 Is Magic City that dope or no? Yeah, Magic Legendary, man. I was in there last night. Really? Yeah. Man, me and Thug used to do songs. And like, as soon as we get done doing it, like, this is when we start CDs. I'll burn a CD on the computer and we'll go to the club, take it to DJ. Like, yo, let's go hear this shit. See what's going on. Oh, my God. Well, that's how you know if it's a fucking banger. How other way can you test a track than that? Exactly. And you just watch the strippers' reactions? Yeah, watch everybody's reaction. You know, vibe out, throw some money, get everybody hyped and it's like, okay. You feel me? What a job. That's dope. So innocent, so pure. But hey, focus groups, baby. Focus groups. Hey, who do I take it to to see if it's going to pop? But he did influence it a little bit. I wish. I mean, I know why they're doing it. You know what I'm saying? Let's influence the crowd, throw some money. But I want to hear the raw perspective of the car without all the other exciting elements going on. You know what I'm saying? I get what you're saying, though. You want the uninfluenced raw. Yeah, I want the strippers standing at what their arms looking at Metro and Young Thug bobbing their head. And I don't know if I fuck that baseline on the second chorus, bro. That's what I want, bro. You know what I'm saying? But in that case, you need to catch them after hours when it's not going to affect the rest of their business. Yeah, but it's funny because now with the money involved, it feels like it's no different than like a test ad. You know what I'm saying? It's like you are artists and you're like, hey, I got $500 to spend to see if this particular demographic of people like my music before I scale it. This is that, bro. Hey, I'm going to go to this environment where I think that this demographic of people will like this. I'm going to drop 20 bands on my test. It's my test. And if it hit, hey, man, we going to the label for a couple of Ms. If it don't hit, hey, man, back to the lab. You know what I'm saying? It ain't hitting. Now, artists, managers, and the like, who do y'all touch y'all's music with? Yeah. That's a question. Put that in the comments. Yeah, I love them. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. I will 100% would love to know. And I think other people would love to know. Or if you admittedly don't have anybody you test it with, but you like the idea of it, put that in the comments as well. But I have always done that when especially come to R&B. Artists, I'd ask my wife. You know what I mean? Like I'll ask my sister or like especially Afrobeat. She fuck with Afrobeat heavy like for a long time before it was as big of a trend now. So I'll play stuff and see. Like when we were working with Twitch, just put that shit on. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. And then see what happened. You know? Oh, she said so. She wouldn't know who that is. Okay, okay. This shit hard. This shit hard. She got me some call points. Yeah. If they don't say nothing, yeah, you know, they go about their business, then this might not be it. It ain't horrible though because, hey, I done had quite a few turn that shit off or turn that shit down. Put your headphones off. Bro, this heathen is messing our home. 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. We've helped multiple artists go from hundreds of thousands to millions of streams, chart on Billboard, GoViral, all of that stuff. And we've now made the way we've branded multiple artists and helped them go viral completely free, step-by-step in Brandman Network. 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Because I do the same thing with campaigns. Like whenever we get a client and we have the song, I try to think like, who do I know in real life that I think will like this? And then I do the same thing. And let me see if I can get around them and just play it real quick and not say anything and see what they say or like. Or sometimes I hear them like, hey, bro, what you think about this? You know what I'm saying? Because I mean, one, you'll learn if you write or not. And then two, you know, regular people don't have the same reservations about music and the music industry. So they tend not to overthink it as hard as we do. You know what I'm saying? Exactly. You know, so that can be great sources of opinion. Because like, yo, this is your target demographic. Ideally, like, you know, listen to what they have to say. And then three, sometimes they give you ideas that you never thought of going back to that. You know, sometimes it's people in music like you overthink it. Oh, bro, this would be crazy if y'all like, got this one meme page that posts like horse memes to do it. You're like, what, bro? Like, where you getting that dust? I had a friend say that once when he's scrolling and it was like a horse page. Posting horses with like rap music in the background. I was like, bro, how did you find this shit? Like, why do you know about this? You know what I'm saying? But that give you ideas. I'm pretty sure people came out of them in Shrek Club. Like, man, this should be crazy. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And they probably was like, oh, shit, you're right. They would go crazy over there. You know what I'm saying? Let's take it there. I figure out how we can get it over there once it's out. So yeah, like you are an artist that feels like you don't have that focus group. Like try to think about people in your real life, coworkers, schoolmates, family members, people you might not even like that much, that you've seen listening to that type of music or your style of music before or you know them well enough to know they like that type of stuff. And then hit them and be like, hey, bro, like, you know what I'm saying? What you think? Like, you fucking with it? Yeah, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? What we doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I like that you mentioned those artists who are out on the street selling. It's one thing if you like really are targeting it, you know what I mean? Like a lot of street artists, different term, right? Now artists on the street, but like street music, they typically are doing it with the right artists, especially back in the day. You don't even see them doing as much. Yeah, because they'll pick that battle, bro. They'll be outside like a club, they'll let out or like an event that may sense. They picked that battle smart. But then people going outside of a football game or some random park in the city, you can't convince people to give you money, right? And appreciate your talent. It's just not something that translates to people who actually might like your music. Some of those people might, some of those people might not. All right, it'll be like families. Oh yeah, you're a really great singer, right? But everybody in that family environment might not necessarily like your music or you just putting your talent out there has nothing to do with the sound that you present your music in because you're just doing some kind of random cover. So it's like be mindful or just know the objective because if you're just out here to make money, cool. If you're just out here to capture some footage, if you're doing this and hopefully make some money or whatever while you're down here, cool. Just don't expect it to be something to generate fans in a real way. Yeah, because I think what artists have to realize is that people don't like hurting other people's feelings like that, you know what I'm saying? Most people don't. Most people are okay people. Yeah, exactly, bro. Especially they don't know you, you know what I'm saying? It's like, I don't know you. I don't know a reason to be rude to you, you know what I'm saying? You ain't did nothing to me. And I also don't know what you might do because I don't know you. Yeah, that's a great point. But it's like they'll give you these answers sometimes that just, bro, you know they lying, bro. Like I've seen like Rap Homies doing it and it'd be like some like older white guy. And like, what'd you think about this? And he's like, oh yeah, this is dope, man. This is hard. I'm like, bro, look at him lying, bro. Just lying like fuck, you don't listen. They ain't three rappers right now. Oh, I was like, that Jay-Z guy's cool. So, all right, man. Get him out of here, bro. I'm saying, it's a waste of time. Get me out of here. So that's my biggest qualm with it. It's like, no, it's just like, hey, man, just pick your battles for it. Why was it? Well, I'm saying pick the right focus group. You gotta pick the right focus group. But having a focus group is valuable. Now, next topic.