Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering Informatica World 2019. Brought to you by Informatica. Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage of Informatica World 2019. I'm your host Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host John Furrier. We are joined by Adam Mariano. He is the Vice President Health Informatics at High Point Solutions. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thank you for having me. So tell our viewers a little bit about High Point Solutions, what the company does and what you do there. Sure, High Point is a consulting firm in the healthcare and life sciences spaces. We're, if it's data and it moves, we probably can assist with it. We do a lot of data management. We implement the full Informatica stack. Been an Informatica partner for about 13 years. We were their North American partner the year last year. We're part of a much larger organization, IQVIA, which is a merger of IMS and quintiles. Large data asset holder, a big clinical research organization. So we're very much steeped in the healthcare data space. And what do you do there? As Vice President of Health Informatics. I'm in an interesting role. Last year I was on the road 51 weeks. So I was at over 100 facilities. I go out and help our customers or prospective customers or just people we've met in the space, get strategic about how they're going to leverage data as a corporate asset, figure out how they're going to use it for clinical insight, how they're going to use it for operational support in payer spaces, and really think about how they're going to execute on their next strategy for big data, cloud strategy, digital re-imaginement of the healthcare space and the like. So we know that healthcare is one of the industries that has always had so much data, similar to financial services. How are the organizations that you're working with, how are they beginning to wrap their brains around this explosion of data? Well it's been an interesting two years. The last arc of two years there isn't a single conversation that hasn't started with governance. And so it's been an interesting space for us. We're a big MDM proponent, we're a big quality proponent, and you're seeing folks come back to basics again, which is I need data quality, I need data management from a metadata perspective, I need to really get engaged from a master data management perspective. And they're really looking for integrated metadata and governance process. Healthcare has been late to the game. There are about five or six years behind other industries. I think now that everybody's sort of gone through meaningful use and digital transformation on some level, they're now all arcing towards consumerism, which really requires a big deep dive in the data. Adam, data governance has been discussed at length in the industry. Certainly recently everyone knows GDPR is one year anniversary, et cetera, et cetera. But the data role of data is really critical in applications for SaaS and new kinds of use cases. And the term data provisioning as a service has been kicked around. So I'd love to get your take on what that means, what is the definition, what does it mean, data provisioning as a service? So the industry has changed. We've sort of gone through that boomerang, right? We started deep in the sort of client-server standard warehouse space, everything was already be a mess. We then, everybody moved to appliances. Then everybody came back and decided Hadoop, which is now 15 year old technology was the way to go. Now everybody's drifting to cloud and you're trying to figure out how am I going to provision data to all these self-service users who are now in this sort of bring your own tool space. I'd like to use Tableau, I'd like to use CLIC, I like SaaS, I have people who want to write code to build their own data science. How can you provision to all those people and do so through a standard fashion with the same metadata, with the same process? And there really isn't a way to do that without some automation at this point. It's really just something you can't scale without having an integrated data flow. And what's the benefits of data provisioning as a service? What's the impact of that? What does it enable? So the biggest impact is time to market. So if you think about warehousing projects historically a six month year long project, I can now bring data to people in three weeks, in two days and a couple of hours. And so thinking about how I do ingestion from a, if you think about the Informatica stack, something like EDC, using enterprise data catalog to automatically ingest data, pushing that out into IDQ for quality, proving that along to axon for data governance and then looking at enterprise data lake for actual self-service provisioning, allowing users to go in and look at their own data assets like a store, pick things off the shelf, combine them, and then publish them to their favorite tools. That premise is going to have to show up everywhere. It's going to have to show up on AWS and on Amazon and Azure. It's going to have to show up in Google. It's going to have to show up with regards of what tool you're using. And if you're going to scale data science in a real meaningful way without having to stack a bunch of people doing data munging, this is the way it's going to have to go. Now you are a former nurse and you now, I'm still a nurse. Technically, once a nurse, always a nurse. Don't get the nurses. I got an ear thing going on. Can you help me out here? So you have this really unique vantage point in the sense that you are helping these organizations do a better job with their data. And you also have a deep understanding of what it's like to be the medical personnel on the other side who has to really implement these changes and these changes will really change that how they get their jobs done. How would you say, how does that change the way you think about what you do? And then also what would you say are the biggest differences for the nurses that are on the floor today in the hospital serving patients? Well, I think in America, when we think about healthcare, we often talk about doctors. We only talk about nurses and nursing shortages. Nurses deliver all the care. Physicency, at this point, the way that medicine is running, physicians see patients an average two to four minutes. And you really think about what that translates to. If you're not doing a surgery on somebody, it's enough time to talk to them about their problem, look at their chart and leave. And so nursing care is the point of care where you have a lot of opportunity to create deflection in how care is delivered. I can change quality outcomes. I can change safety problems. I can change length of stay by impacting how long people keep IVs and after they're no longer being used. And so understanding the way nursing care is delivered and the lack of transparency that exists with EMR systems and analytics, there's an opportunity for us to really create an open space for nursing quality. So we're talking a lot now to chief nursing officers who were never a target of the analytics discussion. They don't necessarily have the budget to do a lot of these things, but they're the people who have the biggest point of control and change in the way care is delivered in a hospital system. Care is also driven by notifications and data. So you can't go into a hospital hearing all kinds of beeps and things. And AI and all the things we're hearing is that there's now so many signals. The question is what to pay attention to. This becomes a really interesting thing because you can get notifications if everything's instrumented. This is where kind of machine learning and then understanding workflows, outcomes, play a big part. This is the theme of the show. It's not just the data and coding. It's what are you looking for? What's the problem statement or what's the outcome or scenario where you want the right notification at the right time or a resource? Is the operating room open? Maybe get someone in. These kinds of new dynamics are enabled by data. What's your take on all this? Well, I think you've got some interesting things going on. There's a lot of signal to noise ratio in healthcare, right? And everybody is trying to build an algorithm for something, whether that's who's going to overstay their visit, who's going to be readmitted, what's the risk for somebody developing sepsis, who's likely to follow up on a pharmacy refill for their medication. We're getting into the space where you're going to have to start to accept correlation as opposed to causation. We don't have time to wait around for a six-month study or a three-year study where you employ 15,000 patients. I've got three years of history. I've got a current census for the last year. I want to figure out when do I have the biggest risk for falls on a hospital unit? Low staffing, early in their career, physicians and nurses, high use of psychotropic meds. There are things that, if you've been in the space, we can pretty much figure out what should go into the algorithm. And then being pragmatic about what data hospitals can actually bring into use as part of that process. So what you're getting at is really domain expertise is just as valuable as coding and wrangling data and engineering data. In healthcare, if you don't have SMEs, you're not going to get anything practical done. And so we take a lot of these solutions as one of the interesting touch points of our organization that's I think where we shine is bringing that subject matter expertise into a space where pure technology is not going to get it done. It's great if you know how to do MDM. If you don't know how to do MDM in healthcare, you're going to miss all the critical use cases. So really being able to engage that user base and those SMEs and bring people like nurses to the forefront of conversation around analytics and how that data will be used to your point which signals to pay attention to is critical. Supply chain is another big one. Impact there. Well, it's the new domain in MDM. It's the one that was ignored for a long time. I think people had a hard time seeing the value. It's funny, I spoke at 10 o'clock today about supply chain. That was a session I had with Nathan Rain from BJC. We've been helping them embark on their supply chain journey. And from all the studies you look at, it's one of the easiest places to find ROI with MDM. There's an unbelievable amount of ways. We're laying fruit. 24.5 billion dollars in waste a year in supply chain. It's just astronomical. And it's really easy things. It's about just-in-time supplies. Am I overstocking? Am I losing critical supplies with tissue samples that cost sometimes $100,000 because a room has been delayed? And therefore that tissue sits out. It ends up expiring. It has to be thrown away. And I'll bring up Nathan's name again but he speaks to a use case that we talked about which is they needed a supply at a hospital within the system 30 miles away. Another hospital had that supply. The supply cost $40,000. You can only buy them in packs of six. The hospital that needed the supply was unaware that one existed in the system. They ordered a new pack of six. So you have a $240,000 price that you could have resolved with a $100 Uber ride. And so the reality is that that supply could have been shipped, could have been used, but because that wasn't automated and because there was no awareness you couldn't leverage that. Those use cases abound. You can get into a length of stay, you can get into quality and safety. There's a lot of great places to create wins with supply chain and the MDM space. One of the conversations we're having a lot in theCUBE and we're having here at Informatica World is centers around the skills gap. And you have an interesting perspective on this because you are also a civil rights attorney who is helping underserved people with their H1B visas. Can you talk a little bit about the visa situation and what you're seeing particularly as it relates to the skills gap? Well, we're in an odd time. We'll leave it at that. I won't make a lot of commentary. I'm a civil rights and immigration attorney and on the immigration side I do a lot of pro bono work with primarily communities of color but communities at risk looking to help adjust their immigration status. And what you've had is a lot of fear.  