First Time, Long Time?

In this episode of The Rise, join Skrizz and Adam as they update us on what's going on in their lives - Skrizz's song Dance with Darkness charted in Germany and Adam traveling around the globe, building his online business.

Transcript

Adam   0:02
Talking music, building businesses, and the grit in the journey. We're Skrizz and Adam and welcome to The Rise.

Skrizz  0:17 
Yo, what's going on? We are back with Skrizz and Adam. This is Skrizzly here in East Hanover, New Jersey. And Adam, where are you located right now?

Adam   0:25
Right now I am in Austin, Texas. How are you doing, man?

Skrizz  0:28
Doing good. It's, it's good to be here. I'm located in my new casa. I'm in the studio. It's kind of ugly angle, you can see a TV and an Organ.

Adam   0:37
I was gonna say give us a tour, but we actually did another.

Skrizz  0:40
We'll do a cribs episode of The Rise with Skrizz and Adam it's like very unflattering but um yeah, it is our 13th episode of the rise on the 13th of April so think very serendipitous if you like it's gonna be a really really good one. Um, but yeah, it's good to be back we're doing new software to talk virtually which is exciting very, very COVID friendly I guess.

Adam   1:01
Yeah, we took a little bit of a break I I've been traveling a lot so unfortunately been able to see Skrizz too much lately so I said let's let's get something virtual on the books. We're trying to add a new software we're just trying to give you guys more Skrizzly Adams, more the rise, Adam Rosen content too. Yeah. More Adam Rosen content too. So anyway, though, dude. Oh, I think this year.

Skrizz  1:24
So we haven't talked much. So we're, we're we're friends on everything and we're absorbing each other's data. I see you by a pool or something in Austin, maybe drinking a tropical drink or something like that. Maybe making it up?

Adam   1:35
No, not especially like Austin Austin's not tropical drinks Austin's all beer all day every day, but not all day.

Skrizz  1:42 
And that's it when the best selling handles in America. And overseas. No one knows what Tito's vodka is I have a bigger overseas audience. And no one knows what Tito's is but America

Adam   1:52 
my drink of choice. Tito's in water with a lemon. So it's the perfect place to do that. I don't think at all but healthier. It's a little healthy. But anyway, though, so I saw some what I'm assuming is pretty big news. So I mean, I'm German. So this Oh, you want to know that? That? Yeah. And I'm German so yeah, I'm Germans. This resonated extra with me but I saw you were charting in Germany. So what does that mean?

Skrizz   2:15
Cool. Um, well, thank you appreciate that. I did post for the first time on social media that I am charting on something regarding radio or billboard oriented for the first time in my life. My song dance with darkness, which is four years old, charted at one debut on the AirPlay German charts it at 166. It starts at 250 and ends at one obviously. Yeah, I mean, I think the poor go into a massive rabbit hole of what all that means. The disclaimers, I have no idea what it means it means I've hit like 150 radio plays in Germany today, that's the wild numeric answer to what it means. And 150, like between 120 It might actually have no idea. But like in the 120 to 200 range. My song didn't start just gets played on German radio. In Germany, there are 240 stations.

What that means, I think the exciting part about it, especially as an independent artist that is literally kind of like overseeing everything themselves is is learning in the moment what exactly that means and what exactly it doesn't mean. And I'm actually very pleasantly surprised because I have to keep it short. But like I I was reached out by a German radio person back last year, we brought our song dance with darkness to German radio, a few stations played, it never amounted to anything but whatever it was a start. But when dance with darkness, which was already a viral German, viral hit on Spotify, in Germany, I guess there was a familiarity there. I think there were already like 7 million 8 million streams in Germany alone. And you only need 20 million streams in Germany for it to be a gold record. So it's already like very close to on its way.

So whenever it's issued out. without receiving any reports back, I was able to realize it was very well received. I'm a huge analytics person. I feel like you're probably a big analytics person as well. And the big thing with me is like it's like the, it was issued out on Monday. And then by Wednesday, I got data back from Tuesday, and it was like it had 100 Shazams in Germany. That means, you know what Shazams is?

Adam   4:21
Yeah, of course.

