An MIT instructor invited me to speak to students in his DJ class 

Would you take a college-level DJ course? Let us know you thoughts below! Check out Philip Tan's lesson on the history and technology of vinyl records at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n6vMLYutz6Y.html

Thank you so much for speaking at our class PJ! You were sharing sage advice and hard-won experience... important perspective for any DJ's career.

Congratulations on your guest speaking gig at MIT. Very thoughtful life lessons to share. I’ve seen some of your in-depth videos and I can imagine you relishing in the conversations generate in the classroom. Cheers to many more firsts! 🥂🍻

MIT Media Lab was probably the first - and for a long time the only - mainstream academic institution to even consider 'DJ stuff' and non-academic electronic music technology something worth thinking about & researching in a deep way. glad to see they're still interested in contemporary DJ culture at an authentic level. nice1

Bro, its a very important step for DJ culture! You are a legend!

Yes, I would be down for that MIT DJ class; so cool. As a founder of a local DJ collective, it really is as much networking as it is skills and of standing out. Great knowledge you share. I’m certainly still learning, and plan to for a long time to come.

This was cool to see man. You've come a long way!

Thanks for sharing this! I recently got my 1st in Dec 2021. I actually felt a bit awkward looking at people so I looked at my gear most of the time. 😅 The "first show" advice is really helpful. I like the part of "looking at the crowd". Something for me to practice and get used to!

You just dropped some heavy knowledge! Thank you so much! You truly have inspired me to work on being a better artist!

Fantastic stuff. Thanks Pri 🙏

Thanks for the advice 🙏🙏

AHHHHmazing content! Thanks for sharing 🙌🏼🙏🏼🤘🏼🎉

For a younger Dj. (I say younger because you are younger than me). You are wise beyond your years.

I'd absolutely attend a dj class. I live in a small town in England and I've never even met another person who is into turntsblism. So I've literally never seen another person scratch in person! It's lonely as fuck 😂

Sound advice all the way through 👍 If I may, I think you should have limited the amount of words on your slides, which got busier and busier. I'm sure that you can talk about the subject for hours without needing to read from the slides 😉

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Pri yon Joni: I'm an old-school, open format DJ. I subscribed to your channel for your technical understanding of DJ gear. Really, I just modified the jog wheels on my FLX-6 because I had been experiencing the problem you described in another video. But I found something you said in this video offensive; not malicious, but offensive still the same. In your description of the course Mr. Tann teaches at MIT, you said, "A lot of knowledge that Philip is sharing are things that I don't even believe most DJs know about. I had a few pop-quiz polls up here on my channel and some folks think that Grandmaster Flash invented beatmatching and scratching." (Time Index,1:55-2:00). The statistics from your polls revealed, "70%" for "beatmatching" and "54%" for scratching. This quote is a fallacy. A fallacy has a premise(s) and a conclusion. Your conclusion was: "A lot of knowledge that Philip is sharing are things that I don't even believe most DJs know about." The premise was: "I had a few pop-quiz polls up here on my channel and some folks think that Grandmaster Flash invented beatmatching and scratching." (Time Index,1:55-2:00). The statistics from your polls revealed, "70%" for "beatmatching" and "54%" for scratching." Your premise is a hasty generalization. Your conclusion pitted Mr. Tann's "knowledge" versus "most DJs," but your poll sample was taken from "some folks." Who are the "some folks"? Were they all DJs? Was it a mixture of DJs and non-DJs? What was the percentage? As a DJ, I know Grandmaster Flash didn't "invent" beatmatching and scratching. And he never said he did. He built upon the techniques of Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flowers. He credited Grand Wizard Theodore, whom he mentored, for inventing scratching. Grand Master Flash is a PIONEER of hip-hop. His contributions to the genre (Backspin Technique, Punch phrasing, and perfecting the scratch technique) are well-known and his innovation is memorialized in the National Museum of American History (his Technics SL-1200 are on exhibition there). As I said, I'm an old-school DJ. I play disco. I know who David Mancuso and Nicky Siano are. These DJs pioneered "continuous music." David played Disco "continuously" to create the "disco atmosphere," while Nicky Siano used two turntables to play "continuous music" while mixing between genres. But there are no "inventors" here. This is innovation. Lastly, and most importantly, in your comment, you present Grand Master Flash and/or his innovations as fraudulent, "...some folks think that Grandmaster Flash invented beatmatching and scratching." Here is my problem with this comment. A thumbnail of DJ Francis Grasso appeared in the video just before your comment: "A lot of knowledge that Philip is sharing are things that I don't even believe most DJs know about." This type of statement is usually followed by, "for example...," and I can imagine something like, "I didn't know DJ Francis Grasso was the first DJ to beat match by ear in the 1960s and '70s." But you invoked Grandmaster Flash in a way suggesting that he has taken credit for "inventing" beatmatching when he never said that he did. This is denigrating the legacy of a hip-hop Icon. But this is typical in America. It's a mindset: What black's build must be torn down...