And you're getting people who are now returning. So we're seeing a net negative immigration to places like Mexico. You're seeing a lot of people take their money and their learnings and go back to India and start companies there and work remotely. So we're seeing a big uptick in people who are looking for staffing again. I think a last quarter or so has been a pretty big ramp up and I think there's going to continue to be this whole. We're going to have to find new sources of talent if we can't bring people in to do the jobs. We're still also, I think it just speaks to our STEM education, the fact that we're not teaching kids. I have a 28 year old daughter who loves technology but I can tell you that her education when she was a kid was lacking in this technology space. I think it's really an opportunity for us to think about how do we train young people to be in the new data economy. There's certainly an opportunity there today. And what about the, when you said you were talking about your daughter's education, what would you have directed her toward? What kinds of, when you look ahead to the jobs of the future, particularly having had various careers yourself, what would you say that the kids today should be studying? That was two questions. So my daughter, I told her to do what makes you happy. But I also made her learn SQL. For kids today, I would say, look, if you have an affinity and you think you enjoy the computer space, so you think about coding, you like HTML, you like social media, there are a plethora of jobs in that space that none of them require you to be an architect. You can be a BA, you can be a quality assurance person. You can be a PM. You can do analysis work. You can do data design. You can do interface design. There's a lot of space in there. I think we often reject kids who don't go to college or don't have that opportunity. I think it's an opportunity for us to reach down into urban centers and really think about how we make alternate pathways for kids to get into the space. I think all the academies out there that you're seeing rise you to me in a lot of these other places that are offering academy-based programs that are three, six months long and they're placing all of their students into jobs. So I don't think that the arc that we've always chased which is you've got to come from a brand named school to get into the space. I don't think it's that important. I think what's important is can I get you the clinical skill so that you've understood how to move data around, how to process it, how to do testing, how to do design, and then I can bring you into a space and bring you into an entry-level employee. That premise, I think is not part of the American dream but it should be. There's an opportunity. Absolutely, looking for talent in these unexpected places. College is not the only endpoint. We're back to having, I think, vocational schools for the new data economy which don't exist yet and that's an opportunity for sure. And you said earlier, domain expertise in healthcare as an example points to what we've been hearing here at the conference is that with data, understanding outcomes and value of the data actually is just as important as standing up the wrangling data because if you don't have the data beating in. You make a very point. The other thing I tell young people in my practice, young people I interact with, people who are new to the space is, okay, I hear you want to be a data scientist, learn the business. So if you don't know healthcare, you get a healthcare education. Come beyond this project as a BA. I know you don't want to be a BA. That's fine, get over it. But come be here and learn the business, learn the dialogue, learn the economy of the business, learn who the players are, learn how data moves through the space, learn what the actual business is about. What does delivering care actually look like? If you're on the payer side, what does claims processing look like from an end-to-end perspective? Once you understand that, I can put you in any role. And digital for is new non-linear ways to learn. You've got video, I see young kids on YouTube. You can learn anything now. And scale up your learning at a pace. And if you get stuck, you can just keep getting through it. No, no. And there are free courses everywhere at this point. Google has a lot of free courses. Amazon will let you train for free on their platform. It's really an opportunity. I think you're right with this vocational specialism is actually a positive trend. And look at the college university scandals these days and I was like, is it really worth it? I got my nursing license. I got my nursing license through a vocational school originally, right? But the nursing school, they didn't have any technology at that point. Well, you're a great use case. Excellent, Adam, thank you so much for coming on theCUBE. It's been a pleasure talking to you. Thank you. I'm Rebecca Knight for John Furrier. You are watching theCUBE.


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Is the police department Blacks, whites or mainly whites? They tried to do community policing Intrigate, you know, the black officers In the neighborhood But they were the narcotics detectives They was white Every day, you know, they tried But it's kind of hard in them situations And if the police, you think that That's just for their community Think that they would know Each and every one of y'all kids You know what I mean? I know he a good kid He a bad kid And not really just be messing with y'all like that I mean, they did know They had, you know, the intelligence But they still They used to shoot blindly into the dark And hopefully they kept That's the stopping first It led you to shoot blindly into the dark With no intel Just going off of reasonable suspicion At that point, not even probable cause Did you have brothers and sisters? Yeah, I got eleven So it was like eleven Wow Okay, this biological? Or does it adopt? I know he said it adopted from five But he said you know both your family So that means he should know your siblings Yeah, so it's My birth is six of us And then my adopted family is five So all of my family So I don't separate none of them So you did know your birth parents? Yeah, I found them by accident How? In school I was in school one day And one of the students like They heard the last name And it was like, yo Is that your brother? Is it an uncommon last name or something? Yeah, um, Baird Um, Green So like Green Baird, that combination Oh, okay If you know that combination You know my family Mm-hmm So tell me about that story When they heard that name And then asked you Cause you apparently wouldn't know Like now I don't know if I'm related to them You know, whatever How did that all play out? Alright, so I'm like the youngest I'm the youngest boy And like out of eleven I'm like the youngest Like, you know, youngest boy And then I got a little sister boy My older siblings They was in a forced Not if Not a forced agency Cause we was adopted But they was in an agency So they had the visitation Right with the Baird family Mm-hmm So, um, they knew each other I didn't, like I was the last one to go through the The process of being adopted So I would have never knew If nobody never told me Did you ever get, um Did you ever approach your parents And be like, hey Why did you give me up And you know My other siblings You didn't do that with them No, they got adopted all Oh, they all? Okay My daughter family took us all Oh, really? Including your biological Brothers and sisters Yeah, yeah, she took a That's so dope She, she Where we known in Bronx For her projects as Ms. Tina So they respected She adopted a lot of kids She adopted us And then she raised her kids Raised the grandkids She wanted y'all to stay together Yeah, that's exactly My mentality And then my sister father Took her back But, you know I was a Did you ever ask your mom Yeah Why did she give all y'all Up there in that case If you listen to one of my songs I'll forgive you now Mm-hmm She was a drug addict HIV All of that So she carried me the term And gave me to the best Circumstances possible So always grateful for that But, you know She's still alive right now? Nah, she died She died? Yeah How long ago? I was a freshman in college 2012 How did you feel about it? I was, um It hit me hard I mean I didn't know them I wanted to find out You know Yeah I hated it for too long So right when I was getting Comfortable with the strikes And questions I get the call I was in the mall So I dropped to my knees Mm-hmm Yeah I was dropped out of college It hit hard Yeah And your dad is still Oh, my dad was a I was a one-night stand baby So you know how that go Right I heard he off the earth My birth dad So all of them gone Wow, that's crazy Man, I mean Coming up Coming from those odds And being where you at By the day, man It's totally amazing Yeah You know, to come from Where you come from Um, projects Um, you know Mom, uh, pretty much Giving you away And dealing with All the things that you You know Overcame, man God has got a gift in you Yeah And that gift Is pretty much to help Others who've been Through those type situations They're out there Yeah, for sure And those kids And those people It's some five And seven-year-olds Right now And eight-year-olds And ten-year-olds And that comes to them Because you can really Relate to something That they've That they're going through Exactly And so that's where I would suggest, you know That you put Your time in It's helping those kids Because God didn't let you Go through that For no reason But you know What I get from it too I get the fact that We all wait So many times I'm gonna wait I'm gonna wait To ask these questions I'm gonna wait Till I get older I'm gonna wait For this Don't wait Just do it Right then and there Because number one You'd have already had A lot of things already Answered But then I love the fact That you forgive Because they're gone You have to let it go You can't keep that in You have to let it go So I love that fact And then you also Have your siblings Still with you So you have a part Of them with you You know what I mean So I like the way How all of that Worked out Yeah, definitely The thing I definitely Want to get into the music You know You love the music Or is it something You just trying out When did you get serious about it? Yeah Like I did the schooling thing For my mom You know Pleased my mom But then I just graduated My master's degree I did Awesome Congratulations Thank you Wow, master's degree Yeah At the top of my class 3.94 GPA Wow, man So I had to do that You know So I'd be like Yo You could do the education And do the music So I was doing both At the same time Finishing up Back and forth In and out of classes In a Syracuse in New York For shows Were you working to? Oh yeah I was I had insurance I had insurance brokerage So anytime Somebody pitched an opportunity To me I looked into it And I tried Before I knock it So I was one of the Youngest insurance brokerage In the state of New York To have my own company So I was I was doing my thing You know So I like Like I'm very ambitious Like just give me Opportunity to go Any kids? No kids So you had the time To do all of that I had the time, opportunity All the funds to me Girlfriends? No How crazy is that To come from where You come from I know That's what I was Interested in so much You think that made him Drive even more He's right here We can ask him You know Is that where you got To make sure that you You overcame all those obstacles And not only overcame them But I mean Totally leaped them In a way to where You can encourage others That you can make it Yeah, definitely It was hard Like Doing things like Having to glue your shoes together All of that stuff Yeah Having one prepared Bootstool to summer In the winter That made me numb It made me humble So like I grew up without You know Like the expensive Game systems And stuff like that I had a remote control car So it's Those situations That made me numb Made me appreciate