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Self-Worth and the Power of Family with Leven
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In this episode of "Create Your Own Story," host Terayle Garnett reconnects with R&B artist Leven to discuss his journey in music, from church beginnings to industry challenges. They explore self-worth, growth, authenticity, and balancing personal goals with expectations. Leven shares insights for aspiring artists on self-awareness, perseverance, and the timeless impact of music, while both reflect on the power of relationships, commitment, and embracing imperfection.
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Introduction & Guest Introduction
00:00:00
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You're listening to create your own story with Terrell Garnett.
00:00:21
Speaker
What's good, John? No, I have been gone from podcasting for a while now. Um, took a little hiatus. Um, but I am back again with my special guest and I am going to allow him to introduce himself right now. Yo, yo, what up? Y'all. My name's Levin. I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm an R and&B singer-songwriter. Um, and we here with my boy Tyra. Let's go. Yes. Perfect.
Podcast's Aim & Levin's Musical Journey
00:00:46
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gar So, um, this is new to you because you haven't been on my podcast, but this platform is literally just about, um,
00:00:56
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showing people that we're all basically the same, no matter where we come from. I wanna ask you some questions, but I want it to be more of a dialogue conversation. Don't feel like it's an interview. For sure. Perfect. So for my first question that I do wanna ask you is, um what's the story from your journey that you've never shared publicly before? I know we're just in it off the gates. A story that I've never shared publicly ah part of my music journey. um I used to sing um in a group. I used to sing in a group and we would travel from church to church when I was younger. The group was called Sanctified Brothers.
00:01:42
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and of And we basically, like it was me, my two cousins, um and one of my best friends. And we basically used to sing ah for like every church event and every like you know wedding and sit like that one. We were like, I don't know, it was probably like seven, eight, you know what I mean? And we were doing this.
00:02:03
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And I've always shied away from telling that story because um I don't know, it's just not a typical Brooklyn nigga, you know, growing up in Brooklyn, you know, kind of thing. So um I never really used to share that. And also I used to shy away from singing. it Like I really wanted to actually be a musician in the scenes and things. So I was always embarrassed to sing because I didn't think I was that good, but everybody wanted to hear me sing.
00:02:33
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So yeah, thats I would say that was one thing that we've never really shared. The thing is I'd be like, yo, you need to be in a fucking boy band. You know what I mean? That'd be crazy. Yeah. um So ah how how do you feel that that shaped you for from then to now? I think being young and being you know on stages and in front of people and stuff kind of helped just understanding like people kind of just want to take you in as as an artist or as a singer or as whatever. So not to really take things personally when you're out there. and Also, it just helps with confidence, helps with me being able to like to stand up in front of people and like talk and, um you know, just be myself.
00:03:23
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and that one and So what do you feel that your self-worth is based on? and I would say family and love and God, like my self worth. I'm not worth anything honestly without those three things in my life. So and yeah, those three things for sure. My family, God and love. I love that. I love that. So my next one is what do you think you take for granted right now and why?
00:04:02
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Oof. I think, I think right now I'm taking my progress and process for granted. Um, the journey. Um, I'm like so eager to get where I want to get, you know what I mean, in life. And like, I want to.
00:04:25
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be able to like you know take care of my family and just do all these things um and just be financially free. But and while you know while while doing music, I kind of...
00:04:38
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Sometimes it's hard to focus on just the music when you know finances or you know just life is happening. you know me so um I think with that being said, I just want to be able to take care of my family ah for and myself for real and just be financially free.
Self-Reflection & Personal Growth
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Yeah. Yeah, I feel like for myself, I think that I take um take myself for granted. Both. Um, I haven't realized till more so recently that I, um, I don't, I'm not in the same space in my life that I have been for the last 30 something years. Um, and I don't want to, what's the word I want to use? Um, I just don't really want to give myself to as many as people as I've been given myself to and especially certain family members. Um, like they.
