We are the 99% - Believe you are powerful, because you are

I saw this post and got inspired to write. To express myself with free paint. (Words)

This is one of the realest statements ever. And exactly why we should never ever EVER be afraid of the “1%.” I’ve heard the discouraging thoughts like.. “oh we can’t do this or do that because the elite, the people in power, the 1%. But mannnnn… THEY SHOULD BE AFRAID OF US. In fact, they ARE afraid of us. This is why they have to pour millions upon billions of dollars into controlling the media and therefore our thoughts. You know what makes the 1% scared shitless?.. a conscious man with a good heart. You know what makes them even more scared shitless?… 99% of the population being united solely off the basis that we have good hearts. I’m telling you man, we are the strongest, most powerful beings in the universe (well beside divine figures). We dont need tons of money, we don’t need to manipulate people via the media. But oh boy they need it. Like literally, without those they would be all the way screwed. Their way of life could not continue without it. The 99% of people with good hearts… we have true power. Because we don’t need to spend exorbitant amounts of money … we don’t need to resort to manipulation… in order to maintain our of way of life. A conscious man with a good heart… that’s power.

BELIEVE you are powerful. Because you are.

<3

Ever wonder how songs get on the radio? Short answer… $

Someone emailed me, asking if I wanted to be on their Hip Hop and Rap playlist. And because I’m so fed up with payola.. pay to play (pay money to get your song played)… I sent him a long response back. Check it out:

Hey Oliver,

I’m obviously down to get on your playlist! Buttt I’m not down for payola. You know many many years ago, the only way for an artist to get on the radio was to pay the dj to play them. So there were artists with amazing songs out there.. but they couldn’t pay the djs more money than other artists. Guess who got heard? The ones that paid! But is that fair? That radio play was based on who had the most money rather than based on the quality of the music?

I don’t think it’s fair. Neither did a lot of other people. So they made Payola illegal. Yet here we are. And Payola still exists! In Radio, in Spotify, literally everywhere. In Radio, they use a middle man… someone not affiliated to the major record labels.. and they call him an “indie promoter”… which is all bullshit. He is working directly for the major labels, carrying their money.. handing it to radio stations.. to play their musician. Its payola, but the labels avoid being seen engaging in direct payment with a radio station. Now you.. with your Spotify playlist. I have one question.. how much do I have to pay you to be on your playlist?

Payola still exists. And its literally retarded. (Sorry for my language) But if you think I’m lying.. look up all the songs on the radio. I bet you they are all signed to major labels. And there’s hundreds of thousands of incredible independent artists or artists on independent labels… Getting radio play. It’s all about the dollars it’s crazy.

for more details on this bs.. head to the link below.

https://www.tunecore.com/blog/2011/09/how-to-get-your-song-on-commercial-radio.html

Peace & Love tho,

Billy

Let’s talk love, fear, and the 7 sins, or just skip to the reference video at the end =)

To start, I hope you feel loved today.

After watching the movie “Shazam!” last night, I’ve decided to study the seven deadly sins today. (Real quick) If you’ve havent seen the movie, basically theres a bad guy with monster buddies who all represent one of the sins. I found a wonderfully worded (so much so that i couldn’t help but use its wording directly at times) YouTube video on the topic of the 7 deadly sins, and below is my interpretation of the ideas it talked about. I don’t claim to be a preacher even if I get that way unintentionally. But my hope in writing this was to help my personal comprehension of the ideas I ran into.

In online life and in our social life, we sometimes berate others (often unknowingly) when we observe these human behaviors believing what we are doing is for the greater good. However, if we were to just form better understanding of these behaviors, it would be more productive for all of us. At least that’s what I learned from the YouTube video haha

Pride: Sometimes, as humans, we become boastful and we speak of our greatness.. but this is only because we feel invisible. And speaking amazing things about ourselves is our natural reaction to that feeling of invisibility. So telling someone “I see you” is a wonderful thing to say to them. Those that exhibit a need to boast of their how amazing they are just need a little encouragement. So they can grow closer to a genuine feeling of self-worth, and diminish the need to boast of their greatness.

Envy: Sometimes we want what other people have but that’s okay. It’s natural. Rather than condemn someone for expressing these wants, we should understand that this person has not yet realized that it IS ENOUGH TO JUST BE, or maybe just forgot momentarily. Either way, isn't it easy to tell someone to be grateful for what they have?, even though I’m guilty of envious thoughts too. Easier said than done sort of thing. And gratitude while a magically beautiful thing, doesn’t mean envy is equally as ugly. Envy, when carefully analyzed can actually be a healthy source of ambition. It can be a means for us to identify what’s truly missing in our lives. And often times what’s missing is simply love. For example, think of someone who envies another persons material possessions, a pretty common source of envy. Now consider two people in love, they feel accepted, they feel they have the right to exist. There is tenderness and patience that binds them, and they could be happy with nothing more than a park bench. No material wealth or possessions needed. (Well maybe a few, but you get the idea)

Greed (this was a tough one to interpret): Among us are people who excessively hoard material wealth. They desire to grab as much stuff as fast as possible. They may appearrr to be advantaged and privileged, but the urge to acquire more than our fair share, inside, is a manifestation of desperation and fear. It could just be a fear that someone is gonna notice they are unhappy.. and that drives them to grab more and more stuff, almost as a form of distracting others. Like “I’m not unhappy. Look at all this stuff I have, how could I be unhappy?”

Lust: We may sleep around at some point in our lives, not because we are bad people.. but because we are lonely. Sex is the epitome of connection and acceptance. When we do have sex, we should eventually communicate with the other what it is we truly desire from sex.. and for most of us that is an acceptance of our chaotic human selves.

Sloth: We don’t become lazy out of malice. But out of fear that our work will be a source of awful humiliation. We are scared that if we apply ourselves we may not succeed as well as we’d like. Or worse, we will get mocked and humiliated for doing an inadequate job. But this isn’t laziness, rather COMPLETELY understandable worries. Beneath our inaction is the anticipation of catastrophe. We must first overcome the fear of doing something badly.. in order to shift into action.

Wrath: Let’s use road rage as an easily relatable example. At some point, especially in densely populated places.. we experience a moment where we become angry at another driver. But only because in that moment we were scared for our lives. Now we may not be afraid for our life per say in every situation we become angry.. but it’s a pretty frequent trend, that we are scared of something. Take a random, almost silly example of a baseball player getting mad at an umpire in a baseball game. Say a pitch was called a strike by the umpire but the player believed the pitch was a ball. The player may get angry.. but is actually just scared that that pitch which was incorrectly called, could result in an unpleasant event like a strikeout. To go further, maybe the player is afraid of letting his teammates down. Maybe not with this example, but in many situations, it would be good for us to communicate with an “I’m afraid…” statement when we are angry. Or if someone you know is angry, you can say “You must be scared…” Now these may not apply to everything. I mean if you drop the food you just cooked on the ground.. you could just be mad because you dropped your food on the ground lol

Gluttony: We eat and eat and eat to excess, but not to fill a void of food, but to fill a void of love. We truly seek love and acceptance but we are not sure how to find it. We do not need to be told to eat less, eat healthier, or be disciplined in a diet, as many trainers and diet gurus will tell us. What we really need is to be gently guided to different sources of kindness, security, and emotional connection. What we are really hungry for is love.

As a human, I’m not protected from any of these sins and never will be, but I feel better having a deeper understanding of them.

In conclusion, I hope you feel loved today.

Love,

Billy

The video that inspired this post: