DJ AM found dead

i don't have much to say except rip.

Barker’s on-and-off-girlfriend Shanna Moakler was one of the first to respond to the news online, tweeting, “My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.” ?uestlove added, “It’s one thing to lose a teacher I never met. But it’s some other shit to lose a teacher I knew.”

his last tweet:

"NEW YORK, NEW YORK. BIG CITY OF DREAMS, BUT EVERYTHING IN NEW YORK AINT ALWAYS WHAT IT SEEMS."

damn.

DJ AM Dies -- Celebrities Turn to Twitter

Posted Aug 28th 2009 6:50PM by TMZ Staff

The following messages have been left by various celebrities on their Twitters since the death of DJ AM.

John Mayer: In complete shock.

Lindsay Lohan: i can't believe this.. i'm in shock. why? why? r.i.p. adam4

Shanna Moakler: My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.

Ryan Seacrest: So sad the hear about adam. a very kind and generous guy.

Heidi Montag: my thoughts and prayers are with DJ AM's family and friends.

Dr. Drew: I lack the words to describe my feelings.

Ashton Kutcher: much love to my boy AM

Soliel Moon Frye: Thank you for bringing so much music and inspiration to peoples lives. Rip Dj Am

tweet one out

I saw him pitch the first pitch at the Mets game this past sunday!

Dr. Drew: I lack the words to describe my feelings.

Depending on how you read Dr. Drew's inflection there, it's potentially hilarious.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08282009/news/regionalnews/manhattan/dj_am_found_dead_in_manhattan_apartment_186943.htm

^first response hall of fame

halalmeat71 OTM

there's more

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I WONDER WHAT SIZE SNEAKER HE WAS, CHANCES ARE GOOD THE SUPER OF HIS BUILDING IS ALBANIAN AND I CAN STRIKE A DEAL WITH HIM GETTING ME AM'S KICKS

i went to a club in Hollywood tonight and they had a moment of silence that lasted about 15 seconds, at least they had something...

no idea dude was in crazytown

Yeah, he was. I think he was obese at the time (no direct connection to the fact he was in crazytown) but got healthy.

Apparently he was suffering from PTS syndrome due to the crash (together with Travis B and 4 other guys. The latter died in the fire)

I followed his tweets for a while. Not a huge fan by any means, but it still saddens me to think he suffered so much from the crash, he took his own life. Apparently his body was 50procent in burn wounds?

i knew of him but only through crazytown and his ex-girlfriends. was he such a great dj?

Has anyone got a clear idea of what a DJ AM set sounded like?

Did he only spin at morning parties?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsF2X3GZ1zU

Ashton Kutcher: much love to my boy AM

god i hate this dude

ok, i'm sorry. xpost.

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^^^ This is how you do it

i think i heard him once at some schmancy event. nothing but mashups.

i dont' think he necessarily got "healty" to get rid of the weight. got his stomach tied.

I don't know who the cat was but judging by the roster of quotes in the 5th post, i don't think I really care.

^^ well said

i dont' think he necessarily got "healty" to get rid of the weight. got his stomach tied.

― jaxon, Saturday, August 29, 2009 3:17 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

jaxon my friend had this done - it actually requires a pretty huge lifestyle change and is not like getting a facelift or something

Yeah, it takes a LONG time to go through, and constant care is needed -- a friend also did similar. She has no regrets (as she said once, she was thrilled to discover she could actually rush for the car when she was running late once) but it wasn't easy.

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Serious lolz.

friend just asked me:

has the joke that "DJ AM got Final Destination'd, Travis Barker better be careful" already been made ad nauseum?

not quite sure how an ex-member of crazy town dying gets so much press?

He began dating actress Nicole Richie in 2004 and announced their engagement a year later in February 2005.[26] However, the couple broke up in late 2006.[27] "The one thing that stands out about Adam is that I can be myself," Richie said after the breakup.[28] After his breakup with Richie, Goldstein dated singer-actress Mandy Moore.[29][30] He was good friends with Steve Aoki, Cory Kennedy, Samantha Ronson, John Mayer, Paris Hilton, Travis Barker and DJ Eric Cubeechee.[31]

Oh sorry, shit, how embarrassing :-(

seriously

Q: What's the difference between DJ AM and DJ AM jokes?

A: DJ AM jokes can get old.

ugh

dude was practically middle aged?

;_;

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best.call.ever.

So is anyone actually familiar with DJ AM's DJ work? He was obviously famous because he dated other celebrities, but what did his music actually sound like? Was it any good?

I guess I don't exactly get the whole celebrity DJ thing...

ok huffpost weekend headline writer

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I heard him play a few times. He was technically very good and even inspired (and crowds would eat it up), but he was the type to switch tracks every 30 seconds (or less) which could be wearying.

Also, RIP.

i remember hearing years ago that one or more of the dudes in crazytown were way into crack. heard this more than once over time. but maybe it was just common knowledge and not some big secret.

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i know nothing about him. all i know is that deejays who spin at casinos are automatically not considered deejays in my book.

will admit that i wish tiesto was dead instead.

brave to admit that in public

"all i know is that deejays who spin at casinos are automatically not considered deejays in my book."

that's silly. you can make good money doing this. a friend of mine from philly used to get flown to vegas to spin and he got paid a ton and he said the crowds were always insane and loved what he played and he got to stay in amazing hotel suites! sounds good to me. and he was and is a very serious deejay with plenty of, you know, "cred" and all that.

apparently there's a screw loose in the shakey table

But there was more to DJ AM than being chased down by paparazzi.

If fans of Crazy Town's unsteadying rap-rock-electronic hit, "Butterfly," check the credits, they'll find DJ AM was manning the turntables and doing the scratching. Look and listen further and you find that his place in the metal-hip-hop mash-up stakes extends to artists like Papa Roach, Madonna, and Will Smith.

The boy could spin. That's how he won his reputation, one he lent to the flashy Pure nightclub in Las Vegas before he bought part of Dusk this year.

If he wasn't a commercially and aesthetically viable name worthy of admiration and paying customers, would fellow investors have dropped millions looking to cash in? Don't bet on it.

If he wasn't great, would Jay-Z - arguably the greatest rapper ever - have let DJ AM spin beside him during October's reopening of the Hollywood Palladium, barely a month after DJ AM's plane crash? H-to-the-Iz-NO.

DJ AM had chops as a scratcher and a spinner, plain and simple.

Everything else - the gossip, the drugs - was beneath him.

also:
Jay-Z - arguably the greatest rapper ever
Jay-Z - arguably the greatest rapper ever
Jay-Z - arguably the greatest rapper ever
Jay-Z - arguably the greatest rapper ever
Jay-Z - arguably the greatest rapper ever
Jay-Z - arguably the greatest rapper ever

was this written by gabbneb

"all i know is that deejays who spin at casinos are automatically not considered deejays in my book."

hahah. one of the dumber sentences I've read all week.

they are prob in casinos as we speak

friends and family who stan at casinos aren't even real stans in my book.

otm

as someone who knows nothing about him apart from i read in the tabloids, i will say that dude was my favourite mandy moore boyfriend and that he always seemed like the least douchebaggy one among all the douchebaggy slebs he hung out with. does that count as stanning for him?

(oh and RIP.)

i will be the one and only person to stan for crazytown! i liked their records.

having said that, i don't think i even knew he was in crazytown till now.

do they have djs at cockfights?

Can't you people be danning or nedding or scotting or tehresing or emilying or kating for these bands instead of stanning? :-/

come my lady come come my lady

btw i found no trace of an obese dj in the butterfly video

yeah i couldnt find any obese dj am photos?

(trying to convince my gf that he was once fat)

Everybody looks obese when they're standing next to Nicole Richie.

i remember hearing years ago that one or more of the dudes in crazytown were way into crack. heard this more than once over time. but maybe it was just common knowledge and not some big secret.

― scott seward, Sunday, August 30, 2009 1:26 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this was probably re: Shifty Shellshock when he was on Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew, though

i will be the one and only person to stan for crazytown! i liked their records.

― scott seward, Sunday, August 30, 2009 2:32 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u are def not the only one -- like me & probably half of ilm

this was during an era when lots of good pop music was played on ER. I remember hearing this & lo fidelity all stars on eps at some point ...

really? i always thought everyone hated crazytown here. except chuck and me. i must have missed the love!

"this was probably re: Shifty Shellshock when he was on Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew, though"

nah, this was, like, after there first album had come out. a dj i knew who had spent time with them and a couple of other people said that they were pretty out of hand with crack. i didn't see the dr. drew show. i'm sure it was sad. dude was kinda like the american version of the prodigy's scary clown guy. or happy mondays zombie bug dancer guy.

i'm google image searching and none of the dudes in crazy town were remotely fat.

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lrn 2 google dudez.

that one up top just made me bust out laughing. what a goof ball. RIP.

XRRF's obit sez he left Crazytown before they had their hit

i has a record

Apparently the anti-anxiety drugs he took to recover from the plane crash and coping with a lot of fear when taking planes - something he had to do quite frequently - re-ignited his drug usage. Apparently he wasn't using for a long time. The mixing of the prescription drugs and crack resulted in an overdose or accidental death. I can't imagine how he coped: surviving a plane crash and then having to still take lots of planes for dj-ing jobs. Dude also tried to kill himself when he was 24 but the gun jammed! WTF.

I ain't stanning for their music at all - up there with Limp Bizkit in re the jock musick - but I still think it's a damn shame when someone dies.

okay, i admit that i wrote that to seem like a blowhard. but this guy was in one stupid band and dated model-actresses, and suddenly he's like hot shit?

How should dating some B-listers influence how good a dj he was? It has no correlation. And he was in a shitty band, so what? It's a damn shame he died (like anyone else dying). Sure he moved in some crappy circles (Cory Kennedy? Urgh Aoki? Ek.) but y'know they're people and if they (accidently) die, then that's pretty darn sad. It's fucking weird to see their sadness on twitter. Kinda oO but then why not twitter that sad shit.

How should dating some B-listers influence how good a dj he was?

It is easy to lose cred when your promotion overshadows your actual work. I know more about his love life and clothing deals than I do about his release schedule.

Also, that top ten is loaded with the most obvious sure shots in the book. He just needs to throw in some Duran Duran, Salt N Pepa's Push It, Kriss Kross's Jump Jump, Wrex N Effect's Rump Shaker, and some Thriller and he has the game sown up. Anybody could play any of those songs in any order and have a floor.

Yeah, but the question was "what are your ten favorite party tracks?" not "post your DJ set".

For anyone in the mood for a spring dance party…I thought I would ask some super cool music experts for their ten favorite party tracks and thought the combined lists would make for a pretty great night. Looks good to me.

Get your mother lovin’ dance shoes on...

Love,

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Dr. Drew: I lack the words to describe my feelings.

Depending on how you read Dr. Drew's inflection there, it's potentially hilarious.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 August 2009 05:05 (2 days ago)

i thought it was fake!

It is easy to lose cred when your promotion overshadows your actual work. I know more about his love life and clothing deals than I do about his release schedule.

I worded it wrong, should have said that it does not have any impact on his ability as a dj. But yeah it did influence his image and in a way it improved it: We almost forgot he was in Crazytown. hahah

Also, that top ten is loaded with the most obvious sure shots in the book. He just needs to throw in some Duran Duran, Salt N Pepa's Push It, Kriss Kross's Jump Jump, Wrex N Effect's Rump Shaker, and some Thriller and he has the game sown up. Anybody could play any of those songs in any order and have a floor.

― your original display name is still visible (Display Name), Monday, August 31, 2009 7:50 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

man, if only he'd lived to hear your DJing advice... maybe he would have finally achieved the success that so eluded him

i still don't get it, because even though people say they aren't stanning for him, it definitely seems like they are. stanning for this dude rather than dash snow is beyond my comprehension, but maybe that's my own personal biases coming out.

you're accusing us of being secret stans?

yes.

the vitriol on the RIP Dash Snow thread was overwhelming, and here people are like, 'OH HOW SAD HE USED TO BE FAT AND HE DIED ACCIDENTALLY OH NO COME MY LADY COME COME MY LADY WAAAAAH.' this guy did much less of substance and importance than cumming on newspapers, imho.

come my lady/come come my lady

i still don't get it, because even though people say they aren't stanning for him, it definitely seems like they are. stanning for this dude rather than dash snow is beyond my comprehension, but maybe that's my own personal biases coming out.

Dunno who Dash is so I can't stan/defend him. Sorry.

the vitriol on the RIP Dash Snow thread was overwhelming, and here people are like, 'OH HOW SAD HE USED TO BE FAT AND HE DIED ACCIDENTALLY OH NO COME MY LADY COME COME MY LADY WAAAAAH.' this guy did much less of substance and importance than cumming on newspapers, imho.

― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Monday, August 31, 2009 10:35 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you're right, what's the world come to when people can't act like assholes after somebody dies anymore

lol @ table trying to drum up a posthumous Dash Snow/DJ AM beef

look, i'm done here after this post, but i just can't fathom how one person can get so much ILX-vitriol thrown at him and another so much ILX 'oh cmon this is REALLY SAAAD' sentiment thrown at him. considering the fact that Dash died under similar (if not altogether the same) circumstances, i am just a bit perplexed, that's all. both of these dudes made a bit of good stuff and a lot of crappy stuff, neither of them led lives that one would consider morally exemplary, and while it is sad that they are no longer with us, that doesn't make criticizing them some sort of fucking crime.

the vitriol on the RIP Dash Snow thread was overwhelming

I just went and checked and it was as I remembered - ppl were being quite respectful if anything considering he was basically a picture-perfect hate figure

not sure how anyone here is stanning for him when most of us have never even heard his music or DJ-ing.

the responses on the dash snow thread seemed to be more directed towards the sort of circles he ran in that encouraged his self-destructiveness, rather than directed at dash snow himself. whereas i dunno AM's death seems more of a straight-up personal tragedy - dude was involved in a horrible plane crash that killed his friends and he just couldn't deal. sad ends for both but i don't really get where you think people are being all "wow this guy's an artist and a legend and dash snow sucks."

ya it was pretty much exactly like... this thread. xp

table u a weird dude.

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still lolling at this btw

How sad. :(

man, if only he'd lived to hear your DJing advice... maybe he would have finally achieved the success that so eluded him

― rice dr?m (s1ocki), Monday, August 31, 2009 9:18 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

You do realize that this thread is about a dude who snuffed himself on crack and pills at 36. It isn't like he is going to stumble into Larry Levan status in a decade. He is going to be that clown from crazytown who made a lot of money by being as LCD as possible. Those celeb tweets are about as far as his legacy is going to go.

I am cool with being underground if that's success.

come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
uhhhhhh ha uhhhhhh ha
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me
come and dance with me

[thanks to bee✧✧✧@p✧.n✧✧, eckochi✧✧✧@c✧.c✧✧ for correcting these lyrics]

I am cool with being underground if that's success.

Hahaha, this doesn't reek of bitterness at all.