Ep. 18 Unveiling the Epic Saga: Ohshit_itsjada's Astonishing Journey from Nothing to Something!

Ep. 18 Unveiling the Epic Saga: Jada's Astonishing Journey from Nothing to Something!

Embark on an extraordinary odyssey as we delve into the vibrant narrative of Jada, a multifaceted music AR, director, and relentless hustler hailing from the pulsating heartbeats of the South Bronx. In this riveting episode, witness the symphony of sound, art, and personal triumph as Jada shares his awe-inspiring journey from humble beginnings to becoming a force to be reckoned with in the music industry.

The episode begins by painting a vivid picture of Jada's childhood inspirations and the pivotal influence of his father, setting the stage for a remarkable story. We explore the legendary local DJ, Black Dawn, whose influence reverberated through Jada's artistic soul, shaping the very essence of his musical passion. The beats are not just audible but palpable as we groove through the joys and challenges of Jada's artistic pursuits, intertwined with the vibrant role of fashion in his eclectic world.

Shifting gears seamlessly, we venture into the entrepreneurial side of music, navigating through the realms of record stores, indie labels, and life-altering collaborations. Jada's journey unfolds as a testament to the importance of determination, a supportive mentor, and the transformative power of networking with luminaries like Arcangel and Dehry. The melody that accompanies this episode is one of hard work, resilience, and a keen ability to recognize potential in others.

As the tempo slows, we delve into a sensitive yet crucial aspect of Jada's narrative—the fear of embracing one's talent and the paramount importance of mental health in the dynamic music industry. Candid discussions unfold, sharing collective experiences with anxiety and the ongoing struggle to carve a niche in the ever-evolving landscape of the music business. The episode further navigates the influence of social media on modern artists, offering a poignant reflection on its massive impact.

So, settle in, tune into the rhythm, and allow us to guide you through the highs and lows, the beats and rhythms, of a life immersed in the artistry, vision, and relentless hustle of Jada.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:20

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the innovators, then. I am formerly known as hashtag on Instagram. Please follow us at the innovators then on YouTube, apple Podcasts, spotify Podcasts, instagram, tiktok pretty much every platform, and I'm here with Steve.

Speaker 2: 0:36

O business and we got a very, very, very, very special guest. Yo, thank you for having me, brother, we got Jada.

Speaker 1: 0:43

What up my heart.

Speaker 2: 0:48

The history is long over here.

Speaker 3: 0:49

What we say.

Speaker 2: 0:50

You might not know what we say. No, it's been a long time, you know, and people God is good, I not know, but you've been very influential in our community and with our friends and our family. You know you've been a person of always of joy and people to you know share time with. But you've been a creative as well and I remember from the beginning you are. You know, I know you as a DJ. You was like 15, 16 years old.

Speaker 3: 1:17

I was 12 years old. I was 12 years old. What a, what a, what a, what a DV with a, with a PlayStation with a. Cd and a CD player.

Speaker 2: 1:26

Yeah and then. Yeah, you're right, you got a mix. I remember you got your first. Uh, what was it? The new, new mark?

Speaker 3: 1:31

Yeah, the new mark mix.

Speaker 2: 1:33

Yeah, both that in Canal Street, canal Street, I remember, yeah, yeah you know, I know we guys, when I had just we was talking prior to getting on the show, but um, what's up, jada?

Speaker 3: 1:41

Long time. What's up? Everything, good man, you know, just taking a day by day, working nothing else. You know I'm a strong believer in um and vision boards, right? So I have a nice vision board in my house that I wake. I wake up every day and I look at it and every day I need to conquer to get closer to everything I have in the vision board.

Speaker 2: 2:04

Jada. So let's, let's go. People might not know history, so I just want to, before we tell them the whole story, you get into the story and let's take them back.

Speaker 3: 2:13

Like childhood, what got you into creativity, music, well, I remember, um, I remember I used to live in 725 Southern Boulevard and that's in the South Bronx South Bronx would be exact word Sixth floor, no elevator, and my father was this big ass speaker and when they would go to work, you know, the basketball court would be like in front of my house, like downstairs, and I'll be the nigga pumping the music heavy and niggas will be dancing. They laugh over in the park. I remember that. So, because of that, that inspired me to start DJing. I was like probably nine, ten years old. I will fuck it. I remember I will blast that. That don't you see? Now try, try, try, try, try yeah, don't you see now?

Speaker 3: 2:56

yeah, I was outside, though you heard. I remember I was like yo listen, I get chills because you know I had like at least five years I didn't pass through there and I passed through like two weeks ago and when I stopped in the park and you know I just looked up to that window.

