Yo.
I'd like to welcome everybody back to branding episode of the
Congress of the large podcast.
I'm your host, Quentin Gold.
The friends and family that come to G for short.
And if you feel like that's what we're coming.
So you can call me there too.
So it's New Year's Eve, 2024.
We're on the verge of 2025.
And, man, this year has been a fucking journey.
Spiritually, emotionally, psychologically.
Just fucking.
I learned a lot of lessons this year.
You know what I mean?
I gained a lot of perspectives.
There was some tough moments in there.
Some real tough moments like life altering, changing.
I had those.
But then on the flip side, I had life altering.
Just some of the most powerful, loving,
and bracing moments of my fucking life.
And it's just like my year had ups and downs,
but it was way more ups than downs,
since I gotta be honest.
I just, yo, the other day, the other day,
I randomly cried, here's the joy.
Out of nowhere.
Like, I'm sitting in my studio and like, I'm chilling.
I'm like, you know, chopping samples and shit.
And like, I stopped.
I just like looked around, took a deep breath,
and I just smiled.
Didn't even realize I was crying.
Like, I felt like a, felt like a tear,
like hit like my shirt.
I looked down, I was like, what the fuck?
Right in my face, I was like, oh shit, I'm crying.
Just feeling appreciative, just feeling grateful, just,
you know, shit ain't perfect.
But shit what is?
What's ever been perfect?
I can already hear people saying certain answers, but, uh.
But I'm grateful, man.
The young grates will ask me.
I don't make New Year's resolutions, I used to.
And the only reason I used to is because everybody around me did,
and I figured that was the thing you were supposed to do,
but I don't do that.
I mean, because if we want to be technical,
there is no true difference between what's going on today
and tomorrow, the sun had come up,
didn't go down, didn't come out.
If you got a job, you still got to work,
if you got family and friends, you still got to love them,
all that type of stuff.
But I think all this shit is psychological,
life in general is psychological.
It's all about mindset.
And if somebody had like a tough 2024,
or if they had a really, really good 2024,
you know what I mean?
If you got that mindset that you get a fresh start,
because honestly, that's what everybody truly wants.
You know what I mean?
You want to be able to fucking control Z.
For those who know, like, if you like working pro tools and shit,
control Z is like the undo button, more or less.
A lot of people wish they could like just control Z situations.
And you know, it's not possible.
So the thing is, when you go through something that's tough,
or that, you know, when you look back on it,
you feel like you zigged, when you should have zagged,
or you know what I mean?
You weren't right when you wanted,
when you should have went left, like,
with the new year approaching, well, shit,
it'll be the new year in a couple of hours and shit.
Psychologically, you'll go back, I get a fresh start.
I ain't do what I need to do last year,
but this year, I'm gonna do that shit.
Or you'll be like, yo, I was killing it last year.
Bro, how the fuck can I elevate and take it further and shit?
So I can understand, like, the resolution thing.
But I don't do it.
You know what I mean?
Like, there's no particular reason I don't do it,
but I don't feel the need to.
Like, I know what my goals are, I know what I'm trying to do,
and regardless what the calendar reads,
it doesn't change, you know, what my goals are.
Because I think that's the thing that we do too,
that kind of like fuck people up.
It's like, we'll give ourselves like time limits on shit.
Like, yo, by this age you should have,
by this age you should have already done.
Damn, yo, you this age and you still doing,
yo, you this age and you still, man, cut all that shit out
and put that pressure on yourself.
You know what I mean?
Like, oh man, I got it.
Man, nah, man.
Time is infinite.
Well, it is, but it's not for us.
So, you know, set goals and, you know,
try to work towards them and like, you know,
a timely fashion, but you determine that timely fashion.
Do it at your own pace.
You know what I mean?
Like, I stopped playing the comparison game like a long time ago.
Especially, I remember like, you know,
I'm in my early 20s, I'm 21, 22, 23,
and you know, friends of mine, people around me,
like they in college and shit, and I'm just like, damn, man,
like I should have won the college.
Like, by the time I go, they'll already be out
and have a degree and then by the time that shit was done,
that life isn't mine.
