Lately I had someone who I believed was a friend abandon me online _block me in IG_, they believed in the work we do here but then upon leaving decided to announce something about my work ethic, "laters dude, good luck. Try not to fixate on being recognized, just do you."
I must admit all he ever did was talk himself, his music, his mixes, his everything, and some guy named Liam, who said you should do this you should that with your mixes, he just talked about himself endlessly - we know the type.
People who walk away are not your friend, and sometimes I get back to a person 4 days later, it doesn't mean I dislike them, it means I'm moving around doing other things. It is not the duty of someone to rail against me to say you better get back to making music, don't you realize I know that?
Long ago, when I started #WEATNU in 2014 - (this thing was happening in 2012 helping artists on my old twitter account and built up to today) I had another friend from Germany online who was into my music and I was on his small indie label, Mobius Spin tell me he wanted nothing to do with me, because of what I was doing, trying to help artists. This thing called #WEATNU has caused me to lose friendships, (temp hurt my health and keep me from making music), but those aren't friends at all, those are people who want something you can't give them.
If my vision becomes a stumbling block to others, it was never my intention. If you stick with this thing, remember it isn't about you or I, it's about the endless sea of artists in the digital underground scene who need a house to put their wares. I have no life, so when people walk away from me, it helps me tick off in my mind who are truly my friends, I never forget either but I do forgive. Everything I have sought to do for the artist became clear to me last night when digging through old history of #WEATNU I had to come to the understanding of why I do this thing at all, I needed to figure it out.
It's because artists across the world are lost in a sea of digital muck and need a place to release to, so we have a radio, a label and a magazine, #WEATNU isn't about me at all, it never was. Soon we'll have a database where you can add yourself, your music, your links, a living EPK that gets more advanced for the artists (free) on weatnu.com
Ambition is a strange driver and she really pushes me hard.
Thank you for being with us, it isn't you or I, it's about us - we are the new underground