Status Magazine officially released its 4th Issue with Dj Roctakon NYC — Embassy Superclub — Superklasse.

Love lockdown.

This is first time for Status to cover on a huge concert. Upgrading everyone’s Status, it was a success to see and check out all the cool kids and all the awesome people that we know that you know that our friends know that everybody knows, and the people that knows you and we also know, does that make sense? Almost 6 hours on location, here’s our preview of Status Night Vision revealing all the people who went out [–and be as crazy as how CB first appeared on stage]– to see Rihanna and CB live, The Fort Taguig Open Field, Philippines. From Backstage to front row, from crowd barriers to the streets. From the polite [familiar — Club] bouncers –to ending up being thrown out of the backstage.. We will be wherever you are. We can always  use our night vision. Peace! [to the bouncer who sent us out, thank you! — you’ve been shot in the face] the lost pass was sticked under the shoe thats why we cant find it. lol

–photos by revolution

STATUS WORKS OUT FOR EVERYBODY

It ain’t easy being free.
The rise in price for all kinds of goods—that includes the fine paper you’re fondling and the crisp ink you’re eyeing—has turned out to be an endless bummer for us in this here magazine. And you do know STATUS was never cheap to begin with.
It’s no cop-out when you’ve got to work out the time zones, getting globe-buzzin’ shutterbugs like MARK HUNTER (who shot now-cover electro-cutie UFFIE with her dog up there) and QUANG LE (who shot street wear big shot Jonas Bevacqua for our last issue) to answer your calls. Neither is stalking man of mogul means QUARK HENARES on set or trailing frequent-flying, don’t-give-a-flying-f*ck band THE DORQUES at some random rock bar in Makati.

But no matter how much long-distance phone time we have to cover or how many hipsters end up spilling beer on us, we’re always hard at work over here. Just like all the people we’ve rounded up for this issue’s theme: “Status is a piece of work”. Workin’ our pages, we’ve got multi-occupational master, actor/restaurateur/DJ/mad Scientologist DANNY MASTERSON; nocturnal head-turner ROXY COTTONTAIL; and Fil-Am LANIE ALABANZA ringing our clothing bells with her rebel yell of a ladies’ label Hellz Bellz.
And then there’s Vegas spin king, DJ AM, who, apart from packing clubs nightly, is worldly enough to indulge his third-world groupies with a few words of wisdom (flip to “Tune into AM” on page 38).
In case you haven’t been news-fed lately, AM and ex-Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker survived a private plane crash—both seriously scorched ‘n’ scathed—in September. Less than a month later, he was back behind the decks, trading tracks with no less than rap royal Jay-Z. ‘Course, if there’s one thing AM’s worked into his mindset, as with all our other STATUS symbols, it’s that you gotta do what you gotta do. And like AM says, “take life one amazing day at a time.”

Yours Perseveringly,

pLo

Uffie — Photo by The Cobrasnake

DJ Roctakon

So how has the 08 been for you? Any developments in your life, whether
professionally or personally? Any new things going on?

08 has been really cool so far… I’ve been taking time out from DJing to focus on music production. Making music is a lot different than DJing. I feel like I’m starting over, learning a new craft, since I’ve been DJing for so long and it’s like second nature to me. Its definitely hard to pick up something new and be bad at it and not really know what your doing so I’m just trying to attack the studio with the same intensity that I attacked turntables as a young guy…

What got you into DJing? We read somewhere that you worked retail before at the Lab Manhattan store. How was that? What brought about the change?

I was young and going out to clubs… 16 years old and sneaking into clubs in DC and going to the raves in Baltimore. I was always into music and it just seemed natural… as soon as I understood what DJing was, I wanted to do it.

I mean everybody works retail at some point, I think… I just wanted to work in a record store and it seemed so cool… the dream job… In some ways it totally is, but then its still a retail job at the end of the day… so when you can just DJ and not go to work every day you, do it…

Now you’re living the life, but you definitely did your time to get to
where you are now, and that’s something to be admired. How was it like
in the beginning? What did it take to get to where you are now? Did
you have some sort of battle plan?

No battle plan. I was trying to break into clubs in DC and working in a few record stores, when a friend suggested New York. I was like “ok. Let’s do this 100% move to NY and make it happen.” If I had not, I’d probably be doing the same thing in DC still…  I have never had a battle plan and it seems when anything ever is planned, it usually doesn’t work out the way you want it to anyway. I just try and do the things that seem cool to me and still be smart about paying the rent… Just get out there and let people know your a DJ and available to DJ. You have to be ready to go to a gig at a moments’ notice… Get the call, drop whatever your doing, and show up. That was really important since you can be the best DJ in the world, but people are not going to come knocking. You have to make sure they now about you, but you can’t pester them either. You can’t just keep coming to them… they have to know to come to you, it’s a tricky balance…

WANT MORE? Check out Status Issue 03 -

“Can’t Stop The Roc — Feat Dj Roctakon”

Dj Roctakon will be visiting Philippines this Wednesday — November 19, 2008 for the

Bacardi Superklasse @ Embassy Supperclub, Taguig City Philippines,

together with the STATUS issue 04 Release Party!

With a red marker in hand, the Incredible Hulk wreaks havoc on the proof prints of our next issue.
Tune in to find out what happens next.