 What's up everybody once again it's Brandman Sean and this video is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com because I saw it myself. Now, I got to snip it from an interview that I did with DJ Payne One, work with Young GZ, just a list of artists, I might even go into that list, but he's a producer and he's talking about in this clip his evolution from one mentality to another in the music industry. He was already successful with this mentality but the way his mentality evolved is something extremely useful and I think it's helpful that somebody like him had this evolution and showed it. But before I get into all that, I'm going to just let you watch the clip. It's the network. 10, 8, 5 years ago if you had asked me, hey should I sell beat licenses on the internet I would have said no, don't do it. And now I'm kind of the guy that some people contact and say, hey, what's the real inside scoop with this? And now I'm saying, yeah I think it's a great outlet for beats, it's a great opportunity to work with unsigned artists, it's a great revenue stream. But you know, like Curtis King said, he didn't say this exactly but he kind of implied it. There's a lot of great area between the internet and the industry and ironically for me this year some placements including Wiz Khalifa that came through my friendship with a producer who's for all intents and purposes probably considered an internet producer who's dream life and then also I've been known as Static Selector forever but that came around full circle when he joined Beat Stars and I interviewed him and we reconnected. Interesting. Now you said something there, I don't want to like skip over it. You said five years ago you would have said, no I don't do it, but we're changing the perspective. A lot of mistakes. You're ignorant until you choose to not be ignorant anymore and if you are presented with a factor or two that challenges your ignorance and you still choose ignorance then you're stupid. I didn't want to be stupid but I damn sure was ignorant and you just kind of have this or I'll speak for myself, I kind of had this mentality when I was working for placements that because it was so damn hard just to get a placement that I wanted to I guess feel like I was working harder than everyone else and like my work had more value and far too much value to license for $24.99 on the internet to anybody, right? But when I say it out loud, this is really what I was feeling when I say it out loud because it sounds absolutely ridiculous because in the meantime there were artists who were getting beats online that are now great artists, you know, huge artists that I would have killed to work for back then. There are producers who were building up their brands on the internet and generating income at the time that I would have never dreamed of generating doing what I was doing chasing placements. So it was just really stupid of me to create that psychological line between what was happening on the internet and what I was doing and it just it was ignorance, it was ignorance and it wasn't until people who I respected started giving me more insight into, let me close this window, into what the internet beat licensing space was all about and then I started and even that only brought me in and then I had to meet people like beat demons and Dylan Graham and the crates and dream life for it to become real to me where I could actually ask this person questions about that world and you know they're so forthcoming they'll pull their phones out right now and say here's the sales report look I just made $1,700 the last two days so I'm like wow you did this independently and you don't have to chase labels and you don't have to get a lawyer every time you upload a beat and you don't have to wait for a check for six months. It's the network. Alright so if you want to watch the full interview clip you can watch it at brandmannetwork.com but one thing that's extremely interesting about this right it's just the fact that yes it's somebody who already has some success and evolve their mentality from one way of thinking to another but it's not just this oh I'm a producer and I'm doing placements in the typical traditional route and now I believe online is a real thing and a legitimate thing there's so many different categories that that applies to a music and most people don't really take advantage of them or they take advantage of them too late when the trend is already popping they can't see where things are going for themselves so just look at it this way at the end of the day there are no rules to this thing there really are no rules the rules that most people are going by are just based off the reception of getting somebody else's approval so if you aren't worried about being you know the person who gets approval if you aren't worried about being a part of the popular crowd you can have success in many different forms right I was never the guy who was always just in the group and having to be a part of the group thinking the main crowd and if you're that type of person I think it makes it easier to just move throughout the industry figure out where you want to build who you want to build with and actually create something new right be a pioneer in this thing versus just following trends and then having to be subject to the rules that other people create around those trends so keep that in mind and of course lunching in this video is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com because I saw myself if you want to get some help as an artist building your marketing developing your brand even building specific campaigns you can join us at Brandman Network and join that conversation with a lot of dope things that we make happen and other than that be like this video go ahead like button if you like your mind will share and if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe button