Relationships Worth More Than Money Podcast
Conversations about relationships being valuable and worth more than money! its a heartwarming podcast that delves into the profound value of connections, friendships, and love that transcend the monetary realm. Hosted by Tweezy & a diverse range of guests, including athletes, artists, entrepreneurs, engineers and everyday people, each episode explores the immeasurable worth of relationships in our lives. Through compelling stories and thought-provoking discussions, the podcast inspires listeners to cherish the bonds they share with others, reminding us that the wealth of a meaningful relationship is far more precious than any currency. Tune in to "Relationships worth more than money" to discover the true treasure in life.
Relationships Worth More Than Money Podcast
You Won't Believe How He Juggles Military and Music!
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Explore the captivating journey of JDT Music, a talented producer who balances military commitments and a passion for music in our latest episode. This deep dive into his life reveals how influences from family ignited his love for music, paving the way for a fulfilling career. Listen as JDT shares his transition—from creating beats as a hobby to understanding the nuances of turning music production into a business, outlining critical steps towards building a brand.
As he navigates the structure and discipline dictated by his military service, JDT discusses the intersection of creativity and duty, offering a unique perspective on balancing life’s demands. His experiences while deployed underscore the personal growth that comes with exposure to diverse cultures, serving as a reminder of the world’s vastness well beyond our immediate context.
Listeners can gain invaluable insights regarding branding, networking, and the significance of legal protections in the music industry. JDT emphasizes the necessity of building relationships and receiving guidance from those who understand the business—a crucial aspect often overlooked by creative individuals entering the market.
Finally, JDT invites listeners to reflect on their own passions, inspiring them to take actionable steps towards pursuing their dreams. Whether through music, military service, or another path, his emphasis on purposeful living, dedication, and growth is a call to action for anyone striving to align their life with their passions. Don't forget to follow JDT Music and engage with his journey!
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yeah, yes, sir, what's up everybody? This is relationships work more than money. Podcast. I'm tweezy, who do? I got to the right of me. Hey, we got jdt music man. We got jdt, uh, producer, songwriter, composer. What's going on, brother? Man, you look everything. Man, you forgot something else, though. Man, you got the most important part. Oh, yeah, yeah, active duty, you know, yeah, duty, for sure, yes, sir, um, what? What? I mean? Even me, bro, like we met what two, three years ago? It's been a minute right at the writing camp. Yeah, yeah, so, um, let's give us a rundown, man, where you from, where you started, how did you start music? Just give us a rundown on everything, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1:I'll definitely say the first such point for music for me definitely came from family Seeing my sister she rapped Seeing my aunts, and like they sing, and like my uncles too, they were into music and stuff like that. So that was something that I always wanted to do. I didn't necessarily want to, I didn't necessarily want to rap, but I knew I wanted to do something that had to do with production. I wanted to make a beat, or I wanted to. You know, I'm saying like me, because I it was the beat that you listen to, that you're like, oh, this is this song. You feel what I'm saying and I always wanted to kind of have that connection with it. So I say, by the time I reached, let's say, 16, 17, so 2017, my homie, who was also a producer, b-man Madman. He moved to the neighborhood and it was like during the summertime around them we would always hoop and stuff like that and every now and again we go back to the crib and we just chill and just play a game.
Speaker 1:And I've seen fo studio. Yeah, it was like I think back then fo studio 12 was the main software, yeah, and uh, he was like aren't? I was like yo, what is that Like? How do you? I see all these like buttons and like lights and shit like that. And I see the software and I'm like how do you like? What are you doing?
Speaker 1:And that's when he told me he was like yo, hey, I'm making, I'm making music, I'm making beats. I was like making beats, like you're making the beat yourself, it ain't? No, you don't need like $500,000 worth of equipment. You know what I'm saying? So then I was like all right, dang, like it's possible. And I used to go and just make these because he had the demo version at the time. We wasn't paying for shit, we wasn't paying for nothing, bro, we had the demo version at the time, yeah, bro. And then, yeah, yeah, bro, and uh, and then, yeah, like not too long after that, I was like you know what? I could just download the demo version. I'm on my family laptop over, uh, over at the house. So then I was like, all right, cool, so that's what I did. And then, ever since then, man, ever since then, I just started making music.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what, uh, where you from? Yeah, so I'm from lawrenceville, georgia, uh, up in guinette county, not too far, that's about 15, 20 minutes from, uh, heart of downtown. So, yeah, I'll say like, every now and again I pull up to midtown, like downtown, but ever since I like left and moved out and stuff like that and really seen the music scene, that's when, like, I'm always down here. So how long so you was making beats before you joined the military? Yeah, yeah, bro, started making beats 2017, but I didn't know I could turn it into a business until 2022. That's when I started popping out's, when I started like, okay, like an llc, like what's that? What's it? Um, what's copyright? What's trademarks? What are all these different? You know, I'm saying intellectual property. What is all these things that I could use to leverage to actually create a business that I could do on the outside too?
Speaker 1:Okay, and when you, when you uh got into the Marines, um, you got in the ring. What year? So I got? I got in 2019, august 2019. That's when, uh, that was my first day at boot camp. You know, you know about it, yeah, man, you know, that's where the, that's where the, that's where everything starts. Man, like, it's going to make or break you. Everything starts, bro, that's where everything starts. Break you down, yeah, yeah. Yeah, man, it's going to make or break you. Everything starts, bro, everything starts. Break you down, yeah, bro, break you down, build you back up, help you get confident and stuff and stuff like that. That's the beginning point, right there.
Speaker 1:So, what encouraged you to join the military? For sure, mainly the structure. What encouraged? What encouraged you to join the military? For sure, so, uh, mainly the structure. Um, and having something afterwards, like after college, or not after college, but after high school, um, I wanted to go to college. I just didn't know how to go about, like, paying for it and everything like that. So I just didn't want to. I didn't want to like force college at the time. So I just was like I'll just, I'll just do the military thing and what you doing? That man, like you, said you didn't even. So you, you had you got your feet wet first in the military and then you said, boom, let me try to. Let me try to turn this, this music thing, into a business. Who, who encouraged you to do that?
Speaker 1:Like, was it just you just out the blue, or was it like somebody that said like, oh, you know, you can make money off this? I think it was out the, not out the blue. I won't say it was out the blue, but I would say like, because I've always been kind of connected to music. So even before because, like I said, I started producing in 2017, I joined in 2019, so by that time I already knew about the south sides metro, I already knew about, like, all the big producers and stuff like that. So following them kind of connected me to like a. It's like another side of the music business, because you know they're advanced producers but they're also like businessmen. You feel I'm saying so like once I started seeing clips of like sides of the music business. I'm like, oh, okay, so you can make money off this. And it didn't hit until like after I joined. But I would say that they were definitely the first like touch point in terms of like, okay, I can actually be successful like doing music.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, um, like, give me a normal day, man, because you know, like in our world, like you know, you got a certain time you gotta get up. You got a certain time you gotta be at work and work and, um, what was, what was it like for you was, was you one of the ones that was getting it in like at work, getting it in during child, like what you was doing? So it depends on the day. Ideally, I like to wake up early. So let's say, if we don't have, let's say say, if we do have PT, right, because you know what I'm saying PT in the morning you wake up around 5, 6. You do that till about like 7.30, around there, and then you change over. He knows what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, change over, change over. Yeah, you know, change over. Right, you shower everything like that and then, like, you get dressed like you in your clothes and stuff like that, and then you go to a. I don't go get breakfast first, then I go to work. Yeah, from there, from about 8 to 11. I don't know if it changed or anything like that, but that's around the time for that morning. You don't get what you need to get done between 8 and 11. You shot, you shot, you shot. So exactly, so, around 11 time frame, that's when I'm going back, I'm going back to my room and then I'm either in the gym or I'm working on on a beat.
Speaker 1:Okay, it just depends on the day. Like, ideally, that 11 to 13 time frame is when I can like just do me. I don't got to worry about no work obligations. But you know, sometimes work just it's all over the place and you don't have that. You don't have that freedom. So it's wherever you can, it's like a rhythm, wherever you can find the space, wherever you can find the space, wherever you can find the space to do that, what you score on the ASVAB, on the ASVAB, well, I guess I ain't even gonna lie, but I was in the 50s. I know you had to be in the 50s, cause that's why I asked, cause your MOS, your job. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you had to score over 50 to get that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah. And let's talk about that. That mos man, a lot of people don't know what mos mean.
Speaker 1:Military occupational specialty specialty, which is job, your job, what's your job? Um, what's your job job field? So mos 6842? Right, so that's meteorology and oceanography analyst forecaster. That's my military occupational specialty. So, like I'm more so tracking operational impacts to the mission, um, yeah, like weather in the environment and stuff like that. But then I also have like a responsibility to like kind of tailor that to the mission set.
Speaker 1:So so if we're doing something like nothing, even crazy, let's say we're doing aid, humanitarian aid or something like that, and I know that it's for a large amount of people I can't just be like, oh, it's going to be this cold, oh, it's going to be this hot, no, no, no, I have to be like, okay, we're expecting to do xyz at this time, based on the environment. This is the best. You know, I'm saying like, yeah, asset or means of going about it. You know I'm saying like that and that's just a suggestion like I'm not gonna make. No, you know, I'm saying like, tell people what to do, but at the same time, yeah, it's my job to make sure that everyone's tracking like, okay, this is what we got, this is what's coming in and this is also what's like to expect. Based on all that, we can move like this and it'll give us the best success. So that's kind of like my main.
Speaker 1:You might be the first, the first person that I met in the military that got that MOS bro. I ain't even gonna cap what I heard. Yeah, man, because like I met reporters that community's small bro, yeah, but I mean, like I met reporters. I had one of the guys in my platoon in boot camp was a reporter, like he was a combat camera, but he ended up being crazy part bro. He ended up being a dude on AFN. So like yeah, so like I'm in Iraq one time and I'm looking at the AFN and I'm like I think his name was Gerardo Gerardo, and I'm like yo, is that Gerardo? You know what I mean and I'm looking and I'm like yo, that is him. I'm like bruh, like a reporter, news reporter on AFN Network. So I'm like that shit crazy bruh Buddy on Armed Forces Network, and I was like yo, that's dope, but you are definitely the first person that has the weather match.
Speaker 1:So you checking water too. It's not just, yeah, check ocean Ocean. So you checking you checking water too. It's not just, yeah, check ocean Ocean. Yeah, you checking the ocean. So the ocean is Like what is that? Like Like tap, in more than that, bro, because I'm like intrigued bro.
Speaker 1:I love like the science part of everything, like so, yeah, just tell me what that entails. Yeah, for sure, and it's crazy. You mentioned that like the science behind it. Because I didn't join the military to do no science. Like I ain't gonna lie bro, like I did not join the military because I didn't expect it. So I think it was definitely God trying to put me in a position, because I genuinely did get someone to ask that I got the minimum required score to get a lot of jobs, of jobs. So, like you feel I'm saying um, and then I think it's also when you talk about like how involved it is, I could have easily just been like man, I ain't trying to learn all this like science stuff.
