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Welcome to "Creator 50".

This is the podcast designed for gen X plus creators, but you

know what everybody is welcome.

It's kind of funny, somewhat to do with the topic that we're

going to talk about today.

I am your host Doc Rock.

If you're brand new around these parts, I am a content creation coach and podcasts

are, as you can see, I like to help people getting into the content creation game.

So if you are.

Gen X plus, if you remember Sunday morning, Saturday morning cartoons,

eating cereal out of cutting a hole in the box and pourin' milk in it,

you're probably in the right space.

If that sounds crazy to you, you can still hang out anyway, because I

think the info is good for anybody.

We're going to talk today about gatekeepers.

Yeah.

It's a crazy, crazy, crazy topic.

It came to mind to me this week because I was having a internet discussion

with my friend, Nikki, and we were talking about the Elon buyout, right?

Like Elon's buying the Twitter thing and everybody's on like, oh, you know, it's

going to make it better for free speech.

And some people are like, oh, I'm jumping off Twitter because

Twitter is going to become messy.

And this, that, and the next thing.

And I'm like, nah, hold up, pump your brakes, man.

First of all, half the people that are excited about Elon coming back.

Cause they're talking about, well, we're going to get our free speech back.

Free speech ain't free.

It turns out it costs about a one and a half to two million

electric cars, AKA $44 billion.

So it ain't that free if you got to buy it.

And then now that Elon is in control.

It's up to him, kind of what goes on the platform and what does it,

so it's not really free, right?

Like he's going to be controlling what people say or don't say, or maybe he's

not, maybe he's just going to let you know everyone's freak flag fly and they can

say whatever the heck they want and it's going to become a literal, like S show.

It's funny because people don't really understand what that means and like, you

know, good and well, you can't go into theater and yell fire, so people know what

free speech is and what it, isn't just wanting the right to just spew hate that's

not really what free speech is about.

So let's just stop there.

But the conversation came up, you know, as far as what does that mean for us

creators, like creators that are out here using the platform for what they

use it for spreading their word, like helping get mission and I say, you got

to think of these things as tools, all of these tools can be taken away from

you at any given time, back in the day grandpa's favorite tool was a rotary

phone, you know, got one of those no more.

So then what, you know, like he just gave up, you know, being a person

because he no longer had the dial Lincoln five, six, seven, eight, nine.

No, he kept making phone calls.

He just learned to press the buttons.

So if you're a creator, you learn to adapt and you learn to overcome

whatever the craziness that is out there and well primarily.

If you following my teachings or people like me, you're going to know that

you're creating comes because you're working on a purpose in your purpose

is ordered to get things better.

So you're creating stuff to make people's life better.

Right?

You create.

An iPhone or a Macintosh™ or a tablet, or, you know, smart TV, the microwave, the air

fryer, just one time for the air fryer!

Where my air fryer, people at?

All of those inventions were created to make people's lives better.

The TV dinner was invented to make someone's life better.

The.

The car.

Look, you start with that.

The wheel let's take it back before computers exists, the wheel was

invented to make people's lives better.

Ugg and Zugg was kicking it, on the plateau one.

And they decided that, well, they've got their kill, they hooked up a

Brontosaurus and they were going to go back to the flat and grill.

Right.

And then Ugg is like, yo man, the last time we drag this Brontosaurus

down the hill, we lost half of the meat from the friction.

Zugg is like Ugg , friction ain't been invented yet.

Oh yeah.

Okay.

So anyway, how do we get this gigantic heavy, you know, Brontosaurus

back to the crib so we could throw it on the barbie real quick.

Zugg was Australian.

He said, I know we'll take this rock and we'll beat it with this other rock

until it becomes round, and then we can make three more of them and then

put the Brontosaurus on the top and we can roll that joint to the flat

and then we can get it going, but man, please stop using the lighter fluid.

Lighter fluid is nasty!

Just like hit the rock with the other rock, catch the fire...

boom tastes better.

Stop using lighter fluid user, a fire chimney.

He was like, what's that?

Don't worry.

It'll be invented in like 1978 sometime.

All right.

Cool.

Anyway, so we've been on that creator mission from way back bus, right?

Like pre-dating time.

Creators create!

You create things to make people lives better.

You create to share your knowledge.

You create to invite other people along on your journey.

You're normally trying to make the better place.

So I said in a reel earlier this week, there's two types of

peoples consumers and creators.

There's people that just use use, use, use use.

They don't really make anything.

And there's the people that make.

Well, lucky for us if you're listening to this podcast, I got a 95.9, 8%

chance that you're probably a creator.

So I just want to guide you with the knowledge that whoever owns TikTok

or whatever tool YouTube or whatever becomes the next thing doesn't matter.

Just keep creating and just creating with that purpose of making people's

lives better and their situation better.

And you're probably going to be, okay.

We seem to be somewhat protected when we are in that creation mode.

My boy Lemuel likes to say givers gain and he's telling the truth.

Like that's what it is.

If you're given the knowledge of your sharing, your secrets, uh,

you're giving people entertainment, providing them with information

that can make their lives better.

You're probably going to be absolutely fine no matter what happens.

What the gatekeepers do.

Is they start coming in and this came up because we were in, in my conversation

with Nikki, the gatekeepers come in and be like, oh, well, you don't need

to be on Twitter no more, because Twitter is just going to become,

you know, a mess and blah, blah, blah, Trust you me, if that person

gets a lot of business from Twitter, they not stepping off the platform.

In order to thin out the areas so that they have more room for themselves,

people will tell you that it's stinks.

People will, will say that this place is not the place to be,

but yet they be over there.

I'm doing.

Recording live.

And in my audience, I see my homie DJ Rob, right.

Us DJs.

I want to tell you right now guilty A F us DJs.

And I see my boy K P, Keith Pelzer out here.

He's a producer music producer, Rob is a producer.

Us in the music business, in the hip hop business, back in the day, yo,

we were all professional gatekeepers.

We'll be like, nah, man, you can't get into the DJ game because you know,

first of all, techniques is expensive.

You know, I know you're still in that hood budget.

I was in the hood budget techniques is expensive.

It's hard.

Oh yeah, by the way, I'm getting the beat right this way or that way was hard.

Getting this particular sound was hard.

Most of us kept our knowledge and our secrets to ourself.

There's a funny line in, from Kid & Play Martin Lawrence, in Kid and Play he's

playing DJ Bilal in a, whether that thing.

Oh, my God.

I can't even remember the name of the movie.

Now this has bananas.

Um, but there's a famous line house party and he's like, yo

Bilal why you black out the labels?

You know, cause this is true.

Any old school DJ would know even any old school producer would know many producers

would put that grill over the settings on their compressor so that when other

people came to the studio, they couldn't see how they had that special sound.

Right.

They were hiding stuff.

You know what I mean?

When you learned patches or you got that brand new 8 0 8 or that brand

new nine two nine, or, you know, the six two six or Linn drum kit or

something, people would kind of hide what they were using back in our day.

And that made for limited to.

Music dopeness.

Right when the YouTube world came out.

Everybody started snitching, right?

People were showing you how to crab.

People were showing you how to fade.

People were teaching each other harmonic mixing for those of

us that know how to do it.

You can always tell a good DJ when they can harmonic mix.

You know, when you first learned how to harmonic mix?

Um, it's a rarity there weren't many of it.

Rob and I share a friend DJ Toma when he was a kid, just because he was a

cellist first, when he first started mixing me and my boy, James Cole, be

listening and be like, yo man, this kid is harmonic mixing and he'd been

deejaying for like a week and a half.

It was natural to him because he was a musician.

But you know, it's a thing, a lot of people don't people that do when you hear

it, even if you're not in the music, you know what it is, cause your body reacts

to it better it's this is what it is.

So it was funny.

We were really, really big time gatekeepers.

We were very, very good at like blacking out the label so nobody can see what that

hot new wax was or, you know, people would even go as far as streets cutting the

labels out of stuff that they bought so that nobody else could copy their Steve's.

Like it was crazy.

Now we're in the world of info sharing.

We kind of share it all.

We give it all out there, but there's gatekeepers and why this matters

to you as a new creator or up and coming creator or burgeoning creator.

First of all, don't be like that.

You will make.

10 times more money sharing with people, how you do what you do.

There is nothing to hide.

Transparency is the flavor of the day, if you are sharing the knowledge, if you are

giving the knowledge you will normally do.

Going back to my boy, Lemuel, and what he says, givers gain,

if you give you just gain.

His famous line is the lemon tree is not afraid to bear lemons.

You can take them as freely as you want.

Why?

Because birds and people eat those lemons seeds hit the ground.

You grow more trees.

You know what I'm saying?

It's the same thing for us creators.

You have to be willing to share, but when you run into a gatekeeper,

Someone that's saying, well, you can't be a real podcaster or cause

you're not talking into an SM7B.

Guilty, I've said it.

I'm trying my best, not to say these dumb things anymore.

Um, I may not have said that exact line, but things close to it.

You want to be.

Inviting look fam you can start your podcast right now.

You can grab your phone.

You can post up, you can get in that blank anchor.

I do not like the anchor app.

I absolutely straight up kind of sorta somewhat hate the anchor

app because of Spotify, you know, sneaky conversation inside the

terms of service that nobody reads.

But I wouldn't tell somebody, don't start your podcast on anchor.

I would tell them started there, get it popping.

And once you know, you pass that seven episode wall.

Hey, funny, this is episode seven.

Uh, once you pass that seven episode wall, think about moving into someplace better.

Think about.

You know, maybe getting a Samsung, Q2U are an SM58 or a Scarlet

start to level up your gear.

These are better conversations.

