0:17Bam: The people, for sure. I haven’t been a super big fan of, like, the scene here, except for, like, the underground music, but the people, yeah, that’s what makes me stay.
0:27A: Okay, so what would you say about the underground music scene here?
0:29Bam: They got, they throw dumb like warehouse raves, like, I don’t know, certain lit or like phone lists, like they’ll just send you to like these warehouses out in the middle of nowhere, like under a bridge in the sewers, throw insane raves until like five, six in the morning. Love that shit. They don’t got that like in Washington where I’m actually from. A lot of stinky motherfuckers. I mean, I love the music. The people are awesome, too, but some of them just need to take a shower more often, dude. I’m not even going to front. Like, we’re all in a warehouse together. Like, put on some Old Spice, please, for the love of God.
1:06Bam: I hear it. I hear it.
1:28A: But, and so do you make music?
1:29Bam: I dabble.
1:31A: Okay. What kind of stuff do you make?
1:33Bam: The shit, usually like very like old school New York-ish hip-hop beats or like like, you know, Griselda. I mean, you know Wu-Tang. Yeah. That’s a lot of my inspiration or like MF Doom, Westside Gunn. Love those motherfuckers. So that’s usually what I try to emanate.
1:54A: Okay, and how did you get into hip-hop?
1:57Bam: Just friends. Friends got music, studios. I just come in. Sometimes I try to throw a bar in there, but I think I need to stick to the techie side. I’m not too lyrical.
2:11A: Yeah, that’s fair. I thought you were going to say that the raves aren’t like hip-hop raves, no?
2:15Bam: Well, I mean, sometimes they can be, but not usually. I’m not super into the super wubby shit. I love hardstyle. That’s my shit.
2:27A: Is that a big thing here in Denver?
2:28Bam: Not surprisingly. Surprisingly not. I wish it was. It’s more of like a European, like, Netherlands, Berlin, Amsterdam.
2:36A: So how is there a scene here in Denver?
2:39Bam: Very scarce. I mean, the scene here is more like wubby, dubstep, bass shit. I like a lot of the bass shit, but I don’t know, dude. Dubstep just grinds my gears.
2:54A: You don’t like dubstep? Dubstep’s no good?
2:55Bam: I don’t like the screechy whiny shit I like the you know the wubby lubby I mean it depends I don’t know it’s a weird it’s all this it’s not all the same they’re very nuanced I don’t know but I fuck with the I fuck with the harder hitting shit
3:12A: okay who are like some names we should know in hardstyle like
3:15Bam: oh hards
3:18A: for the people who don’t know crude intentions oh yeah I like that face this way it’s more like
3:22Bam: yeah yeah yeah yeah crude intentions the purge Mutilator, oh my god, I fucking love that motherfucker Who else? CrowdX Little Texas, Sub-Zero Project Those are some of my names, yeah
3:39A: If you could speak to the peak of this genre of music When was it and how did it happen? SoundCloud music is like, if that’s a framework I don’t know if you know how SoundCloud came to work But it’s like a scene developed, it proliferated And now here we are
3:55Bam: I think it definitely started in, like, the Netherlands, like, or, um, I don’t know, Berlin, Amsterdam, they all got, like, that very, like, deep techno house, I think is, it’s, like, hard, I can’t remember what it’s called
4:12A: It’s okay
4:12Bam: But they got this, um, their techno there is very, like, deep in hits, and I think it just kind of evolved from that, maybe, I don’t know, early, like, late 90s, or to, like, Russia, too, I think Oh yeah, they fucking love it over there. That’s when they got the guys in the tracksuits fucking
4:32A: Oh yeah?
4:32Bam: I can’t, I know, I can’t hit that shit, I can’t hit that shit But no, yeah, that’s where it originated. I’m glad it fucking found its way out here But not enough. There’s not really any hardstyle raves out here
4:43A: Okay, where’s like the most prominent, what are you gonna say?
4:45Bam: Oh, I’m saying there is one coming up. I think it’s at the, I think it’s at Vinyl actually
4:52A: And what day is that?
4:53Bam: Shit, I don’t know man, I’d have to check
4:56A: Okay, maybe you’ll let me know
4:57Bam: I’ll let you know, yeah, let me get your digits Oh, yeah, dude No, they’re sick, dude Oh, they’re so much fun It’s like the exact kind of music I want when I’m at like a club or like at a show Hell
5:08A: yeah Hell yeah What’s it called? You say you came out here from Seattle What’s like the biggest difference you see between here and like outside the music scene, right? Like at the people level, how people talk to each other, how they interact The culture, I guess, you know?
5:22Bam: The people here are like completely the opposite That’s it, like everyone in Seattle is, not everyone, there’s cool people there, but the vibe is just like, stay away from me, I don’t want to talk to you. Like if you do this in Seattle, you’ll get like fucking nobody. But Denver, I feel like most people are just chill, like they’re down to, it might be the weather too. It’s always gray there, everyone’s sad all the time.
5:45A: Yeah, I heard that.
5:46Bam: But I don’t know, people here just smoke a lot more weed and chill out. We got sunshine all the time. Way too much recently, too. Our fire season’s going to be fucked up. But yeah, dude, just the people.
5:59A: Shout out to the water.
6:01Bam: You what?
6:01A: Shout out to the water.
6:02Bam: Shout out water, man. Hey, dude, we need some more of that. I think it’s probably going to snow soon, hopefully. But yeah, the people and the weather is probably the two biggest Just like opposite differences. Although, Washington is way more beautiful. The trees, the fucking, I love moss. The woods, big ass trees too. Because all these were planted. We don’t got, like, we’re in a desert technically.
6:27A: Yeah. Isn’t that crazy? We’re in a fucking desert.
6:29Bam: Yeah. Elevated desert, dude, it’s fucking wild.
6:31A: They make you think it’s not a desert. No, it is. But
6:34Bam: it explains a lot. It’s literally classified as an elevated desert. But, um, yeah, weathering the people, man. But I’m glad I’m out here, you know, it’s been fun, it’s a vibe Oh yeah,
6:45A: my last question is, what’s a message you have for the people under 8?
6:48Bam: Under 8? Stay in school until you graduate high school And then after that, only go to college if you really need to Because otherwise, you’ll just be in a world of hurt If you don’t need a degree to do what you want to do, then don’t do it Just do what you want No, no,
7:16A: oh my god
7:17Bam: No, I just, uh, I make it happen It’s
7:19A: all we can do, right? It’s
7:21Bam: all we can do, try my best out here
7:22A: Oh yeah, man, well I appreciate it
7:24Bam: No, I appreciate you, bro What was your name again? Maceo Maceo, hey Bam Bam
7:29A: So my page is called We Them Media And I’ve been having people say Booyah Booyah? Yeah, so you can say it with me at the end of 3, 2, 1 Ready? 3, 2, 1 Booyah!
