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Unveiling Bay Area's Entertainment Powerhouse: Keldamuzik · Yeah Buddy! Podcast

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  Music.
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  Yes, yes, yes. What's going on, world? This is your man, Buddy Ramming,
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  and we are back at it, y'all, with another episode, the Yeah, Buddy podcast.
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  You know how we do every episode. I always try to bring some of my friends in
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  the entertainment business. We sit down, chop it up, see what we got going on,
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  and this episode is like no other.
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  So if you are a returning guest to the show, I thank y'all for tuning back in.
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  And if this is your first time tuning in, we'll sit back, buckle up,
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  because we got a great episode for you today.
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  On this episode, we got my friend, we met back at a film festival a couple of
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  months ago and stuff like that. I got to chop it up, see she had some really,
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  really cool things going on.
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  She's coming all the way out here from Oakland, California, the Bay Area. She's an actress.
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  She's a music artist. She's a self-proclaimed diva. She's got her old thing
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  going on, an entrepreneur.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, I want y'all to make it live and make it live for my good
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  friend, Ms. Kelda Music, up in the building. Hello.
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  Yeah, buddy. Yeah. We got Ms. Kelda Music in the building.
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  Thank you for seeing us soon. Yes. We finally made it happen and stuff like
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  that. Yes, of course. And I'm excited because it did take us a little while
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  to like make this whole thing come together.
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  Yeah. But I'm glad it kind of did kind of work out the way it did because...
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  Like when you hit me up about, so you had a lot of good things,
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  a lot of, a lot of things in the pipeline that was coming up and stuff like that.
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  But now it's, I feel like it's all kind of like out there now,
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  you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, yeah.
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  So, so I'm glad to see like, we can not necessarily catch up,
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  but see that all the things that you was talking about, you had going on.
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  Yeah. See how they came to fruition and see all the great things you got coming on.
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  All right. Yes. Most important thing, biggest thing that you got going on is
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  you, uh, a sitcom. Yes. The sitcom.
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  Yep. So it's called The Hodges. starring comedian, hilarious,
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  funny comedian, Mario Hodge.
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  The show is actually based on his life as a comedian, you know,
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  just showing all the, you know, challenges he goes through from dealing with
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  his family, his wife, that's who I play.
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  And then we have our two children. And then, you know, outside of that,
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  he's traveling trying to, you know, make a name for himself as a comedian.
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  And we actually started filming this during the pandemic.
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  Shout out to Buford Brown, A. Brown Films. He's the one who cast me to be Mario's wife in the sitcom.
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  But yeah, we started filming during the pandemic.
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  And it was really hard because actually, we were coming out of the pandemic.
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  So Mario and I were both getting busy again with our own separate projects.
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  And so it It was really, you know, the schedule was like up and down.
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  You know what I mean? Like we really didn't know how to schedule everything.
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  But we finally, you know, brought everyone together and pretty much spent like
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  a whole six months just back to back every weekend just filming.
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  And yeah, now it's available on Amazon Prime and it's coming to Tubi pretty soon as well.
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  The production company And Mario himself Just announced that It will actually
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  be available On Tubi By next week Awesome Dope Dope That's exciting When you think about Yeah.
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  Like Bay Area, the comedy scene and stuff like that.
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  There's just like even like the TV, like we have these sitcoms,
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  like Hang With Mr. Cooper and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. We kind of have the Hodges, you know.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kind of talk about what, did you feel any type of pressure going into that?
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  Kind of know there is, if people don't know, there is this big history and lineage
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  of entertainment and just movies and TV and cinema that happens in the Bay Area.
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  It's just because it's so like, cultured and like kind of like off to itself
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  people wouldn't really give it that recognition right right yeah definitely
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  you know hanging with Mr.
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  Cooper that was what the last time we've ever
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  seen uh you know a black sitcom being filmed out here and you know catering
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  to the you know the city of Oakland or just the Bay Area you know you've had
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  other sitcoms like Full House you know what I mean but you know they gave recognition
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  for you know filming in Sacramento San Francisco,
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  but not really, you know, covering the entire Bay Area.
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  And that's what the Hodges is, you know, not only are we representing the town,
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  but we're representing the entire Bay Area.
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  And that's why going forward, we want to continue to cast people throughout
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  the Bay Area who are in comedy, even here in Sacramento, such as yourself,
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  you know, to be in the next season, because we just, we want this to be huge.
