MADEMUSIC
MADEXXXX
Millennials in
Music:
Bl TWINS k.id
As we began perfecting
our craft even-the-more
we started doing club
shows for the 21 and older
market.
PHOTO CREDIT
Elliot Ashby
Stylist, Empress Hill
M
eet
the BLK.ID Twins
from New York.
The identical
twin deejays
have captured
audiences
through their
mixing since
the age of 11.
Together, TP
and Perks have
mastered their
own unique
sound for all
genres to enjoy.
The BLK.ID Twins
spoke with MADE
about their love
for the craft,
fashion and
authenticity.
MADE: You’re identical twin deejays from New York. Talk about your start in
music and your journey thus far?
BLK.ID: We started deejaying when we were 11 years old as The Perkins
Twins. As we got older, at the age of 15 or a bit younger, our dad gave us a
shot at a barbecue. As we began perfecting our craft even-the-more we started
doing club shows for the 21 and older market. From there we began to build
a brand deejaying as BLK.ID that expanded to not only music, but fashion as
well.
MADE: So, you’ve been influenced by legendary deejays like DJ Jazzy Jeff,
Kid Capri and Grandmaster Flash just to name a few. How have you been able
to cultivate your own sound coming from a place as instrumental in music as
New York?
BLK.ID: Our cultivation comes through the way we play. Today you get
most deejays who have a routine or playlist and stick to that by playing what
people want to hear opposed to giving people what they need to hear. Every
deejay is going to play their own thing. For us as the BLK.ID Twins we’ll
go back and play something like Mystikal’s ‘Danger’ or Sisqo’s ‘Thong Song’
and bring people down memory lane to make them want more. We’re not
just going to give you the quick Top 40 set. We read our crowds and that’s
what we’ve learned from a lot of older deejay sets. You don’t just play what’s
hot right now, you play what once kept people moving and you play what’s
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