Welcome to another edition of Stark Reality. This time around the tattered red carpet gets rolled out to Philly for Dirty South Joe. He is 3 decades deep in the game, has thrown a number of different parties in different styles, from yacht rock to dubstep to his Drake themed night which gets thousands of heads. We talk about him starting out DJing growing up in DC and spinning at the legendary 930 Club, to NYC in the 90s/00s (where I first met him), to moving to Philly in the early Oos and becoming the buyer at Armands, the main hip hop store there. Joe ran Ol’ Head Records through Diplo’s Mad Decent label and put out some early Jersey Club and Baltimore Breaks. His Luvstep series with Fluffatronix was an exploration into the soulful side of Dubstep. He currently has an Anime party that mixes DJing and VJing together. Dirty South Joe is also Palestinian, something I learned years after knowing him, and we talk about changing perceptions on Palestine. He also has a podcast about DJing with fellow selectah Low Budget. To say Joe keeps busy is an extreme understatement. Just a crazy music head who is always throwing shit out there. Top ppls. Enjoy cheers. Recorded Feb 24th, 2022.