00:05:39
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they expect so much and I'm a giver in nature so I just give or whatever but at a certain point I'm just at the point that I'm in now I'm like I just don't even want to be around your energy hold on okay it's recording again because I said you're recording stopped I bet snake on mind man I'm sorry yeah
00:06:06
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It says your recordings have stopped due to an incoming call. I don't know if it started again though. 15 seconds in, 17, 18. Okay, well then it'll, it'll be fine. I'm hoping. Yeah, I hope so too, but if not, we have the backup recording. And it just hit the audio. Perfect. I probably should have told you to put yourself on Do Not Disturb, but... Yeah, hey go ahead and do that now. But what I was saying was that, um yeah, I'm just not really willing to give up any more of me for certain people anymore.
00:06:39
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and Especially if I'm not, it's not reciprocated. So that's kind of where I am at, taking myself for granted in the aspect of I need me to. It's not just for everybody else. Absolutely. That's the one thing.
00:06:54
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um I feel like a lot of a lot of people do, like a lot of people forget themselves in moments of life. They focus on like trying to please people or trying to like you know just forward themselves by pleasing people and stuff and they completely forget about themselves. Honestly, that's just not the way to do it.
00:07:15
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Yeah, I, there's this interview that i believe Candy had with Nivea and Nivea is in Aries as well as such as myself. And she had said something that rang so true is that how, that I related to her about that, how she loses herself in people. And I feel that I can tend to do that, especially in friendships where I want to help them so much that I'm like, fuck me. And yeah.
00:07:43
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I feel like, yo, you know, it's crazy. I be, I be finding myself, it's difficult for me to say no to friends. And I'm working on that heavily, heavily. yeah Because like, <unk>ve I've realized like, over the past, I don't know, four years or so, like, I'm so just like, yeah, bro, whatever, whatever you need, you know, like, you got it, like,
00:08:07
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You need help. I got you. Whatever. But it's it's always that it can be at the expense of like my own exhaustion or my own, you know, my own shit. So I just, yeah, bro. I ah completely understand. Completely understand. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of where where I'm at today in my life. And I'm currently writing another one of my books and on that about ironically about procrastination and laziness and I got I started to procrastinate writing the book so that has to go in the book but but I feel like I know myself so I like tell myself like oh if I stop at any point writing this book if I miss a day I'm gonna miss several days as a fact um and I missed one day because I was tired from whatever I was tired from him and I miss one day and I
00:08:55
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yeah i didn't go back for like at least a week two weeks and i only got three more yeah um but i know myself yeah yeah yeah so i only got three more chapters yeah i have only have three more chapters to write so i should realistically i could finish it today okay yeah it's another another story Right.
Podcast Evolution & Authentic Storytelling
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i yeah Yeah. So there's, there's so much that I want to do. And I feel that because again, I focused on so many other things and other people that I put myself to the back burner. So that's just something that I'm really um trying to focus on putting me first um and what I really want to do and stuff. Like even with this podcast, like I stopped it for like a year.
00:09:41
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Um, I was going strong. This is the first podcast. This is not my first podcast in back in the year. However, it's like the third, uh, since I, but I haven't posted any of them yet. So I've recorded, I always recorded in advance, um, just so this time for promotion and everything. So I, the first one I had was back in June, which when people watch this one, they would have already seen that one. This will be considered the second podcast, even though I've already recorded, you know, one other one before this one.
00:10:11
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Um, okay but yeah, so, and it's because like, it's one of those things, and I don't know if you can relate to this at all. Yeah. Like when you start something because even it's not something that you wanted to do, but you seem to be decent at it or whatever. Um, but you're not, there's no passion for it. So then you have to remember, why am I doing this again? It's nice. It feels a lot. yeah Yeah. Yeah. And so I was going strong for like.
