{"id":1269,"date":"2026-07-21T20:29:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:29:41","slug":"dei-v-on-baja-blast-beach-life-and-his-biggest-influences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Dei V On Baja Blast, Beach Life, And His Biggest Influences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uproxx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/v2_DEI-V_Image-Set_710x400-1.jpg?w=710\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dei V On Baja Blast, Beach Life, And His Biggest Influences\" title=\"Dei V On Baja Blast, Beach Life, And His Biggest Influences\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div data-page=\"1\">\n<p>Chicago traded skyscrapers for beach vibes this past weekend as Dei V kicked off the Mountain Dew x UPROXX Baja Blast Summer Series with a tropical escape in the heart of the city. The Latin trap star kicked things off at Moonlight Studios with a performance that had fans lined up around the block for a night that felt like summer bottled up. The night was fueled by an exclusive Baja Blast x Half Evil collab shirt drop and a full menu of <a href=\"https:\/\/uproxx.com\/life\/drink-recipes-from-baja-blast-summer-series-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baja Blast-infused cocktails<\/a>. Straight up, it was a great time \u2014 and if you\u2019re in Los Angeles this August, be sure to catch the next one with headliner De La Rose.<\/p>\n<p>But before any of that happened, we caught up with Dei V to talk about beach life, his connection to Baja Blast, and the cross-cultural influences that helped shape his sound.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Dei V touched on how growing up on the east side of Puerto Rico gave him a lifelong connection to the ocean that translates to the way he moves on a beat, how a diet of Myke Towers, Mac Miller, and Wiz Khalifa informed his sound, and how psyched he was to be back in front of a crowd again \u2014 all with a cold Baja Blast in hand. Check out the full video above.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago traded skyscrapers for beach vibes this past weekend as Dei V kicked off the Mountain Dew x UPROXX Baja Blast Summer Series with a tropical escape in the heart of the city. The Latin trap star kicked things off at Moonlight Studios with a performance that had fans lined up around the block for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/uproxx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/v2_DEI-V_Image-Set_710x400-1.jpg?w=710","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}