Speaker 3: 3:11

Be, that window from the back is where the basketball court saw the window was up six floor, six floor word, and that window made a lot of things for me because niggas had a dream man. You know I'm saying like I used to, I used to look up to yeah, but you was coming from the South Bronx low-income community. Yeah, we didn't have them when they got school lunch, nigga my mother used to take me to every summer we were excited about yeah we used to go get a school lunches in the summertime you know what I'm saying, so we did that you know.

Speaker 3: 3:45

I mean, then there was this dude in my block. I would never forget his name. In Fox his name is the moon. They call him black or dawn. This nigga was darker than that book. With a CLK convertible with a blonde bitch next to him all the time, I used to be like I want to be like that nigga.

Speaker 2: 4:05

I want to be like yeah.

Speaker 3: 4:07

I want to be like nobody else right here I want to be like yeah, so I always had the vision of the moon, but the moon got rest, you know, got blessed, and wherever he's at right now, yeah now, but I remember like we used to go to Southern Boulevard to get fly, like that's how you know like you know, through our streets.

Speaker 2: 4:27

Yeah, it was extirc so we used to.

Speaker 3: 4:29

I remember we used to get the. We used to have to get fly Fridays. So on Friday was like you know. We used to get fresh every day. You know I'm saying but on Friday was like the extra. You know, I'm saying that was the day that you had to because we were the type of remember we used to go to Kennedy the first day of school. Everybody wanted to get fresh. We never went to school fresh the first day. Right, we will let you get fresh your first three days, because I know your outfits were out and then I'll hit you for like three weeks the same outfit again you know.

Speaker 3: 5:03

So for the three weeks, you know I'm on some majeu Francis Movich a ball. You know, I'm saying the Vansons, the Vasquez, the Pelle Pelle's. We was outside yeah the same, but yeah, we was damn the Pelle.

Speaker 2: 5:17

Pelle's. But so through that process, you know, being outside and having fun and and being a teenage at the time you basically started being involved with the music because he was DJing and you got certain bookings that people might not know.

Speaker 3: 5:30

You got certain real yeah, I was, I was doing them before, before even doing the book time, the big time bookings. It's funny because my son called me the other day. He's 15 years old. He's like your dad. When you was 15, you already know who you wanted to be or what you wanted to do. I said nigga 15, nigga.

Speaker 3: 5:45

At 9 I was on the phone all day, my man Steve. Oh, you know, I'm saying we'll be in the phone till like four o'clock in the morning just dreaming, nigga, I want a big-ass crib, I want this, I want that. So it's like your bro, like your vision you could have anything you want in life, bro. Honestly, I could possibly tell you you could want, you can have anything and everything you want in life because you know when we, you know from where we come from, to what God has provided for us and things that you know that God has given us. You can have anything you want. You know. I'm saying you just got to put your mind so. So when he told me that, say yo, bro.

Speaker 3: 6:23

At 15, bro, I was in Castle Hill in the corner giving out flyers. I was doing I was yeah, I had a job, though I had a job like I had. I was giving out flyers in Castle Hill. You know I'm saying for wireless wisdom. Remember I was 14 years old, 14 outside every day after school giving out flyers. Right after that, on the weekends, I would DJ because they will hire me for the baby showers, for the birthday parties. You know I'm saying I had the club, I had my no mark. So at the end of the day I was, I Went from this, like I told you, from the PlayStation with the CD player, yo, but you know what that will happen.

Speaker 2: 6:55

For us, though that was. Since he was DJing, I was able to go to all the parties. You know cuz I will go hit.

Speaker 1: 7:02

I got over him and he needed help. I'm with a DJ, yeah.

Speaker 3: 7:06

They will have been carried to speak, the CDs. Remember it was everything. So I had a lot of CD books. Yeah, like books, yeah, I had a lot of CD books. So yeah, we went through that stage and honestly then after that I remember Someone introduced me to like this club promote. I think it was Emma.

Speaker 3: 7:24

Yeah, I believe so and at the Palladium at the end went to the Palladium in Neuroshel. Bro, I'm opening up for Fat man School Finale. For all these people, niggas pick me up in the house in a s5 50. I would never forget that shit. I was like 14, 15 years old and that s5 50 niggas is picking me up. You know I'm say taking me to clubs. Honestly, I could possibly say that was like my introduction of like yo, this nigga loves music. So I know I needed to do something. I don't, I don't know how to do anything else, bro, you know I'm saying I'm the type of person that I'm a studio junkie. I could be in a studio three weeks, no sleep, no nothing in there.

