origin/ meaning of the phrase 'sucker DJ'

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did it come from the Dimples D song?

what on earth does it mean??!

piscesboy, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

yeah, dimples d invented the word 'sucker', really.

N_RQ, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

it refers to a dj who is also a sucker.

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m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's nearly as ubiquitous as "sucker MC," though, is it?

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

she was an innovator

N_RQ, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

"Sucker DJs" was a response to "Sucker MCs" by Run-DMC, and I think it's rather obvious from the lyrics what Dimples D meant with the term.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

what on earth does it mean??!

piscesboy, are you from the "indie pop community"?

Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

IT MEANS THE BEATS ARE WACK!

js (honestengine), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

oh don't get me wrong i mean i'm fully aware of the idea of stuff that sucks in general, and of the whole 'sucka mcs' thing, but *in those days* (back in the day if u will) what made a dj 'suck' as such?
and who said it first? that, in esence was what i was after.

piscesboy, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

"sucker mc" refers to someone who is almost as wack as a "sucker duck mc"

m0stly just trying to be helpful (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

what made a dj 'suck' as such?

DJs are there to start a party. Some are better than others.

Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

duck you sucker

gear (gear), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

It is also possible that an individual, despite being a competent DJ, might also be a sucker, on a personal and perhaps professional level. It is, however, undoubtedly true that this state of being a sucker would inevitably overpower the individuals DJ competency, leading him or her to devote adequate DJ skills to mixes of a sucker-like nature, presumably appreciated largely by fellow suckers.

nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

yeah the song was actually called 'Sucker, DJ'

Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

A disc jockey who sucks, clearly.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

this has been illuminating.

good song, btw

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

You ready to kick some ass?
Turn up the music

I was at a jam the other night, I was feelin' real good so the feelin' was right
I came to the party for a different kinda action, The next thing I know
I was doin' a Michael Jackson, I was thrown off beat and my feet got tired
And the sucker DJ just oughta be fired, He was flippin' and a slippin'
Even drawn back to, The Sucker DJ didn't know what he was doin'
Then I said to my friends this ain't the place to be, Then the fellas only came
'Cause the ladies were free, Then we left the place before the next couple o' plays
My girl said to me, I'm glad we never paid, So I called Marley Marl on the very next day
Then we cut a rap about the sucker DJ (echo)

See, to be a DJ you gotta do your best, Have you're own kinda style, not like the rest
No jumpin' up and down, bendin' with your feet, 'Cause the music that you play
Has to be your own beat, So Marley Marl went down to take a test
To see who could cut up music best, They were all lined up and ready to spin
You could see in thier faces that they wanted to win, Yes Marley took the test
To become a DJ, We cut the music, went a somethin' this way
He cut the music with so much class, The Sucker DJ, was a bust on the ass
So when the time was up, they just couldnt' believe, What the man, Marley Marl
Has just achieved, We get the people dancin', on a whackier jam
'Cause Marley Marl was one hell of a man, So to those DJ's that think you're the greatest
Just stop look and listen 'cause you haven't heard the lastest (heard the latest)

Then we cut a rap about the sucker DJ (echo)
Then we cut a rap about the sucker DJ (echo)
Then we cut a rap about the sucker DJ (echo)
Then we cut a rap about the, cut a rap about the
Cut a rap about the sucker DJ

So listen party people while I got your attention, There's a few more things I'd like to mention
My name is Crystal but they call me Dimples D, Ain't a female in the world can rap like me
I got big brown eyes, holes in my cheeks, Keep in time with rap, every time I speak
Yeah I can make you fall in love if you give me a chance, I ain't talkin' 'bout sex
Or no kinda romance, But it's my style, my charm, let me go on
It's a chilly, it's a chilly, then it starts to get warm, I'm five foot five, stayin' alive
In this world Dimple D will sure enough survive

With the.... (unintelligible)

Get down, get down, yeah let's get on down
Get down, get down, music make you lose control
Get down, get down, yeah let's get on down
Get down, get down

Then we cut a rap about the sucker DJ (echo) C'mon, C'mon
Then we cut a rap about the sucker DJ (echo) C'mon, C'mon
Then we cut a rap about the sucker DJ (echo) C'mon, C'mon
Then we cut a rap about the, cut a rap about the
Cut a rap about the sucker DJ (echo)

piscesboy, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Even if the thread didn't reveal all that much, we've gained quite a bit of hip-hop cred along the way!!

Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

so where on the venn diagram does the beat-biter fall?

dan

Dan Gr (certain), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

woah, dimples' standards are pretty fucking high. witness:

"See, to be a DJ you gotta do your best, Have you're own kinda style, not like the rest"

duly noted.

"No jumpin' up and down, bendin' with your feet..."

okay -- it's a negotiating position

but

"... 'Cause the music that you play has to be your own beat"

well now, really!? it think that's harsh. it's okay if you're marley marl or i dunno superpitcher, but any dj who really stuck to this would get called an egomaniac.

N_RQ, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)


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