Diplo
Diplo, an American DJ and record producer, played a set from a hot air balloon at the 35th Burning Man festival. This was in August 2023. Then a rainstorm turned the grounds of Black Rock City, Nevada, into a mud pit. He left on foot and hitched a ride out with the comedian Chris Rock.
It is a fitting scene for a musician who has rarely stayed in one place or one sound. His name appears on records by BTS, Blackpink, Madonna and Bad Bunny, alongside a very long list of other stars. Yet he began as a DJ chasing sounds from the far edges of the map.
How did a boy from the American South turn a taste for the overlooked into a chain of hit songs? Why do so many of his projects carry another musician's name beside his own? And what has all that motion cost him, on stage and off?
Tupelo, Mississippi, is where Thomas Wesley Pentz was born on the 10th of November 1978. His parents were Barbara Jean, née Cox, and Thomas Pentz, and his family background is English and German. The stage name came later. Diplo is short for Diplodocus, a leftover from a childhood fascination with dinosaurs.
Most of his youth was spent in Miami rather than Mississippi, and the city gave him a taste for Miami bass. Home-grown rap shaped how he would later build tracks. In 1997 he started at the University of Central Florida, where he became a DJ at the radio station WPRK, at Rollins College. He then moved to Philadelphia to study at Temple University, and there he first drew attention behind the decks.
At age 20 he moved to India with a small bag and barely any money. He bought a used Enfield motorcycle and rode through Ladakh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and Gujarat. Along the way he collected records and sought out run-down establishments where people played the sitar and tabla.
Back in the United States, he met a fellow DJ who went by Low Budget. In 2003 the pair began throwing parties under the name Hooked on Hollertronix. It was a way to keep control over what they played during DJ gigs in Philadelphia. The nights did well enough to pay for mixtapes, released separately and together. One of them, Never Scared, landed on The New York Times list of the top ten albums of 2003.
Guests at the parties included Maluca Mala, Bun B, Spank Rock and M.I.A. One description of the sound reads "disparate genres to be smashed together for maximum attention-grabbing impact." The inspiration was the "organic, cohesive, whole" feel of acts such as Bun B, Lil Jon, Drama, M.I.A., Björk and Busta Rhymes.
His solo debut, Florida, came out on Big Dada Records, an imprint of Ninja Tune. It traded the club mood of Hollertronix for something more reflective. The album was pressed first as a CD and then as a CD and DVD set. The artist and filmmaker System D-128, a frequent collaborator on audio and film work, put the DVD together.
Another DVD, Diplo: "Banned in Libya", came from the label Money Studies. That label was the first to release a solo project under his original DJ name, Diplodocus. It was a 45 rpm record called "Thingamajawn", with a video that System D-128 also directed. Like the Florida DVD, Banned in Libya is an experimental mix of sound and image. It blends Diplo's own music with a number of unidentified sources.
Brazilian dance music from the favelas, known as baile funk or favela funk, fed two more mixtapes, Favela on Blast and Favela Strikes Back. They carried that sound to listeners in the United States.
The success of the Philadelphia parties let him build a home for his work. He called it The Mausoleum. It held a video studio, a recording studio, a record label office, a gallery and an event space. Christina Aguilera, Shakira, M.I.A., Santigold, Spank Rock, Plastic Little, Blaqstarr and Paper Route Gangstaz all recorded there. Concerts by Glass Candy, Skream, Boys Noize and Nicos Gun also filled its rooms.
London's Fabric club is where M.I.A. walked in one night in 2004 as Diplo played her songs "Galang" and "Fire Fire." He had gotten them from a worker at i-D magazine. She had heard one of his songs, along with a funk mix, through one of her A&Rs, and she came over to meet him.
Diplo later explained the pull between them. "Besides me being a white dude from Florida and her being a Sri Lankan girl in England, everything else was the same," he said. He added that both were film graduates who had grown up on the same music.
Their first project together was a mixtape, Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1, which mashed acapellas from her album Arular with songs by other artists. The New York Times and Pitchfork Media both listed it among their albums of the year. In 2005 he went on the road as tour DJ for her Arular Tour.
Through M.I.A., he met a London DJ named Switch. Diplo and Switch worked with her on "Paper Planes", her 2008 breakout single. It peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was up for Record of the Year at the 2009 Grammy Awards. Diplo and M.I.A. were also a couple, a relationship that ended in 2008.
