 So what's the reality? Can your team mess up your life? Can your team mess up your life of your manager, your PR person? But that's just one of the topics that this is gonna like bring us to. But Sweetie had a major moment or opportunity with DJ Vlad to do an interview. But DJ Vlad said, somebody on her team said, nah, now I got my opinion about this. I wanna see what your opinion is. But let's just break down exactly what happened. So we're just gonna straight up read this Vlad, DJ Vlad. Y'all know who he is, VladTV, millions of subscribers. Definitely covers the music and hip hop community especially. And he said, on Thursday, I tweeted about Sweetie turning down a VladTV interview and how I felt her mixtape sales would have been higher if she had done it. That tweet went viral. Sweetie publicly responded to my tweet and cleared up a few things. So let me tell the whole story with receipts. Let's get into it. So here's his tweet. It says, if Sweetie did a VladTV interview, she would have easily done 10X her first week sales, which was 2,000 copies. At her level, that is disappointing. We actually reached out through one of our people and were told she won't do Vlad, her loss. That's what Vlad tweeted, all right? And then Tweety, oh, actually, let me finish the rest of what Vlad said. When I was told Sweetie didn't wanna do the interview with us, which originated from her label, Warner Brothers, publicist, Aisha White, I assumed that this was Sweetie's choice, but Sweetie replied and said she was a big fan of VladTV and denied that she even knew about the request. Here's Sweetie's tweet. Actually, I've been a big fan and screen recorded one of my favorite episodes. Here's one of them, dates on the top. So if anyone reached out, quote-unquote, it wasn't me or my team, DJ Vlad, happy Thanksgiving. All right, Vlad says, Sweetie turned it down, Sweetie said it wasn't me, that was my team. Let's go deeper into this. First of all, that's a wild claim, 10X? 10X. That's crazy. 10X is the claim, 10X is the claim. So let's just stop right there before you finish this last thing, all right? 10X, off of an interview with you? That's what I'm saying, that's a wild claim, bro. That's a wild claim. To me, that's full of shit right there. Maybe three to five. You patting yourself on the back right there. You know what I mean? That's full of shit, but I actually got some other thoughts on that. I want to finish this before we get here. Let me take a quick second to say, if you're an artist trying to blow your music up or if you're a manager, a music professional in general, trying to help an artist blow their music up, I have something that's a game changer for you and it's completely free. As you may know, we've helped multiple artists go from zero to hundreds of thousands of streams. 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I don't think we need to go spend time like actually going through those like word for word, but one of the things that the PR person said was what they offer like 10, no Vlad said you could do the interview for 10 grand, right? Yeah, he was gonna pay Saweetie 10K for it. He was gonna pay her 10K. Oh, I thought they were asking 10K. No, no, he was saying he was gonna pay her. Okay, okay. So by the way, that goes both ways. Y'all should know about these outlets. Many of them, if you're in the right position, actually will pay you for an interview. If you're a good opp, but then also many of them you have to get paid to get on. And so some of these interviews you see with people are actually them paying to get on that platform, you know. But let's get back to that 10X, all right? And then we'll get to the team. No matter the fact, the team, cause we talked about a team straight up can mess up your opportunities. And the same way we talked about, I think just last episode, literally people won't do business with you because of your team members. Some people on your team won't do business or somebody and have beef with somebody that you don't even have beef with. And you might even disagree with the beef if you actually knew the whole story. But point is, it's like, yo, you're messing up the money. You're messing up my opportunities for some personal shit with you. But this is business and you shouldn't be personalizing things in regard to me and making me miss my training just off of some personal stuff to you, right? That's the real thing that's happening with these teams where I'm like, dang, I bet the artist doesn't even know. Yeah. The way this manager is like turning this down, like if they knew about this, they'd be all down for it, especially some of the things kind of like, and I've even not, we haven't experienced this to this extent, but you know how sweetie was like, I'm a fan, I got screen recordings, right? It'll be stuff like, hey man, I seen this dude in the comments and everything and da-da-da, like, or we've talked or whatever. But then all of a sudden you're talking to the manager and it's like completely flipped. No, they're not really feeling it. Yeah, they're not really feeling it. It's like, no, I think it's you and you're trying to convince them that that isn't the way to go with the campaign or whatever little detail it is, right? You know, matter of fact, that artist, that so we had one artist and the artist did not, the artist was basically ready to blow up. She had a decent following, good music and she was down for the things we pitched for, pitched in the campaign or some of the things