Even if it's short form content, it's a piece of a long form of content. You know, like whatever that is in the music video that's gonna make somebody like really engaged, that part is gonna get chopped out rather than it's by me or somebody else anyway. Like when I look at my most viral moment, you know, and this is when I made my vote, don't count.  What's up, what's up, what's up? I'm Brandman, Sean. I'm Cory. And we are back with another episode of No Labels Necessary Podcasts. You can catch us every Tuesday, every Wednesday on Apple, Spotify, here on YouTube, wherever you stream your podcast, here at the intersection of creative and currency. This is No Labels Podcasts. And as you know, we like to bring on people who represent No Labels, not just not signed to a label, but how they're moving, moving different. And I got a perfect guest for y'all today. Hey. Yellow. Hey. What's up? What's up? Well, look, man, for y'all who don't know Yellow Pain, I mean, if you haven't caught the yellow hair somewhere on the internet, this dude, first time I came across him, it's probably been three, four years maybe even now, but he was going super viral on YouTube, on Facebook too. He was going crazy viral, millions and millions, probably tens of millions on Facebook because of the content. And when I say content, I don't mean like some TikTok-y type stuff. I'm talking about his actual music videos, whole music videos going viral. And that's a dream for a lot of artists actually when you think about it, right?  How do you approach content and look at the content game in general? When it comes to especially going viral, like music videos, I think they really come down to the passion, you know what I'm saying? Because like a lot of people create music and create content specifically with the goal to go viral. And every time I say this is like, if you go to the studio with like, I'm about to make the best song of my life right now, like it's usually the worst songs you ever make. You know what I'm saying? The best songs are the ones where you like really purging something that's inside of you. Rather, even if it's like, you even if it's a strip club song, if you're that type of artist, like you're speaking from an experience that's so genuine that people can just relate on a personal level. So I think with me, with the music videos going viral, it comes from like me really going through something or somebody around me going through something to a capacity where one, it either hurt or I felt it to that capacity, but then also I think me trying to explain that to somebody, the only way to really explain it sometimes, it takes a lot to get the message across for somebody to truly understand how I feel. And that's why sometimes the videos have so much to it. You know, the creativity gets maxed because I really need somebody to get it. You know what I mean? So you're kind of looking at the videos and just like an extension of the message or a way to put parts of the message you can actually like explain in words pretty much. Exactly. Yeah. I got you. I got you. I mean, I got a question kind of off there, right? So we've seen, right? There's been a lot of like, there's just like industry talk in the last year and a half about music videos dying off, right? Like you kind of hit a sentiment like a music video is on as powerful as they used to be. It's kind of all about the short form stuff, right? Talks, the reels and things like that. Has that transition affected the way you look at your music videos at all? And if so, like, like how are you kind of maneuvering that with that depth in the wave? Well, no, because most stuff that's viral anyway, even if it's short form content, it's a piece of a long form of content. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, like whatever that is in the music video that's going to make somebody like really engaged, that part is going to get chopped out rather than it's by me or somebody else anyway. Like when I look at, you know, obviously my, I would say biggest song to date, maybe not the biggest streaming song to date, but like my most viral moment, you know, is when I made my vote don't count. And that was a full length record, but you know, just a portion of it while I was breaking down the government got chopped out.  So I'm not really afraid of like people not having that type of attention span. My attention span is short. Like, you know how quick it is to like get distracted and not want to see something no more. So I'm not worried about it. I feel like that's the hard part about music but like that's fine. But then, but then again, like also to the kind of music that our music videos that I make, you know what I'm saying? Because I'm hands on with it and because I control the narrative, it's like movies still ain't one out of style. You know what I'm saying? So if you could get some, like people are going to be engaged for four minutes for something that they wish was an hour and a half. You know what I'm saying? That's a whole different way I'm looking at it. Because you are basically taking that hour and a half and making it potent, right? Exactly. And busting that down where I feel like a lot of artists when they do create music videos these days, part of the problem is the music video isn't that amazing anyway. So it was like, if I'm just standing around or whatever, like on a card or just doing like the same stereotypical things then it's not going to be anything special. I just spent more money to do it.   Like it's true, like that directorial, like all that. I remember when we first talked years ago, like you said that's all you, right? Like the camera work and all that stuff, right? So like there's an eye and a perspective and I think it makes sense too for you to be the person who's also like directing it. And you find that a lot with those type of artists where you're actually saying something. So it's hard to just pass off what you're saying visually to somebody else. You know what I mean? And I've tried, you know what I'm saying?  You know what I'm saying? And then I put it together and then it'd be, you know, what we know it as, you know what I'm saying? Because the videos, like nobody could tell my story better than I could tell my story. You know what I'm saying? You know, if somebody came to me with the plot and said, I think this would be the dopest concept to this song, then I would let them execute it.  Like how could I have somebody else do it? It wouldn't even make sense. They don't even know what I went through. You know what I mean? So what is your story, man?  Cause I don't know much, like my family's from Columbus on one side and that's the only city I've ever been to in Ohio. But Dayton, you just told me that was a smaller town. I didn't realize it.  Dayton is a real small town. You know what I'm saying? And I'm not going to make it extremely small but the side that I'm from is small. You know what I'm saying? Everybody know everybody. It's a small town mentality. You know what I'm saying?  You know, we don't got no celebrities.  Like the nicest car you're going to probably see, you know, me growing up might be like a Chrysler 300. You're not seeing nothing crazy. You know what I'm saying? But that was my favorite car. One point because that was the nicest car I had known was a Chrysler 300. So you can kind of see how limiting the mindset was, you know, I grew up with a whole lot of siblings and we didn't have a whole lot of resources and trying to create music. I started making music so early at seven, you know, and knowing that that's what I wanted to do at such a young age. You know, I really had to figure it out and almost create a path where there wasn't one. So, you know, it was it was difficult but one thing I will say is that I had love, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, I always receive love, you know what I'm saying? Even if it wasn't resources or money, it was definitely love. And I think because I know what that looked like, I'm able to kind of like express that through the music. Man, so like speaking of that small towns, like the environment, you shared a post, well, I shared one of your posts for the day where you were talking about, you know, working out in your perspective of black people, right? In Ohio and then translating that over to Atlanta and seeing black people completely different. Yeah. One, can you kind of speak on that a little bit? Because I think that perspective's value, like I'm going somewhere with it, but I want to kind of hear you reiterate and then like you personally going through that journey and just changing perspective on that. Yeah, so basically just to retell the story, I was working out in Dayton, Ohio, where I'm from and I go to the gym at five in the morning because I like to get it out the way so it don't interfere with the rest of the day. Because I know if I don't go by eight, I'm not going, I'm not, I'm not, I'm trying to be a famous rapper. I'm not trying to be a fitness model, you know what I'm saying?  But like maybe I'm in the white, at a white gym, you know what I'm saying? And then, you know, around eight, nine, that's when black people start coming in.   We don't, you know, that's not our thing or maybe we'd probably be here in the evening.  And then, you know, moving to Atlanta, I got to the gym at five in the morning. I went to all the different gyms because I like to, like, I kind of went on like a LA fitness tour to some capacity. Like just to see what like the different ones is, but all of them, like five in the morning, the butt care, five in the morning on old national, like it's black people, you know what I'm saying?  Like black people, we need a dot, dot, dot, but then I was thinking that kind of opened my mind because there's so many things like when you think about like relationship gurus and, you know, people that's like, or even like our aunties and grandmas that give us a perspective of life that we can run with and think that that's how it's supposed to be, or this is life and this is law. And in reality, you know, she only mess with toxic dudes, you know what I'm saying? Or he only, you know what I mean? Are they only seeing what's in this realm of their life?  So it's like, I can't just be out here and I don't think none of us should be even receiving or giving information without really knowing what we're talking about. You know what I mean? Really getting other people's perspective. Bro, I appreciate hearing that just because of what you said, perspective and perspective is so powerful for our artists. And you can sense that in your, like your videos, right? Yeah. Like it should actually thoughtful and you're taking a perspective.  