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Wes Walker has been DJing for eight years and started BreakBeat Entertainment, which specialized in bar/bat mitzvahs and prom performances, with his middle school pal Dylan Rhodes as master of ceremonies.  Since then, they have continued to collaborate and perform together as Wes Walker & Dyl.

“It’s funny because we did this back in the day and would coordinate everything,” Rhodes said. “At the time, it was just something we did in high school, and now we’re still doing it.”

During the winter break of their freshman year at college, former Wall Street stockbroker Jordan Belfort’s story in “The Wolf of Wall Street” made huge waves in the cinematic world.  That’s when the pair decided to make a song about it.

“I said, ‘This is one of the greatest movies I’ve seen.’ We never expected it to blow up,” Rhodes said.  “We did it in about two days and put it on SoundCloud. … We watched (the song gain popularity) over months and months, and we realized the song was really going. After a couple hundred thousand (plays on SoundCloud), we knew. To an outside observer, it seems like we came from nothing, but when you’re in the moment, you’re watching it all happen.”

The duo has since become iconic for the popular song “Jordan Belfort,” which went viral across college campuses and is now one of the top college songs on Spotify. They have been touring across the country to promote the song.

“I have the ability to do awesome tourist stuff, see all this college life and other areas of cities I would have never been able to see,” Walker said.

After receiving thousands of plays on SoundCloud, the two decided they needed to take advantage of the opportunity in front of them. With the help of some connections through College Weekly, they traveled to Miami to shoot the lavish video for less than $1,000.

“The song had already caught on (before the video),” Walker said. “Right when you release something, you put out a video and you try to get signed to a record label, but we grew accidentally and realized we needed to catch up,” Walker said.

A deal with Atlantic Records, a Ciroc vodka partnership and a huge fan base among college campuses later, the pair gave credit to their fans for the immense support.

“The video was only possible because of the support of people who already knew the song,” Rhodes said. “The people in the video were fans of the song and said, ‘Yes, we definitely want to be a part of this.’”   

After becoming a phenomenon in the college music scene, they decided to take a break from school to focus on their careers.

“I did one semester of touring and school, and it was too much, so now we’re taking off from school,” Walker said. “My dad said, ‘If you’re going to do both, you may as well give your all to one.’”