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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Is that not still the song? That's the one I remember.
A It's not. Most people don't know it that way because we went to then go clear it because that's a Carly Simon song. You're so vain. You probably, So this was this two lines in the verse. We got to go clear it. We said, hey, you know, I use this part of your song in my song. I want to give you credit for it. Can we work out a deal? She said, yeah, she, her represents, no problem. Um, we'll just take 80%. Maybe it's 70 or something like, dude, yeah, it's like, it's two lines in the verse. So I had to change that, right? First thing I had to go, behind Jamaica, Nobody knows who you really are. Who do you think you are? You know, so we had changed that out, and then I'm thinking that I'm gonna make this new hit song, Benny Blanco, it's a brand big thing, because I'm, I have a record deal now, and When I play the new version of Cooler Than Me without the Carly Simon, my record label thinks, they say, it's not as good. It's not as good anymore, so I think we should use one of the new songs to be your first real single. Cooler Than Me's now been out for two years to us college kids. I'm in New York City. I'm about to go to some meeting or studio or something or hang out with a friend, and my, my manager says, we got to do a meeting with this Radio promoter. His name is Ian C. We need to do a, uh, meeting with this guy. His job is he gets songs on the radio. And usually the label is su…
AI assessment note: “It's not. Most people don't know it that way because we went to”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q was 85% as good as the, like, the best studio, but the house would get, like, double the inspiration for him or the, the comfort for him and the band. Um, I thought that was very interesting, the trade-off between, you know, efficiency or, you know, picture-perfect audio versus creative inspiration. Do you, how, what do you do with your environment to, like, get the most creative version of you?
A Very similar, you know, so, uh, first of all, I love to work in immersions like that. I have a studio, you know, in here. And, you know, I, I mostly record myself when I'm home, so my whole career, same as when I was in the dorm room, the mic's a little better now, but I have a laptop, nice mic, plugged in a nice pre, and I hit record on the laptop, I sing until I mess up, I hit stop, I engineer the thing myself, that way I can record whenever I want, I don't need another person. I have to wait for someone else to come over. But I love to work in immersion similar to what you just described with Ed, which is, that's when the most stuff happens. Hey, we're gonna take a bunch of talented people, we're gonna go to a nice place, That's divorced from our normal duties. And we're just gonna live and breathe this art for a week or two weeks. Then we're gonna basically work till we die. And then we take a couple weeks off and we come back and do it again. I like to work like that.
AI assessment note: “I mostly record myself when I'm home... that way I can record whenever I want”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q this, you know, I'm supposed to be this guy who's the star, right? They all want to be artists. I actually even have the credentials, but I thought that was kind of an amazing, humbling move to, to just Of course, why wouldn't I dedicate myself to the craft? Can you talk a little about that? There was something in that that resonated with me, because I think that's unusual.
A Yeah, well, there's two, two things in that. One, I think it speaks to the point I just made, where there are these people, I, my, at that time in my career, I had, I was in a cold spot. So I said, hey, let me use this time to get better at my skills. And if I'm being honest, yeah, I don't know how to play, like, I had a hit song, but I didn't know how to play guitar. I didn't know how to really sing. I was a rapper who had started singing. I didn't know how to play piano. So, why don't I learn some of those things? And I remember I was at a, at a, it was kind of like a campfire kind of situation, and that guy, uh, Psy was there. You remember him? Yeah. Open gongo stuff.
AI assessment note: “I was in a cold spot. So I said, hey, let me use this”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q over again. Right. Um, and so there's something to that. And, and I actually was curious, like for you, if you could go back, if there was an, the next Mike poser, he's, he's. 21 years old and you get 15 minutes in a room with him just like this, and you could tell him anything. I'm curious, what would you tell him? And do you think he would listen?
A I mean, dude, what, what the thing you opened up the interview with, you know, My smiles don't result from good things. They result in good things. You have sovereignty over your own emotions and the way you respond to and interpret every event of your life and life. And Naval Ravikant says life is a one player game, right? And you need to exercise and practice that sovereignty. You need to develop rituals that give you the best chance of, of enjoying your life to the fullest and, and being the joy in life. Not waiting for something good to happen so you can feel happy. Being happy so something good will happen. Not waiting for someone to do something nice for you so you can feel good. Doing something nice for someone else to make them feel good. And then you feel good all, you know, by default. So I, I, I didn't have a handle on any of that stuff when I was.
AI assessment note: “You have sovereignty over your own emotions and the way you respond”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q Uh, right. I go in for one reason and I come out with, it's like going to Chuck E. Cheese to play the games. You get all these prizes at the end that you didn't even realize that's, that's how the tickets work. Um, what were the prizes you got at the end of that?
A Found a part of myself that was, that was so much stronger than I ever knew was even there. Not only found a part of myself, unleashed a part of myself that I previously didn't know was there. Dude, I got bit by a poisonous rattlesnake. I spent three nights in the ICU. I got airlifted. I got told by dispatch I might not live. I got told by doctors it might take me eight months to heal. I got, you know, told by other doctors I might lose my foot. It's just like, and I did a crazy thing, dude. I went back. I kept going. Everyone expected me to quit because probably because the old me was such a bitch. You know, I was like, my whole life was about me and everything, me being comfortable, and so, like, I'm gonna do the opposite. I'm gonna, I'm gonna be a five-star walker. Right.
AI assessment note: “Found a part of myself that was, that was so much stronger”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.60
Q Like a money manager did that for you, or?
A Yes, that was part of it, right? Just knowing, hey, I'm okay. You gotta shift at some point, right? Because when you're coming up, you, you say yes to everything. You know, opportunity's gonna work. And then when you get successful, you have too many opportunities. You gotta learn to say no. There's, there's paradigm shifts along the journey. And so that, that was one of them. That's the logical part. And then the, the illogical part, or the spiritual part, is realizing what true Wealth or abundance or success is, to me, it's my definition, true success or wealth is health. It's the ability to have joy in a present moment. That's, if you can do that, you're a wealthy person. And if you're grateful, if you're grateful for what you have, you're wealthy.
AI assessment note: “Yes, that was part of it, right? Just knowing, hey, I'm okay.”
