Breaking: DJ AM Found Dead In Manhattan Apartment

36 year old men: don't date girls in their early 20s and expect them to commit to you or be in a long term relationship with you. They are 22.

Mike Nicholson and Hugh Hefner do it all the time. Why couldn't DJ AM expect the same commitment??

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Please try to learn from me:

DJ AM OD.

He wasn't going out with that Nicole Ronson bitch that is into girls was he? I believe she is also a DJ. You know the one. She goes out with that freckled face semi-actress from Disney World.

Was he related to Al Goldstein?

@thefacts it takes quite a bit of skill to be a dj. And to be one that people like and respect a whole lot more than that.

Agreed. A lot of people call themselves DJs, but not many of them are very good. It takes skill and a lot of practice to be a good DJ. The fact that people still pull the DJ'ing-doesn't-require-skill-or-talent card in 2009...well I guess it just shows how little they know.

Au contraire, I happen to know several DJs very well on a social and personal level.

They tend to be nice,charismatic people. But their musical skills are negligible. Don't believe the hype. Charisma isn't talent.

When Julliard starts teaching DJing, then you can say it requires talent.

Uh huh, and I'm sure all the DJs you know are top of the notch world class DJs like he was. Get a clue. You have no idea what you're talking about here.

How many other popular figures in music over the past hundred years attended Juliard?? I'm pretty sure not a single member of The Beatles did, Elvis sure didn't, Grandmaster Flash definitely didn't... I'm NOT even comparing DJ AM to these people, just trying to illustrate that this Juliard crap is irrelevant.

"I'm sure all the DJs you know are top of the notch world class DJs like he was. "

Don't be so snarky, my friend. You presume correctly. They were at the top of the game. The absolute top.

One had a BBC documentary centered on his career and was featured prominently at an exhibition on dance music at the the Experience Music Project (EMP), a museum created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dedicated to popular music.

The exhibit went on tour and actually was shown at Lincoln Center, just across the street, btw, from Julliard. A book on dance music began with his name.

The other DJs I know also were seminal and very well known.

Perhaps in your irrelevancy you find it hard to believe that others meet fame, but, believe me, we exist.

Say no more than, "believe me, we exist." I believe your side of the story.

Murry the K was a DJ. Allan Freed was a DJ. Big Dan Ingram was a DJ. Cousin Brucie was a DJ. Don K. Reed was a DJ. Alison Steele was a DJ.

DJ AM was a platter spinner.

What station did Roscoe work for? He was a DJ also.

Roscoe was on NEW, no? And don't forget Jocko and his Rocket Ship, who called himself an 'engineer' not a DJ.

http://www.1960sailors.net/Jocko12-64WADO_web.mp3

But the DJs I knew actually spinned in clubs. They invented the techniques that these jerks think they own. DJ AM will be forgotten next year. The guys I know are in the Dance Music Hall of Fame.

So ok the guys you know are super famous. Uh huuuuh. They invented shit and all that, and now apparently we're awarding merit on proximity to Juliard.

You are making sense. And I totally believe you!

And I'm so impressed you know famous DJs. I actually know some famous DJs also. Thing is though, they're ACTUALLY my friends so I've seen them work very hard to get where they are, and I respect them and I also respect the music and the scene and by extension this poor guy who died.

These DJs ARE my friends. Read what I wrote: "socially and personally". We hang out in each other's houses, in summer homes, and go on vacation together.

Now, go do something productive. How about learning a musical instrument to impress your little unknown DJ friends? Say, the upright organ or the skin flute.

Loser!

How much talent does it take to be a DJ? You go to Julliard for that?

Glad to see the other commenters are as cynical about this story and this guy as I was.

although his death and life means nothing to me, the lobby of the building he lives in- oops, lived in- actually looks like a mausoleum, a bit of a strange and morbid design with a bench/stool laid out almost as if to receive a coffin. its feng shui (despite its curvature) is also strange that cars from the williamsburg bridge "ram" into it daily, an extreme sign of bad luck. anyway, who cares.

Are you f'ing kidding me? He was a human being??? He was a celebrity (sort of)! The deal is: You get lots of money and can sleep with anyone you want and people who don't know you will talk shit as much as they want, even if you die.

Personally, I think the only reason that I know who this guy is now and that he's dead is because of the slow August news cycle. Fuck this drug using loser retard, let's talk about petrodollars!

The Final Destination. He was supposed to die in the plane crash. Can Travis Barker be next?

He may have been a human being, but apparently he was also a junkie, which makes him a pathetic, desperate fool. Drugs are bad, m'kay?

He'd been clean for 9 years. He survived a horrific plane crash in which he had been severely burned. Who's to say he wasn't on serious painkillers because of his burns? Not to mention PTSD. I can only imagine how experiencing those things would definitely test an addict's resolve to stay sober. Don't pass judgment and oversimplify the matter.

Whatever the case, he's dead now-may he rest in peace

I am embarrassed to see so much disregard for human life. He was a HUMAN BEING. please get over your need to sound snide and superior. This is not the time nor place to do so. He was a beloved and troubled person. I will remember him for his laughter, bravery, music, and spirit.

Pretty soon, they're going be chaining "ghost turntables" to the parking meters.

