Along with the exposure gained from commercials for Dodge and Taco Bell featuring the song, the inclusion of "Get Low" on the soundtrack helped the song re-enter the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic chart while DJ Snake re-entered the Billboard Artist 100. Both "Get Low" and "Turn Down for What" were featured on the Furious 7 motion picture soundtrack. In February 2014, DJ Snake and Dillon Francis released "Get Low" on their official SoundCloud and YouTube pages, as the lead single from Francis's debut studio album Money Sucks, Friends Rule. "Turn Down for What" was nominated for MTV Video Music Awards for Best Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects, and the MTV Clubland Award. The music video for the single was released in March 2014. The song reached the top ten of the Hot 100 in April 2014.
The song was certified gold in February 2014 and platinum in March 2014. In January 2014, the single entered the top 5 on the Dance/Electronic chart and debuted No. "Turn Down for What" entered the top ten of the Billboard Dance/Electronic chart during the last week of December. The song was featured in a commercial for the Sol Republic DECK, a wireless speaker, which aired in October 2013. In December 2013, "Turn Down for What", DJ Snake's collaboration with Lil Jon, was released on Columbia Records. In January 2016, Forbes named him one of their "30 Under 30 In Music" for the year. In October 2015, DJ Snake and fellow electronic producer Tchami were injured in a car crash, causing them both to miss a scheduled stop at Toronto's Monster Mash festival. "Lean On" and DJ Snake's remix of AlunaGeorge's "You Know You Like It" were both top 10 Shazamed songs from Coachella 2015. He performed at the 2015 Coachella Music Festival with guest appearances by AlunaGeorge and MØ, who did vocals on "Lean On" with Major Lazer. In 2013, DJ Snake produced three songs with Paul "DJ White Shadow" Blair on Lady Gaga's album Artpop including "Applause", "Sexxx Dreams", and "Do What U Want".ĭJ Snake and Dillon Francis were alternating supporting artists on the Mothership Tour 2014 with Skrillex. Junior Senior sampled Michael Jackson for their track "Move Your Feet". He remixed Kanye West's "New Slaves", AlunaGeorge's "You Know You Like It", Duck Sauce's "It's You" and Major Lazer's "Bubble Butt". This song was supposed to be released as a single before Interscope Records decided to stop the marketing of the album after its release. DJ Snake was co-producer for the song "Government Hooker", which was voted best song by Lady Gaga fans after the release of the album. This earned him a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year in February 2012. In 2011, DJ Snake produced for Lady Gaga's album Born This Way. In 2005, he met his manager Steve Goncalves, who encouraged DJ Snake to begin creating his own music. In his early career, DJ Snake performed at clubs including Les Bains Douches in Paris. Of his name, DJ Snake says "When I started DJing, everyone called me 'Snake' in my city first, I was like 'DJ Snake, OK let's go for it.' The name sucks, but it's too late now." He started DJ-ing at age 14, and later producing at 19 years old. In his youth, DJ Snake produced graffiti art, earning him the moniker "Snake" because he was able to consistently evade the police. He cites a scene with Cut Killer in the French film La Haine as well as hip-hop artists KRS-One and Cypress Hill as early influences. In March 2018, Billboard named DJ Snake as number nine on their 2018 ranking of dance musicians titled Billboard Dance 100.ĭJ Snake was born to Algerian parents in Paris and grew up in Ermont, a banlieue district outside Paris, which he describes as a ghetto. He and Dillon Francis were announced as alternating supporting artists for the summer Mothership Tour 2014 with Skrillex. On 30 April 2014, DJ Snake was labeled as an "Artist to Watch" by FoxWeekly. In June 2013, DJ Snake was invited by Diplo to do a live mix on his radio show, "Diplo & Friends", which airs on BBC Radio 1.ĭJ Snake was announced to be working on a collaboration with Diplo, originally slated to debut in 2014 it eventually released in 2015 as the single "Lean On" in collaboration with MØ and Diplo's Major Lazer as well as former Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton.
The single was picked up by Mad Decent, a Los Angeles-based record label run by Diplo, and released in February 2013. "Bird Machine" is a collaboration with fellow French musician Alesia. William Sami Étienne Grigahcine (born 13 June 1986), known professionally as DJ Snake, is a French DJ and record producer from Paris.ĭJ Snake is a Grammy-nominated producer and artist who debuted into the international scene with singles "Bird Machine" and "Turn Down for What" in 2013.
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