and even Justin Bieber, he is actually best known for his ubiquitous, boastfully self-referential shout-outs — to himself, in the third person — and his “We the best!” verbal branding.
“Life calls upon us to be great, so let’s be the best of the best,” he says tapping his chest like the proud motivational speaker he basically is. “I wake up every day being No. 1.” “It ain’t about just me no more — it’s all about my family and their future,” he says. “And I hope my children are inspired by what their daddy’s done, and to be great, to help people and to always accomplish their goals and dreams.”
“When you love something as much as I love music, it never feels like work,” he says. “That drive — I prayed on it so that it connected to something great. I still do. I pray for the world; I pray for God to put the light on for me and my friends.” Yet what made Khaled different was the diversity of the music he played: Whether on turntables, radio or records, he mixed up American hip-hop with Caribbean sounds, Latin rhythms, reggae, dancehall, soul, funk, jazz, rock and West Asian music. That foundation has continued through his dozen albums, from his first proper full-length, 2006’s “Listennn … the Album,” through to his most recent, 2021’s “Khaled Khaled.
“Sampling jazz records, soul, rock, Arabic — hip-hop is an amalgamation of all that. I didn’t know it when I was like an 8- or 9-year-old first loving music, but combining all of that was in my head since I was a tiny child. By 12 and 13 years old, I was scratching, I knew sampling. By 16, I had my keyboard, my drum machine, and my production skills together.
“My relationships are crucial to me, way more important to me than making a record,” he says. “I’ve known most of these friends from their start. When I was DJing, I used to break their records, before they became big. As I was pursuing my career and my goals as an artist and producer, we came up together and built that mutual respect.”
“You’re right — what they’re doing for me, they’re not doing on their own records,” he says proudly. “Different and elevating — I’m going to use that! And they’re a part of it. And it’s got to capture a moment in time. Ten years from now, I want you to remember where you were when you heard it, and what else was going on around you. Maybe you were at the Super Bowl. Maybe you were graduating. Maybe you were on vacation or on a yacht. You hear a DJ Khaled song and you remember that moment.
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