And mine, life isn't theirs.
And I ended up going to trade school route.
And honestly, that shit worked out well for me.
I mean, you know, ah, can't even.
You know what? I'm not even gonna say it.
I'll say this, 2024, again, had my ups and downs,
but I put some shit in place, you know, like, all right,
if I do this now in the next three months, this could happen.
And if I do this in the next year, maybe this happened.
I'm already hitting those checkpoints.
The shit that I thought was gonna be six months,
about a month and a half.
Some shit that I thought was gonna take me a year to do.
I'm on a verge of doing that shit in the next two days.
And I don't want to go into detail what it's about,
but I'm extremely happy for one, extremely excited.
This shit is like life-changing shit for me and my family, honestly.
And I worked hard for that shit.
But even as it's like playing out,
the thing that I set out to achieve that I'm currently in the process of achieving,
I'll never make a post about it.
I'll never show, you know, the revenue I make from it, none of that shit.
Like, I don't do that.
Like, I'm a private person, honestly.
Even I'm speaking right now in this like public class one,
but yeah, if you ever go to my social media, like,
yeah, I don't post personal shit.
I don't post what my car looked like.
I don't post what my crib looked like.
I post what the studio looked like,
but you don't know where my fucking house is.
You don't know what I drive.
You don't know what I do for a living.
How I make my money, how much money I make.
I post beats and sneakers.
I mean, but I'll say this.
Man, I don't want to come across like a fucking, like an asshole,
like I'm trying to brag or something, but you know, when you hear a nigga say,
I'll be making boss moves.
Nigga, I literally just made some fucking boss moves.
Like, the real way.
Like, it'll reflect in my bank account.
You know what I mean?
I'm talking, oh, see, I only want to get into that.
Long story short, I planted a seed and that fucking tree grew way faster than I thought it would.
And I couldn't be happy.
I just feel good, man.
I really do.
Like, I'm just in a, I'm in a great space.
It's shit perfect.
No.
Well, should I ever be perfect?
No.
It's shit meant to be perfect.
No.
So I'm happy, man.
I'm beyond happy actually.
You know what I mean?
Like one of, I think one of the most important lessons I learned throughout life and I use the shit almost daily is like,
like I said, life is like, life is psychological more than anything else.
Mind set.
You know what I mean? I ain't here to give no motivational speech and all shit like that, but it's true.
Your mindset is everything.
So for me, some shit that happened, I can't help how I feel about it.
I can't control how I feel, but I totally can control how I respond and react to shit.
You know what I mean?
So this is one of the things that I focus on.
This is like a mantra that I say, that I tell myself like, you know, pretty often as I focus on what I can control.
What I can control, I accept this for what it is.
I just let it go.
And that shit applies to everything.
People, situations, items, anything.
If it's outside of my control, I don't try to force it.
You know what I mean?
Like, if a person make a decision, I would feel like I want to know why they made that decision.
But then I realized, like, even if they told me why, it doesn't change the decision that was made.
So I don't even care about it, honestly.
Not even like, oh, no, Ergon shit, oh, no, asshole shit, or just like, I don't care.
There ain't that.
It's more or less like, why add distress?
I'm not going to like sit up and go, damn, I wonder, nah, man, you know, life is life.
And sometimes life be fucking life.
And other times life be cool as shit.
But mindset is everything.
So like, if you wake up in the morning and you tell yourself, I'm at that fucking bad day, you will.
You 100% will because you asked for it.
And the universe is going to give you exactly what you asked for.
Maybe not in like, you know, a specific way, but if you tell yourself, you're going to have a bad day.
Any small thing that happened, no matter how minute it is, you'll look at it and you're going to amplify it.
See, I knew it.
I knew that shit was going to, I told you I was going to have a bad day.
Slip side of that.
You wake up in the morning and have a good day today.
And you will, no matter how big or small the inconvenience is, you go, nah, I ain't anything.
Because you've already made up your mind.
You're in the universe and came to an agreement.
Hey, universe, today's going to be a good day.
The universe goes, let me check my schedule.
Yeah, you scheduled to have a good day.
You will.
I'm just excited for life, man.
Like, you know, and so much I want to do.
You run up as a kid, you know, I never had like a dream job in mind.
I never had like, honestly, as a kid, I don't know what I really wanted.
I used to always say, you know, I wouldn't care if I died.
And honestly, like, I think I was saying it, not because I didn't mean it, because I didn't mean it at the time.
Or maybe I didn't mean it, but I thought I did.
I'm not afraid of it, you know, but I got so much that I want to do now.
I'm not going to rush for it like I used to do.
I was just like saying and doing stupid shit.
Just like, I don't know if I was looking for validation.
I don't know what I was looking for, but whatever it is, I'm not looking for that shit now.
Like, I'm just, I'm just happy, man.
So I want to write a movie.
I started writing like some short stories and shit like, and I got one that's so fucking dope.
Like, I was telling my homeboy about it, at least like the concept of it.
He's like, damn, y'all fuck with that.
Damn, I'm saying like a bunch of niggas listen to this shit.
Like, I want to put my idea out in somebody's tail.
It's no, no, but one is like, it'll put you in the mind of saw without all the gruesome shit.
So when I say to put you in the mind of saw, it's more so like how by the end, how it all comes together.
You go, oh, shit.
And I can tell you the name of that one is called one in the same.
And then there's a scary one that I writing and it's called what if you should be.
Yeah, the concept for both of these is super dope.
But then I think I kind of want to write a comedy and shit like when I was younger, me and my younger brother and shit,
we used to always sit there laughing, joking.
He's like, bro, we should write a we should write a comedy movie.
So it would be me, my brother, the two cousins and shit.
And, you know, just little niggas kids shit.
We sit around laugh, joke.
I mean, you know, in the story, this nigga and this nigga's roommates and then you tell the one thing is feet stinking on it.
And we did.
It was like little kids shit, but it was funny.
And as I get older and I look back on those moments, like, you know, it was a lot of fucking gold in those moments, like, like, all right.
Like you can certain music, certain films, like, like you feel it on a different level.
Like, I think it becomes I think you feel that way about it more or so because like it feels relatable.
Like, like the first Friday, the first Friday is hands down the best one of reason being it's fucking funny to the point where to make your stomach hurt.
Like that shit is hilarious.
But the comedy in it is so natural, but it's more relatable.
Like, you know, like the block that Craig live doing, like, I felt like my neighborhood or my community was similar where like,
I was fucking new each other.
You knew who like the tough guy bully nigga was like, you can laugh, joke.
You really had beef with niggas.
It was just chills.
And then you can see like once it got popular and like Hollywood got involved, the second one in the third one, even though I like the third one a lot, the second one, I don't care for at all.
I mean, I like the fact that the second one introduced Mike Epps character today because he was funny.
And then pinky and all that, but like, I feel like one, it was trying to be too relevant for the time.
Like, there was like this big tropical stone called El Nino.
And I remember to make an El Nino jokes and shit.
And then there's like this Mexican family where they was, you know, like some street guys and shit.
And I feel like it was overly stereotypical and it didn't feel genuine.
Like, like, it's our perfect example.
The first Friday had like some Hispanic homies in that shit too.
They didn't make us who pulled up.
It was like trying to buy the weed from smoking.
He's like, man, I ain't selling y'all shit.
And then, you know, Craig was like, why?
I told you at last time I was smoke with these fools didn't do the flashback.
I said, man, stop hitting it so hard.
He's like, man, shut the fuck up and smoke since I was two.
And he started hitting the super hard, the hidden weed real hard.
So the two Hispanic guys, they start laughing and shit.
That's a smoky smell.
Like, what's in this?
Like, it's the angel dust homes.
And then they start, he started flipping out.
They said, I was running down the street, my drugs, man.
I ended up in a D-bow pigeon coop.
My mother had to come get me.
Like, that shit felt funny.
You know what I mean?
Like, everybody felt authentic.
So, I don't know.
I want to write shit like that.
I want to write shit that's like relatable.
Like, even if it's like some horror shit where like in real life, if you heard some shit,
or saw some shit, like, you're not going like, like if you in a house by yourself
and you see like a shadowy looking motherfucker like daughter across the room,
you're not going to get up and go, hello?
