Ways to Budget For The Studio

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Let's get it people another week another day

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Get straight to this studio talk as we've been

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on The path already has been set a couple things

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now Been talking about collabs been talking about

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The time excuse me. Let's let's let's go back

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a little been talking about Production, we've

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been talking about studio, slight studio edicacy.

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We've been talking about writing. We've been

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talking about collabs. We've been talking about

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a couple different things. Now, one of the key

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things that I've seen, and this is a very major

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question. A lot of you asked this question, and

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it needs to get answered in some kind of way.

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So, budget. The biggest... Biggest piece of it

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now is I think could be talking about, that can

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be talked about is budget. What do I mean by

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budget? So, budget comes down to a lot of different

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things. Meaning, different things meaning your

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lifestyle. You have to, there's this lifestyle

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that some live that is very, you know, easy going.

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and it can be managed in a very easy way when

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it comes to a budget. Some, there's a little

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more extremes because you have to factor in the

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things of your lifestyle. So what I mean by your

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life or your lifestyle, it comes down to that

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kids, houses, family, spousal. You might have

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a situation where you're Taking care of you and

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your kids spot, you know, it's there's a lot

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of different factors that can come along with

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this but this is where the thing of considerable

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budget can be talked about because not only people

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who are Single and have nothing much going on

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in their life become the superstar or the star

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or the successor. It's more to it than it There's

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a suitable lifestyle to everybody. The thing

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is is just figuring it out. So What do I mean

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by that? So some figure the studio situation,

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let's talk about studio. Studio talk is very,

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a very, very hard talk now due to the technology's

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turn in time. Like literally, the breaks are

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off excuses now. Like literally. To the point

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where if you have a computer or if you have a

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laptop, whatever your whatever nature There's

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no excuse if you have a phone there is no excuse

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So the the way or even a tablet no excuse, right?

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So let's let's let's talk about the budget situation

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I'm gonna ask a couple question because Q understands

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budget in a very different way, too so budget

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for Q will come in a different way, so If budget

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comes in a different way with Q, what does, if

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Q goes or Q wants to do his way of recording

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or his style of recording, what's the factors

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that you consider? Because people need to hear

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it. I'm the type, I have a family, you know,

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three females have to be taken care of. Daily

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basis of me. eating, you know, taking care of

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vehicles, household, all that stuff is factored

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in. To also be able to be a musician, also podcaster,

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creator, all of this comes along with it. It

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all has to fit. What do you balance in your situation,

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Q? Because some people feel like it's a space

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where there is just like no reality. It's just

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this There is a budget like though we don't get

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to the budget But what do you think what's on

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your plate on a situation of daily or weekly

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or monthly? Let me see bills bills more bills

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Let me see single man, I have two kids, you know

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daughter and a son Yeah, you factor all that

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in and what you try to do is you try to sacrifice

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as much as you can. You do as much as you can.

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In my case, I do as much as I can when I can.

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I know we talked a lot about striking when it's

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hot. Striking when it's hot isn't just meant

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for when... the creativity juices are flowing

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it also means when you're financially in that

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position to put money into that career because

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that money is not guaranteed this is what artists

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need to understand money is not guaranteed to

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stay with you forever so you have to manage money

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well for one but two When an opportunity presents

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itself or idea presents itself and you have that

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money to put into that, do it then. I'll use

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example, my movie. I shot my movie at a time

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in my life where, yeah, I had responsibilities,

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but responsibilities wasn't too heavy on me because

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I was staying with somebody at the time. So,

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you know, I wasn't having to pay a lot of money.

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Trying to you know, I'm saying a roof over my

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head. I actually was like And staying with somebody

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for temporarily at the time so I could have extra

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money in my pocket So I'm saying it to say I

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had that money to put into the movie. You know,

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I'm saying where It could have killed me if I

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was in another situation, you know, it probably

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couldn't be impossible. So striking when it's

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high That's what I mean. Also financially when

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you got it and you got ideas strike Because it

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ain't guarantees you gonna have that money Going

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on or going further. So, uh, it's just really

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about You being realistic with yourself um knowing

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But having priorities in check, you know I'm

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saying like when it comes down to this do I pay

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my rent? I do I spend my last on the studio Use

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common sense, you know, nobody should have to

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tell you, you know like what you should do you

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know and in most cases you know if somebody does

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I understand but I'm just saying try to have

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your priorities in check also your family your

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kids because I'm a firm believer before any entertainment

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or any of this family is first when all this

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stuff leaves or doesn't work out I have it turn

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out Guess who's always gonna love you and beat

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them kids man, you know They always gonna be

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there supporting you loving you no matter how

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much you abandon them And that's another thing

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into this that i'm talking about. Um It takes

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a lot of being Selfish also for a lot of this

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stuff to work and you know, it's a reality but

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Being selfish in this entertainment is crucial

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in in some ways because a lot of the top celebrities

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Had to somewhat not be there for their kids.

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They lost time with their family members You

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know cuz they was investing into this lifestyle

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this career as you say like the lifestyle and

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You know you lose out on a lot of stuff like

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family and you know, even your mental health

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You know cuz you're just going going going and

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you're putting everything into this career so

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Being selfish also has I've had to help them

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have some make some selfish decisions, you know,

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and in terms of the music and what I do also,

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you know, unfortunately, and fortunately, it

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didn't hurt me. You know what I'm saying? My

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kids still love me. You know, my family still

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love me. You know, you know, child's mother,

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she still, you know, it's all love respect. So

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it turned out well, you know what I'm saying?

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But those are some crucial things that I will

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I will say to our artists. I hope I answered

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your question. You know, I know it was long,

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but did I answer your question, bro? Yeah, yeah,

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you answered the dance song. And your experience

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goes along with everybody else's experience.

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You know, that's just the, this is the point

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of why I'm bringing it up, because some people

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need to hear, there are things that go on to

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create a lifestyle, but there's also a way to

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do this. So my thing is, Being this I give an

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example so for example if you're the in the age

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group where you're a teenager, you know moving

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into a adulthood and you know, you don't have

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a whole lot of overhead in your life now, there's

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a few ways you can start off your music career

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and Considerably not break your bank. So one

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of the one of the first ones you could start

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off with You know, this is because y 'all are

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in a more technology world a technology a technology

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driven world Especially your cell phone. So let's

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start off with the cell phone. The cell phone

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is one of the most Powerful is tools you can

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have right now to record Audio onto and also

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process the audio make it sound good, you know,

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there's AI situations where You know, you have

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AI tools at hand that can enhance it for you,

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make it sound good, make it sound a little better.

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The biggest thing is, is knowing what to pick.

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So what should you pick? I'm gonna call out one.

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I'm gonna start calling a couple of them here.

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And I'll add the links below just so you can

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get to them easy. BandLab is the number one.

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Number one right now running, especially on a

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phone. To me, as far as popularity is BandLab.

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Now, Is there a freeway other than BandLab? Yes,

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if you have an iPhone. And if you have, there

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are a couple Android applications I think that

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are free I can point you into as well. But if

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you have an iPhone, you already have GarageBand

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at hand. If you don't know, GarageBand is one

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of the most powerful tools you can ever access.

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And it is very, very, very much free. for you

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to have on your cell phone or your tablet or

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even on your computer is all a package where

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you can even save it on your cell phone and you

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can go work on it on your computer or on your

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tablet it moves across however you want to do

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it but that's one that's the freeway but again

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there's the band lab way though band lab actually

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allows you to this is one thing I would say to

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do and it is again If you have a cell phone,

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get you a cheap microphone. It doesn't have to

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be the best. We ain't talking about going out

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and spending like thousands and thousands of

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dollars, which you hear, you know, there's a

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lot of hype to what microphones you should buy.

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You know, there's that's just hype. You know,

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if you have a cheap microphone right now, man,

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shooting these podcasts and the quality is great.

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You want to hear every week. You know what I'm

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saying? If it's if it's a if it's a thing of,

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you know, popularity, there are popularity traits

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out here. There are some very nice things. If

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it fits your budget, go for it, shoot for it.

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But you don't have to get the most expensive

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thing. Now, understanding what comes with the

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understanding and mindset when you get these

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tools. Now, you get these tools, you get the

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microphone, you get you a nice little interface.

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The interface will plug into the phone or into

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the computer. Make sure you understand that.

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Recording is a thing of time. You learn to record

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in time. The only way you can learn to record

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is if you hit the record button. There are also

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YouTube videos that are very helpful in using

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BandLab. I will not even try to get into picking

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one because there are plenty of them. Just do

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a search how to record into BandLab. Or if you're

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using GarageBand, how to record into GarageBand.

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Same way. Same YouTube videos come up and show

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you those. Situations the objective is To find

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a budgetable way that is very much free because

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you could go to a studio If it's a studio that's

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willing to fit your budget But if it's not a

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studio that's willing to fit that budget because

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I'm telling you the case of it You'd rather just

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pay band lab monthly or for the year Which I

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think is like a hundred dollars may laugh $100

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for a whole year And you get to call a lot of

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other perks that come along in BandLab, too.

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Now, y 'all, it's some stuff there. I'm starting

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to lean into it, because I've been having to

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account for two years, and I never really knew

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about it until this year, until somebody actually

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young, one of the youngins put me on to it, and

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I thought about it. I was like, you know what?

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That's it. And guess who the youngin' was, my

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godson. So. He put me onto a whole lot of stuff

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in BandLab. I've been missing out on my goodness.

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I'm like, Lord, this is how fast technology is

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moving though. But I want you all to know that

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you really can put together a whole product on

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your own inside of BandLab. My godson just dropped

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a whole mixtape. I think it was nine songs, eight

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songs in all. He recorded everything, mixed everything,

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mastered everything inside of BandLab, all with

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AI help. It's just a few clicks. It could get

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you a nice solid product It may not be I ain't

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gonna say like it's like the most super pristine

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thing because there are certain nuances that

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come along with Depending on which how you pick

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the beat if you have all the track outs all of

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the stuff that comes with it To make it sound

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but for what he has I was blown away. So For

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him to say he ain't have a mixing, mixing engineer

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or mastering engineer, I was like, okay, yeah,

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it's technology is going there now. So for the

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sake of though, getting your tools, make sure

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you understand that getting tools, the tools

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are going to have to be used and they're going

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to have to be mixed and mastered in some kind

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of way once you finish recording. But this is

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all sticking within the budget of understanding

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that you must. Make time and room. So let's talk

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about what, what, what, what are we talking about

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with budget? What do we mean? What Q just talked

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about basically with budget. You have to make

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a sacrifice somewhere. That's the one thing.

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That's the most biggest, most important thing

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that you must do is sacrifice your time to be

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able to get in this position to be able to do

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this. and to be able to have the time to carve

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into your day, into your week, into your month,

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recording button, till you can't hit the recording

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to put it out to the world. I mean, you can get

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But remember, you've already cut the cost of

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recording so you can put the money into mixing

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and mastering. I'm throwing a lot out here one

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time trying to bleed these questions that I saw

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today. Make sure that you don't run into the

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situation, though, where you're overspending

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money on something that you have no business

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overspending money on. You just said this, so

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let me make sure you understand the sacrifice.

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So the sacrifice is this. This is what I always

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tell, you know, this is what I tell people, and

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especially people like my godson, work while

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you're young. Work while you're young. I worked

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at a job UPS basically right at 20. I worked

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at almost right at 20 years. Okay, put in the

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time into something that can be beneficial in

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the long run meaning for one case things of that

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nature that this beneficial in the long end meaning

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when you're getting ready to retire and coming

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into your retirement years and you're getting

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ready to file for your Social Security when you're

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63, you have some extra income there. to something

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that can be beneficial to you. Now, let's start

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some more into this. Now, there's some other

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things that come along when I say this. When

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I say I worked a lot when I was young, I worked

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a lot when I was young. I was cutting hair, I

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was a barber. So I'd be at a barbershop all day

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long, meaning I'd go get to barbershop seven,

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six in the morning sometimes. By eight o 'clock,

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I'm there though. Stay there till like 4 or 5

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o 'clock. How old are you to the viewers? I'm

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42, about to turn 43 this year. I started, I

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actually got into the barbershop and actually

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in completed barber school, you know got my state

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license in North Carolina. This was in 2007 -8

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So this is 2007 -2008. I've already been working

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at UPS Started working at UPS in 04, 03, 04.