The "ghost bicycles", which you are referring to, are in memory of people who have been killed by other people.

Idiot.

If anyone is (was) an idiot, I believe it was DJ AM, now DJ PM. They found an empty bag of crack underneath him. Get over it. The life style these DJ's have is not conducive to living a long life. If the bikers can honor their dead so should the DJs of the world honor theirs.

Yeah, they should really spend more time being nasty, bigoted internet commenters.

Congratulation, Grumpy, er drewo. You are the first person on Gothamist ever to berate NannyState, whose wit and dry humor is superb.

Stop taking yourself so seriously and lighten up, old boy.

Too bad he didn't get the help he needed. Suicidal is never the answer.

I wasn't a fan, but it's still sad to see someone young die. Drugs suck.

I'm sorry I linked to this article on twitter, the comments here are pathetic.

We are all going to die. Wonder how many people you know will have the same attitude when you croak. (LOL, yes, that was meant to be incendiary.)

In any event, he actually seems like he was a nice guy from certain things I've read. Too bad.

Wonderful news..another useless, shallow, selfish piece of shit druggie dead. Keep 'em coming!

you are embarrassing yourself with your ignorance. Perhaps you have not yet been exposed to the value of human life. It is a complex, difficult, joyous and fulfilling endeavor. Expand your horizons. Adam was a genuine soul who made a good living in the public eye. Never one to take advantage, we could all learn something from that.

Ummmm..no, wrong on all counts you presumptuous douchebag.

Here's another thing for you to chew on: I don't value your life. Now fuck off.

I thought we had the double entry occurrences problems solved.

you are embarrassing yourself with your ignorance. Perhaps you have not yet been exposed to the value of human life. It is a complex, difficult, joyous and fulfilling endeavor. Expand your horizons. Adam was a genuine soul who made a good living in the public eye. Never one to take advantage, we could all learn something from that.

DJ AM was a genuine junkie who died with a crackpipe in his mouth.

Don't romanticize him - he lived a crackhead's pathetic life and died a crackhead's pathetic death.

According to article linked from here about his girlfriend, he sued the families of the pilots who died in the SC plane crash.

If that's true, good riddance.

You sure he sued the pilots' families and not the pilots' estates?

what is this? the 3rd DJ this week?

If you're including DJ Ted Kennedy.

FTW!

DJ AM was found at around 5:20 PM

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I see what you did there

Sorry, but I wished I could say that I gave a rat's azz...

Errr.. if you guys don't know who he is, try using the google instead of being insensitive freaks.

This is quite a blow for the thousands upon thousands of fans he had (not to mention family and friends), and the second this freakin week for people in the scene here in NY.

Besides that though, why is everyone dying this year? It's so weird.

Well, this idiot died because he's a fucking junkie.

They found a "pipe commonly used to smoke drugs" in this fool's apartment - in other words, what the homeless guy on my corner would call a crackpipe

When a crackhead dies, it is NOT a "tragedy" - it's a statistically predictable phenomenon!

Junkies die every day - this was just a famous junkie that died!

if you were in the scene you'd know it's Ratchet and not Rachet. yeeeah, i've seen you L train kids "rocking" the Transformers tees.

If you were me, you'd know why I spelled it that way. And if you're speaking of the character from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest than the name is actually Ratched anyway...

@ nurserachet

Perhaps this DJ is the one who is insensitive... to all the people he let down. He had a second chance at life and he blew it.

Did Mary Kate Olsen find his body and call her masseuse?

I thought the masseuse called Mary Kate.

Never heard of him.

Who is this guy? Why are we talking about his overdose?

If you want to do big boy drugs, you should probably learn to control your :wick wick wick wicka: habits.

2009 Deathmobile strikes again! Fuck! I knew I should have gone with DJ AM as the young dude instead of will ferrell. I still say Dick Clark is gonna go before the year is done but I'm changing my young person to Mischa Barton.

Hmm..Final Destination comes out soon and all these celebrities are dropping like flies?

Smells like a promotional stunt to me.

Sad. Saw him at the Met game on Sunday- he looked happy and healthy but threw a terrible first pitch- lots of boos... now I feel kind of guilty.

Did you really boo a honorary first pitch at a baseball game?

This is really really sad.

What was his name again?

hmmm, crack pipe and prescription meds. what was his contribution to music, again? *yawn*

this better not divert attention from MJ's bday parties tomorrow.

what was his contribution to music, again?

He dated Nicole Ritchie but didn't knock her up. That was some other dude.

Musically, he was a member of Crazytown that sang that really annoying song Butterfly, then he did some with Madonna and Jay Z, so he's not completely devoid of talent.

thanks alot dude. Now I have "COME MY LADY COME COME MY LADY. YOU'RE MY BUTTERFLY SUGAR BABY!" stuck in my head on repeat. I've tried years to forget and BAM it's back in there again.

sonufabitch.

Was this the guy who was really fat before?

Yes. I have never been quite sure what this dude was famous for. But, if you include him, I believe he will be the 14th famous/quasi-famous dead person the media will make way too big a deal over this summer.

and Mayor Bloomberg.

so did Hugh Hefner.

artie lange outlived this guy. unbelievable.

Well that's unfortunate. Wasn't he scheduled to DJ the MJ tribute thing tomorrow night?