Hey, who's back there?
I'm in a house by my fucking self and I know I am.
Why the fuck would I be asking that?
I'm going to try to get the fuck out the door of my keys.
But in most movies, they don't do that shit.
I'm telling you, like, I want to make relatable content.
You know what I mean?
Like, and don't get me wrong, I understand the importance of like, you know,
fantastical elements to movies.
Like, you know, like, I don't know, avengers and shit like that.
Like, I get that.
That shit makes total sense.
You know what I mean?
That shit makes total sense.
But like, I don't know, like, I don't seem like, you know,
like Friday the 13th and shit.
And it'll be like a guy who's like the jock and he's dating like the fucking
overly sexual fucking cheerleader lady or some shit.
And then like Jason show up with the mask on and mind you, this nigga, Jason is way bigger.
Fucking way more stocky.
This nigga hands and shit like the form and the girl go, Brad, where you get that mask from?
Bitch, that's Brad.
Brad wouldn't go take a piss and now he back in the fucking workman jumpsuit with a machete.
That's Brad.
He had time to change his clothes and shit.
But that's the movies.
And then he'll kill her.
And then Brad had come back from taking the poop or whatever the fuck he was doing.
And he goes, babe, where are you?
And then Jason, except from behind the tree or some shit, they'll go, hey, hey, what did you do with my girlfriend?
Tell me right now if I kicked your ass.
And then as always, he'll walk up and hit Jason like a three piece of some shit.
Jason here to be, you know, going side to side and getting like punching the face.
And at some point, like he'll just like grab Brad's hand and like fucking just break it off with ease.
And that's when Brad grab his hand like, what are you?
Like, should be stupid.
And I love it because sometimes the cheesy shit I love, but then to the most part is just like, hang in.
So even I just did this whole fucking long talk about not doing a fucking resolution, but scratch that fucking.
If I had to say, I'm going to have a resolution this year, I think I'm going to dedicate more of my time, more of my effort to like being creators.
Outside of just music, like I draw and I paint and shit like that.
So I think like I'm going to paint more.
I'm going to draw more.
You know what I mean?
I'm going to write more outside of like music shit.
I'm going to short stories fucking.
I love creepypastas.
So those who don't know that like short scary stories that be sometimes they'll be short.
Sometimes it's just like an hour long, but they be on like, you know, like YouTube and shit like that.
I love listening to that shit.
Like that shit almost feel like underground hip hop to like a horror fan type of shit.
It's like the the concepts you be be unique and different.
Like, because, you know, as far as Hollywood shit, like once they develop a formula and they see that it works, they'll fucking force feed you to shit.
That's why when something does come along and it might slightly be a standout, like it gets like, all right, one of the best horror movies I've seen probably in the past 10 years, both two of them.
And I like both of them because the concept was different.
So like it's one called it follows and it follows more or less like a fucking.
It's an STD.
It's like a demon attached to it.
And I love that they never go into detail of like what the demon's name is, where it originated from it.
Who's the first person they don't.
It just pops up and the thing about it is, you know, somebody got to sleep with you to pass it on to you.
But once it's passed on to you, only you can see it.
And it comes in any form.
Somebody, you know, a stranger, old person, a child, anything.
And only you can see it, but this is the dope part is that it only can walk.
So you can outrun it.
You definitely can.
You know what I mean?
So if you're getting a car and drives those two hours, it'll walk, but it's locked on to you.
Like it's GPS.
You basically GPS to the shit.
It's going to find you can.
You know what I mean?
So like, but the thing is, if you give it to somebody and don't tell them, once they kill that person that you gave it to, it works as well.
It works as way backwards.
So let's say you go sleep with like whoever, some chick, you sleep with it, give her that shit.
And then you move like two towns over and you don't think about it.
And your hopes is that she keeps sleeping some mind and they sleep some mind.
But let's say that, like, you know, she doesn't.
And you don't tell her what to look out for.
And then she gets killed by this thing.
It makes his way back to you.
So you might be at home chilling and shit.
A month's then went by and you just like, I'm good.
