‘AM was one of the greatest DJs I’ve ever seen play,’ Wale says of late DJ. By Steven Roberts, with reporting by Tim Kash Wale in Times Square in New York City on Monday Photo: Ben Hockin/ MTV News In the wake of the untimely passing of DJ AM on Friday, musicians, DJs, friends and fans alike have been paying tribute to his memory — and his formidable skills behind the turntables, which earned him and Travis Barker the spot as the house band at the 2008 Video Music Awards. This year, the house band will be Wale and his band UCB (which stands for the Uncalled 4 Band), and the Washington, D.C.-reared MC had great things to say about DJ AM, and the legacy he hopes to live up to at the awards, which take place at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on September 13.
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