00:10:37
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two, three years. This is technically the fourth season. It would be the fourth season of the podcast. ah What happened was um originally I didn't want to do a podcast at all. um Somebody asked me to help them with theirs and I was down. I was whatever they wanted to do, um, I told them that's not going to work and they got really offended. They ended up finding out later that it didn't work. Yeah, of course. It just wasn't gonna, you know, like I went to school for project management. Like that's what I do. I, you know, so I'm telling you that this isn't going to work. It's just not feasible. Like there's not enough time for you to get all this done and you don't have the resources.
00:11:15
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They didn't like what I had to say. Then they said something on Twitter and I'm like, I know they ain't talked about me. That's crazy. Oh, we're tweeting. Yes. I'm like, at least at me if you got issues. So one of my friends or two of my friends suggested that I just start my own and I'm like, nah, I don't have the equipment. And then like after looking into it, all I really needed was a computer and a mic.
00:11:38
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and my friend gave me a mic and gave me the mic um now i have a sound board and i have all this other you know stuff yeah you got the button it's like um yes i really do i and have never used it i have never used it but i do have it i'm sorry you're prepped bro you're prepped i am um so anyways i um was like, okay, well, the the whole premise of the podcast was completely different. It was called the rundown with Terrell Garnett. And I was basically like doing hot topics like Wendy Williams or The View. And I was just by myself making like, I made this one joke, I thought it was funny. And it is funny. like fancy it's They didn't counsel me because, um you know, I apologize the next week. ah It was very tasteless. What I said was, because I don't have a problem with it, you know,
00:12:27
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Only God can counsel me. ah and met um I said it was around the time where Meg the stallion got shot. And I said, how did she get shot in the foot? Was she get galloping away? You know, dont like a play on words because she's a stallion. yeah not i'm not laley guys um ah
00:12:49
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no bla what you And then afterwards, I'm like, that's not really funny because if she did really get shot, yeah, abroad I should not make fun of someone getting shot. Like, that's not at all. That's funny. So but the joke was funny. Yeah, no, that's why I laughed. I'll just say that's great. But it's wrong. So I did apologize um on the next episode or whatever. Um, and people can't go back and listen to it anyways, cause I ended up taking those, those down. Yeah. Yeah. fact yeah That's crazy. but Um, I realized, and then at the end of the podcast, I would have like these life coach topics because I'm a certified life coach as well. And I realized that people were resonating with that more than they were the other stuff. So I was like, okay, let me just wind it back a little bit and come up with a different concept of how I want the podcast to go. Um, and then one of my.
00:13:38
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music friends, Georgia rain had said something on, on Instagram about how, um, people are just creating whoever they want to be. They're just creating their own story. but And I'm like, huh, I'm going to use that. Like, so the hints is create your own story with throw. Nice. Um, cause you can be whoever you want to be, but it's always best to be your authentic self. Um, so, um, my thing was like, okay, I just, my dream guest was Samo.
Booking Dream Guests & Self-Reflection
00:14:06
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And I was like, that's who I want on my podcast. Yeah. And I had him on within the first three months of the podcast. And after that, I said, okay, well, what do I do now? Cause I felt like it was too easy. I just asked him and he said, yeah yeah. Um, and, and I really didn't have many episodes out. So like, it wasn't. So after that, I just was really like, okay, let me just go with the flow and try to do this thing. But I really didn't have any care for it. Cause I just felt like.
00:14:31
Speaker
The person that I wanted on it, it was so easy to get that person that I, I don't know. You were literally handed a silver platter. Yeah, exactly. And I didn't feel like I appreciated it. Um, not that I didn't appreciate him doing the podcast for me, but that I didn't work for it. Um, yeah, exactly. And hence, you know, yeah so, um, fast forward. I've done several podcasts after that. Um, and. and I love talking to people. I love the interaction. I love the dialogue. But actually doing the work to get to the podcast, actually editing the stuff. I hate that. Well, yeah, that's where you get a team and all of that stuff that comes in in later. You have to pay a team. I don't get paid for this podcast. I actually lose money right now recording the podcast. because I got to pay for the services. I'm actually losing money. If I didn't have a day job, we would not be having this podcast right now. that's sucks ah um However, I've never ran any ads on my podcast. I've never done any of these things that I probably should have done to yeah you know generate money. So there's that. So we're here now. You got to start to put it out there yeah ought to put it out there. You got to put this, you know?
