Thursday, December 2, 2010
Thug Bullshit
yesterday I saw a woman walking down the street she must have been in her mid twenties, very beautiful, and across the street were these 3 morons, let me rephrase, three thugged out guys shouting for her attention, you know, " AAY! AAY! YO!! AAY!!! She didn't respond to them at all, so one of them shouted something to the effect of, YO MA, YOU HERE ME CALLIN YOU! I am so sick of this thug moronic mentality that some of of people have, there is a huge difference between a Black man and a Nigga clearly. I'm one black man who loves my black people but I'm so tired of Niggas! Aparently REAL WOMEN are way past being sick of niggas. Why is it that a thug sees a woman as nothing more than something to stick their dicks in? We need to treat our women far better than we have, unfortunately there are so many women out here who have no respect for themselves so a Thug (the average stupid ass nigga) sees all black women all women as the same, something to fuck, and borrow money from. Chris Rock was right, we have a black president but niggas still act a damn fool. And its a shame.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Peace
Peace A word used often and usually by people who don't really mean it. Who's really peaceful these days? I am, mostly anyway. Today try and practice peace. Its good for your health.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
NEW TRULY OF THE NEW
There is a site that will be up by the end of May 2010 named : http://www.illskillzentertainment.com
This site is important because it will do what many sites say they do, and that is truly support the Independent Artist who essentially has NO ONE!! Make sure you check it out, its a site created by Indie artists FOR Indie artists. It will feature spot lights on Indie filmmakers, rap artists, and other genres of music, it will host shows, from comedy shows, documentaries, and feature films, as well as new entertainment shows. The company is also a distributor, so there will be products made by Indie artists made available for sale. But most importantly, the site will be interactive, artists from all over the world will be able to communicate with each other as well as you. Don't miss this site.
This site is important because it will do what many sites say they do, and that is truly support the Independent Artist who essentially has NO ONE!! Make sure you check it out, its a site created by Indie artists FOR Indie artists. It will feature spot lights on Indie filmmakers, rap artists, and other genres of music, it will host shows, from comedy shows, documentaries, and feature films, as well as new entertainment shows. The company is also a distributor, so there will be products made by Indie artists made available for sale. But most importantly, the site will be interactive, artists from all over the world will be able to communicate with each other as well as you. Don't miss this site.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Criteria
Always, we are under some rule of criteria. We must fit this criteria or that one for this or that, in order to be able to do this, or participate here or there. No way to avoid it.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
IT KILLS ME
IT JUST KILLS ME THE WAY SOME MUSIC & FILM ARTISTS PLAY THEMSELVES BY BEING SO CHEAP TO THEMSELVES. SPEND MONEY ON YOUR ART, MANY OF YOU HAVE BOUGHT NICE CARS, HAVE BOUGHT NICE CLOTHS, YOU ARE THE MAN!! BUT YOU SPEND $1.25 ON YOUR PRODUCTION AND YOU ARE WONDERING WHY NOBODY IS FEELING YOU. SOME SMART ARTISTS WILL EVEN TAKE OUT A PERSONAL LOAN FOR THEIR KRAFT, BECAUSE THEY TAKE IT JUST AS SERIOUSLY AS BUYING A HOUSE, OR LOOKING GOOD. THINK ABOUT IT.