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Now, when I say I was a barber, I was a barber

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all the way up basically until the time that

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it was time for me to get into barber school.

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So this is the grind, this is the grind, this

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is the hustle. So I cut hair. Basically in a

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barbershop all the way up until 2012. That's

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when I got in full sail for to do music production

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Things of the nature of what I'm doing now things

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of what we're doing how we're doing this now

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So for the case of graduated from full sail in

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2015 now I could say I was still cutting here

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in between I'm still working at UPS Guess what

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still a musician? Let me add that I've been a

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musician since I was basically a chap since I

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was a G single digit ears, but that actually

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didn't become beneficial to me until I was 17,

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18. And when I say beneficial, I was making like

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$10 a Sunday. But thank God for grace and mercy.

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That actually is more so my full -time job now,

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being a musician at a church. But we'll talk

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about that later. Fitting the budget, standing

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budget though. Everything that I was doing though,

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I was dumping right back over into music. So

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I'd be going, like I say, from six in the morning,

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I wouldn't come home until 10 o 'clock, 11 o

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'clock at night. So I stay going all day. Then

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when I get home, guess what? I'm turning up,

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I'm getting in the studio. I ain't even wasting

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no time. Soon as I get in the - Can I add something,

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man? Yeah. Because the key thing that you said

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is all that time and that money that you was

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making. you was investing into your craft or

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your brand, what you was doing. And that's another

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thing that I want to. I wouldn't all of it. I

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wouldn't invest in all of it into it. Well, no,

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I'm saying, I'm saying, OK, I'm saying. But was

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you was you was you spending it on was you spending

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on weed? I was spending it on. Was you spending

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it on? Did you? No, we're going to get personal.

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I'm asking you this question. OK, I'm asking

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you this. I had habits, I had addictions, I had

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things that I was doing. I was putting money

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into other things as well. I was a youngster.

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I was in my, I was young. Again, 20, 21, 22,

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I was living life. It was a lifestyle at that

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time. Yeah, yeah. Hear me out, bro. Yeah, I understand.

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Yeah. So, but I understand, like, you know, we're

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young. Like you say, that young, that age, I

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understand what you saying. But at that age,

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though, also, You can have a little accountability

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and you can have a little maturity too. And I

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want to use, I'm saying this for the people that's

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listening. Like, let's stop making age like,

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oh, the reason why I do this, I'm not so responsible

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or I can't do this or do that. No, we all can

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make the right decisions. And that was going

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to lead up to what I was going to say might make

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the right decisions. Cause I see a lot of kids,

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they hold check or go on buying some weed or

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drinking. Then you wonder where all your money

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is going and you can't do anything else and you

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have these rappers around That quote -unquote

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want to make it but you can't even budget money

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to go to the studio because you are Attic you

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don't want to come out and say it but you are

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at it and I understand we all have things we

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like to do But when it's consuming all of your

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money and taking all your money and you have

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no time else for anything but to just get high,

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smoke weed, hang out, not work, do this and do

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that, but want to be one of the biggest rappers

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in the world? Uh -uh. Or whatever you want to

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be, it's not going to work. So you have to make

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the right decisions also. You know what I'm saying?

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And no matter how old, how young you are, we

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are all capable of at least using a little bit

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of common sense and knowing What's wrong and

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what's right are how to get right if we ain't

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you know, I'm saying I just want to throw that

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in there Because I know your age is important

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though. Yeah, but now yeah So so for speak and

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this is still speaking to that age robust and

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I asked you that question because I wanted them

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to hear it from you You know saying your eyes

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rolling teenage teenagers rolling into their

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adulthood years. You're going to experience life.