00:15:46
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Yeah. So we're just now we're going to start running ads. So you got to spend money to make money. So it works, bro. i Like, yes, I started running ads on ah my music and like my YouTube videos and stuff. And it it truly, it truly helps. You know, it gets your shit seen and gets you invisible. But yeah, it really does. So before we go into more dialogue, I'm going to play one of your records. nice And I'm going to play the one that you actually sent me.
00:16:13
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It's caught with this ring, am I correct? Tell us about it. You're starting with the unreleased. Yes, um exclusive. Yeah. um so
00:16:24
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but um So basically with this ring it's the second song with my project um And I'm doing a project called vows It's based off of commitment um and me being wanting to be the best version of myself for myself and also for the ones around me and for the fact that you know, I'll be able to give myself up to somebody one day and I da They'll see the best version of me and i they won't be hopefully they won't be able to complain and and that's the goal. So um with this ring is the second song of the project and it's basically a declaration of commitment.
00:17:03
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and and basically saying that, yo, with this ring, um I vow to love you for every kind
Levin's Project 'Vows' & Artist Persona
00:17:10
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of thing. you know um And really, I'm creating a project as a manifestation of where I want to be in life. um So like I'm looking forward to being able to do these things and just be that person in the future. You know what I mean? Love that. Love that. Yeah. Well, let's get into it. This is with this ring. Yeah.
00:17:38
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Damn, damn.
00:17:45
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It's great. I swear to No, I can believe you be took me home and made your dreams. No, I believe you, because I plan to be my piece, and I know now you're caught when there's the only thing I need. No, I'm afraid we
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ah job still
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swing
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making blue people
00:19:05
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Let's get into some more dialogue. How would you say that your artist self is different from your real self?
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um
00:19:24
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Funny enough, I think
00:19:30
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They're not too different at all. Funny story about my name, right? So my original name, my birth name is Vanell. And my artist name is Levin. And Levin is just an inversion of my first name, Vanell. V-E-N-E-L-L-E-V-E-N. And I always considered Levin being a when I was younger, 11 being an alter ego of mine or like, you know, like just this extra character who I had. and But really all all of this time, like it was really like me becoming myself, you know what I mean? and So I can't say that they're different. um But what I can say is that 11 doesn't have
00:20:22
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walls up like I mean ah sorry Vanell doesn't have walls up like Levin does. Levin is for the world so Levin has to protect himself even though he wears his heart on his sleeve and he's a superstar. um he has He has walls and kind of like is is this mysterious artist and Vanell has to just have those walls down but that I would say that's the only difference.
00:20:51
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You know, um but yeah, other than that. Lemons, now, all of it. It's the same. Yeah, it's all the same. I know that. It reminds me of ah Michael Jackson had said in an interview that all of his album covers, he always airbrushed his eyes because he believes that eyes are windows to the soul and people would see his pain. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. That's very true. Yeah. That's very, very, very true. And like, you know, being a superstar man, like you are for the world.
00:21:26
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You know what I mean? So like people, as as much as it seems, um you know, what's the word I'm looking for? Cheesy or or whatever the fuck. People actually go out their way to like. Cliché. Yeah, cliche. um People actually go out their way to like, you know, see your demise. You know, so but people actually do that. Like people actually have time to do that. so you kinda have to just protect yourself all the time, you know, and just make sure...
00:21:58
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it like that like your eyes that your eyes not being so visible in a in a cover art like you go that far you know yeah it's actually really sad that when you think about it especially with all the stuff that's going on right now with the music industry and label heads and Diddy stuff and all this like yeah yeah it's very sad and honestly the the music industry is not a place for the weak bro um You've got to have God, you've got to have God, if you don't have God. I'm not saying it's in well yeah i am saying it's impossible what I've got, but I'm just saying, for the people who who who don't who don't know, like they're walking they're treading like shallow waters, yeah mean or actually deep waters.
Embracing Imperfections & Creative Outlets
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deep waters
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um so
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So my next one is what is your favorite imperfection about yourself? um I would have to say and my honesty. I'm very upfront. That's good. um And my forehead. I love my forehead. Your forehead? Yeah, my forehead. I'm very upfront and sometimes people are taken aback, you know, um, and then, um, my height, I'm sure. But I love it. Jorkings. Jorking, you feel me? Um, but yeah, that's, that's really it. Yeah. I think, um, I'm, I felt like I'm a very honest person as well. And I think that I straggle sometimes cause depending on who I'm around,
00:23:47
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I know that they can't take my honesty, so I have to dumb it down. Yes. I can hold a lot of words, bro. Are you a Scorpio? I'm not a Mary's. Complete opposite. Yeah, completely. I hold a lot of words, bro. I hold a lot of words. I hold a lot of words. And it's funny because everybody that knows me thinks that I say everything that I think. Yeah. But if they only knew.
00:24:13
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but facts bro i'm like this yeah if all yeah yeah stephen t Yeah, like even when when I'm in the studio whatever and I see people lying or or just at at work when I see I catch people in a line it's like Do I call you out on it now or do I just get more information because I know you're lying. I think you just kind of just let niggas lie, bro. Because you have to watch how people are. You have to watch, you know, how they interact with others so you can make sure they're not playing with you, you know what I mean? Yeah, no, for real. And I think that that's my biggest thing is when I see certain people like
00:24:56
Speaker
When I know this person's been lying like all day about something I've ever written, I see somebody that else. No, but then I see somebody else think so highly of them and I'm like, nah, nigga, if only you knew like what I know. But but's what i'm I'm not trying to bad mouth the person, because you never know how that can go when you're telling somebody something. so But I think there's a certain way to say it, but that's when you have to say something. If niggas is like, yo, this this person is the best,
00:25:25
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being and best person in the world and there they ain't shit, they really ain't shit. You have to be like, yo, all right, I get i get how you feel and i it's understandable, but here's my experience and I don't want you to weaponize this, but here's my experience. If it gets to a point where it's like, nah, you can see somebody else going down that same you know path or you have to kind of warn me. But that's only fair.
00:25:52
Speaker
And there's one time, one time, I'm not going to say no names because if they see this, they're going to know it's them. But there's one time that something happened and I can tell you offline, but yeah they were like, oh, that person did this. that And I'm like, I did that.
00:26:07
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yeah Nah, bro, that's crazy. Like, they mentioned that person up, and I'm like, nah, I did that. That's me. That was me. Yeah, nah, thanks. Niggas over here trying to take credit and shit, bro. Yeah, that shit is crap. And then they just gonna sit there and smile and take the credit, no other than do a goddamn thing. It's trash. Listen, bro, motherfuckers gonna be motherfuckers.
00:26:27
Speaker
Yes. That's crazy. That's nuts. But yeah, let me get off that topic before I say too much. you'll Tell me, tell me offline. I'm tired. i wait I'm tired of tea. So um if you wasn't doing music, what would, what would you be doing? Music wasn't an option in magician or anything like that. What would you be doing with your life?
00:26:52
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Um, I probably would be either into furniture or fashion, ah realty but Yeah. I like like creating it or that's pretty cool.
00:27:09
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It's going to be one of my um my trades. like I want to wanna go to school for you know the whole architectural... the whole you know I want to be able to build shit with my hands. I already do. and I build my stages. I build my platforms. I can build like a ah makeshift chair.
