DJ Sam Sneak Hometown: North Miami, FL Website: www.myspace.com/djsamsneak Radio: Streetfm.com Poe Boy Radio Mixtape Series: Kicks DJ Affiliate: Jam Squad Clubs: Take One Lounge (Miami, FL) 3 Songs In Current Rotation: Rick Ross “Here I Am,” Ballgreezy F/ Brisco “I’m Da Shit,” Billy Blue “Ball Like a Dog” Rick Ross’ tour DJ tells us what its like to hustle, hustle, real hard with the Boss and why vibe music is the new sound to listen out for from the 305. “I’ve been down with Ross for a minute, way before ‘Hustlin’ even jumped off. I always seen him out, like, ‘What’s up, how you doing,’ and checking up on him and stuff like that. When ‘Hustlin’ came out, I was DJing at Diamonds and I hadn’t seen him in a minute. I was blowing the record up, playing it like eight times a night. I called him one day and he was like, ‘What’s up, man. I’ve been looking for you. I need to get you that record.’ I was like, ‘I’ve been at Diamonds playing it.’ He said, ‘Oh, that’s you? They’ve been telling me about you.’ It was all love and we just kept in contact from there. I would always make sure he was good. Triple Cs, Poe Boy, there was always that love. The average day for me, with [Ross]…I go to the studio, make sure DJs get their drops, making sure he hears beats, make sure freestyles are bumpin’, make sure features are ready for him. I used to sleep til 12, 1 in the afternoon. I don’t sleep like that anymore. I sleep maybe four hours [a night]. It’s different now. But I still go to the hood. I still check out the hood clubs. They show more love than anything. They wanna see you be successful. There’s haters everywhere you go, but there’s also love where you’re at too. We just came back from Europe. I’ve been to Amsterdam, Paris, France, Norway, Germany, all different places and they love him. I don’t think you understand. They love Ross, they love Khaled, they love Triple Cs, Brisco. Everything we threw to them, they love it. It’s like another world over there. It opened my eyes. In the Miami scene, I’ve come across a lot of local artists like The Dunk Ryders, Ballgreezy, Under Surveillance, Bizzle, Brisco, and Billy Blue. There’s a lot of artists that I’ve had a touch in their projects, helping them, promoting them and making them big. Jam Squad, that’s what we do. We’ve promoted a lot of independent artists. I don’t know if you heard of what we got out here called ‘vibin’ music.’ Ballgreezy did his thing on it, Under Surveillance, you got on that Bizzle, you just be vibin’. That’s that Miami vibe music. Y’all gotta lookout for that. You know how Atlanta got their snap music, L.A. got their crump music? Well, we got the vibe music, where we’re vibin’, shakin’ and rollin’, be in the club chillin’, jookin’ and all that stuff. You can go to any club in Miami and I can guarantee you they’ll play a vibin’ song. Everybody got a vibin’ song, where you can just vibe to it. The Miami movement is all the local artists that’s down with the movement and that’s down with supporting one another. What I’m working on is just helping local artists get out. That’s what I’m all about. I just want local artists to get out there and make things happen. Just make sure Miami just keeps doing what we’re doing.”
As told to Randy Roper
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