Easy Money –

While you slave away in your cubicle farm, burning the midnight oil for pennies an hour and withstanding abuse from idiot clients and account people, some doofus is making $300 a night by simply pressing Play on his iPod.

I’m talking about modern day so-called “DJs”.

It used to be that a real DJ showed up at a party with crates full of records and about 1,000 lbs. of sound equipment. He had to work his ass off to read the vibe of the party and create a real scene with music. This is an organic process.

And to really earn his keep, he had to hype it up on the mic, telling people to “raise their hands in the air like you just don’t care”, and “If you’re black and proud, say Yeah… If you got a bubble-but say Hell Yeah…”

If your skills were good, you stayed all night. If you bit, you were booed out of the city.

Today, these wannabe DJs just play their preprogrammed Playlists. There’s no improvisation, no spontaneous moves, no build-up or slow down. The art of DJing a party is over.

I saw this the other night at a corporate gig: Dude showed up with an iPod, jacked it into the PA system, pressed Play, sat down and chatted on his cell phone and fucked around on his laptop ALL NIGHT! And… he was promptly paid his fee for “services rendered”.

Are we suckers or what?