Making Money With Your Music. How I Made $30,000 With One Song.
Hey guys what’s up it’s MIG so check this out…I have a crazy story here, completely true it’s gonna sound a little nuts but this is the story of how I made thirty thousand dollars in 24 hours with one track.
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hey guys what’s up it’s MIG so check
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this out I have a crazy story here
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completely true it’s gonna sound a
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little nuts but this is the story of how
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I made thirty thousand dollars in 24
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hours with one track alright so check
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this out um I work with a lot of
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different companies okay so I work with
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companies that handle advertising and
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film and TV and movie trailers and just
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just everything now there was a time
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where I didn’t work with all those
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companies and I was just doing music for
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artists and worked with songwriters and
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you know I kind of got into doing work
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with all these other companies over time
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so people knew about what I did and they
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said hey you know he’s a good worker he
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he knocks out stuff pretty quick and you
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know there was somebody who took notice
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of that by by having my material
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presented to them through a friend and
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you know what kind of said hey I have
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this I have this this project that needs
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to be done this guy happens to be a
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music supervisor in Hollywood I have
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this project that needs to be done we
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have a movie soundtrack we have a
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trailer and it has to be finished and
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there’s a song in the trailer that is
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just too expensive to license so check
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this out all the songs that you hear in
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in film and in radio and MTV and and
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commercials and in even in the trailers
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those songs have to be paid for they
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have to be licensed to be used so let’s
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just say like you have a movie coming
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out and you hear like a song by someone
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at you know like a famous artists the
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chances are even to use that song for 10
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seconds whatever it may be that
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placement is usually worth about
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$100,000 sometimes more so if it’s a
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song it’s really well known the more
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well-known that it is and popular the
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more money that it costs so the
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or situations where some companies might
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say you know we need to find something
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that’s similar to that song we can’t
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afford to spend you know a hundred
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thousand dollars on this one song so
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they call on film music supervisors to
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go out there along with trailer
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companies and say you know we need to
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replace that song with something that
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sounds similar it doesn’t have to be the
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same artist it doesn’t have to be a
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well-known song so then they then call
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on us the producers if you’re you know
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fortunate to be in that kind of
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situation where you know a supervisor
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you may be called on to do something
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like I was asked to do so I got a call
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from a good now a good friend of mine
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obviously we’ve done some work together
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over the years and he’s a really great
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guy who works for a lot of the film
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companies in Hollywood and he’s like hey
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MIG do you think you could pull off a
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song that sounds like this song by this
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big artist
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I said sure yeah absolutely I was like I
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would love to give it a shot at least
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he’s like look and they need this quick
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they need this like by tomorrow and I’m
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always up for a challenge so I’m like
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all right let me let me listen to it and
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I’m gonna knock something out so here’s
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what I do so they needed a song a lot
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gonna say I’m not gonna say names of the
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songs that were replaced or anything
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else but they needed the song that
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sounded like it would be like in a match
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of that song so that when they’ve taken
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out remember they’re taking it out
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because they’re trying to save like a
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hundred grand they want to replace it
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with something that fits right into that
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slot and and and just seamlessly works
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and they what they do is they go on the
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sound stage with the songs that are
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presented to them and they go has this
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one sound when they’re looking at the
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picture on the screen and how’s this
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song sound let’s play this one so I was
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basically hired to create a song that
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sounded similar to this song at the add
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three place so I called up you know one
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of my um one of my writers one of my
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rappers and said hey man let’s get
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together tonight we have to come up with
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a song that kind of sounds like this and
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we did I mean we we said we got together
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back at that point in time I had like an
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apartment studio and um you know it came
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over I put together a track we laid down
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vocals he wrote on the spot it was it
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was really awesome and I’m actually
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gonna put the link to the finished movie
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trailer and I’ll put the time code of
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where the song is and the song name and
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everything else so but he came over we
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hurried up I did the track I mixed the
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track you know he did the rat he rapped
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and um that’s it I presented it the next
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day to UM Sony it’s a Sony Tristar for a
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film from 2000 and this was like 2006
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was my first time doing this was a song
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for the movie crossover which I like
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Wayne Brady and I think Jonathan Mackie
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I believe his name was or is he’s an
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actor in Hollywood and we replaced the
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title track to that trailer and guess
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what they accepted it the next day I got
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30k for that so I paid everybody of
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course I didn’t net that that amount you
