Walking Through Diverse Entrepreneurial Paths, Kenny Mellenium

Thorncity spotlight show Ep.2

,: 2023

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

people, ai, podcast, man, music, put, millennium, property, church, city, pay, situation, moved, coming, equity, artists, words, business, talking, group

SPEAKERS

Kenny Meillenium, Naeem Hall

Naeem Hall: 00:05

So as soon as you book a backup out of here, back to the home turf back to back to work

Kenny Meillenium: 00:14

I gotta get back to it there's a lot of stuff to get done you know when you not personally to do certain things or shake people's hands

Naeem Hall: 00:22

well right yeah yeah, I think the same in that

00:34

never is people don't know how to speak the words you speak they don't breathe. How you breathe out other people. Yeah, a lot of the deals that you put together Yeah, on air and on handshakes. Y'all y'all I got it, bro

Naeem Hall: 00:59

I got the Wi Fi going. Okay, okay. Yes, sir. Welcome to the thorn city syndicate spotlight show where we network and build connections through interviews and discussions. This episode is brought to you by GMP podcast group. I'm your hosts Don's city podcast guy. Make sure you visit the ones@sikat.com hit that LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE. The new releases the bonus episodes and updates. Today I got a special guest in the spotlight. He's a pioneer of the Portland rap game. One of the first names I heard making noise around here and and definitely a living legend in the streets. No doubt. He's what I call a visionary entrepreneur. They say the average millionaire has about seven streams of income and quite there but I'm working on it. That's another reason why I'm starting this podcast. My man right here. He got a few things going on. We're gonna get into if you don't know who I'm talking about. Smart guy, the one and only Kenny millennium. How're you doing, brother? How you doing? Man? I'm doing man? Yes sir. Man. Let me say this there's some times when certain people reach out to you let you know you're doing something right. And you got something going on man. So I appreciate you reaching out now.

02:16

No doubt. Anytime I see you know people from sitting putting in work. I like to connect with them. I like to connect with get upon opponents might one time see I will get these words. Yeah. I'm here for the words. Yeah, so

Naeem Hall: 02:30

I'm gonna call this episode business ventures walking through diverse entrepreneurial paths. You got the Airbnbs they call you a Airbnb superhosts. What is that?

02:40

Okay, so you have to have a certain rating. So when you host people, you get a certain rating. And any is from like 4.8 to five is somewhere in that's the sweet spot for Super hosts. And I've actually had the superhero status over the last three years, three or four times, because I actually lost it a couple of times, all it takes is somebody to come with a bad review for whatever reason, and they'll ding you and you'll lose your superhero status. But I'm currently a super host and have been one for most of the last three years just put you in a better position with your properties. When are you on the rotation and algorithms?

Naeem Hall: 03:17

Gotcha. Gotcha. So you got the property management. You got the shoe stores you got new music coming but you like you're like really artists not just a rap artists. You paint these the one of a kind pieces.

03:32

big things. They told me it's: 2000

Naeem Hall: 06:26

Man. Yeah, that's true fact. Right there. So yeah, we're gonna get into a little bit all that man. But let me I wrote something down with this AI. If you don't use an AI by now, you better get on it. Because it's a it's a game changer. But I wrote this little thing down tell me what you think it says embarking on a journey of entrepreneurship requires a combination of vision, determination, and a passion for success that demands dedication, hard work and ability to navigate through challenges and uncertainties. The road to success is often filled with setbacks, failures, obstacles, and a Never mind never quit mindset is a must to succeed at sound like you.

07:07

Man, it's a struggle, then that seems like that's the long definition of the word struggle. That's like longhand for the word struggle business struggling if you look at more business struggle, it sounds like a I didn't put the definition. One thing about AI is I feel like aI talks a lot. You know, I mean, like they to the point but they overtalk the situation sometimes. And they they don't understand the human brain. We don't want to hear all of that when he's struggling. When you're struggling, you just want to hear the results of the plan. That's why AI is right, it is that but he just he just made me want to quit being entrepreneur. already. I've already wanted to quit three times. But he's the fourth reason this afternoon that I want to stop being an entrepreneur, maybe go give me all the square job.

Naeem Hall: 07:52

Won't do that

07:53

never would I do. But the thing is, is it's not easy. A lot of times when you're an entrepreneur, the first couple of steps are backwards. That's one thing that people don't understand. Everybody wants to go forward. But people don't understand. Sometimes not only do you have to take a step back, sometimes you're forced into taking a step back by the things that go on around your business and dedication isn't always going to be you know, the end all be all work hard isn't always going to be the end all be all. Sometimes it's finances. Sometimes it's time. Sometimes it's effort. Sometimes it's vision, sometimes it's lack of vision, sometimes it's lack of diligence and due diligence in situations and and these things go a long way when you're jumping from one lane to another. I've been an entrepreneur my whole life since the age of eight, I started my first business at the age of eight at the ripe age of eight. What were you doing, running illegal books,

