Episode 106 | DJ Short Talks West Coast vs Joey Bada$$ Beef, Remix Culture vs TikTok, & California’s Hip-Hop Comeback

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00:00:45 - Intro

00:01:30 - Intro to West Coast vs Joey Bada$$ beef

00:03:30 - How Pusha T changed what we expect from a rap beef

00:05:30 - Red Bull Freestyle with Big Sean, Ab-Soul, & Joey Bada$$

00:08:20 - Ray Vaughn drops “Hoe Era” and its California vibes

Joey drops “The Finals”

00:12:00 - What other appers we’d like to see enter the beef

00:14:50 - Joey drops “The Finals”

00:16:50 - Reminiscing on the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef and having an East Coast bias in the beef

00:19:20 - AZChike diss

00:22:00 - Daylyt’s first diss

00:26:55 - KayHon joins to breakdown Joey, Ray Vaughn, Daylyt, AZChike and more

00:42:40 - The return of the California hip-hop sounds and the importance of knowing its history

00:46:15 - DJ’s role in hip-hop culture and the recent rise in DJing

00:47:30 - DJ Short’s journey to start Djing

00:49:00 - How djing and remix culture is being watered down by tiktok

00:50:30 - The power of remix culture: DJ Short made a remix for HER and she ended up using it

00:51:30 - The importance of understanding cultures in DJing

00:55:20 - How DJ Short became the DJ for The Estelle Show on Apple Music

00:59:30 - DJ Short’s podcast “Liner Notes”

01:00:10 - Our favorite songs of 2025