CROOKS IN THE INDUSTRY
In 2005 I was contacted by a man named Ray Pouncey Sr. At the time he told me he represented Bobby Brown, and as time went on, I saw that at least unofficially, he was telling the truth. He was behind at least 35 percent of the projects Bobby had, but mostly it was his brother Tommy who had his back, formally. At the time I was trying to get money to produce my film, LEVI'S GIFTS. Ray knew this and kind of led me to believe he would fund me, until he proposed that I write his life story, whcih I did, the screenplay was titled FATHERLESS. You could say we co-wrote it, because he told me his story and I wrote it in screenplay form. But afterwards, not only did he not pay me, (and I'm making a long story very short) but he took me through so much bullshit and lies!! What happened (I found) was all the proposed deals we had, he had blown EVERYONE!!! with his EGO that disgusted most people AND HIS DISTRUST AND PARANOA towards everyone. In fact as time would teach me, HE WWAS THE ONLY PERSON WHOM PEOPLE NEEDED NOT TO TRUST. One day while taping a trailer for his movie THAT WILL NEVER BE MADE!!, there was a lady that walked and talked with me and a newer friend of Ray's and said, "be careful with this guy he is a snake" Ironically enough, that week, ray introduced me to the lady and it happened to be HIS SISTER!! the one I met a few days before. That was the sign, but being niave in this business, I shrugged it off. By 2007 It was clear that Ray was both a user and a crook (i left out the fact that he tried to copyright my other scripts-and so many other shit but I am making a point) We had a 3 year contract that I was told in 2007 that it was an illegal contract and he knew it! but it didn't matter, not only was he a crook, but he was a weak business man, and was not able to do ANYTHING REGARDLESS. Our contract ended in March of 2009 and I was free of this loud talking fat as crook! And learned a valuable lesson. Get an attorney 1st!!!!!!!!! always. I know another lady who he probably didn't want me to meet who entered into a contract with and she deeply regreted it. Today he so called runs a business (management firm) called PONCINI ENTERTAINMENT. For you artists out ther BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!
CROOKS IN THE INDUSTRY
In 2005 I was contacted by a man named Ray Pouncey Sr. At the time he told me he represented Bobby Brown, and as time went on, I saw that at least unofficially, he was telling the truth. He was behind at least 35 percent of the projects Bobby had, but mostly it was his brother Tommy who had his back, formally. At the time I was trying to get money to produce my film, LEVI'S GIFTS. Ray knew this and kind of led me to believe he would fund me, until he proposed that I write his life story, whcih I did, the screenplay was titled FATHERLESS. You could say we co-wrote it, because he told me his story and I wrote it in screenplay form. But afterwards, not only did he not pay me, (and I'm making a long story very short) but he took me through so much bullshit and lies!! What happened (I found) was all the proposed deals we had, he had blown EVERYONE!!! with his EGO that disgusted most people AND HIS DISTRUST AND PARANOA towards everyone. In fact as time would teach me, HE WWAS THE ONLY PERSON WHOM PEOPLE NEEDED NOT TO TRUST. One day while taping a trailer for his movie THAT WILL NEVER BE MADE!!, there was a lady that walked and talked with me and a newer friend of Ray's and said, "be careful with this guy he is a snake" Ironically enough, that week, ray introduced me to the lady and it happened to be HIS SISTER!! the one I met a few days before. That was the sign, but being niave in this business, I shrugged it off. By 2007 It was clear that Ray was both a user and a crook (i left out the fact that he tried to copyright my other scripts-and so many other shit but I am making a point) We had a 3 year contract that I was told in 2007 that it was an illegal contract and he knew it! but it didn't matter, not only was he a crook, but he was a weak business man, and was not able to do ANYTHING REGARDLESS. Our contract ended in March of 2009 and I was free of this loud talking fat as crook! And learned a valuable lesson. Get an attorney 1st!!!!!!!!! always. I know another lady who he probably didn't want me to meet who entered into a contract with and she deeply regreted it. Today he so called runs a business (management firm) called PONCINI ENTERTAINMENT. For you artists out ther BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!
Never judge a book by its cover
Dating and Film
Trying to make it in Music?
"Trying to make it in Music? here are 20 key tips"
It doesn't matter if you are a rock artist, Hip Hop artists or Jazz, the rules rarely change. Here are some key steps for you soon to stars.
1) You must be prepared to invest in your own production. Remember the saying "You get out of it what you put into it" In this case its true. You spend money on cars, cloths, girlfriends, or boyfriends, your house, and when it comes to your production don't nickel and dime it, take out even a personal loan if you must, but who must pay for your production? You must.
2) Be careful where and who you get your advice from, try and link up either by in person or Internet someone who will at least answer your questions, so if there is an urgent must know before you do anything stupid, you have someone to run things by. There are several sites with professionals on them who will answer your questions.
3) Find a place affordable and competent enough for you to record and on some what a regular basis at that location you want to establish at some point a discount but you must show that you are going to patron there by you do business (record there) there for a while so that the studio will be comfortable with you to do that. If you go to just one place to record, in a short while the owner of the studio will make it worth your while to come there because not all studios have regular business.
4) Find as great a producer as you can because you must, and if you can't afford to pay them, beg them to have mercy on you, or work out something, find them someone who can pay them for services, or what ever you must do, get that producer to work with you, then LISTEN to their advice, when you record. Often a great producer sometimes owns or works out of a particular studio on the regular so often you get a great engineer and producer out of the deal.
5) Get your stuff done!! Don't waste time footing around, get it done, no matter how long it takes, DO NOT PROCRASTINATE This little desease will kill any production.
6) Spend some money on your CD's and cover, don't be cheap, its not that expensive. Today in this business no matter you are an alternative rock band or a Hip Hop singer, your cd and cover must look like it was bought out of a store PERIOD or your stuff will not even get heard, (there are some exceptions to this rule, For instance you may have an agent who hands your CDR directly to Peter Geffen ) outside of that, go to disc makers or some other credible place and get your cover and cd done professionally. Often there are people who do a good and inexpensive job on covers and cd duplication and even basic printing on your CD's this is acceptable. The covers are not expensive. Often very stupid and or stubborn artists will not go this extra mile and this is the very thing that holds them back.
7) CO-SIGNMENT Many Stores will sell your CD's with a 60/40 split or sometimes 50/50 split, some will even let you put up advertisements for your stuff. Work hard. At this point, you should have gotten your music recorded, duplicated, covers done, with graphics, CD printed. now do the work!!! Go into the internet and type in google "Co-signment music stores" for your city and or surrounding counties and print it out. Go to these places, every one of them even if there are 200 of them, DO IT! Then don't sit back, I SAID THEN, DON'T SIT BACK get out there at least 12 ours a week and sell your CD's sell yourself, when you are selling them hand to hand, sell them cheaper than what they cost in the store, sell them for $2 or $3 dollars Why? hey a sale is a sale when you're no one, and also record everything, create Excell spread sheet, Hey, 100 cd's sold at $2 isn't allot of doe, but still counts as a sell, when you are showing an important person verifications of sells.
8) INTERNET SALES: go to Amazon and others , fill out what ever you must online, through mail whatever, mail your CD's complying with which ever way they ask, and get stock to them ready to sell.
9) DON'T RELAX AND OR GO TO THE CLUBS BRAGGING YET Now promote like hell!!! Through all the social networks you can do, have your friends help, if they are really friends, they will. GET ON INTERNET READY for interviews as well as get your music played on these Internet stations. It is fairly easy to accomplish both right now, you will be surprised. The reason is, this medium although is everywhere, its still new, so these people need you like you need them.
10) REMEMBER A.B. P ALWAYS BE PROMOTING!! this should never stop. If you say came into a few thousand dollars say $2,000 Take half of it and promote yourself on the radio, pay for a commercial, playing your song and a voice (yours or someone else) telling the audience where they can buy your music, stores and net. You'll be surprised what this will do for you IF YOU DO IT.
11) Read a book : THE PLAIN A SIMPLE GUIDE TO MUSIC PUBLISHING by .... D. Wixen (forgot the first name) Once you read this book, you will understand (at least a better than 50% understanding of music publishing.
12) Really push to get 10,000 records sold as soon as you can. Why? Because unless you are as good as Jay-Z or Bonjovi and everybody else feels that way, you will need to have10,000 or at least very close to 10,000 Cd's sold for a Publisher worth its weight to Publish you. Also decide which company you want to collect your publishing, BMI, ASCAP or SESAC and NO THESE ARE NOT PUBLISHERS MANY PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE, THEY ARE NOT. If you read the book I referred to above, you will understand all this.