And then your mom are not going to do it like, hey, you want some leftovers or some shit?
And your answer door like, yeah, mom, as soon as you open the door, it might be like a seven foot tall nigga with no eyes in the sack and kill you.
And then whoever you slept with, who gave it to you and works way back.
And it's called a father's like that shit is amazing.
Like, sexually like that shit is dope.
That and it's a movie called hereditary.
And it's just like hereditary is a true piece of art to me.
Like the cinematography, the fucking the acting from everybody is fucking superb.
That's just so I want to I want to make that type of shit.
And mind you, like, this is a one man show.
Like, I don't got a team of writers.
I don't have a big film crew, none of that shit.
You know, I know people would like film experience and actually one of my homeboys, he got a red camera.
And if you don't know what a red camera is, it's like a Sony red.
Like it's a it's a super high quality camera.
Like that shit costs like more than like cars and shit.
Like a really good red camera might be like fucking 30,000 used.
You know what I mean?
Like, but the quality of it is like, you could, you could put it on par with like Marvel films or like fucking big studios,
use red cameras and stuff.
And I actually got a homeboy who got one.
Actually, he didn't shot he didn't shot a couple like independent films in the city and they don't.
And I saw on this Instagram was like they was having like a premier for it.
And I thought that was super dope.
Like, I just like that.
I like seeing people achieve shit.
I like seeing people like, you know, chase dreams and shit.
And I feel like a lot of the times like we'll get so caught up in our head that some shit is like unobtainable.
It's just like, you'll give up before you try.
Like, I don't like that.
Like that's that's one of the things I hate to hear the most when I hear person say, I can't be before they even try.
You can.
Everybody can do everything.
Literally, everybody can do everything.
Some people just do it better than others.
So can you flip?
Yeah.
You might be able to do like a cartwheel baby robot.
Are you Olympic level?
Slipping?
No.
Can you sing?
Yeah.
You might be tone deaf to shit.
So you ain't Marvin Gaye.
You ain't Yawsey.
You ain't McKinney.
You sing?
Yeah.
You just don't do it as well as they do.
But you can't.
Yeah, for sure.
So I did people like limit that self.
I mean, I used to do that show a lot.
I would like get stuck in my head and shit.
Like, I started rapping, I was like, shit, ten-ish.
And I ain't released my first project.
And so I was like, am I mid-20s?
Shit, actually, later than that.
I'm mid to late 20s.
So, but since I like got out of my head and got past that shit,
like, I done dropped two albums and four mixed tapes.
And I boasted to you now, I probably have like 100 songs
that's not released.
And this year I'm going to do that too.
I'm just going to flood that shit.
Shit that's done shit, that's not done shit, that's mixed shit,
that's missing the verse.
Fuck it.
I'm just putting it out there.
I don't care.
That's why I hold onto it.
I'm just putting it out there.
So, but me 2025 is the year of creation for me.
Oh, the year of creativity.
I'm on that shit.
And it ain't for like no monetary game
because the thing I talked about earlier
more or less secured that for me.
So, if something does come from this from like a residual
standpoint, cool, great.
All right.
But that's not why I'm doing it.
That's not my motivations are doing it.
It's not like I need to put this out so I can make some money.
No, no, no, no, make some money.
Like I, I can say this.
I started, I start, I can't even call it a job.
I start my new career.
Shit.
Two days from now.
The ink is dry.
Everything is, I already know what my office looked like.
All that, like, and this is like life changing money.
So, I can't, I'm cheesing right now.
I'm glad I ain't on camera.
Like I'm a smile like a fucking smile.
Like I'm on ecstasy right now.
So shit.
I'm so fucking happy.
But, you know, I go, I'm here for a good time.
Not a long time.
I hope everybody out here stays safe, stay productive,
stay creative, whatever goal you chase and hope you get one step closer to it.
If not, achieving it all together.
And then once you achieve that goal, man, reset, make new goals and chase them.
So, if you want to comment on anything that I said today, a question or ask me anything,
I can be found at Instagram, QG Music.
That's QG, M-U-S-I-C on Instagram.
Happy New Year to everybody.
And with that being said, peace.
Thank you.