School•R&B•Neo-Soul•Funk•Soul•Disco•House)

http://AdvancedDanceTherapy.podOmatic.com (Dance•Top-40•Hip-Hop•Rock)

http://ReggieBeas.podOmatic.com (Current Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae)

h
ttp://NYChi.podOmatic.com (Deep House)

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New 25Plus Mixes Are UP! (Finally) & Reggie Beas Update

2009-07-27T08:14:00.001-04:00

I took a little break on doing my podcasts, but now I'm back! Joshua Johnson of Cincinnati's Lymelyght Entertainment asked me to hook him up with a couple of hours of mixes for a happy hour he is doing for the Kappa Alpha Psi National Convention. Once I got into it, I just kept going, so here are 4 hours of mixes! Check them out here:

Lymelyght DC Happy Hour Instrumentals: http://25plus.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-07-27T03_20_31-07_00
Lymelyght DC Happy Hour #1: http://25plus.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-07-27T04_33_45-07_00
Lymelyght DC Happy Hour #2: http://25plus.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-07-27T04_32_54-07_00
Lymelyght DC Happy Hour #3: http://25plus.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-07-27T04_32_03-07_00
Lymelyght DC Happy Hour #4: http://25plus.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-07-27T04_31_08-07_00
Lymelyght DC Happy Hour #5: http://25plus.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-07-27T04_30_20-07_00
Lymelyght DC Happy Hour #6: http://25plus.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-07-27T04_29_12-07_00

My calendar is getting crazy nice… and I appreciate all the gigs I'm getting. Just spun at the Blue Wave this past Friday, then turned around on Saturday and spun NINE hours at Tito Jackson's Turkey Fry/Boston City Council At-Large Bid Fundraiser. Quick rundown of the August calendar:

Saturday, TBA: Saint, Boston, MA (Top-40/Dance/Hip-Hop/Mashups)

Thursday, July 30th: The Greatest Bar, Boston, MA (Top-40/Dance/Hip-Hop/Mashups)
Friday, July 31st: The Blue Wave, Boston, MA (Old School/Classic Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae)
Sunday, August 2nd: Red Sky, Boston, MA (Kings & Queens Sundays: Old School/Neo-Soul/House/Funk/Soul)
Friday, August 7th: Indulj, Washington, DC (One Sip Grand Happy Hour Mixer) (prerecorded)
Sunday, August 9th: Red Sky, Boston, MA (Kings & Queens Sundays: Old School/Neo-Soul/House/Funk/Soul)
Thursday, August 13th: The Greatest Bar, Boston, MA (tenative) (Top-40/Dance/Hip-Hop/Mashups)
Saturday, August 15th: Hammerjax, Dayton, OH (tenative)
Sunday, August 16th: Therapy Cafe, Dayton, OH (tenative)
Sunday, August 16th: Red Sky, Boston, MA (Kings & Queens Sundays: Old School/Neo-Soul/House/Funk/Soul)
Sunday, August 23rd: Red Sky, Boston, MA (Kings & Queens Sundays: Old School/Neo-Soul/House/Funk/Soul)
Thursday, August 27th: The Greatest Bar, Boston, MA (tenative) (Top-40/Dance/Hip-Hop/Mashups)
Sunday, August 30th: Red Sky, Boston, MA (Kings & Queens Sundays: Old School/Neo-Soul/House/Funk/Soul) Reggie Beas Birthday Weekend

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The Return of Kings & Queens Sundays

2009-07-22T15:16:00.001-04:00

This time we are located in the heart of Faneuil Hall at the beautiful
location of Red Sky Lounge. A new addition to the lounge scene, Red Sky
differs from your normal Faneuil Hall destinations. Luxurious seating,
moderately priced drinks, excellent menu selection and now, the
addition of a little Soul.

Come and celebrate our opening at Red Sky Lounge on August 2nd, 2009
8pm. We have put together quite the show for your enjoyment an we are
looking forward to launching this new urban inspired lounge with you,
our wonderful guests and friends. Below is the lineup for the night, oh
and remember, we are – A New Soul Experience VIBE|soul|LOUNGE
- for our opening, we offer to you three distinct levels of
entertainment -

VIBE
LIVE performance and showcase by Boston’s own smooth crooner, Nathan C.
Landers. R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist stated and author,
Landers’ musical origins traces back to the early 90’s at a mid-size
Baptist church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he directed choirs and
played a breath-taking Hammond B3 organ during Sunday services. It was
at church where he developed his understanding of harmonies, playing
with soul & compassion, and what would soon be recognized as his “final
performance mentality"; to perform at a level as if it’s your day on
earth. Landers’ is known as a musician who never gets tired of
entertaining. He will energize and electrify
any audience while
crossing generations.
“Nate Landers is one of America’s most talented and inspiring young
men” – ABC Good Morning America.

SOUL
DJ Reggie Beas returns with a vengeance to his weekly residency. His
weapons of choice, two turntables, a microphone and a whole lot of
soul. Spinning classic hits from Roberta Flack, Isaac Hayes and The
Staple Singers to New Edition, Jill Scott and Maxwell. Timeless music,
weaved in and around the decades of emotional and trying times for our
people, will be spun by the Soul Conductor, DJ Reggie Beas. Don’t miss
his mashups and seamless presentation of today’s hottest hits.

LOUNGE
Deep, soulful, sexy house and a little bit of funk. One half of
Improper Bostonians 2009’s Best DJ’s, Soul Clap, joins us for an
evening dedicated to you, our guests and friends. Eli Goldstein aka DJ
Elyte, offers us his interpretation of soulful classics mixed and
mashed with musical offerings of deep house and dance classics. Imagine
P-Funk layered with a little Osonlade. Now visualize yourself, rising
from your seat and moving your feet to the beat of the drum and bass.
or swaying your shoulders back and forth uncontrollably as the sound
moves through you. That is what a musical architect does to you: Enter
Soul Clap

Kings and Queens Sundays is going to be hosted by one of Boston’s best
comedians, Corey Rodrigues. If=2
0you haven’t heard or seen him perform
yet, do not miss his routine. Corey is a sure crowd pleaser right from
the start of the show. Growing up in Milton, a small suburb outside of
Boston, allowed him to bring a taste of Suburbia mixed with what he
likes to call "Urbia" to the stage. He is referred to as funny,
endearing, edgy, quick and exceptionally likeable when he is on the
stage. As a Host or a Feature act he owns the crowd. His fast rise and
impact on the Boston comedy scene was of no surprise seeing that Corey
has always been a performer and a crowd pleaser.

So there it is,
Kings and Queens Sundays
not just a night out, but an experience
A New Soul Experience
VIBE|soul|LOUNGE

presented by:
UNITEboston
Reggie Beas Entertainment
Roulhac Entertainment
Soul Clap
Lawsons Barbershops

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DJ Reggie Beas Playlist at Saint, July 18th, 2009

2009-07-21T18:14:00.003-04:00

1. Do Ya Think Im Sexy (Solly Volume Remix) - Rod Stewart
2. Cross The Dancefloor - Treasure Fingers
3. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (Freemasons Remix) - Dennis Ferrer
4. Whine Up (f/Elephant Man) - Kat DeLuna
5. Waiting For Tonight - Jennifer Lopez
6. Crazy In Love (Maurice Joshua Mix No Rap) - Beyonce
7. Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust
8. Get Sexy - Sugababes
9. Don't Stop The Music - Rihanna
10. Groovejet (If this ain't love) - DJ Spiller
11. Good Girls Like Bad Boys - Jadyn Maria
12. Don't Cha -DJ Mix Radio Edit - Tori Alamaze
13. Thong Song (Clean) - Sisqo
14. Move Ya Body - Nina Sky
15. Lovestoned / I Think She Knows (Album Version) - Justin Timberlake
16. Groove Is In The Heart - Deee-Lite
17. Walkin' On The Moon - The-Dream feat. Kanye West
18. Freeze (f/Chris Brown) - T-Pain
19. Sexual Eruption (Dirty) - Snoop Dogg
20. Girl Can't Help It (Clean) - LMFAO
21. Goodbye - Kristia DeBarge
22. Birthday Sex (Roy Barboza RMX) Extra Clean - Jeremih
23. Elevator (Clean) - Flo Rida
24. Show Ya G-Stro (Clean) - Busta Rhymes
25. Jam_On_The_Breaks -
26. Just Dance - Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis
27. Lose My Breath - Destiny's Child
28. Looking For The Perfect Beat (Clean) - Afrika Bambaataa
29. Get On The Dance Floor (Danny D Remix) - Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
30. Girls Gone Wild (Dirty) - Ludacris
31. Juicy (Clean) - The Notorious B.I.G.
32. Ms. New Booty (Clean f/Ying Yang Twins) - Bubba Sparxxx
33. Award Tour (Dirty) - A Tribe Called Quest
34. Just A Lil Bit (Dirty) - 50 Cent
35. Give It Up To Me Remix (Lethal Dizzle Clean) ft Keyshia Cole - Sean Paul
36. Gasolina (Remix f/Lil Jon, Pitbull, Noreaga, Gem Star, Mato) - Daddy Yankee
37. Lean Back - Terror Squad
38. Put It In Your Mouth - Akinyele
39. Best I Ever Had - Drake
40. This Is Why I'm Hot (Clean Remix) - Mims
41. In Da Club - 50 Cent
42. I Get Money (Clean) - 50 Cent
43. No One (Funkymix) - Alicia Keys
44. Get Your Damn Hands Up-Break Beat (Clean) - AV8
45. Jackin' Jay-Z (Wonderwall Mash) (Dirty) - DJ Danny Diggz
46. Drop It Like It's Hot (Clean f/Pharrell) - Snoop Dogg
47. Fiesta (Fiesta Remix) - Jay-Z & R. Kelly
48. Doin It (Dirty) - LL Cool J
49. Get It On The Floor (Dirty) - DMX
50. Heads High (Kill'Em With It Remix) (Classic) Filthy Riddim - Mr. Vegas
51. Murder She Wrote (Classic) - Chaka Demus & Pliers
52. No Games (New Classic) Unfinished Business Riddim - Serani
53. Dude (Remix f/Ms. Thing, Shawnna) (Classic) - Beenie Man
54. Hypnotize (Dirty) - The Notorious B.I.G.
55. Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix) - Beyonce
56. Ladyz - Crooklyn Clan & Chooze One
57. Single Ladies (BeasWax Acappella) - Beyonce
58. Get Right - Jennifer Lopez
59. Get Right f/Fabolous - Jennifer Lopez
60. Like this (Album Version Edit) - Mims
61. Nothin (Clean) - N.O.R.E.
62. I Just Want To Love You (Give It 2 Me) (Clean) - Jay-Z
63. OPP - Naughty By Nature
64. Slam - Onyx
65. Hands Up... (Dirty) - Fatman Scoop
66. Tour (Remix) - Capleton
67. Headsprung - LL Cool J
68. Work_It -
69. Party Up (Up In Here) - DMX
70. Get Low (Dirty) - Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
71. Touch It (Dirty) - Busta Rhymes
72. Let Me Clear My Throat (Old School Remix) - DJ Kool
73. Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool
74. Salt Shaker Feat. Lil Jon (Dirty) - Ying Yang Twinz
75. My Neck My Back (Dirty) - Khia
76. Tambourine (Dirty f/Swizz Beatz) - Eve
77. Ching-A-Ling (FunkyMix) - Missy Elliott
78. Work It (Clean) - Missy Elliott
79. Wait (The Whisper Song) (Dirty) - Ying Yang Twins
80. Be Faithful (Clean Extended f/Fatman Scoop) - Crooklyn Clan
81. The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
82. Got Your Money (Clean Version) - Ol' Dirty Bastard
83. Sucka MC's - Run DMC
84. This Is How We Do It (f/Slick Rick) - Montell Jordan
85. All Star - Smash Mouth
86. Mo Money Mo Problems (Featuring Mase & Puff Daddy) - The Notorious B.I.G.
87. Rump Shaker (Teddy Riley Remix) - Wreckx N Effect
88. Bonanza (Belly Dancer) - Akon
89. DJ_NOVA_The_Roof_Transition_105-130_(beat_Out) - DJ NOVA
90. Boom Boom Pow ft. LMFAO (Party Rock Remix) - Black Eyed Peas
91. Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix) (Clean) - Kid Cudi
92. Sugar f/Wynter - Flo Rida
93. Get It Shawty - Lloyd
94. Salt N Calabria - Mix Killers Inc.
95. (PAR) Timbohandz - DJ Riz
96. C'mon Baby f/The Flip Squad - FunkMaster Flex
97. The Breaks - Kurtis Blow
98. Treat Me Right - Chubb Rock
99. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - Michael Jackson
100. I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) (75 Brazil Street) - Pitbull
101. The Anthem (Clean f/Lil Jon) - Pitbull
102. Me Myself and I - De La Soul
103. Milk Shake - Kelis
104. 1, 2 Step - Ciara feat. Missy Elliott
105. Gimme More (Album) - Britney Spears
106. Poison - Bell Biv Devoe
107. Joy and Pain - Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
108. My Prerogative - Bobby Brown
109. Lay Away Love (Remix f/Fatman Scoop) - Notch
110. Young'n (Holla Back) - Fabolous
111. Gimme The Light - Sean Paul
112. Turn Me On (Album Version) - Kevin Lyttle
113. Tempted To Touch - Rupee
114. She's Hot - T.O.K.
115. Good Life (Clean f/T-Pain) - Kanye West
116. Sexy Can I (Clean f/Yung Berg) - Ray J
117. Big Poppa - The Notorious B.I.G.
118. I Got 5 On It - Luniz
119. Blame It (Clean) - Jamie Foxx
120. Get Ur Freak On - Missy Elliott
121. Move Bitch - Ludacris
122. In Da Club - 50 Cent
123. We Fly High (Dirty) - Jim Jones
124. Baby Boy (f/Sean Paul) - Beyonce
125. Unfinished Business Riddim - DASECA
126. So Special - Mavado
127. No Games (New Classic) Unfinished Business Riddim - Serani
128. Unfinished Business Riddim - DASECA
129. Single Ladies (BeasWax Acappella) - Beyonce
130. Bring Em Out-Party Break (Clean) - T.I.
131. Chillin f/Lady Gaga - Wale
132. Crazy In Love (f/Jay Z) - Beyonce
133. Get Busy-(Remix) Ft Fatman Scoop - Sean Paul
134. Hips Don't Lie - Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean
135. Work_It -
136. Hey Sexy Lady - Shaggy feat. Brian & Tony Gold
137. Love Games - Lady Gaga
138. Freek-A-Leek - Petey Pablo
139. Senorita - Justin Timberlake
140. Beautiful (Clean) - Snoop Dogg
141. Jump Around - House Of Pain
142. Come Baby Come - K7
143. Fight The Power - Public Enemy
144. The Power - Snap
145. Getting Jiggy Wit It - Will Smith
146. Ownlee Eue - Kwame'
147. Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc
148. Bust A Move (Classic Hip Hop) - Young MC
149. Poker Face - Lady Gaga
150. Girls On The Dance Floor - Far East Movement
151. I Like to Move it - Reel 2 Real
152. Fire Burning - Sean Kingston
153. Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body) - Three 6 Mafia
154. Walkin' On The Moon *PO Clean Edit* - The-Dream feat. Kanye West
155. Move Ya Body - Nina Sky
156. Sweet Percolator - John Farruggio
157. Temperature (X-Mix) - Sean Paul
158. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
159. Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now) - Bob Sinclair
160. I'm_The_Ish_(Explicit_Original)_320_kbps - DJ Class
161. Low (Clean) - Flo Rida
162. Put Your Drinks Up (Dirty f/Kardinal Offishall) - DJ Mad
163. Whoomp! (There It Is ) - Tag Team
164. FergieSaltNPepaJJFad-PushItFergasonic(DJAxelMashup) -
165. Snap Yo Fingers Transition (130-82 BPM radio edit) - Discotech
166. Best I Ever Had - Drake
167. Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin') Clean - T-Pain
168. Walk It Out (Clean) - DJ Unk
169. Knock You Down *PO Clean Edit* (Main) - Keri Hilson feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo
170. Turn My Swag On (Clean) - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
171. Every Girl (Clean f/Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Mack Maine) - Young Money
172. Stanky Legg (Dirty) - G Spot Boyz

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Reggie Beas Bio

2009-07-21T18:14:00.001-04:00

Bookings: ReggieBeas@aol.com
Management: TBA

“Big Chicago” Reggie Beas watched his friends all start from Boston to
blow up worldwide. Rocsi, co-host of BET’s 106 & Park… Superstar DJ to
the Superstars & Producer Clinton Sparks… Heavy Hitter/Smashsquad
Representative/“Mr. Heat Rocks” The DJ Chubby Chub… Showoff
Records/Promotions’ Producer/DJ Statik Selektah… Producer/DJ
International XL… He is now taking his turn in the spotlight.

Reggie Beas rocks parties… period. He is without peer reading the dance
floor, playing crowd favorites and slamming the hottest new music.
Building the energy level with quick mixes, he plays the right song at
the right time, bringing it in at the right point to get the audience
screaming. Cutting the music to let the crowd sing. Rocking the mic to
increase the already insane party vibe. He leads his audience on a
musical journey, effortlessly jumping between eras, genres and cultures
to create a tapestry of sound that becomes a classic in its own right.
Every song is better than the next. Impossible? He’ll show you how it’s
done.

“Big Chicago” is the perfect synthesis of old school and new school. He
comes from the era where lugging crates of records was a rite of
passage, 2 copies of every song was needed to really rock a party,
mashups were done LIVE with a cappellas and instrumentals, and

turntable tricks were done on turntables, not via effects machines and
computers. But he has also grown with the times, mastering Serato
Scratch Live to the point where he is teaching other DJs how to use it
effectively. His music library contains over 25,000 songs with every
imaginable style of music. He produces podcasts of his live sets and
creates free downloadable mixtapes with self-created graphic design. He
creates his own mashups for the urban community. And he streams audio
and video of his sets live at http://stickam.com/reggiebeas.

Reggie Beas’ podcasts have gained raving fans in Boston and worldwide.
He started his podcasts because he wanted the freedom to express
himself musically with no boundaries other than his imagination. He
could also experiment with different themes and see which ones
resonate. Instead of making mixes for his audience, he let the mixes
find an audience. The Lost Classics. Leaders Of The Old School.
Advanced Dance Therapy. The Puma City Session. Kings And Queens (The
Sunny Joe White/Frankie Crocker Edition). All have been downloaded
thousands of times. Like house musicians creating a different persona
for each style of music (like Louie Vega creating Masters At Work,
River Ocean and Nuyorian Soul), Reggie has created alter egos for many
of his podcasts. http://AdvancedDanceTherapy.podOmatic.com unleashes DJ
BeeezNutz to spin Dance, Top-40, Hip-Hop, Rock and Mashups.
http://25Plus.podOmatic.com is
DJ Reggie Beas playing Old School
EVERYTHING and http://LOTOS.podOmatic.com features the hottest 80s, 90s
& 2000s Hip-Hop and R&B. http://NYChi.podOmatic.com bring DJ BMX to the
forefront with the smoothest soulful deep House and classic House
tracks. The original podcast, http://ReggieBeas.podOmatic.com sends Big
Chicago to the tables with the hottest current and classic East Coast
and Dirty South Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae. And Reggie is the mastermixer
behind the scenes on the http://MorningMayhem.podOmatic.com site.

Originally from the South Side of Chicago, Reggie Beas grew up
listening to the original Hot Mix 5 on WBMX, and his style reflects
that upbringing. Hearing Underground Disco, Freestyle, R&B and Imports
mixed up with original House recordings, Reggie learned early on how to
draw from various sources to create a signature sound. Moving to
Oberlin College near Cleveland, Ohio, he almost instantly became the #1
most requested DJ, rocking frat parties to nightclubs, plus his radio
show on campus was the most listened to 3 years running.

But that’s nothing. Try doing that in a real city. Moving to Boston,
Massachusetts, “Big Chicago” quickly became the DJ other DJs came to
listen to. And if you can impress other DJs, the crowd is easy right?
In a career spanning 3 decades, Reggie Beas has had residencies at
almost every major club in the New England area, spinning in lounges as
small as 100 people and=2
0megaclubs as large as 2200 people. He gets the
call to spin when the elite of the elite come to Boston. He has been
the featured DJ for events ranging from the National Black Caucus black
tie party at the 2004 Democratic Convention; to Steppin’ Out, a
fundraiser attracting over 2000 guests annually; to the after party for
the Boston showing of HBO’s “The Black List”; to Boston Celtics’
captain Paul Pierce’s birthday celebration in his personal VIP room. He
has spun for athletes such as LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers;
Kobe Bryant and the Lakers; Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O’Neal and the Miami
Heat; Willie McGuinest, Richard Seymour and the New England Patriots;
almost all of the Boston Celtics; and celebrities such as Sean “Diddy”
Combs, R. Kelly, Bill Bellamy, Dave Chappelle, Bruce Bruce, John
Legend, Lionel Richie, Sinbad, Buffie the Body, Bria Myles, Esther
Baxter, Bobby Brown, Trina, Yung Joc, Slim from 112, Amerie, Cassie,
Kelly Rowland and Ryan Leslie. He has been the headline DJ for concerts
featuring Jaheim, Gucci Mane, Montell Jordan, Faith Evans, Mims,
Elephant Man, Beenie Man, Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz, Kelis, Fat Joe,
EnVogue, Musiq Soulchild, Gnarls Barkley and India.Aire.

