Current Level of Support - Homeisode 33

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How you doing? It's your boy Quincy Murdoch from

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Not Just Music Podcast. I'm here for another

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episode. Hope everybody's doing well. Hope everybody

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has been tuning in and enjoying everything that

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Not Just Music Podcast has to offer. We're coming

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back at you heavy. It's that time. We got to

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keep... Hitting y 'all with these episodes, man.

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Educate the mind, the body, the soul. Today,

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I want to talk about, I really want to talk about

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support. Typically, in the Black community, I

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want to focus on my personal experiences from

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support, the thing we call support. As a lot

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of people may know, if you follow Quincy Murdoch,

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I am a music artist. I am a podcaster, model,

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actor. I do a lot. And in this field, anything

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that you do, the ones that want to be the best

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are that serious about what they do or their

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craft. They always feel like they are the best

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at what they do. It's never a problem feeling

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like you're the best. You know what I'm saying?

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And this is going into my point about support

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also. So you're always supposed to believe in

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yourself, for one. For two, you're always supposed

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to be like you're the best. You never want to

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be second place, third, last. We all true winners

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get into things wanting to win, be number one.

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Say whatever you want to say. It's the truth.

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Also, we all have minds of our own. We are all

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supposed to feel the way we feel. We are all

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supposed to believe in what we believe. We're

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not supposed to let others dictate how we think,

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what we think, what we do. True leader does what

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he wants to do, believes what he wants to believe.

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We don't follow trends. We don't. If it's garbage,

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we're going to say that's garbage. We real about

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it. That's what we do. I'm saying so. I want

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to say I'm from Statesville, North Carolina,

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where you're very small. Making it out of Statesville,

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I always say if you make it out of here, you

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special because support really is lacking in

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the city. A lot of gatekeepers. You have to know

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who the gatekeepers. You have to abide by their

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rules. They talk about in Hollywood and stuff

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like that. It's the same way Statesville, the

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small city. I'm saying it's regulations and codes.

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It really less has to do about talent. It's really

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not about talent. It's more about who the gatekeepers.

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And some of the city, not the whole city, but

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the people in charge, et cetera, the shows, bookings,

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like that. It's whoever they want to be leaders

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in the city. They want to put them there. Not

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even saying these artists are top artists or

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have good quality music. It's just the fact that.

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They might have personal relationships with these

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gatekeepers. And these gatekeepers would do anything

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and everything to make sure or try to make sure

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that they are the face of Statesville. So back,

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it was like music challenges, top 20, something

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like that. I was doing very well. On the charts,

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I was doing very well. I was getting a lot of

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hate because my music was different from a lot

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of music down here. You know, you had a lot of

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artists talking about robbing, killing, going

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to prison, like that. And there's nothing wrong

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about that. There's nothing wrong with that.

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That's you. But I wasn't really on that type

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of time. I always wanted to make music that meant

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something, that was going to make people think.

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I grew up around some harsh things and I seen

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harsh things and I tell people this all the time.

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Never judge a book by its cover. Because a person

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that might be gangster ain't rapping about it

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or talking about it doesn't mean he won't go

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there. I ain't been there. Let's just try to

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stay away from that because we know the pain.

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We know what comes with that. We don't want to

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be reminded of the bad, the hood. The thugs,

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the prostitutes, the drug dealers. You don't

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want to be reminded of that, so why rap about

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that? Man, we're trying to overcome that. Many

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of us that don't rap have this persona like that.

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So I was getting a lot of flack because my music

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was different. It catered more to the women.

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I rapped about education. I rapped about that.

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I rapped about... I rapped about my struggles

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also, what I've dealt with. Even put me going

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to college in my rap. I always just stayed true

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to who I was. I never tried to follow a trend.

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So a lot of bad flack from my city. But it was

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just one particular situation where it was a

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rock the mic performance. And I won't say the

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guy's name who was in charge of it. But I was

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hot around that time. I had a hot song out. And

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he kept me off the lineup. He put me off of the

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lineup. I think he didn't put me on the lineup.

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And he told me that my music didn't fit in with

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the rest of the lineup or whatever you want to

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say. I was like, OK, so. Time went on and I realized

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you're actually talking about my music in a bad

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way, certain people. So I responded and I was

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like, I really don't like that. Like I'm the

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same. Y 'all all sound the same. There's no meaning

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behind this, what you're saying, this and that.

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Since that day, I have been blackballed in Statesville,

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North Carolina. For speaking my truth, speaking

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my opinion. And let me say this, say it again.