Speaker 2: 8:04

You know I'm saying like I don't get bored, that's yeah, but I even remember that there was a point that you decided to win through school. You know you decided to go to like a digital media art school.

Speaker 3: 8:17

Yeah, but it's funny how that came. How that came was when I was 16 Engineering right.

Speaker 1: 8:22

Yeah, dmx the.

Speaker 3: 8:23

DMX program. But how that came along was I will never forget my mother, my mother's washing dishes in Castle Hill. I remember we used to live in Castle Hill and I would had a job. I was making money DJing. You know I'm saying so. I always been a little Hustler, but yeah, they see him put a little to me, so I'm getting the kid you know.

Speaker 3: 8:43

So at the end of the day I told the lady I said Nancy, hey Joe, no way, look like a lot, I'm not going back to school. The lady looked back at me. She was like what, yeah, they work so hard for you. I was 15, bro, but you know what it is. I already got kicked out of Kennedy. I got kicked out of Brown School of Science and Lehman I'm having bro when I got to Lehman, that's it was like so easy for me because they would leave.

Speaker 3: 9:08

They will let you leave on your lunch break. Mm-hmm like, on your lunch break you could go outside and go eat lunch. You don't do that to a nigga like me.

Speaker 3: 9:16

I was in Kennedy leaving third period. You know so. So you know I'm saying when I got to Lehman I was like your bro Listening for me no more. When I told the ladies you let your listen in my house, you either got to work or you got to go to school I said yo listen, I'm like I got a job. Remember. Then I got the job in the Department of Consumer Affairs. I was making more money than my father when I got that job was making $597 a week every Thursday.

Speaker 2: 9:49

Yes, so you know it went through a process that you but, but I say that to say this.

Speaker 3: 9:53

Then, after that, you know, during that little process, probably like a month later, after I dropped out of school, I was on the train and we saw that program, dmx program, and then two real college assigned up mixing.

Speaker 1: 10:04

Mm-hmm to her college up.

Speaker 3: 10:06

Yeah and um, yeah, we signed up to that Audio engineer. Audio engineer.

Speaker 2: 10:11

They teach you how to use pro tools. Yeah, super dope super dope.

Speaker 3: 10:16

The only situation is when it comes to like a program like that for me. I'm a hands-on nigga, you know I'm saying, I'm not an office nigga, so I got to be outside. So to me it was that, yo, the school was cool, but in the nighttime I will go to the studio and learn more and be with Niggas. You know I'm saying and touch everything in the school. You know, on page five you can see that brothers they know page five. Here nigga is a hit a button you know yeah.

Speaker 3: 10:40

So yeah, so, honestly, that's how that whole to real college thing came along. But other than that, then we hit, really hit, the grind.

Speaker 2: 10:49

Right now and yeah, we got introduced, you know, you got introduced to to the music side of things and you started networking in a community of people, of artists, that there was a Spanish Rap community happening in New York, you know at that time.

Speaker 3: 11:05

So you know Honestly and I'm sorry to cut you off, I think, I think you know the universe will give you a Lot of things that and God you know, we'll give you a lot of things that you desire. Because it's funny, because the guy that used to live down the block from my house Mm-hmm, I remember, bro, this nigga used to Drive around in a rap car with the face of the go Calderon when that shit was popping.

Speaker 1: 11:28

Oh, and listening they'll.

Speaker 3: 11:29

yeah, we like you. When everything was popping, he used to walk around with the, you know, with the, with the, so that she used to a nigga. I'm 12 years old, I'm like yo, bro, that's the type of shit I want to drive, nigga, I want to drive these kids with the artist's. And when I came you know we're very cool, god bless him. His name is Chicky Star and, bro, that I think it was the super triple, triple OG. You know what I'm saying. He works for White Lion and, yeah, that really inspired me. You know, I feel like everywhere that I was going and everything I was doing was inspiring me to get into the music, even when I used to work in Southern Boulevard. When I worked in Southern Boulevard, Prince.

Speaker 3: 12:09

Montana used to sell me the DVDs. The Co-King Cities. You know what I'm saying. Dj Clue used to drop off the mix tapes. You know what I'm saying? Who kid K Slade? God rest his soul. You know what I'm saying. All these people.

Speaker 2: 12:20

I remember that he even found out where they were manufacturing them, so he was like yeah. So he even got into that, I remember.

Speaker 3: 12:27

Yeah, so you know. So it's like my life been around, that you know what I'm saying. So it's like I didn't. I didn't want nothing else. That's what I wanted to do my guta. The whole element is a lot of work you know, is the creative process of it.