Speaker 1:Because when you talk about the ocean and stuff like that, yeah, as marine, we're shitting the shore. You feel what I'm saying? Like we're on the boat beach. You know I'm saying Like we're on a boat Beach, you know what I'm saying, we storming the beach or whatever the case, right, that's our whole like amphibious, like that's our whole like culture, and so that's what they're whenever they're asking me for like different products and stuff like that. I got to take that into consideration. So I'm going to throw a word at you. I'm going to throw a word at you, bear with me, right?
Speaker 1:So we got bathymetry, bathymetry, bathymetry, bathym, or bathymetry, bathym, bathymetry, bathym, bathymetry, bathymetry. Yeah, exactly, so it's literally like the topography of not the ocean, but like the land underneath the ocean, if that makes sense, right, you feel I'm saying, if you, if you have, so you look at, you, look at places like cali. Right, you know how they got big waves. You know I'm because, in a long story short, the symmetry is much steeper. You know what I'm saying. The land underneath the water is much steeper than on somewhere like Jacksonville, north Carolina. It's very shallow, flat land, flat. You know what I'm saying. They don't get no waves over there in Kent. You know what I'm saying. You get some baby waves, bro. You go crazy over two-footer, you really go crazy over two-footer, bro. But in Cali or somewhere like Hawaii, where it is mountainous, they do have like all that they got. They're known for waves Like underneath the water. Underneath the water yeah, so his mom is underneath the water in like Cali and Hawaii.
Speaker 1:Well, you got to think, like, just over time, a lot of the landmarks that we got right now they didn't look like that. You see what I'm saying. And so, like over time and as like I guess, I guess the water just rose and stuff like that covering the islands or whatever it is that they got going on. So there's a lot more landmass underneath from what we just see. From all that we see there's a lot more landmass underneath that and it's a lot about upwelling and all that stuff. But I ain't going to lie, it's a lot. It's a lot, bro, it's a lot.
Speaker 1:So who would you be giving this information to? Would it be like a special operations unit or amphibious assault vehicles? That was my first unit, amtrak 3rd AAB. Oh yeah, I know about Amtrak 3rd AAB and Battalion dog over there. We was right off the water in Cali. That was my first introduction to California, bro. Flying in to San Diego and, boom, going right to Cali. Third tracks man. Who do you get this information to? It really depends on what the client is, because there's not one set person that I give information to Every at least for from what I know, every MOS has a DCI, so for my MOS it falls under the DCI information. Now, when I joined it was operations OK. So the reason why that's important is because that depends on which shop I'm working in.
Speaker 1:I used to work really close to the three and most of the bics that I've been in like for the past I would say year, even when I was on deployment this past year. Um, I was working with the two, so I was working with intelligence. Yeah, that's because they've been making a lot of changes. So what that ends up exposing us to is now we really talk to, we're talking to the bigwigs, we're talking to the mission commander, we're talking to the colonel, we're talking to the stars. You feel what I'm saying? We're talking to them because they got the final say. So our whole thing is aiding decision-making process, making sure, like mission execution is like or operational planning is good. But yeah, it's really like the big weeks that we be briefing and stuff like that. Talk to, yeah, so far, so like you.
Speaker 1:Just, you just got off a deployment. What deployment was you on? Yeah, so let's see March March. I's see March March. I think it was 4th, I'm not sure. Last year, it was last year, right? Yeah, last year I was with the 24th Mule. We went out to the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean Sea. We just did what we had to do. We was just, we was out.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, like, so like, because I want people to understand, like you know, marines, we air, land and sea, and we with the Navy, you was with the Navy, right, I was with the Navy, you was with the Navy and y'all, you know, y'all was out on the Mediterranean and what stops did you did? Or Mediterranean, what stops did you did y'all stop at? Oh, we stopped in Denmark. Okay, see, that's why I'm mad man. I'm listening. Go ahead, hold on. I'll get back to Denmark, because Denmark wasn't even a full stop, but I did touch land, so I'm counting. If you touch land, that counts, that counts.
Speaker 1:Denmark, spain, greece, turkey, which Turkey was crazy? Cyprus, yeah, where else? I think that was it. I think that was it for me. But depending on who you were attached to, you could have gone to, like, other places in Greece, or you could have gone to different places around the world. So it depends, because special, certain missions, they require you to do certain like different stuff, so certain people got to go, like like other countries and stuff like that. I'm not. I'm not sure about what you would have. Magta, yeah, you, you you have. Yeah, okay, yeah, you you have. Um, it was, it was a great learning experience.
Speaker 1:I'll forever say that how long was you gone? For what? Seven months an experience. I'll forever say that how long were you there? Was you gone for what? Seven months or a year? How long you was gone on the seat? I was gone about seven. I remember you hitting me up. Oh, yeah, yeah, I reached out. So like December, right, yeah, about December, november, december, yeah, december, I came back. December I came back. Yeah, december I came back. And, man, I was so glad to be home, bro, like I don't know how to explain it I was just so glad to see my fam, see my friends and just like be back in one location. Yeah, but I mean, you know, like the thing with us, man like you.