Yeah, a whole video passionate about something. Like if you didn't do better than that, you know? Being willing and thoughtful and paying attention enough to notice like that dissonance in your own mind. I think that shows up in your videos because I look at a lot of great artists as like kind of like similar to comedians, right? You could tell you've been observing, you know? Like always thinking. And then you figure out how to put that into the track and every, your songs are very conceptual and it takes like observation or sometimes it's just kind of more expressive through other experience. But I think it's dope to see like someone, you also just put that in like a regular clip because I personally like heard you like just throw something in the clip. Like I'm like, damn man, I can see that. Cause I'm from Atlanta. And I only know this. And you only know this, right?  And I was like, I just don't know that. I don't see that.  It was funny to hear that. Yeah, that's interesting. So how do you, actually you mentioned my vote don't count. Yeah.  When you say that was my biggest track, right? You talking about like feeling like your vote doesn't count feeling that many people have what's wrong with government you know, things that many people feel but you say it was your biggest. What does it mean by that was my biggest? It's more of the song that, because it's two different kinds of viral, right? You have internet viral and you have socially viral. And that's a big, big difference because some people got extremely large platforms and some people got extremely small platforms. Regardless, some people you know and some people you don't.  People will say, yeah, I know who that is. Rather they know the music or not. And I think my vote don't count is what made me socially viral. You know, you don't have to know my music or listen to my music. You just might've just been on LeBron's page or you might've seen the commercial where they ran it or you might've, you know, that's what made me socially viral. It made me the topic of conversation. So that's why- On LeBron's page? Yeah. I missed that one. It was a lot, like a lot of pages. Like break that down I remember I saw you in like a news channel. I can't remember what news channel it was, but like, that's different, you know what I'm saying? Different type of stuff. So can you even just kind of like get run down quite a few of those places that got highlighted?  That's like the culture, you know what I'm saying? And then, you know, like once you make Shade Room, you kind of like part of the culture to some capacity.   You know what I'm saying? Like everybody, you know, my favorite rapper, Meek Mill, every tweeted it. It's just like, you know, I was just seeing it from politicians to, you know, the top people, now I'm trying to remember, but it's like, I would really have to look, it's so many, you know what I mean? Like it was a conversation, you know what I mean? Let me take a quick second to tell you about Forever Fan because many of you know that my agency is responsible for helping multiple artists blow up tens of billions of views and billions of streams. But I want to specifically talk about a strategy that we've used to help artists get millions of streams on their very first song. 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You say it's a completely different type of, like, rivalry opens up a completely different world in like that culture, which is a lot smaller, kind of like how you mentioned the perspective of being smaller, trying to send things one way. It seemed like that conversation of the culture that we tend to think within hip hop that's so quote unquote big, it's actually a lot smaller than we feel like. So did you feel like you kind of like broke out of that in that moment, at least on that side of it? What you mean by broke out of it? Broke out of it, okay. No, experienced a little bit of the outside of the matrix of like the regular hip hop conversations where we're like, you're trying to stand out as a lot of artists, like within this traditional hip hop culture, we know what that is, right? And those publications and that were show the things that we look at as cloudy in that space. And then you had this big moment. And as big as it was, it wasn't necessarily a hip hop moment, you know, that moment. It was like this other world. Did you feel like, oh snap, like I didn't even realize it was like this over here. I'm like, my mind's opening up to a different world and did that change?   Because everybody is tapped in the hip hop. So I think one thing is it really showed me the possibilities of like how you don't necessarily have to like, like you said, like get signed or you just gotta have something good enough for people to care, you know what I'm saying? On that, I guess on a level that taps in with the industry, you know what I'm saying? I think that kind of opened that window up for me or that mindset, you know what I mean? Got you. One thing that kind of makes me wonder man is like, I don't know, when we have clients that go viral for the first time, one of the first things I always pay attention to is like how to handle it. You know what I'm saying? You know, it's kind of like one of the dreams of ours is to go viral, but then once you in the moment, it's kind of like a scary experience, right? So your viral moment wasn't just like a million views on TikTok, it's like tens of millions across, probably hundreds of millions if we can't include like the public attention and the things. So like, what was it like transitioning from ours with, you know, whatever size of attention you had then to like now dealing with like that level of attention on yourself? I think the only thing that really transitioned because I had already like been on tour, I had already had like a lot of the hip hop experiences. I think it just, when you switch from like a popular rapper to the music industry, you know what I'm saying? You kind of like, different things just kind of happen, you know what I'm saying? Like you just meet people, you get in rooms that you know, you just get invited to different stuff that you might not have typically your experience on a day-to-day basis is now a celebrity experience. But musically, you know, like how many people gonna show up to the show, that type of stuff don't change. You just kind of get exposed to more things, you know what I mean? Yeah, so did you struggle with having the attention from it at first?  I think it was the people know this, but you know, or not people, but it was a kind of a fear at this point because you know, like I know what I usually make and this was like a one-off.  So it was like a what do I do? But just, you know, getting advice from other people and even just like Gary Vee's like document verse and create and just, you know, just understanding that, hey, don't try to put yourself nowhere, like do what you've been doing. That's how you got here. If you start trying to like do what you want people to know from you, then you won't go any further. You know what I'm saying? Like, or you might go backwards. You know what I'm saying? So I think that's really what I'm on is like doing what I've been doing when I get inspired, I get emotional about a certain concept. I put it into music, I put it into the video. Like, you know, obviously, you know, once new money come in, you could do other ventures and podcasts and whatever else you want to do. But as far as like the actual thing that got you here, like don't stop doing that, you know what I mean? So that's what I'm at with. Yeah, and I always feel like that's a, that's a hard carrot to walk away from. Right? Like I go viral for this particular thing. I could just knock out 10 more songs. Like this, yeah, I think that's career suicide though. In my opinion, you know what I'm saying? It depends. It depends where you at with it, right? Cause I went viral with a social issue. You know what I mean? If I had went viral with it, like maybe it's actually beneficial for some people. Like, for example, like The Baby, it's like, why would you switch up this? You know, like because people saying we want to hear something else, like no. But that's still what he been doing. You know what I'm saying? Don't switch up what you been doing. He been doing that. Before that song, he had 10 like that. You know what I'm saying? So you know what I'm saying? So don't switch up. Whatever you've been doing to get to this point, don't try to change it now. You know what I mean? Okay. I got you. So I mean, even in that too, man, I would assume that the audience that came from that was a lot more of a political audience. I was like, no, no, it was a hip hop audience. You know what I'm saying? Cause to be honest, let's be real. Like most people don't, don't really, didn't really get it. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're not about to have that much information and get it immediately. It's really more so of like the fact that I did it. You know what I'm saying? It was like, he did this with a rap. You know what I'm saying? It was more so of that. You know what I mean? Like he was able to make me feel this way with a rap. It's like, oh, voting is important. Like if you ask somebody after they listen to it, like, what was he saying? If they're not already in politics, they still gonna be like, I don't know, but he said it. You know what I mean? So I think people was just impressed by like the ability to do it. And then to see people in politics actually stamp it and say that what he said was valid. You know what I mean? It just worked in my benefit. But I wouldn't say that I don't get me wrong. It got me in a whole nother space. You know what I'm saying? I'm definitely in political conversations. Like I'm one of the people they call now when they need to appeal to, you know, younger people. But as far as like my actual audience, it's still, it's still hip hop. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. It's interesting, I feel like one thing that's going to contribute to your longevity is the ability to compartmentalize things. You multiple times would say, well, this is my audience. And this is what it looks like. And then here's a celebrity space. And that doesn't change the celebrity space, but you're now just hanging out with maybe potential celebrities. And then you say, well, this is a political space. Like you see everything separately and you don't let it like conflate into your main thing where things get blurry and you get mixed in the thing. And oh yeah, they just like gonna feel whatever I do. You probably know what works in one space. You know what works in another space. And you move accordingly. Yeah. And I'm not afraid to try new things though. You know, it's not like a, like this is what works. So let me only, only, only do this. Cause I feel like we live in the age where you, you can't plan viral. You know what I'm saying? I just think with me, it's just about authenticity. You know what I'm saying? Like I could, I could try something else, but I still won't lose my integrity. Or you know what I'm saying? I won't do something that's extremely unauthentic to what I, what feels right to me. You know what I'm saying? Like I don't know the moment that it's like, bro, this ain't, this ain't me. You know what I'm saying? I won't even force it.  So what do you do? Like when you think about, I'm about to put something out. Well, you know the video and the content is going to be like strong, but then I put it out. What happens now? I believe in, in like good dope cell itself. You know what I'm saying? Like I don't sell drugs. That's what it's just a concept. You know what I'm saying? I don't get me wrong. Marketing is extremely important. I would never tell somebody don't market.  But you know, I feel like in this climate right now, you're, especially once you start to build the audience, like people, like there was like, it's too easy to hit the share button. You know what I'm saying? It's too easy to be inspired by something. If you put something out and nobody was inspired, I'm not saying give up on your record, but sometimes the data, the analytics tell you that it's not good, you know what I mean? Like, and sometimes we get in our own way and feel like this is great. Well, who's saying it's great? You know what I'm saying? And I think I might hit the go button once somebody else tell me it's great. To some capacity. I'm not saying that I live in the results of people. You know what I mean? But you know, I do me and I feel like you make slight adjustments as you go. You know what I'm saying? So if I put something out and say if it go a little viral or say it got some views, I have to realize what was it about that that made somebody like it? You know what I'm saying? What didn't they like about it? Why is it not on the radio but it's viral on the internet? Why is it this, you know, getting played here and people want to play the song, but they don't want to watch the video? What is it? You know what I mean? And just like you kind of like chip away at it. And I think that's just really practice. You know what I'm saying? You just keep going and going until you figure out, okay, you're getting better as you go. You know what I'm saying? I think once you figure it out, what's good you actually understand? Like I think viral becomes out. Let's take the word viral out of it, but success becomes inevitable because you've already done it a million times. You know what I'm saying? If you, you know, working on a car, you're not going to mess up the car the next time. You know what I mean? You don't fix 30 cars. You know what I'm saying? So I think that's kind of what it is. It's like every single one is not going to go viral. But what I do, because I've already taken away the stuff that makes it bad, you know what I'm saying? And I've added the stuff that makes it good. And I know that that's what makes it good. You know, then how can we not, after 10 of them, not do it again? You know what I mean? I'm so glad you said that. That's such a hard point to get artists to understand right where it's like, hey, that's a marker that's been told in my opinion. You know what I'm saying? Because we have to kind of think of it in a way like how can I take the 2% I learned that was good in this video and apply to the next one and eventually by like your 20th video, you add to 100%, right? But a lot of artists kind of fall short. You know, it can be a lot of little things about like we've had beautiful, we might be like, oh, I can tell that the background of the room changed the engagement of the video. We should do more videos and like. Yeah, and it's not always like my bad because it's not always the emotional thing that did it. Sometimes it's something like because I'm on all sides of it. You know what I mean? Like I'm on the video side of it. You know what I'm saying?  So it's like, it gets very intricate when you talking about shaving stuff off and adding stuff. It's not always, you know, cause when you think about what you might think people like about my music because it might be what you liked about it, that might not be what I see, you know what I'm saying? So it's like really just understanding from every aspect from the beat to the way that I even attack the rap, you know what I mean? To the inflections of my voice when I'm rapping it to the, you know what I mean? Like, and then, you know, so it's really like perfecting the whole thing, not just, you know, like conceptually will make something viral but actually the whole package, you know what I mean? I think that's the important part when you wanna make something as an artist, right? Like I talked to a lot of artists and I've told people, I'm like, yo, like why does so many people who are supposed to be an artist stop their creativity at their music? Right?  It's like your visual needs to be creative and all those details need to be just as thoughtful as everything else. Cause once it's created, it's created. You can only market what's out, right? Or you can only show people what's out. So it's like, if you spend more time, that's what I'll usually say.  So I guess one question, I really have two, but like one question is like, how much time do you put into like the actual video making process before you even show up to the shoot? Like, how do you come up with all that? I mean, that's real subjective to be honest though, because like, you know, some stuff like, you know, we were just working on a record the other day and we were just listening to the song and it wasn't even no video concept. This was like just like a, you know how like, you got an album and you got the song that's the title of the album. So you kind of got to have that on there. Who just kind of made that. And then boom, the idea came the whole video and it was like, bro, it's about to be the craziest I ever did. Like it felt like that. And you know what I'm saying? So the video was kind of like wrote itself then. So now when it's time to shoot the video, I already know it, but that was an instant moment. Some of them is like, man, I really want to get this message out but how do I put that into video and you know what I'm saying? You can hear your mind streaming that way though now. It's like an artist, a good artist, a song can come to them conceptually and I know song work longer, but it only comes with the skill set that you have, right? You can see angles fast and all this stuff fast because you've done it so many times. So you train it up that way. So I get that. Well, what do you, as someone who's paid so much attention to the process and feedback and cut the fat and all this stuff, what do you think people like about your music or, and what do you think what they like about your visuals? I think, and I feel like every artist has said this, but I don't feel like every artist could really say it from a true place. I think what I do is very authentic. You know what I'm saying? And it's like, like when I first started rapping, obviously I started rapping for the reasons everybody else started rapping, you know what I mean? Like money and all that. But then I think at one point it became therapy to me. Like rap became, it felt like my voice. You know what I'm saying? Like the only thing before views, before any of that, you know what I'm saying? It was like my place to go when like times was real hard and nobody wanted to listen to me talk or when you know what I'm saying? When I was in school and I had a certain type of shoes on and it was laughing at me and you know what I mean? Like that was the place that I went when people I love died, you know what I mean? Like that was the place that I went, you know what I'm saying? So when I rap, it's not like, I don't think about like how many numbers this is gonna do. I'm really trying to get some off, you know what I mean? I'm trying to get in the mold. Like that's my happiest place is when I'm putting together music. So I think people can feel that, you know what I'm saying? People can feel the authenticity. There are a lot of other rappers that might even have more numbers and success in certain spaces that you might consider in my same lane, if you wanted to try to call it a lane. But the way that I feel like my music make you feel, it don't matter how much you try to fabricate that and like I'ma do a song about parents not treating their children. You could redo it, but it's like I'ma do a song about drug addiction. It's like so many, it's a whole lane for drug addiction, right? But when I do it, it's like, bro, this is not for no numbers. Like I got close, close family that I'm really trying to help get off of drugs.  So I think it's that like people can feel what I feel when I put it out. Cause it's therapy, it's not about the music more or something, you know what I mean? Have you ever found that to be like tempting to talk about a concept just cause a concept is dope, which maybe you're not connected to it? No. And the reason why is because I didn't really start getting no form of success until people started, until I didn't get no success before people cut onto my heart, you know what I'm saying? So I know that that's what people like, you know what I'm saying? Like if I was to just be like putting out shots, like this is where I'll try my hand at, right? I was doing emotional music and I was putting it out from my heart and that wasn't necessarily doing well. So I try to do the other stuff, like the trap rap, like the fun and a high energy. I tried my hands at some of them and those wasn't doing well, you know what I'm saying? But then once the stuff that was coming, so genuine start doing well, I realized, okay, this is what works, me being genuine. Cause disingenuous for me is not emotional like concept. Disingenuous for me is like the other stuff that get other people high, you know what I'm saying? I think self-awareness was like key for me, you know what I'm saying? Standing in my lane, you know what I mean? And that's why I said ironing out like what people like and what people don't like. I realized that it wasn't the message, it was how I actually attack the music, the production and stuff like that. It's the stuff that I had to, you know, or the video, like how I did it was the stuff that I have to like do to make it better, not the message, you know what I'm saying? So I'm not like trying to like people like this for me, let me do more emotional. It's like, no, let me get a higher quality camera.  