Music and Songwriting: The Beginning To Something Never Ending
It was now April 29, 2013, my 22nd birthday, when I picked up another industry. Did I like marketing? Yeah, but I didn’t want to work behind a desk. I couldn’t see myself doing the same thing every day, working like a slave, not being to take off when I wanted. That’s when I discovered what Experiential Marketing, bring a Brand Ambassador/Promotional Model and Promotional Specialist consisted of…and I liked it! I did my first event on my 22nd birthday and it got me thinking, maybe this could be some more money to fund my label, and I wouldn’t need an investor. Between event marketing and tv/film production, I was able to make my own schedule, take jobs when I wanted/needed, and still focus on my music. I had recently picked up an agent, had did a commercial with Deebo, went to some casting auditions, booked a modeling gig; basically I was back out networking again like old times. Things were cool, family was cool, friends were cool, everything just cool. End of May came and we locked in our engineer, Mr. Claborn himself, knocked out our songs in the studio. It was now June. I had taken a gig with National Geographic. Apollo’s Interlude’s ♫Any Which Way♫ album was now mixed and mastered, and we had the finished product in our hand. It was now July, I was real heavy into Event Marketing by now, I was liking the money, did production for a few small ventures, and at this point I was just waiting on Crown Jones to buy some clothes so we could do our promotional shoot. We wanted our release date to be September 17th or 24th, but everything was just becoming too close together. I needed our pictures in order to do the website, submit the album to distribution, etc. Again, had to talk to Crown like he was crazy and let him know that the album would not be pushed back passed October 15, 2013. I would be on the cover with or without him. First week of August we finally had the shoot, started working on the album booklet and website. Things were coming together. Did I lose excitement? Hell yeah, once you do all the work for something, it just becomes another project. At this point I was just ready to put the album out. If I wasn’t working for production on the Deion Sanders reality show, I was getting stuff together for the album, recording more Every Fifth Sunday songs (my inspiration comes in spurts lol), doing Event Marketing when I had open days in order to make more money, or trying my best to get rest. I don’t believe in face make-up, so I don’t want to get black circles aka raccoon eyes. But working is a must! Music shit is costly, especially if you’re doing it on your own! That’s why most people try to get signed to a label or have some drug dealer or rich parent backing them. That’s just life. I didn’t care though. I was ready to sacrifice the time, energy, patience, money and lack of sleep. I just needed to get Crown to understand the long journey ahead, and be willing do the same.