I try not to answer these kinds of comments because I know a lot of people take it as an invitation to get nasty but in the spirit of honest feedback here goes: I am not personally a huge fan of playing hip hop on Thursdays at Joey's. I argued back and forth with the promoters and the owner to no avail. They want a "party" type of atmosphere as opposed to an underground vibe. I was told to play more vocals and a set of hip hop every night at around 1 AM -I am not kidding you! In their defense, I have also noticed that Thursdays have gotten busier since I have made the changes I was told to make. In all honesty, if it was my call, I would love to play a more tribal/housey format on Thursdays. After 15 years of playing up and down the radio dial and all of New Jersey biggest clubs, I know how to make a compromise with what I want to hear, what the crowd wants to hear and what my boss wants to hear. (In the past three or four years you could also add promoters to that equation.) Everybody is Quincy Jones. I do not claim to be a world class Hip Hop DJ. I do the best I can and I try to have fun while I am at it. Admittedly there are most definitely those among you who could tear me up at cutting and scratching. I can deal with that. When I was a young up and coming DJ, I too passed comments about other DJ's skills and programming choices. When I actually got behind the decks in a real nightclub instead of making a tape in my basement, I started to understand a little more about fiction versus non-fiction. Within the limitations that the man who cuts my check has given me, I will definitely try to be more conscious of how I program this Thursday night coming up. Hopefully, some of you will leave a little happier this week. You will hear hip hop and you will hear the 5 "cheesy" vocals that 75% of the club wants to hear because Thursday nights are a musical democracy. You will also hear some tracks that you might want to hear and some of the other people might not. We'll just all have to deal with that for now. Stop in for a drink, talk to me about music-I love to listen to constructive criticism - and dish it out. I hope you all receive this conversation about our difference of opinions as an open line of communication and no disrespect to anyone in particular. Thanks for your time.