King Unique: From Underground to Superstar
Dr. Stance is joined by the amazing King Unique, who’s here to help us turn our hustle into a legacy! This episode dives deep into King Unique’s incredible journey as a multifaceted artist—think hip-hop, R&B, country, and everything in between. He shares some wild stories about his beginnings, including sharing the stage with legends like Michael Jackson and the Rolling Stones, proving that he’s not just a one-hit-wonder but a true creative powerhouse. We also get into some real talk about the challenges of the music industry, the importance of authenticity, and how to pivot in a world that’s constantly changing. If you’re ready to get inspired and learn how to navigate your own creative path, you won’t want to miss this lively conversation!
Transcript
Sam, What's up?
Speaker A:What's up, y'?
Speaker A:All?
Speaker A:Dr. Stan's here with Turning youg Hustle into a Legacy.
Speaker A:We have a very special guest, the infamous King Unique.
Speaker A:If you don't know, you gotta know.
Speaker A:Superstar in Canada, the uk.
Speaker A:He's a singer, rapper, country music, all music, hip hop, R B.
Speaker A:Listen, they don't make them like you.
Speaker A:What's up, brother?
Speaker B:Not too much.
Speaker B:Just working hard, you know, It's.
Speaker B:It's so many things that I do.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:I could just keep on going on and on and on and on.
Speaker A:I love it.
Speaker A:Very proud of you, by the way.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker A:And, you know, I love you for coming this.
Speaker A:First of all, he's the first guy that got me my first booking.
Speaker A:Paid booking, $500.
Speaker A:So y' all need to step.
Speaker A:Y' all game up.
Speaker A:Percy, I'm a key for spilling that juice in the back kitchen.
Speaker A:Keep this on record.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:He just spilled some juice on the floor.
Speaker A:Any who, but no, my guy.
Speaker A:Listen, they don't make them like him.
Speaker A:He supported me in this, you know, industry, sending me people paid bookings.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Good money.
Speaker A:So, yes, you know, you.
Speaker A:You locked in.
Speaker A:But tell them who King Unique is, man.
Speaker B:There's a lot of things about me.
Speaker B:I'll start off.
Speaker B:I started when I was seven years old.
Speaker B:I was on stage with Michael Jackson once.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:It don't matter.
Speaker A:You made it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And he actually told me, you look like a star.
Speaker B:And I don't.
Speaker B:I will never forget that.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker B:After that, I end up being on stage with Rolling Stones.
Speaker B:And I was first black kid throwing out memorabilia.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker B:And I had before the real grill.
Speaker B:I had fake grills.
Speaker B:And, like, I would make them out of foil.
Speaker B:I wanted to grill so bad.
Speaker B:I was poor, so I was like, man, I'm gonna do this.
Speaker B:And I put it in my mouth.
Speaker B:And people were like, what is that?
Speaker B:I was like, I got a grill because I shaped it and everything and made it go in the teeth.
Speaker B:I did it, too.
Speaker B:I did it, too.
Speaker A:Don't worry.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And people really thought it was a real grill.
Speaker A:Oh, for real?
Speaker A:At 7, 8 years old?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker A:You was on with Michael Jackson, Rolling Stone.
Speaker A:What else, man?
Speaker A:Tell the people.
Speaker B:By the time I was 18, I got signed to Sony Orchard.
Speaker B:When Orchard had just started.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker B:It gave me, like, 350,000.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker B:Because I sold 175,000 units.
Speaker B:And that wasn't the only time, because after that, I thought to myself, I said, if I could do that, I might as well go.
Speaker B:When CDs were really relevant.
Speaker A:Really.
Speaker B:I got a van and I got a crew, and we just was selling every week.
Speaker B:I got it so crazy that everywhere around the world, people were sending me CDs and giving me a profit for selling their CDs.
Speaker A:Talk about massive money coming in.
Speaker A:Hustler, Hustler, Hustler.
Speaker A:Are you single?
Speaker B:No, but, you know, I know that.
Speaker A:Was, like, off last, huh?
Speaker B:Yeah, but I. I mean, life takes you down different roads.
Speaker B:So, you know, the girl that I've been seeing, she's.
Speaker B:She's pretty amazing person, and she's always had my back, so other than that, you know, Massage therapist.
Speaker B:Hey, help me out.
Speaker A:You got kids?
Speaker B:I got two.
Speaker B:I got one that's 16 and one's 15.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:My son has lupus, just like me.
Speaker B:His is in worst condition.