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That's just, that's part of it. But some, some,

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some will understand that, you know, that there

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is You know this bigger picture that you're trying

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to get to some may not understand it Some may

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take a little time to get to that point It may

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take to your late 20s early 30s before you figure

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it out. Some don't figure it out right away But

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there's a time and then there's a space for everybody

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that's gonna figure this out. But for the case

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I'm sorry. I'm sorry And I'm not saying you got

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to cut out whatever you love to do whatever you

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love to do do it, but I'm saying if it's consuming

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you if it's becoming a problem like If it's taken

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away from what you're trying to do or where you're

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trying to get, that's when it's a problem. You

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know what I'm saying? Like we just seen Allset

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get shot for gambling. You know what I'm saying?

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Like these situations happen when it becomes

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a problem, then you know it's time to just back

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away from it. You get what I'm saying? It's time

00:24:46.700 --> 00:24:49.640
to use better common sense and judgment. That's

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what I'm saying. Like, I mean, if you do it,

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yeah, if you smoke, smoke once a week or something,

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try to save your money instead of buying weed.

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More than once a week, you know, try to say,

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OK, I'm going to just smoke once a week. I ain't

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indulging on smoking or anything or nothing like

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that. But I'm just saying if you do have something

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you love to do, try to cut back on it at least,

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you know, to save you some money. And this is

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just for them people that love because I know

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you have temptations. You do things. I do things,

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but I'm not an addict of anything. I can quit

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anything at any moment because I'm not addicted

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addict to anything. That's the thing with me.

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You know what I'm saying? I don't let anything

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consume me that much. So that's what I was saying.

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That can help you make some better decisions

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also and get to where you want to be. And putting

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your sacrificial mind in a different place at

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an early age is a good thing too. When you start

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early, it helps create A better environment when

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you are getting to to be up to my age when I'm

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like sound 43 this year the difference in what

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I understand When I was in my 20s and what I

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understand now is the smarter I got the better

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Why everything was starting to become so that's

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all if you make good if you make a decision Just

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remember to make a decision for the future. Don't

00:26:22.859 --> 00:26:25.200
make a decision for right now You know, you can

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make some right now decisions as far as like,

00:26:27.220 --> 00:26:29.970
you know getting in the studio putting out music,

00:26:30.109 --> 00:26:31.690
you know, putting out the, you know, what you,

00:26:31.750 --> 00:26:33.849
you know, videos be, you know, getting crafty,

00:26:33.849 --> 00:26:35.170
whatever the, you know, that's what you want

00:26:35.170 --> 00:26:37.450
to do while you're young too. Because like I

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say, the younger you are, I say the better. Because

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when I was younger, I could stay up. I could

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stay up all night and run it up. You know, like

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it was just, it was nothing to me. I literally

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stayed up two, three days. Two, three days. I'd

00:26:50.230 --> 00:26:52.529
be like, man, I'm up for 48 hours, dawg, and

00:26:52.529 --> 00:26:56.750
I ain't slept yet hardly. But then, but understanding

00:26:56.750 --> 00:27:01.180
that sacrifice, Made me to be a smarter individual

00:27:01.180 --> 00:27:04.460
now. So it's like man boy I stayed up some crazy

00:27:04.460 --> 00:27:07.059
nights and I really did not have to but it was

00:27:07.059 --> 00:27:09.079
working I'll say so no, but see you you like

00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:12.500
you say you got smarter as you got older and

00:27:12.500 --> 00:27:15.319
It's kind of like the same situation. Like we're

00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:17.480
not gonna be like you just said we're not gonna

00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:19.619
be able to stay up late forever We ain't gonna

00:27:19.619 --> 00:27:23.460
have this metabolism and it's this energy forever.

00:27:23.460 --> 00:27:26.009
You know saying like you got in your 20s You

00:27:26.009 --> 00:27:28.390
know what I'm saying? So like you say, striking

00:27:28.390 --> 00:27:30.890
when it's hot is important because as you get

00:27:30.890 --> 00:27:34.490
older, father time, mother time is going to hit,

00:27:34.589 --> 00:27:36.329
you know what I'm saying? Mentally, physically,

00:27:36.670 --> 00:27:39.410
spiritually. And a lot of stuff you put on the

00:27:39.410 --> 00:27:41.569
back burner, you might not be able to accomplish

00:27:41.569 --> 00:27:44.250
it then. Not saying you can't, but it might be

00:27:44.250 --> 00:27:46.130
a little bit more harder and take a little bit

00:27:46.130 --> 00:27:49.589
more work because age, I don't care what nobody

00:27:49.589 --> 00:27:52.450
say, age plays a factor too. You know, you don't

00:27:52.450 --> 00:27:55.990
want to wait till you're too old to chase a dream.

00:27:56.210 --> 00:27:58.109
You know what I'm saying? Like you want to get

00:27:58.109 --> 00:28:00.529
it now. I would encourage you to get it while

00:28:00.529 --> 00:28:03.009
you're young, like the one I said. You know what

00:28:03.009 --> 00:28:06.109
I'm saying? Because nothing is guaranteed as

00:28:06.109 --> 00:28:08.009
we see in life. You know what I'm saying? Nothing

00:28:08.009 --> 00:28:11.750
is guaranteed. So. All right. And it helps you

00:28:11.750 --> 00:28:15.130
maneuver when you get older. Like you say, I

00:28:15.130 --> 00:28:18.450
use Kobe as example. Kobe lost his athleticism.

00:28:18.700 --> 00:28:21.279
When he got older so he worked on his technique

00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:23.180
to where he what he didn't have to depend on

00:28:23.180 --> 00:28:26.400
his athleticism You know i'm saying got crafty

00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:29.400
to where he could still be efficient and effective

00:28:29.400 --> 00:28:33.400
But he didn't have to spend all that energy Dunking

00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:36.059
and jumping and running so hard how he did in

00:28:36.059 --> 00:28:39.500
his 20s, you know So he adjusted to his craft

00:28:39.500 --> 00:28:43.190
same with this the entertainment music I'm saying

00:28:43.190 --> 00:28:46.369
you you spend your young days going hard doing

00:28:46.369 --> 00:28:49.509
this and doing that so when you get older Oh,

00:28:49.650 --> 00:28:52.009
let me I want to step into the production now.

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I want to do this You know something say I want

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to you know get behind the music, you know, like

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you're still effective though in that in that

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field So I was just using basketball terminology

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with that, but I'm done. I'm sorry. I keep cutting

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in Hi, you know, hi, so I'm gonna come back um

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next time and Got some things. I'm gonna show

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y 'all in a visual sense. I did audio this time,

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but Okay, so I'm gonna show you in a visual sense

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of some things to start Like I said, yeah band

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lab you have I mean, it's one of the best ones

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out here right now You have to spend a couple

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dollars to get it don't get it off the ground

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But just know that is worthy of your money. Also

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you have the free very free garage band So that's

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another thing I'll show so just stick around

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to next Time, and always remember to get help.

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Don't hesitate to get help. If you can help somebody

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and realize that the help that you give is only

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a consideration. It's not to change your life,

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in a sense. It can help change your life, but

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it can't be the thing, the only thing that you

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get as far as the help. You have to put in the

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work, as I've always said, you have to put in

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some work somewhere. The work has to be put in.

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The help is only gonna be with... this much you

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know you have to take that little bit of that

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help that you get and you have to push that though

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you have to open it up and make it big and make

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it grand so it's not like a thing like you just

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you just keep coming back to the to the help

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tree but again if you're one of the ones giving

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help remember you know your consideration i hope

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they caught that i hope they caught that part

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because yeah you hope you can do what you can

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to help somebody you know you know your limit

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to what you can It's a helpful way to get somewhere

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is just helping somebody. You can only help them

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by so much, but do it out of a good place. Don't

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do it out of a bad place. If you ain't in the

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right place to give and be helpful, and I mean

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give and be helpful, it ain't always money. If

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you ain't in a place to give nobody no advice

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or a word of encouragement or something like

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that, don't say nothing. Just fall back until

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it's your time to give to them or whomever it

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is. All right, though, till next time, y 'all.

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We will get back with you next time in a visual

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sense. I need to show y 'all some things, all

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right? Peace.