Complaint Review: Paul Madrigal A.K.A DJ Kush 805 - Santa Maria California

Dj Kush 805 initially reached out to my platform through a Facebook message claiming to work for K.Day. He got straight to the point and told me he had just been added to help out with two shows and they are looking for some indie artist to rock the stage and open up for the majors. Dj Kush 805 using the Facebook name Paul Anthony sends me two flyers for two major shows coming up. The first show was a show from the radio station 93.5 K day titled "Krush Groove" with Ice Cube as the headliner scheduled to take place April 21, 2018 at the Forum in Los Angeles, California. The second show was Welcome to the West Music festival-taking place May 26, 2018 with Nipsey Hussle as the headliner.

DJ Kush805 provided both flyers for the show and claimed to have a couple open slots for specially indie artist. Following the Facebook messages we exchanged numbers, Instagrams, emails addresses, companies names and everything. We took the conversation to the next step where I told him I could get my artist involved but I need to know myself if it was fore sure legit and that anyone could pull those flyers from online. That’s when he mentioned I could blast him online if he did scam me. He does something with indie artist called the Cypher Kush which is actually available on YouTube to watch. A artist I was dealing with last year was actually apart of the Kush cypher and the tour so I thought he checked out and was legit but that was not the case. 

Since I knew a artist that was dealing with him I gave him the benefit of the doubt. But I still did my own research as well and he really did tours and what not. When I asked DJ Kush 805 if contracts were involved he laughed and said of course they are why wouldn't they be. He quoted "I pay my assistant by the job, I don't want to have her type up a contract with an artist or company name on it then they don't wanna do it than that will be a waste of my money and time and her time". I go on to tell him I had $900 for him and I wanted to get two slots from him and if this went right I would get all of the slots from him for my artist. 

He wanted me to send the money through Western Union, Money gram, and or Walmart to Walmart. When I asked is it okay to send the money through Paypal so that my clients and both parties can be protect he came up with a lame excuse saying "I would be gladly to send you my paypal account, but that was before I deactivated it due to someone hacking me for 7k". Following his reply I told him "I only had a Paypal account and I didn’t want to have to pay these people back out of my pocket on the account of him scamming, getting over on people, and doing bad business". 

So I asked him if he could provide me with a contract from a previous show that he did since he’s been doing the shows/tour for a while he responded hours laters saying "My bad bro my phone died" totally ignoring my question. Since DJ KUSH 805 stressed that they were on a tight deadline to lock in the slots I did not want this opportunity to pass for my artist. While gathering his name for the payment info I noticed something really strange. As I mentioned earlier he contacted me on Facebook from an account name Paul Anthony so when he give me the name Paul Madrigal I questioned him about it immediately. He replied "My id say Paul Madrigal". That was really strange. He had also told me he lived in Bakersfield but when he send me the city to pick up the money it was Santa Maria not Bakersfield’s. 

Since he kept keeping in touch like picking up the phone and calling me and having phone conversations with me it seemed like he was a good ethical business man all until I sent the money. So I sent a portion of the $900 through Walmart to Walmart and the rest through Money Gram. Both in which he picked up the same day. I sent him a photo of the receipt of proof of payment and with his reference number on there so he can pick up the money to pay Kday and lock in the slots for my two artist. He stressed to me how K.Day was on his back to get the slots filled and that he was on a very tight deadline with the shows. 

When I sent him the reference I told him I needed the contracts asap. Two days go by and I still haven’t received a contract and he has every excuse in the book. I asked him about meeting up like we talked about to pick up the tickets and he told me that they were not ready yet and they needed a couple more days to get them all together. So I ask for flyers, something that I can show my artist that they are now apart of the tour after making their deposit. He pushed the flyers and everything off till a later date saying they needed more time. 

So at this point he is still trying to have me book more and more artist and send him more and more money although he didn’t send me anything. So this is when everything got real. At this point he no longer answered my calls like he used to only text. So I would text being that it was the only way he would answer. Than he hits me out of the blue on March 8, 2018 at 7:39 am saying he gone to have a contract for me. WOW a text from Paul Anthony or Paul Madrigal or whoever this dude really is. I replied with an okay sounds good and let me know when you send the contract please. He says word for word " will do i'm at work rn, just waiting for my assistant to lmk when she send it to me and you". I replied what happened to it only takes thirty minutes from the time I make the deposit. He replied "You sent me info a few days ago, I’m on it i do have a few people in front of you". 