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  We want this to be, we want this to be the, you know, first black sitcom ever
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  in the Bay Area that just really spreads to other regions.
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  And, you know, with everything being digital now, which is awesome,
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  people could see it worldwide, you know what I mean? So that's even better.
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  But, you know, I think like with, you know, the difference between like,
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  you know, Mario Hodge and Mark Curry, you know, I think.
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  You know, Mario's, I would say like his comedy is a little bit more broader,
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  you know, he reaches out to a lot of different you
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  know listeners and viewers that like him you know he's i've
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  seen the guys so many times do stand up and just every
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  time he touches someone doesn't matter what ethnicity they
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  are what race nationality where they're from or whatever they're just like
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  that guy is funny you know what i mean and so
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  and obviously you know he's he's he's young so with
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  him and i like working together the collaboration was was
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  awesome like we all just couldn't stop laughing on set
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  the guy is just funny and what's cool is
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  Buford the producer you know even though he wrote a
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  script you know he was just like you know if you have to
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  freestyle it do it because that's more better it's more you know authentic
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  and you know Mario being a comedian that's what
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  he does best it's just you know what I mean just saying whatever then you know
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  going by a script but you know we have the outline the template to go by but
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  yeah overall it's a great experience and yeah there's a little bit of pressure
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  you know what I mean but I think we're starting something new yeah and There's
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  always pressure where you start something new, but that's what pressure make diamonds.
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  One thing I wanted to talk about, what I'll ask you was, because you said with
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  Mario being a fan of a comedian, you know, improv, with you being an actress, are you more of like the,
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  I stick to the lines, I know my lines, and then like, if so,
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  what was that dynamic like being someone, an actress who's structured and then
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  acting with somebody who will be freewheeling and freeballing it? Right.
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  So the industry has changed because of reality TV, right?
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  So like producers, directors, writers, sometimes, you know, they just,
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  again, they just give you the template, right?
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  But as long as you know what you're doing and you're getting the point across
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  as far as what this particular scene is about, then you're fine. You know what I mean?
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  Without doing too much. But normally, yeah, I read, you know,
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  the script verbatim, right?
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  Just because, you know, depending on what project we're doing.
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  Hey, we need to make sure that it's said this way, because the next scene is
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  going to happen this way because of what you said in the scene previously, right?
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  So I remember I did a play.
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  It was called How Black Mothers Say I Love You.
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  Shout out to Tanika Baptiste for casting me in that.
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  That was my first play. And I did that two years ago. And I remember she was
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  like, when it comes to theater, you do have to do this verbatim because that's
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  going to dictate what the next actor is going to say.
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  And that's their cue when they hear you say these last
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  words if you don't say those last words and you end up
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  saying something else but you still get the point across it's
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  still going to throw the other after off right so you
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  know whereas like tv and film yeah you
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  could kind of improvise a little bit because
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  they can you know edit it in post they
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  could subtract or add some things or effects or just
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  take you out you know as a whole yeah but
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  yeah for me i like to you
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  know read it word for word but if there is any
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  point where i'm being thrown off or i'm struggling a
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  little bit i know how to improvise and pick it.
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  Back up okay dope dope so i am gonna show
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  a little scene right here that we do have from the from the
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  hodges right here we'll play it real quick there you can dive into
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  like go into like deeper into like you know the family aspect of what
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  really what you know more about what the sitcom is
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  really about so play that right now you have some nerve asking
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  me where your breakfast is when you were supposed to make Michaela breakfast
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  this morning knowing I had a conference call so you can miss me with that wow
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  I let the club all night taking selfies and her fans to two o'clock in the morning
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  I know you had a conference call I don't even know what you do Nicole she pays the bills daddy.
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  And that's it right there, y'all. That little sneak peek out to the Hodges.
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  Sneak peek to the Hodges. Yeah.
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  So you pay the bills, daddy. So tell us a little bit more about the dynamic
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  with the relationship between you, Mario. So you have a son and a daughter. Yep, yep.
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  So our children, they're very smart. The son, he's into crypto.
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  The daughter is just very well educated, too smart for her own good.
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  And my role as Nicole, his wife, it's kind of secretive as far as what I do for a living.
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  No one knows what I do, but I end up paying all the bills.