00:27:30
Speaker
um But I want to get nice with it. So I would say ah go ahead god I would say I would just say furniture or fashion. Those are like the the two other things that I'd probably. be But I find when I do this podcast and I ask this question to artists, don't worry, we seen artists specifically is when I ask this question or whatever, they They never say anything that hasnt that's not anything that's also creative. So it goes to show that creatives are still want to stay in that same aspect of creating. Exactly. like i didn't I couldn't work for somebody, bro. I can't. i And it's no no offense to like everybody who has a nine to five and like really finds joy in their job. where
00:28:21
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has ambition towards their nine to five. Nothing wrong with it, but for me, I've learned with my experiences like being being controlled in that aspect or in that way or like.
00:28:33
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It just doesn't sit right with me in it. And what's the creative side of my brain? Left, right? Left, right? The left side of my brain just goes haywire. It shuts down like it's just in complete standstill mode when I'm like in a place where I can't control my own. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah. I feel like I do work in 9 to 5.
00:28:57
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I do work with others, granted, now I don't work that closely with others. So pretty much my, like even today, I had two meetings, just one-on-ones with two people. Other than that, I work by myself. I do whatever I want. Yeah. Exactly. So i'm I do work with people, but it's very minimal. um ah you have You have flexibility.
00:29:20
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And I think that the worst thing, not the worst thing, I do have flexibility, but I think that the thing that when I was working more so with people is that like, I don't have a poker face. So like, if I see something, you're going to see it on my face. Like, what are you talking to? Yeah. And I've even had like a manager be like, stop making those faces. And I'm just like, well, you're talking about some bullshit right now. Yeah. yeah i Like, I can't help it, bro. My radar is like, yo, know flagging bullshit. Yeah. yeah So it's, it's.
00:29:48
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yeah it's Yeah, I have no poker face, which is, you know, I guess a good thing and a bad thing. You should be creative bro. like And I am. I and know have this podcast. I'm writing a book. i'm doing like i I do things in the creative realm. Yeah, no, you are creative for sure. Yeah. um And it's funny because I don't find myself as being a creative person, but yeah other people say that I'm really creative. You can you can find creativity in anything, bro, even cooking. Oh, I love to cook. it The outfits that you wear in the morning is creativity. like
00:30:20
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The routine that you have, if you switch it up, that's creativity. You dig you ever read um the Rick Rubin book? I haven't, but I know what it is. Yeah, so the Rick Rubin book kind of like explains this this this concept.
00:30:36
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um And also there's another book. ah like the art It's called The Artist's Way. and And basically, those books basically are explaining like and your creativity doesn't start with or or stop with you like just doing an actual creative thing. Like every day is a creative process, you know? So writing, reading, um all that stuff, that's all creativity.
00:31:08
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I love that. So to transition a little bit, what advice would you give to somebody that is ah starting out in the industry?
Advice for New Artists & Life Lessons
00:31:19
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Don't come in this motherfucker without going. That's the first day. not that hopeful I'm not playing, but I'm playing.
00:31:36
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I said that, not him. I just laugh. Yeah, enter the industry with God, number one. Enter the industry, number two. Hopefully you know who you are. um And number three, never stop creating as far as um pursuing your dream, never stop like i It has to be an endless pursuit on the things that you want to achieve. You know what I mean? So waking up every day and doing at least one thing that has to do with your career or your, your dream or whatever. One thing, i thought that's my advice. So three pieces. God, know who you are. Oh, God, know who you are and um never stop creating.
00:32:33
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What do you think the life is teaching you right now? Um To be patient super patient and to trust Trust myself and trust the process trust God and also, I'm learning that Not everyone ah you can't expect everyone to do
00:33:02
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what you do for yourself. You can't expect everyone to do for you what you don't do for yourself. on and I'm learning that with like the creativity process. like the you know putting music out and stuff like that. like No one's going to want to help unless you're the one like who wants to help yourself most. you know i mean so yeah If people see you wanting to help yourself most and you're striving for this greatness, then motherfuckers want to jump on the bandwagon. They're going to want to help. They're going to want to like you know be in assistance to the greatness. I agree.