the little Things So I could live off the little Things as an adult too But you grew up But the thing that I love About all of that You grew up Experiencing all of this With your adopted family Yeah And A lot of people out here Don't adopt Because they're like Man, I can hardly Even afford to take care Of my own kids Much less adopt But she still went out And adopted All of these kids Plus took care of hers Although it wasn't Such a great environment You know what I mean Yeah When you got into the music I'm going to go into the music Go ahead You know What made you get into that? It was like 4 a.m. one day I was out How old? I was That's 2019 I wrote my first song So I think I was 20 He's calculating Forgot Yeah I'm going to be keeping track Of my head some time Forgot He's a young for that Yeah It was in the summer 2019 I was up 4 a.m. And I'm You know I might be in my head a lot So I'm thinking What's my next move What's my safety net plan So I'm doing a YouTube beat And I was like Shit So I'm on my mind So I went ahead And I I wrote my first song That night And It felt good You know It felt good And then from there on I said Huh Let me see how this sound Recorded Because I've always been a creative Individual So in regards to playing Instruments growing up And stuff like that That's all I You know That's what I was around Growing up in the projects They We have a community center You know Help develop your skills Whether it's football Everything So I was always playing instruments So But I went to school And I played football And wrestled my whole Teenage college career So I didn't Look into music And so School was done Football was done I really Went into my field With criminal justice I did insurance things So I said What's going to make me happy I really wasn't happy So but when I After my first song Recorded it You know It felt good And then I just started studying music Studying Building a label Studying all the People in the industry About building a team So I Followed suit My mentors You know They kept Telling me Making sure I was good Making sure I knew You know The ends And now I mean I already had the business Aspect because of You know Having insurance workers So I know I set up the LLC My lawyers You know All of that business Aspect now is just Take all of that And form it to the music Industry So it was easy Transitioning Into the industry And transitioning Into the label side So you are A signed artist On a label Who you signed to That's my label But I don't really tell people It's my label I just tell them I'm signed to it Because I got My whole team My execs My e-board So they want me to focus On being an artist CEO You know Even I'm CEO They want me to focus On being an artist I told them I'm going to put 100% into the artist So I need to hold down The admin side So I just tell them I'm signed to be G to label I'm an artist Why Do you have any other Artist signed to that Develop And You know Pushing artists And I'm The experiment And the experiment Is going very well So when we At that point Where we developed The path And you know Bing Bing Bing Bing We can offer More spots To other people But right now I don't want to Experience Nobody Carey But I know Earlier You were talking about That when I was just You know I just You know At some At some point I didn't care Okay Because I didn't know I was adopted I was raised As You know Like that Because you turned out Really good From what I'm hearing All the things that I'm hearing But during the time Of all that Poverty Did you end up In any Gangs Or in any You know Bad situations You know Also you faced 10 years? I was facing it Facing it I was looking at it They were like Just plea, plea, plea On my brother He was in Most of the brother He was in criminal justice So he was like Yo Don't take the plea Because you know New York City Public defenders Man they just want to close The case They just want to move on Try That's not That's not just in New York City You know That's not That's not just in New York City You know Like oh he Fitted description Even more So they tried To railroad me But my brother He already had Criminal justice He was in A senior year So he already knew The lingo Is he a lawyer now Is he a lawyer now Did he finish He's just He's in A social work field So he had Criminal justice And social work So when I Got into that situation You know He was Yeah He was A stern big brother So you Know As you know Grubbing the projects You know You got the outside Surrounding beef So I went to high school You know With a boogie You know We was all from The same high school So if you know If you hear anything About Clinton doing Clinton high school It was where All the hoods meet And some of the hoods Have real beef Outside So You know I was walking into Situations Where I was hoping You know The affiliation It was secondary To who I was As a football player I was a New York City All-Star They supported you As being a football player Yeah So they kept me out You know The hood beef And the gang Beef Stuff like that But I still needed To be protected By my hood Because Right across the street They shoot at us So My hood Still protecting me They say Yo, go to school I mean Some of them They say I'ma tell them it's Tino And you go home right now You know Or they about to shoot at the block Go home right now You know Because I was I'm not gonna lie One of the only Football stars out the hood You know Basketball was everybody You saying you're a football star Did you do good I broke my shoulder I was going D1 I dove for a fumble And I slipped on the turf In the parallel So I snapped So my whole Shoulder was disconnected And that messed up your career Ended it But I didn't You know Give up on the school You know I had to You know I had to Buckle down even more Yeah Did you and Abe Boogie Ever talk after Not really He was younger than me Okay But You know We all ran in the same circle But at that point You know They was like Why are you not reaching out to Abe Boogie You know Try to be high bridge The label I'm like Number one from Bronx River Projects That high bridge Is really a hood Like It's a hood So Me trying to go to high bridge Know where I'm from I'm from Bronx River Projects So That Abe Boogie Tell you What that side of town is Like they It's that bad Oh my God Yankee Stadium right there They don't want to get caught over there They caught me over there So who else They pulled that knife I'm like I turned the knife back into them I had a cop call They ain't come over there They tried to Yeah So it's over there So I'm not You know So I built my own shit So that's a note If you go to New York Don't go to that area Yeah Don't go to Yankee Stadium I don't see that That's the place to go That side is the concourse They take everything you got You look like a tourist That make you feel Like you Not even from there Wow So Brooklyn, man We're Brooklyn You are Jay-Z One of your main Influencers I'm not going to lie Let's be real Let's be real We've been We've been Rob Wave Rob Wave was just here last night Yeah Somebody from Chicago Told me If you want to run into Rob Wave I'm like You know he's coming But so Rob Wave was What made you like Rob Wave? Because I was melodic So if you had my first My first song I prayed That song That was my first song So when I put it out I tested the waters That song I picked up By Pandora And Pandora gave me My own radio station So I always felt comfort In the melodic On crossover So melodic and rap You know Influenced a boogie Rob Wave 50 cent So that type of You know Be melodic on a hook Rap in the verse I personally don't like To have the same tone Throughout the whole song So I like to have it Bounce off each other So that's You know who I follow In regards to Trying to stray away from Auto-tune this squeaky Robot sound To try to pull it From deep in So Rob Wave Pulls it from deep in Let me ask you this So going back I'm going to hit on Jay again Just had a show Where Jay-Z Was brought up on my show And I'll ask The question Should The Jay-Z's And the Oprah's And the Tyler Perry's Well Jay-Z For your instance Being from Brooklyn Do you see Where he come back And help the community? I mean I personally Am not from Brooklyn So I don't He don't come to the Bronx I'm from New York Have you ever seen him Come back and do anything And in New York You're in New York Period I mean Have you ever heard him I don't really Hear about him But everybody else I hear about But not Jay-Z What celebrity What major celebrity Have you heard of That come back to their Community And help For sure Fat Joe Um Fat Joe He from the Bronx Yeah Fat Joe was who Like I'm from Bronx For a project So my OGs You know from the hood They connected with him And from flexing all of them So They know them personally But that's And they come back and help Yeah Fat Joe Like they come So you said Fat Joe help He came to our Center And you've seen this And you've heard this I was there I was there I was there But when you say help though How do You know Like you got Do they come back And do things For like Helping the Communities That they're from By just trying To put in businesses Or how do they Help How were they helping That day When you Right I think it was just You know Giving the Project kids Opportunity To experience A celebrity Oh that Big breakthrough But you've never seen Jay-Z do that I mean I left at 17 For college Okay So But that's been a long time That you were there 17 years Yeah I'm only from the Bronx So my mom kept me out of Brooklyn You stayed in this area You stayed in your borough Because the boroughs Got beef Like New York City Is 10 different Five different cities So New York City Is a whole city But each boroughs Is own city So you just No I didn't know You just know You just know Fat Joe Fat Joe really in the hood Fat Joe He came to my projects Because he know My He from Bronx So You know The Bronx Started hip-hop And stuff like that So I know Some of the Like My football Coach Was a part of Supersonic Okay They the Cool Like Just because He basically Is New York To me When I think of New York He's the He's the Pretty much the pinnacle Of New York When you think about Rap music Yeah For The One era I ain't gonna say the whole Era Because the first one Like you said When it first came out It was more By Koogee Rap And All those guys And D-nices And What's that You from New York What's going on I just got into music So Really you weren't even Paying Paying no attention to it Nah Really It was just Schools, football, wrestling And you know R&B So Who inspired you Because then Did your mom Or your dad Or anybody around you Were they doing music And you be like Man That looks dope Nah It was just Got to get education So It was The creative side Inspired you then To just jump out On a limb like this I was done with everything I had my bachelor's I was in my field I had a company So I did everything I was told I was supposed to You know So I seen Other guys doing music So I said They made it You know They just jumped into it I just jumped into it You know Because I didn't accomplish Like at a successful You know Level Everything I was supposed to So now it's time to You know Something new So it was just Something new But then I fell in love And what did your mom and dad Say about it Whenever you jumped into it They proud Because I did I did for them The schooling I did for them I made them proud I made my family name proud Like my name Means something In Buffalo State So So they were like Okay You did that And I'll do for you So what's the inspiration Behind your music Like the first song That you wrote What was The thought process Behind it Each verse was A different chapter Like In summation Of something I went through So that's That's what it was Just letting that pain go And then my whole first project Is called Pain of Paper So just letting it all out So So it's all about Pain nothing about Any of the good times Cause I know you had a lot Of good times in your life Why That first project Is just pain It's like A lot of celebrities Or a lot of rappers Period Always talk about Gun, the violence Armin Pain Is never about Any of the good times Cause everybody has good times With bad It's not