Years later, in a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, M.I.A. gave a harsher account. She said that Diplo resented her rise to fame in 2005, tried to hold her back, and fought with her about becoming successful.
A trip to Brazil to study the favela music scene gave Diplo's label its first real direction. Struck by the energy there, he imported the dance-funk group Bonde do Rolê. He released them on Mad Decent, the record company he founded in the mid-2000s and ran out of The Mausoleum. The group helped define funk carioca for American listeners, and others followed. Diplo also documented the music and the favelas, and the film Favela on Blast was released in 2009.
The label's reach soon went well past Brazil. In September 2009 Diplo traveled to China to play a show with Steve Aoki, organized by the promoters Split Works. His heavy touring became part of his reputation. In its April 2010 issue, Rolling Stone named him among "40 Reasons to be Excited About Music." Mad Decent became a blank canvas for the sounds he met on the road. Its releases include music by Santigold, Baauer, Lil' Jon, Gucci Mane, Peter Bjorn and John and Rusko. It also includes Bosco Delrey, Buraka Som Sistema, Savage Skulls, Dana Sibuea, Oliver Twizt, Jamie Fanatic, Douster, Boy 8-Bit and Popo.
As a producer he drew a widening circle of partners. They included Shakira, Robyn, Kid Cudi, Bruno Mars, No Doubt and Snoop Dogg. They also included Maluca, Kid Sister, Die Antwoord, Alex Clare, Rolo Tomassi, Amanda Blank and Dark Meat. Later credits cover Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne, Britney Spears, Wale and Chris Brown. They also cover Ariana Grande, 2 Chainz, Travis Porter, Usher, Azealia Banks, Iggy Azalea and AlunaGeorge. He was nominated for Non-Classical Producer of the Year at the 55th and 58th Grammy Awards.
On the 16th of October 2015 he released "Be Right There" with the producer Sleepy Tom. The single charted in several countries and has passed 100 million streams on Spotify.
Beyoncé released her album Lemonade on the 23rd of April 2016. Diplo produced two of its tracks, "All Night" and "Hold Up." Hold Up was one of the album's three singles. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum on the 8th of June 2016. At the 59th Grammy Awards he earned Album of the Year nominations as a producer, for Lemonade and for Justin Bieber's Purpose.
He also teamed with the Canadian duo Zeds Dead on "Blame", featuring the Swedish singer Elliphant. It was released on Zeds Dead's SoundCloud on the 14th of July 2016.
Diplo and Switch had a deal with Downtown Records before they had recorded a single note. Together they formed Major Lazer, a name that also became a cartoon series for FXX, which ran for one season. The pair flew to Jamaica to record a project that would spotlight little-known subgenres, this time from the island's dancehall scene.
Established Jamaican artists such as Vybz Kartel, Elephant Man and Ms. Thing backed the effort. The resulting album, Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do, also featured Santigold, Amanda Blank, Nina Sky, Ricky Blaze and others. Diplo called dancehall "the end of the world," the place where house, soca, oldies, R&B and jazz all end up. Beyoncé later sampled the album's "Pon De Floor" for her single "Run the World (Girls)."
An EP, Lazers Never Die, followed in 2010. Switch left the group in 2011, and the DJs Jillionaire and Walshy Fire took his place. The second album, Free the Universe, was scheduled for November 2012. It slipped to February 2013 and then to the 15th of April 2013. Its guests included Ezra Koenig, Bruno Mars, Ward 21, Wyclef, The Partysquad, Shaggy, Tyga, Flux Pavilion and Wynter Gordon.
On the 8th of February 2015, during the Grammy Awards ceremony, Diplo revealed details of the third album, Peace Is the Mission. He named Ariana Grande, Ellie Goulding and Pusha T among its guests. The first single, "Lean On", paired the group with the French producer DJ Snake and the Danish singer MØ. A second single, "Powerful", with Ellie Goulding and Tarrus Riley, arrived with the album on the 1st of June 2015.
On the 11th of November 2015, "Lean On" became the most streamed song of all time on Spotify, with more than 800 million streams. Its official video passed 3.6 billion views on YouTube, and the song went double platinum.
