Scrolling through my IG time line I stumbled into a reel from British and Sierra Leonian rapper Tony As. He mentioned in this reel that his approach to his music career changed when he realised nobody was going to save him I.E. nobody was going to make his music career blow up for him. He was gonna have to be the main character of his journey and build it brick by brick from the ground up to the very top, brick by brick, song by song.
It reminded me very much of a recent post that I titled “It Will Always Be Up To Me”. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to express enough how detrimental it’s gonna be for me to remove myself completely from the idea that someone out there will find me and take my music career to the next level. They won’t, and even if they do I’d rather be the person steering my own ship head first into a whirlpool and than helplessly watching someone else steering it for me.
I also wrote about giving up on hope in a post I titled “Accept The Unexpected”, because I’m doing myself no favors by opting in for a scenario that allows me to skip out on the opportunity to learn and grow. These things come to fruition through unplanned and unexpected adversities that force me to come out of my comfort zone, rather than hoping someone will save my day and handle my business for me.
This brings me to the latest news that’s been buzzing around my feed about Spotify no longer monetising artists beneath a certain stream threshold. I barely quivered at the news because I honestly wasn’t expecting things to be smooth sailing. The earlier version of me would have done. He would have cried in despair because this wasn’t an outcome he “hoped” would have come to fruition, so now he’s helpless with nowhere to look for reassurance.
It really is that simple. Nobody is going to save me the more I reflect on it, the happier I am to appreciate why because it makes me a greater version of myself.
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