 Popular music doesn't always have to follow pop format. You know popular music is a popular person is what you make Right, though. It's just like what's up everybody once again? It's brand-man shining today Of course we're going over seven success tips from the boy black and you don't know He's relatively new to the scene as far as being hot, but I'm from Atlanta So I've known about for a while to do some amazing and he's had quite a journey a lot of hardships As far as making that go happen like a lot of artists do so check out the mindset that got him through it Was that like I guess strategic just to keep it. I guess under like 15 tracks Yeah, I mean and the the goal for me was to basically summarize my last five years But not make you feel like you listen to five years of music I wanted to give people like a general understanding of everything that I went through you know within detail descriptions of it So it wasn't just like you know surface level and I wanted it to be smooth and quick Just like you know, okay I learned about him in that 47 minutes and it ain't to say like I'm exclusive or anything like that But I think I just stick to my story like I stick to everything I've been through and I just make sure I tell that Yeah, but see what I say I think you could call yourself exclusive when it comes to that because at the end of the day it takes I think a strong artist period to Accept who they are as a person inspire the title free black right because it was a bad Yeah, I mean it just wasn't it wasn't the right fit You know like they had their vision and their vision was kind of centered around the formula that worked for him And my whole argument was it's not gonna work for me Like you know, and I'm not like I actually tried it obviously because I'm open to writing and recording and trying different stuff But yeah, it just got to the point where I was like this is not for me like and y'all can't make it I was I was open to like whatever sounds you bring in the studio. Yeah, let's try them out Yeah, you never know what you have to try it. Yeah, you don't like it Yes, like you never know what you can get because I've made some songs that might have that tempo that I'd be like You know, this would be great for somebody else. Mm-hmm. So I Kind of feel like that's one of the best intros that dropped last year Just for the simple fact that it has so much truth in it All right And that song in general was me telling the truth a lot of people had no idea that I had a baby on the way and a lot Of people who know me still have no idea because they listened to that song and they heard the line And they thought I was just maybe trying to rhyme instead of actually Letting you in on one of the biggest, you know, things I've been keeping from everybody Just kind of studying the game studying social media like I was I was around for a Lot of the stuff that's happened in the last four or five years on the internet So I got to see people come and go like I I learned a lot, you know, just from watching so in that You know though that little gap of what was that three years. Yeah, it was just a lot of stuff I got to like process and practice and take in and to the point where when we did drop the first two songs It wasn't you know, I didn't fall on deaf ears. Yeah fucking up all of the sheets She only wake up to eat do this shit every week like why you do that crying? You want to be great but sleeping until the next day Why you do that unless you had a long night if you waking up past 11 o'clock You you got some you need this you need to get up a little bit early because I'm up at like 6 37 ready to go I've seen a lot of industry stuff to kind of know what comes with being with labels make your labels and You're not gonna get around certain things like they're always gonna be time for you bump heads and Things aren't always gonna be the way you want them to be but you know when you got leverage It's a little bit different and when you when you have proof and you have numbers then the conversation opens up for different things So like I didn't the whole time I made this project like I only met a couple of them and they will come Yeah, they will come and see you'll be like yo this is so-and-so from ready right from radio and I'll be like yeah Yeah, yeah, I'm working right now. So like I didn't have to talk to anybody. I just gave them my track list I gave them, you know my songs my cover art my videos and That was it. All right. I hope that was helpful Black is really in my being gonna be one of the hugest acts we've seen in a long time Closer to the weekend level not just another hot artist But anyway, if you think I should do somebody else comment in that section below other than that, you know what to do hit that subscribe button