 it's the mat work 2017 2018 2019 yeah three years i was in LA for three years um i just didn't like it man i didn't like the city uh all of my connections were happening online so the city wasn't doing anything for me um and like i'm freelance like i don't drive to work like i'm sitting in front of my computer like making beats all day and whatever so i'm at home well it's just doing harm for me that i have to pay way more rents living out here in LA when i could be way less stressed and still be doing what i love to do and still be getting all the opportunities i'm getting through the internet if i lived elsewhere you know so i moved out i moved to michigan um i might end up in chicago might end up in jersey i don't know i don't know where i'll end up but for now i'm in michigan and i'm saving money and i feel great because i get to you know just do what i love to do and blah blah blah when i was in LA like i said i wasn't getting any opportunities okay when i was living here the people that i was hitting up that i knew in LA there i said yo i moved to LA let's link up some time you know like whoever the person is a big shot guy um a friend anyone yeah let's do it sometime right well i'm here visiting LA right for three weeks okay yo i'm here for uh i'm here for three weeks let's link up you want to make music you want to like i can i can actually tell them you want to make music like straight up to the face and they're like oh my god yeah we gotta link up before you leave dude i've been getting the most opportunities these three weeks and i've ever gotten the past fucking three years i was in LA you know such a weird city man but um it makes sense right yeah you create urgency it's like a sales funnel man it's like yeah act or not and then i'm gonna be gone the opportunity's gone yeah and in my opinion and i always tell this to everyone it's cheaper to visit LA i mean i guess depending where you're flying from but for the plane ticket cost but it's cheaper to visit LA than to actually live there when you break down the expenses because the cost of rent which is a big chunk of it is so high um but also you know when you live here you gotta have a have to have a car have to also you're gonna go broke through the work um and the car expenses are really expensive like it's trying to 450 a gallon for gas um oil changes are everything's more expensive oil changes are like a hundred bucks um like tires everything everything's expensive insurance is out the window like out to lunch insurance is out to lunch i'm talking car insurance medical insurance um groceries are spent like groceries are just like way more money out here for some reason and i just thought to myself like dude i could pay way less living out somewhere else and then if i visit and i'm creating urgency i mean that's that's the best and because i know people out here i can i have a place to stay you know that's that's always good um i think if you know people in LA or try to try that's my advice that's my advice so all the producers out there if you are or or producers or rappers or anyone in the music industry network with everyone you know in LA if you really want to try to get shit happening in LA never with everyone you know in LA if you live out of state um and then when the time is right hopefully you have a place to stay go there for a week hit up all the people that you uh you know we're networking with create that urgency hey i'm here for a week if you want to link up man if you establish good relationships over the internet i mean hand sound they're gonna be like oh here's in town let's go link up whatever dude one time my friend um who's a like a he's a famous rapper i really wanted to make music with him sometime this one week he's like bro i can't my friend my friends in town um and i really want to see her like before she heads back to Toronto this girl's like a she has a successful like fashion uh company and stuff and and she has like a blog and everything like that and when she came to LA she had so much good content she made she was with this guy and you know they had all this good stuff going and and i'm i'm fucking living here and i'm like man i can't even get a single uh day out of this guy to uh make a song and then a week after the guy went to europe i'm like you know but that's you know like if i visited um if i visited you in Atlanta or i'm sorry if i visited Atlanta and i told you hey i'm here for a week i'm sure you would try to find time out of your week to be like i want to see if this week i can find time to see danny like that's the simple thought that you have in your head you know it's i mean it's a it's a strategy that doesn't get used or pushed and i think everything you're saying especially when you have money coming in and it's coming in through the internet not the location that you're in stop being married to the don't stop being married to the stream you've been sold that this location will solve the problem for you right you're still getting the income and now you can lower the the uh what is it the quality of life or the income needed for a quality of life so now it's less stressful you can market yourself more with the extra money or do whatever you want to do for the extra money you invest in business all that stuff so it it makes all the sense of the world then you get the benefit of people actually working with you when you act when they can do it so exactly i mean we live in the fucking future now like let's take advantage of it you don't need to live in LA LA is land of up LA is the city of opportunity okay and so is chicago and so is new york and so is atlanta in miami and london you know why would you uh live in LA when you can just visit and you can still get probably six months worth of scram like scattered meetings into three weeks why wouldn't you do that you know that's what i'm thinking and we got planes we got the internet there's nothing else to worry about 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