But we haven’t even touched on Reggie Beas’ radio career. In 1999, the
radio bug bit him hard. He quit his job as a graphic design assistant
for Hale and Dorr LLP,
a major Boston law firm, to pursue radio (and
spinning) full time. He started on the bottom rung as a mixshow DJ/part
time on-air personality for the legendary heritage black radio station
WILD-AM in Boston. He then became the first hire of the first (and
only) black FM commercial station in Boston, Urban Hot 97.7. He rapidly
rose through the ranks, moving from mixshow DJ/morning show
producer/swing shift on-air personality to become program
director/afternoon personality in 2005 of the revamped 97.7
(Urban/Urban AC hybrid WILD-FM), helping take the station to its
highest ratings ever. In 2002, Reggie became one of the mixers on
Superadio, a national syndication company. He produced Smooth Jam,
Classic Jam and New Skool Mini-Mixes, which were heard on over 40
stations around the country, including WBLS/New York and KDAY/Los
Angeles. He then moved in 2006 to Dayton, Ohio, to program Rhythmic CHR
Hot 102.9, helping keep the station #1 in their target demographic for
an unprecedented 4 straight ratings periods, and presiding over the #1
afternoon radio show for young adults the entire time he was at the
station.

And we can’t forget promotions. After moving to Dayton, Reggie was
shocked at the lack of upscale events. He was instrumental in creating,
promoting and/or spinning at 7 different monthly events in the area,
culminating in the designing and successful implementation of Sky
Lounge at Hammerjax, Dayton’s fi
rst weekly upscale urban event. After
moving back to Boston in 2008, Reggie concentrated on creating
signature weekly events that expand the boundaries of urban music.
Kings And Queens Sundays carved out a niche catering to upscale
individuals who crave more than the same Hip-Hop, R&B, Reggae and Old
School played by every other DJ. Like DJ AM and Sundays at LAX, no
matter where Reggie is in the world, he always comes back to Kings And
Queens Sundays to rock out at the place he calls home. And Reggie
continues to put on his wildly popular invite-only annual summer harbor
cruise, which has sold out every year since 1993.

Nightclubs. Promotions. Production. Radio. Internet. Touring DJ. “Big
Chicago” Reggie Beas continues to make his mark on anything he touches,
raising the bar and setting the standards for the next generation of
DJs to shoot for.

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A Window To My Thoughts

2009-06-29T22:57:00.001-04:00

Just found a couple of videos on success that really made me think about what exactly is success. And how to attain it. Check my facebook page to see them. One thing that jumped out is the first step for success, according to this author. Passion.

Passion. That is something that has dogged me for my whole life. Being honest with myself, I've skated along in life based on ability. Natural ability and talent. I've gone a long way without completely being passionate about anything. In grammar school I didn't care about getting all E's (which is A's for everyone else… in Chicago E's were for excellent). In high school I had a 2.78 grade point average… just above the 2.75 I needed to keep my academic scholarship. In college I had a 3.75 grade point in computer science, and a 1.75 GPA in everything else I didn't care about.

I've played basketball since 4th grade. Always one of the more naturally talented players, but never really motivated to get great. I was the only one on my 6th grade grammar school team to play 4 years in high school, and I was the only player in my class in high school to play in college. But I could take or leave basketball. I played from October 15th through the end of the school basketball season, then didn't touch a ball until the next season.

You see where I'm going. I couldn't care less about anything that didn't come easy. Now at the age of 42, I'm coming to grips with my lack of passion, and realizing that is the problem with everything in my life. I've never had to work hard for something, so when I do want to ramp it up, I don't know how. I have a lot of friends that try to tell me "you're doing great" "you've accomplished so much" "I wish I was doing what you're doing." But only I know how much more I could be doing. If something didn't come easy, I console myself by saying "it wasn't meant to be anyway." The sour grapes theory.

I know I can't will something into existence. But can I work harder to put myself into the position to succeed? Yes I can. The passion to work harder to succeed? That is what I'm struggling with. I read so many books that have incredible advice on how to succeed. I've taken a lot of advice from books and people on moving forward in life. I'm coming to grips, however, with the fact that with each book, I'm looking for the magic elixir that will catapult me into superstardom.

Reggie, there is no magic elixir.

No, actually that's not true. Passion. Work. Focus. Push. Ideas. Improve. Serve. Persist. These are the 8 principles of success that Richard St. John put forth in his books, “Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky, and Rich,” and “8 To Be Great.” These are the ingredients to the magic elixir that make up success. Very simple, but powerful words that make me sit up and think. How badly do I want it?

How badly do I want it?

That's not a mistake. I typed that three times for a reason. I know what I want out of life, but how badly do I want it? I will become a "celebrity" touring DJ, spinning at nightclubs around the world for $3,000 to $5,000 a night, all expenses paid, but how badly do I want it? I will be a millionaire by 45, an 8 figure multimillionaire by 50, but how badly do I want it? I will attain it by doing something I love. Whether it is DJing, radio or something out of the blue, it will be something that I enjoy immensely and would do for free. I will have the wife, the kids, the dog, the house, the white picket fence, the 2 car garage with 2 cars in it… BUT HOW BADLY DO I WANT IT? It all comes back to passion.

Work. Work has never been a problem for me, as long as it is placed in front of me. You can ask my co-workers at the radio stations I've worked for… I worked harder and longer than anyone there. No one would challenge me on that statement. Not bragging, just a simple fact. But do I have the passion to seek out other work that does not reward me right away just because it will help me create my reality?

Focus. Focus is a weird one. I'll give you an analogy. If you're at a shooting range, you don't know if you are good at shooting if you don't have anything to shoot at. But if you have a target, nothing else matters, it's all about shooting not only to hit the target, but to hit the bulleye. Actually, I just realized that's the best reason I've heard for setting goals (and I made that one up myself… even though I KNOW someone else has used that somewhere… I can't be the only one to come up with that analogy, I just haven't seen anyone else write it in that way). How passionate am I to create my own targets to focus on?

Ideas. I am never at a loss for ideas. I have hundreds of promotional ideas for nightclubs, for weekly and monthly events, for promoting myself as a disc jockey. For making my radio show and my radio station fun, interesting and compelling. But do I have the passion to implement my ideas if other people don't see my vision?

Improve. This is my best skill by far… as long as it is something I'm interested in. But do I have the passion to improve my skills in things I couldn't care less about?

Serve. Another trait that is a strength. I have no problem taking orders, helping other people, making sure everyone is fed before I take my plate, metaphorically. I feel DJing is a type of service, delivering music to the masses to make them feel better than when they walked into my establishment. My radio show was all about serving… I know people hate the "same 5 songs, 15 times a day, for three months," but serving up parts of myself, opening myself up to my audience, allowed me to get the ratings I did despite the repetition. But even so… do I have the passion to serve for less money than I deserve to attain my ultimate reality?

Persist. Push. I think Persistence, Push and Passion go hand in hand in hand. Yes, I know I don't have 3 hands, but you get the point. Am I passionate enough to persist in the face of negative or no feedback? Am I passionate enough to push through my natural shyness (which nobody believes!) to sell myself effectively? Am I passionate enough to create my reality in the way that I see it in my minds eye, no matter what the self-doubts are lingering inside of me?

I visualize Passion as the Sun, and the other 7 traits as planets circling, drawing heat from it and supplying the power to give them life. Or maybe Passion is the base of a pyramid, supporting the other 7 traits. That's all well and good, but what supplies Passion's energy? The Sun visualization works again because the Sun generates its energy from within. It takes the materials it was born with and uses that to create the flaming fireball that sustains life all around it. So the passion for the reality I'm creating for myself starts and ends from within. Outside sources fueling my passion always burn out. But creating that self-sustaining, undying, roaring fire of desire passion is the magic elixir, the open sesame word, the key to the city to creating the reality I desire. So I ask myself again…

HOW BADLY DO I WANT THIS?

Ultimately, passion is equal to how much confidence I have in the reality I'm creating, so keep moving forward. Passion is believing it is only a matter of time for my vision of my life to come to fruition, so keep moving forward. Passion is the understanding that the word "no" has little to no effect other than to speed me along to the next person who will say yes, so keep moving forward. Passion is KNOWING the life I want to live is attainable, so keep moving forward. Passion is the ability to believe 1000% that when there is no way, I will still find a way, so keep moving forward. And passion provides courage to overwhelm my shyness, provides a voice to shout down my self-doubts, provides wings to give flight to my ideas, and provides legs to keep moving forward.

P.S. I write these things because I know I'm not the only one thinking these thoughts. By putting my thoughts to… well, not paper… I guess to "the cloud," it definitely helps me define what I want my reality to be. But I think if you read my thoughts and see the correlation between my life and yours, my words can help you also. And especially when you think that, to the people who know me from the radio, I actually am a celebrity, for you to know my strengths and weaknesses, my thoughts and fears, my strong traits and faults, you begin to realize that I'm no different than you. Sometimes seeing things from another perspective helps clarify the problems and identifies the solutions you can implement in your own life.

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Why Reggie Beas Is The Best DJ For Your Event

2009-06-23T09:57:00.001-04:00

Feature: 25 years as a professional DJ

Benefit to you: I’ve learned what works and what doesn’t. If you as a
promoter have done your job of getting people in the building, I can
read your crowd, get them out of their seats and get them partying. I
learned the ebb and flow of a night. I don’t need to play the top 5
songs in the country at 11pm because I’m afraid I can’t get people on
the dance floor. I’ve learned how to make the bar make more money. I
can push people to the bar without pushing people out the door strictly
by what music I play and when. And I’ve learned when people are having
a good time even when they are not dancing. Sometimes it’s not about
the dance floor, it’s about the interaction, and if people are engaged
in conversation, mixing and mingling, it is my job to provided the
background for their socializing.

Feature: Smooth transitions between song to song

Benefit to you: How many times have you heard a DJ whipping through
songs like he get paid per song played? Cutting songs off in the
middle, playing a fast dance song, then a slow hip-hop song, then a
piece of an old school jam, then before you can get on the dance floor,
they switch to a reggae song? It’s not only jarring to dance to, it’s
hard to listen to. Yes, I can speed mix, but there is a method to my
madness. I h
it you with the best part of a song, then cut, blend or
scratch in the next song at the exact right spot of the song to keep
the energy level increasing and the dance floor hot.

Feature: Mastery of the features and tricks of the #1 DJ software,
Serato Scratch Live

Benefit to you: Being able to find the next song that fits within the
flow of the night quickly… placing markers where the best parts of the
song are so I can jump to that part… creating loops to extend the
hypest part of the song… all this helps me keep the dance floor packed.

Feature: Radio Program Director, On-Air Personality and Mixshow DJ

Benefit to you: I understand the art of programming the music for the
night. Being a program director taught me the ability to make each song
fit the mood of the night. Whether it’s a lounge spot featuring
Neo-Soul or a megaclub featuring mashups, I tailor the music to satisfy
the majority of the crowd.

Feature: over 25,000 songs on hard drive

Benefit to you: I feel out your crowd, seeing what they are in the mood
for, then play the songs that they are feeling, instead of playing to a
set playlist. I can go in any direction and be confident that I’m
playing the favorite songs of your crowd.

Bottom Line Benefit to you: My most overwhelming benefit to you, Mr.
Promoter, Senor Manager, Miss Club Owner, is
I get people to have so
much fun at your club that they want to come back and bring people with
them. It’s that simple. You have a lot of things to worry about in the
running of a club. When you hire me, one thing you never have to worry
about is the DJ.

What I am not: I am not a promoter. Getting people into the club is not
my job. Here is the test a DJ must pass to be great: can that DJ rock
the party without anyone knowing who they are? I understand that many
DJs draw people because of their reputation, but that doesn’t mean they
are the best DJs! A limited few DJs can get people to come to a venue
that hasn’t already established itself as a place to be.

What I am not: I am not a “celebrity” DJ. Being a great DJ is secondary
to the “name” the celebrity brings. Don’t get me wrong, some DJs have
become celebrities, but only a couple have made it that far because of
how hot their parties are. Many have been in the right place at the
right time, had a celebrity hear them play, got put on and now they are
a “celebrity” DJ. I want to become a celebrity DJ the Kid Capri way… he
earned it!

What I am not: I am not a DJ. DJ Jazzy Jeff said it
best… a great DJ can play any style to any crowd. Jeff is one of the
top 3 Hip-Hop DJs
in the world, but has produced some of the smoothest
Neo-Soul and deepest House I’ve ever heard. I heard Funkmaster Flex
play an hour House set on Hot 97 one night, then at the end he cracked
the mic and said “I did that because I can…” and went to commercials!
Classic. Just because I do Old School exceptionally well doesn’t mean I
can’t smash Hip-Hop, I can’t provide a Neo-Soul soundtrack, I can’t get
deep in the vibe of House, I can’t get hands in the air on the Open
Format tip. I am a DJ… period!

Reggie Beas

The Reggie Beas Entertainment Company

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http://stickam.com/ReggieBeas (Live Streaming Video/Audio-check
Facebook for calendar)

http://Soundcloud.com/ReggieBeas (BeasWax Blends/Mashups)

http://LOTOS.podOmatic.com (Classic Hip-Hop and R&B from the 80s, 90s &
2000s)

http://25Plus.podOmatic.com (Old
School•R&B•Neo-Soul•Funk•Soul•Disco•House)

http://AdvancedDanceTherapy.podOmatic.com (Dance•Top-40•Hip-Hop•Rock)

http://ReggieBeas.podOmatic.com (Current Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae)

http://NYChi.podOmatic.com (Deep House)

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A Little Help Please

2009-06-04T11:52:00.003-04:00

BeasWaxUSA #1 by ReggieBeas

This is me mixing in an "open format" style (coined by Moodswing 360's Ricky Greenstein and Johnny Maroney). Going to see various open format DJs like DJ Riz, Clinton Sparks (my colleague at Hot 97.7 in Boston who I helped get on the station), Sky Nellor, DJ Spider, DJ Commish and Samantha Ronson, I realized my natural style was similar to theirs.

Taking the "'Big Chicago' Reggie Beas" style of mixing… tight blends, great music choices, high energy mixing… and adding influential songs from many other genres, my alter ego, DJ BeeezNutz, has been born! DJ BeeezNutz spins an interlocking tapestry of sound, drawing not only from Top-40, Dance, Rock, Mashups, Party Breaks and Hip-Hop, but from Soul, Funk, Disco, R&B, House, Freestyle, Reggae and Dirty South Hip-Hop as well.

The next step is to take my unique brand of open format DJing national. I am in the process of refining my package and press kit and looking for a manager to take me to the next level. If you could listen to my mix and give me feedback, positive or negative, I would really appreciate it. I would also appreciate any insight you have on what I should be doing to make myself a national name. You can leave a comment here, you can email me at ReggieBeas@aol.com or you can call me at 617-354-5164.

BeasWax Shine Alliance

2009-04-27T11:03:00.006-04:00

This is my small contribution to the acceleration of Boston/New England music artists.

Artists (Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall and Dance/House)
Send MP3s of your music to: BeasWaxAudio@gmail.com, and I'll send it to the distribution list. I will not pick and choose what I like and send that out. The power of this list is to let the alliance decide what's hot. Send Clean, Dirty, Instrumental and Acappella versions. Why? You don't want to give someone a reason not to play your music. You never know who is going to listen to your track, like it, but decide it's too much work to bleep, reverse or edit the swears out of the dirty version. Plus with the Instrumental and Acappella, you give DJs tools to be creative with your music. If you don't have all versions, send what you have.

DJs (Club, Radio & Mixtape)
Send an email to BeasWaxAudio@gmail.com with "BEASWAX SHINE ALLIANCE DJ" in the subject line (all caps). I'll put you on the distribution list. Then when I get something, I'll pass it on to you. No one will be turned down. Here is the major thing… WE NEED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW WE ARE PLAYING A CERTAIN SONG. This is what will make this work. If we are going to make the nation stand up and look at Boston, we need to show our support for our artists. So I'll make it really easy. Just send an email to BeasWaxAudio@gmail.com saying the name of the song, if you are playing it and where you are playing it at (which club, what radio show, what mixtape/podcast). That's it. I'll compile the results and send a weekly blast giving you the tally.

This is a free service. I am not competing with the excellent promotion services that work your music worldwide and have connection all over the industry (Indi-Pro and Showoff Promotions are two Boston groups that get it in). As my boy DJ Kut (Power 105.1/NYC) says, "I'm Not A Record Promoter, I'm Just Sharing Music With The DJ's!"

Who's Got Next?

2009-04-27T10:55:00.001-04:00

Shouts to all the DJs out there getting money! Boston we've got to start making it happen like ATL, Houston, NO, Miami, Chicago and the like... we've got to stand behind one or two artists with a real chance to blow up nationwide and make them a priority at EVERY club, on every mixtape and on every mixshow... R&B, Reggae or Hip-Hop, it doesn't matter, what matters is until one breaks through, nobody breaks through...

One thing I did like about Dayton is they banded together and played their local artists and made them local celebrities. They made me play their stuff on the radio because they were so hot in the clubs and mixtapes. Yes there are challenges, but when I see a little town like Dayton making noise, there is no reason why Boston can't shake things up... Read More. Oh, and I don't want to see Boston artists having to go to New York to get shine. Omega Red, Terminology, Clinton Sparks and Statik Selecta shouldn't have had to go to NYC to blow up, but that proves the talent in Boston that we can go to New York and take over!

Smoke is one of those cats that got put on without much help from the Boston machine. But since we didn't stand behind him (other than Hot 97.7 mixshows) he got lost in the shuffle. Dre Robinson had that song Get Right with Mobb Deep that was soooo hot, but the momentum got stunted. I don't know if Debreca was from here, but Gee-Spin was helping ... Read Morepromote her and she had a whole album of heat. We may not have showcases that people can consistently perform at, we may not have local radio to get airplay, but us as DJs are working at a lot of clubs and do a lot of mixtapes (and me with my podcasts).

Somehow we have to identify who's next and get behind them full force. Oh, and NO HATE! If someone has a show, go show support as a fellow artist. In Dayton, L-Marr The Great came to Shellshock's events, who came to Esquire's events, who came to GTC's events, and so on. They may not have broken out of the Dayton-Cincinnati area yet, but they at least have their own area on lock!

Now I'm not saying that I'm the best person to find those songs and those artists that we need to uplift. I've only been back 5 months and I'm completely out of the loop on who is hot and who is new. But if I find something I like, I'll let everyone know. And DJs, if you let me know through comments if you are playing a certain song, that gives all of us added strength in playing newer local music.

When I look at places like Baton Rouge (Hurricane Chris, Webbie, Lil Boosie), Batesville, MS (Soulja Boy), Jackson, MS (David Banner), Lafayette, LA (Cupid), Greenville, NC (Petey Pablo), there is no reason why Boston, with a population bigger than all those places COMBINED, can't make headway in the record industry.

And it's not like we don't have history, but we are out here like the Celtics were… 21 years without a championship. Who has been seriously put on since Gang Starr, Ed O.G. and Benzino? Well, let's mimic what the 2008 World Champion Celtics did… let's break the drought!

My Favorite Boston DJs (Part 2)

2009-04-26T14:26:00.004-04:00

From all the notes I got on my first list from DJs that didn't make my list, you would think I was president of all DJs! Some people were lightweight upset that they didn't make the cut. Well, obviously I can't cosign everyone. And honestly, there are a lot of DJs that are working consistently that I don't think are that great, but that is my opinion. If you have a fan base, if you consistently get people to come to your events, you promote yourself effectively and you consistently get hired for gigs, it doesn't make a difference what I think, because you are doing what you need to do to get money.

So I want the DJs that feel they should be on my list to write a paragraph in my comments section similar to what I wrote about myself. What makes you a good DJ? What makes you unique? What is your history? Why should a promoter hire you? Like I said, this list is my opinion of great DJs, but I'm not the final judge and jury on DJs. I do respect the people who value my opinion, however.

I do have another list of DJs I like to listen to, but I didn't want my post to be too long (plus I have to get to my own gig). I do have to mention Dru Nyce, T. Clark and Che Boogie. All I enjoy listening to, and I'll give them the proper respect later.

My Favorite Boston DJs

2009-04-26T03:57:00.007-04:00

I need to introduce you to some of my favorite current Boston DJs. I'm always amazed when I talk about other DJs and people don't know who I'm talking about. A person will ask me "who's spinning at such-and-such club?" I tell them and 97.7% of the time it's "who?" In the late 80s through early 2000s, most DJs doing parties in the New England-area were well-known, and headlined 600 to 1000 person events. Nowdays the scene is completely fragmented… there are a hundred thousand little parties featuring a hundred thousand nameless, faceless DJs. It's all about the club, not about the DJ.

So here is my hit list of Boston DJs. These are the people I can listen to, can cosign for, would pay money to hear spin and would recommend for any job I turn down!

DJ Hectik
Hectik has grown so much even in just the 5 months I've been back in Boston from Dayton, OH. I'm not afraid to say I go to listen to him to make sure I'm up on my Top-40 Dance music. He is at the forefront of a new style of music that we haven't seen since the late 80s/early 90s… uptempo pop dance music. Think Snap, C&C Music Factory, Stevie B, Rob Base, Black Box. Now substitute LMFAO, Flo Rida, Pitbull, DJ Class, Black Eyed Peas, and all the different mashups. He's smooth with the mix, doesn't overpower the mix with scratches, rocks the mic when he needs to and plays to his crowd. But I really became impressed when I heard him on his video mix show. He's sitting in his bedroom with a video camera trained on him and his tables, and he's just playing joints. I realized that he is not a one trick pony… he can play Hip-Hop with the best of them! (Where you can hear DJ Hectik: Tuesdays-Rumor; Wednesdays-Wonder Bar; Thursdays-http://www.ClubKillaRadio.com, Revolution Rock Bar; Fridays-Rumor; Saturdays-Venu; Sundays-Orchid… yes he really does work that much!)

