 And that's what I realized, like, most artists are exactly like that. Hey, if it organically, I mean, if I happen to be at the studio one day and future happens to walk past my session, like, oh, this shit sound fine. What is it? And I hop and I hop on. That's the only situation I'll take. And it's like, no, bro, this shit is sometimes the sales. And no, I'm glad you said it. The hard thing about sales is sometimes you've got a cold picture of yourself to the mother that don't care about you. Glad you said it. King Locke says he stopped asking for features after he offered an artist $1 million and got no response. That's crazy. That's a while. A million dollar dub. A million dollar dub. We all, we're going to speculate on who that might be. But let's listen to the clip of talking about it. The man, he gave me about, he gave me two people. I was like, all right, there's one other person I know for sure. He's going to go through the roof just because of who he is. And he's fan base and the machine he got behind him. So I'm like, don't you ask why I was like, uh, by the way, this is him saying the song that I blew up with. So I already had a hell of a traction. This isn't just randomly asking for a future. This is a song that already became relevant in his niche. Yeah. You know, so it's not just like all the music trash and I'm offering you a lot of money. This is a bona fide opportunity even for the artist itself kind of, you know what I mean, right? This could go for both of us. This could go and be a good love for both of us, especially when you got a million in your pocket. But he said, all right, don't just ask him. I was like, let's offer him some. So I offered him a million dollars, literally, a million dollars, a million dollars. Before I even physically had it all, I was going, hey, I'm taking this whole million, just going to give it to him. Because you knew what it was worth exactly. But after so long, like I said, I don't know the reason why it never said no or never said they didn't want to do my first. All right, offer the artist a one million dollars. The artist never even gave energy back. Never even responded. Who do you think that could have been? My first guess was going to be Lil Baby, but I think Key Glock and Lil Baby might have been starting to buzz around the same time. Maybe, I don't have some. My next guess is future. Your next guess is future? The only reason I think future is because I remember this clip of Meg the Stallion, talking about how she had to pay a quarter million for a future or something like that. So I know future is already within the realm of prices where an artist that doesn't know his price might think he would want that much, you know what I'm saying, or it cost that much. So then my next guess would be Drake. See, I don't think it's Drake. Because it made it seem like the niche was right, and it was perfect, and I think at some point he even said like it'd be good if his fan base, my fan base or something like that. Drake isn't really, like he's a steroid, right? He'll add some acceleration onto the track, but that's not, his fan base isn't necessarily Key Glock. You know what I mean? So I wouldn't say that, all right? Drake a little baby, you see some people saying that. Folks gotta learn, oh, let me take a moment to say this. Someone in the comment section said, folks gotta learn how to not take rejection personally. Now you stop asking other people just cause what person didn't work out. That next collab with somebody else might have the biggest impact, but you'll never know cause you let another artist's action give you a head. That's what I'm saying, that's bad. They spin? I don't like that comment, you don't hit it with the heart. I got you, I'ma give them a like, put your core in. But at the same time, I feel like a lot of times people just feel like someone's being emotional and are more worried about something than they are. And he might not even be that deep for him. He might just be like, I'ma just keep going out. It might not be so tried and emotional. I don't know. That's so deep cause he ain't putting no features on his album. Man, he brags about it, man, it's a part of his own. That's what I'm saying, you take it and you flip it. And now I'm flipping it, I'ma use it this, why do I need to even worry about that? I like that. I feel that, man, cause artists would do that, bro. Artists would be like, man, like, I don't know, man, that one dude scammed me for like $50. I'll never work with another market again. Okay. Like what? Like what? Man, I held this one artist one time for a feature. He said he was going to bed. It was nine o'clock. I ain't working with these niggas no more ever again. He's like, bro, what are you talking about? He's like, he got songs with Dove. They could look like family in all count. So he might just be like, I don't want to play the industry game. I want to build the way I want to build. There's no difference than artists. I don't want to have a label. You're right, but. I don't want to play the industry game. And I'll only do stuff with people that I probably have a deeper relationship. I'm not about to just go shopping, throw money at people. I'ma focus on mine. Yeah. And that's what I've realized. Like most artists are exactly like that. Hey, if it organically, if I happen to be at the studio one day and future happens to walk past my session, I'm like, this just sound far. What is it? And I hop and I hop on. That's the only situation I'll take. And it's like, no, bro. This shit is sometimes a sales. And no. Yeah, I'm glad you said it. There's no hard thing about sales. It's sometimes you got to cold pitch yourself to a mother that don't care about you. Glad you said that because I was about to say a lot of artists are like, I'm not a salesman. I'ma go back to this being creative thing because that's a different mode. I don't want to be a salesman. That's exactly what that is when you don't have a relationship. So what you can do best is more so have an A and R, put some stuff together or a certain person or your team advantage who works on bringing all that. But you as the artist putting your energy into doing that a lot. I don't even think that works anyway. Quick second. Have you ever seen an artist catch some traction and then they start to move? The numbers start to grow. They might even go viral, but then fast forward a year from now, somehow their numbers haven't really grown that much. They dropped back close to the same monthly listeners they had before the traction and viral moment. Well, that's because you have to know how to convert those moments into careers. And we've done this again and again with not only songs, but artists. And so has J.R. McKee who's been a part of helping artists like Lil Durk, Rod Wave, Justin Scott and Money Long. And we just did a collab where J.R. McKee does a step-by-step breakdown of how he took Money Long from zero to millions of monthly listeners and winning a Grammy over Beyonce, Mary J. Bly's and Jasmine Sullivan. Check out this breakdown while we still have it up. You can check it out at www.brandmannetwork.com slash Grammy. Don't forget the www or it won't work. Again, that's www.brandmannetwork.com slash Grammy. Back to the video. Long term. He's like, how I do it? All right. Are you trying to do a setup out here? You using DJ Khaled? Are you trying to put him in a lot of fire? I'm just saying, man. He do it. If you don't look at him, they don't respect DJ Khaled's artist. I feel like Lil Wayne do it. Lil Wayne do what? I feel like Lil Wayne tells the artist he wants to work with it. He's the one that likes them. I feel like he's doing that. I don't think it's a team of people. Because the way the other artists talk about being blessed from the other side, they be sounding like he resolved them. Yeah. And so I feel like he do it. That's not selling. That's giving. That's blessing. I'm a little way. And I'm going to bless you at this moment. You can turn it down, but it's probably not gonna be turned out. Yeah. It's like, I think it was a night. I don't think it was young blue. It was somebody turned out. I think Rye Wave turned down a Drake. Oh yeah. He did talk about it, yeah. Cause it really didn't work. But generally speaking, if it works and it goes, most people are gonna say, yes, it could have made that work. See, it's hobby film, man. You got, you are, it's me and that work, bro. You got like 50 songs made. Probably more than that. You don't fit on that ease. I don't believe that. Drake was inspired by that. Like I said, man, artist man, y'all be killing me with these invisible obstacles in your head. You know what I'm saying? Sometime. No problem with that. I'm against many of the obstacles. I feel like you can have somebody on your team to do that though. Yeah. You still want to have somebody in place. I don't want to say don't stop. Don't ever look for features again, but cause you gotta think his background, he's more from the hustle background, where they are the ones with them on that. You can hear the rapper mentality. Right. So instead of me being the hustle to actually, cause a lot of artists never want to make that I'll reach anyway. Yeah. Straight. So he like, you know what? I'm going to go back to me and mine, pay attention to my block. And then if something goes, it's going to go. Cause I could win however I want it. And he had off. So that's different. Wayne, again, out here, blessing people. He's not asking people. That could be some arguments made for that. Cause he's shining. He's shining. He's shining. You cross pie, Kaz. I'm a little Wayne. Nah, Wayne. Exactly. But you thank you above or no? If you got a manual, I might think about it. Why you thank you above rejection? Wayne? I mean, look, the humility says yes, but the reality says. Come on. We know this up. But that's the thing. Like I said, to your point, if his mind says, I would never reach out for a feature ever again. Yeah, I'm cool with that. If the mindset is I would never do features, try to do features ever again. No, I'm not like, cause like the only people that lose in that situation are the fans, bro. Like I would love to hear like, like a, like a Key Glock and Steve Lacey song. You probably reached out to Steve Lacey. Steve Lacey look like a type of motherfucker that don't answer, respond to emails. You know what I'm saying? So that's off the table right there. I love to hear a Key Glock do something with like Kanye. I love to hear Kanye drop some spiritual soulful song and then know that surprise feature you never see coming on the song. They just be like, damn, is that nigga? I love for that to be Key Glock. I would love for Key Glock to be the surprise feature on some shit. But it sounds to me like that's not gonna happen cause he don't want to do features no more. And as a fan, as a fan, I feel hurt. I feel personally attacked. They don't think about that, man. They don't think about the collaborations that we as fans wish would happen. And that means that we are not even a step closer to any of those happenings. Call it selfish, call it what you want. But that's how I'm looking at it. Hey, when I was an artist, I'd be like, yep. I'm not thinking about y'all. Not in this case. I think it's hard for me to imagine to be in the future unless a couple circumstances, right? Cause for one, the future is giving the impression to me that he's about his money. Like from a hustle perspective, not like, oh man, I'm super worried about this stuff being corny or like, oh, you got the bag? All right, cool. I'll pull it as long as the bag is right. All right? Like Boosie's like that. All right? As long as the bag is right. As long as the bag is right. I know what to do with a meal. I know how hard it is to make a meal. Let me go ahead and get that, all right? Now, so maybe nobody got to him and he never actually heard or again, assuming it was future, I'm just trying to figure out how it cannot work out. I would have to imagine that futures plugged in with some folk that gotty, not gotty. Dolph, my bad. That Dolph and Glock, as I meant to say Glock were beefing against. And maybe he didn't want to play no kind of size or get into something. That's the only type of thing that I could think would keep him from doing it. If it were future. So now I feel like it was Chief Keith. I don't know why. That's what I'm saying. It made me lean. I don't know, not because I ain't beefing him, but just, I don't know why. It made Chief Keith come up. Who was the other person we had a future and we had, I said a little baby, but I think, I made him a little baby was kind of coming up rising. Yeah, it seemed like it would make sense. I'm trying to think of where Rapper is and his demographic would have been like, it would have been like, yeah, it would have been a little bit of a future, maybe 21 Savage, but I think he has a song with 21 Savage, so I don't think of him. Who was maybe the baby? Who else been going crazy at that time in that demographic? I saw it go, man. I don't know. Well, y'all, if y'all feel like y'all might know who it is, let us know.