Speaker 1:So one of my benefit tags was traveling adventure, bro, remember, I told you I was a recruiter. So like now I look back at it because they used to be like yo, y'all probably just here, just for this, y'all probably just here for that. And I was like man, like I'm in, like I want an education, opportunities. You know what I'm saying. I wanted to travel, an adventure. But I also wanted pride of belonging. You know what I'm saying. I've always been a part of a team.
Speaker 1:So once I got Cali man, remember how MOS they tell you hey, east Coast, west Coast, overseas, put it in whatever order, and you're probably going to go. That's probably where you're going to get stationed at your first duty station. So I'm like overseas, west coast, east coast. So at the time they didn't send nobody from Motor T over there, so I had to get west coast. It was crazy because the team, the class before mine and Fort Leonard Wood, they went overseas, east coast, west coast. They went to all three. Okay, my class didn't get it, it was just East Coast, west Coast. You know what I'm saying. I made sure I didn't want to go to Lejeune. It's just something like hey, I just left from there, bro, I just left from there bro. I just don't like it, man. I think because of MCT I'm like ew, like this is like nah, I'm straight there. Ain't nothing exciting over here, yeah. So I got West Coast, got Cali.
Speaker 1:That's my only regret, bro, is not going on the mute. That's why I said I'm going to get back to it, because when I got back from Iraq the second time, I had orders to go overseas to O oki, and that was my thing. I'm like I want to touch every part of the marine corps, um, as a, as a, you know, enlisted motor t sergeant, you know I'm saying, or whatever rank I was gonna be. And, um, sometimes, man, I regret it because it's like if I would have went over there I would have got the experience overseas, um, but I ended up coming to Quantico. So I don't I don't really fully regret it, because a lot of people that I still got in my life, that's my brothers, came from Quantico. You know what I'm saying. So, um, but I also got married too, in Quantico, because if I left to Okie I wouldn't have been able to marry my kid's mom you know what I'm saying Because they would have sent me over there as unaccompanied because I wasn't married when I got my orders. You know what I'm saying. So that's why I said you know what, cool, but the Mew man.
Speaker 1:I used to see all my homies the Red Patchers, everybody the Red Patchers. I used to see all of them and I'm like dog where y'all going and they're like man, I don't know. We going, you know we about to go down to San Diego and train, or the ship would come up to us and pedal them and all the tracks today are going to drive out to the ship and I was dope just watching them like, drive out. Or the L-Cats, the hovercrafts would take all our vehicles. Yeah, we'll take all our vehicles and drive them out to the ship. And the ship looked so close but it was so far away and I was watching and I'm like man, I want to go on the mute because I know they get to stop at different ports and you know, have some liberty, you know, and have a good time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got to have some Libo, but you need Libo because if you don't have Libo, you on that shit. For how long? You could be on that shit for a hundred more, a hundred or more, a hundred or more days, bro, just ocean. Now, when you just in the water, right, right, did you have your laptop there so you can make beats still? Oh yeah, oh yeah. So you had a plus there, but I'm not always able to. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:It's like I said rhythm, because you know, especially once you get to an SEO rank, it's different. If you're new to the fleet and you go to a mute. You feel what I'm saying, not saying that you won't have to step up regardless. Everyone has to step up regardless. Everyone has to step up regardless of what your rank is when you deploy out there. But as a sergeant, especially like you, it's not just you, you feel what I'm saying, it's you and whoever else is around you and whoever else is in your section, in your shop. You also have a responsibility. Like you know what I'm saying, make sure that stuff's going good so that way the staff can know ain't too much, ain't doing too much. You know what I'm saying. You're supposed to be the bridge, you're supposed to be the guy, um, and so I mean, honestly, I just wanted to help the team, anything I could do to help the team, and then, once everything was good with like with them, anything that I wanted to do, then it's like oh yeah, I'm on it, because that's when I go to the birthing, that's when I go to the library. I wouldn't go to the mess hall because there's too many people down there, but just go somewhere and then I'm cooking.
Speaker 1:I made the Mind that Seed the little beat tape. I think I dropped it. I dropped it on Instagram and stuff like that. It's on all platforms and stuff too, but it was just something that I just kept creating throughout the entire seven months, kept creating, kept making beats, kept making music and stuff like that. Yeah, man, it can get overwhelming sometimes, though.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing Amon at C, you dropped that while you was at C. Yeah, so you had Wi-Fi, you hooked up to whatever platform, what you DistroKid, whatever. You know what I'm saying. No, no, no, I dropped it after I finished it. Oh, you finished it, okay. Okay, I was about to say that's hard. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:If you drop that joint while you at sea, that'd have been crazy, yeah, yeah, that'd have been crazy for real, because, like and that's what I tell people, man, I was telling this story before man, like we had a studio in the barracks, bro In the barracks. Like we literally went to home. Man shout out to Hash, shout out to G Money, shout out to Hash, shout out to G Money. Shout out to Legend, shout out to Cap. And the crazy part is Legend and Cap were staff NCOs. Wow, staff NCOs.
Speaker 1:Me and Hash and G Money, we were all NCOs, sergeants, you know what I'm saying. Break that down. Break that down for them, the NCOs, oh yeah. So you know how it is, man, when you in the military you got, you got E1, e2, e3, e1, private E2, private first class E3, last corporal, once you, once you get to that next rank, e4, you become a non-commissioned officer. So if you see any Marine with that red stripe on their leg, that's the blood stripe. That's how you at least yeah, you at least the NCO, yeah, you, at least an NCO. You know what I'm saying. So their rank is either E4 or higher. You know what I'm saying. So E4, e5 are NCOs. E6 to E9 is staff NCOs, which is staff, non-commissioned officers. So we are, we hold a bigger billet, you know what I mean. And we held to a higher standard. You know what I mean. But at the same time, all of the standard is marine standard. So our shit are already high. You know what I'm saying. Just higher the higher you go, yeah. So, man, it was what E-5s, e-4s, e-5s and E-6s.
Speaker 1:Okay, we literally built the studio. Man went to Home Depot, passed when they built that joint G-M hash, when they built that joint g money, because we used to use the, uh, the wall lockers and we opened the doors and that was the booth and we put padding on the on the back on the doors and inside of that was the booth. But then we got even more creative, went to, uh, home depot, got some plywood, got some, um, uh, what else we get? Oh plass, yeah, that was for the window, so we can see the artist in the booth. You know what I'm saying? No, it was drywall. We had got some drywall, got like three things of drywall, cut it up, literally had it in the corner in the barracks room.
Speaker 1:Man, if you know, on 21 area in Del Mar, across from the gas station, the little gas station slash PX, px, yep. Gas station, the little gas station slash PX, px, yep by the armory. We was in that barracks right there across man, and literally we would record and then we would hit San Diego do street team stuff putting stuff up. Man, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Like a lot of these people, they be wanting the fame, but they ain't putting in the grind, like you know what I'm saying, like I've been putting in the grind, like you know I'm saying like I've been putting in this work since oh four. You know I'm saying and it's, and it's, and I've been, I've been, you know I'm saying I've been trying and trying, and trying, and trying and trying and then, once I figured out my lane, I got in with the, with the beat battles, and then I started learning how to really like make music for artists, because the beat battles is dope, don't get me wrong. Shout out to rest in peace to Jay Hatch. Shout out to Sis from iStandard. Also, shout out to Elle too, man, because Elle got us in that nice, yeah, got us connected. You know what I mean. And multiple people.
Speaker 1:And it was crazy because some of the people that I knew from L's joint the boom boom, the boom boom room writing camp, like we came from beat battling. You know what I'm saying. So that's how I knew some of the people in there. But I met you and I met a bunch of more dope artists, dope producers and writers. So, um, yeah, man, shout out to the boom boom wrong writing camp man. Because yeah, yeah, they, they definitely, definitely got me focusing on artists. But yeah, man, um, even then, if you didn't do the I mean you did do the album on scene you just didn't publish it, didn't put it out until when you got back.
Speaker 1:What you learned from being out there, I'll still say that it was, I would say, the greatest learning opportunity so far in my life. All the exercises, all the different opportunities that I've had. I still say the greatest learning opportunities so far in my life. Um, all the exercises, all the different opportunities that I've had. I still say the mute tops it, um, it was. At times it was a little overwhelming, but hey, that's the nature of the beast.
Speaker 1:You know I'm saying sometimes you're gonna go through periods of where it's like dang, I don't know exactly everything that I need to do, but that's why you got. You know I'm saying, uh, you got, uh, you got a team. You know what I'm saying. You got a team and you got people to bounce ideas off and you have leadership to. You know what I'm saying Make the right, uh, mind frame.
Speaker 1:But I would say, uh, the main things that I learned while I was out there was like, uh, self-reflection, because you, you're like in the middle of the ocean. You know, I'm saying, and there's times where you don't have like anything to do, like you just have off time. You feel, I'm saying, sometimes you'll have that ability, or if you're on liberty, that's when I felt like I was really playing the game like of life. You know, I'm saying, when I was seeing different cultures, I'm like hearing people communicate in different languages and like doing different things, stuff like that, like, and I think that's when I recognized like, oh, like this world is much bigger than what I know, right, and that was one of the top lessons that I learned. I was like dang, like it ain't just like america, you know, I I'm saying Like there's, it's global, it's international. So that was the biggest lesson is recognizing, like, how important it is to tap into, like different cultures and stuff like that, learn different ways of life, stuff like that. So, all right.
Speaker 1:So we had our talk earlier, yeah, a while back, and I'm going to do this thing Every time I get somebody that's in the military. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this segment. This segment is going to be called Pros and Cons. All right, proficiency and conduct All right. That's what pros and cons mean. All right, pros and cons. What is your pros and cons being that we're going off the marine corps standards, five being the highest, you know what I mean, and one being the lowest? Uh, what is your pros and cons on going on a mute, pros and cons on going on a mule? And this is what I would say before I get my pro. I just want to background real quick, yeah, before I just say a number.
Speaker 1:It's not based on how luxurious or luxurious or like, how like glamorous it is, because it's a deployment. You feel what I'm saying? It's not going to be like, it's not going to be pretty. Keep it a buck, keep it a buck. Yeah, keep it a buck. I would really give it a three. I would give it a three, four, three, five. I give it a three, four, three, five. A little bit above. Yeah, I know it's like dang, that's a little bit. You know what I'm saying. That's kind of that's like private, that's PFC, that's PFC and got their. That's PFC. And Lance Crumple, yo, yeah, that's 3-4-3-5.
Speaker 1:But it's the reason why I rank it there is because it forced me, it challenged me, to become a better version of myself, to literally like figure out a way, because this mission set that I was hoping was outside. Anything that I've worked in it was I've been working in like air station units. I've been doing air wing stuff like, um, working up in Cherry Point that's the home of the wing, you feel what I'm saying. Working at Second Maul, I done, did that too, been in intel, but like all aviation stuff.
