DJ Q BERT PART 1 from The Cut on Vimeo.
I have tons of respect for DJ Revolution—and I know he didn”t mean to do that whole “What did it feel like being the only Filipino out there DJing” thing. But being Filipino myself, and growing up with other Dj”s that were Filipino never gave me the feeling that WE were the minority. In fact, to me it seemed that, in respect to the West Coast DJ scene, we were the majority. Almost every crew worth mentioning from San Diego to the Bay didn”t just have Filipinos—they WERE Filipino…but they had that one white guy or that one mexican… or that one black dude. If you”ve never felt the confusion of being in that “One of my good friends is Black” conversation just watch QBert”s face in that section of the video again. When Revolution basically said “You Filipinos came up outta nowhere…props, bro!” Q”s attitude visibly went into WTF mode. But I get it. When it comes to DMC world champions this Filipino scene weighs thin.