As the day goes on he didn't send me the contract of course and I blew his phone up asking for it and he replied, "If you want to type one up for him and i'll sign it that cool too I’m super busy at work". I told him that was not my job it was his assistants job and it’s not my show I’m just trying to get my talent involved. That was another red flag when he asked me to write up the contract. Finally March 8, 2018 at 7:51 in the morning he shoots me a text after not replying to me for a whole day or so. The text said "My bad phone died. Check your email contract should be there my assistant sent it" I told him I never got it and that she didn't send it to my email because all you she had to do was reply to my message I sent to his company email when I sent my artist info. So it was no way the contract was sent. He got mad and told me his assistant would not lie and it must have been the wrong email she sent it to. The day goes on and of course I never got it. 

So the next day March 9th, a Friday I hit him back up inquiring about the contracts and he tells me that his assistant is on it and he is about to fire her for lagging it. I told him I paid $900 and have not got a single piece of paper, tickets, flyers, contracts, nothing that proves my artist are apart of the show. So than he gets mad again of course and offers to give me all of the cash back because I told him the way he was moving was very unprofessional. Since he offered me a refund back I sent him a text message with all of my information so he would send me the $900 back to get to my clients. I asked him when and how soon could he send the funds so I can be alert. 

DJ Kush 805 sends me a text message that Friday night at 8:13pm. The text said #661-890-251 and $900. I asked just to confirmed was that the confirmation number to pick up the money. Than I send another text asking for a copy of the receipt and he replies yes and send me the sender name the next day but never a copy of the entire receipt. So finally after being on this big run around since Feb 28th, 2018. After having the reference number since Friday and getting a confirmation that it was the number and the rest of the sender info that I needed. I went up to Walmart, which took me an hour to get there to the money center, which I had to wait 30 minutes in line for.

I get to the front of the line to give my reference number to the clerk and he tell me that the number is invalid. I proceeded to give him the number again thinking I made a mistake or something. The clerk than tells me again that number didn't work and then even turns the screen over to show me that it wasn’t working. I instantly call DJ Kush 805 also known as Paul Madrigal from his ID name and Paul Anthony on Facebook five times while standing in front of the clerk. After calling him a numerous amount of times he finally send me a text. 

The text said, "I'm at my best friends funeral right now can't be answering" at 5:19pm. I replied, "Send me a photo of the receipt". He goes on to tell me the clerk is a liar and that the reference number is right. It's 5:19pm and I tell him "ain’t no way a funeral this late" but who I am to say it's not one going one. So I proceeded to just ask for the reference number so I can get the money and get it back to my clients. After walking around Walmart for 30-45 minutes to stall for the reference number I never got it and just went home.

After going 4 hours out of my way I was pissed at this point but did not give up on getting my clients money. So the next day which was Monday March 12,2018 I decided to contact K.Day myself and ask about the show. They answered and I told them about the situation and asked if they worked with third parties promoters and was booking indie artist on the show. They told me they would call back. Ten minutes later we get a call from K.Day Vice President saying that they never heard of DJ Kush 805 and he is not apart of the show, and they do have any third parties everything is through K.Day. K.Day stated the lineup was locked in two months prior to putting the flyer out and everything. 

So now that I contacted K.Day and I been on this long wild goose chase to get my artist money back I finally have to accept the fact that I just been scammed out of $900 of others people money. Stressing about how I am going to tell my artist that I have been scammed out of all of there money and they are not going to be able to open up for the majors no more. So I did it, I had to tell them the truth now that I found out. I was just going to get the refund and give it to them back and tell them we missed the deadline but when I didn’t get the refund I had to tell them every single detail. 

I called the first artist, which I will not say the name and spoke to the manager and lets just say it was not nice. They were pissed and didn’t believe a single thing I told them and held me responsible for everything. I promised them I would personally pay them back out of my pocket due to the lost. Even though I knew I didn’t have the money but because I am a good businessman I agreed to do so. I didn’t want my clients to feel scammed on a lie that DJ Kush 805 made about the shows. That is why I gave them my word. Even though I gave my clients all of the details they didn’t believe me and wanted to see more and I gave them everything they asked for. 

