 It's the mat work. Something else that uh that bothers me is my angel gears. It's just boy that artist boy boy This artist be bothering me. Um, you know a lot of artists When they are a while notice because you know, I have a show coming up and I have artists sending me stuff And if you call yourself an artist, right? I'm gonna need you to have recent music. I have artists right now that's sending me stuff from 2016 Right, and I'm like and you're saying that you're an artist right now So there there ain't no way that you don't have up-to-date music So for all of you guys and now I'm not saying that what it sounds great though So is it like this because it sounds old or just the fact that it was created back then the fact that first of all I feel like sometimes a lot of times music gets dated So you can hear a song and the beat the vibe it feels like something from years ago You know, I mean and with this show in particular I had multiple artists sending me stuff now. I have requirements like I need you to have a video all of this So all of it looked Old You know, I mean like all of it looked old and I'm like, what do you have that's right now? Are you are you still an artist or are you just Just saw an opportunity So it's like if you're a person and you're reaching out to people because you're trying to get placements You're trying to get booked for things like people want to see what have you done recently, you know, what have you done for me lately? Like what have you done lately if you try to get booked for shows you get and you you can't send me anything That's up to date that kind of tells me as a booking agent as a promoter like If you don't even got nothing recent that tells me you probably don't even got no fans right now Or you don't have nobody moving for you. It's just like a bad look, man So it's like first of all artists should be recording or producing music on a regular basis Now there's no like, oh, you need to bust down a song once a week or release a song once a month But you definitely should be recording and creating music if this is what you do for a living on a Continuous basis, you know what I'm saying? So it's like if you are artists and you don't really have anything new Maybe your thing right now is to get a project together create some new music Get your your imagery together get your presence together Maybe you are trying to go through a rebranding phase and maybe that's one reason why you kind of took a moment off But like you got to hit people with some stuff with right now And and stop like sending all of this old Super old music that sounds outdated the visuals look outdated You know in the video you had braids and now you got a cut like brand-man shan You know, I mean you you sent me pictures where you had locks and now you got a low cut like Everything has to translate with who you are right now because if you want people to promote you as who you are Like and we're putting out flyers and we're putting out content And then people are seeing like people that look too different like two different people It don't correlate like it don't go together. So we need to update everything You need new music now's the time to start working on something new get some fresh sounds You know get everything that's that's new I could say as a like to artist What you're hearing right now is the type of person you want to do business with because the people who don't care about those things The quality of their show or whatever they're doing in the other spaces Is going to be on the same level. So they're not caring and holding you to those standards Yes, you can say oh, I got in but now you can also expect those low standards to be in the other aspects So it's actually not worth being a part of that thing in the first place So you want the people that you do business with to hold people to those types of standards to have barriers to the level of quality of artists and the other people they do business with because I've definitely been through that Especially when I was doing my festival, that's my biggest biggest experiences with artists and things like that But one even if the music doesn't sound outdated and isn't wack You have the idea just from a business standpoint Am I trying to put an artist out there and promote an artist that isn't active? Right. They're not committed and they're not You know constantly working towards their career because it's like, yeah, I believe in you But I'm not your manager trying to build you up. Right. So I want like my incentive is to have an artist that's dope right now And for that artist to continue to be dope and enlarge in their platform because now I'm associated with that That's how the people who are doing events or doing certain things are going are going to be thinking So it's in your best interest or in their best interest to work with people who are currently active Currently grinding and doing work without them Because now I can add my sauce onto it and then if people really see you doing that stuff They'll add something extra or they're really old Man, this artist is dope and I think this artist is going somewhere I see the momentum let me get him on because I want to let everybody know about him And I want them to know that I was the one that told them about them Right, I mean, but you have to put yourself in a position to look like that Because then people will start coming to you more or doors are opening for you a lot faster Right and from us, uh, like a fan standpoint Like if if you if somebody hears a song right, I just hear a song, but now I want to look you up So I go look you up on youtube People look at dates. I know I do like I look at like when was this video posted? You know what I mean? And it is a video especially. Yeah, right? And it makes me less on Spotify though, right? It's less on Spotify, but I feel like a lot of people Oh, I know me personally. I think when I listen to something new I'm always trying to find the visual because me. I'm just Activated visually like I like to see something, you know Sometimes you watch videos and it makes you like a song more because you've seen some type of visual to it and it kind of like Engaged with you to it like ruled you in versus you just hearing it You know I'm saying so it's like a lot of people will go and start to look you up And I'm one of those people like I go to youtube because I want to see like what your visuals look like Especially when I hear artists that I don't know who this person is like I want to see what you look like You know what I mean? So I'll go to youtube and search for some type of video And then I always look at the date like is this video is like is this a recent artist? It's old. What does it mean to you? Like if it's if it's old and I can't find anything that's recent it makes me feel like I'm wasting my time Oh, and and you can't find something right and I can't find something recent I'm just like, okay. Well, maybe this artist not even doing music no more. So like what's the point? You know, oh dang they were dope. They could have went somewhere or did something Yes, but you got me on a hyphen inside or a hot and bothered, you know, I mean and then just let me down. I'm unfinished So it's like boy, you gotta come with the package and and you should want to Not cause I don't know if I could pause Whatever but it's like yo before you it's like yo a lot of your artists are constantly reaching out to people to To like put you on to do this and do that and then they're asking you like, okay send me what you got send me pictures Send me this send me that and it's like you just don't have nothing recent So it makes people feel like they're wasting their time Trying to to put into you, you know, I mean when you don't even you're clear It looks like you're not putting into yourself. So no 100% like I I still always go back to this artist who rejected him for his show and I was like, bro, you don't have anything Right like literally I could tell he was an artist look from looking at his instagram. I couldn't find music But he literally had nothing and then this artist had the nerve to get mad And say look man, you don't know what you missing out on. I was going to debut my music at your event And I was like, oh no the hell you weren't You Think I'm a risk my credibility. I have no idea about so I I don't understand how artists put themselves in that position to to think of themselves I get the having to build up confidence and that becomes a part of the game sometimes But the level the goal that some of these people have like as far as not understanding the other side of the business And the value that you need to be bringing not just the fans But to these to the other people what what matters to them, right? The more you can put yourself into the mind state of the person you're doing business with Understanding their business model and just what matters to them the more you can make it easy for yourself to be a value to them and to Um, just just create a relationship that actually gets an impact You