They received it better. So it's like more of that aspect of really just knowing when your product is bad. You know what I mean? Yeah. What's that like when I, as an artist, when you say my product is bad, like you actually admit that to yourself. I don't hear that a lot. I got real niggas around me. That's one good thing. That's, I feel like having real niggas around you, real people that really like is gonna keep it real with you is that probably saved my career. You know what I'm saying? Like my best friend and my producer, like it hadn't been so many times where I came to him with a whole song, whole concept.    And then now we got a song. Like I remember my biggest actual song number wise is graduation. You know what I'm saying? It's called Graduation. It's about how parents treat their children unequally. I was like, I want to get a singer on here. And he like, no, I think you would do a, it sound better coming from your voice. And you know, I know I can't sing.  That you shouldn't do this type of thing.  You know what I mean? I think having good people around us, everything that's going to tell you like this ain't it. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think people downplay like the, the value of having like different perspectives around you. Like, even if you don't agree as a artist. If you got yes man around you, you going to lose for sure. I know people that got yes man around you that won't tell them like that it's bad. And I see the complacency of the, or the, the, the hamster world that they own. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it obviously helps the music too, especially coming from a producer as well. Like a lot of people, you know, have beat makers that are producers who have an opinion. I feel like good producers. Because you hear when they talk about Dr. Dre, he always has an opinion or not. So that seems like something that helps the music too. Yeah, absolutely. I've been in studios with different producers where they don't even touch nothing. You know what I'm saying? But they like goats, you know what I'm saying?  But they produce the whole record from here and maybe from here, but they're not like instrumented. They're not beat makers, you know what I'm saying? They tell the artists, I think you should do something like, and you know how you do your thing.  But at the same time, they like got a vision. You know what I mean? So a producer is way more instrumental in the record than like somebody that just sends you a pack of beats. You know what I'm saying? That's two different things. I love that, man. Cause people talk a lot about producers and I feel like a lot of people kind of like, like dilute them down to just being the beat maker. And if you're somebody who has that type of eye and understand how to compose, right? To me, that's what it is.  Steve Jobs had this quote. I don't know if it was real, cause I just saw it, I don't, but I saw it. It was like, they put it in the movie or somebody in the commercial. And he was like, some people play instruments. I play the orchestra. To me, that seems like a producer versus, you know, you're not a beat maker. That's not a beat maker. That's a beat maker, right?  You're not a composer. It seems like producers are like that. And that's, to me, got validated by what you said, but I don't want some who don't get it. I don't want to get it their name, you know what I mean? If we don't get into it like that and push those buttons themselves, they just don't think of them as producers. You know, it's some people that we know and love that's like, revered as goats today that don't, that only just send beat packs too. So, you know, it's to each his own, but I guess from a personal respect level of the actual guy that's involved, you know what I mean? I'll personally respect you more when you got a little bit more to do with it than just sending off some beats, you know what I mean? Well, like switching off real quick because I just thought about the pushback that you've gotten from some of your stuff, right? You've, of course, had these viral moments and we talked more on the positive side, but one of my guys, he was showing me a op-ed when you did the Thanksgiving video, all right? That was a wild video, you know what I mean? It was very visual, absolutely. So what is it? Talk to me about your concept on that video. Then, you know, want to kind of figure out what it's like when you have those strong perspectives coming at you as well as an artist. Like, was that a, let's start with the concept though. Yeah, the concept of happy Thanksgiving. You know, that's funny. Because, you know, I don't really talk about this one a lot. It's just one of the ones that just did what it did.  I think, I did more research on Thanksgiving than I did on voting.  So it's like, you hear, you might see a meme or anything you hear or think what it is. You just want to know. But I think once I actually knew, I was like, dang, it's the same, I'm telling you with songs that I do that's controversial. It's always like, I get upset with myself. Like, why am I moving a certain way? And I don't know. And you know what I'm saying? Like, how am I, like, how am I like, with voting that was the same concept? Like, how am I a black man in America saying I'm passionate about my community and changing that I find out that voting is the key to, you know, like, it's one of the major keys to changing our whole community. And that's a whole other conversation. Like, you know, but it's a passion now because it's like, dang, why don't I know? And it was the same thing with Thanksgiving. Like, you hear about it, like, I don't know. It's really, da, da, da. But then once you start to dig into it and pull back the layers, you realize, like, it's just so much to realize. And that's a whole convert, like I said, I read books, et cetera, visited Indian villages, talked to Native Americans. And it was the whole process before I made the song. But just getting into it, I think as black people, I think we are the most, what's the word? Cause, you know, like, I can't, I gotta be careful with my words. You can't just say the most. But I just think we are, we are, we passionate about us, you know what I'm saying? And we passionate about our people and we passionate about our history. You know what I'm saying? So when it comes against us, you know what I'm saying? It's directly, specifically us. You know what I'm saying? We don't go for none of that. You know what I'm saying? Like, if it was the Thanksgiving and it was like about African slaves and that was like the people that got murdered, just say like, without no extra layers to the history. You know what I'm saying?  We would have shut it down. We would not be still celebrate. We wouldn't, you know what I'm saying? We just, it just ain't us. So we could kind of like disconnect from it. You know what I'm saying? To us, it's not us. So we can, so we can, you know what I'm saying? So, and I think it's almost like buffoonery and it's kind of disgusting to watch people that I love. You know what I'm saying? To be like, to actually say that and say that happened so long ago. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know what I mean? Like, and that's what they say to us. When they, you know what I'm saying? Like, why should I get over slavery? Like, ain't nobody enslaved, like slaves no more. Like, but it's documented history that's out there. That's, you know what I'm saying? That people live, that's people still, like their great grandparents like actually got stories of, you know what I'm saying? That's living, you know what I'm saying? So when you see that, it's like, how could we turn our eye to that? You know what I'm saying? Like, I can't get down with it. So what I wanted to do specifically for my people was I wanted to put us in a perspective of what it would feel like, you know what I'm saying?  It was putting into the perspective of, so you can, like that's what it's always about. So you can see what this would feel like and what it looks like, you know what I'm saying? So you could put yourself in the shoes and be like, dang, I didn't think about it like that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that was a wild artistic flip too. Like the specific choice. I realized going through what we think about those details, like the specific choice of that family was black and obviously the lines and everything. You don't see nothing like that. I'll say that. You don't see nothing like that. I'm like, man, I'm surprised. This didn't end up on Shade Room and black people go crazy. That was interesting. But then obviously having an op-ed and people were like, I don't care, I don't, we're not gonna cancel this. It's kind of disappointing. It's disappointing? But I would say like my life's mission is not to cancel Thanksgiving, you know what I'm saying? So I can't get too invested into like people not, you know what I'm saying? It's like, I did my job, you know what I'm saying?  And let them see the perspective. And you know, I personally choose not to celebrate Thanksgiving and because I love Thanksgiving foods so much, I eat yams all year, you know what I'm saying? Like, so I don't get that FOMO when it come around, you know what I'm saying? But that's what it is. But look, man, you've done so much. At this point, as an independent artist, I know you've had to have somebody try to scoop you up in some way. Why are you still independent? Couple reasons. Definitely had people try to sign me up. I think what it is, is I feel like first off, the culture is changing, you know what I'm saying? Like the labels is getting less and less important and valuable. And they're also just actually seeing what a label is. You know, it's a group of people who individually skilled in different areas that have access to different places to put you in relationships, you know what I'm saying? And they can use their relationships and their resources to put you in different places. You know what I mean? It's not really even about the money when it comes to signing to a label. It's about the people that are in a label and what they specifically skilled at. I think at the brink of when things started to work out, I think I found the best possible team that I could have possibly found, you know what I mean? And I just don't need a label right now. You know what I mean? I just don't need them. You know what I mean? And like, I got the same access. Can you talk more about what your team looks like? Well, I don't actually know if it's... Let's just say my management, they have been in the industry and are top people in the industry and they have been in the industry and have cultivated and developed relationships for the entire course of hip hop and other genres and cultures, you know what I'm saying? So I just... It's not really about... It's not really nobody that I wouldn't have access to through the team that I'm with, you know what I'm saying? Through my management. And I think even, but aside from that, even seeing that, even if my management was no longer with me, I think knowing that they are able to manage me and I have that level of access, it just goes to show that it's, you know, as far as if they're... Because to be honest, if you want a lot of money, if you want a lot of fans, if you want like, you can get all of that without no record label, you know what I'm saying? You don't even like, it's personalities, you got Charleston, right? He not a rapper, but you can kind of see like how you can be socially somebody without, you know, a specific machine behind you. You know what I'm saying? But if you want the culture and you want to be a part of the culture, I think that's where the label come in. So it really comes to what you want out of your career because if you want money, if you want success, if you want, you know, fans, you can be like a Dax or you could be like a, you know, like some of these other like independent artists that's making, probably getting more numbers and like money, et cetera. You know what I mean? I don't know nobody pockets, that's why I didn't say money, but you know, you get, you know, you see the numbers, it's a lot different than even people that's actually signed. So it depends what your mission is. If your mission is to be a part of the culture, then a label might be more necessary. But if you got the right team around you, that's not even necessary. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's important for artists to know too, right? Cause you said it, it's like, hey, I was able to find these central people that essentially have some of the same connections that labels have.  A lot of, exactly. Yeah, exactly. And I don't think a lot of artists get that, right? Cause especially at this point, man, we're like the way the internet's kind of opened up with how much information is out there. It's like, you could research your way to a lot of the same connections and people that they have. And then, you know, there's an extra layer of like having someone with a personal relationship, but it's much different now than like, let's say 10 years ago, where like you genuinely wouldn't know where we're going. Yeah, you wouldn't be able to get no access to even people without a label back in the day. You know what I'm saying? But I also think like what I do because of like the people, the people that it affects like lives wise, like the people that it helps is what I mean in the fix in a positive way. You know what I'm saying? You know, like I'm always, there's always going to be somebody willing to put some gasoline on it, you know what I'm saying? So a label wouldn't be necessary for me. That's not the space that I would necessarily need to go. But for somebody else that might not be in my same lane and do what I do, it might could work for them. You know what I'm saying? I'm not saying I would never sign. I'm not like red line, like after label, but just right now it's not the smartest decision. Yeah, I thought that. You talk about management. When did you get management? Cause I just want to clarify, I know a lot of artists like watched these type of things to get inspired, you know, I want anybody just like try to invalidate your entire path and be like, oh, he had management that was like that. You know what I'm saying?  Yeah, all right. That's why you probably got good management. So out the gate, you know what I'm saying? I had like just like a close, very, very close friend just handling calls and doing like a basic level of management because stuff started to take off and people don't respect the artists. If they call the artists directly, you got it.  And you say 10,000. They might feel like, well, can we get it for this? And you got, and you negotiate that and you say, and you say no, they could create whatever narrative they want about you. So if they talk to the management that circumvents you, it keeps you the good guy always, you know what I'm saying? But that was, you know, that was like more of a representative management in the beginning, but like once I actually got management, it was like I was already, you know, this was after my vote, don't count, you know what I mean? So like actually my management came from somebody sliding the video to the manager, you know what I mean? And then it created a management team. But since then though, like I'm extremely glad of who my management is.  You know what I'm saying? Like, I think one of the things that my manager, one of my managers said was like, I'm not looking for no extra work to do. The one of the reasons why so easy to manage you is because you already do everything, you know what I mean? So all you got to do is bring it to my table and then we figure out what we should do with the next. So that's like, that's super dope. Cause if you going to try to find a manager to get work done, it's like my nigga have to work, you know what I'm saying? That's what a manager is for, to help accelerate. And man, like they have to have something to manage. It's the manager, you know what I mean? Or even just like you, it's almost like your system has to be a good fit for whatever that system is, right? Absolutely. You'll see a lot of RSA like, I need management to put me in explosive positions and they're thinking about how the manager can help them, not really thinking about how you fit into that. That manager's probably wrong. Like they have a model, they got strategies. Yeah. And our visions do align like the people that are, and I just not really trying to drop names right now.  You know what I'm saying? That's why it makes the most sense. Yeah. I got you, I got you. What does yellow paint mean? So yellow is a color that represent happiness and paint that represent, it's paint, everything I've been through. So it's a happy representation of my pain, saying stay strong no matter what.  Cause that's a commitment. Yeah. It is a commitment. I didn't know how much of a commitment it was until it became the commitment because like dyeing your hair is like, my hairstylist is in here. Like dye your hair is a product, it break off if you don't keep it extra moisturized. It's a lot to it. But just initially, you know what I'm saying? Yellow paint, you know, like the name, it had the meaning that it had and I still have black hair. I think the yellow hair was like, it's a couple of reasons. One, I've seen it in a dream and it was funny thing is the way I seen it in the dream is I had long yellow dreads and it was weird, but my hair won't, it's hard to even keep growing into that capacity because of how difficult it is to manage bleaching your hair. But that was one reason. And then also, you know, I feel like it just really fits what I'm, the message, cause I feel like a lot of my music, it can be so emotional that I feel like having, you know, just being able to see like some normality, you know, with the yellow, it's like, it's like it's constantly putting off a happy energy, even when some of this stuff is a lot deeper, you know what I mean? Yeah. The closest I wanted to ask this particular question, why do you think artists like you get overlooked by the mainstream when you're doing the work that you're doing? Artists get overlooked. I don't necessarily, see, this is not from an arrogant place, right?  You know, so when I speak to me specifically, I just think it's only a matter of time. You know what I mean? You got your people that's like legends and it's like, and what they do is so unique and so like in the space of its own that it's only a matter of time before it becomes iconic and probably 50 years from now, people remember like, yo, you remember that era, you know what I'm saying? So I feel like I'm in that space, you know what I'm saying? And now when we talk about conscience and positivity, I think a lot of people are boring, you know what I'm saying? Like when it comes to conscience, you know what I mean? They don't know how to actually make it entertaining, but me specifically, I think it's just only a matter of time. Really good. I love that. Well, amen. Appreciate you stopping by. Yeah. Yo, everybody's yellow paint, y'all go check them out. Start with his videos. If you start with his videos, you gonna wanna go into everything else and just follow him. And we don't say that about a lot of people. Appreciate it. This is yet another episode of No Labels Necessary. I'm Brandon Shawn. No, I'm Cory. And we out. Bzzz. Hey, this interview is brought to you by No Labels Necessary. And if you like content like this, I have great news for you. We have a private group where you can get access to more content like this, actually influence the people that we interview on the channel and have some interactions with some of the people we interview on the channel. And even greater, get access to tons of courses and information that we've used to help artists grow to millions of streams. 