Speaker 3: 12:40

It's the creative process of it. You're right, I'm saying it's like this. Like when I called, I said yo, bro, this is very dope. I actually love your podcast, what you guys are doing and how you're doing it, Because it's like I'm a strong believer in things that start from the bottom and and they blossom. But, yeah you know it's easier to have a dad, that you know that gives you everything. The hazard. Oh yeah, but then when you got to scrape that yourself you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2: 13:07

You have to figure it out.

Speaker 3: 13:08

You got to figure it out. That's just what it is.

Speaker 1: 13:10

You got to figure this shit out 100%, and the music led you to do a lot of other things, so can you speak a little bit about that? You know?

Speaker 3: 13:17

what I'm saying. Like I've been involved in a lot of things I've done. I remember I did the production and the casting for the triangle of the city. We created the hats. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 13:27

We created what you probably see everywhere. The triangle hats by the way.

Speaker 2: 13:31

I'm saying like that was a brand that they had a show for that right, it was like a TV show.

Speaker 3: 13:35

No, yes, so so it was a series that it was on. It was on an online series, but we were so ahead of the time we did that in 2011, 2011, to like 2000.

Speaker 2: 13:46

But what led you to do that was that you was already creating your own documentary. Yo soy dominicano.

Speaker 3: 13:51

Yes.

Speaker 2: 13:52

So yo soy dominicano. I remember that you was highlighting the mannequins that were doing influential things and creative things, so you started documenting that.

Speaker 3: 14:02

Yeah, because I got inspired because what we come from, we're so used to seeing Dominican people do the same thing. You either work or you were a delinquent. You either got the real strict ones. That are the men.

Speaker 1: 14:17

Serious work. Nine to five or you know.

Speaker 3: 14:21

so you know there's so much more than that. You know I'm saying you, we got great baseball players, we got great doctors, we got great entrepreneurs. So when I created, that to me was out. That's what I wanted to highlight, and I still want to highlight it, because that to me is like a project that I have it still in my heart. That's like my baby, right, you?

Speaker 3: 14:41

know what I'm saying but I believe everything in perfect timing. You know, by the grace of God, all these years that I've been putting in that work. The type of connections that I had back then are not the same one that I have now, right, you know what I'm saying, so that's better now.

Speaker 1: 14:56

Yeah, I think the documentary will be a little better. Technology has gotten better too.

Speaker 3: 15:02

And not only that, not only that. Something so simple like bro, like knowledge, you know things that I know now I didn't know back then.

Speaker 2: 15:12

And it was. Another thing is that you also had that, you know, and that's, that's a motivation, that's.

Speaker 3: 15:18

I think that's a man's biggest motivation. Honestly, you could either be a dirtbag or you could be a great dad. You choose Right. You know what I'm saying, so, but overall I would say everything has been inspired into the same thing as just creating and doing dope shit.

Speaker 2: 15:35

So it became like you went from the music to then a and R, and then now managing, and you created a label exit five.

Speaker 3: 15:42

Yeah, I have exit five Like a record label right. It's what is called an independent label. I've been with, you know, around with Alkan Hill for like 10 to 12 years now and there's so much things that I learned. I'm very grateful, you know I'm saying like so many things that I learned. I've learned every position, everything you know I'm saying. So that has taken me, you know, to the places that we need to go.

Speaker 1: 16:08

Yeah, how is that working with Alkan, because he's a it's very interesting.

Speaker 3: 16:13

Working with Austin is something that inspiring. I'm sure it's a mixture of so many things, right, because at the end of the day is like yo like the creativeness. When somebody is like so passionate about something and they get things done, you know that's the best thing a person could do.

Speaker 2: 16:30

That led you to like those relationships that you build. You was able to start working with an artist, Derry right.

Speaker 3: 16:37

Yeah. So Derry is a producer that's worked with a lot of the people from the industry. One day he called me like yo, bro, I got reference, Like I like 10 songs that I have right now for you to show it to Alkan Hill, and when he showed me that shit, I'm like nigga, that's you and I pretty much bring Washington to become an artist.

Speaker 2: 16:57

He didn't want to Good, he didn't want to become, because you saw, you see somebody's potential and you always highlight that in people and you know, and that's why you build a community for yourself and you work with a lot of people. The way you work with them is by trying to promote them, to let other people know that it's something that they shouldn't take notice of.

Speaker 3: 17:15

I saw you do comedy, I think I think I think the creativeness and and the marketing structure of things, wanting to market things, and even we learned that even through the whole graffiti process as kids. You know we were so much into hip hop and then dope shit that you know fashion and know that you know even that helped us now.