Speaker B:My daughter, she plays the violin and does all that.
Speaker B:She got lucky.
Speaker B:She don't have nothing.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:Yeah, Lupus.
Speaker A:Was he born?
Speaker A:He was born.
Speaker B:He was born with it.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Were you born with it?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:So genetic.
Speaker A:Where did it come from?
Speaker A:Your mom or dad?
Speaker A:I have it.
Speaker B:Or I would say my mom's side, really.
Speaker B:It's a tough one, though, because when the sun is too hot, it gets me underneath my eyes and it gets red and burns.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker B:But the thing is, is it makes me stronger because I work harder.
Speaker B:A lot of people don't understand when you have some kind of disease like that.
Speaker B:And she has ra, so we work together really well.
Speaker A:What's ra?
Speaker B:Ra is rheumato.
Speaker B:Arthritis.
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So she's always in pain.
Speaker A:I already know I had it before and not until I got to replace it.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker B:It's tough.
Speaker A:It's very tough.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Very tough.
Speaker B:Very tough.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:So has that affected you, being an artist?
Speaker A:Like, cuz I know you.
Speaker A:Every time I talk to you all over the world, Canada here, you hear.
Speaker A:Cuz, like I told y, he's big time.
Speaker A:He got over, what, 3 million some F. Real followers.
Speaker A:Like, you know, like, they're real, you guys.
Speaker A:Yeah, they're real followers.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:No, I. I can't even say, like, what percent not.
Speaker B:I know there's something in there.
Speaker B:I know it.
Speaker B:It has to be like, you know, I mean, but Instagram and all these different places, they want you to pay for advertising, so you don't know what it is.
Speaker B:I don't want to talk too much on that because we post and all that.
Speaker B:I worked hard for what I have, and I started really small.
Speaker B:I actually started from Twitter when it was Twitter.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I never got on Twitter for some reason.
Speaker A:I don't know why.
Speaker B:I used it for like publications.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:And I really started from what is called Reverb Nation.
Speaker A:I never heard of that.
Speaker A:What is that?
Speaker B:It's another network for music.
Speaker B:You could actually put your podcast and stuff on there too.
Speaker A:Reverb Nation.
Speaker A:Yeah, we talk about that later.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, you know, I started my own network, but I love to get my platform, all Networks, more exposure.
Speaker B:SoundCloud better.
Speaker A:All that.
Speaker A:All that, all that.
Speaker A:That's what's up.
Speaker B:I became really big on SoundCloud.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:I'm probably the most rarest artist on there.
Speaker B:That has a blue check on there.
Speaker B:They don't do blue check, but they put a blue check on mine.
Speaker B:So when you guys research.
Speaker B:U n e E K int yo see, it's right there.
Speaker B:I don't really follow nobody, but it's like 20,000 people in there.
Speaker B:And that's where I started.
Speaker B:Started.
Speaker B:And so my music went from there and I went to London.
Speaker B:I did a lot of shows in London, uk, all that area.
Speaker A:They love you.
Speaker A:I seen, I did my research.
Speaker A:They love you.
Speaker B:It's insane.
Speaker A:Yeah, they love you.
Speaker A:What's your ethnic background?
Speaker B:I got some things mixed in me.
Speaker A:I see that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So I'm black, I'm Puerto Rican, Middle Eastern.
Speaker B:Found out I'm German and there's, there's.
Speaker B:Oh, white, I guess.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Caucasian.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker B:I got pointy ass nose.
Speaker A:40 Note.
Speaker A:Me too.
Speaker A:I'm Creole.
Speaker B:There it is.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:That's what's up.
Speaker A:What's your hardest time like being in the industry?
Speaker A:Because I know like when I talk to a lot of guys that are in the industry because you're considered everything.
Speaker A:Country, rap.
Speaker A:And he's singing is.
Speaker A:You just have a beautiful voice.
Speaker A:What is the hardest things that you had to overcome being in the industry?
Speaker B:People telling you what they can do for you and they can't do nothing.
Speaker B:Another thing is people telling you they got you for all this stuff going on.
Speaker B:But really at the end of the day, you need to get up off your ass and do it yourself.
Speaker A:Have to.
Speaker B:And then everybody else will do it with you.
Speaker B:But the way the industry's designed, it's not designed for you, it's designed for everyone.
Speaker B:So you have to make it where you win first for them to want to focus on you.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:And I think that's what I deal with a lot too.
Speaker A:Because even me, you know me, I'm a celebrity podcaster.
Speaker A:So when I'M seeking certain celebrities that are on certain levels.