we talked about. But talking to this artist and the manager and two other people that were on the call, I had the first call with him. So you weren't there for that. But I remember telling you about it. I was like, yo, I don't think this is gonna go because the manager has a completely different agenda than the artist. I was like, this dude, he don't make his money in this space. If you hear his background, he's just worried about basic like publishing, like that's where he comes from. That's how he knows how to cap. He has the artist so he can cap in that space. She wants to be a pop star. He don't care about the pop star shit. I want to cap in this space. Can I get you in these rooms? Can I get you in these rooms? Can I get you writing, dah, dah, dah. Having that conflict is an issue. You need to understand not only the ability of base that your manager has. A lot of the artists get in agreements just cause their manager is connected and they've made good money in these spaces and they might even get you an op in that space. Oh, if I get you some sinks and songwriter opportunities cause I come from that easy, like you might have that connection cause you saw some game from that art manager beforehand. I was like, oh yeah, let me let them run my full business. Maybe if y'all aren't, no, not maybe. If y'all aren't the same page about the full thing though, then like that's not gonna work out. So I don't know all of the, the, the sweet story, but one, make sure that you and your manager are on the same page. It doesn't mean just cause he has sink abilities and all that stuff that he should be a manager, but it also doesn't mean he shouldn't. If the full vision is the same. It's like, oh yeah, I got this one area that I've done well in and now I need to go gain these other areas or I got resources that I can now need to start flipping these other areas. That's cool. But if I just want to stay in that bag and I don't want to get out of my bag, that might be a problem unless you just want to be in that bag and cap. So there's that, right? The team truly can limit what you do. But here's the problem when it comes to that, the 10X issue with me. How is he going to get it to go up 10X? Man, I guess you just sound like the publicity from it. But I also don't see his audience fucking with sweet like that. That's what makes me not believe it. His audience don't like sweetie. He has enough of an audience and name and brand recognition to actually get recognition from anybody in hip hop community as far as I'm concerned. I think he could do a mega interview. He could do interview with any women in hip hop and still get a lot of views from it because one, he's really good at understanding how to play it and the questions asked and the team with the titles. He's going to get a certain level of visibility anyway, just because of the algorithm and people checking their stuff out. And third, he's also done a good job of interviewing a lot of different people with different spaces. We might not see him interview a lot of female hip hop artists, but he's done quite a few actresses. So I might like that actress and this female rapper even though I don't ever see female rappers. So it's nice to see him there. So there's a legitimate argument that he has value to bring, right? But how would he actually boost her streams? To the people in front of the interview going to, that's why I was like 10X as well. Maybe two to three, maybe five max. Damn. This is what I think, bro. This is what I think. This is Vlad. We know what the fuck Tom Vlad is on. He's going to add some Quavo shit. Okay, yeah. Right. He's going to really dig into that space. It's no way he's going to avoid that because that's just Vlad and also from his perspective and understanding that business model, shit, why wouldn't I? I'm going to, right? So he's going to add some shit like that. And then, you know, I actually never listened to the song, but I know that they say she has some bars or Quavo in a, you know, in her recent song or whatever. So then bringing more visibility to that moment and maybe try to find other moments in the album. So then you're going to have people going to listen just for that. At the most, that's what he could do. Just her just being on the platform and not talking about any of that stuff. It definitely would not make that kind of pop. But his audience would not like her. She is not for his audience. She is not for his audience. Not at all. Right? They would definitely, a lot of them would tear her up. So I think there's a lot of great arguments from a career standpoint why she shouldn't do it. Right? But she's actually down to do it. But she didn't even feel that way. She would be down to do it. So it could be an instance of the team taking like Vlad's reputation into consideration. You know, he has a pretty salacious reputation. Starting shit, right? But then it's like, she already put the narrative out there. So something got started from there. It's like y'all already kicked off the roll-off with that. So you can't, that can't be the thing that you're afraid of happening. You know what I'm saying? That's true, because if you do it, you might as well... Lean into it. Do it. If you put it out there, you might as well take it as far as it can go. As far as it can go. If you was scared to take it out for her, you should have never put the information out there. Right, right, right. Thanks for watching. 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