Gee-Spin
Even though Gee has moved on to New York to help program Power 105.1, he is still doing special events in the city. I still remember going to Cosmopolitan back in the mid-90s, hearing all this great old school soul & funk being played, then looking behind the tables and seeing a red-headed white boy! He is one of the few DJs who has proven he can play to ANY crowd, and is unafraid to either play a new song he knows will be a hit, or slip in a classic you forgot you jammed to back in the day. And the funniest thing? Like myself, he doesn't talk on the mic much in the club, but became a top-rated on-air radio personality! Actually, out of all the DJs I've ever heard, he comes the closest to sounding like I sound… smooth mixes, every song is better than the last, crazy music library and the experience to know what and when to play something. (Where you can hear Gee-Spin: special events; overnights-http://www.power1051fm.com)

The DJ Chubby Chub
Boston has a love/hate relationship with Chub, but every superstar has their haters. And yes, he is a superstar! He is the classic Hip-Hop DJ… LOUD talkin' shit on the mic, aggressive scratching, droppin' hit after hit (he's not Mr. Heatrocks for nothing!). But don't sleep on Chub's music knowledge. Chub and I spent many days at Hot 97.7 in Boston talking about R&B, slow jams, Neo-Soul, House, Rock (ask him about his rock crate!). He is too big for Boston, quite frankly. He is on the level of a Kid Capri or DJ AM, and with the moves that he is making behind the scenes, it is only a matter of time before he is making that Capri/AM money. I'm just trying to be his Technician the DJ! (Where you can hear Chubby Chub: Saturdays-360 Ultra Lounge; special events around the globe; (soon) Hot 97.5-Boston)

DJ Kon
Just because a DJ is not a household name doesn't mean he is not an excellent DJ. DJ Kon's strength is the insane knowledge of music history he possesses. Digging in the crates doesn't do him justice. He is a musical archeologist… going to the ends of the earth to uncover obscure tracks that have been sampled in many of our favorite Hip-Hop and R&B songs. He can play an entire night of just sampled songs! But what elevated Kon to one of my favorite DJs was hearing him the last couple of times I was at the Blue Wave. I never thought he could pull back and rock a party playing identifiable songs… I thought his need to expose those rare grooves caused him to play over the crowd's head. But at the Blue Wave he played hits… and when he stretched out, it was to play something we forgot we loved, like Another One Bites The Dust or Last Night A DJ Saved My Life. He goes on the list! (Where you can hear DJ Kon: alternate Fridays/Saturdays-The Blue Wave; alternate Saturdays-Middlesex Lounge; special events)

DJ Deja
Deja has come into her own recently. She has always been an in-demand DJ both locally and nationally, but in the past 8 years she has grown from getting gigs because of the novelty of being a female DJ and being great at promoting herself to becoming a great DJ, period. We spin together at Saint once a month, and quite frankly, I only do it because she's a talented DJ. I've spun too many times with other DJs where when I get off the tables, the drop-off in quality is glaring, and people are begging me to get back in the DJ booth! She has the unique ability to play songs that are left-of-center and make it work because she knows her crowds and reads the vibe so well. She truly leads her crowd on a musical journey that is enjoyable to experience. But she has one problem… and it's a good problem to have; she makes so much money doing weddings and private corporate functions that she doesn't do a lot of clubs anymore. So you better catch her when you can! (Where you can hear DJ Deja: Saint-Saturdays (once a month); X-Mix syndicated mixshows)

The Incredible DJ "Big Chicago" Reggie Beas (of course I have to put myself in there!)
I'm not being egotistical putting myself on this list. What other DJ in Boston is still relevant who started spinning in clubs in the 80s! I'm the Tim Wakefield of club DJs… Tim is a consistent winner, been around for years, can fill any position on the roster effectively, and makes his club better in a number of ways, not always in the most obvious (BTW, Tim Wakefield is a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox). I consistently rock crowds, can play anything from Old School Funk/Soul/Disco to Hip-Hop/R&B/Reggae to Dance/House/Top-40 to Rock/New Wave/Classic Rock, been on the radio as a mixer, on-air personality and program director, and leave people thinking "damn, I had a great time at this club," even though they may not attribute that directly to me. That is because my greatest strength is my greatest curse… I'm so technically precise on the tables I fade into the background. I pride myself in every transition being exactly right, but it makes me sound like a mix CD produced in the studio instead of a DJ playing live for a crowd. That's great for radio mixshows… I'm one of the cleanest mixshow DJs I've ever heard, and that's including syndicated DJs on Superadio and DJs I grew up listening to in Chicago. But in the club I need to dirty it up, make people notice me behind the decks. Chubby is probably one of my biggest fans. He is forever telling me I'm better than almost everyone else out there, so there is no reason why I can't be touring like he is.

That drives me every day.

(Where you can hear me spin: Thursdays-Tamboo Ultra Lounge; Saturdays-Saint (once a month); Sundays-OM Lounge; special events; http://LOTOS.podOmatic.com; http://25Plus.podOmatic.com; http://AdvancedDanceTherapy.podOmatic.com; http://ReggieBeas.podOmatic.com)

Thoughts About My Radio Career (Part 3) or Why I'm Not On The Radio Now

2009-04-12T03:45:00.005-04:00

Why am I not on the radio now? Right right now is because the Urban stations in Boston are all operating illegally as what are called pirate stations, and I'm not working for an entity that is illegal. People here don't understand that when I say that, because they can't imagine a radio station broadcasting illegally, which is what a pirate station does.

A station broadcasting legally has a broadcasting license given to them by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). There are a limited number of licenses given out by the FCC per metropolitan region, and the stations are spaced along the radio dial so their signals don't interfere with each other. If you notice, in the United States stations' frequency, or dial number, are spaced apart by 0.4 (i.e., 94.5, 94.9, 95.3, 95.7, 96.1, etc.). If you hear a station in between those stations (i.e., 94.7 in between 94.5 and 94.9) it will be faint and hard to pick up because it is a station whose signal is carrying from another market.

Now, a pirate station doesn't care about getting a license. They listen to the radio and figure out a dial position in between two licensed stations that has the least amount of interference, whether from an out-of-market radio station bleeding in, or a very strong adjoining station overpowering their signal. They find a building they can put a radio transmitter on, run the wires to their mixing board, tune it to the clearest frequency they can find, and voila! They have a radio station.

The problem with pirate stations are three-fold. 1) First and foremost, they are illegal. Major broadcasting companies pay millions of dollars to the right and privilege to broadcast in a certain city. A pirate station pays a fraction of that to put a station on the air, which leads to 2) interference with other signals and 3) taking potential listeners away from licensed stations. Major broadcasters could care less about pirates… until it messes with their money. If they can prove that a pirate station is affecting their ability to transmit their signal, they will make sure that pirate station will be shut down quickly. And if people who would be listening to the licensed station either start listening to the pirate station or can't hear the licensed station because of the interference, once again, that pirate station will be shut down.

What does all this have to do with me? First of all, I can't put that I worked for a pirate station on my resume. How does that look? Not that I'm Mr. High And Mighty, but if I put on my resume a station that is not listed by Arbitron, is not a BDS station, and doesn't show up on ANY list of licensed radio stations, it makes me look bootleg. Secondly, it's ILLEGAL. If I happened to be working for a pirate station and the FCC came to shut them down, I would open the doors and help them carry stuff out. Don't be fooled by people saying they have a low power broadcasting license. Low power broadcasting licenses are legal licenses given by the FCC for an organization to broadcast to a very limited area, usually covering no more than a 2-3 mile radius. In contrast, some of the more powerful stations' broadcast signal cover over a 60-65 mile radius. Even a bad legal signal, like my old station Hot 97.7, covered 25-35 miles.

But people don't understand any of this. They think, I turn on my radio, I hear the radio station, must be legit, so why can't you work for them? At that point, after explaining the whole pirate thing, the whole illegal thing, and they still don't get it? I just say I'm not worried about radio anymore and leave it at that.

But truth be told… I would love to get back on the radio in Boston. I KNOW I can make an Urban, Urban AC, Rhythmic or Rhythmic AC work in Boston. But since 3 of the 4 are failed formats, nobody is going to give them another chance (and Jam'n 94.5 is a powerhouse Rhythmic, so no one wants to mess with the big dog). Let ME mess with the big dogs (Jam'n and Kiss). That radio war would be something to see.

Thoughts About My Radio Career (Part 2)

2009-04-11T10:37:00.004-04:00

October 2007. I'm in Dayton, Ohio on Hot 102.9, a Rhythmic/Pop station (I say that because we played a lot of Top-40 uptempo dance stuff that should have been on our sister station, Z93). The station is #1 18-34. My show is #1 18-34. I'm thinking life is great (or as great as life can be in Dayton, Ohio, which is another story completely).

Let's back up for a second. From 2004 to 2007 was a most excellent ride. I went from morning show producer, to midday host (yes, they finally gave it to me straight out), to program director and afternoon personality of the new 97.7 WILD-FM (an Urban/Urban AC hybrid that wasn't as weird as it sounds, which is "another" another story), to PD/Afternoons at Hot 102.9 in Dayton. My first program director at Hot 97.7, Tom Calococci (current OM at Beasley Broadcasting and PD of Power 96 in Miami) told me if I didn't become a PD in 5 years he seriously overestimated my talent. Well, I guess he slightly overestimated my talent, because it took me 5 years and 3 months!

So Radio One sells the Dayton cluster to another company (I start getting the shakes when I think about them, so I'm not naming them). Like I said, I'm good… my performance barometers are peaking. I have a 2 year contract with an out clause after one year, so I thought it would be nothing to re-up for the 2nd year. At the same time, my PD colleague at Z93 was sweating bullets. Here he has control of a heritage station with a blowtorch signal, and they are seriously underperforming, fighting for ratings with a 6,000 watt station that couldn't be heard throughout the whole metro.

Our GM asked the whole station to clean their areas by October 31st so new carpet could be put in and walls could be painted. It just so happened that decisions had to be made for both of us at that same point. I cleaned, put stuff in boxes, put other stuff in drawers, filed away CDs on my floor… basically spruced up the place. My colleague however, thinking he was on his way out the door, cleared out his office. If you looked in there, you would have thought nobody worked in that office. He took the platinum records off the walls, his stereo, all his personal belongings… and took them home. Not stashed them away… took them home! Not put them to the side… took them HOME! He knew he was gone.

So after my shift, I went into the general manager's office to, I thought, have a performance review and talk about goals for the next year. When he starts out with, "so you know we're letting you go…," I go into complete shock. "Uh, no, I did NOT know that, are you serious?" Here is the sucky (for want of a stronger word) thing about my contract. Either myself or the company could cancel the contract at the one year point without cause or giving a reason. So when I asked why they were terminating my contract, he said "we're going in a different direction. That's all I need to say." And I couldn't ask any followup questions, because he didn't have to answer them.

But here is the shocker… yes, even more shocking than losing my job. They gave my job to my PD colleague! Oh, and all this happened the same day they fired his entire staff, blew up his station and made it into a "we play anything" formatted station. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not mad at him. He is a great guy from the Dayton area, had a house, wife and kids and had been with Z93 for 10 1/2 years, from intern to PD/Afternoons. But come on! He was an underperforming Top-40 PD. The only thing he knew about current Hip-Hop and R&B was what he heard in the hallways passing by our studio on his way to his office. He did appreciated Hip-Hop and we would vibe on some old school classics, but programming from charts is bound to fail.

And initially, fail it did. What is it the kids say, "Epic Fail?" This was a classic Epic Fail. 1) I don't have access to anything other than the 12+ Arbitron numbers, but the station's ratings dropped from 6.5 to 5.0, which is the lowest numbers in the history of the station. I know this because when I first got to Dayton, I went over and wrote down all the ratings for each daypart over the history of the station. 2) Only 6 months after the GM let me walk (and less than 8 months after he took the job), he was let go. Technically he took another position at another company, but come on. You don't uproot your family after being in your previous market for years, moved to Dayton, and then move again less than 8 months later without something being seriously wrong. I'm not gloating, I'm just saying…

I wanna thank my girl at http://randomramblingsofaradiochick.blogspot.com for giving me incentive to write in my blog again. I realized my story is interesting also, and it is good for me to get it out. Next post I'll write about my year of looking for another radio job, including crazy feedback I got from 2 major market PDs, my frustration with the whole job search process, and my attempt to work for an easy-listening station in Massachusetts!

Thoughts About My Radio Career (Part 1)

2009-04-11T09:45:00.003-04:00

Just got finished reading posts on the blog http://randomramblingsofaradiochick.blogspot.com. Can I tell you she is writing almost exactly how I feel? Except for she is more candid because she is anonymous.

It got me to thinking about my radio career. About how at age 32 I quit my job as a graphic design assistant in the Visual Communications department at a world-class law firm, took three part-time jobs just so I could pursue my dream of being in commercial radio.

About how I only made $22,000 for 3 years as local producer of a nationally syndicated morning show because I was so determined to make it in radio.

How I worked the morning show and did middays for 8 months because that was the only way I was going to get consistent on-air time. Still only making $22,000, so I needed to continue working as a director of a record pool, and DJ in clubs 3 nights a week.

About those three nights a week in the club. Everybody at Hot 97.7 can tell you stories about how I would leave the club, go to the station at 3am, sleep for 2 1/2 hours, then get up to produce the morning show. I did that at least 1 day a week from 2000 through 2004.

How about the time I woke up at 8:30am when I was supposed to be at the station at 5:30am? That was during the time I was doing morning show/midday double duty. Yes, I did get written up, but I also got a bonus! Everyone, including the syndicated morning show host, knew how hard I was working, and he went to bat for me. He knew how much I was making (and Boston ain't cheap), and he knew all the things I was doing to make ends meet. I wasn't only burning the candle at both ends… all the candle wax was gone; I was nothing but wick! But I was able to give up the morning show and concentrate solely on the midday show.

I'm thinking back on how I felt when, after 13 months of holding down middays (5 months of doing middays only), I lost my job… actually, technically that's not correct. Middays wasn't mine, I was only filling in that whole time. Why? Because they were still looking for a female to fill the position. Now this is not a diatribe about equal opportunity employment, because I love my female announcers (one of my radio heroes is Irene Mojica of V103 in Chicago). But imagine how I felt when middays went to a girl who was 3 weeks shy of 21 years old, who was interning 4 months before, who only had 3 months of part-time experience on mixshows? I guess you can say it was an inspired pick, because she currently co-hosts a national TV show. But I suck it up and go back to the morning show.

Gotta take a quick break, but I'll fast forward to October 2007 in a moment.

The 29% Solution: Week 1 (Set Networking Goals)

2009-03-23T14:13:00.007-04:00

As a nightclub and radio DJ, almost all my jobs have come from referrals. Very rarely have I gone to a club, pitched my case, and got the gig. The only time that happens is when the person I'm talking to has already heard of me from being on the radio (and I'm not on the radio anymore). I have gotten only one radio job because of my presentation and persistence, which surprisingly was my biggest job to date, my position with Hot 97.7 in Boston. So I need 90% of my new business to come from word-of-mouth referrals by September 1st, 2009.

What I need to do is first go through this book, The 29% Solution, to learn the skills necessary to generate that word of mouth. Most of what I need to do is open my own mouth! Being comfortable and confident touting my own experience. Maybe be a little more arrogant? Hopefully this book teaches me how to network through my own natural abilities.

I think the main goal is to get to the point where my name is the first name thought of anytime a nightclub manager, owner or promoter is looking for a DJ. I need to know the people who influence those people. Sometimes a bouncer or bartender has the ear of management and can turn things in my favor. That's what happened at Pollyesthers in Boston. I was working on Thursday to nobody, but the bartenders, bouncers and waitresses all loved me and convinced the manager to move me to Saturdays, paying me more than all the other DJs in the club!

Since my currency is music, I need to spend that on the people around me. That means giving away mixtapes, but also making sure I'm giving mixtapes to people who influence the people who are decision makers. Kinda of shady, but remember… you talking about how good I am goes a lot farther than me talking about how good I am, because that's what I'm supposed to do! LOL

Continue with my podcasts, because they spread farther and wider than I ever could with mixtapes. Continue with publishing my playlists from the club, because I can show in black and white how wide my range is, rather than me telling you I can play everything.

So part of what I'm doing is public relations. Getting the word out to influential people. Getting enough influential people to really understand what it is about me as a DJ, and spread the word. I can see it already with my podcasts, how many people are feeling them and sharing them with their friends. Coming to my club night, telling people how much fun they had and coming back with more people.

I expect to get not only club gigs, but private parties and weddings also. As I build, my leverage will increase, allowing me to charge more because the demand is higher. Financial stability is key, because if you don't match my price, I'm not pressed to work for you, because I know someone else will match it. I do the gig not because I need the money, but because it is a good look for me and the club/promoter is paying me what I'm worth.

This is all about spinning at celebrity events and upscale clubs. I don't mind being the headliner, I don't mind spinning the whole night, and I don't mind being the opening DJ for a big name DJ. As I gain more leverage, I'll move more towards just being a headliner, but for right now, money is money. Pay me my price and I'll give you a stellar performance, whether to 10 people or 10,000.

Actual networking functions for DJs are almost nonexistent these days. Realistically, if I can make the major conferences like Radio and Records, South By Southwest and Winter Music Conference, plus any smaller conferences that escape me right now, that would be good enough. I'm always on the trade magazine websites, so I'll find out about more events in which I can network. This book will teach me the ways to effectively network once I'm there. I need to be sticky in the mind of as many people as possible (example: my roommate said "Save me money, Beasley!" and that sticks in my brain so I'm very conscious of saving electricity and gas).

I want to have as many referrals as it takes to have negotiation leverage with club owners, managers and promoters. It's not enough to get a gig; if I work for $150 I can work every night of the week, but that's not an effective use of my talents. But I also don't want to say I'm worth $3000 and nobody else is offering me a gig. But to work on a figure I'll say… 3 referrals a week, 10 a month. I will work at a pace that is not too demanding on me, so I don't rush through the book just so I can hurry up and hopefully generate referrals. So I'll work at the pace suggested by the book of one technique a week.

I've already created a 30 second elevator pitch. Actually, it's 35-40 seconds, but it has everything I do in it. A DJ elevator pitch would be 20-25 seconds. I'm going to rework my marketing materials around the phrase "The Unfair Advantage." My experience, DJ technique, music knowledge all play into that. Focus on placing my podcasts on various myspace, facebook and twitter pages of influential people. Create a CD that is my press kit, so I'm not giving someone a folder of stuff, I'm giving them a nice tight package. And I'm going to dress to play up my height, body and looks. If I'm Boston's #1 Upscale Event DJ, I have to look the part. That means everywhere I go I look the part of an upscale individual, so it's not so hard to see me in the position I claim to be in.

If all goes according to plan, I want to meet Puffy (I can't call him Diddy) because I want to do his White Party in the Hamptons; John Lyons of the Lyons Group; whomever is in charge of booking acts for the Essence Music Festival and the Winter Music Conference; Doug Banks; Herb Kent; Kid Capri; the program director for Choice FM in London, England; Kid Capri's manager; DJ Jazzy Jeff; President Barack Obama; Funkmaster Flex; and whomever can give me a 2009 Black Buick Enclave for free!

Once I really look into this book and absorb the teachings, I may have to create my own DJ networking group. We'll see…

Networking is much more than trading business cards

2009-03-23T11:27:00.006-04:00

I bought this new book last week called The 29% Solution by Ivan Misner, PhD and Michelle Donovan. It's about how networking is the key to success.

I'm going to do the exercises and post my answers on my blog. I have no vested interest in this book, but I do think it is important to lead by example. By being transparent in what I'm doing, you might be inspired to make changes in your life.

I realized last year how key networking is. I was talking to various radio program directors looking for another on-air or programming position after my previous radio company "decided to go in a different direction" (which was down in ratings and revenue, but that's a private story). These PDs basically said your resume is great, your experience is excellent, but we don't know you. So let me call some people and see if they know you. Now of course we've all heard do great work and you can write your ticket anywhere. Not exactly true.

Do great work… let everyone know you've done great work… and you can write your ticket anywhere. Blogging makes it easier to let people know what I'm doing, and if you google "Reggie Beas" I have over 125 entries about me in radio, clubs, interviews, articles, blogs and podcasts, but nothing beats word of mouth advertising.

What I have found in my career is this: me talking about me only gets me so far. But you talking about me gets me further, even if I am paying you to talk about me. I get more gigs or radio jobs by someone referring me than I do directly talking to a manager, PD, promoter, GM or owner! That doesn't make any sense to me because I'm articulate, intelligent and the ultimate team player. I physically present myself well and, due to my graphic design and administrative assistant background, my presentation materials are on point.

Plus I'M GREAT AT WHAT I DO, which is rock parties and get ratings! Sorry, but if I don't say it (or don't pay someone to say it), who will?

So that is why I finally realized networking is the key. If you cosign for me, I will be taken more seriously than if I cosign myself. And that's why I bought this book, The 29% Solution.

Kings And Queens Sundays Playlist-March 15th, 2009

2009-03-16T16:09:00.002-04:00

Slowly but surely, we are getting Kings And Queens Sundays to be the spot to be on Sundays. We may have to move the time back from 6pm. We were trying to cater to the working people who don't want to be out too late, but people don't really start showing up until 8:30-9:00. So we're thinking about going 7pm to 12pm. Let me know what you think.