Speaker A:Some think they're bigger than the program.
Speaker A:And I have to remind them, you know, like, I don't even like to.
Speaker A:I'll just remove myself and.
Speaker A:But I also know that I wouldn't be here if I didn't have you guys.
Speaker A:So I respect that.
Speaker A:On what you're saying when it comes to that, what are, like, some of the challenges you think with, like, I'll say on the back end.
Speaker A:Cause I'm sure you got publicists, you got managers, you got all that.
Speaker A:I'll just ask these court agents.
Speaker A:Ask that.
Speaker A:Because, you know, I've been having people trying to scout me out now, right?
Speaker A:And I'm like, well, you.
Speaker B:You talk good, you know.
Speaker A:Well, thank you.
Speaker B:You have good conversations.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:And I've been having people wanting me to be their manager.
Speaker A:I'm not built for that.
Speaker A:I got enough jobs and respectfully.
Speaker A:But I've been with people.
Speaker A:It's a lot of work.
Speaker A:How do you deal with that?
Speaker A:Because it's just.
Speaker A:To me, it's just being.
Speaker A:You're programmed.
Speaker A:How do you deal with that daily?
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So I am.
Speaker B:I manage other artists, too, but I'm very picky on the artists.
Speaker B:They have to have talent.
Speaker B:They have to have a look.
Speaker B:They have to have their.
Speaker B:Their direction, which is most important.
Speaker B:And be humble.
Speaker B:Because I can't work with a person that's cocky.
Speaker B:I just can't.
Speaker A:Me neither.
Speaker B:I have tried, and it just.
Speaker B:It's a.
Speaker B:It's a train wreck because they're too much into themselves.
Speaker B:And everybody can see.
Speaker B:Everyone can see that.
Speaker B:They can look at you and tell that you're not a real person.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker B:So for everybody listening, because I know it's going to be a lot.
Speaker B:You got to stop being fake.
Speaker B:Or if you're a real person, show who you are.
Speaker B:Don't dress up just because somebody else wants you to dress up.
Speaker B:Dress up because you want to dress up.
Speaker B:Wear whatever you want.
Speaker B:Just be you.
Speaker B:And the more you're you, the more people are going to fall for you.
Speaker A:I like that advice.
Speaker A:I actually take that for my own self.
Speaker A:Like, with.
Speaker A:I'm sure.
Speaker A:I think we talk.
Speaker A:He was like, well, what kind of questions?
Speaker B:Remember?
Speaker A:And I was like, honestly, I'll just be off the head.
Speaker A:We're having a real conversation in front of real people.
Speaker A:Like, I don't.
Speaker A:I don't have time to be scripted or do research and do all this stuff because then I'll get nervous, and then I'm gonna feel like, it's a fabricated podcast.
Speaker B:You don't ever want that real talk,.
Speaker A:Real conversations, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So I just.
Speaker B:I don't like scripts.
Speaker B:I don't like scripts.
Speaker A:It makes me nervous.
Speaker A:I tried my first episode, almost panicked, like a whole attack, and I threw him.
Speaker A:I said, you know what, bro?
Speaker A:Let's just do this.
Speaker A:100 Shout out to Carter Black, I think, and Adante, a celebrity attorney.
Speaker A:They were my first see.
Speaker A:And just.
Speaker A:I think having real conversations is just better.
Speaker A:I think I just seen you on some platform where you had.
Speaker A:I know I'm always seeing your butt.
Speaker B:It's a lot.
Speaker A:You had some.
Speaker A:You were on some red carpet or something with some guys.
Speaker A:What was that?
Speaker A:Recently?
Speaker A:You just did that red carpet.
Speaker A:It was at a big event and you did a podcast.
Speaker A:I seen you on your podcast.
Speaker A:You cheated on me with the podcast industry.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:That was that.
Speaker A:Oh, no, I did not.
Speaker B:I heart radio.
Speaker A:I heart radio.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:I need a moment.
Speaker A:Is that what that was?
Speaker A:Because I was like, look at my guy.
Speaker A:You literally popped up on my feet.
Speaker A:I'm like, oh, crap.
Speaker B:And it's already.
Speaker B:It's already at 15, 000 views.
Speaker A:You just posted it.
Speaker A:Yeah, I just seen you on that podcast.
Speaker A:How was it?
Speaker B:Actually, it was interesting because it talked about the right brain, which is what we are all the time.
Speaker B:Most of the time.
Speaker B:We use our creative mind.
Speaker B:And I love to talk about that part because I use it a lot.