13) Attend or at least make a showing at the popular clubs and lounges weekly. You can even spend say 1 hour at each, the point is to have a somewhat regular schedule of attending these (the) places where MANAGERS & AGENTS HANG as well as popular artists and artists period.
14) Make artist friends, but choose them wisely. Often, an artist friend will lead you to some good stuff, opportunities and other if you are awake and attentive to opportunities.
15) Do at least 4 open mics a month, and really kill when you do. This is where a manager of agent will approach you, but remember, if you take my advice from number 2, you will have someone you can verify facts with once you have been approached by 7 managers who want to sign you and 5 of them are full of smack, your business guru/ friend who knows, mentor, will be able to tell you what is what, so you can make an informed decision. Besides the fact that these days you can check out most managers online.
16) Don't rush into contracts unless you understand them, if not it only cost about $100 to have an Entertainment Attorney look at the agreement and give you some brief advice, at least "this is good", or "this is bad".
17) Do something somewhat regularly for charity, even if its just donating your time, DO IT. Do this under your ARTIST NAME. Why? Everybody loves that musical artists who donates time and or money to charity and or non-profit organizations, no matter what genre of music you are, this will enhance your career, and even get you paid performance dates, out of doing a few for nothing, or just helping out, or talking to youth.
18) Help others along the way and always, Good karma goes a long way, and people will see you doing this, and will help you when you need help.
19) Don't talk bad about other artists. If you do, always do it only in private, You never know who backs who or who will back who in the future, or what alliances will curve in or out of your favor. Back biting in music, usually only hurts the person who is biting.
20) Use ego, don't get one. Know when to show off and know when to shut up. Too much of one of these at the wrong time will ruin you and your career.
It doesn't matter if you are a rock artist, Hip Hop artists or Jazz, the rules rarely change. Here are some key steps for you soon to stars.
1) You must be prepared to invest in your own production. Remember the saying "You get out of it what you put into it" In this case its true. You spend money on cars, cloths, girlfriends, or boyfriends, your house, and when it comes to your production don't nickel and dime it, take out even a personal loan if you must, but who must pay for your production? You must.
2) Be careful where and who you get your advice from, try and link up either by in person or Internet someone who will at least answer your questions, so if there is an urgent must know before you do anything stupid, you have someone to run things by. There are several sites with professionals on them who will answer your questions.
3) Find a place affordable and competent enough for you to record and on some what a regular basis at that location you want to establish at some point a discount but you must show that you are going to patron there by you do business (record there) there for a while so that the studio will be comfortable with you to do that. If you go to just one place to record, in a short while the owner of the studio will make it worth your while to come there because not all studios have regular business.
4) Find as great a producer as you can because you must, and if you can't afford to pay them, beg them to have mercy on you, or work out something, find them someone who can pay them for services, or what ever you must do, get that producer to work with you, then LISTEN to their advice, when you record. Often a great producer sometimes owns or works out of a particular studio on the regular so often you get a great engineer and producer out of the deal.
5) Get your stuff done!! Don't waste time footing around, get it done, no matter how long it takes, DO NOT PROCRASTINATE This little desease will kill any production.
6) Spend some money on your CD's and cover, don't be cheap, its not that expensive. Today in this business no matter you are an alternative rock band or a Hip Hop singer, your cd and cover must look like it was bought out of a store PERIOD or your stuff will not even get heard, (there are some exceptions to this rule, For instance you may have an agent who hands your CDR directly to Peter Geffen ) outside of that, go to disc makers or some other credible place and get your cover and cd done professionally. Often there are people who do a good and inexpensive job on covers and cd duplication and even basic printing on your CD's this is acceptable. The covers are not expensive. Often very stupid and or stubborn artists will not go this extra mile and this is the very thing that holds them back.