Speaker 1: 17:38

Can you speak on like the independent music scene right now, because everybody wants to be independent but they don't really understand, like how? Much it takes to be independent.

Speaker 3: 17:47

It takes a lot of funds, it takes a lot of sacrifice for someone to actually say yo, bro, I'm not going to buy me the the Miri's this week because I need to put money into this, and so you know that that comes with it and you can't. You can't buy the Miri's and get this to like. You know you either got to choose, right, you know what I'm saying, so you know being independent, everybody want to be independent because, according to them, you don't need a label and all the masters is mine. But bro.

Speaker 3: 18:17

If it's not worth, anything is not worth anything 100%, zero, you know what I'm saying, so I rather say partnerships on point. I think you know what it is. You need a machine and for you to have a machine, you know who you need. You need that person with the connection to the machine. Do you have access to the machine?

Speaker 1: 18:38

No no.

Speaker 3: 18:39

So you need that Right. You know businesses. To me, business is give and take. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. That's just what it is. You know what I'm saying? You have to invest, you have to invest and you have 100%. So why not give a few percentages to make your shit grow anyways, mm hmm, or your team or your, you know investing to your team.

Speaker 3: 19:01

I'm a strong believer in something so simple Like yo, like there's people that surround themselves with people that have access to funds, to money, but people invested in the dumbest things like yo. Let's go clubbing. Let's go to 1111. Let's go to Opus. You know what I'm saying? They go spend 10, 20 bands in a night. Bro, what happened to the studio time? Let's shoot a video. You know what I'm saying? Let's invest in marketing and that thing. That's what goes on the most with New York, cause when you go to these countries, they're more serious about their craft.

Speaker 2: 19:37

Right A nigga. Here we talk about the artists, right Like the artists in other countries, take their yeah, bro, and people around them too.

Speaker 1: 19:45

I feel like it's also less distraction. People are hungrier. I feel like we almost settle here and that's in general.

Speaker 3: 19:54

It's the settlement? Yeah, the settlement it works. It's the same thing as you know. No discrimination to no one. It's like someone being on section eight for 30 years.

Speaker 2: 20:03

Right.

Speaker 3: 20:04

It's beautiful to be excuse me, it's beautiful to be on section eight for 30 years, but you're stuck right. You're still in that same apartment.

Speaker 1: 20:12

It's the same place, yeah.

Speaker 3: 20:13

Because? Why? Because the rent is low. But there's more places in the world. There's Atlanta, you know there's North Carolina, you know there's Jersey. You see what I'm saying. So there's something similar to that. You know what I'm saying. I'm not saying to get it. You know for you to get by and do what you do, but I don't think you should stay stuck there. You know what I'm saying. I feel like there's more to life.

Speaker 3: 20:37

You know what I'm saying Like, or even if you do got it you know, find your way to Fnago. You know, buy you could have it and buy houses in PA. We kicking too much game right now.

Speaker 1: 20:50

But, speak about how you got into video production, because you also got into it you started directing your own videos.

Speaker 3: 20:56

Yeah, so in that building that I used to work in Fort Lee.

Speaker 2: 20:59

Yeah. So Fort Lee is what? Like it was, luxury apartments, condominium condo, yeah 100 old palaces.

Speaker 3: 21:06

So when I used to work in that building, that's how I got my third language, which is, which is Korean. I was in there for 10 years and I 70% of Fort Lee is Korean.

Speaker 1: 21:14

Right.

Speaker 3: 21:15

So I learned you know the good morning. Yes, Thank you, You're welcome. Yes, Yo, it's a hustle. Yo, in December.

Speaker 2: 21:25

This is gonna be great.

Speaker 3: 21:26

In December I would make 20, 30 bands. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 21:30

Tips that's great.

Speaker 3: 21:33

I'm gonna be like I'm Korean yeah.

Speaker 1: 21:38

That's your damn friend.

Speaker 2: 21:38

Yo Love them.

Speaker 1: 21:40

Hell yeah, bro. It's a good Christmas, bro, when I come from you.

Speaker 3: 21:44

Gotta get it how you live. So yeah, I was definitely in there doing me he provided a service. So I got inspired because in the directing, because Jim Jones used to live there, Mama Jay-Z used to live, Jay-Z and Beyonce used to live in the building next to it A lot of celebrities, a lot of baseball players and I said you know what, bro?

Speaker 2: 22:08

I used to see these people walking and like I could do this too.

