Name: DJ D-Nice and Bringing Joy to Social Distancing | The Daily Social Distancing Show
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T17:52:45.000Z
Duration: 4 min 47 s
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Modal verbs - A2

we've all been thrust into this new world

of living in a different way, and then you're the first person

Did you think your stream was gonna blow up as much as it did?

'Cause I think you started with, what, 200 people?

And then it jumped to, like, 100,000 over time.

I started with 200. And no, I didn't think

And, um, it was literally me sitting at home

-Right. -And, you know, I tour the world deejaying,

so I'm used to being around a lot of people.

And I just felt like I needed to do something.

I started it just to invite some of my friends

and just to play music from my laptop into the phone

and share old-school stories about some of these records

that I produced back when I was, like, 18 and 19 years old.

-Right, right. -And then it just kind of took off,

And then one of my buddies is another DJ named DJ Clark Kent.

He was like, "You should actually start deejaying

And it turned into, like, this massive party.

What... Actually, I thought it was massive.

By the time Friday arrived, it was, like, 25,000 people,

And that was, like, I froze up for a bit.

I'm used... I'm used to being in their world,

Like, they came over to see what I was up to.

And just having all of these artists in there

was much different than what I would play at a party.

in that world, there's, you know, there's no audience.

So I literally just played from the heart.

are gonna become the sets that you start playing

has helped D-Nice create, like, a new idea,

or do you think this set is specifically designed

No, I think that this is going to become the norm of...

Because other DJs have called me, you know, to say--

like, I mean, other big DJs-- like, "Dude, you reminded me

of what it felt like to actually just play music that you love."

-Oh, wow. -So I think people are gonna start

And-and the fact that they were engaged for...

-Yeah, it was a marathon. -It was a nine-hour set

where it was just fun, and it didn't even feel like it.

It was just mind-blowing. It was mind-blowing.

where you have Michelle Obama pop in, I don't think...

I don't think... I think there's, like, a handful

of people on the planet who can say that phrase.

You're gonna be... you're gonna be deejaying

The whole concept of it... It's Michelle's organization,

and she's trying to, you know, increase voter registration.

-Right, right. -So they came up with an idea