the plan was to spend the afternoon in
a hot tub with Diplo. The activity was
offered to me. I didn’t even ask. But it
seemed like fate. Like, of course it was the
only way to interview an omnipresent DJ-
producer who’d just recently started post-
ing a lot of high-caliber shirtless pictures
on social media and posing in Calvin Klein
underwear ads. It was easy enough to pic-
ture: a galaxy of chest freckles in which
float planets of bad tattoos, abs like freshly
grouted bricks, muscular thighs, skater-
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i g Diplo
The DJ-mogul-cowboy-dad is all grown up
and ready to party. By Allison P. Davis
Photograph by Erik Tanner