19 DJ SpinKing: I Was Gonna Be a Pediatric Doctor

DJ SpinKing was supposed to be a pediatric doctor. His grandfather practiced medicine in Guyana. He interned at Englewood Hospital in Jersey for two years. Then at 16 he took his oldest brother Celeb's car, was drinking, crashed it, and got grounded by West Indian parents who were not playing. No video games in the house. Just his brother's turntables, CDJs and booklets of CDs in the basement. He started recording himself on YouTube. That was it.

His parents did not get it. He tells DJ Enuff, DJ Camilo, DJ Kast One and L. Boogs something he says he has never said before: they handed him to his brother Star and told him if SpinKing failed, it was on him. They believed when his grandmother turned on 106 & Park and saw him on TV.

The rest is receipts. Hotel ballrooms in Jersey he got kicked out of because he never left them the way he got them. Aiden's Lounge on Thursdays. Two years on the road with Diggy at 18, hyping 30,000 people before he had ever played to 400. "Tap It" with Vinyls, made under a bunk bed with no bed in it, played by ProStyle while SpinKing was on the school bus to an away game. "Timeless" with A Boogie and the 6ix9ine record, both 94 BPM, both on the Hot 100 at the same time. Power 105, Angie Martinez, and the studio door nobody dared open.

Then Cardi B calls, he cancels three clubs, and DJs Pasha with no mic. Plus why he posted his first TikTok at 32, why relationships cost him more than money, and the one young DJ he says is next.

Find DJ SpinKing @djspinking. The Heavy Hitter DJs podcast is hosted by with DJ Enuff, DJ Camilo, DJ Kast One and L. Boogs.

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