Speaker B:I use about 90%.
Speaker B:Sometimes they'd be thinking we're slow, but we're not slow.
Speaker B:We're just very intelligent people.
Speaker B:We use the right brain because the right brain is the one that helps you process things.
Speaker B:This one tells the truth all the time.
Speaker B:This one, you.
Speaker B:You fabricate a lot of things.
Speaker B:And the only reason why is because you're excited for who you are.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And it also helps you understand who you are.
Speaker B:In the long run.
Speaker B:It's good for everyone that is a writer, singer, dancer, artist, painter, everything.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:People that use tools.
Speaker B:That's right brain.
Speaker B:So I like to really do podcasts, explaining these things because for me, podcast, it.
Speaker B:It opens up who the artist is or who the people are.
Speaker B:So I just decided this year to do podcasts.
Speaker B:And I'm going to tell you right now, it feels good because this is the real me.
Speaker A:Oh, I like that.
Speaker A:I like that.
Speaker A:Cuz you feel like on stage.
Speaker A:Do you feel like you.
Speaker A:Somebody different?
Speaker B:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker B:That's unique.
Speaker B:This is Joseph.
Speaker B:And the character comes alive because I put Myself in a different mode.
Speaker B:I see the crowd, but I don't see the crowd.
Speaker B:I'm focused on being like an actor on the stage.
Speaker B:When I sing in the studio, I'm not focused on me.
Speaker B:I'm focused on the song.
Speaker B:I become the song.
Speaker A:Who have you collabed with?
Speaker A:Because you.
Speaker A:You collab with some big time shout out to Soulja Boy.
Speaker A:You didn't.
Speaker A:Who's your.
Speaker A:Who's your favorite?
Speaker A:And name a couple that you've done.
Speaker B:And Mike, CEO.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Hey, my guy.
Speaker A:A few people that you've work with in the industry that are big now.
Speaker B:Oh, man.
Speaker A:So they know, like, you ain't no small time here.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:I got.
Speaker B:I gotta say, man.
Speaker B:Okay, so we're gonna start with my immediate team, which is my art, Fabio, Lil Chimy.
Speaker B:That's current.
Speaker B:These are all my current team.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm working with Little tj, Little John.
Speaker B:I did something back then with him.
Speaker B:Yeah, Snoop, I got like seven songs with him.
Speaker B:Lil Wayne, I got some with him.
Speaker A:Soulja Boy, like Soldier Boy.
Speaker B:That's my team.
Speaker A:I love Soldier Boy.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I got a chain with him and all that.
Speaker B:They found me years ago.
Speaker B:I've been with them for like seven years.
Speaker B:But that's all because of the little Chimy.
Speaker B:GMG Records.
Speaker B:I. I've been rocking with him for, like, since he was 16.
Speaker B:So that's why I speak on that.
Speaker B:You know, these are people I work with and then the label I currently with is Music to DNA.
Speaker B:And they.
Speaker B:They've been having my back big time, putting me everywhere.
Speaker A:Internationally, actually.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, internationally.
Speaker A:Like I said, you real big in uk.
Speaker A:They see.
Speaker A:They love you.
Speaker A:Yeah, you know, I think it's that country, the country they love too.
Speaker A:And I think that's very.
Speaker A:It's just different.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:You don't see too many people in the industry that wear those many hats.
Speaker A:No, like, you are extremely.
Speaker A:You're like, to me, you're the real definition of a creator.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Don't forget about King Maker.
Speaker B:My bad.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Duck.
Speaker A:I can't stand.
Speaker B:Yeah, they'll be like, oh, you forgot about me.
Speaker A:It's gonna be a whole bunch of people that literally, you forgot.
Speaker A:Because, I mean, you up there.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:But I really think that just you being in the industry and wearing so many different hats, it tells a different story.
Speaker A:Like, do you feel like you living in your purpose right now?
Speaker A:I always ask my guests that.
Speaker B:This is gonna be a hard one because a lot of people, their whole goal is to get on the stage.
Speaker A:And to get famous.
Speaker B:Mine's not.
Speaker B:Mine is to be legendary in different ways.
Speaker B:So I don't want to just be a musician.
Speaker B:I don't want to just be an actor.
Speaker B:I don't want to just be a songwriter, producer.
Speaker B:I want to be a person that becomes legendary.
Speaker B:I don't want to be like.
Speaker B:I want to be like Michael Jackson.
Speaker A:I like it.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:I'm not on the scale of just being on the stage in front of people.
