Saturday the 3rd of August 2024 and the title of this reflection is going to be the curse of entitlement. Now there used to be a time like growing up in my earlier youth when I used to kind of like look on my parents sideways in other words I used to kind of like look at them
with a little bit of not demise but I used to look at them with a little bit of spite because like they were forever propelling me in a direction in which I didn't want to go towards a more academic field as opposed
to kind of like going to a more creative field and whilst I do understand that the academic field can be quite creative they were seemingly less interested in the creative nature that I had to offer to the world and they were more seemingly interested in the philosophical, the scientific elements that I would present as a means of actually having a relationship with both of them. So they seldom understood my creative side and stuff like that, but they were very, very
keen on the aspect of me, which was a very tiny aspect of me, by the way, that exhibited this interest in any sort of case, in the sciences, in the languages, in the mathematics and so to speak. But the title of this freaking reflection is the curse of entitlement. And whilst I do kind of like, I guess I wrestle with some, you know, long term emotions towards kind of like my parents never really steering me towards what I actually wanted to do, I don't regret and I don't kind of like hate on the fact that you know they effectively pushed me and propelled me to go towards an academic route because
I was still able to pursue the media kind of like the media as you know the media aspect of my creativity and that involves learning how to work with pictures, learning how to work with sounds, with videos. I effectively did media studies at secondary school, media studies at A-level and I followed it and I pursued it on to university at some point after I realised that the science aspect of the academics wasn't exactly for me, even though I knew that from as early as 13 years old when I wanted to become a rap artist.
Now the reason why I call this reflection the curse of entitlement is because like when you do get to the point when you've decided that you do want to become a rap artist, like if you don't, kind of like learn all the tiny little micro skills that are effectively gonna propel you towards the manifestation of your brand,
your music, the cover art, the merchandise, the content release strategy, the social media strategy, the way that you build your community. If you don't build these micro skills, effectively you are going to rely on somebody else to do them for you.
Yes, you will have a team at some point, but in the beginning you have to do all of these on your own. And if you are not doing them on your own, then you're going to have to kind of like rely on somebody else to do this. And this is where a lot of us artists get this wrong. Now, for some reason, there is this very strange and this kind of like this very strange phenomenon that till this day I struggle to grapple with. And that is in observing how some artists just literally expect somebody or a group
of people to do all of these things for them. And then for them to suddenly have this feeling or this kind of like reason to effectively feel justified in their laments whenever these things aren't happening. They complain, they butcher their producer, they butcher their engineer, they butcher their booking agent, they absolutely take their emotion out on everybody who is there to help them and that is effectively the curse of entitlement. Which is why I return to the fact or I return to the argument here
that in the beginning you want to learn how to do everything. There is nothing that is music related, whether it's kind of like you know learning how to record a song from start to finish, how to write a song from start to finish, how to do the metadata for the song. There is nothing that you can't take an interest in because you know the more you take an interest in all of these little elements, the more you start to gain an understanding of these elements, the more you'll be able to gain I guess
practical competence with these elements and effectively it also boosts your ability to communicate exactly what it is that you want from your booking agent, from your manager, from your cover art creator, from your videographer or editor, you'll be able to communicate exactly what it is that you want because you have dipped into the skill or dipped into the field and know, you know, understood how to make all these things come about. Whereas if you work in
titled and you just expected all of these things to happen for you, you wouldn't have a clue and as a result that brand, that image, that song, that sound that you've got in your head remains very much so in your head.
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