just all bad stuff Why is that so Cause some of the bad stuff Is traumatizing Wow One bad incident Will ruin all of them Ten good ones Cause that's the only thing About Like When you get in You know Racial profile You got a whole good day Past your test and everything But now you just say Why don't cops stop me Damn what I could do Different to avoid them Hold on your mind So the bad just overpowers To them They're traumatizing When you think about The Bronx Like I said One I was saying Side Bronx That's K.R.S.1 He from there M.C. Shane These guys originators Used to battle They battled You know what I mean There was a lot of Battle rapping Went from the Bronx That's how this thing started You see what I'm saying And the older he is Know that But then I love the fact that The young boy Like yourself Don't really even Entwine with that You focus on Our rock with Rye Wave Or something It's a totally different Ballgame Totally different era And that's why But it's still Gotta be a bridge And respect there As far as in the music And I don't think It just happens In Texas Or in Atlanta Or in Florida It's everywhere The young boy Is not able to Connect back With the K.R.S.1's Or the M.C. Shane's And all these people That so called They paved the way Now a guy like you Even though you Not even in the music I mean Wasn't in the music When you first started Living that life Up to 1718 The history evidently Is not thickening Like that You understand What I'm saying Because at the end Of the day Those guys are From your place From where you came Up Did you even know that? Yeah So my sister's father Was a part Of one of those Core hip-hop groups So he That was like My introduction Into like the old school You know The hip-hop What group? I forgot which one But it was one of those See what I mean? The core The core of every Influential groups But I was into music So like When the information Was told Like oh that's cool But it wasn't Oh let me Remember and study So like every time I feel like The gap between That generation And ours Is the dislike For the evolution Of music Wow That's what it really Come down to Because a lot of them They'll tell you Yeah we don't like That sound We don't like that sound So sometimes They really just Dash you away And leave you Or we don't like That sound So we're not Going to even try To instill any values Or nothing We're just going to Do away with you Because we don't like The sound That comes down to Like I'm like They hold on to the information So some of the young Has had to find their way Right so Out of your siblings Oh sorry I want to keep asking About the rap Go ahead You said Fat Joe so Pond Big Pond He was from there too You know I'm just looking At the way this whole Thing Because Pond them And Fat Joe them Like a second gen They're not even The origin You know they're Their own generation And core So then it comes I don't even know if It may It vibes A little bit Something else happened In you What I'm saying is But when you look at The K.R.S. ones The M.C. Shands The All the ones The rappers That from there You know You start to Try to figure out You know How can we make This thing More organized More structured To keep You know what I mean To keep that unity So that when When people look They got to respect it See from the outside Looking in Of Fat Joe And all those guys They got to be able to Extend the right hand Of fellowship to the Next generation You know what I mean That's all I be trying to figure Out things in a way To where it makes sense To keep that Historical landmark Set In a way to where People can respect it Even on another level Does that make sense Yeah it definitely It does I'm just trying to Figure it out And I do the same Thing here in Texas I do the same It's all about unity We all We look like each other So I'm just trying to Figure out What's the best way To aim at it You say funk flexes From over there too Where funk from I don't know where You say he was Over there Yeah my guys My people from My projects My old hats My mentors They know him personally Okay So yeah So they Probably hung out He probably came To the projects And stuff like that He deeply embedded In the music I mean He's one of the core guys That you think about When you think about New York hip hop as well Yeah And when I think When I look at funk flex And the time this guy's Put in it He put his life on the line Basically just When I say on the line He gave it all Over to hip hop You know Funk flex laid his whole He sacrificed himself In this whole Industry And so To hear that he did Come back over Or that you know people That know him Or affiliate with him To say come back to the hood Is a dope thing You know I'm just trying To figure out ways To bridge those gaps You know what I'm saying Because those guys Are dope You know Love the way that they Do what they do It doesn't represent us More say in the south But they got Their own thing You know going You know So who would you say You looked up to After you got the music That was You ever figure anything out From New York Like far as In your In Bronx that Met anything to you With the music Not necessarily Because I started music In Buffalo Buffalo, New York Yeah so I was in school I was still in school So I was away But now I'm trying to You know Like now being on tour The tour I am I've been In New York City More than I was In the past six years Because you know I ain't got a lot When you make it out From where I'm from It's bad enough To the point where You don't want to go back Young Anomaly do you think That it's important To research your history On the music That's what I've been doing That's something that I'm just sitting there Trying to figure out why Because you gotta Look this stuff up As an artist You gotta know All of the Different You from The Bronx So you should know About all the stuff In the Bronx You feel me Because if not I mean It's just like a person who You We got Southern artists Do the same thing But I'm just Trying to figure out You know How do we get our people There We gotta do a better job Bridging these gaps Man But to me It'll help his music As well Because then When you just Write about Your life And what's going on When you can throw Some history In there And educate people Because a lot of Times people Have that lack Of education And lack of knowledge You see what I mean So when you're doing the research And turning it into some music You're educating your listeners And that'll also Let them come to you even more See what I mean Yeah, definitely Most definitely I just always be looking At how How we can come up With better ways I really don't know Like I said We're trying to hold on This whole legacy This whole history Called music You know what I'm saying It's watered down It ain't like it used to be When we first came out With better control On the situation Now how to stream it Become a thing It's hard to even You know keep up With who's with who And how these Where these people are coming from Bro, we gotta do We're gonna lose it If we don't figure it out That's all I'm saying If we don't start to do better We're gonna lose it People are Our division Is gonna be Our demise Yeah You don't believe that No, I do I do That's how When I first started It was That's what I was I was Cause I was watching New age artists Their interviews I was studying You know the internet Made it more It made it easier More access to Understanding you know The history So you got like These little Like the drink champs And stuff like that That when they interviewed Shout out to the drink champs I like that show I watch drink champs Breakfast club They shoot from up there All those guys And the one you was looking at With 105 What's her name? Martinez Angie Martinez Yeah Angie Angie you know All of those I see those But we got a lot in the south too But at the end of the day I mean we're all trying to do something To connect the dots For this whole hip hop culture You see what I'm saying? Yeah so they do a good job When they bring some of these Their guests on And they dig like From what happens in the 80s And stuff like that And it gives you more access to What actually happened The influences Stuff like that Cause some of that Like some of them artists They probably took that to the grave But now they have a platform To talk about why this beef happened And then how this got into it And then you be able to Connect the dots of the influences That how your influence Your influences got influenced So like I'll be on Instagram Watching all of the snippets To make sure you know Listen to the Fat Joe interviews Or the you know The Jay-Z interviews And stuff like that Just to know When you tell people your influences They got influences So you want to know that lineage Like it didn't just happen If you know hip hop We the New York Number one we the king of samples We sample And if you Sometimes you assemble a song That sampled the song That sampled the song So now When you didn't know You sampled the song That sampled That been sampled From three lines down Three generations down When you start to look up that lineage After you have to go through clearance And stuff And really open your eyes Wow South Bronx You from South Bronx Yeah Bronx is the South Bronx Yeah and from Flex From the Bronx too You know like I said Y'all got a lot of A lot of different You know Hip hop hits From over And where you from That's the you know the Mecca of hip hop Yeah it definitely is the Mecca How do you like the Southern sound You in the South It's different I mean so we Have you ever listened to anything from the South You can't The Migos or any of those people Do you know them Yeah I know I'm just asking You from New York You from uptown Yeah I'm on a lot of you You from Chicago and all that It's a regional disconnect Like it legit Y'all music will stop at a certain border Of a state And it won't make it to New York Y'all famous artists We don't know nothing And exactly And that's why I've never Now that's a good point And the reason I I love talking about that Because I know for a fact They don't give us the credit Or even the recognition And we don't give them the credit There is a blockage That's a road block Yeah like we don't even Like that's why I play the game Like I play the game too Because I always be like Nah man You know cause they At one point they was calling Migos mumble rap It was niggas in New York Like and I was like Nah you can't really Just gauge it on that Because we from different hoods And at the end of the day We don't even talk the same But at the end of the day We look the same But we talk different We're from different background But we are the same But different You understand what I'm saying? Yeah for sure But when you gauge it On who's music is doing what You gotta be respectful First of all Because we all come from Nothing Even though it started in New York It's still You know being driven All over the place And a lot of the time The New York artist That was supported back then I know I supported them You know what I mean? It was only New York at first When you all hit You understand it wasn't Nothing else Now I can go back there In my mind Cause I remember How it started But a lot of The youngsters came So they don't be Understanding the history Of it So when I When I text Or when I post yours I'm gonna hit Funk Flex He looks at my stuff Sometime Or I'm gonna hit Different people from Your hood Cause I'm Researching I'm researching And making sure I'll hit up Angela Yee Or Charlemagne the God On my storyline Just to see if They'll see it Because it's a respect thing For me Like we got a We on the same Planned field So we gotta respect Each other And if we don't Then that tell me You're immature And I can hear it In your interview If you really Want to be real You understand what I'm saying? Like I know You ain't really focused On what I'm focused on Cause I don't focus On what you focus on And you could tell That it's a craft You know what I'm saying? But definitely got a lot Of love for them I'm not dissing for sure But not coming down On them That's how we see it down here You know what I'm saying? We don't say nothing Like we don't talk the same You know what I'm