Beginner Songwriters Should Know This

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What's going on people not just music podcast

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in a building again Saturday Good vibes. How's

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everything? How was the week? How is the week

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ending? How is You how are you? Yeah, yeah most

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importantly, I'm good in a great space mentally

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physically, you know It was a smooth week man

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the usual working, you know working nine to five

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and You know, trying to stay productive, executing

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on some big moves, business -wise, musically.

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I ain't gonna speak too much on that until, you

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know, we in there. But, you know, getting ready,

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man. You know, preparing for the next steps of

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life. And not just life, you know, entertainment,

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business, savvy -wise, and things like that,

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all across the board. It's been blessed, man.

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Been blessing. So how about you? Good, man. No

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complaints this way. Everything is good. Everything

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is moving. Doing everything I've been doing.

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No changes. Staying focused, energized. Got a

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couple of things I'm going to bring up today

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on the lights of history and also talk about

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everything that goes along with that. And music

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is the talk right now. So music is what it would

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be. One of the first people. First black individuals,

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there's a few, I gotta say. There's actually

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a couple. Two in particular. One of the first

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black winners to ever win a Grammy. A lot of

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people probably didn't even know this. I don't

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even know if we even talked about this. I don't

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even know if it's a thing. I didn't even talk

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about it, but it's the case of just knowing.

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For sakes knowing and for the sake of this being

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on this platform because it's very important

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to have on this platform starting to know this

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music some music facts and a lot of music history

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facts should be Implemented here because people

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are coming to look forward and I'm gonna help

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y 'all out so First black female winner ever

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is Ella Fitzgerald. She did this in 1959 First

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black male winner is count Basie. He also won

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in 1959 Now both one, let me just read a little

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bit. Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie were the

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first black artists to win Grammy Awards at the

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inaugural ceremony in 1959. Fitzgerald won for

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best jazz performance and best female pop vocal

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performance, while Basie won the best jazz performance

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by a group that is, and best performance by a

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dance band. Now, the first one - Can I add something

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to that? Yeah. Will Smith was the first black

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hip -hop artist to win a Grammy. Him and DJ Jazzy

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Jeff. Him and DJ Jazzy Jeff were actually the

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first hip -hop duo to win black to win a Grammy.

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I just wanted to add that in there. I thought

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that's where you was going with it. But I feel

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you though. Let's talk about it. I'm not done

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yet. I'm not done yet. First black artist to

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win album of the year. in 1974 goes to Stevie

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Wonder. So you're adding to it. Nothing wrong

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with you what you add. I'm just adding on more

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to it. A lot of black artists in the 50s, 60s,

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70s were of that cold era of the strange times

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where You were weren't getting credit for some

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of your records and stuff like that. So for them

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to actually get their credit, what credit would

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do was just big time in the 50s. You know, and

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it resonates too, because, you know, the previous

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podcast we talking about relevant people that

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are still alive. And that's what made me think

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of Will Smith, because Will Smith is a walking

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legend right now. He out here walking, you know,

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and I just see it's crazy. You know, we we tend

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to forget, man, you know, sometimes. Yeah. Yeah.

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The sake of the sake of these, you know, people

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people considered Natalie Cole as well as the

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first black to win a Grammy Award as well. I

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don't want to overlook her because due to the

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nature of time, in a way, things fail in certain

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times. People didn't like. We can overlook her.

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name as well because she was a big deal in those

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times as well which rolls me right into the conversation

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of songwriting um speaking of songwriting and

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songwriters and things that go along with songwriting

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and songwriters has traveled time over time and

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times of time and things have changed the way

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certain songwriters Implement themselves in music

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these days on Ghost writing it was one of the

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most hidden factors of writing that a lot of

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people Overlook, but it's not really overlooked.

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It's just I think some people don't want to come

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out of that box and don't want to be known don't

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want to be seen, you know, they just want to

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write and You know, there's a place for everybody

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in the in the music industry. I mean music industry

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is huge Just find your way in I mean if you want

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to be a ghost writer, so that's another situation

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on one of the biggest avenues though is Those

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who are songwriters songwriters can sometimes

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be limited due to you know dependent craft, you

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know if they're They can't, you know, they don't

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have a studio or then you have those that are

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songwriters who do have studios, who have accessibility

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to be able to be songwriters. Task can sometimes

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be different as far as those who just understand

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the stroke of the pen and some that are kind

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of mental writers, you know. There are too many

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aspects between that. I was just about to comment

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on that. I was just about to say a lot of writers

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got a lot of crazy stuff that going on up there

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in that mindset. A lot of writers actually got

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a lot of crazy lives because to write something,

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anybody can write, you know what I'm saying?

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But to write a hit with powerful lyrics, meaningful

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lyrics, You actually got to go through something

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to get there. You know what I'm saying? It got

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to be personal. A lot of these songs are personal,

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written, I feel. You know what I'm saying? You

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listen to the lyrics. A lot of them dealing with

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a lot of crazy stuff, man, up there, psychologically,

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man. And you'd be surprised. Those are some of

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the best songwriters, man. You know what I'm

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saying? The ones that actually live in that experience.

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So definitely these are all pieces to a songwriter

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and they're things that are like I said, the

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overlooked parts. So one of the main overlooked

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parts, especially when it comes to being a songwriter

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is understanding your credibility in a record.

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And these are for the ones that lean on credibility.

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I think one of the hardest things of unpacking

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it is how far you understand that you're putting

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yourself in a place when it comes to the songwriting

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part of it. So let me give you an example. So

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if I'm just, I'm gonna give you just a basic

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Joe songwriter, right? I'm a basic Joe songwriter.

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I got a song, right, that I just wrote it. Just

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put it on a piece of paper, you know. Don't even

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have a really a concept. Don't even have a beat

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to it or nothing like that, but it's just words

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I'm like nah, man. I want I want this to go somewhere,

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you know, so I just pass it and just give it

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to Somebody else right this let's just say an

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artist this just just getting started out, right?

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Right. So this artist is just starting out I

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give him these lyrics and like look man do something

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with these leads, right? That's it. I don't I

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don't put any type of You know, agreement in

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place, no, anything. I just like here, right?

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Right now. He goes in this song, he goes records

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this song. This song becomes a hit, right? Mm

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hmm. What do you think that I deserve? From it.

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Yeah, a question to me, that's a question to

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you. What do you think I deserve? I mean, it's

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it's whatever was negotiated for one. Like, that's

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why you got to have your business. So I didn't

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negotiate. So I didn't negotiate anything. All

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right. That's what you messed up for one. I'm

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for the viewers watching. That's what you mess

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up for one. You got to make sure it's an understanding.

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Any time you're doing something like business

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was like in this case. You need it needs to be

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written down like Even if you brothers, you know

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I'm saying like but like me and you we close

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we bros It should still be some kind of agreement

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and I as an artist shouldn't take it personal

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You know going off your business as you shouldn't

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take it personal With me coming at you with business.

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It should never be personal when it comes to

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business and also If you really got love for

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that person, you should want to see them eat

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off this what we created. If y 'all both did

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it, you should you should never want to be selfish.

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Now you have people out there that selfish, that

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don't care about nobody pockets, even if they

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got the help, they won't even shout you out.

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I say you was part of the creation, won't even

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give you a shout out. I know some people personally.

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That's another episode. Me I'm more of a type.

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I like giving credit to the people that contributed

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and helped you know I'm saying I believe and

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everybody should eat that helped me because as

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We stated this crazy how this is aligning with

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every podcast we do but as I stated When I started

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out I didn't have to help like that. You know

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it was hard getting resources you like people

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writing your songs are the production are people

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telling you what they hear or the business side

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of put your music here, get your residuals this

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way. So when you meet somebody that actually

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has your back, it changes your mindset. You want

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to make sure they're good when you're good because

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they helped you. You know what I'm saying? So

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this is all going back to what I said a couple

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of weeks ago, you know, episode. So that's a

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long answer to the question. Always come up front

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and say what you want. Both parties. Just open

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your mouth, say what it is, you know, from the

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jump. Biggest things I see, especially with these,

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you know, new age writers is you just explained

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the whole detail. So what happens is they take

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a step towards things in an independent way.

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Without a national highway and a national highway

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because I'm here. I've had people say cute jokingly

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I've had people say cue. Let me write you a song

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Not not thinking Yo, if you get in here and kill

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this song and then they're gonna have to hear

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this song on the radio Years and years and and

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they see me do shows They see me blow up win

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Grammys from this song. See they don't think

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that far. They're thinking like Oh, it's nice.

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You know, I'm a songwriter. So in a way, they're

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certain themselves. They don't think what they're

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doing is important. I feel like songwriters don't

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understand the value they are to music, because

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if you understood the value of who you were,

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you will approach business more serious like

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the artists do. You know what I'm saying? So

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this is valuable and songwriting. I'm saying

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that's why I'm gonna bring these points up, but

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I'm sorry. So It's a it's these are people who?

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Need to understand is this it's not like it's

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simple But it's not simple, you know You want

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to understand business before you get into these

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things. So as a songwriter Look into it's easy

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to do just get on Google find different types

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of contracts to look into, to write up for yourself,

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to put together for yourself in the lines of

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something that is in a manageable contract agreement

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to what you want, how you want things to go.

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Also make things negotiable as well because there

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are certain negotiable manners that can come

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in the long run when it comes to writing up a

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contract. So, you have to understand that situation

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before you really get into it. That's why I was

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so glad, shout out Full Sail for putting that

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in my face first. Like, here, let me show you

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the business. Let me show you how and what splits

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are. Let me help you understand where splits

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come in because the biggest, this is one of the

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biggest misunderstood things is when it comes

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down to those splits. I'm gonna have to do another

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whole situation on podcasting with that part.

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Just understanding and making sense of splits.

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There are certain splits that can be in place.

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There are certain splits that can be very tricky.

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But you remember if anybody had their hands on

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a record with you, whether if it was the person

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who made the beat, whatever the person who, you

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know, mixed it, mastered it, recorded it. All

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of the hands that touched it per se need to be

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on the credits when it comes to You putting out

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that record and also they come down into those

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splits as well But again, I talk about another

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time but for the sake of songwriters This is

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this is the part that you must know the business

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part of it versus just taking that long jump

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shot Just you know, can you explain what happens

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when you? Just you just give you stuff away What's

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He gave you the whole else he going going out

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there be like Cut, cut. Think about it. You asking

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me, what do you feel I should get? You asking

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me what I think you should get. So as a person,

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you already messing up there when you got to

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ask somebody your value and you're like, OK,

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how much do you think you should pay me? No,

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that ain't that ain't how you do business. You

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come you come with your numbers. Come with your

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numbers, you know I'm saying and what I always

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say I like to me personally I like to start high

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I Negotiate I start high and I work my way down

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but I'm also The thing about me struggling as

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an independent artist also gives me a heart and

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also gives me that um We spoke on this realistic

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this to life in situations where I'm not going

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to do unfair business. You know what I'm saying?

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I'm willing to listen, but my prices are my prices,

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but I'm willing to do what's best for both of

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us, long as it ain't killing me. You know what

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I'm saying? Because I look at the bigger picture.

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You know, sometimes you might have to take that

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little pay cut to get this song out or get this

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product out, or you might have to take a little

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pay cut For like for some some other benefit,

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you know I'm saying like that ain't even money

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might be promo might be Word -of -mouth this

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person might go into promoting that song like

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50 -50 with you or you know It's other things

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other than money that can benefit from songwriting

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and music and hoe and a hoe so That's what I

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would say And the grip that like, you know, like

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I brought up with the situation with in the beginning

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with the Grammy, right? Everybody that was on

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the record. Got a Grammy. Gets credit, y 'all.

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Remember that. Gets credit. So you wanna make

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sure that you implement yourself in the business

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part of it the correct way. Stop taking the personal,

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and like you said, it could be your brother,

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but you and your brother gotta sit down and be

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like, bro, look, we gotta understand the business

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part of this. There's a business part that we

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must do. You got to be honest with them clarification.

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You gotta be honest Yeah clarification the clarification

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of it is really simple. It's a really simple

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process y 'all You don't have to it's not it's

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nothing that you need to complicate Once the

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splits are done the splits are done. It's nothing

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to take person Just how that's how the business

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goes, but again and also remembering, you know,

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it's 2026, you know You gotta stop you got it.

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Like we just he just say it realistic Think realistically,

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music does not make money. Nowhere near what

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it was 25, 30 years ago. It's not the same thing.

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We're not putting out CDs, we're not putting

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out tape cassettes, we're not putting out eight

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tracks anymore, we're not doing any of that anymore.

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You gotta be realistic and think like that. So

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for the sake of, this is a streaming world. And

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that's important for you to say that, you being

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a producer, being in production. because a lot

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of people in your position won't even tell the

00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:06.539
artist this and they'll just give me your money,

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give me your money, give me your money. You know

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what I'm saying? And like you say, you don't

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waste it all that bread. But a producer, we spoke

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on this yesterday, me personally. But you say

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you being an artist, realistically, you're going

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to understand artistry and what's what's not

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right now. And you're going to let that artist

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know. I'm saying that as far as how they want

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to go with it. That's up to them But at least

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you did your part and that's why we need more

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people in position like you to be Honest and

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be real, you know saying about everything the

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product of business everything because Y 'all

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are somewhat the gatekeepers or the non gatekeepers,

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you know I'm saying like that can that can push

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us over that you you know I'm saying so That

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yeah, that's important what you're saying. Yeah,

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that's the that's just the standpoint that most

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Forget, you know this like I said if you're trying

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to put together the product The whole thing needs

00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:09.500
to be like ready to go just thinking like that,

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you know That's why I always try to point out

00:21:11.140 --> 00:21:13.980
the songwriters in the situation more so because

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there's a lot of songwriters who don't get credit

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because they don't know the business, you know,

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that's like I mean full sale was Very very open

00:21:23.950 --> 00:21:28.650
to that, you know to that Conversation to that,

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you know to that topic. It was actually a class

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songwriter professional songwriter and the sake

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of understanding how to be a songwriter and the

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things and the pieces that were there and Remembering,

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you know, this is and this is something that

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that a lot of songwriters forget and I'm gonna

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give you You know two people on top of my head

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that I Kind of look up to in this lane when it

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comes to that part neo and dream and I like scissors

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me personally I like scissors and I'm gonna give

00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:06.839
my reason why with and babyface to Yeah, I'm

00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:10.000
gonna give my reason for the babyface. Yes, these

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two are these two are neo is one You have to

00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:19.680
understand that you have to understand artistry

00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:21.940
in a way. And this is, I'm saying, I'm giving

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this as a saying, this is a cheat sheet to something

00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:28.279
that a lot don't know. So as a songwriter, how

00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:30.940
do you get more? How do you become more, you

00:22:30.940 --> 00:22:33.940
know, implemented into it? This is how you become

00:22:33.940 --> 00:22:37.660
more implemented into it. Being part of the whole

00:22:37.660 --> 00:22:42.160
entire production process to where, you know,

00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:45.140
see some, Some songwriters, like I said, just

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know how to draw the pen. They just know how

00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:48.740
to do that. Some just know how to come up with

00:22:48.740 --> 00:22:53.140
it up here. But when you can get that microphone

00:22:53.140 --> 00:22:59.339
and pull up that recording program and hit that

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record button and have that track, that beat

00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:06.539
already and have your vocals and you know how

00:23:06.539 --> 00:23:08.500
to mix it and you know how to master it or you

00:23:08.500 --> 00:23:10.099
know how to get it mixed and you know how to

00:23:10.099 --> 00:23:13.029
get it mastered. And you know how to sing too?

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And you know how to get on that mic? No no no

00:23:17.509 --> 00:23:20.650
no I'm saying cuz a lot of things that's like

00:23:20.650 --> 00:23:23.630
verses and stuff You know that like a lot they

00:23:23.630 --> 00:23:26.190
have seen a lot of songs they wrote too I've

00:23:26.190 --> 00:23:28.930
seen songwriters do that like they like you'd

00:23:28.930 --> 00:23:31.150
be like, oh they wrote this song Yeah, you know

00:23:31.150 --> 00:23:33.970
I'm saying babyface has seen some songs and you'd

00:23:33.970 --> 00:23:35.809
be like man. I didn't know he wrote this song

00:23:35.809 --> 00:23:39.569
so Like you say utilizing in other ways other

00:23:39.569 --> 00:23:42.230
than just sitting behind and just writing, you

00:23:42.230 --> 00:23:46.210
know, like let yourself be known In those ways

00:23:46.210 --> 00:23:49.190
that yeah, I wrote this song I'm saying get that

00:23:49.190 --> 00:23:51.430
credit man. Like that like that's what I was

00:23:51.430 --> 00:23:54.750
saying one thing that you're saying Sing a songwriter

00:23:54.750 --> 00:23:58.470
sing a song writers again at part where you as

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I say you you can be the person to record whether

00:24:01.190 --> 00:24:05.650
this is whether you sing Whether you rap if you

00:24:05.650 --> 00:24:09.529
have that talent to be able to implement into

00:24:09.529 --> 00:24:12.730
it as well. So where the biggest point is, like

00:24:12.730 --> 00:24:16.750
I said, you have a complete finalized record.

00:24:17.309 --> 00:24:22.609
That is the biggest cheat sheet to being a songwriter

00:24:22.609 --> 00:24:25.930
to me. Like song can just, like I say, scratch

00:24:25.930 --> 00:24:27.390
the surface. There's nothing wrong with just

00:24:27.390 --> 00:24:30.450
scratching the surface. But when you can scratch

00:24:30.450 --> 00:24:33.349
the surface and come up with that final piece,

00:24:33.549 --> 00:24:36.630
that final product, and take it to somebody and

00:24:36.630 --> 00:24:39.289
take it and be like, look, this is what I got.

00:24:39.589 --> 00:24:43.869
Let's put this together. Some don't understand

00:24:43.869 --> 00:24:46.450
that part of the songwriting part. And it could

00:24:46.450 --> 00:24:49.430
be big for those. But you really have to be into

00:24:49.430 --> 00:24:53.829
the music situation deeply and understanding

00:24:53.829 --> 00:24:57.220
it in that way to be able to say that, OK, you

00:24:57.220 --> 00:24:59.759
could gain that much from it. It's not just like,

00:24:59.859 --> 00:25:03.140
say, just the basics of it. Right. Right. Question.

00:25:03.299 --> 00:25:05.619
And then this is this is something that some

00:25:05.619 --> 00:25:09.380
don't realize. So, you know, if it was a thing

00:25:09.380 --> 00:25:13.680
of understanding a business part of songwriting,

00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:18.700
right. Right. And you didn't realize or understand

00:25:18.700 --> 00:25:23.980
the aspects of it. Do you understand that there?

00:25:24.349 --> 00:25:27.910
are a bunch of avenues that can help you understand

00:25:27.910 --> 00:25:33.130
if you didn't know. Oh, yeah. So I didn't know

00:25:33.130 --> 00:25:36.549
a lot. I didn't know a lot about music, but I

00:25:36.549 --> 00:25:39.329
knew the importance of being able to write. I

00:25:39.329 --> 00:25:41.930
knew that from the beginning. Even when I was

00:25:41.930 --> 00:25:44.250
putting credits on my old stuff, I would always

00:25:44.250 --> 00:25:47.730
put Quincy Murdoch songwriting, you know, because

00:25:47.730 --> 00:25:51.829
we talk a lot of times. I'm so big on songwriting.

00:25:51.890 --> 00:25:54.630
You know what I'm saying? Like I wrote a whole

00:25:54.630 --> 00:25:57.210
movie movie script when she marred at the movie

00:25:57.210 --> 00:26:01.170
so I know the value of being a song a writer

00:26:01.170 --> 00:26:03.710
period not just a songwriter just a writer, you

00:26:03.710 --> 00:26:07.410
know and People seeing the product and hearing

00:26:07.410 --> 00:26:11.569
the product and all those are his words. That's

00:26:11.569 --> 00:26:14.710
his Vision, you know I'm saying like what can

00:26:14.710 --> 00:26:18.430
he do for us? Like maybe he can write us a movie

00:26:18.430 --> 00:26:22.200
script. Maybe he can You know write us a song,

00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:24.319
you know, so that's important I've always knew

