DJ Q Pe$o is one of the biggest DJs in Atlanta. He started DJing his freshman year of college in 2013 using an app since he didn’t have equipment. From 2013 to now, DJ Q Pe$o established himself through networking with promoters. He DJed college parties and house parties for years before getting club bookings at Encore Lounge (now closed) and DJing Saturday brunch at 2 Chainz’s Escobar lounge. He’s now one of the official DJs at Candyland, 2 Chainz‘s new strip club, where he DJed with Travis Scott this past weekend.
How did you get into DJing?
Yeah. So, I mean, I was always a musician, you know what I’m saying? I grew up in the church. I was playing the drums, [leading] the church service. I sang, sang in show choir when I was in elementary school. I sang in a quartet. I was in high school band when I was in middle school. So, music was always a big part of my life, and one of the only things that I just naturally gravitated towards, and no one [had] to make me do anything musically. When I got to college, I had a friend and I have to shout out Money Sign Peso, he was the first one to peep the ear I had and he was the one that told me, hey, you’d be a fire DJ…