The Heavy Hitter DJs Finally Have a Podcast. And the Origin Story Is Everything.

If you have been around hip-hop DJ culture in New York for any stretch of time, you know the name. The Heavy Hitter DJs are not just a crew. They are a standard. DJ Enuff, DJ Camilo, DJ Kast One, Lboogs: a collective that has touched radio, clubs, mixtapes, major label releases, and international stages for over two decades. Now they are sitting down to tell their own story.

The Heavy Hitter DJs Podcast launched this month, produced by Merric Studios, and Episode 1 is the origin story. All four of them in the room. No filter. Just the crew breaking down where this thing came from, how it grew, and what it actually means to be a Heavy Hitter.

Why This Matters Here

The Heavy Hitter DJs are not just a name we drop casually on this platform. They are part of the mixtapekings.com story.

When the mixtapekings.com Countdown was broadcasting on Sirius Satellite Radio in 2005, DJ Kast One and Lboogs were on that show. Kast One hosted and mixed what became MixtapeKings Radio Vol. 1. Lboogs was co-host alongside Black. DJ Enuff is in the Special Thanks on that tape for a reason. These were not just connections. This was the crew that helped give this platform its first real legs, back when satellite radio was still something most people were figuring out.

Kast One is also the subject of Collector Spotlight Issue #01. That piece is about vinyl, collecting, and the culture. This one is about where the Heavy Hitter DJs came from and why the podcast deserves your time.

Episode 1

Episode 1: The Origin Story. Produced by Merric Studios.

The first episode earns its title.

DJ Enuff breaks down how the idea for the collective was born, and the role the late DJ Threat played in shaping it. He talks about looking around New York at the biggest parties and seeing the same names controlling the room: Boogs, Kast One, Precise, Lobo, Camilo. He realized the crew was already there. It just did not have a name yet.

There is a moment where Enuff talks about his very first club night in New York. What they offered him to DJ it. How he would have done it for free because the music meant that much. That moment lands.

There is the story of how Lboogs pushed Kast One into a career neither of them fully planned. They were college roommates. Kast One had turntables in the room the way other people have a basketball in the closet: something he loved, something he was good at, but not something he saw as a path. Lboogs saw it differently. There is a night at Hofstra University in that story that changed things.

And then there is the Kast One setup story. If you know, you know. If you do not, that is exactly why you need to press play.

The Crew

The Heavy Hitter DJs

ENF

DJ Enuff

Hot 97 veteran. Two decades of New York radio. Co-founder of the Heavy Hitter DJs.

@djenuff

CAM

DJ Camilo

Club and radio fixture. One of the most consistent DJs in New York for over twenty years.

@djcamilo

K1

DJ Kast One

DJ on Hot 97 Mornings with Mero. Associate Director of A&R at Sony Music. Previously A&R at Victor Victor Worldwide / Universal Music.

@djkastone

LBG

Lboogs

Media host on Power 105.1, Apple Music curator, and co-founder of Pasaporte NYC. The person who pushed Kast One toward the turntables at Hofstra.

@lenboogsonair

The Bigger Picture

What comes through in this episode, beyond the stories, is what the collective actually built. Not just a crew of DJs who were hot in the same city at the same time. A resource network. A fraternal structure. A group of people who figured out early that individual success and collective strength were not opposites: they were the same thing.

Lboogs says it plainly in the episode. The Heavy Hitter DJs are probably the best DJ crew on the planet. He is not wrong. And what makes that statement land is not the bravado behind it. It is the two decades of work that the rest of the episode documents.

This podcast is their chance to tell that story on their own terms. No label. No radio station. No gatekeeper. Just the crew, the mic, and a production team at Merric Studios that let them run.

Episode 1 is out now. Go tap in.