Kings And Queens Sundays… A New Soul Experience
OM Restaurant & Lounge-92 Winthrop Street (Harvard Sq.), Cambridge, MA

Atmosphere by "Big Chicago" Reggie Beas

1. Fallin' In Love - Faith Evans
2. Everything is Everything - Lauryn Hill
3. Sending My Love - Zhane
4. Off On Your Own (Girl) - Al B. Sure
5. Can't Stop - After 7
6. Spread My Wings - Troop
7. No One Knows How To Love Me Quite Like You Do - Aaliyah
8. Love Of My Life (Clean f/Queen Latifah, Angie Stone & Bahamadia) - Erykah Badu
9. U Know How We Du - Bahamadia
10. 93 'Till Infinity Instrumental - Reggie Beas Bed
11. Booti Call - Blackstreet
12. Love Thang - Intro
13. You Bring Me Joy - Mary J. Blige
14. Every Little Thing I Do (You're On My Mind) - Soul IV Real
15. Keep On Moving (Ultimix) - Soul II Soul
16. You're The One For Me - SWV
17. Happy Days (with Rap) - Silk
18. Things We Do For Love (Clean Remix f/Jay-Z) - Horace Brown
19. Touch Me - Solo
20. I Don't Wanna Be Alone (Remix f/Jay-Z) - Shai
21. Girl's Best Friend - Jay-Z
22. Put It On Me (Clean f/Lil' Mo And Vita) - Ja Rule
23. Sweet Potato Pie (Dirty) - Domino
24. I Got Dat Feeling - DJ Kool
25. Luv 2 Luv U (radio edit) - Timbaland & Magoo
26. Snake (Feat. Big Tigger ) - R. Kelly
27. Where My Girls At - 702
28. Jamboree (f/Zhane) - Naughty By Nature
29. Don't feel right (Main Clean) - The Roots
30. Cult of Personality - Living Colour
31. Black Cow - Steely Dan
32. The World Is A Ghetto - War
33. I Love Rock & Roll - Joan Jett
34. American Woman - The Guess Who
35. It's Your Thing - The Isley Brothers
36. Earth, Wind & Fire - On Your Face (A Party Ain't A Party Beat) - Earth Wind & Fire
37. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer
38. ABC - The Jackson 5
39. I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
40. I'll Be There - The Jackson 5
41. Back and Forth - Aaliyah
42. Be Happy - Mary J. Blige
43. Like This And Like That - Monica
44. You Should Be Mine (Clean f/Mase) - Brian Mcknight
45. Only You (Album) - 112
46. Superwoman Part 2 (Dirty f/Fabolous) - Lil Mo
47. Honey (Bad Boy Remix f/ Mase & The Lox) - Mariah Carey
48. Every Day Of The Week - Jade
49. Sensitivity - Ralph Tresvant
50. Lovey Dovey - Tony Terry
51. My Lovin (You're Never Gonna Get It) - En Vogue
52. Addictive (Clean f/Rakim) - Truth Hurts
53. Golden (Original West Coast Mix) - Jill Scott
54. I'm In Luv - Joe
55. All Around The World - Lisa Stansfield
56. Request Line - Zhane
57. Teddy's Jam - Guy
58. Make You Sweat - Keith Sweat
59. Him Or Me (Remix) - Today
60. Do Me - Bell Biv Devoe
61. Is It Good To You - Teddy Riley
62. Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson
63. Real Love - Jody Watley
64. My Prerogative - Bobby Brown
65. No More Lies - Michel'le
66. Rub You The Right Way (Remix f/CL Smooth) - Johnny Gill
67. Let The Beat Hit 'Em (Ultimix) - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
68. She's Got That Vibe f/Public Announcement - R. Kelly
69. Just Got Paid (Friday Night) - Johnny Kemp
70. Motownphilly - Boyz II Men
71. We Got Our Own Thang - Heavy D & The Boyz
72. Treat Me Right - Chubb Rock
73. I Get The Job Done - Big Daddy Kane
74. Do This My Way - Kid 'N' Play
75. Monie In The Middle - Monie Love
76. The Creator - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
77. Doing It To Death - Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s
78. OLD SCHOOL - Zapp and Roger - Doo wa Ditty 2 - Zapp & Roger
79. Fantastic Voyage - Lakeside
80. I'll Do Anything For You - Denroy Morgan
81. And The Beat Goes On - The Whispers
82. Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen
83. Wet My Whistle - Midnight Star
84. So Fine - Howard Johnson
85. Watching You - Slave f/Steve Arrington
86. Single Life - Cameo
87. I'm Dreamin' - Christopher Williams
88. I Found Lovin - Jeff Redd
89. I'll Do For You (Extended Clean) - Father MC
90. New Jack Swing - Wreckx N Effect
91. What About Your Friends - TLC
92. Stomp (Remix) - God's Property
93. Feels So Good (Dirty) - Mase
94. Nasty Boy (Dirty) - The Notorious B.I.G.
95. Mo Money Mo Problems (Featuring Mase & Puff Daddy) - The Notorious B.I.G.
96. This Is How We Do It (f/Slick Rick) - Montell Jordan
97. Rump Shaker (Teddy Riley Remix) - Wreckx N Effect
98. I Got A Man - Positive K
99. Uptown Anthem (Dirty) - Naughty By Nature
100. Bitch Betta Have My Money - AMG
101. Ain't No Future In Your Frontin' (Clean) - MC Breed
102. So Whatcha Sayin - EPMD
103. You Gots to Chill - EPMD
104. Anything (Old Skool Remix) f/Wu Tang Clan - SWV
105. Award Tour (Dirty) - A Tribe Called Quest
106. Rock Dis Funky Joint - Poor Righteous Teachers
107. I Got It Made - Special Ed
108. Black Cop - KRS-One
109. Hypnotize (Dirty) - The Notorious B.I.G.
110. Music Makes Me High (Dirty) - Lost Boyz
111. My Minds Playing Tricks on Me (Wicked Mix) - Geto Boys
112. Nobody Beats Tha Biz - Biz Markie
113. Lost Ones - Lauryn Hill
114. Nuthin' But A "G" Thang (Dirty f/Snoop Dogg) - Dr. Dre

DJ Mars Tips for DJs & My Responses

2009-03-16T15:10:00.003-04:00

This is a blog entry I found while searching for Celebrity DJs. Here is the original post: http://www.rapmullet.com/2009/03/drop-a-dime-with-dj-mars.html. DJ Mars is definitely is one of those dudes. He dropped a lot of truth in these 10 tips for DJs, but I thought I could add a little something from my experiences. My responses are in bold.
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What's the deal world,allow me to introduce my self...DJ MARS//PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD FAMOUS SUPERFRIENDS CREW. I'm am also the owner of the site www.historyofmixtapes.com. Big Chew hit me up and asked me to be a part of the top ten list. So I decided to give a little advice to up and coming dj's. Not exactly the bible, but just a few key things I feel like a dj should do in order to get it poppin in his or her city.

(1) Know your craft-There's no better way to be one leg up on the competition than to actually be a master at your game. Most dj's try to be all things to everyone,for the most part that's not likely. If you are a radio dj,please know how to sandwich those hits. If you make mixtapes, study the science. If you are a club dj,know how to rock a party.

Reggie You can be all things to all people… you just can't mix them up. Don't play like a radio DJ at the club, don't play like a mixtape DJ on the radio and don't play club stuff on a mixtape.

(2) Learn from the older Gods-Study from a dj who came before you. The mentor could be someone with whom you are cool with or someone whose style you studied from a far. When I was coming up I studied Kid Capri, Ron G, S&S, Doo Wop, Brucie B, Clark Kent and my man Red Alert. Honestly,to the point where I felt like I was them when I was rocking. To some it may sound corny,but it worked. Hey,if you wanna be like Mike act like Mike.

Reggie I cosign this heavy. Every time someone is in Boston, I go see them. Fatman Scoop was rocking this past Friday, and I made it a point to see him. I go onto Youtube and check out Jazzy Jeff and DJ AM. When Mars did my radio show on Hot 97.7 in Boston (BTW he’s from Springfield, MA originally) I was taking notes. You can only get better by checking out the best.

(3) Be honest with your skill set-On the reals,if you are not Jazzy Jeff don't try his shit publicly. If you have no mic game,shut up and hire a hype man. Point guards shouldn't be down in the paint,and not every mixtape dj should be spinning at a party. I'm not a mixtape dj,that's why I rarely make them. Know who you are and be comfortable with it.

Reggie The only problem with "be honest with your skill set" is no DJ thinks they are bad, and if promoters keep hiring bad DJs, they never will think they need to get better. Promoters will rather hire a cheap DJ than a good DJ, unless you as a good DJ have marketed yourself well.

(4) Do not join a dj crew-I know this sounds ironic,especially coming from the guy who started the dj crew phenomenon in the south. Reason being is most club promoters,program directors and even artists have found a way to take our stripes. They all have figured that a dj crew gives you the dj some control. They can't control you so they all of a sudden don't like you. Move aggressively with your peoples,just don't join a crew. Trust me, the hate will come out the wood work if you do.

Reggie I've always wanted to join Smashsquad with my former colleagues Clinton Sparks and The DJ Chubby Chub, but I realized unless that DJ crew is getting you jobs, there is no reason to rep someone’s crew. It’s fun for me to drop “Mixkings” over my set, but unless it is a real movement you’re getting involved with, find your own lane.

(5) Network extensively-I wouldn't be the dj I am today if I didn't have a circle of people that I can rely on for gigs as well as information. The fact that I was invited to be a part of this list is proof that networking works. Currently my goal is to network with dj's out side of my current musical circle. Each one teach one,I can learn from them just as they can learn from me.

Reggie I just bought the book “The 29% Solution” which gives a step-by-step plan on networking. That is the one thing I’m severely lacking.

(6) Stick together-I know that was a bland title but I really meant that as a dj if you have a popping up and coming promoter,grow with him. In my eyes you should stay with him and move as he moves. If he's not a piece of shit he will take you where ever he goes.

Reggie For better or for worse, promoters in Boston stick together with their preferred DJs. Unfortunately, it’s because those DJs are cheap and don’t have people running off the dance floor and out of the club. If you’re good, promoters should realize they can make much more money promoting you and getting people excited about your night than what they would save with a cheaper DJ.

(7) Create a following-The average person is like a sheep in they pasture,they follow the herd. This game is built on smoke and mirrors and if you have a legion of people rocking with you,you look like you are a God.

Reggie It’s not enough to create a following. You have to be able to prove the following exists. Plenty of people have thousands of email addresses and Facebook/Myspace friends, but how many come to your events? How many people are coming strictly because you are spinning? Better yet, how many people would NOT come to the event because you are not there?

(8) Know your music-There's no reason why you should have access to all the hits. There's no reason why you should know what's poppin in Ny,as well as Houston,Chicago and LA. There's no reason why you don't know what was poppin 10 years ago. The internet has leveled the playing field,get yer crates right.

Reggie Having all the hits doesn’t make you a DJ, it makes you an iPod on shuffle. Know how to put your music together… have options out of every song you play rather than always playing the same song after a certain song… learn to build the night rather than smashing all the hits at 11 o’clock, 1 o’clock & 3 o’clock

(9) Play your position-Most young dj's are so fucking annoying when it comes to this. If you are paid to open up,do that. Let the headliner do him. You got your check,now sit back relax and learn a lil something. No need to sit in the booth and every 30 minutes ask the next dj,"yo can I get back on"...hell no. Play your part and learn,most of all respect that man's time slot.

Reggie I cosign this fully. Even if there is nobody in the club during your whole set, when your time is up, give up the turntables. The headliner is paid thousands of dollars for a performance… you wouldn’t ask Prince, R. Kelly or Ne-Yo to stop their set, so don’t ask Kid Capri, DJ Ace or DJ Mars to stop theirs

(10) Respect the game-Alot of dj's have come before us and made it what it is. Many of them took the shorts so that we can eat. You pay them back by simply being an asset to the collective. Be good at what you do,take the game forward. Does no one no damn good if you wack the game out by being wack. Simple enough dude. With a high level of talent,a lot of luck and some heart,this game can take you all over the world. I'm proof of that!

Reggie ‘Nuff Said! This list is nothing but the truth!

"Big Chicago" Reggie Beas
Touring Club DJ/Podcast Producer
Former Radio Program Director/Afternoon Personality
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Why I Am Who I Am, And I'm Not Apologizing For It Anymore

2009-03-12T13:54:00.008-04:00

I've read the first main chapter of "Go Put Your Strengths To Work" by Marcus Buckingham, and it has completely changed my view of myself. Actually, more to the point, it has strengthen the view I've had of myself that I've suppressed from the world.

Marcus writes there are 3 myths that "our parents told us were true, that our teachers reinforced, and that today we hear in one form or another from our managers." I've only read one myth and it snapped my head back with recognition. The myth is this: "As you grow, your personality changes." The truth, as Marcus tells it, is: "As you grow, you become more of who you already are." That statement caused an "oh, sh!t" moment.

I have finally realized that the reason why I seem not to be as confident as other guys is because I've been trying to mold myself into being like other guys, instead of playing to my strengths and being the best person I can be. In my mind I'm thinking, "what would Mike do?" or "what would Eddie say?" or "how would Curt dress?" all in the name of garnering favor from other people (mostly the opposite sex), rather than playing up my vision of myself and letting the chips fall where they may. I've given lip service to being true to myself, but I really didn't understand that I've been sabotaging myself all these years.

As far back as 5th grade I had been teased about my glasses, my clothes and my intelligence. The funny thing was, I was such a nerdy kid I didn't even know how to dumb myself down to hide my smarts! Even now, I don't flaunt my intelligence, but it comes out in everything I do, from my radio shows to my DJing to my interactions with everyone from thugs to CEOs. My clothes I didn't worry about, because I couldn't change that, but it's interesting that over 30 years later, I still don't worry about my clothes. Am I clean? Pressed? No obvious defects? I'm ready to roll! I must say, however, that as soon as I got rid of the glasses sophomore year in college, I started getting the looks from women that I had craved my whole life! :-) But once again, I equate glasses with nerdy and ugly duckling (the old me) and contacts with handsome and a swan (the current me). So when you see me with my glasses on, know that I'm REALLY not trying to impress anyone at that point. With my contacts in? I'm getting my sexy on!

I say to myself all the time: "I think I'm great... why don't other people see that?" The reason? I'm not giving them ME, I'm giving them an approximation of all the guys I've seen women be impressed with. I love smelling good, but the reason why I started wearing cologne is because Warren Feagins had girls swooning over him at the Early Identification Program at the Illinois Institute of Technology. I try to dress as nice as I can because my classmate at Hales Franciscan, Eddie Thomas, was one of the sharpest dressers I've ever seen, and I saw how women whipped their heads around to look twice. I stayed close to my Oberlin College best friend Mike Sorrell not only because we got along so well, but because he was a natural at gathering friends. In my defense, I didn't get Grey Flannel because Warren got it, I didn't get Izod because Eddie wore it, and I didn't try to act like Mike because he was successful with women.

Up until now I've wrestled with being a nice guy, having a personality that doesn't match my 6'5'', 260 pound frame, being mistaken for a 5'9'' white guy over the phone... basically questioning my entire existence based on how others perceive me. And it didn't help that I look at the world differently. I think being a nice guy is a virtue, not a detriment. I love playing different types of music for different crowds, and I don't want to be forced to specialize just so I can fit in a clearly defined box. There are many more things that I naturally go against the grain because, honestly, I think I'm right and the rest of the world is wrong, but instead of speaking up and letting people know how I feel, I quietly mutter to myself in the corner. Yes, it is easier to go with the crowd and do what everyone else does, even if you think it's wrong.

A perfect example is when I was the program director for WILD-FM in Boston. I had never been a program director before, so I was actively looking for guidance in how to run a radio station, which I got from my consultant, Alan Sneed. But when it came to the music... current music, new music, old music, whatever, I fundamentally knew what would work and what would not work. No, I didn't have 20 years of experience running and consulting radio stations like Alan did. But I did have (at that time) 6 years of being in radio (and hearing my friends tell me why they think radio sucks), 22 years of nightclub experience, and 35 years of listening to great Black radio stations in Chicago (WBMX, WGCI, WJPC, WVON), Cleveland (WZAK), Detroit (WJLB), New York (WBLS, Kiss, Hot 97) and Boston (WILD-AM). Not only could I tell you whether a new song would be a hit or not, I had the experience to know what old school songs were hits, whether or not they were #1 back in the day. But because I didn't have facts, I only had my eyes and ears to back me up, I couldn't convince Alan that my music choices were correct.

Conventional radio wisdom says play a few songs as much as possible, rather than play a wide range of songs. Supposedly, it guarantees that whenever someone tunes into your station, they are hearing a hit song. Conventional radio wisdom also says research and test older songs with a random selection of people. If they give the thumbs up you play the song, no matter how corny the song (Shake You Down-Gregory Abbott; Caravan Of Love-Isley Jasper Isley; Cherish-Kool And The Gang are three of my hateds). If they give the thumbs down, you shelve the songs no matter what the reaction is in the clubs, rolling down the street or inside people homes (you can't tell me only 75 R&B songs between 1990 and 1999 were hits, I'm sorry). So I did the only thing I could do: I played all the songs we were missing in my mixshow, the Live@5 Old School Mix. Can I tell you, the buzz in the city at 5 o'clock was crazy! Even today, when people find out who I am, they talk about my mixshow.

I said all that to say that when I followed what I KNEW was right in my core, I was successful beyond my wildest dreams. When I follow other people, who were successful in their own right, I was much less successful. The place where being exactly myself was highly successful, with no qualifications, was on the radio, and I hit my peak when I was able to pick the music and flesh out my radio show. I connected with people precisely because I didn't try to be anything but myself, and they could consciously and subconsciously feel that.

Confidence comes from being secure in who you are at the core, from the inside out. I'll go out on a limb and say that women like "bad boys" simply because they are unapologetically secure with who they are, for better or worse. They don't think about being confident, they don't think about how you perceive them, they just are who they are. But I don't have to be a bad boy to be secure in who I am at the core. I just have to understand that I am me for a reason, and nobody else can judge who I fundamentally am. I have to say "I like this this way!" Not "I like this this way because I saw someone else do this, and he got the response that I want for myself, so I'm going to do this that way too."

The morale of the story is not "be yourself." It's "be comfortable, happy and content being yourself without thinking how others perceive what you are doing."

Who am I? A 6'5'', 260 pound guy who is a laid back, chill, fun-loving dude who loves to talk, laugh, play and watch sports, go to clubs, play music for appreciative folks around the country, dance, conversate with people over the radio airwaves, have lots of female friends, wants to see everyone happy, wants to be married to the right woman who I'm attracted to and is attracted to me, and sees the world completely differently from the average person.

And I'm not apologizing for it anymore.

Reggie Beas' Event/Podcast Calendar

2009-03-11T11:29:00.003-04:00

Kings And Queens Sunday Podcasts already up: Take 1-Disco Nights and Take 2-An 80s Thang

Wednesday, March 11th-Lost Classic Podcast #3 (http://25Plus.podOmatic.com) Sunny Joe/Frankie Crocker Edition

Friday, March 13th-Advanced Dance Therapy Podcast #7 (http://AdvancedDanceTherapy.podOmatic.com) Dance/Top-40/Hip-Hop/Baltimore Club

Saturday, March 14th-Saint (w/DJ Deja), 90 Exeter Street, Boston, MA
(Advanced Dance Therapy Podcast Release Party) Dance, Top-40, Hip-Hop, Old School

Sunday, March 15th-Kings And Queens Sunday, OM Lounge, 92 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA
(An 80s Thang Podcast Release Party) Old School EVERYTHING! Neo-Soul, R&B, Hip-Hop, Reggae

Monday, March 17th-The Urban Jam Session Podcast (http://ReggieBeas.podOmatic.com) Current Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae

Wednesday, March 19th-Kings And Queens Sunday Podcast (http://25Plus.podOmatic.com) Old School EVERYTHING!

Sunday, March 22nd-Kings And Queens Sunday, OM Lounge, 92 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA
(Celebrating the 1st weekend of Spring) Old School EVERYTHING! Neo-Soul, R&B, Hip-Hop, Reggae

Saturday, March 28th-PRIVATE PARTY

Sunday, March 29th-Kings And Queens Sunday, OM Lounge, 92 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA
(The New Old School: music from 1988-2003) Old School EVERYTHING! Neo-Soul, R&B, Hip-Hop, Reggae

Thursday, April 2nd-Hennessey Party with Melissa Ford, Tamboo Ultra Lounge, Brockton, MA
R&B, Old School, Hip-Hop, Reggae

Saturday, June 20th-18th Annual Out-Of-Bounds Harbor Cruise, Viking Starliner, 290 Northern Ave., Boston, MA (next to Bank of America Pavilion)
Hip-Hop, R&B, Reggae, Old School

Lost Classics #3 (Sunny Joe/Frankie Crocker Edition)

2009-03-11T09:35:00.008-04:00

This Lost Classics episode features songs from white artists that crossed over to black radio and clubs, or songs that black folks gigged to in the privacy of their own home. I know I did! This is dedicated to Sunny Joe White (WILD-AM & Kiss 108 Boston) and Frankie Crocker (WBLS New York). Rest in peace to both. They were the groundbreakers in the late 70s-early 80s who expanded what could be played on black radio, and helped give birth to the term "urban contemporary."

Let me know what songs you jammed to back in the day! Get your Carlton on!

Lost Classics (Sunny Joe/Frankie Crocker Edition)
Produced by "Big Chicago" Reggie Beas… The Old School Specialist
1. Listen To The Music - The Doobie Brothers
2. Saturday Night Fever - The Bee Gees
3. Miss You - The Rolling Stones
4. I Can't Go For That - Hall & Oates
5. Jeopardy - Greg Kihn Band
6. If You Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart
7. Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
8. Let's Dance - David Bowie
9. I'll Tumble For You - Culture Club
10. Stand Back (f/Stevie Nicks) - Fleetwood Mac
11. Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
12. Peg - Steely Dan
13. In The Name Of Love - Thompson Twins
14. Don't You Want Me Baby - The Human League
15. Every Breath You Take - The Police
16. Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
17. Pop Goes My Love - Freeez
18. Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra
19. All She Wants to Do is Dance - Don Henley
20. Saturday In The Park - Chicago
21. Obsession - Animation
22. I'm Your Boogie Man - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
23. Heart Of Glass - Blondie
24. Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
25. Slowride (Long Version) - Foghat
26. Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye - Stream

25Plus Podcast

2009-03-09T14:44:00.001-04:00

Kings And Queens Sundays Playlist-March 8th, 2009

2009-03-09T14:16:00.003-04:00

I'm back with another playlist! The buzz is so crazy about Kings And Queens Sundays. I thank everyone who has come out and supported the night or who have contacted me about the playlists or the podcasts. I want you to know you are greatly appreciated. You help me get even more excited about the night (and I'm already on times 10)!

