Needle Exchange: A DJ Questionnaire with Easy Egg

By Matthew Singer

Years DJing: Nine.

Genre: Hip-hop and R&B.

Where you can catch me regularly: Tube, Fortune, East Chinatown Lounge, Swift Lounge, Church, the 1905.

Craziest gig: I played a frat party in Corvallis, and Gorilla Zoe performed live. It was an unruly crowd, with no real security, and they kept knocking down the barriers. We had to stop the music every few minutes to tell the crowd to chill. I truly don't think I got to mix more than three songs in a row without having to stop the music so we could make announcements. I was sober, so I had a lot of anxiety and was very irritated.

My go-to records: It depends on the set. With older music, it's Janet Jackson's "Go Deep" and Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones Part II." With newer sets, right now it's Rae Sremmurd's "Black Beatles" and Yo Gotti's "Law."

Don't ever ask me to play: The Chainsmokers.

NEXT GIG: DJ Easy Egg spins at Tube, 18 NW 3rd Ave., on Wednesday, Nov. 2.

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