 Baw, what's up everybody once again, it's Fran Mann, Sean, and I'm excited to show you this clip from an interview with the incomparable Curtis King. He's touching on something that so many artists need to hear, it's a true reality check when it comes to taking advantage of what you actually have as an artist versus what you might want to be. And even some of the reasoning when it comes to why you might want to be that. I'm not going to even go much deeper into it. I'm just going to show you that clip right now. Don't shod away from the things that you are, because although people may say things about certain rappers like, oh, your voice, you sound too much like this person, you can't worry about that because you can't change your voice. All you can do is flip what they consider a negativity and utilize it into a positive manner. So, you know, I would say that if you really want to think outside the box and you're a rapper and you're like, no, but I take my career serious, you literally could build a career and be that person if you want it. If you have a voice that's like a, you know, like a little Yachty, you could literally build a career bigger than what you would have ever could build a career trying to do it yourself off of making little Yachty parody songs because of how similar your voice is. To me, that's that's thinking outside the box and utilizing in a way that was like, yo, I can't like imagine you're that guy where a little Yachty releases a song and people are like, ah, whatever, and they look at you and they're like, but I can't wait to see this parody of that. Like somebody has to be the weird owls, but the thing about it is we're so insecure about stepping outside the box and into our own destiny. Somebody has to fulfill that role, right? There's like a million and one Michael Jackson impersonators in Vegas right now, somebody had to fulfill that role. And I think that the closer that you are to walking in your destiny, that's when you're going to see things ultimately work out for you. I'll give you one example that I wanted to share with you. I forget the gentleman's name, but he's, he was a dad who was, um, you know, kind of struggling financially during Christmas time. And, um, all they could really afford was to buy his son these, uh, these, like these toys, these toys that have like their own culture, kind of like how Pokemon has their own back stories. These toys have their own back stories. And mind you just do, the dad had a rap career already. Wasn't really going the way he envisioned it to go. And, um, he did, he just decided, you know what? I want to make rap songs for my son and talk about these toys. Well, that guy did that, had a YouTube channel, ended up becoming that, the toy dad, uh, on YouTube blew up so big that the company invited him and another music act and mind you, it's like, you know, clear over thousands and thousands of people at this, at this, um, these events that bring these, like kind of like a comic con. And he's up here performing. He's up here rapping in a place where no other rapper would have any reason to be there because of what he chose to rap about and how he stepped outside the box. I always use that example as, as, um, you got to walk in your own destiny. And a lot of people are afraid to walk in their own destiny because in their mind they're like, there's only one way to make it. I have to be on BET. I have to be on MTV. And it's like, that's not fair. Everybody can't fit through that door, right? Um, and it's not meant for everybody to go through that door either. You know, there's, there's a calling for you that you would have never expected just because you were willing to do the things. 95% of the people around you weren't willing to do. Word, man. That's, that's huge. I've never heard that story before, man, but that's, that's super dope because one of the biggest things that I find when I talk to so many artists and just a lot of entrepreneurs too, but just so many artists these days where you see that there's all this extra opportunity out there, people are still stuck in that mind frame of, I have to win this, this way, I have maybe that dream I saw, I saw a star and I wanted to be this kind of star. I want people to love me for me and think I'm so unique and think I'm the greatest artist, not just in terms of musically, but like in a Kanye-like fashion, right? We're on this here versus being comfortable with something like being a little yachty impersonator, but still winning and doing what you want to do in life. And you have this unique path, but I can see that, right? I want to see what this dude, how this dude's going to twist this song up in the same way some news might come out in the music industry. I might say, ah, dang, let me, let me wait. I know Curtis is going to do a video on this. Man, so to me, that clip is pretty deep and it's only a small clip of a full interview I have with Curtis King dropping soon. I want to know what you guys think about this clip, the things that were said, and have any of you guys gone back and forth about who you truly are as an artist and what you should be doing versus what you kind of feel like you're being pressured to do or what trends are insisting you do because the thing is oftentimes when you're not being yourself, when you lose yourself into trying to play a game that's not yours, you lose the edge that you have by doing the things that are natural to you, the things that are your strength and only you have to offer. Sometimes building a unique lane isn't really about mastermining some extra ultra creative path and pioneering what has never been done before. A lot of times it's just being who you are and all the unique nuances that come with being who you are end up paving a unique path that has not been paved yet. And what's really cool about that is not only are you probably going to win externally, more importantly, you'll be winning within yourself because you'll feel true to who you are. But those are just my thoughts on the matter. We'd love to hear yours as always. Other than that, if you like this video, go ahead that like button. Maybe like it, might as well share it and if you're not subscribed, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe.