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Give this playlist a listen: Brandon Phillips-Taylor - Discography spotify.link/j4guLBHmBMb

I fell in love with this quote: "No matter your age, you'll always wish you started younger, but today is the youngest you'll ever be. So start today."

Every part of me I hated died along the way..

With respect to all the artist with a song titled “Butterflies” but when I search the song on Apple Music Michael Jackson’s should be the first one to pop up.

monoculture in the music business no longer exists. it’s a game of micro cultures. meaning stop tryna make the “biggest” song and start tryna make the most “you” song when you are being so specifically yourself, there will be a group of people who feel found by you

Hanna Hidalgo might be my new favorite player

One day yall are going to learn it’s about building a brand.

"Do the thing you'd be jealous of if someone did first." It was this advice that brought me to my true purpose.

Kobe Bryant: "Failure doesn't exist, it's a figment of your imagination" An interviewer asks: "Are you someone who loves to win or hates to lose?" Kobe responds: "I'm neither. I play to figure things out. I play to learn something. Because if you play with a fear of failure or you play with the will to win that supersedes fear, I think it's a weakness either way. If you play with fear of failing, you'll capitulate to that fear. If you play with the sense of 'I want to win, I want to win,' then you have the fear of what happens if you don't. But if you find common ground in the center, you're unfazed by either. That enables you to stay in the moment and not feel anything other than what's in front of you." The interviewer asks: "How did you become someone who doesn't seem afraid of failing?" Kobe responds: "What does failure mean? It doesn't exist. It's a figment of your imagination." He explains with an analogy: "Let's use happy endings. Everybody wants a happy ending, right? Snow White finds her prince and lives happily ever after. Well, I call BS on that because two months later, they had an argument and he's sleeping on the couch. The point is: the story continues. So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure is if you decide to not progress from that. If I fail today, I'm going to learn something from that failure and try again on Tuesday. That's why failure doesn't exist." The interviewer asks: "If you finished your career without a championship, would you have looked at that as a failure?" Kobe: "No. I would look at it as being extremely disappointed, because I had a dream and goals I wanted to accomplish. If I didn't accomplish those goals, I'd have to ask myself why. Poor leadership? Failure to communicate with my teammates? Lack of preparation? Those would be reasons why I didn't win. So I'd have to analyze that. And as I evolved post-basketball into business, those same weaknesses would reveal themselves there too. If I don't learn from that, I'm going to struggle again." He concludes: "I can take those situations and learn from them and have them make me a better person later in life. But if I don't take that stuff and apply it someplace else, that's failing. The worst possible thing you can ever do is to stop. It's to not learn."

Why see the world when you’ve got the beach..

Nah @DeanteVH is incredible dawg.

I just saw a quote that said, “You worry too much for someone who figures it out every time” and I feel like I’m not the only one who needs to hear that.

some artists think consistency means frequency. nah. consistency is recognizable quality. dropping often without identity just trains people to ignore you faster 🤷🏾‍♂️

My favorite quote from Atomic Habits by James Clear: "It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."

The perfect example of why you network across and not up, build with the people next to you not above

YOUR ART DOESN'T NEED TO BE PERFECT. IT NEEDS TO BE HONEST. THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY CONNECT WITH.

Nobody teaches you how business actually works. McDonald’s is a real estate empire. The burger is just the reason you show up to their land. Red Bull owns zero factories. It costs $0.09 to make and $3.59 to buy. They sell a lifestyle, not a drink. Amazon’s retail barely breaks even. Half the internet runs on AWS. That’s the real business. Google is free because you’re not the customer. You’re what they’re selling. Disney is in the licensing business not the movie making one. Costco sells groceries at cost. The $65 membership is the entire business model. Gillette sells you the razor cheap. Then owns you on the blades forever. The most profitable companies don’t sell what you think they sell. The real business is always one layer deeper.

“Just drop content” is lazy advice. Anything you create to accompany the music should be done with great intention. But with the way these apps work now, it’s a numbers game. You have to put up more shots. Don’t worry about annoying people. They won’t see most of it.

The ability to quickly reset and recover. From a bad interaction. From a bad day. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. You can start over whenever you want. You can't always control what happened, but you can control how long you carry it.

heard @DeanteVH album and man that shit is beautiful. can’t wait for the world to hear that.