Please don't turn into this DJ....

This post is a sort of rant but one that also going forward will keep me mindful of...

So I was doing an opening for another DJ who told me before we started that he has been DJing for over 25 years and he knows the game inside and out. So I'm like cool, and style or bpm you would like me to end at so you can get things started and he was like "Nah I know what I'm doing I have done this for years."

So I play then dude gets on and was quite possibly the worst DJ I have ever seen, and I'm not exaggerating. He was playing 90s classics but kept turning the volume down for the audience to say the lines from the songs...... But everyone was in their early 20s to late 30s they don't know the tracks that well. A seasoned DJ whole catch on to this and change it up..... But no it was volume down all night to every song as people went home.

Then dude after his set comes up to me and is like..."yo I noticed you played too many edits, yeah in my generation we don't like edits play the original tracks."

I'm like "edits?" "You mean the sample's that the artist picked up?" Ex. Doja Cat paint the town red was sampled from Dionne Warwick Walk on by. Then he went into a rant on how he plays only originals.

I realized bro was not only outdated, he didn't care to change, and was too arrogant to realize it. He was a model example of a DJ I do not want to be like. Time can make you a better DJ or you can get stuck and time can be your enemy.