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These are my opinions, my views. I'm a man that

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thinks on my own. I think everything through

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when I say it. Just because everybody is jumping

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on the bandwagon of this artist. If I truly don't

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feel like he's that artist, I don't really relate

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to his music. I'm going to say something. I'm

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not an ass kisser. I'm not a follower. I don't

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jump on boats. I'm a man. That's more traits

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women do. I'm a man. I'm a grown ass man. So.

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And I do the same thing that these artists do.

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I do the same thing. So it's like, can't be respected

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with my craft. Why should I show respect to the

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same ones that's disrespecting me? So what I

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did. I created my own lane. I created my own

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website. I created my own brand, created my own

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movie, Quincy Martin movie. I created my own

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product. So I didn't have to rely on the gatekeepers

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in the city, our people, you know, in the city

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to get what I needed. And I hooked up with my

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bro, DeJuan Barino, and it changed my life because

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all it takes really is one. It doesn't take a

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whole entourage or a whole crew to believe in

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you, a whole team. All it takes is that good,

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solid one, and it will change your life. So fast

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forward to now, you see all the boots on the

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ground situations. Everybody's just trying to

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follow a trend in me. You know, ground is more

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like a country felt type record. So what I see

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now happening. People create these events centered

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around the name Boots on the Ground, and you

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have rappers on the lineup. Statesville. Yes.

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You have rappers on the lineup that you title

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Boots on the Ground, and this is a rodeo show.

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So I ain't knocking nobody how they do nothing.

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I truly believe that you should follow. The event

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has to make sense. Whatever you do has to make

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sense to me. I don't come to a rodeo and want

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to hear rap music. Me personally, as a fan of

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music, this is not Q the artist speaking. This

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is Q the man speaking. I don't go to certain

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events. That's like me going to an R &B concert

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and there's nothing but hip -hop artists on the

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lineup. I came... With my girl, I came to feel

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love. I came to cuddle with my girl and dance

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with her behind her when they're singing these

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slow notes and hitting notes. And I don't come

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here to beat nobody over the head type music.

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So I feel like it's gotten to the point where

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the gatekeepers are wanting to put, they're forcing

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these artists, these songs on us, on the people.

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Even at shows, in events where it makes no sense.

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They're forcing it on us because they want them,

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keyword, they want them to be the face. But what

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do the people truly want is the question. And

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what I think is the unity is missing in a little

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bit of Black history. Down South, there's really

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no unity when it comes to music. There's really

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no unity when it comes to business. It's very

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rare. Places like New York, they're known for

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connecting. They're known for coming together.

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They're known for supporting their artists. They're

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known for telling you, oh, that shit trash. They're

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going to be honest and they're going to make

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your ass get in the lab and work harder and write

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a better song, record a better song or whatnot.

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Down here, they're going to sugarcoat it. They

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got a lot of yes men, no men. Like, yeah, they're

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going, oh, that's hot. No one is not hot. Truth

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will set you free. So in New York, you know,

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places like, no, they actually, East Coast, they,

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the support was real. The support, even the mid

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-2000s, 2000s, New York was still supporting

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their artists. They were still big on it. But

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where is that in the South? We too busy competing

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with each other. We too busy, you know, overlooking

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the truth. We're too busy letting personal feelings

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get in the way of true talent and what's real.

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Like I've always stated, I always said back then,

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it's going to be a time where the truth is looked

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at as a lie and the lies looked at as the truth.

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You know, so just today it was support. It was

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it was dancey feel music. Nobody was beefing.

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Nobody were using names for come ups or this

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or that. It was all about product. And that's

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what I feel like is missing in today's music.

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And just overall, what we as humans, the world

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has changed. And I would love for it to get back

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to that time, even though I probably wasn't alive.

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I caught a little glimpse of him when I was a

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kid. Like, you know what I'm saying? But I had

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to get back to that time where it's just that

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feel -good, honesty -type vibe. You know? So

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this is another episode about support. I wanted

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to talk about support and do a little Black history

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in there. You know, history for you. You know

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what I'm saying? Because I was dominantly Black.

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and we played a crucial role. New York played

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a crucial role in hip -hop. Not discrediting

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the South or anything like that, but when people

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look at the scale of hip -hop and music, they

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always think of the New Yorks and, you know what

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I'm saying, the East Coast, etc. And it also

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went into what I talked about, unity, because

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they support each other. You know what I'm saying?

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And I will have to get back on it to where we're

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supporting each other. We ride for each other

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just like they do. No. So, yes. Thank you. Another

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episode of Not Just Music Podcast, where we keep

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it real and honest.