Artist/Producer | Owner & Curator of Dat Honey Music Library 🍯
Queens, New York
Joined June 2009
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In many cases, you'll find the only thing preventing you from learning is your ego.
No one enjoys feeling foolish, but attempting something new requires that you climb down from your perch and struggle as a beginner. You must ask questions that reveal your ignorance or attempt skills that make you look uncoordinated.
Learning demands the willingness to live in a brief state of discomfort. You must believe that looking like a fool for an hour will not ruin your reputation for life.
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A word to the youngins who’ve heard all my horror stories about the music industry and still wanna dance with the devil:
Take your credit as seriously as your money.
Like it or not, public recognition and credit are assets. For years, I thought demanding credit for work you were supposed to be doing was “corny.”
I actually thought the real could recognize real from the fugaz.
Experience taught me I was 100% WRONG.
If you’re not telling niggas what you did, somebody else will take YOUR credit. And if industry people don’t like you, they will absolutely diminish your contribution, regardless of what you actually accomplished.
Document your work.
Correct the record.
Don’t play about your credit.
Be as serious about it as you are about your money.
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People in music will ghost you for months instead of having a slightly uncomfortable conversation
This tells you everything you need to know about working with them
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The loser has more in common with the winner than with the person sitting on the sidelines.
The winner and the loser each had the courage to try. Both risked embarrassment. Both were willing to face uncertainty. Both were stubborn enough to continue.
Success is endurance in disguise. It belongs to the person who can absorb the losses without absorbing the identity of "loser." It's the courage to start — and to stick with it — that is the real separator. Results tend to find the person who stays in the game.
The sidelines are safe, but sterile. Nothing grows there.
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This bout to be a real missile I swear 🤞🏿
Sock it 2 my pocket July 17th the line up is stupid s/o @MassAppealRecs and everyone who made this possible
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Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.
There are no artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, or scientists who became great by half-finishing their work. Stop debating what you should make and just make something.
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Out-willed Wemby to clinch the NBA Finals.
Thank you Mitch #OAKAAK
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Your first attempt might not be very good, but nobody's early work is good. There will always be a gap between where you are and where you want to be. And the bridge between that gap is courage. The courage to look foolish in the beginning. The courage to show up again when your early work is criticized. The courage to look yourself in the mirror and say, "I realize I'm not good enough yet, but the only way to get better is to keep working on it."
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Tierra Whack is such an inventive visual stylist with so many bright art-pop ideas that it can be easy to overlook the fact that she’s got serious bars. That’ll be a lot harder after hearing her impressive new mixtape ‘WHACK’S MUSEUM,’ which she calls her “first true rap project.”
Tierra Whack broke through with her 15-minute visual album ‘Whack World’ in 2018, then refined its explosive expressionism on her 2024 major label debut ‘WORLD WIDE WHACK.’ On ‘WHACK’S MUSEUM,’ out today, the Philly artist does something different.
She teased the mixtape with the Conductor Williams-produced single “Wax Paper,” a boom-bap clinic that sets the tone for the entire project. The tape is rooted in the classic East Coast neck-snap sound, but Whack doesn’t merely adapt to it — she thrives in it.
[📷: @Phobymo]
