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Cumbia Always Brings Out the Latinos

July 24, 2024
DJ Canyon Cody talks about going viral on mitú’s IG for playing Selena’s “Si Una Vez” during his set, playing cumbia at Burning Man, and what party songs should be banned.
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So thank you for joining us DJ Ko Naso.
00:04
Thank you. So we met you at the Roosevelt and the
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video that I took of you went super viral.
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Who said his first up?
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I, so yeah,
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I woke up and I had like 50 notifications.
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I was like, oh who died?
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And then I was like,
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oh, no, what did I do?
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And II I called my little brother and I was like,
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is it embarrassing? And he's like,
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yeah, and then I watched it.
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I was like, that's not embarrassing.
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That's just how I dance.
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Yeah. And people were like loving it and it's like the
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fact that you got the little,
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the little and you were like,
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well, the thing about D jing is that you don't want
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sticky fingers. So I kept on walking out with like,
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you know, little tiny tacos or,
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or little things and I,
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you know, like,
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and then so you see that clean stick and I was like
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perfect. I saw him walking out like one.
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So we actually pulled some comments from the video.
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So someone said, met him at burning man.
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The only DJ playing salsa Bachata and Cumbias in the desert over
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seven years ago. How was that?
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I mean, what I found is that you can go anywhere
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and play Cumbia and salsa and Latinos will come like gravitating.
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And that's the thing everywhere that I have made a whole career
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out of playing like Cumbia and salsa at places where they're
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like, oh, that's not the right music for here.
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And then it turns out that,
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you know, half the people there are Latino.
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That's so funny. So it's like our little colleague.
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Yeah. You play Sonora Di Na Mi and then just like
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out of the wood dude.
01:48
Yes. And then another person said this looks like a history
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teacher whose true passion was DJ.
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See this one, I couldn't even be mad at this one
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because I'm actually a DJ whose true passion would to be a
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history teacher. If it wasn't for the fact that I do
02:02
not like waking up before noon,
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I would have totally happily been like 1/7 grade history teacher.
02:08
But you are an educator,
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right? Or, I mean,
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I like teach people how to have fun.
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But, but no,
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I mean, I've been like pretty much just a party thrower
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my whole life. I mean,
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I've done a lot of like,
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research about music and done a lot of I've thrown a
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lot of college parties.
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That's cool. And people love you like,
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no offense. I gotta be real.
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I did not think you were Latino.
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That's the, I actually thought you were white but you are
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stupid and like, do most people automatically assume you're,
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like, just white?
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Yeah, absolutely. I mean,
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I am white. I mean,
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I'm, I'm, I mean,
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I've been throwing,,
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you know, illegal parties,
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house parties my whole life and I'm the guy that you send
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to go talk to the cops when they are outside.
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I mean, like,
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but yeah,
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the reality is that you know,
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Latinos come in all colors,
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all types, all,
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every day. And it is one of those things where
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I got a lot of my like,
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young youth. I was like,
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no, I'm Latino and fight for it.
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And then eventually you just kind of like let people assume what
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they want and, you know,
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you live your life,
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you can't worry about that.
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So it's 2024 now.
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And I feel like some songs like must be taken off of
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the party playlist. What song would it be for you?
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I mean, lately,
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unfortunately you got to take Mia from bad bunny off the
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list. Drake Drake has ruined the song.
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Can't play it anymore.
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I mean, there's some songs that you know,
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if, if I'm playing like,
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you know, a quinceanera and I really need to get certain
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people to dance. I might lower my standards to play it
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But I would say at any self-respecting party you should not
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hear sue you think sue is done.
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You know what else I'm done.
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I'm done with Peeps.
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PS needs like a five year ban and then we can bring
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it back as a throwback.
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Well, you know what?
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I don't think he's the same because now he's very,
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like, he's like,
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religious and all this other stuff.
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This is how we lost ele too.
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That's true. We lost him and supposedly we lost daddy Yankee
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But I don't believe that one.
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Yeah, I don't believe the Lord's taking everybody.
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And then you see that Yankee too.
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I feel like, like like Gasolina comes in like five year
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cycles. Like we gotta retire it for a while and then
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you can bring it back.
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Well, thank you so much.
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We really, really appreciate you coming in and just,
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you know, breaking the DJ life down for us.
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People gotta come party,
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I party called Sub Suelo here in Las Vegas.
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We throw a great party.
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We always got live music.
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There's gonna be like live Cumbia,
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live salsa DJ S.
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We get down and where can people follow you?
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So at Sub Suelo Crew is where you're gonna find out about
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all of our parties.
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And then to see what I'm doing,
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what I got cooking up in the kitchen is El Canon.
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Nao. It's awful.