Speaker B:I've already mastered that.
Speaker B:If you put me on the stage and your crowd doesn't know me, they're now my crowd.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:It always happens.
Speaker B:It's going to continue.
Speaker B:I get hated on because when I go into a show, they think that I don't have a crowd and then they find out later that I actually have their whole crowd.
Speaker B:Because I'm not the type of dude that like brags about it.
Speaker B:I just go on the stage and I do what I do.
Speaker A:You were just.
Speaker B:And then what.
Speaker B:What happens after that?
Speaker B:It just.
Speaker A:Organic.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's organic.
Speaker A:I like how you said legendary, cuz that's what my show is about.
Speaker A:I feel like you turned your hustle.
Speaker A:When did you start singing and stuff?
Speaker A:You said six, seven.
Speaker B:Seven.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:You know, so you've been doing it for so long now.
Speaker A:You're creating that legacy, but you're on the right platform for that.
Speaker A:So I like that and I so appreciate you coming.
Speaker A:So, question.
Speaker A:Do you have kids with your current girlfriend?
Speaker B:Nope.
Speaker A:Do you want them?
Speaker B:She can't have any kids.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker A:Is it because of the arthritis thing?
Speaker B:I think so, but it's more like I. I don't even think she can have them, period.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker A:It ain't your soldiers.
Speaker B:No, no, no.
Speaker A:Your soldiers work.
Speaker B:No, I. I got a vasectomy anyway, so.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker A:How old are you again?
Speaker B:I'm 44.
Speaker A:You got a vasectomy?
Speaker A:How?
Speaker A:How?
Speaker B:I got it when I was 32.
Speaker A:You lying?
Speaker B:No, I just shut it down.
Speaker A:I'm gonna fall out to see.
Speaker B:Shut it down.
Speaker B:Completely shut it down.
Speaker A:I was like, yeah, you want to know something?
Speaker A:I actually get my tubes tied May 28th.
Speaker B:Smart girl.
Speaker B:Get that done.
Speaker B:Because honestly, I'm good.
Speaker A:I don't want.
Speaker A:I'm not the world.
Speaker A:50, Having no kids.
Speaker B:Plus look at the world.
Speaker B:Look at what we're living in right now.
Speaker B:It doesn't make sense.
Speaker A:What's the one thing that's breaking your heart right now?
Speaker B:How many people actually don't understand how to get money because They've been living in poverty so long, they don't get how to get money when it's in their face.
Speaker B:There's apps that you can literally download and make money off of it and walk around and do surveys, but people don't know how to do that, which is why I'm here, so I can explain these things to people.
Speaker B:The apps, the way you.
Speaker B:You register your music, you.
Speaker B:You could get money from more than just distribution.
Speaker B:You know, you could be a writer, publisher.
Speaker B:All that is money that you don't even know exists.
Speaker B:And that's not even 10 of the industry.
Speaker B:The industry is built up of 90 of people that don't understand.
Speaker A:Mm.
Speaker B:10% Understand it, 5% really understand it, and 3% are living it.
Speaker B:That's it.
Speaker B:And I'm trying to turn those numbers around because I'm not greedy.
Speaker B:I already have my money.
Speaker B:I'm happy.
Speaker B:But I want to bring success to people that don't understand how to make success.
Speaker A:That's funny you said that, like, surveys and stuff.
Speaker A:I think one of my shout out to Big Mike Rye, he was just saying, like, there's.
Speaker A:You could do voiceovers.
Speaker A:Like a lot of the people that are in these movies and stuff, they.
Speaker B:Pay like five, six thousand.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:They make a lot of money.
Speaker A:And you just.
Speaker B:30 Seconds.
Speaker A:Yeah, thank you.
Speaker A:And you're just sitting at home doing both.
Speaker A:So shout out partsy.
Speaker A:Did you know that, like, you do the voiceovers and.
Speaker A:Yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker A:And they're looking at that.
Speaker B:And they're looking.
Speaker A:They're looking for people.
Speaker B:Actors.
Speaker B:Actors.
Speaker B:Right now they're saying that actors in LA are not getting money.
Speaker B:I understand that.
Speaker B:But there's still a lot of different AI companies that need voices.
Speaker B:Trust me, I already posted one and I believe in it.
Speaker B:I believe in that.
Speaker B:That marketing.
Speaker B:I'm going to probably be a permanent spokesman for them.
Speaker A:Send it to me so I can promote that.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's.
Speaker B:And you get 25% off if you go to the link.
Speaker B:I'll send it to you.
Speaker B:And marbleism is the wave of the future, period.
Speaker A:Oh, I seen it.
Speaker A:Where they hire all the VA's and all the.
Speaker B:Oh, no, better than that.
Speaker A:They do the whole thing.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:Marblism, it comes with six different people.
Speaker B:Yeah, I've seen that manage everything for you.
Speaker A:And they like virtual assistants, right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And you don't have to do nothing.
Speaker B:Nothing.
Speaker B:You just set it up for a year.
Speaker B:Oh, you don't touch nothing.
Speaker A:So that really is a good platform.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker A:Because I'VE seen that.
Speaker A:I have one where I built.
Speaker B:I love it.
Speaker A:I seen that.
Speaker A:I built one with Regent.
Speaker A:It's another one.
Speaker B:Regent's good too.
Speaker A:You know Regent.
Speaker A:I built my course off of that.
Speaker B:Oh wow.
Speaker A:Yeah, you got.
Speaker B:Well this is, this is, this, this runs circles around it.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker A:So marbleism is good?
Speaker B:Not just good.
Speaker B:It is the best email system I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker A:Really.
Speaker B:I can, I can tell Ava.
Speaker B:Cuz that's the main person.
Speaker A:Ava has seen that.
Speaker B:I always mention her.
Speaker B:Ava.
Speaker B:I, I, I tell her that I need you to schedule this at this time.
Speaker B:Boom.
Speaker B:It's done.
Speaker B:Instantly.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:And I don't see it.
Speaker B:Shows it.
Speaker B:That's it.
Speaker A:So they check all your.
Speaker A:Do they, you have a calendar with them and they said everything.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I can even say, hey Ava, how many things do I have scheduled this month?
Speaker B:And it is in the whole list.
Speaker A:Oh, I need to see by the date.
Speaker A:That's actually better than real people.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And cheap.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker B:And on top of that, if you want marketing, it'll market for you too.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker A:So in regards to.
Speaker A:Because you know, I just started my own network.
Speaker A:So marketing.
Speaker A:What, what are the details?
Speaker A:Tell the people like for those are new coming in the industry and want to get their information out and stuff like that.
Speaker B:So good conversation.
Speaker B:So it uses the database from LinkedIn.
Speaker B:It uses the full 5 million people database.
Speaker A:Oh wow.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:That you can't access.
Speaker B:Only it can access because they have a deal together.
Speaker A:So that's where they come from.
Speaker B:Link.
Speaker B:That's, that's, yeah, that's just one thing.
Speaker B:And I'm still learning it.
Speaker B:But I use it for my Facebook and I haven't used it for Instagram but I use it for my emailing.
Speaker B:That's all I need it for.
Speaker B:That's enough.
Speaker A:Yeah, same.
Speaker A:My emails, I, I kind of slowed down.
Speaker A:I got like 15 emails and I use them all for all my business.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I'm actually really going to.
Speaker B:And you could put all those in and they don't organize.
Speaker A:And they'll organize.
Speaker A:Yeah, I need to look into that.
Speaker B:And it's not even expensive.
Speaker B:Yeah, see.
Speaker A:Yeah, she's mad at me because she's like you got me doing a new task on a new business and a new business.
Speaker A:Like what about the business that I'm working for?
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:You could literally just say this at this time.
Speaker B:Put this in that date and then you can even say Ava, remind me.
Speaker B:That's it.
Speaker A:I like that.
Speaker A:I like that.
Speaker A:Well, okay, you know what?
Speaker A:I'M definitely looking at.
Speaker A:Well, change the subject.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:What was your childhood like?
Speaker A:Like growing up.
Speaker A:Because now that you know, are you close to your mother and f. What was your childhood like?
Speaker A:Tell the people something that they may not know about you.
Speaker B:I do not know my dad, but I have two dads that I respect.
Speaker B:I have a white dad and a black dad.
Speaker B:My black dad is from Chicago, Southside.
Speaker B:And then my other dad is from Texas.
Speaker B:And they.
Speaker B:They both been in my life.
Speaker B:And one's helped me big time with my career, and the other one has helped me with the legal stuff because he does lawyer stuff.
Speaker B:I'm not a lawyer, so I say lawyer stuff.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:But he grew up in a bad neighborhood and he got out of that and became who he is.
Speaker B:He's older now, of course, but love both of them very much.
Speaker B:My mom, I talked to her every week here and there, and we had some property together.
Speaker B:I help her with her property and.
Speaker B:Yeah, we.