Skrizz   4:22
So it means like, you know, 100 people in Germany were like, what is this? What is this? And that happened? And I was just like, Well, again, this again, this is a huge learning curve to all of us. I don't know. And I'm just like, well, it usually gets like, zero a day or 10 a day or like somewhere in there. So you get 100 in one country and one day seemed like a really really big deal. And sometimes that big deal for Dua Lipa, probably not, then I have no idea but so I didn't think it was it was like, I thought it was great for me. But then then it was like 150 The next day that 200 And back to 80 100. Every day we were getting hundreds.

Adam   4:56
Interesting. And are you seeing a spike then in your other stats?

Skrizz   5:00
Then my thing was like, okay, so I went to like, my YouTube and like music videos and stuff like that. And like people were searching, Grizzly Adams dance with darkness a lot, you know what I mean? And then a week later the Spotify would be like, up 20%, Amazon was up 400% and Apple was up 200%. And yeah, I think I think the really exciting part about it was it was like, like, as I say, this as as old as radio may seem, it's like all of it is still relevant and creates like a synergy. And like, it was just all kind of revolving around. And I did make a post about it. And someone posted yesterday that like, they discovered me through radio, and they've been a fan for a week or whatever. But they're a fan now, you know. And I think it's really interesting. I don't want to I don't want to downplay any other things going on. But it's like, I have a record going viral on a certain platform right now. Crushing it, like making really good money, super grateful for it. It's already generated millions of streams on a platform that doesn't get millions of streams.

Adam   5:59
Can we hear what the platform is?

Skrizz   6:01
No, I don't want to say that because it's whatever. I'm very grateful for this platform. But the thing I want to say I'm very grateful for that. But when I have really good relations with this platform is I don't think it's yielded me a single fan. I don't think it's yielded me, it really feels like it's background music. You know what I mean? And, and like to.

Adam   6:17
But let's dig into what why do you say that? What Why do you feel like that's background music?

Skrizz   6:22
I don't know if that I don't know if it being background music is the answer. But that's my theory. Because again, like if you're getting millions of streams on a platform, it doesn't generate million streams. And again, very grateful for this platform, because some a lot of really good for me, but I just don't see. When I had to thing, don't whenever dance with darkness, it was really viral on Spotify, that yielded fandom, I was getting 75 - 200 new followers a day. And again, that felt that felt very real than this, this radio thing feels like I'm getting German followers and posts every single day. Whereas like, the records gonna do like 13 14,000 streams a day. It's a lot, especially for that platform. And like, I don't think any of those people are following me on Instagram, you know what I mean?

So I don't really I don't like I think just kind of goes to the underlying thing of what we're saying with all this. Like, I don't know the answer to what any of this means. You know what I mean? I think the best thing I can do is just be proactive. So it's like, we took this success, as before we even got the charts, and I woke up on Friday, and we did a team read and it was like seven in the morning, like, Oh, we're 166 I'm like, and just this is I guess the only bragging moment I'll try to do is like the radio promoter told us that. To give us like, you know, realistic expectations was that, like, you know, only two to two Rock Records broke the hot 100 In the last year. But first one was begging by mana skin, which everyone's heard that song, it's huge. They were the winner, you're the winners of Eurovision, you know, that like the biggest songs on z 100. You know what I mean? And the other one was a Foo Fighters song. And they're the Foo Fighters. So it's like, other than that no one else breaks that 100.

And when we say, week 166, that's huge. So my goal was like, if we can get the hot 100, my personal goal will just say just to speak into existence, it might sound arrogant, but it's like, if we can get the hot 100 and just stay there for 10 weeks, that'll just use such such good exposure, you know what I mean? You're up, and we might be off the charts. And it might be over. So I don't know, but the best thing we can do, the best thing I've learned to do is like, well, this opportunity has presented itself, how can I be proactive. And like I've, I've seen a lot of popularity in Canada, and Canada's a very small populated country with a good currency conversion rate. So I was like promoting a record there would be pretty cheap.