I think what I want to start doing is having theme nights. I know there is a huge disco fanclub out there, so I would love to do a disco night. If you want to know what that would sound like, go to 25Plus.podOmatic.com and check out Kings And Queens Take 1 (Disco Nights). I would also like to do a 90s Hip-Hop and R&B theme night. I think that would be very very hot! And definitely for all my 80s babies, we need to take it there. I'm also toying with taking requests via Twitter live at the club. I don't know though… don't want to be cyber-stalked!

Let me know what you think about the theme nights, and also, if you have come to Kings And Queens Sundays, let me know what you think about the night in general… what we can do more of, what we can do better, etc. If you are feeling the night, please bring 2 friends with you the next time you come out! :-)

Kings And Queens Sundays-A New Soul Experience
Sundays from 6pm to 11pm

OM Restaurant & Lounge
92 Winthrop Street (Harvard Sq.), Cambridge, MA

Atmosphere provided by "Big Chicago" Reggie Beas

1. Jazzies Groove - Soul II Soul
2. I Don't Know Why (I Love You) - Brand New Heavies
3. I Found Love - C +C Music Factory
4. DJ Don't (Clean Extended f/Jaheim) - Gerald Levert
5. I Think I Love U - Dwele
6. Alice I Want You Just For Me - Full Force
7. Rescue Me - Al B. Sure
8. Hold You Tight - Tara Kemp
9. Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band
10. Curious - Midnight Star
11. Let's Go All The Way - The Whispers
12. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
13. Karma Vs. Superstition (f/Stevie Wonder) - Alicia Keys
14. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
15. I'm Only Human - The Human League
16. Pop Life - Prince
17. The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
18. Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang
19. Who Do You Love - Bernard Wright
20. Putting On The Ritz - Taco
21. La Isla Bonita - Madonna
22. Oops (Upside Your Head) - The Gap Band
23. Humpin - The Gap Band
24. Shake - The Gap Band
25. Outstanding (Extended Version) - The Gap Band
26. Heartbreak Hotel - The Jacksons
27. I Can't Help It - Michael Jackson
28. Human Nature - Michael Jackson
29. Mary Jane - Rick James
30. Make It Funky - James Brown
31. Mind Blowing Decisions - Heatwave
32. I Do Love You - GQ
33. Gotta Get You Home Tonight - Eugene Wilde
34. All This Love - DeBarge
35. Love's Train - Con Funk Shun
36. Dukey Stick - Bootsy Collins & George Duke
37. Reach For It - George Duke
38. What I Am - Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
39. For The Lover In You - Shalamar
40. Isn't She Lovely (Extended Version) - Stevie Wonder
41. Off The Wall - Michael Jackson
42. Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
43. Hot Shot - Karen Young
44. I Don't Want To Be A Freak - Dynasty
45. You're The One For Me - D Train
46. All Night Thing - Invisable Man Band
47. Ooh I Love It (Love Break) - Salsoul Orchestra
48. It Must Be Magic - Teena Marie
49. Beijo-Brazilian Rhyme (Kenny Dope Remix) - Earth Wind & Fire
50. Dancer Original 12' Mix - Gino Soccio
51. Ai No Corrida - Quincy Jones
52. Found A Cure - Ashford & Simpson
53. Baby Get's High - Peter Brown
54. The Magnificent Seven - The Clash
55. All I Do - Stevie Wonder
56. Spank - Jimmy 'Bo' Horn
57. Walking On Sunshine - Rockers Revenge
58. I'm Just A Sucker For Your Love (f/Rick James) - Teena Marie
59. Jam_On_The_Breaks -
60. Jam On It - Newcleus
61. The Breaks - Kurtis Blow
62. Magic's Wand (Classic Hip Hop) - Whodini
63. Boogie Down Bronx - Man Parrish
64. Description Of A Fool - A Tribe Called Quest
65. Running Away - Roy Ayers
66. Peg - Steely Dan
67. Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
68. Cherchez La Femme/Se Si Bon - Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
69. Treat Me Right - Chubb Rock
70. Apache - Sugar Hill Gang
71. Monie In The Middle - Monie Love
72. Do This My Way - Kid 'N Play
73. A Roller Skating Jam Called Saturdays - De La Soul
74. Peter Piper - Run DMC
75. Nasty Boy (Dirty) - The Notorious B.I.G.

Kings And Queens Sundays Playlist-March 1st, 2009

2009-03-09T13:55:00.001-04:00

I am so sorry about the mix up last week. We weren't checking the weather close enough and didn't realize there were two different snow storms last Sunday, and the window of opportunity was perfect for us to do our thing between 6pm and 11pm. This week we should be perfect, because Sunday will be in the 40s (a little rain, but nothing New Englanders can't handle).

This week we're keeping it rolling like before… yours truly spinning old school EVERYTHING, and the Band representing the Urban Music Awards making it real sophisticated. If you haven't made it out yet, come on through. I'm sure you will enjoy it!

Kings And Queens Sundays-A New Soul Experience
6pm to 11pm every Sunday
OM Restaurant & Lounge-92 Winthrop Street (Harvard Square)
Cambridge, MA
Atmosphere provided by "Big Chicago" Reggie Beas and the Band

1. Trans Europe Express (Long Version) - Kraftwerk
2. Chase (Theme from Midnight Express) (Original Mix) - Giorgio Moroder
3. Love Is The Message (Remix) - MFSB
4. Don't Make Me Wait (Original 12'' Dub Mix) - Peech Boys
5. Happy Music - The Blackbyrds
6. Let's Start The Dance - Bohannon
7. Glad To Know You - Chas Jankel
8. You Can't Hide Your Love (Larry Levan 12' Remix) - David joseph
9. Soul Makossa (Extended Version) - Manu Dibango
10. I Should Have Loved Ya - Narada Michael Walden
11. You Know How To Love Me - Phyllis Hyman
12. Running Away - Roy Ayers
13. Where Is The Love - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
14. Chain Of Fools - Aretha Franklin
15. Maybellene - Chuck Berry
16. Back In My Arms Again - The Supremes
17. When Will I See You Again - The Three Degrees
18. Tears Dry On Their Own - Amy Winehouse
19. Here I Am (Come and Take Me) - Al Green
20. Be Thankful For What You've Got - William DeVaughan
21. Wishing On A Star - Rose Royce
22. Something In The Way (You Make Me Feel) - Stephanie Mills
23. Joy - Blackstreet
24. If You Love Me - Brownstone
25. Turned Away - Chuckii Booker
26. Casanova (Extended Version) - Levert
27. Missing You - Soul II Soul
28. Can't Let Go -
29. Thank God It's Friday - R. Kelly
30. Sensitivity - Ralph Tresvant
31. Attention feat Raphael Saadiq - Kelis
32. Single Ladies (BeasWax Acappella) - Beyonce
33. Don't Look Any Further - Dennis Edwards
34. That's The Way Love Goes (Wicked Remix) - Janet Jackson
35. Valio La Pena - Marc Anthony
36. Hechicera - Oscar De Leon
37. I Need Your Lovin' - Teena Marie
38. Rock Creek Park - The Blackbyrds
39. Miss You - The Rolling Stones
40. I Can't Go For That - Hall & Oates
41. Jeopardy (Dance Mix) - Greg Kihn Band
42. If You Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart
43. Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
44. Lady Marmalade - Labelle
45. Street Life (LP Version f/Randy Crawford) - The Crusaders
46. Do I Do - Stevie Wonder
47. People Everyday - Arrested Development
48. Top Billin' - Audio Two
49. Sugar Hill (Clean) - AZ
50. Cha, Cha, Cha - MC Lyte
51. My Mic Sounds Nice - Salt 'N' Pepa
52. Devil's Pie - D'Angelo
53. Shining Star f/The Roots & Erykah Badu - D'Angelo
54. Spread Love - Take 6
55. Yearning For Your Love - Gap Band
56. I Can't Help It - Michael Jackson
57. Heaven Can Wait - Michael Jackson
58. Pop Life - Prince
59. Sexy Motherfucker (Dirty) - Prince
60. DMSR - Prince
61. 17 Days - Prince
62. Soft And Wet - Prince
63. I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince
64. Head - Prince
65. Controversy - Prince
66. If I Was Your Girlfriend - Prince
67. Raspberry Beret - Prince
68. 777-9311 - The Time
69. The Walk - The Time
70. Get It Up - The Time
71. Hold Tight ( Extended Version ) - Change
72. Paradise - Change
73. A Lover's Holiday (A Jim Burgess Mix) - Change
74. Chains (Extended) - Bionic Boogie
75. Risky Changes - Bionic Boogie
76. Hot Butterfly (12" f/Luther Vandross) - Bionic Boogie
77. Any Love - Luther Vandross
78. Bad Boy/Havin' A Party - Luther Vandross
79. We're Having A Party (Luther Vandross Bad Boy/Having A Party) - Sam Cooke
80. Cupid Draw Back Your Bow - Sam Cooke
81. Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke
82. Don't Know Much About History - Sam Cooke
83. Working On The Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
84. Sugar Pie Honey Bunch - The Temptations
85. The Way You Do The Things You Do - The Temptations
86. Ain't Too Proud to Beg - The Temptations
87. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations
88. Don't Mess With Bill - The Marvelettes
89. Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes
90. The Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
91. Love That Girl (So Sweet And Tender) - Raphael Saadiq
92. 100 Yard Dash - Raphael Saadiq

Kings And Queens Sundays Playlist-February 22nd, 2009

2009-03-09T13:51:00.001-04:00

Wow. My Kings And Queens Playlists are starting to become like crack. I'm sorry for coming out with this so late. No excuses, and no more talk… except for come support this Sunday! Even in the rain/snow/sleet/ice, we had a nice crowd last Sunday at OM. It's starting to become the Black Industry Night (big shouts to Sekou (First Fridays), Tito (Party With A Purpose), DJ Eight 2 (the other upscale DJ in town LOL).

Kings And Queens Sundays-A New Soul Experience
OM Restaurant and Lounge, 92 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA (Harvard Square)
Sundays from 6pm-11pm

1. It's Not Over - First Choice
2. All Night Thing - Invisable Man Band
3. Overnight Sensation - Jerry Knight
4. Off The Wall - Michael Jackson
5. You And I (Extended) - Rick James
6. Gotta Get My Hands On Some (Money) - The Fatback Band
7. Thighs High (Grip Your Hips And Move) - Tom Browne
8. Computer Games (12'' Mix) - Yellow Magic Orchestra
9. I Didn't Mean To Turn You On - Cherrelle
10. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
11. Bad Girls (Re-edit) - Donna Summer
12. Control - Janet Jackson
13. Stay With Me Tonight - Jeffrey Osborne
14. Holding On - L.T.D.
15. Let's Work (Extended Version) - Prince
16. Razzamatazz - Quincy Jones
17. Do You Love What You Feel? - Rufus & Chaka Khan
18. Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
19. What A Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers
20. That Lady (part 1 & 2) - The Isley Brothers
21. Chase Me - Con Funk Shun
22. The Boss - Diana Ross
23. Spring Affair - Donna Summer
24. Groove Line (Extended) - Heatwave
25. First True Love Affair - Jimmy Ross
26. Never Knew Love Like This f/Cherelle - Alexander O'Neal
27. Anything - Terry Dexter
28. Wreckless Love - Alicia Keys
29. Attention feat Raphael Saadiq - Kelis
30. Take Me Home - Sara Devine
31. Haven't You Heard - K. Fox
32. Single Ladies vs. Wall To Wall (BeasWax Blend) - "Big Chicago" Reggie Beas
33. Find A Way - Dwele
34. Hold On - En Vogue
35. That's The Way Love Goes (Wicked Remix) - Janet Jackson
36. Girl's Around The World (Acappella) - Lloyd
37. I'll Be Good To You - The Brothers Johnson
38. Don't Look Any Further - Dennis Edwards
39. Casanova (Extended Version) - Levert
40. Only You (Album) - 112
41. Georgy Porgy - Eric Benet
42. Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder) - Maxwell
43. Stay (f/Peedi Craak) - Ne-Yo
44. Thank God It's Friday - R. Kelly
45. Funky Sensation - Gwen McCrae
46. Heartbeat - Taana Gardner
47. Outstanding (Extended Version) - The Gap Band
48. Lovely Day - Bill Withers
49. I Like The Way (Kissing Game) - Hi-Five
50. Hey Mr. DJ - Zhane
51. One Night - After 7
52. Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
53. Don't Walk Away (With Intro) - Jade
54. Rump Shaker (Teddy Riley Remix) - Wreckx N Effect
55. I Thought It Was Me - Bell Biv Devoe
56. I Like - Guy
57. Gonna Make You Sweat - Keith Sweat
58. Rumors - Club Nouveau
59. Is It Good To You - Heavy D & The Boyz
60. Live and Learn - Joe Public
61. The 900 Number - Mark The 45 King
62. If I'm Not Your Lover (Remix f/Slick Rick) - Al B. Sure
63. Sex Machine - James Brown
64. Flash Light (12" version) - Parliament
65. Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers
66. Encore - Cheryl Lynn
67. Looking For A New Love - Jody Watley
68. Saturday Night Fever - The Bee Gees
69. Doin It (Dirty) - LL Cool J
70. The Boomin System (Remix) - LL Cool J
71. -
72. Buddy (12'' Remix) (Clean) f/Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah & Monie Love - A Tribe Called Quest
73. Hot Sex - A Tribe Called Quest
74. Award Tour (Dirty) - A Tribe Called Quest
75. Electric Relaxation (Dirty) - A Tribe Called Quest
76. Can I Kick It? - A Tribe Called Quest
77. Check The Rhime - A Tribe Called Quest
78. Bonita Applebum - A Tribe Called Quest
79. Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check (Dirty) - Busta Rhymes
80. Everybody Rise (Dirty) - Busta Rhymes
81. Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See (Clean) - Busta Rhymes
82. What It Is (Clean) - Busta Rhymes
83. Dangerous (Dirty) - Busta Rhymes
84. Uptown Anthem (Dirty) - Naughty By Nature
85. Time 4 Sum Aksion (Dirty) - Redman
86. Da Rockwilder (CLEAN) - Method Man & Redman
87. Staying Alive - Wyclef Jean
88. Stayin Alive - The Bee Gees
89. Brick House - The Commodores
90. Rapture - Blondie
91. All Around The World - Lisa Stansfield
92. Never Stop [extended remix] - Brand New Heavies
93. Back To Life (Extended) - Soul II Soul
94. You Stepped Into My Life - Melba Moore
95. Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) - Crystal Waters
96. Got A Love For You - Jomanda
97. Dirty Cash (Money talks) - Stevie V
98. Dance (Extended Version) - Earth People
99. Brighter Days (Goodies Mix f/Dajae) - Cajmere
100. French Kiss (original underground mix) - Lil Louis & The World
101. Salsa House - Richie Rich
102. 100% Pure Love - Crystal Waters
103. Baltimore Club Music - It's Time For The Perculator(1) -
104. Cha Cha Slide (perculator funkymix) - Mr. C The Slide Man
105. Funk Phenomenon - Armand Van Helden
106. With My Nikes On - Ron Carroll
107. Put Your Drinks Up (Clean f/Kardinal Offishall) - DJ Mad
108. Beggin' - Madcon
109. Party Life vs. Beggin (Dirty BeasWax Blend) - "Big Chicago" Reggie Beas
110. You Spin Me Round (Extended) - Dead Or Alive
111. Numbers (Komplete Version) - Kraftwerk
112. I'm Ready - Kano
113. Baltimore Club-Pick Em Up - Griff & Booman
114. I'm The Ish (Remix) (f/Jermaine Dupri & Trey Songz) - DJ Class
115. I Don't Need It (Prod. by Timbaland) - Jamie Foxx
116. Feels Good - Tony Toni Tone
117. Universal Mind Control (Dirty f/Pharrell) - Common
118. Go (Dirty) - Common
119. I Try f/Mary J. Blige - Talib Kweli
120. Rich Girl - Louchie Lou & Michie One
121. (Wanted Riddim) Wangsta & Wannabees - Elephant Man
122. Batty Rider - Buju Banton
123. nuff girls - sizzla
124. Heart Of Glass - Blondie
125. Feel The Spin - Debbie Harry
126. Hypnotic Tango (MOMMY TRACK) - My Mine
127. Visitors (MOMMY TRACK) - Koto
128. Los Ninos (MOMMY TRACK) -
129. Dirty Talk (MOMMY TRACK) -

Kings And Queens Sundays Playlist-February 15th, 2009

2009-03-09T13:45:00.000-04:00

I'm very flattered by all the attention given my playlists from Kings And Queen Sundays. I'm having so much fun playing great music and vibing with good people. Big shouts to Bruce Martin for coming through and introducing himself to me. I'm happy to meet anyone who likes what I do.

Got more stuff to say, but I'll save that for later. Here's this weeks playlist! See ya this Sunday at Kings And Queens Sundays.

Reggie Beas

Kings And Queens Sundays-A New Soul Experience
February 15, 2009
OM Lounge, 92 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA (Harvard Sq.)
Every Sunday from 6pm to 11pm

(the list is short this week because we had to stop at 10:15 for another party that was previously scheduled)

1. Lets Get it On - Marvin Gaye
2. Special Lady - Ray Goodman and Brown
3. Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson
4. Between The Sheets - The Isley Brothers
5. I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby - Barry White
6. Searchin' - Roy Ayers
7. Sexy Mama - The Moments
8. Computer Love - Zapp & Roger
9. I Wanna Be Down - Brandy
10. Love's Taken Over - Chante Moore
11. Love Rain (f/Mos Def) - Jill Scott
12. Take You Out - Luther Vandross
13. Can We Talk - Tevin Campbell
14. Sweet Love - Anita Baker
15. School Boy Crush (Microphone Fiend Beat) - Average White Band
16. Talkin Out The Side Of Your Neck - Cameo
17. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
18. Wonderwall - Oasis
19. I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen
20. How Do I Say - Usher
21. Stay With Me - DeBarge
22. Fantasy - Earth Wind & Fire
23. What I Am - Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
24. Midnight Train To Georgia' - Gladys Knight & The Pips
25. For The Lover In You - Shalamar
26. You Can't Turn Me Away (Get Money Beat) - Sylvia Striplin
27. Sweet Sticky Thing - The Ohio Players
28. Girl Callin - Chocolate Milk
29. Freddie's Dead - Curtis Mayfield
30. Shining Star f/The Roots & Erykah Badu - D'Angelo
31. This Masquerade - George Benson
32. Yearning For Your Love - Gap Band
33. Hot Butterfly - Chaka Khan
34. (7) I Feel Fine - The Beatles
35. Stitched Up f/John Mayer - Herbie Hancock
36. Pieces of Me - Rare Essence
37. Loose Booty - Junkyard Band
38. Go Down Baby - Rare Essence
39. Twenty Minute Work-Out [Remix] - DJ Kool
40. Back and Forth - Aaliyah
41. The Hunger (Album) - Eric Benet
42. Gotta Get You Home Tonight - Eugene Wilde
43. Rising To The Top - Keni Burke
44. Love No Limit - Mary J. Blige
45. I Want To Do Something Freaky To You - Leon Haywood
46. The Tracks Of My Tears - The Miracles
47. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
48. Just The Two Of Us W Bill Withers - Grover Washington, Jr.
49. Want Ads - Honey Cone
50. I Keep Forgetting - Michael McDonald
51. Love to love you baby - Donna Summer
52. Funky Sensation - Gwen McCrae
53. Heartbeat - Taana Gardner
54. Outstanding (Extended Version) - The Gap Band
55. What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin' - Stephanie Mills
56. I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby - Kid Creole & the Coconuts
57. Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown
58. Shake Your Thang - Salt 'N' Pepa
59. Sucka MC's - Run DMC
60. Children's Story - Slick Rick
61. I Know You Got Soul - Eric B and Rakim
62. How You Like Me Now (album mix) - Kool Moe Dee
63. I Got A Man - Positive K
64. I Thought It Was Me - Bell Biv Devoe
65. Keep On Walkin' - Ce Ce Peniston
66. Gettin' Funky - Kid 'N Play
67. Looking At The Front Door - Main Source
68. Feels So Good (Dirty) - Mase
69. So Whatcha Sayin - EPMD
70. Sex Wit You - Heavy D & The Boyz
71. You Know What's Up (Dirty f/Left Eye) - Donell Jones
72. Don't Walk Away (With Intro) - Jade
73. Fantasy f/Old Dirty Bastard - Mariah Carey
74. Love @ 1st Sight Feat. Method Man - Mary J. Blige
75. Groove Thang - Zhane
76. Looking Up For You (Hey Mr. DJ) - Michael Wycoff
77. Hey Mr. DJ - Zhane
78. Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen
79. I'm (Just) A Sucker For Your Love - Teena Marie
80. Blame It On The Boogie - The Jacksons
81. And The Beat Goes On - The Whispers
82. Saturday Love (f/Alexander O'Neal) - Cherrelle
83. I'll Do Anything For You - Denroy Morgan
84. Love Come Down - Evelyn "Champagne" King
85. Rock With You - Michael Jackson
86. I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince
87. Let's Start The Dance - Bohannon
88. Cherchez La Femme/Se Si Bon - Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
89. Sooner Or Later - Larry Graham
90. Running Away - Roy Ayers
91. Must Be The Music (Original) - Secret Weapon
92. Fight The Power - The Isley Brothers
93. One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic
94. Treat Me Right - Chubb Rock
95. Do This My Way - Kid 'N Play
96. Strobelight Honey - Black Sheep
97. It Takes Two (Wicked Mix) - Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
98. The Breaks - Kurtis Blow
99. We Got Our Own Thang - Heavy D & The Boyz
100. Me Myself and I - De La Soul
101. Poison - Bell Biv Devoe
102. Jingling Baby (marley marl remix) - LL Cool J
103. Fast Lane - Bilal

Kings And Queens Sundays Playlist-February 8th, 2009

2009-03-09T13:44:00.000-04:00

It is 2:50 in the morning, I just got home from spinning for 7 (yes, SEVEN) hours at my night, Kings And Queens Sundays, and I am so hyped! I have to say this is the most fun I've had spinning since my 20 year college reunion party I spun at Oberlin College last year. You have to check the playlist, because you will not believe some of the stuff I played.