Speaker B:We hang out.
Speaker B:We're cool.
Speaker A:You had a good job here.
Speaker A:You close to your baby's mothers and your kids and stuff too?
Speaker B:I'm close enough, but I don't have no issues.
Speaker B:Like, that's a good thing.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:There's no co. Parent.
Speaker B:Yeah, there's no issues because I always been a good dad and I have no issues at all.
Speaker B:But as far as being with it.
Speaker B:Nah.
Speaker B:Because pass is the past.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:Leave it alone.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:I need to tell my own self that that past is definitely the past.
Speaker A:But what is something again, like they don't know about you?
Speaker A:Like the people that they would want to know.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:So music to me is inspired because there's so much in my brain.
Speaker B:And you guys are going to trip when I say this.
Speaker B:I don't write.
Speaker B:Nothing literally comes out of my brain.
Speaker A:And you remember everything?
Speaker B:Everything.
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker B:I can write 10 songs in one hour and put the songs down within five hours.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker B:All 10.
Speaker B:And they'd be flawless.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I remember you said you got a studio.
Speaker A:Big old studio.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:Really nice studio.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker B:Blessed, thankful, all that good stuff.
Speaker B:But universe been good to me too.
Speaker B:For real.
Speaker B:Nam.
Speaker B:Your whole Reggae Joe.
Speaker A:Here we go.
Speaker A:Here we go.
Speaker A:You believe in God?
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Are you spiritual?
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:That's what's up.
Speaker A:Me too.
Speaker A:I need.
Speaker A:I just was telling myself I'm going to church this Sunday.
Speaker A:It's the first Sunday and I need to give back.
Speaker A:I'm very blessed.
Speaker A:I haven't been.
Speaker A:I can't make the excuse of just Been too busy because you could take everything, and then I ain't got nothing to do.
Speaker A:So I was like, you know what?
Speaker A:Let me get my butt.
Speaker A:Let me give thanks.
Speaker A:Go you pay your tithe.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, I'd been.
Speaker B:Did all that.
Speaker A:Well, you can never do.
Speaker A:You can never stop doing it.
Speaker A:Well, for me.
Speaker A:Okay, let's talk about that.
Speaker A:When I go to church, I don't really put in the pulpit.
Speaker A:I don't put money in the offering.
Speaker A:What I do is I.
Speaker B:You get back a different way.
Speaker A:I do.
Speaker A:And what I do, I. I go.
Speaker A:When I'm in church, I'll literally sit there and I'm scouting.
Speaker A:In the first place that my eyes land on, I'll go and give them $100.
Speaker A:The second one, I'll go give 100, and then the third, I'll go give 100.
Speaker A:So I'll get out $300 and I'll go give it to the people in the.
Speaker A:In the pew.
Speaker A:Because I feel like the church, and this is all due respect, me owning a nonprofit.
Speaker A:I understand the lights do need to be paid.
Speaker B:Like, there's bills, there's ways of doing it.
Speaker A:It's ways of doing it.
Speaker A:And so for me, I give to the people in the church because there's so many given to the church.
Speaker A:Yeah, let's give to the people that come to the church.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker A:You saw.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So that's how I give and pay my ties, you know, so.
Speaker A:But I mean, at the end of the day, you know, I do foster care for my foster youth.
Speaker A:Like I tell all my guests.
Speaker A:And, you know, I'm big on giving back, and I work with the toughest population, 18 to 21, from the murderers, the, you know, everything, you name it.
Speaker A:I didn't.
Speaker A:I didn't have a mod, a prostitution and all.
Speaker A:Just everything I've done.
Speaker B:Hey, I went to jail for two years for no reason.
Speaker A:See, there, I've worked.
Speaker B:Somebody literally put.
Speaker B:Put a car in my garage when I was sick and called the cops on me.
Speaker A:Yeah, really.
Speaker B:And I went to jail because I didn't know what I was doing.
Speaker A:So they stole a car, put it in.
Speaker B:Yo.
Speaker A:And then you didn't know it was stolen and you didn't even know the car was there.
Speaker A:They come knocking into.
Speaker B:I opened the garage and all.
Speaker B:Everybody's seeing.
Speaker B:Because I usually just open my garage and they seen it chopped and.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Guns down.
Speaker A:No way.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Did you fight that in court?
Speaker B:I was young.
Speaker B:I tried, but they're like, you're gonna get, like, 10 years if you.
Speaker B:Yeah, really?
Speaker A:If you plead.