Speaker 1:So going to the MAGTAP where your job is to cover every mission set, that ain't just the aviation stuff, that's the ground side. So how are the grunts going to be affected? That's the ocean side, you know what I'm saying. And the Navy, they have their METOCs there too. So leaning heavy on them and making sure that our understanding was consistent, so that way I could communicate that same information out to all the other commanders, blue side or green side, same, you know, information out to all the other commanders, blue side or green side.
Speaker 1:So it was like I had never been in that capacity to have to do all those things, and so I would say, because it forced me to be in that position, um, that was like a good takeaway, that was a real plus, because now I got the confidence that shoot where. Where do you want me to go? What do you want me to do? Shoot In the military, outside the military? This is me talking to God. Now you feel what I'm saying. It's like cause I really had to. I really had to faith, man, I really had to like tap in and like strengthen my relationship with God, because if I didn't, if I didn't, man, it would have been so easy to get caught up.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that was definitely why I give it a 3-5, 3-7. So 3-4, 3-5 just went to a 3-5, 3-7?. Oh, I said 3-4, 3-5? Then we gonna keep it. Yeah, you said 3-4, 3-5. I said, dang, you done, ramped it up some more. Nah, nah, nah, we gon' keep it there. We gon' keep it there because, yeah, man, so what you uh, what? Seven, what? Six years in six years, in six years, in, it'll be 60 years.
Speaker 1:August 19, 19, yeah, august 19th. Six years, man, what, uh, what's the future, bro? You gonna, you gonna reenlist, you going to stay, you going to get out what you going to do? Because we had this talk, we did talk about this, we talked about this. I want the people to know. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would definitely say I'm going to stick to our conclusion I'll say I'll revisit it okay, but uh, ideally I do want to do music full-time. I want to really develop the brand and I want to. I want to do things now.
Speaker 1:I know that there's ways about going about it to where I don't have to fully get out like there's a reservist opportunity, there's um, things like that. But I also recognize that government obligation does trump whatever it is that you trying to do. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing doing 20 is not a bad thing at all but it's when you have such a conflicting interest of things that you want to do and things that you have to do. Whenever I see I'm not saying this is all staffing skills, this is not all leadership, it's not all officers but when they stay in and they force themselves to go through you know, I'm saying just so that they can get the pension they end up leaving a trail of blood, not literally, but like figuratively, to where it's like their work relationships are terrible, the home relationships are terrible and they've gotten the check, but they turn around and look back and it's like they haven't.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying, and that's not everybody's case, that's not everybody's case, but I'm saying whenever you believe that there's case. That's not everybody's case, but I'm saying, whenever you believe that there's something that you like, want to do, really want to do, but you suppress it and you kind of like, just like, nah, I'll just do the 20, there's a little bit of a resentment that can be built, and I'm saying that's always the case, for sure, but there's a resentment that can be built that then gets pushed on the other people and I've seen that, I've seen that it still happens. It's not everyone, but I think that that's something that I'd rather not, I'd rather not try to see. I don't know. Yeah, man, um, I feel you man, like I told you before, bro, I was, I was like that, the first, my first enlistment.
Speaker 1:I'm like man, I'm getting out, yeah, I'm getting out, I don't wanna do this. Nope, I'm done. And then I had to think about it, man, cause it was like that long run, like are we, are we doing? Are we playing a short game or are we playing a long game? And that, and that's how I was telling you earlier, well, previous conversations weeks ago, like it's really just on what you want to make of it, man, because when you look at it, yes, you're going to have some superiors, you're going to have your team around you, you're going to have people that's your, that's going to be there with you, but at the end of the day, it's you dog. So it's whatever you want to do, you know what I'm saying and it's what you want to make of it.
Speaker 1:And that's why I was telling you, like S might be, I think S in 15, now 15 years, and he's still doing it. He's still doing it. He's still doing it, he making a way. You know what I'm saying. And he Navy, he on the ship all the time, or he only go on the ship when we need to deploy. He's on the ship all the time. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:So when I look at S and I'm like, man, if S still can do it, like you can do it, you know what I'm saying. But if your heart ain't there, I mean like, yeah, like, do what you got to do, man, to make the best for you. But I'm telling you, man, if it was up to me, bro, I'd still be in right now. I probably wouldn't put in my papers because I'm already at 20. You know what I'm saying. This year I'll be 21. You know what I'm saying, but you're looking to get that DD214. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:But at the same time, like you, you stay in. Like I probably would have stayed in until the girls got in college. You know what I'm saying. Okay, cause the girls, like you know my, my oldest, she turned 13 Saturday, so you know what I mean. And four more years she, you know, four or five more years she had been in college. So I probably would have stayed in until at least my first one got into college. And if not, you know I'm saying, but I look at it now it's like man, everything happened for a reason. Like it was a reason for me to get forced out. Like I didn't get in trouble. You know I'm saying like it was just a hey, they had that order.
Speaker 1:Saying like, if you, you are e5 and you don't pick up e6 by your 10-year mark, you got to get out. I was already at 11 and I'm like, if I'm a recruiting dude, y'all can let me pass at 11. Well, y'all can't. Just let me, just let me. Yeah, realist, you know I'm saying let me reenlist and let's see what, let's see how it goes. So, yeah, bro, um, it's on you. You know me, at the end of the day it's on you.
Speaker 1:So I look at that and I just like because, man, music is everything to me and I know it is to you. So, listen, I still look. You see the mic in the back. You see everything. I got everything here. So when I need to come in and work, this is my space to just vent. This is where I vent at. I'm doing music, ps5 right here. Everything I do is right here. So it's like you have to look at it like that. I do is right here. You have to look at it like that. But you been in for this long. You are already ahead. You know what I'm saying. You are already ahead.
