The Game’s LAX [click to read] has arrived. The album, much like the airport it is named after, has had its fair share of delays; however, those delays gave us hits to jam to like "Big Dreams," "My Life," and "Game’s Pain." The delays also provided the opportunity to give the rapper’s buzz to develop, through interviews, news coverage, and a plethora of mixtapes, like his latest To Live & Die in LA [click to listen].

However, what would come of the mixtape without the deejay to drive them. For one of the first times ever, a label, Black Wall Street has employed a deejay on another coast to be their champion. As Skee moved to radio and video, Nu Jerzey Devil became a leading A&R, one might think that there's too many chefs in the kitchen for The Game to be a surrounded superstar. In actuality, as he takes on the biggest names in the game, one of the rapper's secret to success are his soldiers out of town. With that, DXnext presents DJ Haze.

Name: DJ Haze.

Fresh From The Streets of: Brooklyn, New York.

Influences: DJ Premier, Pete Rock [click to read], DJ Clue, Green Lantern.

What’s on Haze MP3 Player: Cassidy [click to read], Lil Wayne [click to read], D-Block, Black Wall Street.

The Start of the Haze: "I got started as a deejay, as a young kid just, my boy hit me up one day, said he was going to rap; you’re going to deejay and from there couldn’t stop deejaying."

Vinyl vs. Digital: "I mean, I like [digital] in a way, because I started with the turntables and I always had to buy needles ,getting new cartridges, make sure the record doesn’t skip. I used to deejay in house party days and stuff like that, so you know I always had to deal with that situation with people bumping into tables or shit like that. Digital is great on that aspect because the shit don’t skip. With CD turntables, you don’t have to worry about the vinyl, using plates so it doesn’t skip. I like it as far as digital goes, you don’t have to worry about needles, you don’t have to worry about skipping. And dealing with records, it was a pain in the ass. You had to get the vinyl early, or you know go vinyl shopping. It's [using vinyl] fun, but it started to add up money wise buying singles, double singles, and stuff like that. Digital eliminates that whole process and made the process of deejaying whatever you want, before it was whatever was pressed up. Now if someone makes a MP3, any deejay can play that MP3, I think it's [deejaying] elevated. It’s going where it’s supposed to."

On being a East Coast Deejay Working With a West Coast Artist: "I’m in Brooklyn, I’m in Boston, I’m in Philly. So it’s like, being from the east coast working with a west coast artist has been a real challenge because you know, a lot of people out here, I was one of them myself, like a knucklehead , are like, 'Fuck the west coast!' You’re like, 'Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn,' or 'Bronx Bronx Bronx' or like, 'Harlem Harlem Harlem.' We have that real cockiness about us. So it’s been a challenge trying to get people to get people to jump on board with Black Wall Street out here, but you know, it took some time but it’s definitely working. When I push out CDs I don’t get returns, so people are buying them out here. Even if they hate, people are buying them so somebody is buying them. I feel like it took a little while but I feel that there are fans out here now that appreciate it. Now I’m just going to build with a lot of artists to get Black Wall Street more out here. I was just talking to D-Block earlier and trying to get the D-Block/Black Wall Street thing going. Trying to cross that over here, but it’s been a real challenge. Hasn’t been easy, but that’s what Game [click to read] wanted from me. He wanted to bring out someone from the east coast and move the movement out here."

Growing As a DJ with the West Coast Influence: "I think it’s definitely helped me grow because I grew up on east coast music, I know it in and out. I always liked west coast music as well because it has its similarities to east coast. As far as deejaying goes, it’s a lot different on the west. They are a lot more interested in turntablism, all the scratching stuff like we used to do back here back in the day. It kind of faded away on the east coast because a lot of deejays on the east coast got lazier because we see what we hear on the radio. A lot of deejays on the radio are like old school dudes now retired from deejaying so they just play records so the movement of deejays out here just became real lazy. That’s what created a lot of deeays that are just for pure music and are not trying to blend or scratch as much as they do on the west coast. On the west coast they are real into the deejaying and they take that shit real serious. It made me stronger because now I have to balance myself with the east and balance myself with the west." Continued on page 2 »