00:33:39
Speaker
So before we continue and my last few questions for you, I want to say you're single right now. For sure. Your day and tell us a little bit about this. Um, your day is basically, it's it's pretty much self-explained. It's the day of the day you make that decision of commitment. And it's all about you. Um, all about your partner or whatever.
00:34:07
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or whoever you make a commitment to, that is the day and that's what the song was about. um Yeah, so the day of commitment. Let's get into it. Here's your day. Today's your day and is tonight.
00:34:29
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yeah Tomorrow is yours and
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There's your and Anymore faith I've been waiting. Tonight's your night. I can barely keep my patience. Give you my life. I can't wait to give you babies. I'ma hold you tight and let you know I'm down for life. It's the way you are. The way you talk. The way you act when you get tight and you pissed off. The way you love. The way you touch. The way you care for me and act just like my child. So baby.
00:35:40
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Today's your day and so yours and so am I and
00:36:11
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I say tough. No, it really is. I actually have that in rotation. I have ah this playlist of my favorite songs that I told people to go listen to. It's called Vibe So Separate. Yeah. I'm going to give you the music, but you're going to vibe by yourself. Yeah. you put good in the lake my you they go but and but um It's because like, I feel like there's some good playlist on Apple Music, Spotify, whatever the case is, but then it's going good, it's going good, and then you get that one record, you're like, what the fuck is this? Yo, it's always, bro, it's always, on Apple Music, I think Apple apple Music does it the worst. like apple
00:36:54
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this be playing the most random random low frequency yes yeah why is this there my song no for real though so my playlist is called vibes seperated songs that i curated, I guess you could say that I think that go good together, that I personally listen to on the daily. So anybody can go pick that up. by Yeah, absolutely, bro. I need the link. I need the link. Yeah, I got anything with you. I got you. I actually have to update the playlist too, because I was taking songs off of it today. Because I'm like, why did I put this on there? That's usually it, right? Yeah, it's usually a real thing to do song, you know what I mean? Like, after a while, you want to you know switch it out. So yeah, not a fact. Yeah, yeah. I tried to switch it out.
00:37:36
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and add songs weekly if I like the song. Sometimes, like we'll have an artist that, you know, like, oh, you missed this time. You usually don't miss. I ain't gonna send no names, but, you know. That's crazy. It'd be like that. And yeah I'm the worst on artist. I really am. I ain't gonna say it on here because I don't want to disrespect nobody, but no if you that if you come into one of the sessions that we end, like, I'd be giving some people a hand, like,
00:38:01
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Yeah. Anybody can get it. ah Anybody. is wild There's certain artists that I'm just like, they put a bag behind her. And she's boring. Yeah. yeah Trust me, I know I'm not gonna say no names, but I and know a few artists, or I see a few artists, I would say and I'm like, who?
00:38:25
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no offense but like who's who's doing who's yeah and i'm just like who's investing in this exactly and it's not that they are talented because they can sing but the music in this the person that like there's no stage presence there's no exactly you're not an artist you're a singer there's a difference
00:38:45
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I'll leave it there. and so yeah know There's a lot of those out there, but I'm telling you. But like again, that is to the testament of like the music industry is just not the same, bro. Back then in the 70s and the 60s, even 70s, 80s, you had to be really good at this shit to to be able to join or to yeah put music out or to be seen. You had to be really good. like People didn't have phones. People would come out and go to country or go to a country, go to a different state to see you. That's how good you were. You know what I mean? So we don't have a house like that. yeah I mean, we do have artists like that. We do we embrace that. Yeah, we do. Usually the good artists aren't the ones that are popping, you know, on social media and stuff like that it's that. And then people be like, man, why can't we just have great great artists anymore? I'm like, we do have them out there.
00:39:40
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It's just that you guys are buying into the the sexy reds and the, you know. But it's not even, its but the crazy thing is it's not even people. You know what it is? It's the industry pussing that yeah pushing that ah narrative narrative or that. Yeah. You know, but honestly, if you were to, if you were to go to in a arena, let's say 100,000 people in the arena and you play two songs back to back. You play a maybe like a sexy red song or you play ah Frankie and Beverly Mays, right?
