Kendrick Lamar makes Black History Month blacker. Everyone has an opinion on R&B parties and the music played at them. Canva seems to be the best kept secret. That's enough to talk about this go 'round.

Hope everyone is good and moving correctly.

On this episode, I spoke on K. Dot's BLACK performance and the things surrounding Super Bowl 59. I also shared my logistic thoughts on R&B parties, being that I've seen more than a few people speak on the repetitiveness of the songs played. Lastly, I gave 5 tools that I won't walk this Earth with when it comes to creating content for my and The MPN Network brands.

Enjoy the audio and/or the video. I'll be back soon to speak on a few other topics that I left off.

#TOTHETOP

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We are BYKE...for the first couple of thoughts of 2025. I'm working on doing video for every podcast, including Clear Visions. I had a homie insist that I do a show that speaks on my thoughts that will live on YouTube. I've been putting it off FOREVER, so this are the efforts.

In this episode, I speak about the "IT" factor that people believe that Joey Bada$$ is missing and why Hip Hop is judgmental towards emcees and the culture.

I also speak on a few books that I'm reading: High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul by Marcus J. Moore, The Spook Who Sat By The Door by Sam Greenlee, and Culturemaking: When Creative Entrepreneurship and Community Building Collide by Houston White.

Then I wrapped up the show speaking on the DEI situation as it relates to buying direct and speaking about my favorite, and least favorite social media platforms.

More video formats cometh. From Clear Visions and with the other shows on The Neighborhood Podcast Network. Lock in and subscribe to the new (and old) social media platforms below.

#TOTHETOP

Video version: https://youtu.be/7o-SRjFpyQI

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1. work (noun): activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.
Ex. "he was tired after a day's work"

Based off the definition, a lot of people, organizations, institutions are not doing the work to reach the results. Maybe the results are in the beholder of who is doing the work.

Listen...I don't know. I do know that people work ethics are simply trash. Someone might believe that my work ethic isn't the best. They better not say it publicly because I'll become aggressive about that.

I WORK. PROUDLY and for purpose.

Anywho...I had my brothers Krate Digga and Shawn 'S-Squared' Smith join me for a conversation about what work and the ethics mean to them. I also want to figure out if I need to join the crew of people that don't do a thing or keep going with how I do things.

Spoiler alert: I'm going to do it my way still...and stay proud. Enjoy the episode and follow my brothers with their respected work.

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Simply put: market yourself. If you don't know how to, look at the people you admire and reach out to them. Find a friend that's good at it and ask them to show you what's up. All of that...but please, Neighbors and Groovers...market yourself.

No one is going to help you. Even if you pay them.

Well...rephrase...act AS IF no one is going to help you.

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I've had this script since September of 2023 and I performed a test run on the process in June 2024. I'm sure on why it took long. I was being a student and everything else you can name and didn't lend myself to the creative side. I thought about it often but I wanted to be free of obligations when I had the chance to fall in to experimentation Pete...

...the irony was that I had two gigs the same day I got the bright idea to start on it.

The creative side was itching for a scratch...so here we are with a recorded script. Its partially fiction and non-fiction, the voices (the phone call and the guy I run in to) are AI-generated (I'll explain later because if you know, I dislike AI for one reason), and of course I would love to have it fit a 'perfect' mode, but when I experiment, part of the mission is to release it to the world with no expectations and no care in the world. With that, more technical ambiences and soundscapes would have been inputted, but I'm in the mode of closing out business.

This is one of them.

More to come. I have five other scripts to flush out. Clear Visions with the playground moves...and for the win. Enjoy.

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Grace be upon to you and yours.

This should be one of the standards for humanity. Your grandparents probably exhibited this growing up…and if they didn’t…you know of a person that extended grace and mercy to you…when you KNEW you needed it the most. When you get grace and mercy offered to you without any warning, you feel a sense of luck. You definitely feel thankful.

That’s how you SHOULD feel.

With that, I share my thoughts on grace and mercy and the applications surrounding it. Enjoy…learn…receive…extend…suggest…oblige…#TOTHETOP

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