And the coolest thing that happened was that around 11:30 a private party came to the club. Our targeted crowd was still there, but starting to thin out, so I started playing songs that were crossover songs… songs Black folks know, but don't want anyone to know that they know! David Bowie, Culture Club, J. Geils Band, Madonna… then I decided I have another 30 minutes, so let's go all out with the Dance stuff.

There are only about 3 DJs in Boston that I know of that can go that deep, for that long, and keep everybody in the building happy, and can still flip it and play all current and new music… Chubby Chub, Gee Spin, myself. And what's crazy is I only repeated about 20-25% of the songs from last week! Not to mention that most of the stuff from my Lost Classics podcast I did NOT play (25Plus.podOmatic.com).

Enough talking… I need to go to bed! I did record half the night, so I'll be posting the mixes up tomorrow. In the meantime, here is the playlist! The Valentine's Day Edition of Kings And Queens Sunday is in full effect… make your plans now to be there. OM Lounge, 92 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA (Harvard Square) 6pm until whenever the hell we feel like leaving!

Reggie Beas

1. Tonight Is The Night - Betty Wright
2. Summer Rain - Carl Thomas
3. Games - Chuckii Booker
4. Love's Train - Con Funk Shun
5. I Adore You - Caron Wheeler
6. Find A Way - Dwele
7. Hold On - En Vogue
8. Mister Magic - Grover Washington, Jr.
9. Living For The Love Of You - Isley Brothers
10. I'm Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair) 12''Rmx - Inner Life f/Jocelyn Brown
11. Back Together Again (f/Donny Hathaway) - Roberta Flack
12. Give Me The Night - George Benson
13. Single Life - Cameo
14. (Everytime I Turn Around) Back In Love Again - L.T.D.
15. I'm Dreamin' - Christopher Williams
16. The Rain - Oran "Juice" Jones
17. Spotlight - Jennifer Hudson
18. Magic (CLEAN) - Robin Thicke
19. Shine - Luther Vandross
20. I Wasn't Kidding (Clean) - Angie Stone
21. Gimme (Give Me) - Jill Scott
22. Bust Your Windows - Jazmine Sullivan
23. Green Light - Beyonce
24. Don't Mess With My Man - Lucy Pearl
25. Betcha'll Never Find - Chantay Savage
26. After Party (Dirty) - Koffee Brown
27. Don't Talk (Clean) - Jon B
28. Keep On Walkin' - Ce Ce Peniston
29. I Like The Way (Kissing Game) - Hi-Five
30. Groove Thang - Zhane
31. Boogie 2Nite - Tweet
32. Good Time (Pete Rock Remix) - Leela James
33. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
34. Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
35. I Wish - Stevie Wonder
36. That Girl - Stevie Wonder
37. As (Always) - Stevie Wonder
38. Before I Let You Go - Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly
39. Cutie Pie - One Way
40. Dazz - Brick
41. More Bounce To The Ounce - Zapp & Roger
42. Flash Light (12" version) - Parliament
43. Funkin' For Jamaica - Tom Browne
44. Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers
45. (Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love - L.T.D.
46. Never Too Much - Luther Vandross
47. Candy - Cameo
48. Set It Off - Strafe
49. Hot Music - Soho
50. Can You Feel It (Martin Luther King Jr. Remix) - Mr. Fingers
51. Just Fine - Mary J. Blige
52. Lettin Go - Janelle Monáe
53. Love That Girl (So Sweet And Tender) - Raphael Saadiq
54. Suavemente - Elvis Crespo
55. Teddy's Jam - Guy
56. Groove Me - Guy
57. I Like - Guy
58. I Want Her - Keith Sweat
59. Remember The Time - Michael Jackson
60. Slide - Slave f/Steve Arrington
61. Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll - Vaughn Mason
62. Good Times (Extended Version) - Chic
63. We Are Family - Sister Sledge
64. All I Do - Stevie Wonder
65. Nasty Girl - Vanity 6
66. Erotic City (DIRTY) - Prince
67. The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.
68. Oh Sheila - Ready For The World
69. The Bird - The Time
70. There But For The Grace Of God (Extended Mix) - Machine
71. Super Freak - Rick James
72. Shake Your Pants - Cameo
73. Cha Cha Slide (perculator funkymix) - Mr. C The Slide Man
74. Cupid Shuffle (Clean Remix ft. DJ UNK, Fabo) - Cupid
75. Award Tour (Dirty) - A Tribe Called Quest
76. Check The Rhime - A Tribe Called Quest
77. Can I Kick It? - A Tribe Called Quest
78. Hot Sex - A Tribe Called Quest
79. Buddy (12'' Remix) (Clean) f/Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah & Monie Love - A Tribe Called Quest
80. Scenario (Dirty-Quick Edit At End) - A Tribe Called Quest
81. Life (Is What You Make It) - Frighty & Colonel Mite
82. Old Dog (Stink Riddim) - Beenie Man
83. Walk Like A Champion - Buju Banton
84. (punany riddim) Hot Gal Today f/Mr. Vegas - Sean Paul
85. (PUNANY RIDDIM) Caan Dun - Shabba Ranks
86. Dickie - Buju Banton
87. Memories - Beenie Man
88. Pose Off Riddim - Hot This Year - Dirtsman
89. Twice My Age f/Krystal - Shabba Ranks
90. Action - Terror Fabulous (Featuring Nadine Salinger)
91. Murder She Wrote - Chaka Demus & Pliers
92. Bam Bam - Pliers
93. Doin It (Dirty) - LL Cool J
94. One More Chance (Remix) - The Notorious B.I.G.
95. Summertime (dj jazzy jeff's mix) - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
96. You're All I Need f/Mary J Blige - Method Man
97. Step In The Name Of Love (Short Version) - R. Kelly
98. The Payback - James Brown
99. I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers
100. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
101. Sensitivity - Ralph Tresvant
102. If It Isn't Love - New Edition
103. Candy Girl - New Edition
104. Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
105. Don't Be Cruel - Bobby Brown
106. Do Me - Bell Biv Devoe
107. Rub You The Right Way (Remix f/CL Smooth) - Johnny Gill
108. Just Got Paid (Friday Night) - Johnny Kemp
109. The Breaks - Kurtis Blow
110. It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
111. Me Myself and I - De La Soul
112. C'mon Baby f/The Flip Squad - FunkMaster Flex
113. Treat Me Right - Chubb Rock
114. Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody - Kid N' Play
115. Rock With You - Michael Jackson
116. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
117. Don't Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
118. Wanna Be Starting Something - Michael Jackson
119. Follow Me - Aly-Us
120. Making Happy (12'' Mix) - Crystal Waters
121. Brighter Days (Goodies Mix f/Dajae) - Cajmere
122. You Used To Salsa (12'' Mix) - Ralphi Rosario f/Xavier Gold
123. beyonce-ft-jay-z-single-ladies-mickboogiemix -
124. I Just Want To Love You (Give It 2 Me) (Clean) - Jay-Z
125. Freaks (f/Doug E. Fresh) - Lil Vicious
126. Take it Easy - Mad Lion
127. Tour (Remix) - Capleton
128. Ghetto Red Hot (Reggae remix) - Super Cat
129. They Want EFX (Original) - Das EFX
130. Don't Believe The Hype - Public Enemy
131. Rock Dis Funky Joint - Poor Righteous Teachers
132. Nobody Beats Tha Biz - Biz Markie
133. Flavor Of The Month - Black Sheep
134. Anything (Old Skool Remix) f/Wu Tang Clan - SWV
135. Real Love (Remix f/The Notorious B.I.G.) - Mary J. Blige
136. Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli
137. You Gots to Chill - EPMD
138. Dwyck (Dirty) Feat. Nice & Smooth - Gang Starr
139. I Know You Got Soul - Eric B and Rakim
140. Peter Piper - Run DMC
141. Jingling Baby (marley marl remix) - LL Cool J
142. Ownlee Eue - Kwame'
143. Let The Beat Hit 'Em (Ultimix) - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
144. Best Of My Love - Emotions
145. Lady Marmalade - Labelle
146. I'm Every Woman - Chaka Kahn
147. I'll Tumble For You - Culture Club
148. Let's Dance - David Bowie
149. Centerfold - J. Geils Band
150. If You Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart
151. Breakout - Swing Out Sister
152. Heart Of Glass - Blondie
153. She's A Bad Mama Jama - Carl Carlton
154. Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen
155. Deacon Blues - Steely Dan
156. Stand Back (f/Stevie Nicks) - Fleetwood Mac
157. Let The Music Play - Shannon
158. Material Girl - Madonna
159. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
160. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
161. Would I Lie To You? - Eurythmics
162. Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix) - Kid Cudi
163. Beggin' - Madcon
164. Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now) - Bob Sinclair
165. Lady Gaga vs. Rihanna - Just Disturbia - Lady Gaga & Rhianna
166. Disturbia - Rihanna
167. Sweet Dreams RAVE (Techno Remix) - Eurythmics
168. Low (Clean) - Flo Rida
169. Move Shake Drop (Remix) - DJ Laz
170. I'm the Ish (Dirty) - DJ Class

Kings And Queens Sundays Playlist-February 1st, 2009

2009-03-09T13:39:00.001-04:00

Kings And Queens Sundays-A New Soul Experience
OM Lounge, 92 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA (Harvard Square)

Atmosphere by "Big Chicago" Reggie Beas
Sunday, February 1st, 2009 Playlist

1. Jill Scott - Gimme (Give Me)
2. Chantay Savage - Betcha'll Never Find
3. Jon B - Don't Talk (Clean)
4. Ce Ce Peniston - Keep On Walkin'
5. C +C Music Factory - I Found Love
6. Ideal - Whatever
7. Mary J. Blige - Never Too Much
8. The Spinners - Could It Be I'm Falling In Love (Henry Street Mix)
9. Boxie - Let Me Show You (Clean f/Juelz Santana)
10. Caron Wheeler - Livin' In The Light (David Morales Mix)
11. Donell Jones - You Know What's Up (Dirty f/Left Eye)
12. Jade - Don't Walk Away (With Intro)
13. Leela James - Good Time (Pete Rock Remix)
14. Stephanie Mills - What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'
15. The Isley Brothers - Living For The Love Of You
16. Stevie Wonder - As (Always)
17. The Blackbyrds - Fallin' Like Dominoes
18. Zhane - Groove Thang
19. Hi-Five - I Like The Way (Kissing Game)
20. Portrait - Honey Dip
21. Sounds Of Blackness - Optimistic
22. Koffee Brown - After Party (Dirty)
23. Brandy - Full Moon
24. God's Property - Stomp
25. Lucy Pearl - Don't Mess With My Man
26. Ralph Tresvant - Stone Cold Gentleman (ft. Bobby Brown)
27. Jazmine Sullivan - Bust Your Windows
28. Angie Stone - I Wasn't Kidding (Clean)
29. Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent
30. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
31. Michael Jackson - Remember The Time
32. Robin Thicke - Magic (NYC Remix Radio Edit feat. Mary J. Blige)
33. Slave f/Steve Arrington - Just A Touch (MAW Mix)
34. Sunshine Anderson - Heard It All Before
35. Ruff Endz - No More
36. Ralph Tresvant - Sensitivity
37. R. Kelly - Red Carpet (Pause, Flash) (Album Version)
38. Mary J. Blige - Enough Cryin'
39. Kelis - Attention feat Raphael Saadiq
40. Gwen McCrae - Funky Sensation (MAW Mix)
41. Zhane - Hey Mr. DJ
42. Musiq - Givemorelove/Leaveamessage
43. Jaheim - Just In Case
44. Bernard Wright - Who Do You Love
45. 112 - Only You (Album)
46. Trey Songz - Can't Help But Wait
47. Robin Thicke F. Faith Evans - Got 2 Be Down (Main)
48. Robin Thicke F. Faith Evans - Got 2 Be Down (Instrumental)
49. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (Acappella)
50. Rick James - Mary Jane
51. The Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing
52. The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There
53. Dennis Edwards - Don't Look Any Further
54. Leon Haywood - I Want To Do Something Freaky To You
55. Al Green - Let's Stay Together
56. Honey Cone - Want Ads
57. O'Jays - Money (Extended)
58. James Brown - Hot Pants
59. Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel
60. Aaron Hall - Don't Be Afraid (Juice Soundtrack)
61. Entouch - II Hype
62. The Gap Band - Outstanding
63. Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World
64. Mel Waiters - Got My Whiskey
65. Line Dance/Stomps - The Mississippi Slide (Back It Up) Remix
66. Cupid - Cupid Shuffle (Clean Remix ft. DJ UNK, Fabo)
67. Shabba Ranks - Ting-A-Ling (Classic)
68. Panhead - Punny Printer (Classic)
69. Mr. Vegas - Heads High (Kill'Em With It Remix) (Classic) Filthy Riddim
70. Degree - Traffic Blocking (Remix) (Classic)
71. Cutty Ranks - A Who Seh Me Dun (Classic)
72. Beenie Man - (Filthy Riddim) Let Him Go (Classic)
73. Terror Fabulous (Featuring Nadine Salinger) - Action (Classic)
74. Shabba Ranks - Twice My Age f/Krystal (Classic)
75. Beenie Man - Memories (Classic)
76. Beenie Man - Romie (Classic)
77. Beenie Man - Old Dog (Stink Riddim) (Classic)
78. Beenie Man - Who Am I (Classic)
79. Frighty & Colonel Mite - Life (Is What You Make It) (Classic)
80. Capleton - Slew Dem (Classic)
81. Tenor Saw - Ring The Alarm (Classic)
82. Shabba Ranks - Wicked In Bed (Classic)
83. Sister Nancy - Bam Bam (Classic)
84. Junior Reid - One Blood (Classic)
85. Lady Saw - Sorry (Reggae Mix) Classic
86. JC Lodge - Telephone Love (Classic)
87. Dawn Penn - You don't love me (no no no)
88. Buju Banton - Boom Bye Bye (Classic)
89. Mad Cobra - Flex (Classic)
90. Blackstreet - Before I Let You Go
91. Silk - Freak Me
92. Jodeci - Freakin'
93. SWV - Weak
94. H-Town - Knockin' Da Boots
95. Boyz II Men - Uhh Ahh
96. 112 - Anywhere
97. Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly - Before I Let You Go
98. Zapp & Roger - More Bounce To The Ounce
99. Brick - Dazz
100. Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
101. Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
102. The Parliment Funkadelics - We Got The Funk
103. Parliament - Flash Light (12" version)
104. Funkadelic - (Not Just) Knee Deep, Funkadelic
105. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
106. Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage
107. Rick James - You And I (Extended)
108. Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Starting Something
109. Aly-Us - Follow Me
110. Ce Ce Peniston - Finally (Extended Classic Club Mix)
111. Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)
112. Jomanda - Got A Love For You
113. Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl
114. Cameo - Candy
115. Prince - Kiss
116. Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
117. Prince - Soft And Wet
118. The Time - 777-9311
119. Sheila E. - The Glamourous Life
120. Ready For The World - Oh Sheila
121. Kano - I'm Ready
122. Salt-N-Pepa - Push It (Extended)
123. Tag Team - Whoop There It Is
124. 69 Boyz - Tootsee Roll
125. 95 South - Whoot There It Is
126. 95 South - Dazzy Dukes
127. Luke Skywalker - Doo Doo Brown
128. Queen Latifah - UNITY
129. TLC - No Scrubs (Dirty)
130. Dru Hill - Sleeping In My Bed (Clean remix)
131. SWV - Right Here (Human Nature Remix f/Michael Jackson)
132. 112 - Only You (Bad Boy Remix) (DIRTY) f/The Notorious B.I.G., Mase
133. A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour (Dirty)
134. Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear (Dirty)
135. The D.O.C. - It's Funky Enough
136. The Notorious B.I.G. - Kick In The Door
137. The Notorious B.I.G. - One More Chance (Remix)
138. The Notorious B.I.G. - One More Chance (Original)
139. The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize (Dirty)
140. Junior M.A.F.I.A. - Get Money (Dirty) f/Lil' Kim & The Notorious B.I.G.
141. The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy (Clean)
142. Mary J. Blige - Real Love (Remix f/The Notorious B.I.G.)
143. Jay-Z - I Just Want To Love You (Give It 2 Me) (Clean)
144. Jay-Z - La, La, La (Excuse Me Miss Again) (Dirty)
145. Jay-Z - Ain't No Nigga (Clean f/Foxy Brown)
146. LL Cool J - Doin It (Dirty)
147. LL Cool J - Around The Way Girl
148. LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
149. MC Breed - Ain't No Future In Your Frontin' (Clean)
150. Khia - My Neck My Back (Clean)
151. EPMD - So Whatcha Sayin
152. EPMD - You Gots to Chill
153. Eric B and Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
154. Wreckx N Effect - Rump Shaker (Teddy Riley Remix)
155. Positive K - I Got A Man
156. Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It (f/Slick Rick)
157. Slick Rick - Children's Story
158. Slick Rick - Mona Lisa
159. Mark The 45 King - The 900 Number
160. TLC - What About Your Frineds
161. Jody Watley - Looking For A New Love
162. Kool & The Gang - Ladies Night
163. Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
164. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
165. LTD Featuring Jeffrey Osbornec - (Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love
166. People's Choice - Do It Any Way You Wanna
167. Salsoul Orchestra - Runaway f/Loleatta Holloway
168. The Bar-Kays - Let's Have Some Fun
169. Instant Funk - I Got My Mind Made Up
170. Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
171. Matthew Wilder - Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
172. Salsoul Orchestra - The Hustle
173. The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park
174. Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That
175. Lyn Collins - Think (About It)
176. James Brown - Doing It To Death (with Intro)
177. James Brown - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
178. James Brown - Super Bad, Part 1
179. James Brown - I Got The Feelin

Living A "What's Now" Life

2009-01-27T14:56:00.004-05:00

Don't get the title wrong. It's not a "woe is me" mentality. A "What's Now" life is about living confidently and happily in the present, rather than always being dissatisfied with the present and looking for what's next. "When I get that new car, I'm going to be happy." "When I get that new job, I'm going to be happy." "When I get that bag of weed, I'm going to be happy." :-) (I don't smoke anything, but you know what I mean).

Many of my problems have been because I'm thinking the grass is greener on the other side, and I didn't appreciate what was in front of me. Ever since I moved to Boston in 1988 until I moved to Dayton, Ohio in 2006, I wanted to leave! I kept looking at NYC, Chi, ATL, DC, MIA, and dreaming of making moves. I sabotaged relationships because I didn't want to bring them with me if I ever got out. I didn't upgrade my life in Boston because I felt when I move, I'll upgrade then. But my life was in a holding pattern because I was looking at things outside my circumstances to make me happy.

Now that I'm back in Boston, "What's Now" is my mantra. Yes, technically I'm still striving for a better future, and it doesn't mean I don't have goals, but I'm not mad about my present like I was. Before it was "yes, I'm an on-air personality, but I want to be a program director." "Yes, I'm doing parties, but I want an every week gig." "Yes, this woman who works as a makeup person is cool, but I want the woman who is an executive." I wasn't appreciative of where I was, who I was with or how far I had come, and I put extra stress on myself because I felt I wasn't progressing fast enough.

"What's Now" means "how am I going to maximize my current situation." "What's Now" means loving the space I'm in right now. "What's Now" means striving for the future without worrying about the future. "What's Now" means making each today count. "What's Now" means giving 110%. Finally, "What's Now" means no more allowing my past to affect my present, no more allowing what I hope to have affect my feelings on what I do have, no more allowing outside circumstances to affect my inner being.

So now I'm happy to be back in Boston, even though many people want to leave. I love the fact my podcasts are being download all over the world. I'm appreciative of having a great friend who allowed me to move into his house when my previous roommate situation fell through. I'm glad to have promoters, club & restaurant owners, websites and venture capitalists reaching out to me because of who I am as a DJ and a brand name in the Boston area. I'm thankful for the chance to have good times with great women, and take it for what it's worth, not feeling like "this is moving too slow" or "I want to be more than friends." I'm grateful for the spirituality I have gained in the last 8 months. And as long as I'm maximizing my potential each day, I know greatness will be blessed upon me. I don't have to worry about what's next… the universe will provide what's next!

Defining My Reality… What I Want… Specifically

2009-01-05T12:09:00.003-05:00

So it's 2009. Everyone has their resolutions to do "whatever," and most people are going to look up New Years Day 2010 and say "damn! I didn't reach my goals in 2009. Guess I'll try it again this year." I'm no better. I stopped doing resolutions… no, that's not true. My resolution every year for the past 4 years has been to "be better than I was last year." Since I define it any way I want to, I can always be better than I was last year.

2008 was VERY challenging. A failed radio job search. Stuck in a city that didn't fully appreciate me. Lonely and alone. But 2008 was very enlightening also. I learned how to be a nightclub promoter. I rededicated myself to my graphic design career. I launched very successful podcasts. And I moved back to Boston, which I consider my home. The Secret, The Success Principles and Joel Osteen's podcasts have had an immeasurable impact on me.

So this year will be different. I was reading an article on www.finerminds.com and they asked the question "what would your ideal life look like if you had no limitations?" Now I've been working on that question sorta kinda in my head for the past year. I've even written down what I've come up with. But I haven't publicized it for the world to hear (or to see, as the case may be). It's very, very scary to let people know what your innermost dreams are. Society loves nothing better than to tear down your ideas before you can make them a reality.

