Open Space: DJ Carnage

“I was raised in a third world country, kind of the same thing compared to some kids living in the hood,” says DJ Carnage of early childhood in Guatemala. From these beginning he moved to the suburbs of Washington D.C. and then farther out to the Maryland boonies. As he detailed during an Open Space session for MASS APPEAL, the EDM star’s career has taken a similarly unpredictable route.


With few friends in the rural U.S. and an unfamiliarity with the country’s culture (“All he knew was WWF, Spanish Nickelodeon and my Naughty by Nature cassette tape”), Carnage began making beats and putting together mixtapes of songs he found on MySpace. “I was so infatuated with Khaled and Drama, I wanted to do that,” he says.

And though Carnage has become a major name and major draw in the dance music, he’s stayed involved with hip hop. He connected with Lil Uzi Vert when the young artist only had about 400 followers on SoundCloud (he’s currently at 1.19 million) and hooked him up on “WDYW,” a track with A$AP Ferg and Rich the Kid.

Carnage also has an EP on the way with Young Thug and he gave us some insight of what’s like and how quick you have to be when with the mightily prolific artist.

Watch our Open Space video above for the full interview.

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