Alright cool, this is going to be Wednesday 8th of January 2025. I don't know why I keep on saying 2024. I've been saying 2024. I'm sure I've been saying it. But anyway, Wednesday 8th, 2025, January. And the title of today's reflection is going to be Navigating the Industry.
Now one of the things that came to my mind earlier was, you know, I was talking a little bit about kind of like, you know, you know, balancing my life and music and how there is effectively like no way to balance my life in music. But I was talking a little bit about that and it
made me think about how in reality like as hectic as my life is I actually haven't done a great deal of work when it comes to like you know the music industry I'm not a busy artist by any stretch of the means I'm an artist that's making myself busy that's the point of the journey that I'm at right now so I'm not people aren't hitting me up every five minutes to say come to a show. People aren't hitting me up every five minutes to jump on a feature.
Although I must admit, there are a couple of people that I need to get back to because there was a point. Because of the song rapping that I dropped, which is kind of like what I was talking about in my previous reflection. I actually got a fair number of people that wanted to collaborate with me purely because of this campaign that I ran. And it was a very made up campaign guys. Like trust me, I am not a marketer. When it comes to these things, there was a time where I needed to just basically like grab a... what was I supposed to do? I was supposed to go to... yeah, yeah, I'm
not a marketer. I just wanted to promote my song and so I started doing promotion things, things that didn't cost me a penny by the way, just tiny little things and because of that I got these features. So yeah, when it comes to my music, navigating the industry, I'm not the busiest person in the freaking world and there's so much, if not like, I still feel like, even though I've been wanting to do this for like 20 years, I still feel like I'm the very, I'm at the very opening gates when it comes to the music industry. So I find it, I
find it a difficult thing to talk about because there are so many things that I'm yet to experience. A lot of the things that I know about the industry, I know of because of things that other people have experienced, so I can't talk about that. But the industry is definitely, what I will say is that it's definitely, one thing that I will say is that it feels so kind of like against what I thought it was going to be like. And what do I mean by that? I'm talking about kind of like, you know, you know, if
I was trained to become a lawyer or doctor, and I've spoken about this so much so many times that I feel like I'm being a bit cliche. But when I was, you know, if I was training to be a lawyer or a doctor, everything will feel so streamlined. Everything will be like, go here, go here, do this, do that, do that, do that and it's bang. You get it straight away. There's an official way of doing it. And you know when you're a lawyer, when you're a lawyer, you know when you're not a lawyer, when you're
not a lawyer. There are things there in place that tell you. But here in the music industry, mate, like the world's your oyster, which is a blessing in itself, but it's also a curse because you can go anywhere and everywhere. So much so to the point that you might get stuck and decide to go nowhere at all.
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