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  You know what I'm saying? And he's a struggling comedian, always has to use,
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  you know, buddy passes to, you know, fly into a hole in the wall venue to do
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  comedy and not come back with anything. And I'm like bailing him out of his
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  situations all the time.
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  But there is a mystique about me.
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  No one knows what my occupation is, but I'm always locked in the room and working
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  all day, every day and being the provider of the entire family.
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  Now you as the actress doing your backstory stuff like
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  that do you secretly know what your what your job is uh
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  actually no we never
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  even discussed that i was wondering yeah we never discussed that
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  no wait wait wait okay so we did tie
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  in a little bit of my talk show diva
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  talk tonight which is in real life so because
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  unfortunately i wasn't at the last taping of the
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  hodges but i think they kind of replaced that
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  they replaced me with the talk show to
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  find out actually what i'm doing so kind of
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  yeah like a content creator okay yeah yeah that's what's up and then you've
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  been making other moves too not just with the uh the sitcom you've been making
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  waves yeah in the film festival circuit yeah yeah this year moving heavy and
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  stuff like that oh and that because it was the sactown movie buff that's yeah
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  yeah well i said we're here that's where we connected connected it for the first time. Yeah, yeah.
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  So what, outside of just doing the interviews for this Sack Cabo,
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  what else did you have going on.
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  With the film festival. Yeah. First of all, I want to say shout out to Kier
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  Stowe and Bunny Stewart.
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  You know, they brought me on board to co-host with Bunny to interview all the
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  filmmakers and actors and people who work behind the scenes.
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  But also in the film festival, we premiered my music video called Mind Sex featuring Kafani.
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  That premiered on the second day of the film festival. The first day of the
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  film festival, they screened a trailer of my talk show, Diva Talk Tonight, which is on Tubi.
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  So, yeah, Kier or, you know, Sacktown Movie Buffs, they added both of my projects
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  in the lineup for two days.
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  Dope, dope. Yeah, shout out to Kier, man. Kier is definitely a friend of the
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  Yeah Buddy podcast, and I'm definitely going to get back up here,
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  if not next year, for the film festival sometime soon.
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  Yeah, sure. Definitely do this thing and stuff like that.
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  So, yeah, and then the Diva Talk tonight, you said that won an award?
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  Yeah, that won an award for Best Web Series Trailer.
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  Okay. Yeah, dope. Yeah, yeah. And what is Diva Talk where people could,
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  like, they want to check it out? Yeah.
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  So Diva Talk, it's, you know, Diva Talk Tonight, T-O-N-I-T-E.
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  And you could stream that on Tubi. It's also on True TV Plus, Zpix, and Zonify.
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  And we're just going to keep spreading it on different media platforms and,
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  you know, continue to create awareness about the show.
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  So I want to talk to you about that, like with the whole process of like getting
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  onto like these streaming platforms, but we'll save that for later the show.
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  I think that kind of ties in like the whole marketing and where we're at with
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  today's age and stuff like that.
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  But yeah, we'll keep with the focus on film festivals because you just recently
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  had did like it was a two for one, I guess you want to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  So it was it's July 26, which was a Saturday.
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  There was the Clout Film Festival that screened the trailer of Diva Talk,
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  and I won an award for that.
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  Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it I
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  was at another film festival called Indie Film
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  LA and I had another short
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  film that I starred in called When Realty Goes Wrong and they honored me an
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  award as well so you know my team and I we shot down there did the whole red
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  carpet thing and I got a chance to talk about the film and you know how I came
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  up with the idea it actually wasn't my idea.
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  A shout out to Dana Duan and Tasia and a couple of others that work behind the scenes.
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  They produced it. It was actually part of the San Francisco 48-hour film festival.
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  And, you know, once that was completed, we just all started,
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  you know, submitting it to different festivals.
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  And I submitted it to Indie Film LA and they selected it and we went down there
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  and had a really good time.
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  Nice nice nice and what is real real tea
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  gone wrong yeah what is that about yeah so i'm a
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  realtor so the theme was realty in real life no
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  no no no i ain't got enough the hustle that's real you know what i'm about to
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  say my skills don't stretch that long it takes a lot to sell a house especially
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  especially in this market exactly exactly so yeah when realty goes wrong The theme was realty.
