Get the latest gossip
What’s It Like To Be An NBA DJ?
DJs for 16 NBA teams talk about the pressures and glories of selecting the soundtracks for each season.
“There’s a lot of pressure running in-game vamps while being prepared for mandatory and unexpected timeouts,” says the Houston Rockets’ DJ Palmo, whose job also includes crafting and playing a 10- to 15-minute pre-game mix for every home game. I was part of a group [of Native American artists put together by Taboo from The Black Eyed Peas during the Standing Rock Movement in 2016] that won a 2017 MTV Video Music Award [for a song related to the protest]. I’ve created countless audio remixes with different hype samples to facilitate crowd reactions, but if I had to pick one track, I’d say the DJ Quake edit of “El Sonidito” by Hechizeros Band.
Or read this on Billboard
