From: klm3298@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (K-Mello SGP '92)
Subject: Re: Tha Bizness.
Reply-To: klm3298@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:52:35 GMT

In article <BxxF5n.LGJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, dwarner@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (David J.) writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.082602.10581@ultb.isc.rit.edu> klm3298@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>>
>>Although I am glad that money is following hi calling, I don't see why you
>>would have to give up school to persue a career in the music biz.  If you are
>>willing to give up what you have been going to school for all this time to
>>persue your musical interest, it sounds to me like yo were studying the wrong
>>thing in the first place.  I love music, and would love to work in the music
>>biz in several aspects, but I'm not giving up what I have put so much of my
>>life into to persue it full time.  I loved what I'm studying before my love for
>>music was as deep as it is now, and at this point I'm not willing to give up
>>either.  I see my schooling as an instrument to get me to where I may one day b
>>able to work full-time with music.  I may even be able to put my degree to use
>>in the music biz, although it is not directly related.  So for now, I am a
>>full-time student and part-time music enthusiast.  I don't want to nor am I
>>willing to give up on either.  And if for some reason I'm not able to persue a
>>career in the music biz, I always have something to fall back on, but we'll
>>cross that biz when the time comes.  If I sound like some of y'all mamas, mama
>>is a smart lady.  Look toward the future my fellow humans, not just a day or a
>>week, or a month or a year.  Look 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 years.  Look as if there is
>>more than just you, for most of you will not be alone in those years.  Think.
>>Peace.
>
>The way I see it, if Ice Cube and PE and all them are right, there won't be a
>5 or 10 years from now.  I'm going for mine now while I still have the time.
>

I don't know if you are talking about the freedom to say what you want on
records, or being alive, but either way I ain't goin' out like no sucker.  But
what I'm talkin' about is looking at this shit like an athlete should; there's
at least a 100 mu'fuckas out there that don't get a contract for every one that
does get a contract.  I'm talking about having some other means of supporting
my future family if I don't make enough in the biz.  I know a guy now that has
a record store that gets all kinds of shit, and he's been doing it for years,
with 2 stores at 1 time, now only 1, but he would like to open another one
again.  He also has a day job, to help put food on the table for his family. 
That's what I'm talking about.  You can't always think about just yourself. 

>I've been working at this damn newspaper for three months now, and I've gotten
>little or no credit for what I've done from the people with whom I work.  If
>the real world is anything like that (and that's about how it looks), FUCK IT! 
>Like D-Nice said, it's time to flow...
>

Well, I don't know much about the newspaper biz, but 3 months is not all that
long.  Anyway, you can't always do what you want to do by working through the
system, but keep the faith anyway.

>>K-Mello
>>SHYGUY Productions '92
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K-Mello
SHYGUY Productions '92
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