Musician

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Instrumentalist, re-player.

And I felt like such a dope.

So we've been communicating via Facebook for years now.

I dream this dream A world where hate no longer reigns

I'm the musician.

is mine.

I just make you feel very glad, and next time I could make you feel sad.

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but yeah that was a super fun experience and a different vibe you know because we're all the same age so a lot of uh a lot of good times we went to a lot of cool places um but yeah yeah that was a that was a super fun time

and i think during the years you were with her is when you won the uh Momentum Award from IBMA for Instrumentalist.

I think that was 2014.

Yeah, 2014.

Harlem is not a backdrop or a marketing gimmick.

It is a community built by generations of Black artists, entrepreneurs, Musicians, writers, and residents celebrating that culture is one thing.

Putting up imagery that revives harmful stereotypes is another.

Why does the Harlem location feature this character when the Ann Arbor, Michigan location, as I understand it, does not display comparable signage? I recognize that a white artist creating Harlem-inspired work is not inherently disrespectful, and a photograph alone cannot reveal the artist or owner's intentions, but good intentions do not undo the damage of imagery.

And then a topic that I know most of us don't want to – Uh, don't want to have any more tips shared with us about because we, we don't want to have to think about it, but the whole booking and pitching thing, it is important.

It's, it's not the part that most musicians enjoy.

So, you know, I get it, but, uh, but we do have some tips about that too, and that that'll help us all level up our games.

So.

He has more to say, but I can't stress this enough.

If you don't have a crowd mic, that's okay.

The effects and the drum overheads are what is going to make it feel real to most musicians.

I know it seems strange.

Hm.

That, and that's, that's actually, like, probably how most people live their lives.

Musicians feel like they need to know what they're doing, but I think most people just kind of float around.

Um, I think I did everything right.

All the bad stuff, all the, all the failures, the millions of failures that I do all the time, I...