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DJ ________ Rock/Rok/Rocc
i have rock behind my real first name. it was just dj brett. i didn't think it sounded all that cool. people said i rocked because they like the music i play. it made sense. and besides you need to pick something descent that you wont mind getting stuck with for a long time. after a while some would ask me if that was my real last name. i said that it was. i still have yet to meet another brett rock so i still feel kind of un-cliched. but rock is a good name, a strong manly name. its b boy. short and to the point. its a classic hip hop suffix. i respect the roots of all this and im somewhat knowledgable about the past. i hope people would look at my name in the same way. i feel like a descendant from a long line of proud rocks throughout history.
its not unlike having the word "fresh" in your name. that one has definately shown up in more than one place. but i think thats kind of cool. i used to dj with a dude named "crickett" and theres a well known dj from the bronx who many call "Bam" for short. and hes been djing for quite some time. its just a name.
my gang is called the better beats bureau. weve had that name for about 5 years now. ive heard that theres others out there with the same name but i havent found them yet. someone from "the better breakbeat bureau"(i think better breakbeat bureau sounds a bit silly) contacted my homey to make sure we werent biting. he assured this fellow that we were not.
taking on part of classic name is akin to fat laces and having your name on your jacket and such. i think that style is dope and should be kept alive.
who out there is just so original that they are completely unprecidented? we play other peoples music(mostly), on equipment others invented using methods that have been here for decades. so what?
will the guy who invented djing please stand up and point his finger at all of us and talk about how cliched all of this is?
thanks for the explanation but it's not really necessary - you do you. i hope you didn't take my post as a diss or as impetus for having to explain why your name is what it is. i just happen to see alot of 'Rock's. and 'Fresh' too!
the way i see it, true skills > everything else. we just create the "dj handle" so that people can make connections between us and our skills. "oh, dj so and so, he's nice!"
yes, our names have meaning and whatnot but there are some DJs out there that have not-so-creative names but are still recognized b/c of their skills/accomplishments (DJ P and DJ AM come to mind).