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A warm welcome the 20th session of the second module in the core signals and systems. We are now well equipped to decompose a periodic waveform into either its sinusoidal components or its complex exponential rotating phasor components. What do we do with this decompose? Is what we are going to answer in this session. You will recall that quite a few sessions before, we had looked at what happens when a complex exponential goes into a linear shift invariant system. Now, we will take a periodic waveform being applied to a linear shift invariant system with a given impulse response and query what the output would be. So, in fact, for variety, let us not take a most general system, but let us take a particular case. Let us take the case of the symmetric square wave and a specific linear shift invariant system. Let us illustrate our concepts with that example and then generalize. So, what we are going to do is to consider the following signal system situation. You have this linear shift invariant system. Essentially, a resistance in a capacitance in series where the input voltage is applied across the series combination, let us call it V i t and we could also call it x t in our standard notation. And the output voltage V o t, it should be called y t in our standard notation is the voltage across the capacitor. The input x t is periodic with period t. So, of course, we can decompose it into its Fourier components. Now, we are going to start using this term. We are going to start using this term Fourier series. Fourier, I must mention very briefly, is the famous mathematician a few centuries ago who proposed this idea of decomposing a periodic waveform into its sinusoidal component. So, he suggested that we think of a periodic waveform as a linear combination of sinusoids all of which have the same period. Of course, the periods could be sub multiples of this period. That means the frequencies are all multiples of the fundamental frequency. And in fact, he thought of it in the context of solving certain differential equations which would lead to what are called boundary condition problems. I do not want to say too much about Fourier here. Maybe we will take it up some other time, but Fourier is a very well known name in all contexts in signals and systems, in system theory, in control engineering, a very famous mathematician, a very famous name with the whole concept of decomposition in terms of sinusoids named after him. This decomposition that we have been talking about, thinking of a periodic waveform as a linear combination of sinusoids or complex exponentials with frequencies equal to multiples of the fundamental is called a Fourier series decomposition. That is what we have written here. So, this term Fourier series is a term that we shall use again and again, essentially a decomposition into complex exponentials or sinusoidal components. In this case, we are talking about complex exponential components. Now, let us assume that xt is real. So, for example, xt could be this, a symmetric square wave. You know how to decompose a symmetric square wave into its Fourier series. We have done that in the last few sessions. We did it in the sinusoidal decomposition context and we know how to go from a sinusoidal decomposition to a complex exponential decomposition or if you like from a complex exponential decomposition to a sinusoidal decomposition. The ideas are very simple. However, we will use the complex exponential decomposition for a good reason. We have already seen that when a complex exponential goes through this linear shift invariant system, it comes out multiplied by a constant. That constant is essentially what is called a function of its impulse response operated upon by that particular sinusoid or that particular complex exponential. So, in fact, let us take this particular example of an RC circuit which is excited by one of these complex exponentials. So, let us apply Ck e raised to the power j 2 pi by t times kt to this RC circuit. So, we have Ck, the kth component e raised to the power j 2 pi by t times kt being applied to the RC circuit as the input. It is the voltage input given to the combination of r and c and we want to see the output. Now, we know how to analyze. We do not need to go through the whole gamut of generalized analysis. We could use what is called phasor analysis on this RC circuit. So, we know that each of these elements can be replaced by their phasor impedances. So, for example, the phasor impedance of this is equal to r independent of frequency. The phasor impedance of this is equal to 1 by JC times the angular frequency and the angular frequency is 2 pi by t times k. And therefore, the output phasor by the input phasor is equal to 1 by JC times 2 pi by t times k divided by r plus 1 by the same quantity. Let us simplify this. And therefore, the output is going to be Ck times this quantity. So, it is very interesting. You know, we have the output for any one of these complex exponents. And we know that if I give a complex exponential to this linear shift invariant system, it is going to give me a complex exponential of the same frequency. And I also have a very simple phasor analysis technique to find the output here. But here I did not need to worry about taking any impulse response and going through the impulse response. I could directly use my elementary knowledge of electric circuits. And in fact, you see the beauty is since the system is linear, I can take each of these components in turn, analyze what happens as a consequence of applying that component to the system and then superpose, the principle of superposition holds. So, now we can write down the output to the entire periodic input x t, that is very simple to do. So, we have the same r t circuit. And I applied the general periodic x t here, x t which is summation k going from minus to plus infinity Ck raised to the power j 2 pi by t k t. And I know what the output y t would be. The output y t would simply be summation k going, let me write it here. It is a little of longer expression. In fact, you see something very interesting. You gave a Fourier series as the input to this linear shift invariant system and you have ready made for you the Fourier series representation of the output. Let us mark that clearly for us. This is essentially the Fourier series representation of the output. And these are the Fourier coefficients here. Now, the problem is in the input we might have known what kind of a periodic waveform we have. For example, we could have taken the periodic waveform to be that symmetric square wave which I showed you. It could be a triangular wave, it could be what you will. Now, that is where the catch is. A very pertinent question at this point is can I have any and every periodic waveform being applied and can I analyze it this way? The answer is no. Yes and no. Yes, for most practical waveforms, practical periodic waveforms that you will encounter. No for some pathological cases of periodic waveforms which have some very peculiar properties. For example, if the waveform has an infinite number of maxima and minima in a finite interval in a period, suppose that waveform has an infinite number of maxima and minima. Let us take an example. Suppose you took this example of a function, sign 1 by t in the interval t between 0 and 1 and periodic and then let us call this equal to x t and x t is periodic with period 1. Unfortunately, this waveform has an infinite number of maxima and minima in this interval of 1 and this kind of a waveform is not amenable to Fourier analysis. There are certain conditions under which Fourier analysis can be done and they are called the Dirichlet conditions. So, this is said to violate what is called the Dirichlet condition. Dirichlet was also a mathematician. I cannot say too much about these conditions right now, but we should just be aware that these conditions are here. We will say more about Fourier analysis in the next session. Thank you.


Dear students, in this module, we shall discuss the role of voltage-gated sodium channels in detail. The voltage-gated sodium channels are activated by a stimulus-generated depolarization. They have high sensitivity to voltage changes. So, they are called fast-acting channels. Their opening results in an inflow of sodium ions into the cell. As a result, the rising phase of action potential is started. The channel proteins are inserted in the membrane in the lipid by layer. Every channel, every sodium channel has two gates. One is the activation gate that is present on the outside of the membrane. While the second gate is called the inactivation gate that lies on the inside. Dear students, the number of sodium channels present in a membrane is comparatively less as compared to many other channels. So, they are less densely packed. A micrometer square area of the membrane contains about 500 sodium channels. That means that they occupy only 1% of the total area. However, this number is quite enough to produce the required sodium conductance and sodium crunch. Because every sodium channel can pass 1 million that is 10 raised to power 7 sodium ions per second through it. Dear students, the number of sodium channels open at any moment depends on the membrane potential as well as on time. Time means the phase of action potential. In different phases of action potential, different number of or varying number of sodium channels are open. More the number of open sodium channels, more is the sodium conductance GNA. So, the changes in GNA that is sodium conductance occur as a function of membrane potential and time. Dear students, we shall discuss the Hodgkin cycle that explains the positive feedback mechanism occurring during the opening of sodium channels and flow of sodium ions into the cell. When a stimulus is received on the membrane, it causes a local depolarization of the membrane. As a result, some sodium channels open. This increases sodium conductance. In the cell, more sodium ions enter. That results in further depolarization of the membrane. More depolarization results in opening more channels, more sodium channels and decrease in membrane potential. This relationship between the sodium conductance and membrane potential follows a positive feedback system. And this is termed as Hodgkin cycle. Hodgkin cycle and increase in sodium conductance results in triggering of an action potential. Dear students, now we shall discuss the mechanism of opening of sodium channels. The sodium channels, the channel proteins present in the membrane bear a net charge. So, a change in membrane potential produces an electromotive force on the charge. 2K, there is a charge on the membrane, charge on the proteins. Any change in membrane potential causes electromotive force on charge of the protein. As a result, the electromotive force causes the charge to move in space. This charge movement causes conformational change in the molecule resulting in the opening of the channel. Dear students, the movement of charge through the channel results in small gating grunt. This gating grunt due to sodium ions is denoted as INA that is sodium grunt and the gating grunt IG. The gating grunt is associated with the opening and closing of sodium channels.


