I’ll put it this way, if you aren’t mixing, if you aren’t scratching, if you aren’t using some sort of tool of the trade in a matter that requires real skill, then you just aren’t a “Real DJ” The name of the art is control, without real control over the music you might as well give it up. If you are just in it to make money and not actually offer something back to the game, then you are less than nothing.

If you are simply compiling a ton of music together and calling it a “mixtape” without adding a real piece of yourself into the “Mix” using skills, programing and creativity then you are just plain garbage and should never use the title of “DJ” Deejaying is one of the original arts of Hip Hop just throwing the title before your name and not embodying the spirit of the DJ is ludicrous. All I can say is money is not the end all be all and “Real DJs Do Real Things” (tr)

- DJ Emir
The Internet Mixtape King
Creator of DJ Emir’s Transformers Mixtape
VIP Nightclub magazine 2008 Mixtape of The Year
And the subsequent hot mixtape hit
Ironman Mixtape

Lame.