DJ Vlad insists he “wasn’t trying to put [Keefe D] in prison” for Tupac’s murder

Image Image Credit Raymond Boyd / Contributor via Getty Images Image Alt Tupac Image Size landscape-medium Image Position center On the latest episode of “Drink Champs,” N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN were joined by DJ Vlad to discuss the blueprint of building one of the most relevant news outlets in the game right now. Vlad was raised in San Mateo, California at a time when the genre of rap was still fresh to the world. Though he lived across the map, the movement in New York City prompted him to start producing and slicing up mixtapes on his own. Vlad became a success story, in that regard, by creating respected efforts like Rap Phenomenon, which paid homage to artists like The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac in the 2000s. He eventually decided to switch gears before the start of the next decade. In 2008, he launched VladTV, an online media conglomerate for people of all industries to tell candid tales from their lives. Until this day, the platform continues to generate millions of views and has garnered nearly 6 million subscribers on YouTube. The growing audience stems from the fact that the guest list is a cheat sheet of who’s who in...