UPSA interview is basically a very interesting experience for most of the candidates who go through it. And there are a lot of apprehensions when you go at least for the first time in the interview. Since Rituras, you went for the first time before the UPSC and you also got final selection first attempt itself. So what real experience you had with the board and your interview overall? Would you like to share with us? Yes, whenever you get the schedule for your interview, you get confused whether you have to go in the morning or in the afternoon. So my schedule, mine was in the second batch, so it was in the afternoon. We went to the afternoon batch? Yes, it was in the afternoon batch. So I was there around 11, 11.30. So I had been quite before time, so I was quite relaxed at the time my interview had started. Before the interview starts, you have to do a lot of formalities like filling up forms, etc. Checking of the whole of the certificate. These are kind of good things because it kind of takes away your thought process from the interview and you are busy doing something else. So you kind of get normalized and you feel quite better during that time. And then you are sitting on a table and you are having five or six people around the table in the same group that you are facing the panel. Basically it is the first time, it is the finally when the UPSC checks the original certificates also. Yes, that is the time when all the original certificates, etc., everything has been checked there. And that is also the time when you interact with your panel, people who will be facing the same panel. So it is kind of de-stressing. And before that you don't know who is your chairman. Till that point of time you don't know whom you are going to face. But you do come to know the order of who is going first, second or third. So I was the first one who was supposed to go there. So I was kind of happy. But were you told who will be your chairman of the board? No, it was not told that with my chair. Till the time you entered the board you were not knowing? I just knew my consequence that I will be the first one who will be facing. And then we were, then in a group of two or three we were taking another room where we went to sit again in the round table. And we were asked to wait. And then there we had a lot of form for medical examination that was said the next day. So then that is another point of time where again you get some point of relaxation and you can chat.  So now the question, here is one question for the first timers would go. Yes. Because you had to show your certificates and then you had to also put some paper was completely there.   No, it's completely anonymous. You are not told anything about. In fact, nobody knows about where you are being taken except the people who comes and takes you to that board. But after you enter the board then you come to know who is your chairman. Yes, as soon as you, yeah, there is a name written there. Name played outside, right? So you can make out who is the person inside. So just a minute before that you come to know that this is the board that I am going to go to. Okay. So yeah, it's better that like since I saw that then saw the name. I was also aware about who are the chair persons who are going to like who are going to take the interview beforehand. Who was the chairman of your board? My chairman was Mr. David. Mr. David's board was that, right? So what was your whole psychology before you went to the, after completing your formalities, then you were told that your board is Mr. David's board, right? Like when I came to know that he is my board chairman. So I just had a minute before I go to think about him. And I had already read in the list of DGC that he is that person and knew something about him. I tried to recall about him. And that's the, you must have the most time to think about the board and then you have the basics. The moment you came to know that who is my chairman of the board, then you were inside the board, really. So what was your psychology when you went there? Like, it's like a kind of different ambience completely. And there are five different kinds of ambience. And the first thing is that you have to understand that you should be having the right contact with you and you have to listen to that. And that's not everybody. You have to be a good impressionist at first.  So my role, too, I should be able to listen to that. Okay. So what kind of psychology you had when you were very confident? You had some fear? You were just in normal, what exactly was the situation? Yeah, actually, I was kind of quite normal. I was not anxious. But yes, little fear was there that something didn't go wrong.  It makes a real fun thing. That's everything. I didn't think too much about what will happen after the interview. You formed the board friendly with you when you went there? Not really. It was not really friendly? I'm not really. It's like starting from a negative point of view. It's a negative point of view. And when there is so much of uncertainty in India, I want to be able to do it because of that. So yes, I was looking at it and started thinking about it. And unfortunately, I got an award for a citizen. You were the one citizen? Yes. And the rest of my life was a citizen. Okay, we'll just, God, how did this award come? It was, what do you want to say in life? I don't know. I just want to say, otherwise I will end up here, and then you go like, tell me what is the constitution? It means they got sir actually yeah what matters is that in the whole cost was a discussing if any word which attracts them so actually though it will start going in the same Actually that's what I was going to say and kind of direct entity between them and they have to articulate a word properly and speak on the road and it will be able to respond so yeah I have a separate idea Any odd situation happened anywhere in the board where you found it difficult to come out? Yeah I told you that there was a question, a practical question which I completely missed out and he was completely frustrated with the same thing again and again but now I was able to find a way to know so it kind of went well Yeah and there were lots of questions, practical questions about how do we end this question They came in the opposite subject and now finally I would like to get you some final words of suggestion for the future candidates who will be going for interview some few lines of your suggestions what the people should do which really make them good in their interview and score very high marks So one word of suggestion that I will give to candidates is don't feel sorry about yourself whatever you have done during your school or college or in the job with the early basic preparation Accept that as a part of yourself only and don't feel shy be confident of what you are And everyone who is taking the interview has earned it and it has been done in the scheme of things in the entire cycle this is the most important thing And a good marks obviously is very important for making the service of your choice So one should be very confident of what he has written in the tab be honest, be natural, don't overdo things or be superficial and be honest and pay due respect to the board which they deserve And give your honest opinion on all the things at NAMSHA This will help them secure maximum marks in the marks that they truly deserve for their potential Thank you very much it's wonderful Now I feel that the future candidates will be highly benefited because of very honest and sincere discussion That is all newly selected 2015 batch IS officers have to share with the future audience And I think this program will be beneficial for all the candidates who are going to appear in the coming years Thank you very much for the best business for watching this program on success speaks on civil services interview Hi everyone I am Sumit Sattavan, IS officer batch 2015 So I have a small message for you what to do once your mains are over So now that your mains are over and you got off from a very hectic schedule And you are drained of emotionally as well as physically Just try to relax for a while and not to be laid back actually Take a week or a 10 days break Don't lose the sight of current affairs so that when the interview call comes You have a continuum of what is going around you and you are not caught off guard Secondly try to maintain, try to bring back your physical fitness back Because a more physically fit person is a more confident person when he approaches an interview board So it looks nice if you are physically fit so just get into some physical activities like jogging and exercising And then start pursuing your hobbies, start meeting different people Start talking to your seniors about your DAF, how to talk to I mean interview boards And just try to relax as much as you can because this is the only period where you can relax in the entire cycle of the UPSC So all the best to you for your mains result So congratulations on your mains result and all the best for your future interview So here is the tips of dos and don'ts which I have from my own experience Firstly start getting critical about yourself, start being positive about the negative reviews which you get on your personality from now on And start approaching different people Secondly be more confident about not knowing things because in interviews you might be asked questions which you are not aware of So like just saying sorry I cannot recall, sorry I don't know In a positive mindset because if you and just be cautious that your smile doesn't convert into a stupid grin So that that needs to be taken care of other than that just be confident of your knowledge level because you have made so far and that cannot be without adequate level of knowledge So just be confident be yourself, be natural and I am pretty sure that you will make through it Congratulations on your pursuit for UPSC civil service exam It's a great opportunity ahead and you have taken a path which is difficult and it will reflect upon your personality hard enough All the best for your prelims because this is where this is the most objective aspect of the civil services Don't be, don't lack confidence in your approach, just be positive And don't like try to guess, don't rely on your guesswork more Just take intelligent guesses and don't have a prejudice mind of how many questions you have to attempt this time because that varies The cutoff varies from batch to batch from the paper to paper So just try to be in your comfort zone and hope it all works out well I'll give you an insight about the importance of mock interviews here Mock interviews are pretty important so that you get the other side perspective of your own personality Because that is what will be judged and not your own perspective on your own personality So mock interviews by experts help you a lot in covering that aspect I have attended Chanakya's mock interview and I'm pretty sure that and from my own experience I can guarantee you that the mock interviews are conducted in a professional manner by a very credible set of experts And the best part about the mock interview is they don't like hang you around the mock interview They'll give you the precise timing and at best five minutes before you'll be reporting and they try to make you convenient And then they'll also give you the CD just after the interview is over And the feedback that comes is genuine And so Chanakya's mock interview are the professionally organized mock interviews And I think you can rely on them and trust on them all the best for your interview Thank you I am Harshal Pancholi, Qualified Civil Services in 2015 I am currently an IS and I would like to give a few important tips to all the candidates who are going to appear for interviews very soon First and foremost requirement for all of you is to destress yourself The stresses which you have generated during the main preparation And one of the best way of doing that is develop your hobbies which you have filled in your detailed application form And while doing that you must also keep that in mind that very soon your results will be out and you will not get enough time