00:40:25
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Matter of fact, let's let's do something a little a little more fair. You do... Because that's so unfair. um Like, all right, so Frankie Beverly Mays, and then you got... um who Who's kind of big right now, but like... It's like, you can't even you can't even... No, but like, you can't even compare anymore, bro. That's how that's how bad it is. You know what I mean? like that I think that a lot of the people that are on social media are of the younger age. um So they feed them this par music. Yeah, these little kids buy into it. So now they want to do whatever, you know, stick they tongue out music is always gonna it's always gonna win though. You know, I mean, like, regardless of how they push it.
00:41:18
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Good music, like a good song and great music is always going to stand the test of time, it's always gonna break through, you know what I mean? It's just, it takes time, that's all. It takes more time for the good music to get where it needs to be because, you know, it's not really spoon-fed to people. They want low frequencies out there, they don't want good shit happening.
00:41:47
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yeah And I remember Janet Jackson said once in an interview that um her single, That's the Way Love Goes, that people didn't understand it at first and that's what people don't get certain really good music at first that you have to listen to it sometimes a few times for you actually to really like it or really love it. And I believe Winnie Houston said said said the same thing too. You never want something to peak so high, so fast because peaks, all it's going to do is drop.
00:42:15
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back to gaining growing. That's the thing it's like with with certain songs like you want to be able to live life to it. And and that's what makes great records great records. Yeah, great record does it is not like for the moment and then ah time pass. No, you live life to these records you you go through shit with these records. And they become moments in your life. You know, I mean, so we just we need more good music bro that's that's all that is and there are that's a couple not to put art kelly but he once said
00:42:51
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guys that if you write ah life, if you write life, you're always going to have a job. So that's actually, rat now that i now that I think about that, but like but i so right it's a true testament. What I got from it was that if you're just writing real stuff that you're really going through in your life, then, you know,
00:43:19
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Exactly. yeah yeah There's some truth to it. But what he was talking about, and then wrong with a little bump and grind and aging them, but number yeah in hindsight, I totally shouldn't have referenced him. Bro, yeah, not ah that was crazy. I ain't gonna hold you. That was crazy. But no, but but there is a little bit of truth true hint of and in that in that and like that quote for sure. thats just that was that was That was crazy. Yeah, I wasn't thinking that.
00:43:47
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reference Tim at first. I apologize. and that's all right they they So I have like two minutes left with you. I'm going to have to do this again after the project drops and everything. But my question, it was not really a question. This is what I do for all of my guests before they leave the podcast is I'm going to give you the floor right now.
00:44:08
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I want you to give yourself appreciation, give yourself thanks, give yourself flowers in this moment. A lot of times we give a lot of other people flowers, but we don't tend to give ourselves flowers. So in this moment, I want you to give yourself some flowers. That's fire. Well, shout out me, man. Shout out God for providing the life that I live and for Him guiding me through, you know, the the journey.
00:44:34
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But shout out me for the hard work I put in. um And shout out God again for the gift he's given me type of shit, you know? But yeah, I received my flowers. I thank you. That means a lot. And where can the people find you?
00:44:50
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Uh, you can find me on IG, um, at 1-1-E-V-V-E-N as 1-1-E-V-V-E-N, or IG, or Twitter, same thing, or TikTok, same thing. Um, and on DSPs, you can find me just at 11, L-E-V-E-N. That's it. And when can we expect the EP album? When can we expect that?
00:45:14
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November 1st. November drops November 1st. Yeah, EP. First EP. About time. Yeah. They hear this, the padric will be out. So go stream it now if you haven't already. Yeah. Yeah. Go stream it now if you haven't already. yeah I appreciate the love, man. Love, support, all that. Love y'all, man. It's been real. And you know where you guys can find me? Terrell Garnett. Yes, sir. Talk soon. Shout out to Riff.
00:45:49
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