saying? Yeah Like it's a It's a cultural disconnect But when they really You really want to Dive deep into the newer The newer generation Of musicians They go to the south To blow up Okay Explain that They go to California To record Or they go to Atlanta To record And it's something about The southern hospitality To welcome them Like I came down here I'm on tour And I got shown An extra amount of love Meaning they're like Why are you down here? This is your home Yeah So that's You know Say if I went back To the hood And I went back to the hood Right now And I said y'all went down To Dallas, Texas And I met Well You both Stuff like that And he showed me love Showed me around Took me out for drinks Stuff like that They gonna come down here Really? They will come down here Because It's a Like the concrete jungle That phrase is real I've heard of that I didn't have I didn't know black people could have A front yard A backyard or house I grew up in a project Great buildings I didn't know Like in the movies Yeah I didn't know that was possible So like Y'all got a different living style Y'all know the front yard So I be like Why y'all so dangerous Y'all gotta cook out right there Bro I was chipping I be like How y'all so dangerous Y'all gotta cook out right Y'all front yard And sit on the porch We have to go downstairs And sit in front of the building Right there in the little park I never seen such dedicated People to a block Or to a This my spot right here When I go to New York These niggas standing Right in the same spot Dude bragging I've been here for 40 years I'm like Right here niggas I'm being real I know some people So I know some people From the hood like that They don't even never leave They don't wanna leave Alright so let me explain What the project is Right you got You ever seen a college campus Housing right Mm-hmm Alright imagine that But for public housing Big college Now we got them A big alright A big 14 story sometimes But I was gonna go up I was gonna go out There it is That's where it is Right so That's where the disconnect What the reason is Right our buildings Go up and out Because Y'all ain't got a space And I was like I got 14 floors Correct And 30 buildings Correct I got a lot of people Yeah alright So when you're in a project Right You see how Y'all gotta drive far To go to places You can walk across the street In my projects You have the Chinese food store The candy store The laundry mat The mechanics The pharmacy A grocery store Um Everything you need To live in civilization Is across the street So it was built To keep you in And not travel far So you were able to Go out to a building Walk there Come home with mama groceries So that's what we That's why When people get trapped And they don't leave The block of the hood That's why You walk across the street Convenience And you have Everything you need Across the street And that's crazy That's why you get trapped We don't To me that's crazy I could never live like that No because A lot of people Will go there Because I've known people Who've came to Texas And um Try to see If they could live here But because they don't Have a car Anywhere you want to get to In Texas So it's easier to live in New York Or they can jump on the train Go here, go here And get a job, work They don't need to depend On nobody else You know what I mean Get an apartment Or you know Room in with somebody It's real easy Here You got to have Somebody to start up Yeah, yeah But do you Feel like Being a Um Cat from New York Could you ever live in Texas Or in the South Um Be honest Because I could never live In I couldn't do the New I could do Chicago maybe I don't know No I mean It's cool But I could never live in here I go to I've been to these places I frequent these places But I could never leave Texas bro Like it's because We could leave Texas for Atlanta But no Atlanta dope to me Uh You been to Atlanta I'm going for They sent me A push on King of Diamonds So It's beautiful I've got to go out there It's beautiful It is I know everybody Diamonds beautiful What I'm telling you is It's just I got room I like to drive You see you pull up I'm in the escalade I'm rolling bro I can't I can't be stuck on a block Talking to nobody And going back to the store Get a piece of pizza And go back over here And lounge with Old Boynium I can't do it Yeah But that's how y'all do Because I've been there I've seen it But how hard was it For you to adjust to Chicago When you had to leave New York I mean I'm in the suburbs Of Chicago I'm on tour Like I got in Galaga Nice car Chicago You're not into the bad areas Of Chicago Yeah My little brother Has a store On 71st In Jeffery I'm here on five Diamonds Hoping to run A company out there So I'm in and out of Chicago So I could tell you That It's like an energy A dark cloud When you Cause I'm from New York So once I step into Like you go from The suburbs to Chicago My whole demeanor Change I'd get tensed up My hand on my hip You know Right So I'm looking over my shoulder They be like What a big bro I'm looking around Cause Chicago It make you feel That your life in danger At all times Every second Cause Well My little brother Stores at That's around where Is it a clothing store What kind of store No dominoes A lot of people Hanging out in front Yeah That's how it was When we drove down there With a lot of people Hanging out A lot of different people Meaning a lot of different gangs And it's not your neighborhood So that's the difference So that's the difference So that's the difference Between New York and Chicago Yeah, so in my projects Everybody in front of the You know They live there That's us We grew up together Football, blah, blah Whatever That's us, family And going to Somebody's plaza And there's many different people That's what it looked I ain't a lot Over there Little dirt brother He got killed over there So that area Where my little brother And I know some of the bad parts Of Chicago So we in and out I keep them out of Chicago At night Wow Some things ring That's crazy So how is the music different From Chicago to New York Um It's Well Dirk and his melodics It kept a bridge That gap A bridge that gap Because they boogie and Dirk and You know You know Fabio foreign King Von And all of that stuff So it's bridge that gap I don't know The internet started The New York versus Some people Never been to Chicago And got beef I can't Internet does a lot of stuff With beef People have beef on internet And not in person The similarities of music It kept Is it bridge that gap So they like You know They like our artists You know Go ahead and do the collab You know You seen the Fabio foreign You know the little Dirk And boogie Yeah So that That right there You know They like our sound We like theirs They actually like my music too Because it's Different Okay When you say down south What's the Who do you Like when you think of down south Artists Who do you think about Artist wise Yeah Like the banging artist Like damn He go hard I mean I think of like The baby Migos Little baby No the baby The baby The baby Migos Shout out the baby Yeah I think of them Like their sound Yeah He's not like that though I like I mean I do I think he got a song With money bag Yo I like it You like money bag Yo Yeah money bag Yo came to Chicago Yeah And his live performance It's like he got the best Rest of the night before He Is something about A lot of energy Our artists performing With a live band It makes it a different experience So I was in the front row VIP Because one of my tour DJs came up for a festival So I was in there With the rest of them They had an artist Shout out to them Out there in the west coast Yeah But yeah he came And he did his thing And you felt You felt it And he brought out Yo Gotti So I never liked him before that Something about him Performing live Was a different experience Yo Gotti No Money bag Something about him Performing live Was a different experience So I started looking at him More Yeah So that's hot ass What about West Coast Who do you look at Up on the West Coast Oh man I'm gonna lie to you Is that it's a disconnect You don't even rock with the West Coast at all They said I mean Like who do you Nobody I mean like when Nipsey died I looked at him And I started Yeah What did you think about it Be real His music It's inspirational It's to help you Get off that block That Yeah Push you make you prosper Type of music I like that And it's lately But their production is You know they It's West Coast So it was It's own unique regional sound So it's like You know it's not like New York, Chicago Where you know a producer Can send it to New York And the New York artist I'll get on that You know they get inspired Off of hearing it See you can hear West Coast beat in New York You know like I don't know what to do with this Yeah So that's how it is Like it's different Do you miss the Kanye West The old Kanye Not the new Kanye Yeah I like through the wire And stuff like that That Kanye grew up on him But the new Kanye You're not right The billionaire Kanye Nah I gotta I gotta listen to the music Um You know That's just for that You know That's where it came down to Who do you inspire To do a collaboration with? Oh Right away A Boogie Like my people You talk about them a lot Because they When I formed my label On my team I've studied hybrids The label From The bottom up Meaning that It was it's four of them Your QP Bubba Don Q A Boogie Four of them Like the music industry by storm We We're from the same high school So it's more reality based It's not like I gotta look up a superstar No I know From where we came from What we all went through Fighting on the second floor Getting into it The Hispanics and all of that All coming together To fight them together On the app Protecting each other And watching them Be able to do it Like And knowing somebody Who did it And they did it To the point where You got Major record labels To get them A part as a You know a partnership That right there You know Having something You know Such a goes realistic That right there was realistic So have you ever reached out to A Boogie? Um Not yet You gotta reach out Not he I ain't a lie At a certain level I reached out to the CO's And stuff like that I invited him to my concert I got a concert September 12th DJ Juski You know And Cuban Langston From Dean Klann In New York He ain't He ain't I was like It's hard I mean That's something to think about Like trying to reach out to people And I don't know man They get on this certain hyenas And I think they Like I said It's a disconnect also When you get on a certain level With the monetarily You know You know Having to Millionaires talk to millionaires I'ma be real with you Billionaires talk to billionaires I'm being real No for a friend And thousandaires Talk to thousandaires That is true But you gotta think about this How many people I mean he reached out back to Like he ain't a lot He sure loved his hood But how many people are probably In this inbox Inviting him places And doing a Right So a lot of times I don't think you control the social media It's not even that You don't have time Like at that level You don't control your social media It's just that You can't You know If you do it to one You don't have to keep going With everybody You don't have You can't That's a lie I mean If you wanted to be Let me tell you why It's a lie Because Uh Zaytovan Reached back out Money man Hit me back You can't tell me And they got people And they got the same thing But they still Nah yeah You come home Stop playing I don't give credit Where credit is due Yeah But if you invite When I talked to KLC the other night He picked up the phone Hey what's up You know what I mean And he's But you met KLC It don't matter But if you hadn't met him Before You can't say that Okay but with Zaytovan Okay But he's talking about Inviting him somewhere To his shoulder No man Even a response would be You would be like That's dope He said Yeah man I see I can't rock with it But man Keep doing your thing How much would that do Nah it would boost my You see what I'm saying Like No but you can't even get This from me But I'm one of these Realist dudes Okay I know already That That's why I love PMC I go right back to him When you didn't do Something And you knew already You exposed that And I think that's the way You gotta do it You gotta be like Yeah I reach out to the nigga But they too busy So whatever And it make you go harder If you like me I do I get motivated For that Yeah like all the niggas Don't wanna recognize me I play out We gonna cross paths Very soon Yeah I'm very optimistic So I'm like This whole industry Everybody's interconnected Cause everybody's Had the same resource They all hang together They all act like girls And I'm sorry I'm trying to diss you But as soon as they meet They just start Lacking like they love each other Cause they Not all girls do that Not all girls do that I'm talking about the niggas With certain monetarily Levels They like it's like One meet one Just because he's seen one With the other All they accept each other I think that's kinda corny So I wanna know What is your name?  