Naeem Hall: 08:47

Middle School. At eight, he was running numbers eight, I

08:51

was running numbers. And now this is the thing, everybody watches these movies. And in all of these movies, especially gangster movies, they talk about how people were doing certain things. And you know, I believe it. But the truth of the matter is when you really know it, then you really know what you know. And when I was young, that one of the most important things to know about his numbers. Now, I don't mean, you need to know all the high powered numbers, trigonometry and all these different disciplines of math, but you do need to like me, I don't like you might take me to a college course on math. And I used to be a tutor when I was incarcerated and locked up. I had a 99% graduation rate from my students. It was just as one person who couldn't get past like math, he had a lot of problems from drug use, and he just he will blow up, I get him ready to go like seven times I passed every other course with him. He just couldn't pass math. But the thing about math is like, I don't know all the high power disciplines. So you might put some paper in front of me and I might can't figure it out. But what I can't figure out is I can count to a million and I can do that twice. And after I do it twice. I can do it three, four and five. So once once you figure out how to count in those type of way Then those denominations, and you're going to be totally fine. And that's basically what all business comes down to is math because one plus one truly does equal two. And three minus two is a negative one. So if you're doing business and those are your, your math equations, then you might have a hard time, you know, continue to be an entrepreneur, because it's not easy. And it will not only take your time, your life, but it'll take your finances if you don't, you know, place them in the right areas.

Naeem Hall: 10:25

Yeah, that's one thing I love about entrepreneurship is you might work a lot of hours. But it's easy to work a lot hours when you work for yourself, you know, instead of punching that clock, and they tell you, you got to be here at this time, you got to take a break at this time, do this do that. Man, it's hard to get up and go to work when those are the circumstances. But if you know you put in your own products and services and trying to succeed, man, you put I put 1215 20 hours into the day and they don't feel like nothing, it won't feel like work, you know, I'm saying?

10:56

Yeah, it's, it's like, you literally can work almost 24 hours straight on some stuff that benefits you something that you're getting personal equity from, see that personal equity, that personal blood and that personal sweat equity. And that personal financial equity is a different type of equity, then, you know, you go to work every single day, or you rent from a landlord or you know, from somebody owns a property, that person is sitting somewhere collecting your personal act and sweat and blood and tear equity. And until I bought my first property two years ago, and I've been around a lot of money before, but I've never owned a property, my family members on the property my family members on big property out here and so, but one thing they never really told me was how important it was to actually own property. And so once I purchased my first property, it opened my eyes to a lot of things that I didn't really know. So over the last two years, I've had two tenants in one of my properties that are deploying property that I do on and I've had their I've had a somebody that was a 12 month lease, and they broke the lease five months in, and that that that's a you know, that's the things that happen when you're a landlord, you know, I'm what you call the black landlord. So and I must say nothing about what I do slum must have high power. And so they broke the lease after five months. And that caused a slight problem over a month period of time, whether it was getting the property ready and cleaned up and ready to be back on the market in which we had to fire our realtor and hire a different realtors. So you had a lot of things that went on in that situation, we now have a 12 month tenant in there. And you know, everything is going smooth. But these are the differences in in equity because the whole over that two year period I've we're going to collect pretty much close to two years worth of equity that has nothing to do with coming out of our pockets. And when these tenants decide that they want to move out if that's what they decide to do. We keep the equity and keep all the sweat and all the hard work, we can show their blood it turns into yours. And I see once I saw that. And you know, I know everybody's smart. I know people might sound and be like, Oh, you didn't know that you're dumb. I understand that you're always dumb to stuff until you find out somebody will go through life and never find out nothing. And guess what they just been dumb they whole life, man, but you only dumb until you ask a question or until somebody you know, explain something to you that you didn't know and you lock it in. And so once I actually had my light bulb moment with equity, it changed the way that I look at everything. And it's like there's people somewhere just like me, I'm sitting right here on the West Coast, why people are paying for my future. They're filling up my cup. Now it took hard work to get that glass, but they're filling up my cup. I figured out a way how to get my glass filled and not even be nowhere near the glass.

Naeem Hall: 13:47

Yeah, that's how you do it, man. And that's real shit right there, man. Yeah. So you had to take the show on the road. Picked up? You moved from Portland to Houston. Yeah. How long have you been down there? And what all you got going on down there? At least what you can share with the people?

14:06

I could share anything. But no. Yeah, man, I had to take my show on the road. I just got home from federal prison. I did 90 months in a federal institution. I did six years in California and 10 months in Seattle in terribleness, but one thing about it is I went to college in there, and I'm a psych business major. It was like I never went to college before I went to federal prison. And it's actually my alma mater is Allan Hancock. And the crazy thing is like I had got out and I got all A's and there was in there I had one a minus and all A's. And the thing about it is I was watching the TV show one day and they were it was a basketball show on the basketball team was in a league and it was a JUCO and they went to go play my alma mater and I have forgotten the college I went to wasn't really tripping, but I'm sitting there. And I'm like, dang, that's crazy. That's To actually my alma mater and I was sitting with, you know, I'm seeing a female and she was like, for real? My Yeah, that's why I went to college that and so like people don't understand when you say you went to college exactly like, a lot of times you might go to college, but you might not be on a college campus. Yeah. So, but that's, that's a sidebar, but Okay, so I took I took my show on the road when I got home, from you know, federal prison and, and got back. I had to figure out what I wanted to do, and I definitely didn't. So in actuality, when I first got home, I moved. The first day I got out, the first day I got out of the halfway house, I moved to Vegas. Okay, so are actually I went to Vegas. And then so like I lived down there for like a year and a half. And I've been living in Vegas for a portion of my life, I've always been had property, I mean places out there, I've always lived out there. And then I was deciding that I want to move back out there full time. And so somebody that I knew, had said, Man, you should come out to Houston and check it out. So I went out there. And then you know, I'm saying I liked it, I was out there for like a week and a half, 10 days, and I came back for an event. And after about the second day, I kind of liked it. So I went got me a spot. They had a spot at these condos, and it was like two months rent for free. So I went ahead and got that and then moved out there, I moved my operation out there. And it's been it's been great because it allowed me to do things that I really not that I couldn't do it but hadn't really thought of doing it in my home city. And so as far as owning property, Airbnb is I'd always talked with people about Airbnb, or some of my people always attempted to get me into Airbnb, but I couldn't grasp exactly what I needed to do, because it was explained to me in a way that I couldn't get past. But once I figured it out, because there's a lot of ways to do things, and people aren't always going to tell you, there's 10 ways to do something, they're going to explain it in the way that they understand it, which might be similar to them. And you might not understand their singular, their singular explanation of an understanding that they see. So it's just like when you see people like when people say, would you like 50,000? Or would you like to go out to eat with Jay Z and have a conversation with him? My answer is give me the 50 bands and I catch up with catch up with him. You know, catch up with that nigga later. You know, I'm saying because already been around Jay Z before you know what I'm saying. And nigga, we didn't talk we we nodded their heads at each other. And we kept it pushing. It was no conversation. It was a quick night and the nigga looked down and had five security guards with him and I kept pushing. Yeah, so that was the extent of our communication. So what is he going to tell me in an hour of time, because anything that he's tells me is from his point of view and his path, I obviously cannot jump on his path because his path is already set number one, number two, his path took him a certain way to get to his results. I definitely don't got that path, you can tell because I'm sitting here talking to you and he's sitting somewhere else talking about something else. That's just obvious. Also, there's a few zeros difference in our property bank accounts at this exact moment. So that being said, there's a lot of great people with a few less zeros on a bank accounts than whoever that got zeros on them. So don't always think because you're not in position that you not have greatness. Sometimes you ain't added a nailed zeros, you need to get you in that category. But zeros are easy to add to any situation. They're also easy to minus. So if you catch somebody being a zero around you minus them from your program, or that, you know, so no, so back on it. So I moved out to Houston and I ended up getting into business with my business partner. And we started doing Airbnb ease and and and I basically I build me and my business partner, we have a company it's called Urban Lux is we build Airbnb from the ground up, I've had 12 properties in three years, excuse me, we've had 12 properties in three years. And we just got our first client on the 18th of last month for property management to manage other people's Airbnbs. And we also just started consults, we were starting a 30 minute free consultation with our company Arban Lux for you know and then after that there'll be paid consultation, but the first one would be 30 minutes and it'd be free.

Naeem Hall: 19:02

Nice, man. That's what I'm talking about. Man I love I love seeing you doing doing the big. Like I said, I grew up hearing about you. And I finally got to meet you, my boy, but we gonna get into that a little bit later. We're gonna take a break right now. I'm Miguel, from my sponsor, GMP podcast group. And then we're gonna come back and we're gonna touch on the creative process in your artistry so we'll take a break we'll do this at discover GMP podcast group located at 2406 East Burnside Street in Portland, Oregon, offering a range of podcasting packages to suit your needs. Starting at just $49 an hour for your basic setup. Featuring the road caster Pro Audio console, an SM seven B microphones, as well as options complete with a camera operator An audio engineer expertise. Elevate your podcast with multi camera recording Plus, we've captured behind the scenes shots within the studio. Visit us at www dot GMP podcast group.com and let gimpy podcast group be where your podcasting journey begins

20:23

KIDNEY LIVER cyst exists don't wait one day, my history in the making from the making of this. I guess this will come back to these words. Well like Welcome back words.

20:38

Say that again. That's how you set up music

Naeem Hall: 20:43

what you got music?

20:45

You always got music, but I'm saying how do you do it? You know I'm saying because this ain't like

Naeem Hall: 20:49

not a saint life. No, it's not life so we can drop some music into when we get to talk about your music saga. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. Unless you got on your phone. Of course. We can build too few and yeah, I was just saying that. Yeah. Yeah. That was cool. Okay, appreciate. Yes, sir. So let's see

21:23

is evening browser

Naeem Hall: 21:26

your natural entertainer so

21:31

make sure you get the cameras but listen to

Naeem Hall: 21:33

your pro standard

21:40

they want to see it. Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.

Naeem Hall: 21:46

So So what let's see where we gonna put it out.

21:51

We could talk a little bit about Houston a little bit about you know, the scene out there how things are if you want,

Naeem Hall: 21:57

okay, you know, I give you a quick law. Yeah, we'll get into that and peace

22:01

or whatever. Yeah. And then you know, I do turtles too. I do car rental car rentals.

Naeem Hall: 22:05

Gotcha that on the backside.

22:07

Roll out. Houston. Photography.

Naeem Hall: 22:10

Yeah. Okay. All right. Let me get my weapon back in.

22:24

Assist exists. Don't wait one day to begin to make it from the making of this. I guess this will come back to these words. Welcome back words.

Naeem Hall: 22:40

Welcome back. Welcome back to the thorn City Spotlight Show. I'm your host, Doron city podcast guy I got my guy Millennium in the building man man I'm loving it bro. I appreciate you coming through on you on the

22:53

boy no problem.

Naeem Hall: 22:54

So yeah, let's get let's get to you the music first because that's that's originally how I met you back in the day. Way back in the day when my boy third twin he wouldn't buy gym and the third twin back in the day right? How old do you think that was when you first met him? Was Was he one of the first young rappers around here? Actually, you know moving around with people

23:17

Yeah, no, but I was a young rapper so I well he's younger than you though. That's what I'm saying. So he can't be one of the first because I was already I'm saying but I guess

Naeem Hall: 23:26

the thing about it was let's say like this young as okay you're you will see

23:30

this is the next up under you. I've seen all the artists like I'm the real like we the first wave of real like I'm not taking nothing from the U crew. I'm not taking nothing from none of the people like they went platinum I'm not taking nothing from nothing but when when I came and when we came we came with the streets Yeah, we came we use the first view can go back like I'm the first one ever talk about spaceships and bitches and all the stuff all the stuff that's the real life stuff. I'm like the first one you can go back and listen to this day. You know, I'm saying right you know, going to Vegas and doing all the things and it's official like I know people might see it. No, I'm not right. Check it I got everything on dates like I received. It ain't nobody before me talking to spaceships and talking about the situations and ain't nobody before me. These are just facts. As far as like the young cats that was younger than me. Yeah, after you we

Naeem Hall: 24:24

so y'all started it. Who was the next group that come after y'all.

24:29

It was a lot of more fun because, you know, the crazy thing about music is and I always say this. I've seen so many artists come and go come and go because because I've been here the whole time. Even when I was in a cage I was here My name is locked in like I've seen so many artists that were supposed to be the next this or better than me or better than other artists that I know that was in position and working hard because you only get in position from working. You can't you can't just get a position if you went and work and if you're not putting in the work if you ain't in yo knocking out Songs back to back if people don't respect your words, like people don't gotta like your music. But when you speak your words, they gotta know the impact of them. And like for me, like, it's all No, no rappers that come with heavier impact. I've never been in a room with artists and I don't care who they are, that say the words how I say the words, and I don't take anything from anybody else, but, but it's just more about me. And if anybody feels anything about what I say, we can go into yo and knock it out. I've never been I've never been on a song and felt like I didn't kill everybody on it. And I've been on the song with everybody and I and I work faster than people but as far as like the you know, see that's that that's that rapper shipment to see, you know, the thing like I tell people want one time somebody asked me they said, You the rapper that's, you know, from from the streets, right? I said, Nah, Nick, I'm from the streets. And I rap a little bit sometimes. And he like, you know what I'm saying? So differences, you got to realize my friends, if you rap and rap, the only thing music can do is take you out of a situation. Or now you can get you know, you can get killed from saying the wrong things. You know, I'm saying but it's always been like that. But now it's like, it's hyper now. So it's like music is supposed to be used as a tool to get you out of situations to build things. So that's all music can really do. Now, music because I've done music. That's why I own properties in Houston. That's why I do Airbnbs This is the linchpin for everything I do. So somebody says, Will you ever like you never went platinum and gold, I know. But this is the thing. We haven't had that many artists from our city do that number one, number two, you know, I'm saying it's not about going platinum and gold, it's about going platinum and gold and life. And if you're not gonna go platinum and gold in life, you know, then you ain't nothing but a brick. You know, I'm saying to you, you might attain one hit wonder status. But one thing about music isn't anything else you do once you are successful at it, you have to repeat what you did. If you don't repeat what you did, you won't be paid for it. Because people already surprised nine times out of 10 when you do something that has the level of getting paid, you know, I'm saying for it. So once you attain that level, where you show up and people pay you to be there, you have to show up every time and get paid to be there. Otherwise, they're going to pay somebody else to be there. And when being mediocre in a world of greatness just doesn't get you paid in this.

Naeem Hall: 27:17

So yeah, man, I heard that

27:21

guy say, um, so yeah, he's, he's one of the rappers that was younger, but like I say, like, it's a it's literally was a million rappers from RCA. Everybody became a rapper, like the adult game. You know, I'm saying like, I remember when we used to hustle. And we'd be like, Man, everybody is like hustling, bro. Like, what is this? And then when we started doing music really doing music, because I've been doing music since I was like eight. Also like 10 You know, I'm saying just a friend's house been in the 90s rapping all night. You know, I'm saying and so like, when we turn this into getting paid for it, then it turned into a different ballgame. Because it was a job. It was work. You had to show up and be there. And not only did you have to show up on time, you had to show up and you had to be him. You couldn't just be mediocre right wasn't calling me mediocre people to show up to places. You know, we was you wasn't you don't be mediocre and be out in LA and doing your thing and moving around and being on tour. Like it's different. Now. You can pay your way in before you had to play your way in.

Naeem Hall: 28:21

Yeah, yeah. No, it was different back then you actually had to be able to rap. You know, I'm saying there had to be some substance and some some creativity and you can't just get on Yeah, you can't just get on the mic and say whatever and somebody and put it on the internet and somebody's gonna buy into it. You actually had to be with it. So yeah, tell me, um, tell me about the Houston scene out there. What's going on in Houston.

28:44

Houston is like the fifth biggest, biggest city in America. So when I went out there, like, you know, it's a lot of black people out there. A lot of the jobs and, and things that other races do in our city. Black people do their we got our own things there. So we don't have to go places and we don't have to feel like you know, we don't we're not wanting when they play in our music in the club when I'm saying but they don't really want us in the club. You know, I'm saying it's like you play all this rap music, but you don't want the black people in the club. You just want what you want in here. And that's cool. But the thing about it is if you take away, if you take away rap, and you take away the culture, and you take away the understanding, and you take all these things away, the world is going to be vanilla. And vanilla is cool. But the thing about it is, you know, any flavor that really is flavored, you got to put some on top of it. And I feel like Houston is a type of place where you can go there and be successful amongst your people. And you don't even have to be around all your people. You can just go there and it's just enough people for you to be around for you to be successful and you can catch the vibe you can catch the business you can just look at it and see opportunity. Now, the minimum wage out there is like 775 or something. So I wouldn't say hey, man, that's why I told you I can't work and elsewhere. I can't work no square Billy. And no 775 See, I hire and fire people for a living and I pay people like 20 Some, like, let me see. I basically pay people like, somewhere around between 40 and $50 an hour for some of the jobs that I hire people for, you know, I'm saying so, you know, you got to understand they offer in 750 an hour I'm offering $40 An hour $50 An hour sometimes hires and fires.

Naeem Hall: 30:29

Everybody wants to be a boss, they talking about their boss, but they don't boss. Nobody. Listen, that's the boss.

30:34

You know, the thing about it is being a boss ain't even about Boston. Nobody the truth about being a bosses, the bosses when you pay bills, pay bills, the boss always is responsible for the bills. When you go to work for everything, you show up and do one thing, do your job you leave, they cut you a check. That's the end of it. They may not be calling you on your day off. But when you're the boss, you don't get no day off. You got to cut checks. You got to figure out how to pay people you got to make sure if you serve in medical that the medical is right, you got to make sure everything is running and you dang every, like responsible for people's decisions and they life when they work for you. And like I tell people like I've been hiring people since I was 14 that worked for me. I just hired people on the block is called rushers. I'm saying I'm gonna give him a wake up and they go and bring me back. 100 But if y'all know the conversation, I'm just talking you probably don't know what I'm talking about. All you real dudes out there don't even know what I said. They don't got no clue. No clue. I'm saying it's alright though. Because when you don't have clues, you're gonna be clueless.

Naeem Hall: 31:34

They're very, very clueless. So I'm gonna have to say I was I was pleasantly surprised when I seen you working on your art pieces, these one of the art pieces. I want to know a little bit about your art process. Is there any? Is there any correlation between creating the art and creating music art?

31:52

No, I don't think so. I think that, like, artists effort, I think that I could probably break art down to one thing, and it's probably effort. Because, obviously a gift times effort, like you have to have a gift for art. You know, I'm saying but as we see, you never know what a true gift is. Because just how we're talking about the music. I'd be happy even like these young cats that, you know, I'm saying people say well, they really ain't talking about nothing. And they saying the same thing over and over again. It's kind of like when an athlete goes to the league, right? And they give him 100 M's, and then he gets hurt. You know, I mean, and then he can't never play for you like, like Greg golden. He came to Portland. And we've had a few of these incidents, but so of other teams that give these people 100 Plus EMS, and he don't play no games for you. And then everybody's mad at him. And they call him a bomb and they doing all this but what you got to realize is this, I'd be happy. I don't really have no problem when an athlete gets hurt and can't play because he's given his whole life and dedicated his license age of probably like eight to this one sport, and he's made it to the NBA or the NFL. And then an injury happens. I'd be happy when they keep the money. Because people be like, Oh, well, they stole money. Listen, man, if you understand the concept, yeah, you don't work your whole life. To get to this point, you need compensation, there needs to be some insurance once you dedicate yourself to anything, that you go and prosper from it, man. You don't want to get chewed up

Naeem Hall: 33:12

man you don't think they they want to play you think they more hurt than them to people That's mad at you for being hurt.

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Listen, they want to play worse than anything louder use people to trade day mama and they can play not so you could say that they plan good so that they could feel good inside man, when you struggle when you when you are put trying to put yourself in position and you take a step forward, or two, three steps forwards and an avalanche and you end up in avalanche and you have 117 steps from reverse a list and that's not easy and people don't understand like when you put your all into something and it doesn't come out or you don't get the result like you want there's a lot of stuff. There's anxiety that goes into that there's there's there's failure, there's financial failure, there's mental failure, a lot of times failure in business, is the first sign to a failure in your relationship whether it's a marriage or a relationship just with a person. If you fail financially, most likely you go into failing in your relationships not just you know the relationship with your significant other you a woman or a woman with a husband, but you're gonna fill in relationships in life because it's hard to have a good time and be yourself and be comfortable around people when you fell in financially.

Naeem Hall: 34:21

Yes, tough. It's tough. Yeah, you all you got to worry about how you're gonna make the next move and you always worried about how to build and get paid and so yeah, it can get rough.

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So so the art basically so about a year and a half ago, is kind of like coming up at the end of the pandemic. I was kind of bored you know you'd be in the house but I never was really in the house like in Houston we never closed down so like the strip clubs was open we out we I'm saying like there were masks on but we out in the strip clubs, everything open. You know then why people may not want to let you to strip clubs. What they did is they made sure that they had a restaurant credentials in order because you couldn't shut down a restaurant out there because it was an essential so You know, I'm saying they had the strip clubs open because they were serving food. And that made the location essential. And if it's an essential, you know, I'm saying they're not people can work. And they work in there. And the strippers were actually under the waitress. So, you know, I'm saying and food servers are essential to me. But that sounds essentially, I'm saying it's very essential to me. Everybody else didn't think so. But I did. So So I started one day I, you know, I've been, I've always been artistic and I was bored. And one of my chicks, she was like, she's a painter. So she was like, Hey, we should go, just like do some paint and stuff. So we went to Dollar Tree and I bought 10 frames about that big 10 square frames about that big and got some painting and just started painting, painted three or four of them and then moved up to a bigger frame, and moved up to a bigger frame. And then people started like saying stuff about it. And then just like one and I've only been painting for like a year and a half in which real paint time is probably like, four or five months of actual real paint time. So I just started painting and people started saying stuff to me about it and then I started hanging my stuff in my Airbnb is because I wanted to give them different looks. And it was like, I could give them stuff like whatever furniture we get, I could match the decor and it and make it and enrich the situation. And then I started selling my stuff to my Airbnb is making it available to Airbnb, and I started doing bigger pieces, and all of my homes have my pieces in them, you know, I'm saying like, like, even when we rented our house out to the, to the tenant, he actually bought one of the paintings off the wall when he moved in. So, you know, the painting stuff just came about, it's not even all painting his creative stuff, because I put like lights on stuff, I bust stuff down, I do a lot of stuff that you can't get in, and I've been blessed to, to have my pieces. I guess I'm respected by people that like enjoy art I've had people tell me that the pieces look better than stuffs in, in, in, you know, museums where people go across the world and and I've also seen a lot of stuff that I've really liked. That was super similar to my stuff and, and you know, it's all in the eye of the beholder. You know, people like your stuff and they want to buy it or they don't and you know, I'm saying like, you can't like I'm like, my stuff is expensive. So there's no need to lie about you like, because it's gonna cause you to like it, you they're gonna like it and you won't pay for it. Are you gonna lie about liking it and when it's time to pay for it, you ain't going out of money. So we're not gonna do an online about me but that's basically how my payment came into play. And, and it's creativity is like, it's just like you just do it, just do it. You just do it like you either do it or you don't and you either can't or you can't. Yeah, I think a lot of people can't think they can. And a lot of people attempt to do it when they just shouldn't probably do it. Yeah, that's my opinion. They probably have that opinion about me,

Naeem Hall: 37:49

man. Well, man, man, I'm loving the spotlight show man. We're gonna take one more break. And we're gonna we're gonna get some some of this new music in here. And we'll get to Thorn city syndicate management and we won't come back and we're gonna wrap this show up. We're gonna talk about your last venture with the shoes. Anything else got going on and and one more thing I got to I got to know a little bit about is the church of Millennium was the church what's the message to the church

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people in the congregation

Naeem Hall: 38:23

we'd be right back

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right listen my little man he was with me seen this data sticker and he was like I said you know at the park went to work out and using the ABA sticker that's one of the trash can that's you know what that is? He said yeah, that's the church

Naeem Hall: 38:46

Bluetooth view and

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everything going on right? Absolutely

39:03

you know, you know the funny thing about it is like I always tell people like like the truth usually is just the lies you know, I'm saying that ain't true usually is hella funny like when we all telling the truth nobody should be disrespected by that But therein lies my focus a ton of room real fast you know I'm saying I told you man I told you man I'm you know I'm saying I'll never take nobody nothing from nobody but when I show up it's gonna be one Yeah, it's not a podcast I am here you're being the number one. The shit I'm talking is really what it is. Yeah. Okay, how are we Bluetooth in

Naeem Hall: 39:40

so I got it. It should pull up it should be. If you go to your thing. That's a road caster pro

39:50

Whoa, there we go.

40:04

Okay bingo

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no connection shouldn't be

Naeem Hall: 40:45

so we come back or read my read my ad. And I'm gonna say this is an extended break we're gonna listen to some new music from Kenny millennium. And then after the music, we'll come back and do the conclusion and wrap it up

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because you can hear me in your eyes right? Yeah, it's totally dead

Naeem Hall: 41:04

Yeah. Is your phone volume up? It is now. Okay. Yeah, let me make sure yeah, we'll play it first.