The one thing I learned in 2008 is to believe in my dreams 1000 percent. Believe in them with all the passion I can muster. Visualize myself in my dreams. I meditate about my dreams. They are the last thing I think about when I go to sleep and the first thing I think about when I wake up. Pessimists say "just thinking about your dreams don't make them true." And I say you're right. Realists say "dreams are cool, but you have to make goals and plans to make things happen." I say you're right also. Optimists say "preach on, my brother!" And I say, I will! ;-)

Here is the magic elixir, the red pill, the fairy dust that accelerates your life 10 fold: when you obsess over your dreams, your mind goes into overdrive, and brilliant ideas come into your head that help you attain your dreams much faster than you ever thought possible. But you must listen to yourself and write down your ideas as soon as you get them. How many times have you had a great idea, told yourself to remember it… and you forget it?

So here is my reality that I am creating for myself, based on the question "what would your ideal life look like if you had no limitations?"

First of all, I have 3 mantras I base my thoughts around.

Live great, dress great, drive great, look great, eat great, work great, with a great woman in my life.

I will be in the right place, at the right time, and meet the right people who will help move my life forward.

I don't need to know all the steps, I only need to know the next step, and I trust that next step will be in the direction of my goals.

Live great: I live in a one bedroom apartment with a space where I can set up my studio without bothering my neighbors. I have artwork on the walls, a flat screen HD TV on an elegant TV stand, surround sound stereo, a nice dining room table, a coffee table that goes with my couch and love seat, and a queen-size bed and dresser set that compliments my bedroom.

Dress great: my favorite place to shop is Rochester Big & Tall. My style is pretty fly for a big guy :-), so my hats, glasses, sunglasses, dress shirts, t-shirts, pants, jeans, shorts, dress shoes, casual shoes and gym shoes (sneakers) are all on point. My suits look like a million bucks, and my ties have to pop! I have all my dress shirts tailored so they show off the athletic build of my body.

Drive great: the 2009 Black Buick Enclave is my ride! I saw it when it first came out a year and a half ago. I was in a parking lot outside Boutique, a club in Near North Chicago, and this dude was parked waiting for someone. I was so enthralled over it, I went over and asked him questions about it. "How do you like it?" "How long have you had it?" "Would you recommend it?" From that point on I was hooked. You can have your BMW's, Mercedes', Porsche's, Audi's, Lexus' or Infiniti's. I've got my Buick Enclave! For my short trips and just to let the wind blow through my hair (LOL), the Suzuki Burgman 650 is my choice. Yes, it is a scooter, but it goes over 100 mph (not that I would ever go that fast, wink, wink). Another one of those vehicles that when I saw it, I was instantly hooked.

Look great: I am blessed with a nice body. I really can not complain. I have great height; great posture; I don't have much of a belly; and my weight is proportionate to my height. But I still need to hit the gym and ride my bike because I like it when a woman rubs my stomach and goes "mmmmmm." I love it when a woman touches my arm and goes "ohhhh, okay." And it feels great when a woman grabs my ass and says "damn, that's nice!" LOL

Eat great: I love my smoothies! I blend strawberries, bananas, ice, orange juice, plain yogurt, uncooked oatmeal, peanut butter, honey and whey protein together. It sounds crazy, but it tastes great! I love cooking, because all it is is following recipes. I'm happy that many healthy foods I naturally love. Yes I do have a fast food weakness, and I'm back in Boston where my favorite restaurants are (Wing-It, Fajitas and Ritas, and Outback Steakhouse among them). But as long as I'm cooking, I can limit the restaurants until I'm out on a date (or I can just cook for my date).

I'm going to leave work great for last.

With a great woman in my life: I'm excited to be back in Boston because the class of women here are better than most other cities in the country. Courting a lady is one of my pleasures in life. And the women I meet love me for who I am, the way I am, and appreciate the nuances I bring to the table. I'm no Denzel, Morris or Boris, but I'm not the dog-faced boy either! :-) Meeting women is very easy for me, but the one I'm going to bring home to mother? There can only be one. Our love is mutual; I love her just as much as she loves me; her giving 100% and I'm only giving 85%, or vice versa ain't going to cut it. Yes, I'm too picky… because I'm looking for the woman I can spend the next 60 years with, not just the next 60 minutes.

And finally, work great: working in radio and nightclubs in Dayton, Ohio, proved one thing: I can do this anywhere! I'm not saying I didn't fail, because I fell on my ass numerous times. But my radio show was #1 in the market the entire time I was there. My radio station that I programmed was #1 in the market the entire time I was there. Dayton had no upscale Urban nights before I came; I either helped create, promote or spun at 7 different weekly/monthly upscale events in my 2 years there. So now it is time to solidify my standing in the Boston area and also to take my act on the road.

I have thousands of subscribers to my podcasts around the world; that proves I'm not just a local DJ. San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Miami, Tampa, Charlotte, Atlanta, DC, New York, Hartford, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis… I'm coming to your town! Black, White, Latin, Asian… I got you! Hip-Hop, Top-40, Dancehall, R&B, Dance, Rock, Neo-Soul, Old School, House, Freestyle, Classics, Dirty South, Slow Jams… "Mr. I Do It All" is here!

Woo… got a little full of myself there. Let's just say I'm a national touring DJ that rocks parties for people 18 to 80. My company, The Reggie Beas Entertainment Company, creates, promotes and executes upscale events around the New England area, helping good people meet other good people. My graphic design company, Reggie Beas Designs…, creates flyers, business cards, posters, jock cards, brochures, newsletters and magazines. I have an internet radio show, The Reggie Beas Show on Downtime Radio, that takes listeners on a musical ride through the 70s, 80s, 90s & today. I have multiple promotional podcasts that hit upon different facets of my DJ personality. 25Plus is radio-edited R&B and Hip-Hop for the sophisticated Urban crowd; Advanced Dance Therapy features Top-40, Hip-Hop and Dance; Reggie Beas is R&B, Hip-Hop and Dancehall for the 18-30 set; NYChi features Deep House, Garage and Underground Disco Classics; and Sky Lounge is my live sets from around the globe. And I write this blog 3 to 4 times a week. I write a Serato/DJing blog… it will not teach you how to spin, it will teach you how to spin better and use Serato effectively.

The ultimate goal is branding my name so when you are looking for a DJ, graphic designer, radio personality, writer or mentor, Reggie Beas is the name you think of first.

This is my ideal life. Making money from multiple sources doing what I love to do while living life to my fullest.

Serato & 15,000 Songs Doesn't Make You A DJ! (Comment on Radio Facts blog post-click this headline to read original post)

2008-12-20T11:18:00.003-05:00

The problem with the statement "anybody can DJ a party now" is that assumes spinning is no more than slapping songs on any ole kind of way. Yes, playing the right music for your crowd is the most important thing. But matching beats, smooth transitions, scratching to accentuate the song, not just for show because "you're a Hip-Hop DJ," bringing in the right song at the right moment to hype up the crowd, knowing more than one genre of music… it's becoming a lost art.

Unfortunately, the standards for DJing has dropped, not only in the minds of promoters and club managers, but in the minds of club goers. Train wrecks don't make people snap their necks looking at the DJ booth. Cutting songs off in the middle of a verse doesn't prompt a collective groan from the dance floor. Galloping beats don't make the crowd walk off the floor in disgust.

I'm not some old school DJ that is still slepping around crates of records. I am a very proud Serato and Macintosh user who teaches other DJs how to use Serato properly. But spinning is more than "I have 15,000 of my favorite songs in my computer. I'm a DJ." What happens when your carefully premade playlists and mixes bomb completely, and you're left with hundreds of people waiting for you to make them dance? If you haven't mastered "transitions and matching beats from song to song on the fly," memorizing the songs so you can get the party jumping again, the crowd is going to leave thinking you are wack.

DJing is reading and reacting to your crowd, playing that perfect song to take the mood higher, reaching back for those classics (or dusties as my hometown of Chicago would say) that make the crowd throw their hands in the air, taking them on a musical ride that leaves them breathless and sweaty at the end. I don't want my crowd to say, "the music was good. Who was the DJ?" I want my crowd to say, "damn! Big Chicago put it down tonight! Where is he going to be next?"

Ban Wack DJs: Hiring "DJ WTF" For Cheap Loses You Money And Wrecks Your Reputation

2008-12-19T04:28:00.012-05:00

Listen up: you can not have a great club night without paying a great DJ. Okay… that's not exactly true. You can have a great club night if you consistently attract A & B-List celebrities, athletes, models and 10s to your events. Other than that? You need a great DJ to create a great club night.

Chubby Chub made Tuesdays at Aria hot for 2 years. DJ Buck made Fridays at Jovans hot for 7 years. Ron Steele made Saturdays at Vertigo hot for 5 years. I made the DancePlex on Saturdays hot for 3 years. Back in the day, Jammin' Gee-Clef made Fridays at the Officers Club hot for 3 years. Kevin Lawyer made Thursdays at the Harbor Club hot for 2 years. Ron Boston made The Gallery hot for 2 years.

The common denominator? Each DJ was the only DJ for that night (no rotating DJs… what I call DJ Roulette). Each DJ consistently played the hottest music, kept the dance floor packed, and created anticipation for the next week. And each DJ was the highest paid DJ at the club (or in the city, in Chub, Buck and Gee-Clef's cases).

Why do top DJs charge so much? Because they know their value to a promoter or club. Their name on a promoter's flyer legitimizes the night. They have a track record of success in many different clubs, with many different promoters, with many different crowds. They can make 10 people or 1000 people have a great time. And they never, ever have a bad night.

Unfortunately, most promoters don't understand the power of a great DJ. DJ A charges twice as much as DJ B. Promoter says "hey, I can save some money by going with DJ B," failing to realize DJ B has never had a steady DJ gig. DJ B has only worked at small clubs. DJ B can't play to different crowds. DJ B doesn't know what to do if people are not dancing. DJ B can't keep people dancing, even when he has them on the dance floor. DJ B can't make the night so hot that the crowd can't wait for the next event DJ B is going to be at. DJ A can do all that, knows it, and charges for it.

You see it all the time: XYZ Promotions presents Ties & Timbs Night at Rodeo Bill's. XYZ did their job… hyped up the night… got a good crowd into the building. Rodeo Bill's is actually a nice spot. Parking wasn't bad; the bouncers were courteous; the line was long, but went quick. Get in, get a drink, walk around the club, give dap, pounds and hugs to your friends… find that right spot to see everyone… now we're ready to party!

But…

Everyone is standing around the dance floor like it's quicksand they can't step in. "It's midnight. The party should be jumping by now." "Who's the DJ?" "DJ WTF." "DJ who?" "DJ WTF." "Who is DJ WTF?" "I don't know, but if XYZ has him here, then he must be good.

12:30 am…

"What is this DJ doing? Cutting songs off in the middle, scratching over everything, and talking like he's getting paid by the word!" "What song is this?" "I don't know, I've never heard it before." "Oh, wait, that's my song right there!" (starts dancing and singing the lyrics) "NO! He cut the song off again! What song is this??"

1:30 am…

(Yawning) "Are you ready to go?" "Yeah, let's get." "Damn, there's a line at the coat room. I guess everyone had the same idea. This night was wack!"

4 weeks later…

Ties & Timbs night is done. It went from a good crowd, to a decent crowd, to a bad crowd, to no crowd. Why? Because the promoter hired a wack, cheap DJ to save some bucks on the front end instead of hired a great DJ and cleaning up on the back end.

What do you think? Am I completely off base or right on target? Let me know!

7 Tips To Make You A Better DJ

2008-12-15T11:08:00.004-05:00

1. Know your audience
I’ve seen this WAY too often. A DJ is on the decks, playing music the crowd is obviously (to me) not feeling, but because that DJ is not reading the crowd, they keep playing what they think the crowd should want to hear. Not every Black crowd wants to hear hardcore Hip-Hop. Not every White crowd wants to hear Dance music.

Look up from the tables sometime. Look around the club. Even if people are not dancing, you can see if you are going in the right direction. Are heads nodding? Good. Feet tapping? Excellent. Are they singing along? Great. Hands in the air when you throw on the next song? You got them.

The opposite is true. Heads whip around like in a car crash? Not good. Eyes lasered on you like Syler slicing off heads (you have to be a Heroes fan for that one). Uh oh. People standing on the dance floor with their arms folded like “I don’t care if you are playing the hottest song in the city, I’m not dancing. Fuck you!” Time to start packing up your shit… you’re done for the night.

2. Play what your crowd wants to hear
This is something even big name DJs sometimes forget. Don’t play over people’s heads. Play to the crowd, not to the individual. You may be tired of T-Pain, but your audience is not. You may be sick of Beyonce, but your audience is not. You may be completely done with Lil Wayne, but your audience is not.

Oh, and this is a huge deal: don’t let the promoter, manager, owner, bartenders, waitresses or bouncers tell you what to play! Especially if you have a full dance floor. Just nod your head and keep doing what you do. “Yo, dawg, I got this honey who wants to fuck me in the coat room if you play a slow song right now.” Am I getting some pussy? No. Then you’re not getting any pussy!

3. Know what you want to play before you play it
This does NOT mean have your set of music already planned out for the night. It means thinking ahead to figure out how to get from song A to song F using songs B, C, D & E. If you are a DJ that goes straight from Snap Yo Fingers to Get Me Bodied because “it feels right,” you are a bad DJ. And if you can’t tell me why that is wrong, you too are a bad DJ. Point blank.

Thinking ahead also means having multiple options for every next song. I play I Just Wanna Love You almost every time I spin, but depending on the crowd’s mood, I could stay old school Hip-Hop and play Hypnotized. I could go Top-40 and play Get Right. I could get the ladies on the floor and play Single Ladies. I could go old school Dancehall and play Murder She Wrote or new school Dancehall and play No Games.

I love my DJ brother Jammin’ Gee-Clef, and he taught me a hell of a lot about finding the perfect spot to break into the next record, but the whole crowd knew what he was going to play next, and then could tell you what he was going to say next. That doesn’t make you a bad DJ, but your act can get old very quickly, and the next DJ who plays slightly different than you will take your job.

4. Know when and how to get to the next song
You know what grinds my gears (thanks Family Guy). DJs who cut songs off in the middle of the chorus, or worse, in the middle of the verse. Another pet peeve: DJs that get in and out of songs so fast but with no rhyme or reason, like they get paid by the amount of songs they play in the night.

I heard a DJ at Z-Square the first weekend I was back that was really good, but he kept cutting off songs before the part everyone wants to sing comes on. Sometimes he would just play the instrumental beginning, and then he was off on to another song. Example: he played the horn riff of They Reminisce Over You at the very beginning of the song, then went to the next song without letting a single word from CL Smooth play.

If you want to play quickly, play one verse and be out. One verse and one chorus and be out. If you’re really good and do the pre-work, just play the most popular part of the song (like skipping to Biggie’s verse in Mo Money Mo Problems or Foxy’s verse in Ain’t No Nigga like Chubby Chub does).

5. Understand what building momentum means
Why are you playing Pop Champagne at 11:30 as people are still piling in? Single Ladies at 12? Got Money at 10:30? I can’t stand coming into a club and hearing the top 5 songs in the country at the beginning of the night. That is a DJ who doesn’t know their craft well enough to build the anticipation in their audience so that when you FINALLY drop that track, the crowd is orgasmic. It doesn’t mean playing slow jams early and then increasing the speed. I’ve started a night with uptempo songs and built momentum by slowing the music down and making the night more steamy and sexy.

First point: don’t play songs twice. If you do, you’re scared that you can’t play other music to keep people dancing.

Second: save the top hot songs in the country until the final hour. Once again, if you are playing Top 10 songs at 11:00, you are not a good DJ.

Third: before the bulk of the crowd comes, your job is to keep people in the club until the crowd comes. If you are using Serato, you probably have at the very least 5,000 to 10,000 songs in your computer. You mean to tell me you can’t play anything other than the Top 10 songs? I’ll give you twelve 15 minute set catagories that you can use before you get to your last hour.
⁃ Old School Hip-Hop (late 80s-mid 90s)
⁃ Old School R&B (90s)
⁃ Old School Dancehall (90s)
⁃ Old School Uptempo (Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall and House)
⁃ Funk/Soul (late 70s into the 80s)
⁃ Early 2000s Hip-Hop
⁃ Early 2000s R&B
⁃ Early 2000s Dancehall
⁃ Big Hits from the past 2 years (songs that are not classics)
⁃ Party classics from the past 5 years
⁃ Hot R&B catering to ladies
⁃ Old School Hip-Hop featuring one artist
If you build sets of 10 to 15 songs for each set, you’ll never have to touch the Top 10 songs until the end of the night, when it will have the biggest impact.

6. Sandwich great songs around a new song
You have this great new song by MC Low Clearance that you just have to rock tonight. The best way to introduce it is to hit the crowd with 5-7 bangers in a row. If you know how to get in and out of songs quickly, that should be 8-15 minutes. Then bring in the new song just like you brought in the previous songs.

Here is the key: know what song you are going to go into after the new song BEFORE you play the new song. You are going to lose people on the dance floor with the new song (unless you have a crowd that trusts the DJ). But if you come back with a hot song, your dance floor will come back with a vengence. Then you rock another set of bangers before you slip another new song in.

7. The bar is your friend
Make sure you let this last point sink in: IF THE BAR DOESN’T MAKE ANY MONEY, YOU’RE NOT DOING YOUR JOB. I’m not just talking about getting people into the club. If people are not drinking in the club, the club is not making any money, the club will close (or at the very least close the night you’re spinning) and you’re out of a job.

Most DJs think “keep the dance floor packed no matter what.” And I agree… 90% of the time. But if everyone is on the dance floor and they’re not drinking, that’s a problem. So what, you say. That not my problem, that’s the club’s problem.

But think about it the opposite way. If everyone is drinking, they are more loose. If they are more loose, they get on the dance floor easier. If they are on the dance floor, you can be more adventurous with your music. Yes, you may lose some of your dance floor if you go left and they don’t go left with you, but they’ll most likely go back to the bar for another drink. You hit them with that next banger (see #6), and they’re right back on the floor.

So your goal is to get as many people drinking as possible because it makes it easier for you to get people on the dance floor. Plus the manager, promoter, bartenders and waitresses will love you because you are putting more money in their pockets, and they won’t bother you with stupid requests!

Now, by no means is this list complete, so add your own comments to this blog. I would love to hear if you agree, disagree, think I’m off-base or I’m dead on. Add your own list of what makes a good DJ better.

The Start Of The Rollercoaster

2008-09-02T02:37:00.005-04:00

I call this the start of the roller coaster because this past year my radio career has been just like a roller coaster: a long climb up, a tantalizing pause at the top to enjoy the view, then a fast, terrifying drop followed by twists you don't see, turns that sneak up on you, loops that leave you dizzy, punctuated with little inclines for you to catch your breath, finally leaving you where started, but instead of being on the ride now, you're in the back of the long, long line of people who want to get on the ride again too, and they changed how tall you have to be to get on the ride, so you barely make the height now, and all the big kids are taking all the seats on the rides the little kids had all to themselves, but you don't want to ride another ride, you want to ride on THIS one!

Okay, so that made no sense to you, but I'm laughing hysterically!

Saturday night. September 1st, 2007. The anniversary of my 29th birthday. I am the PD/Afternoon personality for the #1 station for young adults in the Dayton area. It's 8 o'clock and I’m ordering dinner for myself and a beautiful young lady I met a few weeks ago, having made reservations at the local equivalent of Morton’s. The calm before the storm of my birthday party later on that night at the newest hot lounge. Life is good.

Then the call comes. “The station is off the air!” Oh, s$#%! We have one 4 hour show a week that we play off of CDs, and the person in charge of running that show, the board op, failed to show up. No answer from repeated calls to the board op. I call a board op running a show for one of our sister stations. I have him start the first CD, but since the first segment is only 25 minutes long, we’ll have dead air again if no one is in the studio.

• Do I hope the board op is just running late and stay with my date at the restaurant?
• Do I ask the other station’s board op to skate back and forth between stations, running my programming and his own, and stay with my date at the restaurant?
• Do I call around to the other staffers to see if anyone can go to the station and babysit the show, and stay with my date at the restaurant?
• Can you tell that I want to stay with my date at the restaurant?
• Or do I apologize to my date, give her the choice to stay and have her meal, and sprint to the station before that 25 minute segment finishes?

So dessert comes and I say to my date, “I wonder if the board op ever made it to the station?”

No. Not really.

I skid into the station parking lot at 8:20pm and take the stairs two at a time to the on-air studio. “Good, 5 minutes left.” A quick search of the premises turns up no trace of the board op, and this show has 3 1/2 more hours to run. The lounge opens at 10pm. I have to be there, not just because it’s my birthday party, but because I have a signed contract to DJ and host the event. The station is my primary responsibility, but I am the face of the station. If I back out of a deal, that reflects badly on the station. I don’t want the station’s credibility with the owners, managers and promoters to be shot.

The challenge is this: can I get the remaining 7 segments on the air and get to the club before the bulk of the people make it there?

I first call the club to tell them I will be a little late, because I have an emergency at the radio station. That gives me some breathing room, but at that point I don’t know how much more time I need. I then fire the next 25 minute segment. I jog to the other end of the building and start downloading segments into 1 of only 2 computers that can quickly send music files to the on-air studio (I’m glad I earned my operation manager’s trust for him to give me a key to his office). Once segment 3 is ready I place it in the queue. I continue to scamper back and forth between office and studio until all the segments are in the queue, ready to go! I jump into my truck, observing the speed limit and stopping at every yellow light… (riiiiiiight) and make it to the lounge only 30 minutes late.

Oh, and the young lady? She understood completely, left the restaurant with me, met me at the lounge later on and made the rest of my birthday memorable!

Racial Profiling AND Quotas?

2008-08-30T00:19:00.002-04:00

I'm sitting in my living room in shock right now. I got stopped by the police and got a ticket. ON MY BICYCLE!

Yes, I know. My mouth is still open. I honestly can't believe it.

Was I weaving in and out of traffic? No. Was I drunk? Getting ready to be, but not yet. Was I on the wrong side of the street? No.

I was riding at night.

That's it.

Yes, that is it.