"Cold Water", with Justin Bieber and MØ, followed on the 22nd of July 2016. It passed 200 million Spotify streams and reached number one in several countries. On the 29th of November 2016 the group and Bad Royale released "My Number." It samples "54-46 That's My Number" by Toots and the Maytals. Pitchfork calls the original "a genre-defining classic from legendary ska/reggae group Toots and the Maytals." Frontman Toots Hibbert recorded new vocals for it. He changed the lyrics to include the group and kept the melody.
The fifth album, Music Is the Weapon, gathered Alessia Cara, French Montana, Anitta, Khalid and Skip Marley. It also gathered Marcus Mumford, J Balvin, El Alfa, Mr Eazi and Nicki Minaj.
San Diego, on the 15th of September 2013, hosted the first show by Jack Ü. It was part of the Mad Decent Block Party, a nationwide tour the label assembles to showcase its artists. Diplo had teased the project by listing it on the tour lineup, and fans guessed at its identity. He then walked out and explained: "Jack Ü... means Skrillex and Diplo together." A planned New York debut at Electric Zoo was canceled in late August. The pair returned on the 31st of December 2014 and sold out Madison Square Garden, with support from Rudimental, Yellow Claw and A$AP Ferg.
Their album Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü arrived on the 27th of February 2015, a joint release from their labels Owsla and Mad Decent. It was unveiled during a 24-hour DJ set that police broke up at the 18-hour mark. Guests included 2 Chainz, Kiesza, Justin Bieber, AlunaGeorge and Missy Elliott. "Take Ü There" with Kiesza led the way on the 4th of October 2014 and reached number sixteen on the UK Dance Chart.
"Where Are Ü Now" with Bieber came out alongside the album and became their biggest hit. It reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. Its highest peak anywhere was number three in Australia. It entered the top ten in Sweden and Finland. It reached the top twenty in Norway, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Slovakia. In Bieber's home country, Canada, it peaked at number 6. On the 29th of March 2015 the duo closed the main stage at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, joined by Bieber and Diddy.
In 2016, Jack Ü won two Grammy Awards. One was for Best Dance/Electronic Album, and the other was for Best Dance Recording with "Where Are Ü Now." The second was Bieber's first Grammy. The duo also played sold-out shows at Coachella in Indio, California, and Lollapalooza in São Paulo, Brazil.
LSD is a different kind of partnership: a pop supergroup of Diplo, the Australian singer Sia and the British musician Labrinth. Their song "Thunderclouds" appeared in a commercial for the Samsung Galaxy Note9. Banx & Ranx remixed "Genius" and Cid remixed "Audio." The debut album, Labrinth, Sia & Diplo Present... LSD, arrived on the 12th of April 2019, after five singles.
On the 2nd of January 2018 Diplo announced Silk City, a project with the British DJ and singer Mark Ronson. Their first single, "Only Can Get Better" with Daniel Merriweather, came out on the 23rd of May 2018. "Feel About You" with Mapei followed on the 20th of July. "Loud" reunited Diplo with GoldLink and Desiigner. The fourth single, "Electricity" with Dua Lipa, was released on the 5th of September 2018, the same day as its video. It won the Grammy for Best Dance Recording at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
Saturdays from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. GMT once belonged to Diplo on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra. His show, Diplo and Friends, featured mixes curated from some of the biggest names in dance music. He resigned from BBC Radio 1 in 2021. Syndicated editions of the show also ran in the United States, in Boston, Bakersfield, Cleveland, Columbus, Las Vegas, Spokane, Albuquerque, Lafayette and Denver. The best known aired on Los Angeles' 98.7 every Sunday at 9 pm.
A second show, Lazer Sound, debuted on Apple Music's Beats 1 on the 2nd of October 2015. Diplo hosted it with Jillionaire, Walshy Fire and Eric Hamilton, and it mixed interviews, tour moments and new music. During 2015 and 2016 he took Major Lazer and Jack Ü onto The Tonight Show and Good Morning America. They also played the iHeart Radio Music Festival, the NRJ Music Awards, the 2015 Latin Grammy Awards and the 2016 Grammy Awards.