00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:27.359
that was important to have my name on that song

00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:30.339
writing part, you know that song right out of

00:26:30.339 --> 00:26:34.539
writer part, so Yeah, and the honestly reason

00:26:34.539 --> 00:26:37.819
why I haven't wrote for a lot of people as we

00:26:37.819 --> 00:26:41.779
stated before the business I'm not gonna do something

00:26:41.779 --> 00:26:44.759
for free. You got to know your value. I'm saying

00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:47.619
A lot of singers would just be like, oh, I can

00:26:47.619 --> 00:26:50.160
write songs. Let me just give this to this person

00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:54.579
or that person. For me to do that, you have and

00:26:54.579 --> 00:26:57.980
let me say, I say I'm reasonable for me to just

00:26:57.980 --> 00:27:01.059
give a song away. What have to be like a main

00:27:01.059 --> 00:27:04.519
a mainstream artist, for example, like if if

00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:07.799
SZA wanted a song, I write a song like came to

00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:10.539
me. Want me? Yeah, because opportunity is going

00:27:10.539 --> 00:27:13.660
to come. You feel me? Like, yeah, just give me

00:27:13.660 --> 00:27:16.480
my credits, baby. Give me my credits, you know

00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:19.640
that money ain't but if you're upcoming artist

00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:21.940
man, you got to treat this as a you know It's

00:27:21.940 --> 00:27:24.420
a business man, cuz we both trying to come up

00:27:24.420 --> 00:27:27.339
So a lot of people don't like that when you when

00:27:27.339 --> 00:27:29.799
you throw that business part in there, you know,

00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:33.900
they run they hide, you know, but it's about

00:27:33.900 --> 00:27:37.279
finding serious people and I think when I find

00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:40.720
serious people Then you'll see me writing. So

00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:43.380
a lot of stuff, you know, I'm saying but The

00:27:43.380 --> 00:27:46.539
thing of it is, I'm not going to devalue my value

00:27:46.539 --> 00:27:49.799
because of other people. I'ma always come with

00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:52.519
my value and know my worth. Know what I'm saying?

00:27:52.660 --> 00:27:55.680
And that's what I want songwriters to know. Know

00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:58.420
your worth. Know what I'm saying? Even if them

00:27:58.420 --> 00:28:01.460
jobs ain't coming in because people don't want

00:28:01.460 --> 00:28:04.559
to accept your prices or what you do or how you

00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:08.099
do it, somebody, them knows that somebody will

00:28:08.099 --> 00:28:10.519
say yes down the road. Them knows will turn into

00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:15.029
yeses. You sell yourself short Selling yourself

00:28:15.029 --> 00:28:17.869
low to the standards these other people want

00:28:17.869 --> 00:28:22.430
you to be and live. Yeah So and the last thing

00:28:22.430 --> 00:28:24.589
I'm gonna say this and this be my last clothes

00:28:24.589 --> 00:28:26.750
on this, you know the the thing of the biggest

00:28:26.750 --> 00:28:31.869
piece to the puzzle is Understanding it too with

00:28:31.869 --> 00:28:34.630
being a writer. Make sure that you understand

00:28:34.630 --> 00:28:38.230
how to write in the sense of saying the English

00:28:38.230 --> 00:28:41.500
language legibility You know, make sure you know

00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:43.759
how to write. Make sure it makes sense. You know,

00:28:43.779 --> 00:28:46.539
don't don't be one of those writers where you

00:28:46.539 --> 00:28:49.819
just, you know, just free willing, just putting

00:28:49.819 --> 00:28:52.880
anything down on a piece of paper and it just

00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.460
don't nothing connects. Make sure that the stuff

00:28:56.460 --> 00:29:00.140
makes sense and make sure you got too much technology

00:29:00.140 --> 00:29:05.660
now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tighten it up for you.