That's a different type of music style But you know I just like to ask these crazy questions Yeah like I'm a lot of you Like It's a different sound They You know Rap about That lifestyle Like So it's a The whole different style They put that on like a melodic beat or something Like some of them Like a lot of these down south artists Are trying to transition over And to become a melodic Meaning harmonizing And all of that You know the rod wave type of beat You know stuff like that Because They see that's where People are grasping And gravitating too On a consistent basis It's been a change In the In the hemisphere In regards to the music It's going to the melodics and stuff You don't legit Have to be hardcore Bar for bar And stuff anymore And like a lot of them That's where y'all started Hardcore Bar for bar And that's why I told you The disconnect The generation Is the new generation Type of music And the old heads That's sissy They call it the sissy shit So that's why It's that gap Because they don't like The way it's going Wow But the people like it So Is they gonna Either get with it That's why some of them Are really falling back The old heads falling back In the background Because they like I just can't Wow Some of the You knew The older heads You know Some of them in the mid-generation They be like They be like Yo I just gotta adapt Like I have to You see Khalids You see Fat Joe's French Montana's Jim Jones And stuff like that Like you know They they They accept it And you know Adjust to it But you understand Like T. Payne He been melodic So he had to adjust It just died off For a little bit But it came back It resurfaced So now he's like Oh shit Look it Look at what I birthed So that's like He bending that Do you Do you really Top three artists of all time Dead or alive Top three artists Of all time Number one One of my songs was best Top three artists of all time I got I got Tupac Tupac number one Yeah One of my songs I should give you now If you listen to The message and I I should give you now You listen to the Why Tupac Dear mama His dear mama song You love that song That's what inspired me to write I forgive you now About my mom So if you listen to the Both of you Oh shit It's not It's not copying his words It's Caden's anything But it's saying It's okay to talk About a situation like this Wow So that's Tupac Number two I got 50 Cent It's your boy 50 Cent What you gonna call it One of his song Best Friend Like he was doing He was in melodics too 50 Cent was in melodics You know him Little hot of love Little Wayne So it was dumb And then Number three Yeah that's like my old You know the The foundational people Number three is Lil Wayne Lil Wayne Oh yeah Lil Wayne Hot of love If you listen to Hot of Love I like this song He got melodic Even though he was He's just a little melodic R&B though He's talking about it I found a way in the pocket This is top three For any genre as well Yeah So you don't have to Just do rap You can do any I got my three Check it man But what I wanted to know What category of The rap industry Do you think you care to Like your style So it's melodic hip-hop So it's like a sub-genre of hip-hop And is that where you Want to stay with your music Yeah I like that I like to do the Melodic chorus With the rap verses I don't like to Have to say Same cadence Do the whole song I'm a creative individual So I feel like that Just gonna put me in the box You know If you just rap That whole cadence You know Do the whole thing Like if you know Back then Some of these songs You know you got the What's Love The Tamiya's When they did the collab With the hip-hop artists Because they didn't sing It was always a Melodic hook And a rap verse You know So that's That's where I'm gonna keep it Because it was already there It was already a thing But now it's just One artist doing Melodic hook And a rap verse Back then it was a female artist Where did the name Young Anomaly come from? Alright so I'm a brother I grew social fellowship So shout out to them I pledged Banggood chapter in Buffalo State My Dean and pledges When I went over I went You know I pushed through everything And I was named Anomaly Anomaly means Rare and special occasion So Who gave you that name? My Dean and pledges Oh so he gave it D&P D&P Deadpool August Edwards Yeah so That name You know they already Saw something in me So I just kept that That fire And I just put young In front of it Just you know For the rap Yeah for the rap type Because I'm I'm gonna be rare Especially in the industry So I just kept that energy So I've been sticking To you know My foundational character How can people get hold of you? You can catch me I'm All platforms Young Anomaly Y-U-N-G-A-N-O-M-A The number one Why I gotta shout out to Google My Google knowledge panel Shout out to Pandora They blessed me My own radio station My song right now Is moving hard to fall asleep It's moving across the nation They pushing it So shout out to the Creole Raiders at Pandora And Spotify Thank you for them too For playlisting my song Wow so I'm about to shut it down But I wanna ask you something One of my friends here Locally says that He came up with this deal Shout out to LD 300 Where he sells his music Tangible item, hard drive He don't put it on social media He sell it to his people The people he give his product to Because he said that A million streams Equaled $4,000 Yeah um That's on a Spotify platform So it differs So that really That really really really That hones into The marketing strategy So you gotta know Your engine out of your streaming platforms You gotta know You gotta have a digital and a physical presence So that's all my specialty In regards to my degree That's something that I know I would never disappear from the digital Cause that's the era I grew up in But you know But did you hear what I just said He said he makes his money He can count, touch his money Get his money Through giving it to his supporters He still have an Instagram He still have a Social media presence But he does choose to do it that way To control the narrative that way What do you think about that?  You could do it But guess the overhead course Overhead course of producing The CD and sending it out Will happen to go there And do that You gotta be able to double down I love that hustle That boost to the ground But that's a limited mindset You gotta find somebody That can help you on a digital Why you do the physical But you cannot leave out the digital Cause your song could go overseas When you put something on digital A lot of times They power it, they steal it They don't even You don't make money off Of certain instances So if you feel like If you only want to do the physical Right? And you're scared of the digital And you're making most of your money Off the physical And you're scared somebody Gonna steal it on a digital And I could make all money Think of it as an exposure opportunity Because you double down On the marketing Thank you so much, anomaly Young anomaly came through here Man straight out of Really born and raised New York Moved to Chicago Man killing the waves Man got dope music Man we appreciate you for coming We love you brother I appreciate it We appreciate you for coming On our platform Definitely On boss talk 101 When a boss is taught Yeah for sure Check it man Say man it's been another great Segment of boss talk 101 And we have


Since the derivative gives us the slope of the line tangent to a graph, we can also use the graph to find the derivatives. For example, given the graphs of y equals f of x and y equals g of x, we can try to find the sine of the derivative of fg at 0. So remember this notation, this is the derivative of the function f of x times g of x evaluated at 0. Since we want to find the derivative of a product, let's go ahead and apply the product rule. And so our derivative is going to be f of 0 times g prime of 0 plus g of 0 times f prime of 0. Now keep in mind we're only trying to find the sine and not the actual value. So we can keep track of the sines of these four components of the derivative of the product. So since we have the graph of y equals f of x, it appears that f of 0, the y value when x is equal to 0, is equal to 0. And likewise, since we have the graph of y equals g of x, then g of 0, the y value when x is equal to 0, is going to be positive. We also need to know g prime of 0 and f prime of 0. f prime of 0 is going to be the slope of the line tangent to the graph of y equals f of x at the point where x equals 0. So we might imagine what that tangent line looks like. And it appears that that tangent line will slope downwards, so f prime of 0 is going to be negative. Similarly, we want to find something about g prime of 0, that's the slope of the line tangent to the graph of y equals g of x where x equals 0. So let's sketch that tangent line, and it appears that this tangent line has a positive slope, so that tells us g prime of 0 is going to be positive. So now let's consider our formula for the derivative of the product. f of 0 is 0 and g prime of 0 is positive, so this first term will be the product of 0 and a positive number, so it's going to be 0. Meanwhile, in our second term, g of 0 is positive, f prime of 0 is negative. So this second term is going to be the product of a positive and a negative number, so that'll be negative. And so our derivative is going to be the sum of 0 and a negative number, so it's going to be negative. A little bit later on, we'll be interested in knowing where our derivative is equal to 0. So given this graph, suppose somebody claims that the derivative of g over f of x equals 0 has a solution at x equals 4. Is this a plausible claim? So again, let's consider what that derivative is going to look like, so we'll use the quotient rule. And again, let's consider the signs of these different components of the derivative when x is equal to 4. At x equals 4, the denominator is going to be f of 4. And since we have the graph of y equals f of x, then f of 4 is going to be the y value on the graph when x equals 4. So f of 4 is the y value on the graph of y equals f of x, where x equals 4. So if we go to this point, we see that f of 4 is going to be negative because the y value is negative. And so when we square it, we're going to get a positive number. Most importantly, that denominator is not equal to 0. How about g of 4? g of 4 is going to be the y value on the graph of y equals g of x when x equals 4. And so the sign of g of 4 is positive. f prime of 4 and g prime of 4 are going to be the slopes of the line tangent to the graphs at x equals 4. If we sketch those tangent lines, we see that f prime of 4 seems to be positive and g prime of 4 seems to be negative. So now let's consider the derivative of the quotient. At x equals 4, the denominator is not equal to 0, but since it's squared, will actually be a positive number. And while the numerator will consist of two terms, f of 4 times g prime of 4 minus g of 4 times f prime of 4. So f of 4 times g prime of 4, that's going to be a negative number times a negative number. g of 4 times f prime of 4 is going to be a positive number times a positive number. And so our numerator is going to be a positive number minus a positive number. But that could be zero, so the claim that it is zero at x equals four is plausible.


