 This video is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com because I signed myself. Now I gotta slip it from a very special interview with an artist by the name of Cash Mason. This dude is not only an artist, he's a songwriter, super dope, but what I love about his story man, the idea of betting on himself again and again and again and it goes from like working in the field with the oil all the way to getting big features from artists and getting some big placements. But in this particular snippet right here is something that so many artists go through, especially if you aren't born into a big city. It's when do you move to a big city and some of the thought process that should go behind what you should think before you make that move. It's the network. I take that mentality seriously because you know obviously I signed myself with it relates to the music industry but really just that idea of controlling your own situation. Even if you are in a label or something like but educate yourself, your whole process of I went through some stuff and now I'm going to the performance rights organizations like having all my stuff in order. You know what? I'm gonna take that bet on like you know like getting this feature and you set up a contract for yourself so you sold your car but I mean then you even moved to Atlanta first place. What was that? What was that process like? Just to me you exemplify that whole idea of controlling your own situation. Well for me like I got that so my video went crazy on YouTube and then I got that deal from Spanx and I was like I'm ready. That's what I knew because I had the business side down but I was just waiting on you know a song doing fairly decent and then me landing some kind of solidification that people could take me seriously then you know that I have a major placement so when I come to Atlanta not be just some super small fish in a big pond because Atlanta is huge. I came with a placement. I met a million people with placements. You know what I'm saying? I met a million people that have you know hella followers. I met a million people that are verified. I mean it's just Atlanta is drowned with it but like for me I was like you know what? I'm ready now. I'm ready to compete like before it was more of my pen's nice but I haven't done nothing yet like I haven't done nothing yet and you know in Denver I already had reached that ceiling anyways you know I had the biggest following between you know for the hip hop artists in the area and whatever else but for me I was like once my video went crazy and I landed that song deal and I got that big pay day I was like Atlanta I just knew I just knew that because I didn't want to go back home come from San Diego I didn't want to go back home you know I didn't want to go to LA or whatever because it just it's not my vibe. Okay. I want to come to Atlanta because there's a lot of you know black people that are being successful out here and so for me that was huge seeing people like myself that are being successful obviously there's the scammers and the other stuff that's going on and you know and people have tried it with me but I'm smart about the game now like me I understand the game I know how to get myself on platforms myself I know how to do this I know how to do that so when people come to me with bogus stuff trying to scam me I'm like dude already know this that that and third I've been studying this for seven years like so there's no way around it like there's no way you can get me so you know once once that whole deal of spanks happened I was like I'm ready it's time it was just that moment it was like dang it's time and so within like a couple months it was out of there. Okay dope man that's dope I love hearing that but I'd also love to hear the fact that you still had you had some idea of strategy and some level of accomplishment not just the whole story of I'm gonna wake up and I'm gonna just go and that's cool right to have that idea just take a chance like they do in the movies and all that stuff but the idea that you said you know what I want to achieve something right to hold to to be able to really have some level of credibility and not look completely like I'm in need of somebody right yeah yeah yeah and to get to get to that next level Atlanta was the next level Atlanta was like because to me I was I was looking at Atlanta like a mecca it's like it's like a mecca it's like you you're gonna go there everybody can sing everybody can rap because like I had I was on Instagram now you know so me I'm like a nerd on Instagram I'm looking at all these artists from Atlanta and seeing what's different you know who's doing what and what sounds are different and so for me it was like a lot of people are not doing my sound in Atlanta you know it was it was either soul singing or it was the I don't know I don't know I don't do that you know I can get busy like that I don't do that okay and a lot of people always compared me to you know my vibe to like a party next door or until if he was made those comparisons I was like not a lot of people are doing that you know besides you know I think they six black or black black black yeah his vibe is somewhat like that it was a couple other guys that I had saw that were in Atlanta that were similar vibe to me but I was like there wasn't too many people doing what I was like you know what I can come out there and I can kill because a lot of the women that were on my page that were liking my stuff were in Atlanta and I was like I like I cater to you know young black women a lot of black women like you know in my songs it's like I need to be in Atlanta so they can actually see me in person you know actually performing and moving around the city there it is there it is yes that's a lot more a lot see I like hearing that backdrop to this because for every artist it might not be a lot but yeah considering some of those points that you did they might be able to figure out what city makes sense for them yeah alright so if you want to check out that full interview you can check it out at brandmannetwork.com but man like that thought process is something that I love because as I've stated right it was an analysis that he went through before he decided he should move to Atlanta and just the idea of how you choose the specific place there's more factors than a lot of artists give credit for because just saying New York LA or Atlanta that's not enough it really is not enough and I hear so many artists say all these main places when it might not be the place for you so that's one thing like let's figure out what's going to be the place for you and not just because generally there's just type of music generally because it's that type of music or because they have a lot of business that gets done there but even going back to your specific place right whatever city you're in there's different ways to gauge how are you ready right alright one what's the ceiling in the city are you number one in your city are you even close to being known in some way in your city even if the people in that city are not fans of your type of music do they at least know that you do that type of music right is there some sort of scene in that city analyze that have you put in that work to get known or tried because sometimes I hear a lot of artists say there's no type of scene for whatever the type of music they do in their city and it's more so they just haven't done the work to even find that scene to get some sense of collaboration done and some sense of sharpening your skills because that's one thing cashmase did right he's sharpened his skills and rolls to the top of his city but those are two separate things not just getting the social following this people get their social followings going but they literally don't go you know they don't go through that process and he went through that process of songwriting let's get good at songwriting let's go write for other people right and let's send things off and let's do all this back in because he originally wanted to be just artists but he ended up getting his pimp game stronger by taking that break from the artistry to focus a lot more on just this work for other people but that's still his own gauntlet it's still his own hyperbolic training training like his face you got to be able to do that for yourself what does that look like it's gonna be different for every single artist but you got to figure out what training is required to be the type of artist that you want to be because every artist doesn't need to have a dope performance it's dope if you can but some artists don't want to be that type of artists when they imagine the type of artists they want to be so if you don't need to have a dope performance right but do you need to have a dope pimp game do you need to be able to write very very well right or do you need to have super flows or do you need to have a year for production what are those things that are important to be the type of artists that you want to be train yourself up in those things and then we talk about these other factors of getting into a big city it's definitely going to help you out by having some level of accomplishment behind you some level it doesn't mean that you have to be huge but if you have something to stand on then it won't seem like yo this guy needs me he's desperate I'm gonna give him every opportunity so everything that they give you right they're gonna feel like it came through them and your success is completely built off of what they did right or they built you up to be who you are you don't want to necessarily be in that position so the way you help do that for yourself is give yourself something to stand on put it in that work to do something by yourself there's some artists that are only out for like five months and now they're looking for a big manager or a big system or whatever to make them become bigger now like do something yourself once you get that accomplishment behind you one you've learned a lesson you know how to do certain things without having to rely on people but two you're not gonna be in a position when everybody just says yo man this this dude like I hear a reason that I'm the reason that he's here you don't want to be there so keep some of those things in mind and then Mace said a lot of things in his interview and that snippet you can watch that back and take notes on that yourself because I wanted to not even touch too heavily on the things he already said pay attention to yourself but hey as always you can watch this full interview on brandmannetwork.com and if you like this video go ahead and like button 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