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have to pay obviously your attorney you
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have to pay your publisher who hooks up
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the deal and then of course I broke off
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the artist for writing the rap and for
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recording it but by the time I was done
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I I came out with about 15k for 24 hours
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of work so not too shabby and it led me
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into doing more work coming we placed
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other songs out with that same same film
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supervisor his name is art Ford actually
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and I’m he’s a legendary supervisor
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and I’m just lucky enough that um a
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friend of mine who was actually helping
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manage me who wasn’t even in the music
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business
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I taught him the music business quickly
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and I’m like you’re gonna act like my
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manager and that’s in a whole another
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video but it’s always good to have
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somebody representing you when they make
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phone calls and meeting take meetings
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but anyway that is a true story I’ll
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post a link but um it’s crazy man get in
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with the super getting with the
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supervisors getting with people that are
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connected to the other companies I mean
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ever since then I’ve done campaigns for
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like my musics been in on it my musics
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been featured as a major tide commercial
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and I have songs and all kinds
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films you know like back in the day we I
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did Rugrats and then in the last few
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years there was a bunch of films one of
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them at Scarlett Johansson called Don
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John I have a song and that a few songs
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in that um so it’s good when you know
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when you know people that are directly
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connected to the film companies because
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you you know as soon as there’s
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something that comes out that they need
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they hit you up so I get I get treatment
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treatment lists sent to me all the time
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sometimes you play sometimes you win and
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sometimes it doesn’t happen but I keep
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placing and placing and placing and just
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pushing and that was just a really great
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story man that was like the first time
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I’ve ever experienced like doing
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something so quickly and getting paid so
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quickly just such such a I think is an
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enormous and enormous amount of money
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for 24 hours of work and definitely
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definitely blessed to say I can do stuff
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like that so my goal of this video is
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not like to brag my goal of this video
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is to show you that there are a lot of
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ways to make a living with what you’re
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doing as a producer and also give you
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ideas of the kinds of people that you
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should be connecting with and you know I
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connected with one person that
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introduced my work to another person and
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then another person or like hey we like
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this guy’s work you know how is easy
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efficient and they’re like jelly’s super
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quick I mean that is the one thing I
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could say is I’m really quick when it
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comes to completing projects I complete
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about five probably five production
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projects on average a week and I think
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that’s kind of the thing that um has
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kind of got me through 25 years of doing
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this is that I’m able to move move move
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like I send in proposals every day to
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artists and that’s all that’s another
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video of where do I find these artists
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and where do I find these companies but
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that’s these are other things I’m gonna
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be talking about so yeah so I definitely
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made 30k in 24 hours I paid out
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everybody did the right thing never
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screw anybody and the artists deserve to
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get paid you got a nice nice chunk of
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cash from that the guy who was repping
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me got some money from that the guy who
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connected the deal right to the label
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all right for the
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film company got paid and everybody was
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happy and I was like this is awesome so
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that’s it man I’m gonna put the links in
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like I said in the description so you
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can like watch the trailer and hear the
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song that I did and when you hear this
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song realize that like when I was done I
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gave the song over to the film company
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the trailer company and basically along
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with the stems of the project that I did
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and they kind of manipulated and chopped
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it up and cut it up to make it work with
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this trailer so you’re gonna see like
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they’re playing basketball and then it
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stops from in it and so like my track
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starts and then the lyrics come in and
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then it just goes back to like the
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strings and then it fades out the black
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with like just the beat playing so it’s
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pretty cool it’s actually really awesome
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when you see that on the screen and you
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hear that my dog is over here he’s like
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here come up come here
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this is wu-tang my dog come on up come
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on buddy up there you go this is Wu one
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of my dogs
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he’s a plot hound and yeah wu-tang and
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cha-cha my wife named named them she’s a
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huge hip-hop fan and um yeah this is Wu
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all right buddy get down so that’s it
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guys leave up give me some comments and
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if you have any questions let me know if
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you want to make another video let me
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know what about I’m gonna be doing a lot
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of these okay so um I’m ready to rock
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I’m ready to help and I want to see you
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guys succeed the way that I have
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succeeded and as I learn more I’m gonna
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share more alright there’s plenty to go
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around
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this is mr. Miggs signing off peace out
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and I’ll see you soon
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