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This week we're bringing you a snippet of another great podcast: The Artist And The Athlete. In each episode, Lindsay Czarniak brings together a musician and an athlete who share a real connection — whether that's an existing relationship or just mutual respect. Like Ray Lewis and Kirk Franklin. Or Alanis Morisette and Danica Patrick. The conversations get very intimate — nothing is off the table. Listen in every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts, or click here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-artist-and-the-athlete-with-lindsay-czarniak/id1551251928 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason is an inventor and innovator. His latest creation is the Vision headphone, from his company Muzik, which puts a camera into a pair of headphones. He's full of good ideas, holding over 130 patents. But he also seems to be good at raising money. Muzik has over $80 mil of cash from investors including Drake, Kevin Hart, Cardi B, Michael Jordan, and François Pinault of luxury powerhouse Kering. Jason seemed like the right person to ask about selling a vision, and he shares some important lessons about how he got the support of all those famous people. We also talk about going from designing everything himself to (slowly) letting go and building a team. Listen now if you want to get super smart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David started as a club and rave promoter in DC, where he learned "how to spend a dollar to make $10" and how to create experience for his guests. He then took those talents to Silicon Valley where he became a VC, investing in tech companies including Airbnb. He's now the founder of EI.Ventures which is launching a line of "farmaceutical" products — using naturally grown psychedelics to treat mental health concerns. We explore the similarities and differences betweent he rave scene and the tech scene as well as how you can build a successful career on wisdom and empathy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk to Alphonso Rawls — former pro skater and a leader in skate shoe design. While he was riding for brands like Airwalk, Etnies, Droors, Duff's, among others, he began designing shoes for many of those companies, and others, before becoming head of footwear design for DC. There he designed the Court model, which has been DC's biggest-selling shoe to this day. More recently, Alf launched his own lines: Everybody Skates: A skate / streetwear brand that borrows heavily from pop culture (https://everybodyskates.com) Savale: A luxury sneaker brand making limited-edition skate shoes that you can actually skate in if you have money like that (https://www.savalefootwear.com) We get a little deep on the details of sneaker design. Geek out on that if you're interested, and there are a couple of BIG lessons for everyone building a brand or a career: 1. Make sure you know why people are buying your product. It can be the best in the world but if it doesn't meet the emotional and functional needs of yo

Monalisa is one of those "it's the journey, not the destination" kind of people. She's played a big role in the LA club scene and music scene for many years — as a DJ at Motown on Mondays, Dublab, and so many of our city's great clubs; as the used record buyer at Amoeba and an important link to vinyl for many DJs, producers, collectors; as a promoter / marketer, connector of dots. But to hear her tell it, her accomplishments have been the result of being willing to try new things, to take advice and encouragement from the people around her, and to just throw herself into something without having it all planned out. Check out the stories of the big-name DJs who stepped up and helped or gave her a push when she was starting out. And the great story about the mini-movement she started on Facebook a few years back. Think about the people who have helped you, or could help you, AND the people you can help. That's your homework for today. Make sure you follow Monalisa on Mixcloud at https://www.mixcloud.com/Mon

