 What's up everybody, once again, it's Brandon Shawn and I have a snippet from a very special interview with a very special guest by the name of Yo Phillips. If you don't know Yo, Yo is senior writer at DJ Booth, one of the most influential hip-hop blogs in the game today who was so special about this snippet right here. It's the fact that he's talking about his time inside the dreamville sessions. But what I really want to pull this snippet forward, what's really important to focus on is the way he's talking about how it changed his perspective and I think it'll help a lot of you guys stop reading the game in the wrong way, stop paying attention to a lot of stuff where you don't have the full information and then utilize that for yourself. And I'll explain what I mean by that in a little bit more detail after the clip. You know, you take perspective and consideration a lot. You seem to be very introspective and you seem to be very observant. You had a quote and I actually just came across it today because I didn't know that you wrote another article about your dreamville session and the quote, I'm going to start here but then we can dig into that and you were just talking about the fact that, no matter the fact that I write it down somewhere, it don't, let me see. Know what? This is the quote. You said, reading all the commentary on social media allowed me to see how the outside perspective was formed based on the little information shown from within. It's something I've certainly done in the past, building a structure with the bricks I was given while never allowing access to the entire blueprint. There was reality and then there was this work version. What was thought to be? And then you talk about, you know, there was a bigger picture though, like a picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many of those words are true? Right? Because you were just speaking on how this session completely changed your perspective. And I want to hear how and why that changed your perspective. That's a couple of things. I mean, the thing is, and the other journalists, you get invited to a lot of things. A lot of things are public and then you get invited to things that are private, you know? You know, there are no discloses, you can't talk about it. They're not seen by the outside. And I've experienced a lot of those things, but I've never experienced going somewhere and people knew I was there and they did not have all the information. They didn't know what was going on. So I got a chance to watch as some commentary was being formed based on what was happening inside that just wasn't true. I think one of the major conversations was about how there were like no women in the media was invited. I mean, that's true, but that's because no one in the media was invited. Like, I was invited through being in Atlanta and kind of knowing a bunch of people who were active during the session. So I was able to get an invitation, but they invited me as Yo, not necessarily Yo from DJ booth. And then same thing kind of went with Jinx, who is not able to struggle, but I'm saying the culture with your buddy Jinx was able to get invited as well through knowing people and also just being in Atlanta. He was here for a time and he left and came back. So we weren't necessarily members of media, but we were there. So to kind of see this conversation being formed about members of media being present and women not being included, but again, there was no media. There were plenty of women there. There's plenty of people there. But I watched as this conversation was unfolding, and then I later heard that people had heard rulers or they saw tweets that insinuated that other men were there that weren't there. There were nowhere on the presence. Like they weren't at all. And it made me realize I was like, wow, watching that unfold based on information that wasn't completely true, but seeing the discussion. And then it's a necessary discussion. Women should always have women wherever men are. Like the counterpart should always be present. This should be anywhere they can go as media that women should be able to go. That's 100% true, but to kind of see that conversation warped around something that wasn't true. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Like how many times have I done this? How many times have I taken something based on the little information I had and try and wrap some truth around it? You know, try and insinuate things without having the full scope. Without seeing the blueprint, I'm trying to build a house. But how can you build something with no foundation? How can you build something without knowing what the structure is? But I saw what happened, and that was one indication. And then I'm just, I saw like, I don't want to say what it was, but a particular picture that came out and I got chances to see people talk about like, oh, this song probably sounds like this or this song probably sounds like that. And I was like, man, they were just sitting there talking. Not a single song was made. It wasn't even a B-plane, but they were just talking. The picture comes out, but now we're talking about what the song is like. Now we're talking about who produced it. Like, we're allowing our imaginations to run wild without knowing the context of the picture. That could have just been somebody coming in saying, I hate your guts. It's someone capturing it all right on time. But obviously, like, that nuance isn't there. But again, I've done it, too. I've seen things I've gotten excited without even considering, like, what do I know about this before I even begin to get myself excited? Not just tweeting about it, but like, before I even get riled up about something like, what do I know about this? Who can I contact to get this information? Who do I need to talk to? If I care enough to have thoughts on this, let me get as close to the truth about this before I start insinuating. Like, someone asked me the other day, J. Cole's going to drop a song at 9 p.m. called Mule Child. And someone was like, what do you think the song is? Like, I don't know. It's just a song title, like, we don't have anything. But that's the thing, like, people get excited. People start thinking. And I was like, I don't want to do that anymore. Like, I just want to know what it is. Yeah. Show me what it is, right? And then I'll take it for what it is. If I don't have all the information, I'm not formulating anything. I'm not even going to consider what could be or what isn't until I get the full, because I'm not even going to get myself riled up. I'm not going to start arguing with people on Twitter about something that's not real. Like, why am I even having these conversations with y'all? Why are we going back into debating if we both don't have the full scope of the information? But yeah, that was just my thing. I got a chance to see so much of that. I got a chance to see so much of how certain people, how they move around and how they're cool and how maybe my initial thoughts on them was based on something that wasn't completely true. You know, like, maybe based on information that wasn't able to articulate the fullness of this person. I was like, man, we insinuate so many things about people. You know, we make up how a person is in their fullness based on a little information. Someone can tweet you a certain way, and you go, that person asshole, like, it couldn't have been having a horrible day, and you ask a stupid question, and you have a dumb reaction. But like, people, how people are, I think we just try and create identities for people based on the information we have versus taking them from who they are. Like, you show me who you are, and that's all I can treat you. But like, I cannot add or subtract from that. You know what I'm saying? My experience with you is my experience with you, and I'm just not projecting it anymore. Like, I don't want to do that. I'm too conscious of that now to do that. And that's kind of what the piece was, man. I really wanted that article to be like, man, we sometimes get so excited about things without really considering how little we are. And if you can't have the full information, maybe you should not get so wild up about discussions. All right, like, we can have certain discussions, but just make sure those things are based on something with some legs, something with some ways, something with some truth to it, and not what we think something is. That's like, that was like, but I don't want it for myself. I want that piece, as much for me as for them, because I'm like, yo, you can't be out here doing this now, because you've been seeing it. Like, you do this now, like, you're really out here doing something that you know is inaccurate. I'm not talking about that. All right, so once again, that's just a small snippet from a full interview that's dropping soon with yo, Phillips, that's actually my longest interview that I've done thus far, but I'm excited about it. I think you guys will enjoy it. But what's so important about what he was talking about right there is this different perspective that people can get just from small bits of information, how they take things out of context that are nowhere near it. And this is something that's going to be happening to you again and again as you move up into game, but it's also something you can utilize yourself. So that's why it's important. I want you guys to see somebody talk about both sides of the situation with the reality and what people are perceiving it to be, because I think when you really, really understand how a lot of that goes and how that's just part of the game, you'll be able to utilize that for yourself for the good or the bad, but you'll also be able to protect yourself from it once you understand how things can be misconstrued. You can't stop everything when you put a lot out there, but you can control it a lot better. Stay tuned for the full interview that will be dropping soon. If you watched this after the date that I dropped the full interview, you can check the link in the description below for the full interview. And other than that, if you liked this video, go ahead and hit the like button. If you like it, you might as well share it. And if you're not subscribed, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe.