featuringDJ0CEANZ
Date- August 8, 2016
When you drop a sneak peek of a Kodie Shane interview on Twitter, it doesn’t go unnoticed. Not to
say I have clout or anything now, but word of mouth has had an amazing effect on who is and isn’t
down for interviews with The Roshua Review. What’s more astounding is the increase of artists that
reach out to me through mutual friends. Less than a week after I interviewed SouthsideSmoke, I was
approached via Twitter by an artist that I’ve seen promoting her projects all summer. I had never contemplated interviewing her though for one simple reason: She’s a Dj. But the second she brought up
having an interview it blew my mind. Prior to that moment, I had only interviewed rappers and singers,
and that’s pretty messed up. We discussed the idea of meeting on the Southside, and it was by far the
easiest interview that I’ve ever set up. And the concept, which we came up with together, was by far the
dopest interview structure that TRR has ever put up together. The plan was to meet up at the basketball
court on Lee Street and play 21 throughout the interview, and it actually turned out to be somewhat
successful.
While the actual game of 21 was awkward, I really learned a lot about Dj 0ceanz. To be honest, she’s
sort of like me in female form. She’s dorky, clumsy, and corny in the most enjoyable and hilarious way
possible. An 18 year old sophomore in college, Dj 0ceanz comes from the same highschool of the infamous Ian Connor, and that has really inspired her to follow her dreams. She basically felt that if Ian
can go from 0 to 100, his rise can be duplicated in anyone with the proper support, a pretty positive
outlook on becoming famous. How does she plan on becoming a household name one day? Being
herself: corny and genuine. 0ceanz legit broke this down for me, and it slick made sense. Her point was
simple: People will not admit it, but they love corny shit. The support for her claim involved Lil Yachty, Dj
Khaled, and headass Instagram handles. She’s a direct product of said corniness too. Her stage name, Dj
0ceanz is actually the product of a headass Instagram handle. Apparently she was really feeling Jay Z’s
Frank-assisted cut from Magna Carta Holy Grail so much that she made the title, “Oceans,” her username;
she even made it hipster cool by opting for an 0 and z instead of the basic O and s. As a result, when
she became to be known around by her Instagram handle, she decided to use 0ceanz as her Dj name.
The lovable corniness doesn’t stop there though. She has been commonly proclaimed to be the female Dj Khaled, and I can see why. Her Dj tags are so headass-ish that they’re hilarious. “Are you wet
yet?”s are sprinkled throughout her mixtapes among other bad water puns, but they surprisingly work.
0ceanz’s corny formula seems to be gold as we discuss the work that she’s been putting in on her Heatwave mixtape series. She’s just released her second installment and is already at work with more artists
than she ever knew existed in Atlanta.
“It’s really true that every nigga in Atlanta makes music bruh!” she jokes as she shoots a 3 that is blatantly off. 0ceanz isn’t throwing shade though; during our entire conversation she hasn’t said anything
negative about anyone. She really believes in positivity and lives by that, wishing the best for everybody that she works with. I think it is interested that she wasn’t annoyed at mixtape submissions by
artists with 50 plays on Sound Cloud; a lot of people would be. But not Dj 0ceanz. She understands that
everybody starts from somewhere even when she’s going though lists of more than a hundred hungry
Atlanta artists. Really, she’s just satisfied to know that so many people know what she’s doing and respect it.
Dj 0ceanz has paved a lane for herself and has earned the honor of being the first Dj to ever be interviewed by The Roshua Review. Her inspirational outlook on success and her devotion to positivity
make her more than just great artist; they ar