Hello and welcome to the Plymouth Arts Center. We're in the great room today and we are having our 15th and final student show exhibit. This exhibit culminates all the work that the artists, the students have done this past year and I have been the resident oil painting instructor here for about 18 years now. I'll be retiring next year and so we're having this one final exhibit and I do believe it is absolutely the best. And as you can see there's gorgeous artwork everywhere. We have a wonderful turnout and in a little bit we're going to be talking to a lot of the students and looking at the artwork up closer. So thank you for joining us today. I hope you enjoy the show and we'll be with you to show you and talk to you about some of the artwork very soon. This painting by Nancy Spindler is of her husband's farm where he grew up. The name of it is Winter on the Farm and it is just a glorious version of what it looks like in the countryside in the winter time. And Nancy, Nancy Spindler, I would like you to tell me how did you come to want to paint this particular piece? When my husband and I were first married we were both college students and didn't have much money. Unfortunately a child came along before we had much money and we used to spend a lot of weekends here at this farm sled riding and I painted this picture for my daughter because those are some of the happiest memories she has from childhood all the times we spent sledding here. Thank you very very much Nancy. It turned out gorgeous. I love it. Thank you. This beautiful painting it was done from life. All the beautiful fruit that we could find we put into this brass bowl and we put it on the table and Mark Montaba, the artist, painted it from life. It's one of the most gorgeous paintings and the fruit looks so delicious to me that you could taste it. Mark, what about this? For me it's the apples because the getting the right colors, the right reds in combination with the yellows have always been a real challenge for me. I find the grapes a little easier to do but the apples in particular and this particular painting anyway were a real challenge for me. Other than that I'd say that the next in line would be the pears on top. Excuse me, what did you enjoy the most? The thing I enjoyed the most I think is doing the background and the canvas I like that I guess I'm partial to the lavender and the black coloration that has really offered a sharp contrast to the colors of the fruit that were in the bowl itself and I enjoy doing grapes. For some reason they're fun to do. I just want to tell you I think this painting is one of your best. I just love it and thank you so much Mark for being my student and for being here today at our final, for our final exhibit, student exhibit. Thank you. You're very welcome. Thank you. Thank you very much Kitty. And here we are with Caroline Wheelan. She is the artist that painted the King of North Point. It's a gorgeous old-looking tree here and it's frosty and cold-looking. Caroline, whatever in the world though made you call it the King of North Point. To me he looked like an old weather tree that had been through a lot already and we're so often drawn to the lake and to me he's seen a lot and you can tell how he's weathered a lot and I think we all often feel like that ourselves too and we find refuge in coming to the lake and contemplating things and celebrating things in our lives. Well I want to tell you you did a beautiful job of capturing the feel and the and the whole essence of what you just said. It comes through loud and strong and thank you so much. Thank you. And now we're with Katie Mix and Katie is the artist that painted the Sandpiper. This lovely little painting, a still life painted from life but it's of things from the ocean and I'm going to let Katie tell you more about this. Thank you. Thank you. When we were in Florida this last winter the sandpipers were what caught my eye a lot. We had beautiful white sand beach and this is kind of what put it in my mind that I would like to do a painting of the Sandpiper and of course the seashells have always been a favorite of mine. Thank you very much Katie. You did a marvelous job on that and I love I love the composition and the little bird and it's just it's really really beautiful. Thank you. And here we are with Ruth Meyers painting of the Smith Brothers fish shanty. This is the most beautiful painting. I think the thing that I love the most about it is how she's captured the reflections in the water. It's a beautiful painting. Tell me Ruth what was it about this particular scene that made you choose to paint that as your landscape for this show? My husband is from Port Washington and and he's taken pictures in certain ways it was deteriorating and he always wanted me to paint this scene so I'm making him happy. If we don't make our husbands happy we're in deep trouble so I'm glad you did it but it's beautiful hun. You captured the feel of it beautifully. I am very proud of you. Thank you. Well here we are our artist is Laura Lines this most beautiful flowering tree in bloom. The title of the painting is along the second fairway by Laura Lines and Laura where in the world did you take this photograph where is this it's just gorgeous and the play of color of the pinks and violets against the greens that color and complement it just sends it home it's just a gorgeous painting but tell me where is it? Well spring kitty is my favorite season of the year and this was taken a photograph taken in Dork County on a small nine hole golf course in Sister Bay called Bay Ridge and we were golfing with some friends and I saw the tree and I just had to stop and take a photograph because I knew I would want to paint it. Well you did a beautiful job and thank you so much it's absolutely gorgeous and and thank you for being a student of mine for all these years and I'm sorry that this is our final show in a way it's a great turnout lots of people and lots of fun and and you you did a ride for the arts in Milwaukee this morning before you came here right how did that go? Well we have participated in the United Performing Arts Fund Ride for the Arts for about five years now and it's a fundraiser for the PAC in Milwaukee and we did a shortened version of the ride this year so we could make it back in time for the student show here but it was a good ride a little windy a little cold and slight bit of rain as we started but other than that it went quite well. Thank you very much Laura and thank you for being able to make it make it back on time. There we go now I would like the following people to come up here and stand with me. Barb Claribout, Carolyn Flash, Edie Spat, Lois Light, Lois is here with us today, Lorraine Bolt-Lemines and Sharon Porfilio. Could you please come up here? This first award that I'm about to present is an award of participation. I've come to classes they've done the work I felt that everybody in the show deserved an award this year so this is the participation award. I'm going to pass those out this is my assistant Lynn and she just got here and so she's kind of shooting from the back. All right well thank you very much. Go to the students that received a vote for their painting okay so these are not the runners up these are the students that received a vote and a vote for your painting from your peers is a very important thing it really is. So I felt that the people that had received a vote all deserved a ribbon also. Okay so I need Carol Edwards and Jenny Hughes and Penny Clefstad and Mrs. Lyle Krausey, Shirley Van Stelly, Noreen Wolfe and Kathleen Wallenberg to please step up. Now these are for receiving, you know, notice of the hard work that you put into your paintings and Mrs. Krausey's case she's accepting for her late husband who was one of the best students I have ever had in my entire 20 some years of teaching. We have the runners up so Nancy Spindler for September okay would you please step forward. For Salt River Bay US Virgin Islands Jane Coombs for Autumn Splendor on Highway FF. Fernsler for Jersey Shores at Dawn. Homestock for fishing companions at rest and now we're getting down to the last three runner-ups. Katie Mix for Caught in Castle, second runner-up, Judith Stockinger runner-up, Laura Lines for Love of Hydrangeas. Place winner is Pat Coop for Sea Lion. The second place winner for Old Time's Sake is Mark Montabaugh. We have a tie for first place between Ruth Meyer for Collectibles, Ruth for Delicate Reds and now there's just one award left and that is the best of show. Joan Schwabe. Just another day. Now my assistant will go around and put the little cards on the top winning paintings so that you can see which one's won and we still have another hour and a half to go so eat drink and be married. Okay. With the winner of Best of Show just another day a pair of old scuffed up boots by artist Joan Schwabe and she took away the top honor today for this painting and she so deserves it so deserved all of the votes that she received and I want to tell you that the votes are the students vote for their peers. It's the student's choice award so it's not like someone else came in and just said oh I like this one or I like that one. No. Her peers, her students, classmates actually voted her the best in this show and Joan I want to ask you why I mean you won Best of Show but why in the world did you pick an old pair of boots to paint? Well it represents the working people in my family and my son had asked me to do his boots and I wanted to show the boots with some character almost like the lines in your face as you grow old. These show many many hours of hard work and dedication to a job that all of my family participate in whether they're military boots, farm boots, factory boots. Well they also represent all the hard work that you put into them too. Thank you so much and congratulations honey. Wonderful job. Thank you. This portrait that I'm standing next to is a portrait of Lyle Krause one of my best students who passed away on March 17th of 2013. He was one of the best students I've ever had in all of my years of teaching and his last wish in class was to do a self-portrait. I decided to do that portrait for him because he wasn't able to and so I have hung as a memorial here some of the paintings that Lyle did throughout the years. He was an accomplished artist he always came to class ready to learn and eager to learn. He never missed unless he absolutely had to. He was a gem of a man and a gem of a student and he will never be forgotten. And so I want to thank all of you the viewers today for being with us at our final and 15th student exhibition exhibit. This is our final show. We won't be having any more because I'll be retiring. This one is the best by far and I thank you so much for being with us today and joining in. Thank you so much. This is Kitty Lynn Klisch from the Plymouth Arts Center. Great room. Thank you and bye bye for now.