I'll admit I'll be the first to admit, I am guilty.

A F of like, you should get this equipment first or don't even bother,

or you should get this or that, or don't even bother I've said it myself because

I had the experiences of using crappy stuff and not having the outcome, but

it's better now a better conversation.

And I'm going to give provenance and props to my buddy Tom buck, because Tom buck

is one of the people that helped me see what it sounds like to be a gatekeeper.

And it's funny because I have personally being gate kept lots.

Uh, you ain't black enough, you're half breed or you're not, you know, Spanish

enough, you know, or, uh, you're not, you know, this to call yourself a Japanese

speaker because you don't write Kanzi.

Well, now I write Kanji now what?

Well, then now you're not a Japanese speaker because you only

lived in the country for a year.

I've lived here for 10 years.

Yeah.

You lived there for 10 years, but my Japanese is better than yours.

So what you know, so you're going to get these things and you just got

to learn to deal with them people.

Take what they say with a grain of salt.

If there's anything in there that you can take and utilize to make

yourself better, pick that up on that part of it, use that part of it.

Take the part that is nonsense and throw it out the back of your mind.

Just like out the back, you know what I'm saying?

Some gatekeepers are trying to block you from coming to a certain space because

they want more space of themselves.

They have that jealousy, they have a scarcity mindset.

They're afraid of the competition, things like that.

There are other gatekeepers who are probably looking out for your best

interest because of their experiences, but me, but you'll have to know that your

experiences are going to be different.

So don't use that as a place to stop.

If you watch the news right now, right?

And I'm not going to call nobody's political sides out or whatever,

there are literally people that are out here, gatekeeping, patriotism.

I have had people in conversations.

Talk to me about.

You know, well, you're not a Patriot because you do X and I'm like,

yeah, fam, how long did you serve?

And they're like, what?

I'm in?

Like how, how long did you serve?

I don't know.

You're talking about, I was like, yeah.

You know, um, I served, so I think I, my patriotism is

covered, you know what I'm saying?

So you just have to be aware of them, know they're out there and you're going

to see them spend any amount of time on TikTok, any amount of time on our

reels, even YouTube or whatever and you're going to hear people gatekeeping.

You know, this restaurant is this, or this is not real, you know, Mexican food or

this is not real, you know, Japanese food.

This is some other strange thing again, slightly guilty.

, But normally not from the area of trying to keep you away for it.

I probably said that because I want to introduce you to what is real and

maybe I'll take you somewhere deeper.

When you go to San Diego, And someone's, you know, you have some

quote, unquote Flexican food somewhere.

Somebody that knows better would be like, nah, fam let's go over to,

um, uh, what is it called Logan or to Chicano Park and I'll take you

to where some of the better ones.

Where you can get more authenticity or you can just jump into whip, go to

TJ and get that real deal holy field.

You see what I mean?

So there's that.

I just wanted to have a quick conversation about it because as you

get into creating, you are going to run into the keepers of the gate, and

I want you to be prepared for that.

Don't get discouraged by it, but try to make a way to take that info and

use it to the best of your ability.

And I also want to be a quick reminder to those of us out here.

Yeah.

When you catch yourself being a gatekeeper, stop it.

Number one, number two, go back to the person who you kept the gate on

and maybe sliding their DM and kick them with an apology or something.

Cause you may have been coming from a place of help, but a lot

of times the gatekeeping hurts.

You know what I mean?

When, when I'm in, Asia or, you know, a different country and someone tells

an American hyphen of that person when they come back to their country,

that they're no longer that because you're half American or you're part

of American or you grew up in America.

Yeah.

That's weird.

Happens a lot in Japan and Korea, China, when I'm there.

People, you know, tease the Twinkies.

That's what they call them.

You know, it's just, it's not cool.

It's not cool.

Cause that person, you know, like, imagine us going me going back to Puerto Rico or

me going back to Haiti or, you know, go to the, and they're just like, oh no, you

can't be that because you were born here.

You were born over there.

That that's weird because here, you know, I don't get to be American sometimes.

Which is weird.

So, you know what I'm saying?

That feeling of not belonging anywhere, it's not cool.

I mean, I could just guess, imagine you're out here, say you having

to be a music producer who also happens to be deep into their church.

You're going to have hip hop.

People tell you not hip hop enough because you're not thugging

because you play pastor on Sunday.

That's just not cool.

That space cannot feel good.

You know what I'm saying?

So let's try for the sake of each other.

To not do that to other people, especially those of us in the Creator 50 camp.

'Cause I guarantee you we've all been through it.

Cause we grew up in some of the most separate as times in the planet, which

is why it's funny that so many of us are backsliding to that separation

and building these weird silos.

Because we know better.

We came from that nonsense.

We thought we grown out of it.

So I just want to put that out there and see if we can do

something about gatekeeping when it comes to the creative space.

I just want to make it a better place gang.

That wraps up episode seven.

Oh, "Creator 50".

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