So I've been looking for a referral of someone who could break, you know, like where I play in Saskatoon, like only a million people in that entire massive province. So it's like the cost of getting my music, those million people is not very high, you know. And if you're coming the most popular artists in those million people, the payoffs pretty good. So whatever I was looking, I was kind of going down the rabbit hole trying to find people. One of the best radio promoters in America I've talked to for years, and we sent him the record asking for a referral for Canada. And that conversation opened up a whole new thing. And, you know, where he's like kind of said, we never really stood a chance in the past. He was saying with the success we're seeing in Germany, and just the nature of the record, and you know, the 10s of millions of streams, it does, does have a chance in America and you know, but it's America, America is expensive. Everything about America is expensive. You know what I mean?

So it's like, let's say the entry is like $30,000, or something like that. It's like, I could pull the trigger on that right now. And then the radio report comes back from Germany, they're like, go watch over, you had a good run. I'm just like, Well, God, I really hope it works in America, because it didn't work out. You know what I mean? Like, so it's learning to be prepared with being learn learning to be able to pivot and kind of maximize the wins, you know what I mean?

Adam   9:49
So you're, but on that though, you're your business guy. You're an entrepreneur, your team is obviously always thinking about how can we capitalize on these moments? So what are you and your team thinking about? Or how do you capitalize Like you said, none of those people maybe that downloaded your stream are following you on Instagram, how are you capitalizing bringing them on Instagram, bringing them a tick tock getting them to download more of your music, potentially doing a show out there? Like, what are the different ways you're connecting the dots?

Skrizz   10:13
For sure. I mean, it's kind of like a video game where it's like, you got the level two, you got to figure out how to get to level three. And like, there's all different missions kind of going on. So like, yeah, like pivoting from German radio to American or North American radio is like one thing. But another thing is like, they have Spotify in Germany, they have every DSP in Germany, they have teams of people, Berlin is a massive business infrastructure city.

So the name of the game here is like, and right now I'm working with a company, I will not say who that their headquarters is in Berlin, and they have a lot of equity in what I'm doing. So their headquarters is in Berlin, and their multibillion dollar company, and I'm killing it in Germany, they better be able to call some favors and get me on the German, you know what I'm saying? Like, but I have to do my part, you know, it's only been a week. So it's like, the big thing for me is like, how can I get together an amazing one sheet, an amazing resume in 10 days, and then be like, okay, German people, like, make me the man on Spotify in Germany, because giving me a 20% boost is cool. But a 2,000% boost would be really nice. You know what I mean?

So that's like one thing. And then with that, it's like, the more I chart, the more the industry is aware of me. And the industry in Germany was very aware of me when we went viral on Spotify. It's like, I don't have a European agent. So yeah, like getting a good European agent that can play six shows a year in Germany. It's good people. That's maybe the casual radio person who heard you that week into like, Skrizzly Adams the fucking truth. I'm gonna start a podcast with that. My name is Adam Rosen.

Adam   11:47
Exactly. Exactly. That's, that's, that's the game here. Well,

Skrizz   11:49
that's the game like however, you got them to hook them in. That's not enough. You got to get them to show up in person.

Adam   11:57
That's, that's the that's how, again, we talked about before. It's tipping point, you're playing a show in Boston wants to see the show in Boston. And that's when you know. Exactly. So that makes sense. So now in terms of like, Skrizzly Adam, like highlight wins in your career, like let's say say top three? Where's this rank? Does this crack your top three

Skrizz   12:21
honestly, this feels like number one, it's not a big deal. Not like a big it's not a big financial, It's a financial game, but it's not a financial Financial Piece doesn't really even matter. It's more like it's kind of a testimony to like, so much time put in and like being able to also like you have to also remember I'm an independent artists like, I'm not like independent artists. I do independent label or like, part of some small organization like it's no it's like me and my partners, and my partners. I mean, like, two people. You know what I mean?