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  So however you wanted to create the story surrounded by realty, that's what it was.
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  But I was a realtor trying to sell a house. But at the same time,
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  I was a struggling filmmaker.
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  And all my crew that were there helping me fix up the place to start showing
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  to potential buyers, they were actually my cast members for the little horror
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  film that I was trying to film in there.
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  Right so we're doing things you know simultaneously trying
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  to sell a property and at the same time trying to film
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  a short horror film just to find out one of the cast members is actually a real
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  murderer and started murdering the castmates slash crew in the home and then
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  murdered myself and my assistant so when realty goes wrong okay all right for
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  sure yeah i'm gonna check for that Yeah. Yeah.
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  Festival circuits and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. And then like I say,
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  you'd be on your, your entrepreneur, your little hustler grind and stuff like that.
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  You have the, uh, that, let me, let me get the camera straight.
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  You don't say so we can, we could focus on that.
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  It's a Tams Berets. Yes. Yes.
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  So I came up with Tams during the pandemic. And that was during the time where
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  we were, you know, trying to figure out ways to not only keep the income coming
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  in, but to stay relevant, keep our fans. happy, leave people with something.
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  And I figured, you know, Hey, no one has branded a beret in pop culture,
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  black culture, or even within hip hop.
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  So I said, you know what, let's come out with a beret, put a little spin on it.
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  Let's make them colorful, you know, have several different colors right now.
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  I have 10 different colors and you could purchase them on my website,
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  where tams.com that's w E A R T A M Z.com.
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  And because of this, I've been partnering with hair loss organizations.
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  I've also been producing and hosting fashion shows and bringing on my customers
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  to walk for me and not just the traditional model that has to meet a criteria
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  in order to walk the runway.
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  Nice, nice. And so is the Bachelor show, is that something that's already happening?
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  Oh, yeah, it's been happening. Oh, you do something you do on the regular?
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  Yeah. Oh, cool, cool, cool. So the next one we're doing is August 9th at Lux in Oakland.
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  Shout out to EMP. He's been helping me put these shows together lately.
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  I was working with a few other organizations as well.
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  You know, the door's open when it comes to TAMS. You know,
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  working with whoever or whichever organization wants to come bring on a mini fashion show,
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  showcasing berets it seems like a
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  lot of stuff happened for you like towards the end
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  of quarantine around that quarantine area which i feel like happened for
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  a lot of entrepreneur-minded artists yeah
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  yeah yeah yeah entrepreneur-minded artists people that don't
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  mind just sitting down in a room by themselves and just that's right their thoughts
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  you know what i mean big time so like what what do
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  you feel the pandemic give you like as far as like that mindset and
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  being able to just kind of like reset and just see see
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  everything for how it is but oh here's how
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  i gotta pursue this shit yeah yeah forward so geez
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  i don't even want to go way way back because you know officially
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  professionally i started in the
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  game in 2005 you know doing music only but what i realized just from that point
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  no one was into filming filming reality before reality shows came about And
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  so my business partner and I, we bought a camcorder,
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  had those small little tapes, and we created Diva TV.
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  The reality show where I used to interview other hip hop artists, go backstage.
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  I use this reality show as a promotional vehicle for my brand to get in the
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  room with other people that are like me, but that are on a higher level.
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  So fast forward, that's what made me become more creative. And I created Diva
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  Talk, the actual TV show. And then I started being more creative.
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  My own company, Diggs Media Group, started working with other major acts,
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  helping them with booking shows and PR promotions and management.
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  And then fast forward the berets, fast forward filmmaking and writing and producing
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  and starring in other people's projects.
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  And so I like to call myself a multi-hyphenate artist.
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  Because we just dabble in everything, but we're good. You know what I mean?
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  Great example who's out right now who's just killing the game.
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  Kiki Palmer, music artist, actress, model, whatever.
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  Like, she tops it all. You know what I mean? Yeah. And that's kind of like how I see myself.
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  Or, you know, I hate to say the
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  name, but, you know, Diddy, he was a multi-hyphenated artist at the time.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, doing everything.
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  You know, Bad Boy did everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. but now
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  kelvin music's doing everything and so with
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  that entrepreneurial mindset and stuff like that like you
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  said like we was talking about this before the podcast like anybody that's been
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  trying to like pursue this like operating in this entertainment business in
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  some capacity anytime before like 2012 ish like that 2000 2012 2015 that's where
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  like i feel like a shift really occurred as far as like,
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  you two really becoming something you know these type of things so how is it
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  with you as a music artist and even just like I said just entertainer in general as a whole.