Speaker 3: 22:10

Yeah, I could do this. You know what I'm saying. Like God rest his soul gas. You know, diamond Dave. So he put me on. He said yo, bro, for you to direct, you don't even got a whole camera. The director is the one that tells the DP what to do.

Speaker 2: 22:25

Right.

Speaker 3: 22:25

You know what I'm saying. Like, I don't know how to turn on the camera and I got a lot of videos that I directed, but I always had a DP, my gaffers. You know what I'm saying? Everything, whole team, first, ad. So that's how I really got inspired. So because I always had the vision of what I wanted, how I wanted it. So you know, I feel like if you have a great team, you could accomplish anything and everything you want, right?

Speaker 2: 22:46

But you started through trial and error, Like you shot multiple people's videos and they were yeah we started what they call the whole Latin trap Right, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3: 22:54

Like that whole remember that was the whole era of the Triangulo 2. Yeah, it was just we was too ahead of ourselves, Right, Like the Triangulo series right now will kill. Right, we're talking about 2011. I got signed in the works, but you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, that's how I really got it. I got inspired and to see all these kids you know, go from not being known, that nobody knew them, to people actually stopping them in the streets for pictures and all those things that shit is bro. I think that's the best feeling in the world to see something you can't buy that.

Speaker 3: 23:28

You can't, bro, listen to me, and that's what I tell people. I hate to see people, bro, work a job that they hate. You know, when you have something, bro, that God gave you something, a talent bro, you gotta make that sacrifice.

Speaker 2: 23:44

You know what I'm saying A lot of times people don't know their talent and if they do, they're scared to embrace it. I think it's fear, it's fear, yeah, it's fear because, that's the key word.

Speaker 1: 23:55

Yeah, I think it's fear, and I'm gonna tell you why it's fear. Intimate, that an intimate, I think.

Speaker 3: 23:59

Because when I used to work for Marriott right, I was a chef for Marriott I was getting paid $42 an hour Chefing it up, and what?

Speaker 2: 24:11

Just by the lipstick building, right yeah across the street 50, 30, and 30.

Speaker 3: 24:15

So, but I also had the luxury company that you know.

Speaker 2: 24:20

Yeah, that was your first. That's when you got into entrepreneurship, when you started JG Luxury.

Speaker 3: 24:24

Yeah, yeah, the JG Luxury Services. So I had that and I still had a job, you know. But then I realized this. I said you know what, bro, I don't wanna work for? Cooking for me is beautiful. I just don't wanna cook for no one. I wanna have my own restaurant.

Speaker 2: 24:42

That's when it was Chef Jada Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3: 24:45

Yeah, like then, I opened up my own restaurant, you know, down the line. But to me it's not even about that, it was just simple words like yo, bro, when you got vision and you got talent or something, you gotta make it sacrifice, mm-hmm, and you just gotta go Right and some people.

Speaker 3: 25:00

I remember people were telling me you crazy, that job got union, that job got this 401K. I was like yo, bro, we could create our own 401Ks. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying. It ain't gonna be easy, but we're gonna create our own 401Ks. You know what?

Speaker 2: 25:14

I'm saying, I'm saying gospel.

Speaker 1: 25:16

It ain't gonna be easy. You know what I'm saying? Because at the beginning. But even the job isn't easy, because you're literally just working out that thing. Yeah, but you know what?

Speaker 3: 25:22

it is, bro. Honestly, you know what To me? I think to me is something so simple. Even with school, that used to happen to me. I think you can't let an idiot control you Like an idiot tell you you know what I'm saying. Like sometimes you have a boss and you look at this nigga like excuse my language. Sometimes you can look at this dude and be like yo, like this is really my boss though. Yeah, that's a fact.

Speaker 1: 25:44

Like this dude. I've had a lot of those man.

Speaker 3: 25:46

You see what I'm saying. So that to me was that yo, bruh, you gotta go. You know what I'm saying and, like I said to everybody, you know it ain't gonna be easy, but I promise you that you know working for yourself and do what you gotta do.

Speaker 3: 26:01

Yeah, you know what I'm saying Like you just gotta strive, because the difference between an entrepreneur and a person that has a non-affirmative or a nine of five right Is that a person with a nine of five understands and know that every Friday they're gonna get a check. An entrepreneur, you know you're gonna get a check this Friday but you might not get a check for like two, three weeks. You gotta know how to manage. It's like a real estate agent.

Speaker 3: 26:31

Yeah, you know, you don't always you don't sell a house every day, right. Pero cuando tu vende una casa and then it's a little too late though. So you know, that's the way that I look at it. I feel like you know your time is everything you know, like if you have control of your time. I think to me that's what I learned, that and I never look back.