Catching up with the homie Eddie Donaldson — sometime co-host of Rebel Radio and founder of street art consultancy Guerilla One. Eddie works with artists and brands to bring graffiti to the masses. He's curating the Love Los Angeles Style online art show, featuring prints from Tristan Eaton, Estevan Oriol, RISK, Taz, Saber, Dave Navarro aka Life After Death, CES, and many others. Coming soon: Find out more at www.sugarpressart.com and you can follow Eddie at https://www.instagram.com/guerillaone/ We talk about what's happening with graffiti and street art during the pandemic and how some artists are using the time to step up their game. This episode also features a replay of my favorite story from our 2018 interview with Estevan Oriol. If you haven't heard that episode, you're going to want to hear this story. It's about not giving up and seizing the opportunity of a lifetime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cameron is founder of Intertia Artist Management which handles the careers of some artists on the bubble (meaning you prolly never heard of them but your kids might have, or they will) including 10k.Caash, 7ru7h, and Spaceman Zack and producer of the Family Business Festival, a partnership with Young Thug. We talk about the pivots he's made in his career so far — from metal to EDM and now hip hop, from promotion to management — and what he sees for the future. He also shares what it's like being an independent promoter in a business dominate by a couple giants, and how he turns that size difference into a competitive advantage: "We're boutique of two dudes, and we're just really good at our jobs and we push and go the extra mile to make sure every show sells out. And we're looking for artists that we can push to the next level of artistry and to build a brand that consumers trust." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mario is co-founder of No Free Coffee, a new coffee brand dipped in urban culture sensibilities ("fire merch"), and launching with Clubhouse chats, an Apple Music playlist, hella content. Very different from the hipster Seattle vibes we're used to with our coffee. Makes sense tho: he's also a creative producer at Instagram and an accomplished preditor (not our word) with credits from the Fader, Complex, Atlantic Records, and Tyler Perry. If Mario's going to make something, he's going to make it look good. Our interview gets into what it's like to kick-off a side hustle without knowing the ins and outs of the business and bringing his strengths to a new venture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nimesh Patel is getting us through quarantine. With two comedy specials — Jokes for Quarantine and PATEL2020 — plus an album — Head Nimesh In Charge — plus snippets popping up reguarly on YouTube and TikTok, he's giving us a steady stream of laughs to keep us going. Check out our interview where he gives us an hour of insight into how he went from messing around with music to working in private equity to writing for Chris Rock and Hassan Minaj and Awkwafina to being the first Indian writer on SNL to doing his own thing. Learn why the failures along the way are maybe as important as the successes (our words, not his), and what he's learned about making money on YouTube. You can find him at instagram.com/findingnimesh + everywhere else. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We catch Mark de Clive-Lowe at home, but only because it's 2020. Otherwise, he pretty much lives on the road, jumping all over the world to play and make music that spans jazz, hip hop, house. Although the first album in his collection was Madonna's "Like A Virgin," Mark has built his career on sounds that are a lot more esoteric and a lot less mainstream. He's generous enough to share some of the secrets that have made him an underground king, and he may surprise you a little with his openness to sounds that are outside of his realm. Learn how Mark switches up his approach for different rooms (or different countries), and what he thinks has made jazz such an important part of our musical heritage for over a century (hint: starts with an I). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Soren Baker is a good listener. We get him talking about what he's learned in thousands of interviews for outlets including The Source, Hip Hop DX, the LA Times, in addition to his own Unique Access Entertainment channel. Not to mention the books he's written with and about Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Tech N9ne, The Game, and his latest — The Gucci Mane Guide to Greatness. As you'd expect, Soren learned a lot — A LOT — about hip hop and the people who make it. But he's also learned a bit about himself, especially how to go after what he really wants in life, without changing up his style. "I'm very soft spoken 95% of the time... But rap is the thing that I love the most, so I want to be the best. I want to be embraced and wanted to be recognized as being good at my job." Make sure and get you a copy of The Gucci Mane Guide to Greatness: https://www.amazon.com/Gucci-Mane-Guide-Greatness/dp/1982146788/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kash Johns is a powerhouse of positive energy. It's no wonder his Atlanta-based company — Winners Circle Publishing & Management — is turning into a real hit factory, with 3 Grammy awards and over 30 #1 hits so far. Kash is guiding the careers of 24 producers including cats like Smash David, Go Grizz, Turn Me Up Josh, London Jae, Poohbeats, DJ Shawdy P. They're turning out hits for artists like Kevin Gates, NBA Youngboy, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Future, Cardi B, Da Baby, to name a few. In our interview, Kash shares some amazing stories of how he's built his career, including stepping away from music to build a trucking company. He also shares his philosophy on educating his clients and the broader music community. He even built the SCMC Music Conference to help other people learn what he's learned. Kash has a tireless hustle (we dare you to try to match his daily schedule) and an incredible positive mindset. It's a must-listen if you're looking for motivation or tips on turning small successes into bigger

TheDrop.com is a streetwear and sneaker marketplace featuring hundreds of brands. You can imagine how quickly the business must be growing this year. Matt Falcinelli is the founder and CEO after learning the ins and outs of ecommerce at Backcountry and Skullcandy. He's putting what he learned towards bulding a company that changes the game for brands and shoppers. We dig into why storytelling is so important for driving sales and what brands are doing right — and wrong. Dig in and then go buy you some new gear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stormi Maya knows how to get shit done. Almost a dozen music releases this year + a movie in the works + keeping up a YouTube, OnlyFans, Instagram. She may be best known for her appearances in the 2019 movie Hustlers, starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu or the Spike Lee series She's Gotta Have It, but Stormi is on a daily grind of creating content and building her fan base. In our interview teaches us how to not care what the haters think, and how to sidestep the scumbags in the entertainment business. "I find it flattering that people care about what I do. I'd be more insulted if people didn't have an opinion." Meanwhile, she keeps putting out. If you liked this one, check out our interviews with Rude Jude: - https://soundcloud.com/rebel_radio/rude-jude-1 - https://soundcloud.com/rebel_radio/rude-jude Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jazerai Allen-Lord says that sneakers are at the center of modern culture. We believe her. She's been writing about sneakers for over a decade, designed her own sneaker for Reebok, and is helping many of the major sneaker brands incorporate diverse voices into the conversation. She knows her shit. In today's episode, Jazerai puts us up on how sneaker brands are continuing to adapt to reflect a changing society, what personal integrity means to her, and what we can all learn from hip hop (and sneaker) icon DMC. If you liked this one, check out these interviews with other sneaker heads: - Josh Luber (StockX) : https://soundcloud.com/rebel_radio/love-and-sneakers-and-hip-hop-how-to-turn-your-passion-into-profit - Eddie Cruz (Undefeated) : https://soundcloud.com/rebel_radio/eddie-cruz-of-undefeated-you-have-to-stand-for-something - Ryan Babenzien (Greats) : https://soundcloud.com/rebel_radio/ryan-babenzien - Sneakertopia : https://soundcloud.com/rebel_radio/sneakertopia-founders-steve-justin-get-out-and-experienc

Shawn Prez was building an incredible career at Bad Boy Entertainment, playing a key role in turning Puffy's company into a powerhouse of hitmaking and brand building. Then, one day, he quit. "I had to answer a greater call," he tell us. Because of the good work he had been doing, Puffy backed Shawn on his new venture Power Moves Inc., which now does urban marketing and promotions and is also the home of Shawn's other entrepreneurial ventures: NY DJ Con, the Global Spin Awards, and the Power Move Makers Podcast. Dang, that's a lot! Listen to our interview where Prez shares how he makes it all happen, how he handles criticism, and what we can do to learn from everyone, whether we like them or not. Also check out : NY DJ Con: https://nydjcon.com Power Move Makers Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/powermove-makers-new-interviews-every-tuesday-2-pm-est/id1506204075 Global Spin Awards: https://globalspinawards.com If you liked this one, check out our interview with Dave Weiner: https://soundcloud.com/

This week we connect with producer / composer Adrian Young for a masterclass in focus and discipline. Adrian is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Ali Shaheed Muhammad on the music for Marvel's Luke Cage as well as the Jazz Is Dead series featuring Jazz greats including Roy Ayres. But his list of credits is long and diverse, including film scores (Black Dynamite) and collaborators including Kendrick Lamar, Fat Joe, Lloyd Banks, DJ Shadow, Schoolboy Q, Gallant, Wu-Tang Clan, and more and more. He teaches us a bit about how he's developed that disciplined approach to getting shit done, and why having a law degree makes sense for a creative. If you liked this one, check out our interview with Ali Shaheed Muhammad: https://soundcloud.com/rebel_radio/final-ali-shaheed-muhammad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out Arabian Prince's latest venture at https://covitech.us. He's doing important work to help small businesses respond to COVID-19. He was one of the founders of NWA. As he tells it, he left the group early on over business differences, but you'll also hear that the group's move into gangsta rap didn't really fit what he was about creatively. Since then, Arabian has been on a journey to blend creative and business moves in music, entertainment, and tech and has brought us some valuable lessons on how to get that right. We also get into a little politics and racism, because it's 2020, and you know that's all that's on anyone's mind. If you liked this one, check out our interview with AMG: https://soundcloud.com/rebel_radio/ep-5-rapper-amg-on-how-the-rap-game-is-all-a-show-but-he-had-fun-doing-it Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode opens with a story David was telling as we were setting up to record. It's so good that we kept it in the show. The beginning is cut off, but the setup is that he went to Ultra Music Festival one year with no ticket and no expectations whether he would get in or what kind of experience he would have if he did. His only rule: Don't ask for anything, just give. I won't spoil the end of the story — you'll hear it in the episode — but I will say it was a great window into David's approach as an entrepreneur and human being and a great lesson about the rewards of always looking to be of service. Lots of other great stories in this episode as we track David's journey in building the Icon Collective, an amazing music production school in LA and online (https://iconcollective.edu). Lots to learn from this one. If you liked this one, check out our interview with Morse Code: https://soundcloud.com/rebel_radio/dj-morse-code-how-to-struggle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are dropping a taste of another great podcast into our feed. Check out a snippet of The Passion Economy, hosted by journalist Adam Davidson. Each week Adam talks to entrepreneurs who are thriving by building businesses around their passions. Sound familiar? The episode we're featuring is with Coss Marte, a former New York drug dealer who got fit in prison and then launched a fitness company when he got out. It's an amazing story and Coss is someone we'd want to have on this show, so it seemed like a great fit to share it with you all here. You can check all the episodes of The Passion Economy at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1459910839 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices