DJ Pee .Wee Talks Working With Mariah Carey, His Journey as a DJ & More | Billboard News - video Dailymotion

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Billboard caught up with DJ Pee .Wee at House of Mouse, and he shares how he’s grown as a DJ, working on his label, collaborating with Mariah Carey and more!

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00:00So a party doesn't start until DJ Pee Wee shows up, man.

00:02How you feeling?

00:03I feel great.

00:04Your skis.

00:05And I mean that because I feel like everywhere I go in the industry,

00:08I can be at Coachella, I can be at the Super Bowl.

00:10You're there providing the vibe.

00:11So what's the evolution been like for you as a DJ?

00:13Man, it's been great.

00:14I love DJing, you know, being like a part of the party,

00:17but also like helping make the party is like, it's a dream.

00:20Like, I love it.

00:21So it's been awesome.

00:22Get to learn a lot of music.

00:23Shout out to Eddie and Maurice.

00:25It's like always a new challenge every time,

00:27just like trying to make the crowd move.

00:28So it's been awesome to go from like a little like speakeasy,

00:31where we started to doing like parties with Mickey Mouse now.

00:35I mean, that's what I'm saying.

00:36Being at the house of Mouse,

00:37how'd you get involved with Mickey and all his cool friends?

00:39It's been a dream come true.

00:41I think our first like party that we did was in London, maybe.

00:46And yeah, we hooked up with Joss and they just like, you know,

00:50at first I didn't know really what it was about.

00:51And it was just like exceeded all expectations,

00:53like to be able to interact with like all the characters.

00:56And they took me to like the studio.

00:58And we did so much cool content.

00:59It's been amazing.

01:00Being with the characters on stage is always so awesome.

01:03And I mean,

01:03do you have any personal Disney memories that like has connected you to the

01:06brand over the years?

01:07Yeah.

01:07I mean, of course,

01:08it's going like trips to Disneyland,

01:10watching DuckTales and Mickey Mouse Club.

01:14Yeah, man.

01:14It's like some of my like fondest,

01:16like childhood memories for sure.

01:18Well, you're definitely bringing the cool, my friend.

01:20And like, what have you been working on lately?

01:21How's the music going and how's everything in the studio?

01:23I've been doing a lot of DJing.

01:24Honestly, I've been doing like a lot of DJing all over the place.

01:28And yeah, working on some new music.

01:30I've been working on my label and working with new artists that are coming up with new music.

01:35It's been really fun and hanging with my kids.

01:38I have a movie that's going to be doing its U.S.

01:40premiere at Toronto.

01:41I'm sorry, at the Tribeca Film Fest in a couple of weeks.

01:44So I'm excited about that.

01:46Yeah.

01:47And I heard a little something when I was driving here.

01:48I like them dangerous.

01:49Hey, come on, bro.

01:50That's right.

01:51Tell me about the track, man.

01:52How was it to produce that and be involved in the project?

01:55Shout out to the queen, Mariah Carey.

01:57It was awesome to be able to work on her project.

01:59And me and my boys, J-Mo and J-Pounds, we have the first single and also co-written by Ray Khalil,

02:08who's also on my record label.

02:10So, yeah, it was amazing.

02:12She's amazing to work with, a great writer, a great producer, so much fun.

02:15We had a lot of fun.

02:16And that was one of the last records we did in the studio, and it came together so quick.

02:22She's a big hip-hop head, so I wanted to try to find something that we could continue the lineage

02:27of her mixing the old with the new, and I think we got it with this one.

02:31So, Type Dangerous comes out in a few hours.

02:32Yeah, I love that, man.

02:34I mean, she's such a queen.

02:35We know she always knows what she wants.

02:36So, how was it to kind of have you both in the studio?

02:38I feel like she trusts you.

02:39It was good, yeah.

02:40A lot of trust, and I know I trust her.

02:42And we just, you know, like, we had multiple sessions, and we got to just work it out.

02:47And I got to learn about, like, her musical taste and seeing what she was into and listening to

02:52her stories that she told.

02:53And that's how we came up with the single, because the Eric B. and Rakim for president

02:57is a song that she really loves.

02:59And, you know, we were just in the studio before she got in, and we were messing around.

03:03I was like, let's try to flip this.

03:04And when she came in, she really liked it.

03:06So, it's been a lot of fun working with her.

03:09Well, dude, I'm such a fan of both of you guys.

03:10Have so much fun at House of Mouse tonight.

03:12I came ready to jam during your set.

03:13Yeah.

03:13Let's go.

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