A kid in Minneapolis with a CD changer, sequencing songs back to back for hours before he ever touched a turntable. By 16 he had a 4 a.m. radio slot on KMOJ. From there: the first DJ to ever play Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, and Post Malone on the radio, over 100 mixtapes, a hand in building Dash Radio, and now founder and CEO of The Realest, the platform trying to fix authentication in an industry the FBI estimates is up to 90% fraudulent.
Our third Collector Spotlight is one of the most wide-ranging yet. Skee talks about the moment he met a 16-year-old Kendrick Lamar freestyling for twenty minutes straight in his studio, why he named his company after the one thing the collectibles industry keeps failing to deliver, and why he thinks vinyl is really just the baseball card of music.
From the Crate
"Nostalgia is the most powerful drug in the world, and we live on our phones in a world ruled by deepfakes, so holding something real matters more than ever."
DJ Skee, on why vinyl and physical collectibles are having a real moment.
One More Thing
Skee's pick for who we should spotlight next: DJ Clue, the DJ who inspired him most coming up. Already in our pipeline, and now with an even better reason to make it happen.
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