So! A month of inpatient and I'm here. Hello, hi, I'm Lydia. Welcome back to my YouTube channel. How do you... Hey, ha, ha, ha. Ooh, language, English. What a word! I wouldn't know.  Welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, hi, hello, I'm Lydia. I'm going to tell videos here on YouTube as my channel. I'll show you. I'm making this video to talk to you about going back into the community after being in hospital for an extended period of time. Anyone who's new here won't know this. Last month I was inpatient for the entire month, pretty much. And I've been in the community since like the 26th, if I have. So I've been in the community now for almost two weeks and it has been incredibly hard to readjust because you get so used to having to ask permission for everything to go through something, having locked doors, not being able to do what you want all the time and just live your life. So then go back to living in a community. It's very hard. It's hard to readjust to living in a community with people and not having all these boundaries. It's incredibly hard. So I wanted to talk a bit about that transition and what it's been like. Casual video. I've done my eye makeup. That's it. I'm eating like that.  I didn't think you can see on camera, so my friend just covering it up because why not? This video is an important thing for me. I've never done anything like this before. The transition from inpatient to outpatient. There was no transition period. I just went from being inpatient to discharge. There was no transition period, which any of it is for some people. For me, it was just, bye. Go out to do whatever you want to do. Go at the underground home. Go, go, bye. That was all I got. The transition for me has been quite hard really because I've been busy all the time. I've been keeping myself busy, so I haven't had to focus on the true reality of getting back into the community. I've just been busy doing stuff. Went to CK for a few days. Went to Wrexham for a few days. Went to a conference. I've been doing all sorts, keeping myself busy and I haven't really spent time talking or getting back into the grips of living in the community. Like, it's been nearly two weeks and I still haven't been in the kitchen. I just, I found the transition quite easy, but it's also been hard. It's been hard because I have to remember like when to take my meds, all of that. I have to remember to eat at some point and I have to remember to do certain things to maintain a level of being okay in the community. Remembering to take a medication is a really hard one because I've hit my meds four times a day. When I was in hospital, obviously I had to go and get them. They would come and give them to me. I wouldn't have to think too much about time to meds. And now I'm in the community and I'm like, oh, I've got all this meds. What do I do? Ah, fuck, help me. I don't have community support. I do have a support worker who's not NHS based, so I do have a support worker, but that's helped me with the transition. It's been quite hard to readjust because going in patient as time was optional. Well, it wasn't optional, but I went voluntarily. I was informal, not sectioned. So it was very different for me. Coming back into the community, I'm just a bit like, oh, how do I now maintain this level of motivation and happiness and enduring things? It's such a hard thing to come back to. She go from having all these boundaries to, oh, you can do what you want. Have fun, kids. Bye. Like, do what you want. Bye-bye. And you're impatient. You're like, I don't have these choices. I can't just go and go for a walk at midnight or whatever. There's so many boundaries when you're in hospital, then when you compare it to being at home, and you're just like, oh, look, I can do everything I want. And it's quite overwhelming. It's been, yeah, I would say it's been overwhelming because I've, like I said, I haven't really given it time to sink in yet. I keep forgetting that February was a thing. I keep thinking about January and then March because February, I was in hospital. I didn't, I can't remember anything from February. Apart from, like, midway through my, like, inpatient stay, it started to click that, like, my dissociation and PTSD were quite bad. I was using a lot of time. I really spoke about why I went into hospital, which I might do, I might film a video to a while later on. When it comes to where I'm at now, I'm just like, I need to maintain this level of motivation. I don't want to go back to where I was. I don't want to stay on top of my PTSD. I don't want to stay on top of my depression. Like, I want to stand top of it all. I don't want to go back to where I was. And it's very hard thing to comprehend in my head because when you're in hospital, you have staff around you to talk you out of these things and just talk to you. And when you're at home, you're just like, fuck, I have stuff to toy or my unicorn copy book. That's the sport. Like, because I do have this support work that's not NHS based. She's basically helping me sort out everything in the community. She's helping me apply for PIP. She's helping me find accommodation for next year. I think I've done that. She's just like, getting me engaged with things to keep me busy. Her idea was keep you busy. You won't have time to then think about how you feel. Because I found that thinking about how I feel all the time is quite a negative thing. Like, if I'm waking up, I'm like, how do I feel today? Am I depressed? Oh, maybe. Then I start to spiral and I just crash. It's quite hard me to explain but I think I've made some sense in this video in the sense that going inpatient to outpatient, it's hard, trust me. Another big question is, does inpatient help? And I want to put in what is now in this video. I can't make a video on it though about this so I'm just going to put it in this one. Going inpatient for me was a lifesaver. Literally. I've said this in other videos but Jordan was the one who phoned the police that time for me. They took me to hospital and I was taking inpatient. If Jordan had made that phone call, I wouldn't be sitting here today. My mental health was really in a bad place. Going inpatient, for me, worked. I'm not saying you're going to answer everyone's problems and it's the answer to everything you should go inpatient because in my opinion, you should try and stay in the community as long as safe and have someone to talk to. And mental health's not deteriorating that much, I think going inpatient has helped me this time and the last time in the fall and it's helped me a lot. Like it's kept me safe. It's stopped me from actually going really intense thoughts. It's helped with my dissociation issue and it's helped a little bit with my PTSD. It's got my support in place, my PTSD. Genuinely been helpful. Would I advise going inpatient? No. Like it's restrictive. Some people need that though and it's okay. It's okay to need to go inpatient. It's okay to think that it's the only option. It's okay to think those things.  Like it doesn't work like that. Mental health teams on the whole, try and keep you in the community as long as they can. In this country, I don't know how it works in other countries. Not my place to comment on it. Like the community teams in London are, because they had my diagnosis wrong, in the wrong ordering, I wasn't getting any help. Now it's been changed, I'm getting a lot of help and support and it's appreciated. Believe me, like that was the main issue from my diagnosis, wasn't correct. It wasn't in the right order, so I was getting the wrong support. So my mental health was just getting worse. And no one knew why.  It was because my PTSD had been left untreated for five years. Other than that, like, I've been experiencing like the nightmares of flashbacks for like five years, but I was getting worse. And if you haven't already, I recorded the month that I was in hospital for. That show was how bad my PTSD really was at the time. And it's kind of like, that's the stepping stone into my life, this is my life. And this is what I'm doing with it. I feel like I've rambled for this video, but it's like a bit of a chat, isn't it really? Like we're just talking about things and that feelings and emotions. So with that in mind, I'm going to end this video here because I haven't got anything else to say or anything I think I can call the young official to say. So I will see you guys soon with a new video. Thank you for watching. Thanks for the love, thanks for the support. And I'll see you guys soon with a new video. Peace. I'm just going to go bam, bam, bam. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. My poor camera's going to get broke with hand in. I'll have to stretch my t-shirts through that. I'll get the actual t-shirts. I just stretched over my arms. I'm a mess.  Goodbye.