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Offline because you made it available offline. Offline Oh, I'm tripping airplane

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okay so that

Naeem Hall: 41:53

platform playground, you just want to hear the levels okay. Do my ad real quick on time. Introducing Thorn city syndicate management, your comprehensive solution to brand management, social media and digital content distribution and pioneering podcast production, from shaping engaging content that resonates with your audience to amplify your brand's reach through podcasting, where your partner is in driving success. Teaming up with GMP podcast group, we offer free strategy sessions and leverage our recording studio and personalized strategies to establish an online presence. your brand's journey to the start to the Start your brand's journey to the Start starts with Lauren city syndicate where innovation meets results contact us at WWW dot Thorne city syndicate.com to embark on the path of transforming your brand's future so we got the extended break we'll get into some new new music from Millennium what's what song we got coming up

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this will be the first single often new album is called right now produced by crispy Hendrix the producer of you I'm seeing the joint he just had a fresh produce your credit on two chains seeing that as some of that good I had to check the numbers and see where we at be a gold producer at the very least messing with two chains he had that joint with two chains and sway Lee on there and I was hurt

Naeem Hall: 43:29

and I was joined and I'm not even a big big music I don't really listen to the music a lot but I liked it that joint yeah was a good join so yeah gonna bring it down for me

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this industry so I gave me a piece right now cheesy a piece right now right ministries right now says heavy industry so I keep me in peace right now. Right? Two or three fresh right now. We're gonna get this money right now. The finished Real Niggas put us mostly imposters sitting at the table eating steak with some lobsters fucking with these treats put your life on the task, said I display a stamp and you're finished watch a six and be careful. Better be on the air for me. I've been dipped in vicious like the freshness of perils and suckers in the streets be like fishes and barrels. Thank you Ron Stan when his budget the Narrows, covered open guests and Nicolas Bolero with the mechs coming into Rancheros, Sydney and Camaro getting tough from our aero spindle space like my first name is Harold top rope and Nick Guerrero, as we will get to understand the straight as an arrow. And you can do the runner man from industry so I keep me in peace right now. Right now right now deep in the streets right now this heavy industry so I keep me in peace right now.

Naeem Hall: 45:17

Right now yes sir join

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time right now whatever you doing business winning personal thing you don't want to do right now is lose don't lose don't lose right now everything else that's all gonna get you where you want to be right now you're feeling good right now in money right now eating right now losing you better put a post moment on that bad boy because you're doing that right now it's probably you know it's all bad right now

Naeem Hall: 45:43

man man man welcome back to the spotlight show. That was some new music from the millennium. Man that was a joint I like that joint man. So man, I've been appreciating this this talk right you what you learned a few things. That's what it's about man learning in life you live and you learn when you stop learning non travel you just gonna stop living in trouble. So it sounds like you got to hard work determination and perseverance is this sounds like what you've been the journey you've been on now? And I'm really really proud to see see you live in living your best life you know I'm saying because I don't live my worst before I know your story you know so I know where you came from and where you went to when where you had to go back and even did it again. You know sometimes you got to start over to get where you want to get to

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you got to go through the fire you know I'm saying to get to the fried chicken you can't cook no meal without no fire.

Naeem Hall: 46:43

Yeah, so your latest venture to shoes the shoe store was the shoe store called where's it located?

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Basically, I have a virtual store and it's called us 713 year you can get on there and get like you know we made sure that I basically started because when I was a kid I didn't handle Nikes you know I'm saying like I have one pair of Jays I had like the all white with the purple Jays or something you know, I'm saying I had to and I got them from the Nike store on MLK. And they came in a white box and said blemished in so like if I got good grades. My mom said she would take me to get a pair and I never had a pair of Nike before I had all types of stuff. I had like ease like some other okay brands or shoes, some Payless joints. Some volumes, like you know, I'm saying like I had the whole set up I mean, but the thing about it is like, I got it I went to go get some Nikes one day and like it wasn't nothing near my size, right? You know, know what size I was thinking were like eight at the time. And so like, like, I was so scared that if I left out that store, I wouldn't get nine. I messed around and pick the all white with the purple shoes. You know, I'm saying and it was like a size nine and I told my mom and fit me because I just wanted him and then like a week later my shoes look like the iron sheet. And Joyce had like curled up and folded up and got creased up because it was too big for me. You know, I'm saying but so I really started because I know a lot of young kids and a lot of women struggle. So like basically I try to make sure that they get you know what they need. And I make sure that people get you know certain good deals and prices I'm not even about gouging people out like there's gonna be opportunities for you to get your money and anything you do. But in this situation I try to make sure I'm fair with people and give them you know, shoes and apparel and products that you know they can need and use and want

Naeem Hall: 48:26

nice yeah, that's tight. Oh man. So we own we run and we wrapping it up on the cards, the listeners to explore your passion and pursue your dreams and your own unique way and never stop learning and you you stay on your journey on your path and you eventually you'll get there you never know just don't give up because it's hard out here it's tough a lot of people give up before the before the fruits of the labor pay off. And so just don't be one of those people you know I'm saying but I appreciate you coming through man sharing your stories and insights man Where can people find you and get involved with any many endeavors

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if you're looking for me you can find me on IG at I am lynnium That's I am M E ll E and iulm you can get them either joint 713 years 713 underscore Ayar and you know as you know I'm not I'm not hard to find all you got to do is Google I mean Google any Mac and stuff that you know probably want to know and that you don't want to

Naeem Hall: 49:29

Yeah. Oh one last question. I forgot I forgot I totally forgot I got to know about the church man What's the church's message the church of Millennium I've been hearing about it for years now.

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You know at this point is actually is actually been around for a little bit now. It's like, it's kinda like I'm not well maybe like the Illuminati. You I'm saying but like, you know, I'm saying like people if you don't know what the Illuminati is then and you have to have a deep understanding where it came from. Like I've studied, you know, where these groups came from. These groups are Succubus H groups, you know, they get in and they attach themselves to you. So you know, and then they perform, you know, under the under yo, yo banner, but you know, that's that's for later you guys go do that. But I think like the church, the church millennium is kind of like it's kind of like a cult really. But let's see, this is the thing though. Like a lot of people don't understand, like, when you when you hear the word cult, you think of these certain types of people. But if you go in the dictionary, and you read the word cult, by definition, it's not evil, it's not bad. I'm saying it's just like, you know, I guess people have made, I guess, some decisions that have been the heads of certain codes. And they ended up getting recognized, but there's a lot of codes that you never even knew existed that aren't, you know, negative. And so like, I think like, maybe the church or millennium is like, is planning maybe like that. It's basically like, it's a place where certain people come to learn understanding and to better themselves. It's kind of like, Have you ever seen you went to the mall before? And you seen Build A Bear? Okay, now, let me remind you, like, there's not really there's like, I got to like, no men, no men are I'm the only man allowed in the actual church millennia. Okay? In my, my, my followers are my congregation is based in females. Now, this being said, I have a lot one day I had somebody hit me and they said, Hey, bro, how can I be a member of the church? And I told him, I said, Well, the truth of the matter is men can follow, you know, I'm saying the ideologies, and they can follow the words. But you know, I'm saying the basis for the church is, is its female base. So it's like, you really can't come to the compound with all the women there. I mean, man, like, even the people that like, you know, I'm saying, like, make the beds and stuff and do all the stuff, those are all female. So like, I only no dudes take the trash out of the church to come in and take it out. So it's like, I don't need that. But But I tell people, they can be like, you know, members, in understanding and members are falling. But but but one thing about it is, and this is not, I know, some people might think that I'm talking about something might have to do with polygamy, but I'm not. So it's basically like, I'm the type of person that I feel like you should have enough in this world of everything that you need, wants and needs are different, you should handle your needs before you have your wants. So like me, I'm the type of person where I need to interface with with with a lot of information, I need to be connected to information I need to be connected with people that want to see me have information and want to see me win. So like, like the people that are in the church, these are people that will congregation that wants to see me win, just like when you go to a church, and the pastor is in the front, and everybody's in there and they cheering and they talking in tongues, like that's, I that's what I need to because that type of energy is the type of energy that you see puts people in understand isn't like the more people that you have skilled people that you have, you know that follow your word and follow the the your ideologies in the way that you think it's gonna be a whole lot easier to get to the position that you want to in life. Now there's, anybody can have a church, but it's the quality of your congregation. You know, I'm saying like a lot of people don't they have subpar qualities, you know, their congregation is of subpar quality. And I don't offer subpar quality, anything I do and, and I don't, I can't accept subpar and anything I do, because I've been to the harshest environments in this world, places that nobody else could survive and and I came back and survived. And so because I came from those places, and survived in those places, of coldness and darkness and just went on these sabbaticals, and these journeys to places that people would never go, I deserve to be treated in a certain way. I deserve to have as much information as I can possibly get from as many as intelligent people, especially intelligent women. Because if you left the world to win a right now, this would be a better place. It's already been left to us and look what we've done to destroy this place. You I'm saying go ahead and let the females take over as long as we ain't going into slavery. A lot of the ideologies will put us in a better position and place us in a position to succeed without all the war and harshness all the time. It's okay to laugh and smile, enjoy yourself when I'm in the church. I like to enjoy myself and smile. A lot of times when I'm in the outside world, like I don't get to smile because you have to when you start smiling people think you're funny and when they think you're funny they try you when they try you have to show people that you're not funny and I like to enjoy myself I like to actually smile and have a good time. But you know that's hard to do sometimes so that's why the compound is only for you know certain types of members only gotcha like that jacket members only There you

Naeem Hall: 54:37

go. And that's that's that's the church of Millennium straight from the horse's mouth as

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the church.

Naeem Hall: 54:44

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Where'd you see that? That's the church man you see that? That's the church the churches around

Naeem Hall: 55:31

Yes sir. Good shit brother. Yeah. So what I need from you is anything we talked about so like if you got video pictures of the the Airbnbs yeah and drama when we talk about like a drop