Everyone Wants to Watch a Bum: An Engineer on Social Media
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0:00A: I’m promoting certain aspects of my life that come with my artistry, but you’re not gonna catch me doing certain things on IG just because it don’t make sense for me to do it. It’s like we talked about it yesterday, like I have success on my social media because I invest and then I know what people like seeing me do, so I just keep doing the shit that they like seeing me do. And what do they like seeing you do? Just fucking working. No one don’t want to watch a bum. I hear that. And that’s the thing, you know what I’m saying? A lot of Bums are easily now mistaken as the motherfuckers making money because they’re making money look easy.
0:00A: You know what I’m saying? And people mistake making money looking easy for, oh, I can make money easy too. Yeah. So that’s basically the synopsis for that. Damn, I’m still in first. Um, what do you think are the things that are important for music to evolve? Growth within oneself. That’s the first and foremost. If a person is not willing to grow for themselves, then they’re not gonna fucking grow musically. They’re gonna fucking suck. And they’re just gonna be saying the same shit. And it’s gonna probably be lame shit. Like, if you’re not growing as a person, your music’s not gonna grow. And that’s a true, honest reality.
0:00A: It’s not sad, it’s not angry, it’s just a true reality. And people don’t want to live with that reality, which is why they’re like, oh, I don’t -- I just do this for me. I just do this for fun. No, you don’t. You want to be successful in this or you wouldn’t be doing it. Every artist wants to be successful as a musician, but not every artist is willing to do what they have to do to be a successful artist.