Like it's literally just us, I have like my friends helping me out for free. So that felt like a big win where it's like you're kind of competing and you're kind of beating them and like the ripple effect is like people actually taking you seriously. I think the bigger one I can't say I don't care who the fuck offends but it's like the CEO fucking Atlantic Records Craig Kalman like shat on the song like straight up shat on the song when I played it it was the exact same recording it was the exact recording. Dance with darkness, the exact recording I showed it to him and like like so like eight nine years is a very old song like my I was like a decade younger saying on that recording, like it's so old, and shat on it, just like straight up did not like it hasn't died yet. Like it's 10 millions a lot for like Ed Sheeran. No, but like, No one says it's not gonna get 200 million. No one says it's not gonna get to a billion like, This train has not stopped rolling yet. So seeing that kind of gets me pumped it into like, you know, it's a self fulfilling way like you were right. I don't give a shit about prove anyone wrong. You know what I mean? But it's like yeah, not like you liked it. So it's good to see other people like in it.

Adam   14:03
Well, one of the rules of this podcast as we know is you have to mention Kanye at least once.

Skrizz   14:09
Oh, yeah. No, no. Do you have to start an episode about genius? Have you seen it yet?

Adam   14:13
No, I haven't. I have to watch it. Watch it.

Skrizz   14:17
I'll watch it again. We're doing a 30 minute over the whole thing.

Adam   14:21
Deal. Love it. One of the things you have in common with Kanye was I only saw a small clip of it but I think it was all falls down which was an absolute jam.

Skrizz   14:29
It wasn't it wasn't just all spelled out. It was everything. Like laughing at him and walking out like it's like it's fucking humiliating to watch and then the album is like one of the best albums of lesson ever. You know what I mean? Like it was all just college dropout footage of him like playing the exact songs like Jesus walks like all falls down. It was like on

Adam   14:51
The flip side, though, that too that's kind of funny to think about or sad to think about however you want to think about it is like for every Kanye experience, there's like that or even yours that you have. There's all those other experiences where they're like, seriously take it, burn it, throw it away, and it actually shouldn't be taken, thrown and burned away.

Skrizz   15:09
Every Kanye West situation. There's not any nice situations like dogshit Yeah,

Adam   15:13
And people were like, No, I'm like Kanye. They told me my song sucks. They told me I'm not going to mount anything, but I'll show them and it's like, no, you're wasting your money. Like for me, I shouldn't be playing in the NFL telling me hey, you shouldn't be playing. You know, like, I really should it.

Skrizz   15:26
I have like a fucking. It's just so relevant. So funny that I want to mention it anyway, I had, like, not definitely not a friend. I was not friends with this person. Who's watching I'm sorry for saying this. You do follow me. Like someone from high school reached out to me just like a grown ass man. Like, it's interesting. Like, I really am into music. And I want to do music professionally. And like, I'm like, what do you do? Like, I'll do anything? I'm like, Well, I really, really would love to, you know, be a professional footballer in fucking Spain. But that's never gonna fucking happen. I didn't see any of that. I'm like, it's just not gonna happen. Like, I'm a five foot fucking seven like, 150 I can't play in the NFL. It's not gonna happen.

Adam   16:06
That was Skrizz. That was Skrizz's response that he told us his real response was hey, thanks so much for reaching out. I'd love to help. You can be anything you want to be in life.

Skrizz   16:14
It's like, just download this link, follow my podcast.

Adam   16:17
Exactly. Follow the podcast, I'll teach you everything.

Skrizz   16:19
Follow the podcast. Give me a Heart on every single thing like, exactly. And then good energy's gonna go your way. But yeah, that back to back the German radio thing? Yeah, I'm gonna say I feels like the most fulfilling exciting thing. I don't really think it means very much at the end of the day. For all the new German fans, it gets, like, very, very grateful to be on the charts is very grateful. That's helping me page. Stuff like that. It's good. But like, it could create a snowball effect that makes it into a global record. Or like I said, like Friday comes today's Wednesday, and like, you're off the charts. Is it over?

Adam   16:55
When I'm when I'm in Europe all summer? You're gonna have to come we're gonna have to go to Germany for first.

Skrizz   17:02
We should. Yeah, let's do that. Got it. We gotta get a show setup for the record does really, really well, the next couple weeks. So we have to get over there.

Adam   17:06
I have no doubt the next podcast which we're not going to wait as long as we did to do this last. But the next podcast is still going to be top of the charts. I'm thinking it's going to top 40 that's my that's my Oh, it's that good energy out there.

Skrizz   17:17
I love it. Let's do it. For sure.