Speaker B:Not because they put me on TV and all kind of stuff.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker B:It was crazy.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Well, see, I. I deal with that population that actually stole the car.
Speaker A:So at the end of the day, I could totally relate.
Speaker A:But I always, like, try to, you know, just, like, tell everybody that this is what I'm doing.
Speaker A:What is something that you would tell my youth that isn't inspirational like that?
Speaker A:Want to get in the industry?
Speaker B:First thing is you're going to have to cut your circle pretty small and then work on getting a new circle.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker B:Because everyone around you ain't really your friends.
Speaker B:And if they're in the industry, they're not your friends at all.
Speaker B:Because people switch on a nickel.
Speaker A:They do.
Speaker B:Period.
Speaker B:Turn it over.
Speaker B:I'm cool with you.
Speaker B:Hey, turn it back over.
Speaker B:Oh, you did a little bit better than me.
Speaker B:Keep turning it over.
Speaker B:It's going to get worse.
Speaker B:Oh, now you really doing better than me.
Speaker B:I really hate you.
Speaker B:You want to get to the people, basically, that stay the same.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I've been the same for 20 years.
Speaker B:I don't change.
Speaker B:And people love that about me because I don't change.
Speaker A:Yeah, you definitely solid.
Speaker A:When I met you, you one of the first people that brought me money, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:And put money in my pocket.
Speaker A:So I totally respect what's coming new for you.
Speaker A:Like, tell the people what we got coming.
Speaker A:Cause you guys, you can go and, like, remember five songs and write down 10 in five minutes.
Speaker A:So what we got to expect from Neek, man.
Speaker B:So my focus now is to be on TV and acting and producing.
Speaker B:I love producing music.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:I'm pretty much top notch.
Speaker B:I work with $0.50 people, man.
Speaker B:I can mention a lot of people.
Speaker B:It's just so many that, like, let's just say I work with the top people.
Speaker B:People in LA love me, period.
Speaker B:Period.
Speaker B:So that's hard to get.
Speaker B:L. A is hard to get.
Speaker B:It is very hard.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker B:I got is.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I go on Rodeo Drive and people know me.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:But at the end of the day, I'm trying to get into the acting because I'm getting older.
Speaker B:I need to be seen more.
Speaker B:And since the Internet is growing so rapidly, you got to be in everywhere everything.
Speaker A:Hands and everything.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Music isn't enough anymore.
Speaker A:It's not.
Speaker B:It used to be.
Speaker A:That's because it's oversaturated.
Speaker A:Everybody trying to do it well.
Speaker B:Everybody's putting out the same type of music.
Speaker B:That too and then everybody wants to put out music.
Speaker B:That's a minute, two minutes.
Speaker B:I had to keep with that trend because our attention spans is only like 15 seconds to 20 seconds.
Speaker B:If you don't switch up something every 15, 20 seconds, they're like.
Speaker A:They're bored.
Speaker B:Okay?
Speaker B:Yeah, you have to.
Speaker B:That's why you got to be comedian.
Speaker B:You got to have fun with things you do, or else people are not going to watch you.
Speaker A:They not.
Speaker A:They're not.
Speaker A:Where do you see yourself in five years from now?
Speaker B:Five years from now?
Speaker B:Probably teaching people how to better themselves.
Speaker B:That's my goal.
Speaker B:And that's with music or teaching them how to be better people.
Speaker B:You know, I see myself as an inspirational person more than just music.
Speaker B:I want to show people, like, you can be what you want to be.
Speaker B:Not somebody just telling you, oh, you can be what you want to be.
Speaker B:No, I want to show you how you can be what you want to be.
Speaker B:So I'm going to have a book and all that.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Shout out to me now.
Speaker A:I got to get you my copy.
Speaker A:Make sure I get you a copy.
Speaker A:Well, listen, anything you want to tell the people before we go?
Speaker B:Just Google me.
Speaker B:You N e k I n T. Honestly, everything's there.
Speaker B:Anything I have to talk about, I can make it one word, unique int that simple.
Speaker A:Period.
Speaker B:That's it.
Speaker A:I love it.
Speaker A:Well, thank you for coming to see me, bro.
Speaker A:Knuckles up and me and him got so much to do.
Speaker A:Like he didn't already hook me up with people coming on my network and different podcasters, celebrities from black and beauty.
Speaker A:Let's go.
Speaker A:Shout out to your girl that just came through.
Speaker A:I love her.
Speaker A:So listen, we out.
Speaker A:We thank y' all for turning with Dr. Stan's turning your hustle into a legacy.