Speaker 1:So if you do get out, I know you'll be straight, because I mean not only your job, you going to school too while you're in. I was Once I got on a ship I didn't drop. I guess I did, but ship I didn't. I didn't drop, I guess I did. But, like once I'll say the summer roll around, I should be good to continue my continue, my college classes. I'm trying to go for marketing, marketing, management. Yeah, I went to school for that's what I went to school for Marketing. Yeah, yeah, that's what I went to school for. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's, that's a business degree. It's still business. So you know what I'm saying Get, get it man. Um, knock it out man. Uh, now, when you go back to school, I've been out for a while, since 2015.
Speaker 1:What they, what they Are, they still giving you $4,500 for each fiscal year for school while you're in. Or did they up that? I'm sure they probably upped it. I'm sure they upped it. Either way, $4,500 is still good. You know what I'm saying yeah, yeah, yeah, while you're in, this ain't even your GI Bill. Yeah, and it's TA, this is straight TA. Yeah, it's all tuition assistance. You don't touch post 9-11, you don't touch Montgomery, you don't touch none of that. So, yeah, I mean to be honest, I haven't had to pay down for classes. I encourage all of my juniors, I encourage everybody that I talk, to do tuition assistance. Go try and even take some classes, even if you're not. Really. Go try and even take some classes, even if you're not really fully getting a degree. Just take some classes, learn some because it's free. So, yeah, I don't know the exact number, though I don't know the exact number, I love free. If it's free, give it to me, unless it's something else. But hey, when it comes to school and uniforms or whatever, if it's free, give it to me. Give it to me, dog, I need it. You know what I mean? They're still doing that allowance and stuff, the allowance for everything, for the uniforms and stuff. Yeah, that's what I'm saying and that's the part that I miss too.
Speaker 1:Man, I hate moving. I think that's probably one of the biggest things I hate not having no more man. Tmo. I need TMO, bro, when I move, I need it. I'm not touching nothing. They ain't wrapping up. It's DMO, yeah, dmo. It's TMO's DMO, yeah, dmo. Dmo to DMO yeah, hey, I ain't touching nothing. Go ahead, wrap it up. That's in the box, okay, let me just check it off. You know what I'm saying. I ain't got to touch nothing, dog, you can't. That's one thing I miss DMO Anytime I move.
Speaker 1:They got my joint, but you do got to check. But you do gotta check, you do gotta check and make sure that they put the same in there. Sometimes, right, and it's still like a great service, because I'd rather have somebody else do it for me than for me to pack everything up myself. But then, like sometimes, bro, I've heard the horror stories where people just throwing boxes all over the place, something breaking by the time they get back to your spot. So, like you said, like it's a good service, but just make sure you check, just make sure you check, make sure you do the due diligence, bro, because yeah, they stole my dang old daughter's uh, piggy bank bro I had. She had like a hundred dollars and two dollar bills, so she had 52 bills in her piggy bank.
Speaker 1:Bro, they stole that joint. You know what I'm saying? Like that for a hundred, that is wild, bro. It was a custom piggy bank. It had her name on it and everything. I'm like, yeah, y'all gonna steal that, I'm gonna steal a piggy bank. A piggy bank, bro, a piggy bank, where was this at? Was this in Pendleton or was this in Oakland? Yeah, pendleton, dog, I ain't never make it dog. It was Pendleton, it was Pendleton. It was Pendleton Because here's the thing From Jersey to Cali, they ain't mess with it, from Cali back to DC.
Speaker 1:That's when stuff started getting all over the place. Yeah, okay, stuff got a little shaky, man. But, um, man, what's next? Yeah, man, so next step, and I guess the next step is currently happening right now is building that foundation, um, getting back outside, doing, I guess, the the what they say, chop wood, carry water. You know what I'm saying. Doing the things that, like at the time they may not you know what I'm saying seem like as much, but the deposits that, like, build interest over time. You know what I'm saying, build value over time.
Speaker 1:So that's why I was trying to go to different studios, network reconnect. That's why, as soon as I came back, or even a little bit while I was in the port, I tried to reach out and stuff like that, because people be saying they reach out, they don't reach out for real, they don't be reaching out. Oh, bro, I'm going to get with you. I'm going to get with you on the intro, I'm going to fuck with you. I'm going to fuck with you.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, like that, um, so building relationships, reconnecting and stuff like that, getting in the studio and then, um, getting a better structure on the business, uh, currently talking to a few legal professionals and stuff like that, on how I can best set myself up so that way I can leverage my ip, intellectual property right, all the trademark and copyright. It's expensive now. It's expensive now, but then you take into consideration how that can help you on the back end come time for taxes and stuff like that and helping you. So getting that locked down, getting social media locked down, and then kind of having a plan and a strategy that's, I would say, say could take me out three months. I want a 90-day kind of like a I guess, content pool that I can pull from and I can schedule out so that way, even once I do leave Atlanta because I'm not going to be here too much longer I got some stuff I got to do back in freaking Lejeune, so you ain't taking 30 days yet. So I'm on it right now. But at the same time, once we left, I kind of split it up because we had holiday leave so they let everybody leave and stuff like that. Um, and now I'm on like kind of like the post post deployment leave. I I already checked out of the meal and everything like that. So I'm done there.