Adam   17:20
Because by the way, one of the things that you feel like you're trying to get yourself to forget this. But the truth did a handshake deal. One of my bucket list items is to play the drums on Oh, at a concert with at least 20,000 people or so. Live and really count on you. You're my chance it's gonna happen. I gotta look, I gotta learn. I gotta learn how to play the drums a little better, though, because I don't want yeah, I gotta make you look.

Skrizz   17:46
But yeah, okay, so let's put it so I've been doing that. That's kind of my new exciting thing. Obviously. I'm gonna plug it right now, if you're listening, album three is coming very, very soon. And I'm really, really excited about that. We do a podcast just talking about that. Actually, there's a lot of lot being revealed in album three, which is been like eight years in the making. But so you right now our mobile businessman in Austin, Texas. Tell me what's working for you. What's not? And how do you see this affecting next couple years?

Adam   18:16
Yeah, man. Yeah, I've been bouncing around since November. I was in Europe. You know, we talked a little bit about that Italy, Switzerland. I was in Hawaii for a few months. And I just got to Austin about a week ago, and I'll be here for about a month or so. And then I'm planning on leaving the country and probably spend the majority or the rest of the year outside the country. So it's fine. I mean, for me, I don't want him to be a backpacker. Like I don't want to just backpack around the world. And just like you know, to find myself quote unquote, like I'm building a business as I do this, like my days are, are pretty full. I'm doing a lot of podcasts right now. I'm having a lot of sales meetings. I'm building a lot right now. So my focus is around building my online business, my sales business, and exploring the world because I think it adds so much value to me, like the people I'm meeting as we talked about previous episodes, it's been incredible. So yeah, I want to keep traveling the world and I want to keep building the business as I do.

Skrizz   19:06
Hear me out on this. How many years or months did you work at it?

Adam   19:10
Five years, about five years.

Skrizz   19:11
and explain to anyone listening? What do we work as if they don't know.

Adam   19:14
Shared co working space? So they're in some of these buildings, it'd be you know, 10 stories or more with three, four or 500 businesses in there.

Skrizz   19:21
So you work that we worked for five years and now for like a year, you've been traveling while working. Give me the headspace difference, like the mental difference. Obviously, there's a physical difference. I don't care about that. Like how's that changing your mental health? Like, how is that changing? You're just explain that to me. I have the mental perspective of living and working on it. We work for five years, and literally waking up in Hawaii and waking up in Austin. The waking up is urge.

Adam   19:46
Yeah, I mean, the way I used to think business had to be was you had to be in the office 24/7 There's there's a value to that. Sure. But I literally used to be in the office Monday through Saturday 6am On most days till 6, 7, 8 pm most days. Sundays I'd still be in the office 9am till about 5-6 pm. Like I was I work too much, especially to get as shitty results as we got like you expected to be a frickin multi gazillionaire for the amount of hours that I was putting in type of thing. But anyway, so yes, there was value to that. And you know, being young and hustling and like hustle coach, like I was all about it, but it definitely wore on you more on me at least, whether or not I wanted to admit it. But now, now the biggest challenge I have is just whenever I go to a new spot, how do I get into my routine as quickly as possible, get my work done. But also make sure that I have the time to go out there, explore meet new people, like explore new restaurants, adventure, and do all that stuff too.

Skrizz   20:39
Amazing. Are you finding your adaptability speed changing? Or is it variable every time every city is just different?

Adam   20:46
I mean, every city is different, but I feel like I can hop back in pretty quickly now. Like I'm pretty good at getting bounced back. Like once I land in a spot, I try to just get my first good night of sleep. And then, you know, try to try to get my work done, and then explore and meet people and I do a decent job of just connecting with people and in people I think some people say that people are assholes. And sure that could be the case. But as long as you're nice, be nice person, you respect their culture, people are gonna welcome you with open arms. And once they do, that's, that's how you really explore these places, like people will help you fight figure out where you should go, they'll introduce you to the people like for me, people have been so welcoming. It's made every experience awesome.