Speaker 3: 26:50

Control of your time, like are we in this podcast today and, respectfully, I don't even know what day is today. No, borrella, you know what I'm saying, and that's good, right, he's going so fast, everybody, you know he's going so fast. It's a Friday, you know what I'm saying? Like so.

Speaker 2: 27:09

But this is cool man, you know it's been doing a lot.

Speaker 1: 27:13

Go ahead. No, I was going to say can you talk about the projects that you have coming? Yeah, that's what I was going to get to you.

Speaker 3: 27:17

Yeah, half coming.

Speaker 2: 27:21

Yo, the B-roll in this is going to be amazing.

Speaker 1: 27:25

Like amazing cameras.

Speaker 3: 27:28

So then he got an album coming out. Now too, we're just trying to figure out what major label we're going to go with.

Speaker 3: 27:35

We're in negotiation terms right now. We also have. He produced five records on the Kdease Lebronio album that's coming out now. I'm working on a series myself. This is something that I can't tell your name, because that's where I'm sitting. That's where I'm at now Right, the production stage of it, the logistics. I've already got that done. I'm very confused about what name I'm going to use, but we're going to be in the streets shooting for real.

Speaker 2: 28:03

Wow, that's dope. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 28:05

So if you need some extras, let us know.

Speaker 3: 28:07

Yeah, for sure, always. But yeah, that's what we have. Man, I think our best job is to change lives. That, to me, is the biggest thing. I like to see someone, that people look at them and say, ah, this person. And then that person becomes that person, that person, you feel me. That, to me, is the best thing in life.

Speaker 1: 28:31

That's like the best reverberation success yeah bro Can you mention some songs that Chris LeBron, because people might not actually know?

Speaker 3: 28:39

Chris LeBron what Songs that he's already out.

Speaker 1: 28:41

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3: 28:43

He has this, the Miso Host, which is a song that went super viral. He has Siri with Romeo Santos, but yeah, you can just look him up. Chris LeBron on Spotify.

Speaker 2: 28:54

Apple Music. It's been a half, just on the link.

Speaker 3: 28:56

My actual artist has five records on that new album that's coming out. His name is Daddy, you can look him up too.

Speaker 2: 29:01

That's probably his production.

Speaker 1: 29:03

And what kind of artist is he Like? What kind of music? Which one, chris, or Daddy Daddy?

Speaker 3: 29:08

Daddy is. You know, he's very clean. He's urban but it's clean. You know, what I'm saying. We're trying to do stadiums. You know what I'm saying you guys got a good debt.

Speaker 2: 29:18

You're going to do it. You're going to get it, You're going to do stadiums. It says you got to call it right, you got to call it. You got to call it Do the stadiums you know, yeah, but it is I got your pass, you heard?

Speaker 1: 29:28

I got your pass, like that You're going to walk around with that pass like that.

Speaker 3: 29:32

You know what I mean that might be.

Speaker 1: 29:34

Yeah, I don't know. No, but like let the people know where they can find you. Yeah, man.

Speaker 3: 29:39

You can catch me at oh Shit is Jada on that Instagram. How do you spell it? They know how to spell oh Shit Underscore is Jada. You know what I mean. You can Google me too, jada Gill, I'll be all right.

Speaker 1: 29:51

Yeah, thanks.

Speaker 3: 29:53

Yo, I'm going to ask you guys a question, though, yeah go ahead.

Speaker 1: 29:56

It's your podcast, but you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3: 29:57

Yeah, yeah yeah, no, that's it right. How important you think is mental health?

Speaker 1: 30:05

Yeah, I think it's very important.

Speaker 2: 30:07

Yeah, you have to have a lot of mental health, because we go on and stress that when you're creating, you're trying to figure out what's the next step. When you don't know, and if you don't have a mentor or somebody who's done it and giving you like the rundown, then you fall into a lot of like road blocks that you don't even know how to overcome because you're not trained or you're not experienced. So mental health keeps you centered, you know. So how do you know you're in mental health? Right, you have to be checking yourself.

Speaker 1: 30:36

I was. I was going to say like, most of the creativity happens in your head, so if you're not, you don't have a clear head, you can't really create, as the reason why I asked that is because, when it comes to like the industry um, a lot of people suffer from mental health.

Speaker 3: 30:51

Why? Because there's a lot of anxiety going on.

Speaker 2: 30:55

There's a lot of excitement, a lot of things are happening.

Speaker 3: 30:58

And then there's a lot of people that have talent and they're like yo. Why haven't made it?

Speaker 1: 31:02

You know what it is.