00:29:05.660 --> 00:29:08.240
Yeah. Make sure it makes sense. And you got to

00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:11.529
have his division. Yeah, make sure it makes sense

00:29:11.529 --> 00:29:17.269
in a manner where you have a tech in place that

00:29:17.269 --> 00:29:20.730
makes the writings make sense. It's simple to

00:29:20.730 --> 00:29:23.710
do. It's not hard. It's actually free to do now.

00:29:23.769 --> 00:29:26.509
I mean, and if it's the case, send it to a proofreader.

00:29:26.730 --> 00:29:28.589
Proofreaders are still available as well. That's

00:29:28.589 --> 00:29:32.329
still a real thing. And take advantage of that

00:29:32.329 --> 00:29:33.730
part. Take advantage of that part. Ain't that

00:29:33.730 --> 00:29:35.650
crazy though, bro? I thought about that. I can

00:29:35.650 --> 00:29:38.779
write you a whole song. Yeah, that's what that's

00:29:38.779 --> 00:29:41.480
I mean it can make not even write you a whole

00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:45.000
song it can make you a whole song Music and all

00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.819
so don't understand and estimate the whole situation.

00:29:48.819 --> 00:29:52.220
It's a whole you can get a whole song a whole

00:29:52.220 --> 00:29:57.180
And you can handle somebody but yeah, don't don't

00:29:57.180 --> 00:29:59.480
ever feel like y 'all are in a place where you

00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:02.039
know Learn some things when you come into this

00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:04.940
business, you know learn it Don't come in just

00:30:04.940 --> 00:30:07.079
thinking like just be a songwriter. No learn

00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:10.039
the business and continue to love being a songwriter,

00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:12.759
but just learn the business That's the biggest

00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:16.559
part now next next time there's a part where

00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:20.599
you know this mental part of the the Moving from

00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:23.759
around from you know recording and songwriting

00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:26.400
Where things can get a little shaky and a little

00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:28.299
sticky and I'm bringing it up on the next time

00:30:28.299 --> 00:30:30.680
we talk about this You got anything before I

00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:33.559
close this out? Anything new? Keep streaming,

00:30:33.740 --> 00:30:36.660
keep streaming my music. Quincy Murda I hold

00:30:36.660 --> 00:30:39.839
on live on all music platforms. He's streaming

00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:43.140
every song I got out there, even my old music.

00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:46.619
Appreciate everybody that's sharing. I got on

00:30:46.619 --> 00:30:50.500
TikTok a couple days ago, seen somebody had shared

00:30:50.500 --> 00:30:55.500
my joint called Learn Song, add to their story.

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So it's still, it's great seeing old songs. That

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was like one of my first songs. ever recorded

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so it's great seeing your old material still

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resonating with you know we here in 2026 you

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know I'm saying and I think I think I did that

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in 2016 so like you know music is timeless artists

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be original you know whatever you do your painter

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musician actor be original be you because there's

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something for you at the end of the road And

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your time is always going to come. It's a time

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for everybody. So yeah, that's all I want to

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end it with. Love, man. Love to the people. To

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those that need help, look for help. Find help.

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Reach out for help. Those that can give help,

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reach out to folks. Give help. You know, there

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is one, and each one can teach one something,

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something that's always needed in the world.

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If you're that person that needs something, don't

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be afraid to ask for help. Also autism community.

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I love y 'all disabilities those that have to

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deal with somebody with disabilities or is going

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through with themselves Remember there's still

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hope always stay positive never give up y 'all

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are the biggest strongest folks that I know anyway

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But y 'all keep me motivated a so but another

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thing too is always in a thing that people you

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brought up Just again, just remember mentality

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is strong. You know, you have a strong mentality,

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you know, sometimes you do have weak moments

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But understanding those weak moments are the

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parts where that's where strength is built up.

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When something gets weak, there's a weak spot

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or something, something is definitely gonna come

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in that spot and you're gonna get stronger. So

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just remember just to always keep yourself in

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a place and a mental that's going up. Even if

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you're thinking, man, something's gonna happen

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today or something's gonna hurt. That might be

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your breakthrough. That might be when that blessing

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about to come. When you feel that. Yeah, don't

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think too long. That's your void being filled

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right there. So until next time, y 'all, we love

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y 'all. Nothing but blessings, nothing but prayers

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to those that need it. And until next time, peace.