Skrizz   21:23
From like a business perspective. Like, I always find this as someone who travels a lot too, is like, when you meet so many people, there's so many different. You mean, even in United States, there's just so many different cultures, there's so many different things. And people are often very so strong minded in different places like that opens, especially when you're you know, dealing with 50 Different cultures in a given year that's opening your mind. And when you open your mind. Like your business palette just explodes. I always think like anything's like you. You said they just thinking a lot. I find that are you finding kind of something similar?

Adam   21:58
Yeah. 100% like you even think about for someone like you, you know, an artist, one of the best things you could do is fucking just say I'm gonna take three months, and I'm just gonna go spot to spot to spot to spot because the creative muscle that you had, it just opens up. And the different experiences you get, like, when you're in the same spot every single day, like I found this with myself, it's like, you're not able to be as creative, you're meeting the same people you're walking the same streets are talking the same types of people, you're eating at the same locations. But when you go from spot to spot to spot, your forces be like, alright, barbecue food here is great. Here's how people speak. Here's the type of music here's like the you know, the types of business people like you all these different things.

Skrizz   22:36
very much. So for like a songwriter, it's like, I mean, it's for like a colorful logo. So I write using colors where it's like, you try to paint something very distinct or whatever. It's like, I think I actually have a song coming out a few weeks that mentiones Austin, Texas, it also my interest in Orleans, but like, yeah, you pick up on different things that are, you know, unique to that experience. And then from there, it's like anyone else, whether they've experienced or not, they're always going to affiliate that song with that, right? That imagery or that experience. And that's like this, this dance. And yet, you're not going to get that if I live in this room all day. I'm not going to get that I can only sing about this lamp so many times.

Adam   23:10
Like one of my I wouldn't say is my favorite artists like I like some of his music, but I like I've grown to as well as I can know somebody personally, I've never met before just through his interviews. I don't know if you follow Mike Posner at all or Posner say his name, but I really appreciate his journey. And one of his top songs was I woke up to Columbia. Exactly. I think I took a pill in Ibiza. It was all about just him going into this totally different experience. Yeah, taking this pill literally in Ibiza, waking up and having this like, earth shattering kind of epiphany moment exactly. And it's kind of opened up now his next chapter of his career and his whole life. But you can only get that from putting yourself in different positions.

Skrizz   23:51
For sure. And that's, that's just really what it is. You know what I mean? And like, I think, I think there's always like, how does like, the idea of traveling or the idea of being worldly, might be pretentious, and like, it definitely doesn't have to be at all. You know what I mean? Like you can, like Anthony Bourdain, I always felt like was like a very, like, absurdly worldly human being who kept it like very grounded at all. Right? I mean,

Adam   24:17
I think it's one of like, the most humbling things to actually do. Because these places nobody knows who the hell you are. They don't care. And they're only going to respect you and appreciate you. If you are down to earth. Like I will say about, you know, being in Hawaii, I lived there. I spent a lot of you know, a few months there again, recently, I know a lot about the Hawaiian culture. And people say that Hawaiians don't like people from the mainland. And yeah, sure they don't if you go in there and you try to just be like Mr. Macho New York City guy hotshot, you know BS not embracing their culture. But if you go in there with humility, you embrace the culture, embrace their food, embrace their people embrace their land, all that stuff, they're gonna love you. They'll open the welcoming with open arms and they'll do that in any place in the world. I found for the most part, not everywhere, obviously. But I think traveling actually can, you have to have humility. If you really want to get the most out of it.

Skrizz   25:03
You're right. I think you're definitely right. I'm actually like, it's got like a full circle moment, or it's like, we're talking about this thing in Germany. And it's like, we're seeing success. And it's like, I mean, there is not much of a language barrier, because they do all speak English, but it's like now all these people are being introduced to my music. And they do have limited access. And if you are from Germany, you are following The Rise. Welcome. It's good to have you. But yeah, I mean, like, you're right, how I go over there, and how I present myself live may not be the same way I want to present myself in Austin, Texas, you know, and I mean?

Adam   25:37
Or being out there might even change the way you present yourself altogether. You know, there might be some learning, you have somebody you meet, like, some different connection, where imagine you just performed your whole life in New Jersey, you're going to perform a certain way, versus when you start hitting the road, you're going to learn different things.