Speaker 3: 31:03

I think it's also like and that's it Fucks with you mentally when you're a person that you know that you're not strong minded. So that's why there's a lot of substance in everything that people use to try to disconnect themselves from reality. Right, I'm saying, but that's when sometimes depression kicks in, right? You know what I'm saying, because it's like you want something but you can't get it, and I also feel like people have skilled enough to get it.

Speaker 3: 31:26

But when you level headed you understand that everything happened in God's timing and everything comes at the time and the moment.

Speaker 1: 31:35

Perfect, Mm hmm, Perfect timing. I was going to say that a lot of people like have skills but they don't know how to monetize that skill Right.

Speaker 3: 31:42

Like they don't know how to monetize like that thing that they're, they're so like it comes down to this bro, you can have all the talent in the world, but if you don't have no hustle in you, this is this is 70% hustle. Right, you just got to show up. I would think that y'all, because you know I can sing what you're doing with that.

Speaker 3: 32:00

Yeah, you know how many videos you posted. You know how many doors you knocking on to see people, to see how much talent you have. No, because my daughter I hate. I see my. You know I wouldn't introduce you to my daughter because she can sing so much. You know, unfortunately, you know, was the next question is how many followers she has.

Speaker 1: 32:23

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 32:24

I don't know, because the word that we live in is everything is broke and, at the end of the day, everything is in your hand. It's not like when we started that. When we started, we was outside putting up posters. Right, you know what I'm saying? Given people's girl. You know what I'm saying? Good, really marketing CDs. You know what I'm saying? Now, everything is there.

Speaker 1: 32:44

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 32:44

You put a, you know, do your little promo.

Speaker 1: 32:46

So you could tell how much somebody's pushing on their brand based on their social media 100% you know, what advice would you give somebody Like that, like that doesn't know how to monetize their?

Speaker 2: 32:55

skill or their mental health.

Speaker 3: 32:58

Well, mental health is easy To me. I feel like mental health is like the point where you got to find God. You got to try to work on your relationship with God. That's the possibly thing. It ain't about drugs or alcohol or anything. It's you trying to find you know you're in a piece, you know what I'm saying, you and understand that everything takes time because shit that comes fast leave, so you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3: 33:25

It's you got to enjoy the process. If you go from one to 10 and you don't know what, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine feels like if you go from one to 10 and you drop down to five, you're going to kill yourself because you look on me like nigga. What is this? It's like if your first car is a Benz, right, and five years in something happens to you. You got to drive a Hyundai, niggah, you're going to throw yourself off the roof.

Speaker 3: 33:52

You know what I'm saying, but if your first car was a Honda or Honda Civic, the money, and then your next car was a Lexus and then your next car is a Bima. And then you know you work your way up. You understand that one day you got to drive the Nissan. Same shit. You know they like so a lot of people. That's when mental health, I think, kicks in a lot.

Speaker 2: 34:18

I'm glad that you mentioned that because it's something that you know. It does affect all of us and we always have to check ourselves.

Speaker 3: 34:25

One, one one. And you got to try to surround yourself with people that you know want to keep motivating you and motivating each other. Right, you know? As far?

Speaker 1: 34:34

as like monetizing the skill. What would you tell someone?

Speaker 3: 34:37

Monetize what.

Speaker 1: 34:38

They're skilled like an artist or a comedian or whatever the case is, If they have that talent but they don't know how to monetize that talent.

Speaker 3: 34:45

Nowadays it's not only you know, like on what you're doing. I think it has a lot of do with your personality too.

Speaker 2: 34:53

Your character.

Speaker 3: 34:54

You can see someone that could come in the room right now and as soon as you walk in, I think it happens and said nothing. You know that thing is a start. Then because it's the way the person carries himself. There's a whole. It's what I tell people. It's hard to be an artist nowadays because artists nowadays they got to be an influencer on Instagram and on TikTok. If not, it ain't about all you know the man in the studio bro.

Speaker 1: 35:20

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 35:20

That shit's boring. People don't want to just see pictures of you. People want to interact with you.

Speaker 2: 35:25

Right.

Speaker 3: 35:26

You got to know how to play with the algorithm. Perfect so. But yes, sir, thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it, appreciate you guys. Thank you, sir.

Speaker 2: 35:40

It's a honor Pisa.

Speaker 3: 35:41

El Mano Lo Di Atra.

Speaker 1: 35:44

Another episode of the innovators, then.

Speaker 2: 35:46

This is what an episode.

Speaker 1: 35:48

Peace.

Speaker 2: 35:49

Peace.