I told them I did not mind giving them any information they wanted because I had nothing to hide I had been scammed by DJ Kush 805 also known as Paul Madrigal. I give my clients his IG, Email, Phone number, and screen shots of the conversations. I received some unpleasant comments in which I took as threats. I could not be mad at clients for talking to me the way they was because I really had just got scammed by DJ Kush 805. I kept it professional and told them I would handle things the legal way by 1. Filing a police report, 2. Call Walmart and money gram to flag his name, and 3.A rip off report. 

After being the bear of bad news to client one it was time to call my next client. I called my second client and explained the situation to them and they understood. They did not assume I stole their money because we done larger deals and nothing went bad. So they knew I would never do anything like that over such a little amount when we done way bigger deals. I told my client that I would also pay them back out of my pocket personally for the scammed my company got involved in. 

After breaking the news to both clients and giving them all of DJ Kush 805 info I ended up getting a call from DJ Kush 805 himself. He had only called me because I texted him about the threats and claimed he had a lawyer on it. I asked for the contracts or the reference number so I can provide it to the artist while I had him on the phone. He kept the focus on the lawyer and the threats. I asked was DJ Kush 805 is that the same name he uses under K.Day and he replied, "Yes". Not knowing that I talked to K.Day myself on the phone and they told me they never heard of him. 

My first clients started to bust him all over social media and tagging him in post with comments saying, "They were robbed by DJ Kush 805" and making it known to everyone. So DJ Kush 805 reaches out to my clients so how asking them to remove the post and that none of it was true. He told my clients he did not know what they were talking about and that he had nothing to do with those shows. Thank god I had the screenshots before he could block me on Facebook and all social media. I have the message of him saying he was apart of the show. I sent my artist manager the screen shot of our conversation and when she sent it to him he never replied because he knew he was caught in a lie. Now he is trying to go back and undo everything he done. He offered her slots on a tour he is working on which contradicted everything he said about not knowing about the shows.

I know this is a long situation and report but there is more to it that I left out. I just wanted to give everyone the basic details on this dude and let everyone know yes he really does have a platform but he is not conducting business in a professional manner. I took the time to fill out this report because DJ Kush 805 needs to be stopped from scamming indie artist of their money. I took the time to fill out this rip off report so when people Google DJ Kush 805 they can really know who they are dealing with. I took the time to fill out this rip off report because I do not want the next indie artist to be scammed and put in a tough situation like I was in. I took the time to fill out this rip off report because my life was threaten on the account of DJ Kush 805 and he knew my life was on the line and seem not to care about someone loosing their life. I am taking the time to fill out this rip off report because he valued my life at $900. 

I am taking the time to fill out this report because he gave my business a bad reputation with the clients I was conducting business with. My company was designed not to scam artist and he made my company look like the total opposite. I am taking the time to fill out this report because DJ Kush is not who he says he is. He is a scammer, a fraud, a liar, and on top of everything I just recently found out he is a registered sex offender in Santa Marie, California zip code 93454. So if your a female and your reading this do not meet up with him under any circumstances. I discovered he was a registered sex offender when I was trying to go to his Facebook page and I noticed I was blocked. 

So I signed in from another account and there he was Paul Anthony on Facebook. I was just blocked. So I looked at a few of his post he made and boom there it was someone blasting him out in his comments over and over and over again with a sex offender screen shot. So, I Googled it to see it if it was true or not and sure enough it was true. Things were starting to make sense more now. That is why he is out here scamming because the dude is a registered sex offender and nobody wants to hire him so he has nothing else to do but take from those who work hard for their money. 

I did this report to inform everyone don’t give this guy a dime of your money. I wrote this report so if a DJ Kush 805, Paul Anthony, inquires you or Paul Madrigal please be wary. I can provide screen shots of all conversations held, proof of both receipt along with the reference numbers being sent to him with his name on them, text messages with his phone number, conversations from Facebook, anything to help push this case forward. I am sick of tired of being scammed by frauds/ janky promoters/ DJ Kush's/ and fakes in general. This scandal almost cost me my life because I was dealing with other people money.