For the past decade, not too long after retiring from professional basketball, Shaquille O’Neal kicked off a new career as DJ Diesel, crafting some crushing EDM music and annihilation—drum’n’bass shows.

Recently, Shaq played the Elements Festival and, while there, we had a chance to ask him a few questions about his current tour, his new album, and which of his old basketball teammates he’d prefer to have his back in a mosh pit.

Noisey: The Summer of Bass tour kicked off last month and is about halfway through the trek at this point. How have the shows been going?

Shaq: The shows have been enormous. They have been great. Average anywhere from 10,000 to 60,000 [fans]. Turkey had 60,000. [Pacha Barcelona] in Spain was about 10,000. It has been going very, very well.

Noisey: Your new proj

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