7) CO-SIGNMENT Many Stores will sell your CD's with a 60/40 split or sometimes 50/50 split, some will even let you put up advertisements for your stuff. Work hard. At this point, you should have gotten your music recorded, duplicated, covers done, with graphics, CD printed. now do the work!!! Go into the internet and type in google "Co-signment music stores" for your city and or surrounding counties and print it out. Go to these places, every one of them even if there are 200 of them, DO IT! Then don't sit back, I SAID THEN, DON'T SIT BACK get out there at least 12 ours a week and sell your CD's sell yourself, when you are selling them hand to hand, sell them cheaper than what they cost in the store, sell them for $2 or $3 dollars Why? hey a sale is a sale when you're no one, and also record everything, create Excell spread sheet, Hey, 100 cd's sold at $2 isn't allot of doe, but still counts as a sell, when you are showing an important person verifications of sells.
8) INTERNET SALES: go to Amazon and others , fill out what ever you must online, through mail whatever, mail your CD's complying with which ever way they ask, and get stock to them ready to sell.
9) DON'T RELAX AND OR GO TO THE CLUBS BRAGGING YET Now promote like hell!!! Through all the social networks you can do, have your friends help, if they are really friends, they will. GET ON INTERNET READY for interviews as well as get your music played on these Internet stations. It is fairly easy to accomplish both right now, you will be surprised. The reason is, this medium although is everywhere, its still new, so these people need you like you need them.
10) REMEMBER A.B. P ALWAYS BE PROMOTING!! this should never stop. If you say came into a few thousand dollars say $2,000 Take half of it and promote yourself on the radio, pay for a commercial, playing your song and a voice (yours or someone else) telling the audience where they can buy your music, stores and net. You'll be surprised what this will do for you IF YOU DO IT.
11) Read a book : THE PLAIN A SIMPLE GUIDE TO MUSIC PUBLISHING by .... D. Wixen (forgot the first name) Once you read this book, you will understand (at least a better than 50% understanding of music publishing.
12) Really push to get 10,000 records sold as soon as you can. Why? Because unless you are as good as Jay-Z or Bonjovi and everybody else feels that way, you will need to have10,000 or at least very close to 10,000 Cd's sold for a Publisher worth its weight to Publish you. Also decide which company you want to collect your publishing, BMI, ASCAP or SESAC and NO THESE ARE NOT PUBLISHERS MANY PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE, THEY ARE NOT. If you read the book I referred to above, you will understand all this.
13) Attend or at least make a showing at the popular clubs and lounges weekly. You can even spend say 1 hour at each, the point is to have a somewhat regular schedule of attending these (the) places where MANAGERS & AGENTS HANG as well as popular artists and artists period.
14) Make artist friends, but choose them wisely. Often, an artist friend will lead you to some good stuff, opportunities and other if you are awake and attentive to opportunities.
15) Do at least 4 open mics a month, and really kill when you do. This is where a manager of agent will approach you, but remember, if you take my advice from number 2, you will have someone you can verify facts with once you have been approached by 7 managers who want to sign you and 5 of them are full of smack, your business guru/ friend who knows, mentor, will be able to tell you what is what, so you can make an informed decision. Besides the fact that these days you can check out most managers online.
16) Don't rush into contracts unless you understand them, if not it only cost about $100 to have an Entertainment Attorney look at the agreement and give you some brief advice, at least "this is good", or "this is bad".
17) Do something somewhat regularly for charity, even if its just donating your time, DO IT. Do this under your ARTIST NAME. Why? Everybody loves that musical artists who donates time and or money to charity and or non-profit organizations, no matter what genre of music you are, this will enhance your career, and even get you paid performance dates, out of doing a few for nothing, or just helping out, or talking to youth.
18) Help others along the way and always, Good karma goes a long way, and people will see you doing this, and will help you when you need help.
19) Don't talk bad about other artists. If you do, always do it only in private, You never know who backs who or who will back who in the future, or what alliances will curve in or out of your favor. Back biting in music, usually only hurts the person who is biting.
20) Use ego, don't get one. Know when to show off and know when to shut up. Too much of one of these at the wrong time will ruin you and your career.
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