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  With seeing the change for like being very social media heavy and having to
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  really put yourself out there how have you adapted those changes is it something
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  that's easy for you was easy for you hard or you just kind of just I'm going
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  with the flow of it I mastered it
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  Just like, I've always been heavy into technology since I was 11 years old.
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  I could type 120 words per minute.
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  So I've always been addicted to the computer.
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  I've always been addicted to being an entrepreneur, just like handling business
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  and, you know, finding out the secretive ways to put yourself out there.
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  And so when technology came about at first, I was kind of just like,
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  yeah, okay, like MySpace, right?
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  Like, okay, this is cool. Like, I had like 20,000 fans on MySpace,
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  you know, but nothing really came out of that except for just people listening
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  to your music and you're not, you know, receiving any money for it.
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  You know what I mean? It's just literally for promotion. But now that social
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  media has evolved with YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn,
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  Twitter, Snapchat, you have Flip now, that's another one.
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  Now that it has evolved, it's actually easier to...
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  Allow people to be in your network and
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  for others to see what you're doing because yeah
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  i'm thinking now like damn how
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  as a brand as a music artist actress how
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  did we get ourselves out there yeah right yeah back then
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  it was all about street promotion right so social
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  media has replaced that and now it's about social media promotion yeah
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  some people still do a little street promotion putting flyers you know
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  on cars whatever whatever but what i learned back then is you
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  know when you're handing out flyers in the club or when
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  people are leaving the club they'll nobody want to hang on
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  to something you know that they gotta be responsible for
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  you know what i mean like you'll be picking right back up afterwards exactly and
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  it's like okay there goes a waste of 300 dollars you know what i'm saying
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  so now that everything's digital it makes it easier like
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  when i attend any events now you have
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  a barcode hey boom you know scan it barcode
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  pops up on my social media add me wherever you want you know
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  what i mean or a lot of people i run into are you on ig or ig
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  because you know they don't have a limit when it comes to how many friends you have
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  so we connect right away on ig you know
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  what i mean so it's different than handing someone a business card or
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  flyer where they could easily lose it and not
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  care you know what i mean so social media with the way it's evolved i've definitely
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  mastered it i do have a team that does help me with my social media marketing
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  but i'm the one who dictates you know what they post when they post and all
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  that other good stuff but you need that though because it is kind of like i
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  said it it if social media kind of.
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  Replace the middleman like you know like back in the
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  day you would need like a publicist and all this type of stuff just to kind
• 22:59
  of get that exposure you kind of maybe like if you're trying to get like the
• 23:01
  big headlines but if you're just trying to get an audience or whatever exactly
• 23:04
  yeah you you know social media eliminated that middleman yep so where now even
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  but if you but just because that middleman has been eliminated it doesn't mean that,
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  those responsibilities of that middleman has gone away right which
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  is why like i said what you say you have a team like i have somebody here making
• 23:21
  sure going on because like as the the regular day-to-day
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  artist or whatever you know we may be i don't know if it's just a self-conscious
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  thing with our with the art that we put out or just not thinking that social
• 23:31
  media is as important as we think it's because like i said we've been in it
• 23:34
  for so long yeah yeah old state of mind or where but having like that team out
• 23:38
  there to push it make sure that you know i may not have to do it But like I said, Kelda Music,
• 23:43
  when you say Kelda Music is a brand or its own entity, it's something outside of just the person.
• 23:50
  That's what people mean when they're talking about it, like having a team,
• 23:53
  having somebody behind you. Right.
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  Make sure shit's working. And you need that, you know, and now we have AI, right?
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  And so some people are starting to rely on AI because there's so many AI music
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  tools, you know, now for marketing, PR, or even for recording.
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  You know you still cannot rely on that when it
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  comes to when it comes to the entertainment industry
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  you know don't get things misconstrued it
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  is about being authentic it's about delivering quality art right something that
• 24:24
  you're passionate about and not just something that you you know designed through
• 24:28
  a program and boom you know what i mean like buy into it now no so yeah social
• 24:34
  media, it's very powerful and so is AI,
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  but you still have to learn the fundamentals of it.