for the preparation of your interview So focus on your hobbies as well as keep continuing with your current affairs studies As well as some general preparation of your optional as well as general studies Don't just cut off yourself from studies, this is one of the major mistakes the civil service experts do Just because they think that means is our now ample amount of time to do anything But time is always less when you are preparing for civil services And once you get to know your result and you are basically appearing for only interview Which is the day on which on the basis of which your whole career depends So what you have to do is focus on your detailed application form without giving emphasis on the minute details Just cover the broad areas of your preparation Keep yourself focused and inculcate of value in yourself that you are going to be a civil servant very soon That this confidence is very essential for you to perform well in your interview Especially with so many information available around the in the whole UPSC market itself What happens is that with so much of information available You become so much information centered that you forget the whole purpose of the UPSC exam What you need to do is revisit the guidelines provided by the UPSC notification itself That way you will be able to identify your weaknesses And in the end you will be able to focus more on the what is essential for the interview Because there is a huge difference between how to prepare for the main exam and how to prepare for the interview And in the end even if you don't qualify for the interview you have learned so many things just by appearing in the interview So that for the next year you can look something forward You learn from your mistakes I have appeared 3 times in the civil services And from every attempt I have learned many things which helped me in gaining confidence And I have qualified for the IS which is ultimate aim of the most of you So for example last year the result was also on 4th of July If I could not have qualified I had only 50 days to appear for claims again You just have to keep yourself motivated and have patience to come back to the studies Take a 1 week or 2 week leave and come back with a strong force and with strong dedication that this year you will qualify And this believe in yourself that you will qualify the ultimate thing which will help you in getting success in this exam And with all these thoughts I will just tell you one thing that just be honed with your preparation If you will be honed with your preparation you will never regret in your life even if you will not qualify It will make you a better person and to qualify a good exam you need to be a better person first And with this I wish you all the best for the civil services 2015 And as plumes are approaching you are getting your nurse very tense these days And to calm your nurse I will give you few simple messages that the last few days are the days which will decide whether you will qualify or not You are studying from the last 1 year at least or 2 years or maybe more than that But all it comes down to what you do in your last few days Now CSAT being qualified is not really important for you to give too much time to CSAT Just do 1 or 2 practice papers but it all come to your general studies and as it is more subjective as compared to CSAT Qualifying civil plumes is also becoming more subjective And in this environment what you need to do is have a thorough revision of the whole syllabus at least 2 or 3 times And while doing that you need to keep that in mind what is going to be asked in exam And for that do one thing that you write at least 10 general studies papers in the last one month And that is the critical for your success in the preliminary exam And don't just approach preliminary exam just from the point of you of qualifying it Plume is the first stage of your civil service preparation And India it will reflect in your main preparation as well as your interview preparation And in the end it all come will lead to your success in the civil services examination Don't lose your focus in the last few days keep your nerves calm Interact with your fellow mates and have a preparation in which all in your whole group performs By learning from the weaknesses of each other as well as your own To excel in any particular exam or any particular interview You need to have lots and lots of practice And one of the best way to do that is attend many, many mock interviews First of all mock interviews provide you some guidance about what are the questions which will be asked It provides you a set pattern on the basis of which you will evaluate yourself And after that what will happen is that you will constantly learn And with different experiences provided by the different mock interviews You will be able to inculcate basic etiquettes which is required in any interview process And Chanakya is one of the excellent institute through which you should attend your mock interviews It will help you in getting a lot of experience and keeping yourself calm during the whole interview process And with this I wish you all the best for the interview of this year I am Basirul Haq, IES 2015 batch I am from Jamun Kashmir and I am also going to Jamun Kashmir Carter So, after Mainz, the candidates must follow what he has wrote in the DA He must work on that his hobbies or her hobbies about his subject or her subject About Mainz subject, about his basic qualification, about his state, city or hometown And many more like you brush up with current affairs You must be very aware about that what is going around you But it must be according to your syllabus And number two, a candidate must focus more on his or her bio-data And after that he must have an opinion about the topics He must have a clarity of thought, he must have some good opinion For example, if you don't know about any subject He must build an opinion by means of internet, by means of good books And after that he must be confident And if a person or a candidate can do all these things He will be confident in the internet As soon as the interview results arrive, he must focus on what he prepared after writing his Mainz And after that he must go through his detailed application form And must prepare according to that And what he prepared simply focus on that What he prepared before the result And he simply focus on that and be confident And if he is confident he will perform well But there is no need to waste any time after Mainz result Be precise what you write or what you simply read Be focus on that and revise as many times as you can And solve as many questions as you can Because questions can give you the clarity of thoughts And that will help you a lot in preliminary examination Particularly this era of negative marketing Best of luck for those candidates who have cleared the Mainz And going to appear in the interview of 2016 And also best of luck for those candidates who are going to appear in 2016 preliminary exam Hi, I am Ritraj I am IS from 2015 batch My message for you people The Mainz has ended now And you people are waiting for your results I would advise you people to not completely relax But take forward your little steps But yes do relax But do not forget to be updated with the current affairs So it would be nice for you people to be updated with Hindu And also take up one extra newspaper as a daily curriculum And relax a bit more and try not to take things too heavy As your results for your Mainz has come out And you people are waiting for interview I would advise you people to take this period as quite important time Where most of you would be facing interview in different phases And few of you would be facing interview during the first phase I would like to tell you that please pay due diligence to your DAF And try to study more about yourself, your state, your district And try to attend as many mock interviews as much as possible And keep your confidence level high I would wish you all the best for your prelims 2016 I would advise you to go through the entire syllabus once Focus on minor details Go through some good testaries, revise as much as possible And yes have self-confidence Try to evaluate yourself well before at least 10-15 days before the examination comes forth And yes not to rush for silly things during the last hour of the exam Because this is quite a long process exam Long process of preparation And what you have not prepared till the last and you should not worry about it So better focus on your strengths and be positive Well Chanakya's mock interview is a wonderful simulation of the original interview process That actually takes place and I would advise everybody to take place To go through this interview as I myself had gone through And I had a real good experience It provides you with some good material of your own feedback And they also provide you with CDs so that you can also evaluate yourself It would be a really good feedback thing And yes the panel is really good And going through this will be a really good experience And will definitely help you in your real interview experience Well Mishra sir is a really wonderful person And I think the motivation that he provides to students And the guidance that he gives is really beneficial for Not only for the examination but for your entire life And it's really good to be in touch with him


Conducting research can be daunting. There are a few distinctions that can help make it easier. First and foremost, research can be either primary or secondary. Primary research generally involves gathering data directly from research subjects and requires ethical approval. Secondary research involves gathering data that already exists. Because secondary research does not include talking directly with human subjects or generating new data, it does not need ethical approval. In secondary research, you use findings of other researchers and authors. A systematic literature review is one of many research methodologies that can be used to conduct secondary research. A systematic literature review is different than a literature review. A literature review provides a high-level summary of the literature in the fields connected to your proposed topic of research. It is a general synthesis of what has been done in the research area, by whom highlights what past research tells us about the topic and identifies gaps and tensions in the field. A systematic literature review begins with an intentional and purposeful selection of data that will be included in the research study. This includes identifying types of information that will be included in the review, such as policy documents, journal articles, book chapters, blogs, and so on. Criteria used to ensure inclusion of potential pieces of work, such as the scope of the review, types of data to be included, and search terms for identifying types of information and any other specifications, such as language of the information. Once you have identified the works that will be analyzed, you need to do a deep and thorough read to extract key information and themes from each piece. A coding guide will help you discern which pieces of work you will use in your systematic literature review. Be sure to note why you have excluded a piece and how the ones you have included meet the selection criteria. In the analysis phase, categorizing your findings and looking for commonalities and areas of difference is useful When you report on your findings, you want to identify what themes emerged. The final step of a systematic literature review is to interpret your findings and bring them back to your research question. What do they tell us about this topic? Are there gaps in the research? Are there contradictions in your findings? How do these findings inform a response to your research question? What recommendations can you offer? Is there a need for further research? Were there best practices identified that you can highlight? The reader should be able to understand what you did, how you did it, and the sense that you made of the findings as they relate to the research question you were investigating.


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