Jesus De Jesus aka DJ J Peso is a good friend of mine and one of my favorite local DJs.  With the most votes in Commune featured local history, I was excited to congratulate him on winning Commune’s featured local for December and find out what he has going on.

The name is a nickname my best friend Norm gave me when we lived in NY together.  I’m Dominican and our currency is pesos. When we would go out and pay for something I would say that’s x amount of pesos, even though they were dollars. So, that’s how the name came about.  When it came time to to pick a DJ name that was the default. Not a very exiting story, I know.

I can go about this for hours. Music is my outlet and the soundtrack of my life. I get inspired by all types of music like Jay-Z, CCR, Stevie, Dio, Cash, Chromeo, Black Keys, and the list keeps going, but, i’m a huge hip hop nerd. It’s my go to genre of music. It all started when I was about 11.  I walked into an HMV and I went straight to the hip hop section. I picked up A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders on cassette and put that tape in my walkman and was hooked.  I like DJing because I like seeing people have fun.  A couple of weeks ago I had this big crowd of people dancing. Every one looked like they were having so much fun.  I looked at the crowd and out of nowhere some dude pulled his pants down. No one even noticed! Now, that’s crowd control. For those few hours i’m up in the booth I’m having fun and so are they. That’s enough inspiration for me to DJ.

You can find me every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month @ the Bluefoot for my North Park Saturday Nights. Starting next year I’ll be DJing some other local spots, so I’ll keep every one posted.

Plain and simple the shit kills! To me it is a little more personal, my uncle died of emphysema when I was 9, but it goes beyond disease.  The tobacco industry is one of the world largest mafias. We live in a world full of information and instead of those 5 mins you spend looking @ funny shit on youtube, you should look up how tobacco affects the world in negative ways worldwide.   You’ll be surprise to see what you can find out.

For more on DJ J Peso and where you can find him around town, check out his Myspace page @ www.myspace.com/djjpeso