His curiosity about small scenes never faded. A television piece commissioned by Current.tv turned his attention to the bounce scene in New Orleans, Louisiana. In February 2016 he performed in Islamabad, Pakistan, as one of very few mainstream Western artists to do so. The bill included Adil Omar, Talal Qureshi, SNKM and Elliphant. In 2018 he returned with Major Lazer for Islamabad's first Mad Decent Block Party, which also featured Valentino Khan, Chrome Sparks and Lyari Underground.
Film and television pulled him in as well. He sang a song called "Phurrr" in the Bollywood film Jab Harry Met Sejal. Imtiaz Ali directed it, and Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma starred. He appeared as himself in a cameo in 22 Jump Street in 2014, and later played Richie Williams in The High Note in 2020. In January 2017 he and the Toronto house group Autoerotique released the video "Waist Time", filmed in a warehouse in London.
In 2019 he released "So Long" under the name Thomas Wesley, with the country singer Cam. A press release promised several more collaborations with country artists. They arrived in 2020 as Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley, Chapter 1: Snake Oil, which included "Heartless" with Morgan Wallen. On the 6th of March 2025 he announced a concert to support aid for firefighters during the 2025 California wildfires.
Rankings and trophies marked the road. DJ Magazine placed him 64th on its Top 100 DJs list in 2013, then 20th in 2015 and 67th in 2019. The PLUG Awards named him New Artist of the Year in 2005, and the Electronic Music Awards named him DJ of the Year in 2017. In 2024 the Playing For Change Foundation gave him its Impact Award.
On the 27th of January 2016, Diplo bought a minority share in Phoenix Rising FC of the USL Championship. He is a soccer and cricket fan who supports the U.S. men's national team. He made a mix for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and produced "Live It Up", the official song of the 2018 World Cup.
Politics found him too. On the 24th of February 2016 he endorsed Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sanders' ad "It's A Revolution" used Diplo's 2013 track "Revolution", from an EP that debuted at number 68 on the Billboard 200. The title track was also used in a Hyundai commercial and on the WWE 2K16 soundtrack. On the 9th of June 2016 he appeared on the cover of Billboard. On the 9th of July 2020 he joined Senator Kamala Harris and other artists for a virtual fundraiser, "Get Up, Stand Up!" It supported Joe Biden's presidential campaign.
On the 1st of May 2019, he live-streamed Joe Jonas's Las Vegas wedding to Sophie Turner on Instagram. He did so "not knowing it was a serious wedding." The couple soon said that he had ruined their wedding. Five months later, Diplo and the Jonas Brothers released a song, "Lonely." Its video follows his attempts to make amends. He has three sons, two with Kathryn Lockhart and one with the model Jevon King.
In November 2020, Shelly Auguste filed for a restraining order against him, alleging that he posted explicit images of her online as retaliation. She claimed they met in 2014, when she was 17 and he was in his mid-30s. In December 2020 Diplo filed a counter order, calling her an "obsessed fan" who harassed him after a brief relationship ended. He maintained that they first met in March 2018 and had consensual encounters in April and July 2019. In 2022 an arbitration award of $1.2 million went to Diplo for her violation of their mutual restraining order.
By January 2025, after more than four years of contentious litigation, both sides announced a resolution in principle. It averted a trial set for the following week. Rolling Stone reported on the 6th of January 2025 that his lawyer, Brian Elliot Turnauer, told the court: "We have a resolution in principle. We're probably days, not weeks, away from getting it signed. There are one or two paragraphs to kind of tweak." Judge Rolf M. Treu vacated the trial date after Auguste's lawyer, Kimberly Casper, confirmed the agreement. Court records indicate that the details of the judgment remain sealed.
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What does the name Diplo stand for?
It is short for Diplodocus, from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs.
Which songs made Diplo famous?
He co-created M.I.A.'s 2008 single "Paper Planes" with Switch. It peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. He also scored a hit with Major Lazer's "Lean On" in 2015.
What are Diplo's main groups?
Major Lazer, Jack Ü with Skrillex, LSD with Labrinth and Sia, and Silk City with Mark Ronson.
Which Grammy Awards has Diplo won?
Jack Ü won Best Dance/Electronic Album and Best Dance Recording in 2016, and Silk City won Best Dance Recording for "Electricity" at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
What is Mad Decent?
It is the record company Diplo founded in the mid-2000s. It began with Brazilian favela funk and grew to release music by many artists.
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