Me and him been in touch ever since we meet. I went down there and they showed me a couple episodes. I'm happy.Ĭomplex: Do you see yourself working with them more and becoming a regular on the show?ĭJ Vlad: Well, Carl and me have a really good relationship.
It's not like they said, "Hey, we're going to be doing a character on you and when it comes out you'll see what happens." I'm actually playing myself and reading my own parts. But I had already read the part, I don't know how they could make me look foolish. So I didn't know how they would chop it up and which parts they wouldn't use. I love it.Ĭomplex: Going in, did you have any worries like, "Man, they might make me look like Thugnificent or Gangstalicious?"Ĭomplex: Yeah, to make you look gay, or foolish, or parody you in some way?ĭJ Vlad: Well, they actually gave me the parts to read. I'm a cartoon on a major show-at least in hip-hop it's a major show. So I'm sure you can come up with a situation which probably isn't going to be too far from the reality of what actually happens.Ĭomplex: What role does your character play in the episode? Is it just a minor character?ĭJ Vlad: I wouldn't say that I'm the focus of the episode.Ĭomplex: How did you think you came off? The show certainly parodies a lot of people.ĭJ Vlad: I love it man. But like I said, you can actually see me in the clip with Thugnificent. You'll have to watch the episode and find out. I will say, it has to do with beef of some sort. I don't want to get any of these guys in trouble. So they had this part that DJ Vlad and VladTV fit well in.ĭJ Vlad: I'm not sure I can do that, so I'd rather not. They try to incorporate actual reality elements into Boondocks, like at one point they had Sway from MTV doing certain things. And then one day Carl reached out to me saying that they have this part that I would be perfect for. That was like last year some time, like last summer. It's videos on VladTV, you go to VladTV and you can find it.
We actually ended up doing a couple skits together, like DJ Vlad meets Tubesteak. Like the whole Boondocks staff watches VladTV everyday for like inspiration for the Boondocks episodes, because we have a little bit of drama that goes on in the website. I reached out one day and i got a hold of Carl and he was telling me how he was a huge VladTV fan. I was featuring some of the videos on VladTV. One of the guys named Carl, who is like one of the main writers on the Boondocks, he plays this character named Tubesteak.
And they had this Youtube channel called Boondocks Bootleg where they did these comedy skits by the writers from the Boondocks. Did you actually go lend your voice to the Boondocks?ĭJ Vlad: Yeah, it's a whole section in one of the episodes.ĭJ Vlad: I was like the biggest Boondocks fan on Earth already. Which is why we hit up DJ Vlad himself to get the inside scoop on how his cameo came about, why he's such a big fan of the show, and why the show is as controversial as ever.Ĭomplex: We caught your cameo in the Boondocks season 3 trailer. We're not totally sure, but having DJ Vlad on The Boondocks might make him the first hip-hop blogger to have his likeness turned into a cartoon character. We enjoyed jamming to Jay Electronica's "Exhibit C" while getting a look into what to expect from the upcoming season, but we were surprised to catch a glimpse of DJ Vlad interviewing the show's hilarious rapper character Thugnificent in a brief clip. Yesterday, the interwebs were buzzing because the trailer for the third (and final) season of Adult Swim's ever controversial but always on-point show The Boondocks was finally released.