When I saw the police officer slow down, I thought that was weird, but I'm on a bike. I can't be doing something illegal. He swung into a housing complex, so I thought that's why he slowed down. But then he pulled a U-wie (has anyone ever spelled that before?) and came back out right behind me. Since I'm not a nerd, I don't have mirrors on my bike, so I couldn't tell that his lights were on. I finally realized that he hadn't passed me, so I look back and am blinded by the flashing lights. So I stop, wait for him to get out the car and ask what's up.

He cited me for not having flashing lights on my bike at night. Okay, it's a safety issue, I understand that completely, so I'm not mad. I've been wanting to get some lights because in the 'burbs, they don't have street lights like I'm used to in the city. But then he says I have to give you a ticket. WHAT!? A ticket for riding my bike at night without flashing lights. I didn't get a ticket when I was driving my roommate's car and she had no registration in the car and her license plate was illegal! I could have been arrested because it looked like I could have stolen the car… and I didn't get a ticket for that but I got a ticket for my bike? I got a warning for speeding and the officer told me there was a serious accident 5 miles down the road so they are stepping up enforcement. And I can't get a warning on a bike at night?

The officer then proceeds to tell me there is a zero-tolerance policy for this because a 15 year old was killed on a bike recently just up the road. Told me this 3 times. Okay, so my policy is to never challenge a police officer because they have the power, and I don't want to give them a reason to abuse it. But am I wrong to look up the story to see if he was telling the truth? Because I did. Looked up the road he said the kid was on. Looked up "cyclist killed." Looked up "pedestrian killed" in Miamisburg, Miami Township and West Carrollton. I didn't find this story, which to me would seem like a big deal and there would be some story about it on a local news website.

So I believe this is an officer trying to get his August quota. Yeah, yeah, I know… "there are no ticket quotas." Riiiight. Why is it that almost every time I've been stopped it has been in the last 5 days of the month? Plus my roommate is moving out because she doesn't feel safe. She feels the police in this area are racially profiling and she wants to get back to the west side of Dayton. This doesn't make my skepticism of her thoughts look good at all.

Industry Thoughts-August 26th, 2008

2008-08-25T23:43:00.003-04:00

How in the hell do you justify taking home this much money when your company is barely making a profit? Don't get me wrong; CBS is one of the only radio conglomerates to actually be visionary, and I appreciate that they pay their talent what they are worth. But wow!

"CBS' LES MOONVES landed at number three on the ASSOCIATED PRESS' list of highest-paid CEOs this year.

MOONVES, at $67.6 million in compensation, trailed only ORACLE's LARRY ELLISON (at $84.6 million) and MERRILL LYNCH's JOHN THAIN ($83.1 million) on the list."
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On another CBS note, I'm glad to see Rob Scorpio getting the job at WPGC. I don't know him, but I've followed his career from afar. Through his interviews he seem to be a good dude, plus he has been successful everywhere he has been given the resources to succeed (let's just forget about the West Coast, shall we?). With Donnie and Big Tigger holding drive time down, there is no reason to think he won't be successful in DC.

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Update on Choice FM-London
I'm still very surprised on how much American music is played on Choice FM in England. I'm going to have to do some research on other Urban stations in that area, because there has to be more talent in the UK than they are displaying on that station. I love the fact that it's an uptempo station; however, one of the things that I have to get used to is their personalities talking over the final 1/3 of the songs. They will talk 45 to 70 seconds over the words of the song! That makes their forward momentum crazy because they never let the music stop, but if you can't hear the final verse of the song, what's the point?

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Kids Arguing About Vocabulary!

2008-08-24T06:21:00.011-04:00

I never thought I would see this in my lifetime. I'm sitting in the back of the bus yesterday and I overheard two kids arguing. City living makes you hyper-aware of your surroundings, but I try not to get too much into anyone's business. So I'm making sure they are not getting ready to jump into the aisle and start rolling up and down the bus, but I'm not really listening. Until…

"My vocabulary is bigger than yours."

What?

"No, my vocabulary is bigger than yours."

Okay, so now I have to look. One girl, one boy, from the same school in Dayton, OH, sparring on vocabulary. I did my best Allen Iverson talking about practice in my head ("Vocabulary? They're talking about Vo-cab-u-lar-y).

I thought they were going to bust out dictionaries and start an impromptu spelling bee. In a world where most kids are hiding how smart they are because they want to fit it, these kids are flaunting their intelligence!

But I wonder… when they get back to their neighborhood, does the dumb mask go back up? Are they accepted as the smart kids they are, or do they need to dial it back so the other kids don't ridicule them? How many intelligent kids guard their brain power like gold in Fort Knox from their friends, neighbors and even family?

I identify with those kids because I was one of those kids. But I couldn't put up the dumb mask. And I paid for it.

The names: Peabody. Mr. Wizard. Brainiac. At my high school in Chicago, we didn't the "Most Likely To" thing, but if we did, I would have been Most Likely To Become A Rocket Scientist. Even though rocket scientists are paid (or in reality, all the different types of engineers it takes to design, build and launch a spacecraft), that was the ultimate insult. "How dare you actually be smart?"

And the craziest thing? I was a jock! I played Basketball, Baseball and (allegedly) ran Cross Country (my only rules in running: don't come in last and don't let a girl within my eyesight beat me). But I was on the outside of the in-crowd. There were plenty of people who would have loved to trade places with me, but inside the locker room, I was low man on the totem pole. I always say kids are so cruel, because they will say and do things that will keep rattling inside someone's brain for decades.

Okay, so how do I make this about music, DJing, radio or women? Well, all those kids who thought I would be a rocket scientist… were right! But I'm a "Rock-It" Scientist! Instead of being in a lab, I'm in a club. Instead of running computer simulations, I'm running Serato Scratch Live. Instead of using my smarts to place people on the moon, I'm using them to bring them to the club, get them on the dance floor, get them drinking and (most importantly) get them to come back!

So I thank those kids in the back of the bus. I feel good that they felt comfortable enough around their peers to show their intellect. They are going to be highly successful in whatever they decide to put their mind to.

My 5 plus 1 list on how to overcome childhood ridicule:
1. Find people who like you for you
2. Find hobbies that you excel in
3. Find hobbies that you love to do, no matter how bad you are at it
4. Let negative energy roll off you like water off a duck's back
5. Actively remember the good things that people say to you and about you

and plus 1: look in the mirror and say "I love you" to yourself. Watch the smile creep over your face. Internalize that feeling.

Lovin' Me Some Choice FM in London! (Click here to go to their website)

2008-08-21T04:02:00.006-04:00

I get so tired of the same music on almost every single Urban station in the country. I was so excited when streaming came about, but there are very few stations that I feel actually give me some variety. And very few personalities I like listening to. Big Tigger at WPGC In DC (or as he says, the DMV). Ryan Cameron on V-103 in the A. Mr. Peter Parker at B96 in the Twin Cities. Doug Banks. Russ Parr. 100.3 The Beat in Philly is exciting. 96.3 Jamz in Albany, NY is exciting. Power 96 in Miami and B96 in Chicago are exciting (I guess I just like 96 frequency stations). I wish Emmis would stream, because I love listening to Angie Martinez and Funk Flex when I'm in New York. And I wish I could figure out why my Mac doesn't work with Clear Channel stations, cause then I would listen to 103.5 The Beat in Miami (another fav).

I don't even remember how I ran across Choice FM in London, but I'm hooked! I was listening to their morning show, which is nothing special, but the music was great. I love the energy. A nice mix of R&B, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Soca and House, plus UK Garage and 2-Step. In an hour I heard 6 songs I didn't know existed. Plus the old school joints they play pass the "oh, shit!" test. I can't wait to listen to their mixshows!

What's crazy is Choice FM is very much an American radio station with English-accented jocks! Okay, an American station with a wider playlist. But the beds are American Hip-Hop, 85% of the music is from North American, and the topics their morning show talked about were about American celebrities! They talked about J-Lo, Morgan Freeman, Mr. T from the A Team… and I just heard a drop from Ludacris, T.I. and 50 Cent. I guess I would have expected to hear a lot more about things I had never heard of before. Even the songs that I hadn't heard before are by American artists! This station really could be a pirate station out of Boston, New York or Miami run by people from England. Maybe outside of the morning show it will be more UK based.

Here is the track listing for about 2 hours of listening (new favorites in bold):
I'll Be Lovin' You Long Time-Mariah Carey f/T.I.
Stressed Out-Mass Destruction
Confessions (Part 2)-Usher f/Twista, Kanye West
She's Like A Star-Taio Cruz f/Sugababes, Busta Rhymes
Only You (Bad Boy Remix)-112 f/The Notorious B.I.G., Mase
Dance With Me-Dizzee Rascal f/Calvin Harris
80s Joint-Kelis
Do You Mind-DJ Paleface f/Kyla
Won't You Stay[not sure of title]-[don't know artist]
Sunshine-Jay-Z
Superwoman-Alisha Keys
This Is The Girl-Kano f/Craig David
The Bongo Jam-Crazy Cousins
Miss Independent-Ne-Yo
Hypnotized-Plies f/Akon
When I Grow Up (Remix)-Pussycat Dolls f/Rodney Jerkins, Diddy, Fatman Scoop, Lil Wayne
Body-Nelly f/Akon, Ashanti
Mary Jane (All Night Long)-Mary J. Blige
Dangerous (Remix)-Kardinal Offishall f/Akon, Sean Paul
Low-Flo-Rida
Defense (The Anthem Remix)-Pitbull f/Machel Montano, Lil Jon
One More Chance-Will.I.Am
Saturday Night Hustle-Sway f/Lamar
Heard Em Say-Kanye West
Love Tha Girl-Raphael Saddiq
Run It-Chris Brown f/Juelz Santana
Oochie Wally-QB's Finest
Juicy-The Notorious B.I.G.

Do you see what I mean? Even the new music is from America! My mouth dropped open when I heard Raphael Saddiq's new song, because it REALLY sounds like a song from the 60s! Hot!

Advanced Dance Therapy Podcast

2008-08-20T13:56:00.000-04:00

Urban Jam Session Podcast

2008-08-20T13:49:00.001-04:00

I Want To Work For Diddy… My Thoughts

2008-08-20T04:22:00.000-04:00

I've never really been a reality TV show type person. I'm proud to say I've never watched Survivor more than 5 minutes in total. Big Brother, the Amazing Race, the Real World… couldn't care less. I did like the Biggest Loser, but really because there were some sexy big women on that show! ;-)

But now I've run across I Want To Work For Diddy. I like the show, but I don't like the people on it, probably because I feel they are playing up for the cameras (which is exactly the reason why I can't stand reality shows). For people who want to work for a person who doesn't tolerate bitchassness, all I see… is bitchassness! Right now, I feel like the person who wins won't last 6 weeks as Diddy's assistant. But maybe by the end of the show that person really will deserve it.

But the reason why I like the show is because I'm in the music industry (on the radio and nightclub side), so I've met Diddy. He was the very first interview I had on the air at WILD-AM in Boston! BTW, probably the worst interview I ever had, not totally because of me, but because of him. He had an earpiece in for his phone, and he was talking on the phone in between being interview by me! Multitasking. So I couldn't ask him what he wanted to talk about, or even get warmed up with him before we hit the air. PLUS I had never done an interview on the radio before! This wasn't just a train wreak. It was a missile hitting a jet plane crash landing on a train falling off a bridge onto a ocean liner!

Okay, back to the subject. I know the inner workings of radio, and I want to see how similar behind the scenes is on the music side. Plus it's a great opportunity to see a highly successful Black man and find out what makes him tick. It's almost better than reading a book about Diddy, because you are seeing firsthand how hard he hustles to be that successful. A lot of the things he talks about are so over the top, it's hard to believe, but many highly successful people in every field imaginable are hyper-driven like he is. It makes me look at myself and my life and say, "Do I want to work THAT hard?" How hard can I work to make $500,000 instead of $5,000,000?

But I then think of one thing that Diddy said on the show that makes the difference for me, that makes me say, "Yes, I CAN and WILL work that hard." He said (and I'm paraphrasing, since I can't find the actual quote) that he can't sleep because he is that excited about what he needs to do that day because he is in love with what he is doing. Well, I love spinning, and I will go anywhere around the world to do it. I love podcasting, and I have to hold back all the mixes I want to post because it would be a flood. I love radio, and I am determined to get in front of the right people to get me back on the air. And now, I love blogging, and it is 5:14 am and I'm writing about I Want To Work For Diddy! Maybe I should be working for Diddy, because I naturally don't sleep! :-)

The Black & White of Reggie Beas

2008-08-20T02:12:00.002-04:00

I love doing podcasts! It is so liberating to just play music for myself, and find other people who love what I do. Not just because I'm playing "Today's Hottest Music," but they like the WAY I'm playing the music. They like the new music I'm introducing to them. Even when I go left, they will go with me because they trust me. I have a podcast called the Lost Classics. Man, I'm yelling and screaming on this because I am FEELING IT! I had so much fun making that podcast.

My Urban Jam Session podcast is for the Black side of my fan base; the Advanced Dance Therapy podcast is for the White side, but feel free to switch sides! :-) Really though, the Urban Jam Session is more thugged out with mostly Hip-Hop with a little R&B and Reggae. Advanced Dance Therapy is more uptempo, with Hip-Hop, Dance, House, Rock, Freestyle, R&B and Top-40 all mixed together.

I would love for you to subscribe to my podcasts! Go to www.ReggieBeas.podOmatic.com and/or www.AdvancedDanceTherapy.podOmatic.com, and scroll down until you see "Subscribe to this Podcast." Click either button; it takes you to another page. Look on the right side for "Subscribe in iTunes." Then you will get the Reggie Beas vision every time inspiration strikes!

Long Legs, Stilettos and A Peach Dress

2008-08-20T01:19:00.000-04:00

One of my simple pleasures in life is finding that woman who takes my breath away every time I see her. I have found that woman. Her beauty is so exquisite all I can say is "oh my God." Her smile makes me smile, and she's not even talking to me! Her personality shines so brightly. She is incredibly graceful on the dance floor. And to top it off, she is 6 feet tall… and is so secure with her height that she wears heels! I have to say, never in this lifetime would I have thought that I would see a woman in Dayton, Ohio, whose style is so on-point every… single… time. I'm sure that when she is at home she's chillin' in sweats and a t-shirt (and probably making that look hot too), but when she steps out… let's just say she would look right at home on a red carpet somewhere. I am completely and total amazed by this woman!

Now I know looks are not everything. I don't know the first thing about her. She could be a complete prima donna in her private life and is impossible to deal with (I've had a few in my life)! But I've gotten to know some pretty amazing women, and my track record is pretty good with getting to know good women vs. whack jobs. From the outside, she seems like a good woman, but that's only based on how she interacts with the world around her. I'm not basing it on how good she looks. She will prove whether her beauty is only skin deep or not by her actions.

My friends tell me I'm waaaay too picky. I know my standards are high, but I want to adore my woman. Put her on a pedestal. She makes me want to be a better man. And it is attainable, because I've had these feeling before for women who I felt (and feel) are exceptional. Julia. Joanne. Crystal. Shannon. Christine. Angel. Cathy. Nicole (all 4 of them!). Shero. Maria. Mijelle. Brooklyn. Kelly. Zuly. Tasha. Darla. Some of these women I've dated. Some were just friends. Some became girlfriends. One because my fiance. All blew me away with their style, poise, intelligence AND beauty. And the funny thing is, non of them fit a "type" (which my friends also accuse me of). Two of them were 6 feet. A few where under 5'3'' (one was 4'11''!). A few were Double DDs (and up). Some could barely push out an A cup. One was 240 pounds when I was dating her. Another had more belly than breasts! Two were Puerto Rican (with the sexiest accents!). But each of them I was attracted to for what they brought to the table, not because they reminded me of someone else. One I even suspected was working as an escort! That should have been a deal-breaker. But I didn't judge her because I got to know her from the inside out. I helped her think about how she wanted her life to play out, and she ended up going back to school.

But I do have a type of personality that gets me every time. Highly intelligent (I seem to have a thing for lawyers, even though I don't like to argue). Loves to laugh. Is the center of attention because of who she is, but doesn't demand to be the center of attention (if that makes any sense). Conversation between us is completely natural and easy. And very flirty, for want of a better term. She always lets me know she's near. Sitting close enough to touch. A hand on my thigh. A quick hug. A lean-in to talk in my ear. A slap on the ass. :-)

I call it "irrational love" (as in "I have an irrational love for Mariah Carey"), but there is nothing irrational about wanting to fall in love. When I get to know someone who I can envision walking down the aisle with, it's hard for me to date what just falls in my lap. I wish there was a term stronger than "love" because it is thrown around so cavalierly. The woman I decide to pursue a relationship with will be so exceptional it will be easy to wan to work out any issues that come up. I want to be 150% sure that I want to move forward through the whole "getting to know" process.

Okay, so I just went on a serious tangent. I need to take my but to bed and dream of long legs, stilettos and a peach dress. Hmmmmmmmmmmm…

Superstar DJs vs. No-Name DJs

2008-08-20T00:41:00.000-04:00

What is the difference between a superstar and a no-name DJ? Not much. A break here. Talking to the exact right person that can get you to where you need to be. A lot of times it has nothing to do with your talent. "Right place at the right time," as they say.

I've been looking up the bios of various major DJs. I'm amazed at how many of the stories are the same. DJ plays at small club. Big name celebrity just happens to come to said club. Celeb loves DJ, brings him/her to private upscale party. DJ kills it. Now DJ is in the inner circle, and it builds from there. The crazy thing is, almost all the major touring DJs are from New York or LA. Like Atlanta, Miami, Houston or Chicago don't have world-class DJs.

I'm sitting here at Therapy Cafe in Dayton listening to some no-name DJs that are really good. What's the difference between them and Tiesto? I'm sure Tiesto had to start at a small club and work his way up, but at the type of venues he plays at now, ANY good DJ could rock the crowd. The real difference between a superstar DJ and a no-name DJ? The superstar DJ has the trust of the crowd, so they can play whatever they want and the crowd is receptive to it. The superstar can play Mary Had A Little Lamb and the crowd will lose its fuckin' mind. The no-name DJ can play the hottest set, top it off with the #1 song in the country, and the crowd will go "ahhhh… I'm not feeling it. I need a drink."

I love it when people complain that I play the same songs every week, but when I try to be adventurous and play some new music, the crowd looks at me like my head just split open. "Are you gonna play this all night?" "Umm, I've only played the first verse of this song." "Well, can you play?" "Umm, it's 10:30 right now, I'll play it later when there are more people in the club." "But there is no one here, can't you just play it for me?" "I don't play songs twice, I have 11,000 songs in my computer, I don't want to play the same songs over and over again." They look at me like, "but you're my personal jukebox. You're supposed to play the songs that are in my head. If you don't, you suck!"

The superstar DJ doesn't have that problem. First of all, they don't open up, they are the headliner. If the promoter did their job, there is a crowd waiting for the superstar to get on stage or in the booth, which is inaccessible. Don't even think about asking for a request. Their playlist is all set, because once they are finished, they are on to the next city. The crowd there doesn't know superstar DJ played the exact same set in Pittsburgh last week, and they will play that set again in Sacramento next week. And the best part about being a superstar DJ? You can play a bad song and get away with it, because the crowd will think you meant to play that!

The craziest thing is when someone from another city asks me to play a song from a local artist out of the city they are from. True story: "You got Do That Shit by Chip Tha Ripper?" "No, the only Chip Tha Ripper I have is Get It Gurl." "How can you not have Do That Shit? It's the hottest song in Cleveland right now." "Well, I'm not in Cleveland, he's not a major national artist yet, no one has sent me the MP3, so I have no way of knowing about the song." "Well, you need to get up on your game and expand your music." Riiight. I've worked a year and a half on making sure I had what Dayton wanted to hear, and because I don't have YOUR song by an out-of-towner I suck? (BTW, Do That Shit is hot as hell and I'm making that another Dayton anthem, but that's besides the point).

People really don't realize how hard it is to be considered a great DJ. I can play the best music, bring in each song perfectly, rock the mic and keep everyone's head nodding, but if there are 100 people in a 1000 person club, and those people don't want to dance on an empty dance floor, I suck. I can have a packed house with a full dance floor, but if the promoter/manager/club owner's friend doesn't like what I'm playing and complains, I'm perceived to be not that great of a DJ. I can play 30 minutes straight of great songs, play one song that bombs, then play 30 more minutes of great music, and "the music was up and down all night." One more difference between the superstar DJ and the no-name DJ. You go hear the superstar DJ for the experience of hearing them spin. "I can't wait to hear what he is going to play next." You go hear the no-name DJ to hear the songs you already like. "I want him to play my favorite song right now!"

What is so amazing to me is how unique different areas are in terms of music. Perfect example: Nann Nigga by Trick Daddy and Trina is a classic up and down the East Coast. Here in Dayton I almost got tomatoes thrown at me! Billie Jean by Michael Jackson is a party starter in Boston. That song got me blackballed for 4 months in Dayton! I learned my lesson: don't assume that because something works in one city it will automatically work in another. A couple of weeks ago I played at a really nice club in Cincinnati. I'm not in the city on a regular basis, so I had to feel out what people wanted to hear. The night didn't go as well as I wanted it to (it didn't help that the owners didn't get a crowd in there… I can't rock a party if there is no party to rock). The really messed up thing is that was my first and probably my last opportunity to spin at that club. Since I'm basically brand new to the area, I had one chance to make a good impression. Now I'm my own worst critic, but the people who came up to the DJ booth let me know they liked the music, there just wasn't enough people in the club to make it feel like a party, so they didn't want to dance. Now the club owner won't return my messages. I asked for feedback from him. No call back. I asked about the party he told me he would talk to me about coming the next week. No return message. I even went to his club on a Saturday (when I should have been at my own club!) to see what the club looked like packed, and texted him a compliment. No return message. I know the night I was there wasn't the hottest, because I do my best work when I have a crowd to feed off of. But I definitely wasn't bad enough for the owner to completely ignore me!