How does DJ Envy have so much money?

[Guvnor]

OP a chatty patty who wants him to struggle and might work for the IRS.

The answer however is Payola

 

[LevelUp]

mixtape game.

 

[CEITEDMOFO]

doesnt he spin records out in ny?

 

[KinksandCoils]

He's probably smart with his money. Not only with investing but just with saving. Also it's the breakfast club everyone knows they get paid well. They just try and act like avg joes. Which they are compared to the celebs they interview with.

 

[CASHAPP]

I'm going to be honest with you. If you don't know how to produce records and create hits DO NOT become a DJ in 2017. In this day and age EVERYONE is a DJ because technology has completely deteriorated the barrier of entry it takes to get into the game. When I started DJing you had to purchase vinyl and it took a while to build up enough records to successfully do a party and I also had to purchase the turntables. Now all you need is a laptop and a controller. Before you competition was just people who were passionate about music now your competition is some bad bytch in a bikini who promoters can use to get into the building or some celebrity or washed up rapper who decided to do it for a check. Everyone from Snoop to Talib Kweli are DJs now. From to Pauly D from Jersey Shore & Paris Hilton. If you're a good producer or have something else going on outside of DJing that makes you popular like radio, tv, movies then you can make big bucks Djing otherwise you'll be a guy in your city making a couple of a hundred bucks per gig at club & 1000s for weddings and corporate events, which is cool but you're really eating off a volume based thing which kinda sucks when you think about it. You'll give up your holidays and every single weekend of your life to entertain other people. You'll also be performing when you're sick as fukk (you don't work, you don't eat), chasing promoters around for money, always being owed. If you're throwing your own events, there's pressure to be popular and get people constantly coming to your events so you can eat. If you're a celebrity DJ it's really a great life but if you're a good DJ who's not a celebrity I personally think there's better ways to live life even if you are really passionate about music, as I was.

I've personally DJ'd all types of celebrity events (Jill Scott's Bday, Justin Timberlake Afterparty, events with Terrence J from BET, events with Khaled, all types of shyt) but yeah the money was never as good as I thought it would be. I used to be in the clubs 4-5x a week. I've pretty much stopped doing clubs and have only been doing private & corporate gigs in the past year and a half just because I make more per event and have to deal with much less. I'm probably about to go back to school and get my masters and do something else just because this isn't really the life I want anymore.

From what your saying it sounds as if nowadays its best to just do djing for family or friends of your family and have a set pay rate for that. But in situations like that you would have to have a big extended family or have alot of family get togethers. Basically sticking to your neighborhood like djing for a relative's kids and their friends l or something.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

He makes 2 million a year working on the breakfast club.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Envy is always working, its all he knows.

Dude looks like he always has one foot in the grave

 

[Big Boss]

Investing

 

[ridedolo]

He makes 2 million a year working on the breakfast club.

radio dudes dont get paid like that

 

[Michael's Black Son]

OP a chatty patty who wants him to struggle and might work for the IRS.

The answer however is Payola

Yup.

payola
Investments
Multi gig nights
Day job
Settlement
Family $

 

[SpacelySprockets]

iheartradio money and he owns a couple of stores

oh and that effen vodka money

 

[chief_keef_stan]

fukk this guy envy nikka ruined my entire night this past weekend

yo my nikka u was at blackout too?

DJ envy was fukin trash af

song changed every fukin 5 seconds

as soon as you grabbed a bytch song changed smh

nikka talkin more than playin

smh waste of 35

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

yo my nikka u was at blackout too?

DJ envy was fukin trash af

song changed every fukin 5 seconds

as soon as you grabbed a bytch song changed smh

nikka talkin more than playin

smh waste of 35

awe shyt what's good G

ya this year's blackout was ass, last year was waaaay better. i got way to mf'ing lit at last year's blackout. hopefully next year is not a dud and they get a better dj. my boy wants to dj next year but the president of the club is being a jerk about it

what school you go to

 

[Big Boss]

I'm going to be honest with you. If you don't know how to produce records and create hits DO NOT become a DJ in 2017. In this day and age EVERYONE is a DJ because technology has completely deteriorated the barrier of entry it takes to get into the game. When I started DJing you had to purchase vinyl and it took a while to build up enough records to successfully do a party and I also had to purchase the turntables. Now all you need is a laptop and a controller. Before you competition was just people who were passionate about music now your competition is some bad bytch in a bikini who promoters can use to get into the building or some celebrity or washed up rapper who decided to do it for a check. Everyone from Snoop to Talib Kweli are DJs now. From to Pauly D from Jersey Shore & Paris Hilton. If you're a good producer or have something else going on outside of DJing that makes you popular like radio, tv, movies then you can make big bucks Djing otherwise you'll be a guy in your city making a couple of a hundred bucks per gig at club & 1000s for weddings and corporate events, which is cool but you're really eating off a volume based thing which kinda sucks when you think about it. You'll give up your holidays and every single weekend of your life to entertain other people. You'll also be performing when you're sick as fukk (you don't work, you don't eat), chasing promoters around for money, always being owed. If you're throwing your own events, there's pressure to be popular and get people constantly coming to your events so you can eat. If you're a celebrity DJ it's really a great life but if you're a good DJ who's not a celebrity I personally think there's better ways to live life even if you are really passionate about music, as I was.

I've personally DJ'd all types of celebrity events (Jill Scott's Bday, Justin Timberlake Afterparty, events with Terrence J from BET, events with Khaled, all types of shyt) but yeah the money was never as good as I thought it would be. I used to be in the clubs 4-5x a week. I've pretty much stopped doing clubs and have only been doing private & corporate gigs in the past year and a half just because I make more per event and have to deal with much less. I'm probably about to go back to school and get my masters and do something else just because this isn't really the life I want anymore.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

radio dudes dont get paid like that

I'm confident he told dame dash that during the interview.