How the OC Day Party grew from COVID house parties in Santa Ana

Before the OC Day Party was a Sunday staple, it was a house in Santa Ana. In a clip from his Juice Unlocked interview, posted Feb. 26, 2026, Clave Ali (@ahhlicks_) said the event started during COVID as house parties.

With everything closed, he said, they were filling the house with 200 to 300 people. He said artists including Junior H sang there for free, for the homies.

From free parties to a Sunday event

Ali said the crew also went out to a mariscos restaurant, where he said they would run up the tab for about 75 people, paying $12,000 to $13,000 a night.

When the world opened back up, he said, the OC Day Party began and the ballers followed. The idea was simple: at the time, he said, nothing was happening in Orange County on Sundays, and they wanted to create something for that day.

He also shouted out a friend who, he said, had the network and the database and aligned the crew. Juice Unlocked's caption calls the OC Day Party the biggest day party in Orange County.

“At the time, nothing in Orange County existed on Sunday.”

Part of a longer conversation

The clip is from Ali's sit-down with Juice Unlocked, which the outlet announced the day before was streaming in full on its YouTube channel. That episode also covers why Junior H wrote a corrido about him and how he built his clothing brand.

“We love Sundays and we were like, dude, let's create something.”

“We built a community, bro.”