Speaker 1:But even though I'm on leave, I always like to use this opportunity to see what, what, what can I do to build you know what I'm saying the brand? What can I do to build business? Because it's not, it don't feel like a job to me, bro. It don't feel like, oh, like a job to me, bro. It don't feel like, oh, I have to use my leave and I have to go back to work. No, like it's like this is what I want to do. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:Um, so now, yeah, like I said, having that, I guess, pool of content that I can pull from for an extended period of time, so that way, once I am over back in leslie and stuff like that, it's still running, it's still going. So, yeah, that's the main thing Getting the structure right, building the foundation. So that way you have like, a, not a consistency, but like, what's the word? Like, not motion, but like you know what I mean. Like not motion, but like you know what I mean. Like, um, it's like when you have things lined up. You know what I'm saying. Um, it could be like your schedule or momentum, like some momentum built up. Yeah, yeah, I mean you, yeah, you definitely.
Speaker 1:I mean the fact that you live in Georgia, you from Georgia, like you already got a plus up because you can get down to the A quickly. You know what I'm saying. Like you know and be in all because you can get down to the eight quickly. You know what I'm saying. Like you know, and be in all the studios that you need to be in and be around those people. It's just the only thing, man, that bothers me with that is that a lot of times, man, you know your music is good, you know what I'm saying and you know that you just need to get put in with the right artist. But a lot of times, man, they, they still be kind of like gatekeeping and I don't be understanding that. Like, bro, like it's enough food out here for everybody. I need it out. Like you know what I'm saying and that's the only thing. And that's why, when I be doing a lot of these events and stuff, man, I kind of like do the pros and cons on them, like what I, what I get from it. You know what I mean. I mean people. I mean that's my goal. Like, every time I go in there I try to speak to everybody, cause for some reason people always say, like I got this demeanor of me, that like what I'm saying, like I'm one of the coolest ones, and we chop it up all day, literally the whole section. Yeah, so like, and we wasn't even on the team together. We wasn't even on the same team. Yeah, we wasn't even on the same team. So it's like I try to my goal when I go in there and I try to build relationships. Build relationships, like, talk to these people, build rapport, like you know what I mean, this is what gets you to the next step, like you know what I'm saying, because they, they see that you passionate. If you just sitting there trying to just like, oh, just listen to this, just listen to this, just listen to this, and you ain't really just trying to get a quick dollar man, that's to me I get it. If people hurting, if you got to do that, cool. But like when we in those establishments like, bro, we was in OutKast, they ain't going in studios, they ain't going in studios, bro. So that was, to me, was just a plus. It's a plus and what I love about Alana, it don't look like a studio when you pull up to it. Yeah, so you go through that door, no key. You're like, oh, they got a whole stage in one room, like the joint is dope man. So it's like for everybody out there that's trying to be a producer, trying to be a songwriter, trying to be an artist, build relationships, man, but hey, also listen, because sometimes people be trying to finesse you and if you one of them, people like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, boy, you gonna get you, you gonna go down, yeah, you gonna get got. You know what I'm saying. So just make sure y'all pay attention to that. Yeah, before we get out of here, bro, we got gym class, gym class G-E-M, not G-Y-M. Yeah, what is some gyms or a gym that you can leave to the people, man, to carry on in their toolbox?
Speaker 1:One thing that I always, that has always stuck with me, was do something that no one has to ask you to do, if that makes sense, if you're going to chase a purpose, if you're going to chase something that you want to do full time, like, let's say, I may not know it for everyone else, but for me it's music. No one has to ask me to make. No one has to ask me to make music, no one has to ask me to make beats, stuff like that. So when I'm thinking about, okay, my time in the Marine Corps is looking slim, like it's, look like I'm on the outside, I'm about to be on the outside soon. So I'm asking myself all these questions and I'm also playing the mental game, like what does my day look like? Okay, I said I want to do music, but how do I structure that?
Speaker 1:And it all stems back to purpose. It all stems back to what you're willing to be persistent in throughout all the struggles, throughout everything. But if you can answer that for yourself and if you can hone in on that and really organize your thoughts about that thing, you could go really far. You could go really far. So I'll definitely say that that's my, that's my piece of advice. So, pretty much, do the right thing when nobody's watching. Yeah, do the right thing with nobody watching and then do what you like, really love to do, what you genuinely love to do, like something that's just lit, because something that's lit may not be lit five, ten years down the road, that part. But if you do something that you love to do, you may be the, the change, or you may be like the turning point, or you may be that piece of innovation that takes, whatever it is, even further. You feel what I'm saying. So don't just like, don't, don't chase a trend. Find out what your purpose is, find out what it is that you love to do and become organized in that and then you'll you'll see progress. Facts, that's big facts, man. Jd bro, hey man, it's always good man, it's always love man. But look, jd bro, hey man, it's always good man, it's always love man. I appreciate you, man, always For coming on the pod, man, and always make sure y'all follow it's at JDT right Music.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, JDT Music 1. Yeah, at JDT Music 1. Make sure y'all go look up his music. D music one. Um, make sure y'all go go look up his music. Uh, dope producer, everything, man, you know. I mean, just go check it out, uh, give it a listen and, hey, you might work with him one day. Who knows? You know what I'm saying. This is why I do what I do with these podcasts, bro, because I don't want to just grab celebrities. You know I'm, I want to grab people that's on the come up, you know what I'm saying so I can show the people, like, look, bro was on the pod before y'all even took off, before y'all even knew, before y'all even knew who he really was. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, bro, man, I appreciate you man, like always, man, we gone oh.