Skrizz   25:51
Artists who run their whole life in one place, usually run into serious problems, like serious problems, because they can't get out of it. There they are stuck in what works in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and it's, it doesn't work in Boston, you know, I mean, yeah, totally.

Adam   26:06
Before we hop off, yes. What's, what's one exciting personal thing, you know, aside from the music, and I know you got your new house there. So that may be something well, it's like an exciting personal thing before we hop off for today.

Skrizz   26:19
So this probably isn't the right answer, because it is a business thing. But like, since we've last talked like, songwriting is just like, skyrocketed. I mean, we make so many, you're probably sick of it. But it's like, there's like so many things. We talk about songs, it's just like, it's just like, I can write and produce and record a full song. Like every two days, like the whole thing, like I don't, I have other people I work with, and I just quit working with, like other people at this point. I'm just like, it's just me here. And I'm just, and I really think it's all really, really good. I made a tweet earlier in the year saying I was gonna make four albums in one year, and like, I have a white board. I think I posted a white board. And it's like, it's at like, 32. So it's like, almost Oh, wow. Yeah, it's already almost done. And we're not even six months into the two years.

That's kind of, like different confidence or different peace of mind. You know what I mean? Where it's like, like, I know, if you put a gun to my head, which marks I was in another episode, but it's like, it was a necessity that did I entered a contract where I had to guarantee a certain amount of songs a certain amount of time. I think that neurotic pneus made me just figure it out. You know, I mean, and now I can just like, like, gun to my head, like, make 20 songs in 10 days. I'm like, Okay, it's not a problem. It'll be done.

Adam   27:33
Where's that inspiration coming from? I feel like

Skrizz   27:36
It's not like it's not a lack of input. Think of it this way. It's like a dance like a river with a fucking daily the river is always fucking flowing. You've gotta open up the bucket dam. You know what I mean? It's all day. I can write ideas down all day. And like, they will be there. And if you're if you're this is an any writing thing. I refuse to believe there's an excuse. It's like, there is always shit to write about the human experience is like, an absurd like absurd amount of data being thrown at you all the fucking time. And most of it's actually pretty fucking interesting. You know? I mean, you're just not looking at it. You're just not noticing that like the girl the fucking coffee shop has one black fingernail the rest of its purple. You're just not noticing that you don't I mean, there's a lot to pick up on. So that's the one on for me. Adam. Anything exciting going on here personal life?

Adam   28:21
I feel like my personal life and my business life is very blurred at this point. Just because it's kind of

Skrizz   27:28
Coexistence one room. It's yours all coexist in your computer. There's nothing else.

Adam   28:32
Yeah, so I guess I I'll give one thing. So I'm a big fan of like, you got to shed weight. You got to burn the boats. Sure. And one thing I'm doing right now, because I'm making that decision to fully be remote and bounced around the world as I am selling my car. So that's a big thing for me. Yeah, so that's a big.

Skrizz   28:55
Not a financial step but this is a life positioning step.

Adam   28:59
It's a life positioning step. Listen, I mean, not making the car payments for a car that I'm not driving anymore because I'm never always in New York anymore. That of course, will be a good thing. But I do feel like it's like alright, at first I was very against it. No, no, I'll keep it until I'm done. Now. It's like, alright, gotta shed the weight. Gotta move on. I gotta say goodbye. I gotta put her into, you know, a new new set of hands that can take care of her.

Skrizz   29:18
It's good. I like it. Well, congrats on that. Everyone. It's good to be back with The Rise with Skrizz and Adam, Episode 13 on April 13. This will be a very special one. We look back on decades from now very excited about you in Austin, Texas. But yeah, we're gonna be back doing a bunch of stuff with like, genius. The Kanye West documentary. We're talking about songwriting. We'll talk about bullshit. We're gonna get guests. We have a lot of stuff

Adam   29:41
Do you have any guest who really wants to talk to? Any ideas?

Skrizz   29:18
I got a bunch. We just got to get we got to get back in the rhythm of things. But I'm liking this new software. Hopefully, you guys are liking it all to comment, subscribe, post, and share. This ain't ending anytime soon. It's all uphill.