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  It really matters on who's operating and who's working the system for you,
• 24:45
  because if you allow the system to work for you, it's not really going to appeal to people. Mm-hmm.
• 24:51
  Yeah, thank you for that tidbit. Thank you all for that tidbit.
• 24:53
  So if people want to get a hold of you, find out more information about you
• 24:56
  and stuff like that, where could they follow you at?
• 24:59
  Yeah, visit me on my website, keldamusic.com.
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  That's K-E-L-D-A-M-U-Z-I-K.com. I like to tell people because everyone misspells my name.
• 25:10
  Kelda Music is one word, lowercase m-u-z-i-k.
• 25:15
  But yeah, Google me. Go to my website. You can purchase your Tams on my website.
• 25:19
  You could check out all my latest, you know, from music videos,
• 25:24
  TV, sitcoms, shows, fashion, blogs, everything that you want to know.
• 25:29
  My latest films, everything, what I'm up to.
• 25:32
  And yeah, that's it. How did you come up with the name Kelda Music?
• 25:36
  So my original name is Kelda. And I always told myself that I love all genres
• 25:43
  of music. You know, I could listen to anything.
• 25:45
  And I figure like through hip-hop is
• 25:48
  my best way of expressing myself but I still never
• 25:51
  want to limit myself either you know
• 25:54
  hip-hop may be a primary genre but I want
• 25:57
  to incorporate other genres within
• 26:00
  hip-hop I mean pretty much like what Kanye West was
• 26:03
  doing when he first started you know what I mean like he
• 26:06
  listened to various artists from different genres
• 26:09
  and created his own type of
• 26:12
  hip-hop you know so that's why i call myself
• 26:15
  kelder music i don't limit myself to any genre of
• 26:18
  music i am a woman a female an artist
• 26:21
  of all music so go copper music what's some of the so what is some of the type
• 26:26
  of musical styles i guess you would say a variety listen to a variety is it
• 26:31
  more of a that you you lean toward you say oh maybe i'll do a little bit more
• 26:35
  rb type of stuff right here or maybe more hardcore rap right here even like
• 26:39
  you got a little rock and roll in your bag?
• 26:41
  I mean, so I, right now I've incorporated a little bit of EDM dance and eventually,
• 26:48
  yeah, I want to, you know, add a little alternative,
• 26:51
  you know, get some hard guitars in there and just really set myself apart from
• 26:56
  other artists and have my own sound, which I do.
• 27:01
  But, you know, when working in other genres of music and still trying to keep
• 27:05
  it hip hop, you need to make sure it's still your sound because you don't want to lose your fan base.
• 27:10
  So, yeah. See, I love the little tidbit, the little, you know,
• 27:14
  things right here dropping little jewels and gems right here to wrap up the
• 27:17
  thing and stuff like that.
• 27:18
  Anybody, if you watched it all the way through and stuff like that,
• 27:22
  you just basically got a crash course in what it takes to actually make it and
• 27:26
  that whole entrepreneurial hustler mindset and stuff like that that you need to make it.
• 27:31
  Like I said, there's something about the Bay Area and stuff here in Northern
• 27:33
  California where you kind of just,
• 27:35
  We encompass it on all sorts of levels. That's how I like movies and stuff like that.
• 27:40
  So thank you again for driving up here. You know what I'm saying?
• 27:43
  I hope you had a good time on the podcast.
• 27:45
  You dig what I'm saying? So one more time, put your camera up right here.
• 27:48
  So you can tell the people where they could follow you out.
• 27:51
  Yes. You guys visit my website, keldamusic.com. You'll find all my socials on my website.
• 27:57
  And I look forward to connecting with you, darling.
• 28:00
  It's Diva. Yes. Yes.
• 28:02
  You know me? It's your man, Buddy Ramek. You can follow me at YeahBuddyENT on
• 28:07
  all my social media handles.
• 28:08
  If you want to check out more of the YeahBuddy podcast or the Funny Business
• 28:11
  podcast or all my stand-up comedy shows that I record up at the Uli Theater,
• 28:16
  you can go to www.YeahBuddyENT.com, y'all. And like I said, this has been Buddy.
• 28:24
  This is the music of the building, y'all. We are signing off one time. Y'all deuces.
• 28:34
  Bye.