I'm from East Flatbush, Brooklyn, 50s to be exact, 54th and Tilda. Okay, so, but if people are not from New York, tell us what's like growing up in Flatbush. It's very Caribbean, I will say that, very, very Caribbean-oriented. So you kept your roots at a young age? You know what's funny? I'm actually American. Wow. I'm straight. Like, I'm Southern, like, I'm Southern American. My mom's from Tennessee, my grandmother from Georgia. Oh, you got a taste of the Caribbean life?  It's cool. You know, a lot of young boys is outside doing their thing. A lot of schools in my area, I went to 244, I went to Winthrop, you got Maya Levin, Tildane, South Shore, South Shore Further. Oh, that's what I mean.  I'm 29, I actually just turned 29, two months ago. Okay, so how was it, like, musically from back then to now, like, even though music's for how long now? I've been doing music since I was about, maybe, 12? Okay. About 12. So from high school, you know, in high school, you had a bop and it goes to studio versus now. Like, I feel like music now is very different. What's your take on it? The generation, the generational change has really made an impact on the music and the way we listen to music and the amount of, like, the different artists that come out. There's a new sound out now from where I was used to listening to growing up. Like, I listened to a lot of 50 Cent growing up, a lot of G-Unit. I listened to a lot of Hardcore Gangster Rap growing up. Now, it's a lot of the young boys throwing the drill music. So that's what's really buzzing right now. Do you like the drill music?  I respect the change in hip-hop, but it's not really my prefer kind of music. No disrespect to the artists, but that's not my prefer. I like boss. Okay. Okay, so getting into you, like, you're named J. Lyrical. Yes. So why did you have to put Lyrical in your name? Have like people know, like, this is bars on there? Yeah, no, I think I had to, like, solidify with the name. I feel like your name is what carries you, so I felt like I wanted to let them know that the bars is here and also have a different kind of name, like, so when you hear it, you know what's up. Like, you know what's up with me, like, I don't have to, like, yes, I do have to prove it. I'm not even going to say I don't have to prove it. I have to prove it. I let the lyrics speak for the name and the names speak for everything else around it. Okay. Okay, so lyrics, not everyone has, like, not everyone is Lyrical. So is there anyone that you've seen, like, on the come up that you feel is Lyrical? Um, there's a few. There's some names that are popping my head.  You know what I actually do? Like, now I take that back.  Okay. I like NVK music. NVK and me having some bars in this genre, like, I listen to NVK music, I'm like, all right. So I got some, like, I know who I could rap with, you know what I'm saying? I know. So you think you could rap with him? I definitely believe so. I definitely believe so. I'd put that out there, bro. I'd definitely do a song with NVK most definitely. Even forgetting all the politics and all that good stuff? So people got to understand, like, with me, I don't mix politics and money. I don't mix politics and opportunity. So I tell people, like, I separate that. I don't care what you got going on in the street, whatever the case may have you. I'm all about music. When you meet me, it's music. When you, when you see me, it's music. When I leave, it's music. Okay. You know? I wish everybody was gonna tell me that. It's music. It's cool. All right. So do you feel like it's, I don't want to say harder to be lyrical these days, because it's not much. I don't know. People say it's not much inspiration out there, or it don't mix, because the people you see getting on makes you not want to work that hard. Right, right. I don't know. These are the things I heard. What's your take on that? Nah. It's inspiration out there. Because there's a, there's levels of generation. So the generation now that's popping right now might inspire younger kids than them. I feel like it definitely did. Yeah. A lot of artists now. Right. Like Booba Savage is 12 years old. Like Lil Scrap is like 10 years old. You know what I'm saying? You think it's a, it's a age limit on doing music? Nah. You think that's too young to start? Nah. What I will say is, would your age just be mindful of what you're saying to your music? You know what I'm saying? If you're talking hot, just know we'll come with that. But nah, I never think it's an age limit. I feel like you start whenever you feel like you're ready. You might have a lot of influences around you that might. Like Lil Scrap definitely got a lot of influence. You know what I'm saying? Most definitely. And I'm like, oh, I, I ain't even know he was 10 to like, recently I was like, 10 years old? Damn. Shit. Shout out to the little dude though. Okay. So who was some of your inspirations in music? Like what inspires you to keep going? Uh, the simple fact that the generation, like the people that I listen to are still doing music right now. And that they, like, they, Jay-Z most definitely. He's not doing music. Huh? He's not doing music. He's doing, he just dropped four, four, four a couple of years ago, but I mean he's still, there's artists that's not doing music at all. Not consistent. Four years. He doesn't have, well, see here's the thing. He's already established to where he doesn't have to be consistent, but I would, but I could still listen to him to this day. Yes, you could still listen to him. You know what I'm saying? I mean, yes, it's legendary songs out there, but like inspiration, like who, who motivates you to like keep growing music? Like I feel like he got all those opportunities after he dropped like mad projects, you know? But isn't that, isn't that what we, we work for, we work for legendary status? Yeah, but we also got to be super consistent. Okay. What inspired you to be consistent? Oh. You want to keep going, bro? You know? Like just, just the simple fact that music for me is fun. Like I never, I love what I do, I enjoy what I do, I join the music I make and I put myself in the category of where this is me and I know you have people that's better than me. You may have people that's not better than me, but I always believe in myself. I feel like as an artist you should believe in yourself. So one of the most consistent rappers I can say now to this day that's in my age group, Dave East. Dave East is mad consistent. Okay. Even when there's no freestyles in all that work. Yeah. Not like that, but like. Not easy. To me, freestyles don't count as drop of music. That's feeding your fans. I don't know how you feel, but that's mine. Well, I mean. Because freestyles you're not going to get paid for. I mean, depending on how the freestyles go. Like a remix to a song or something. Like you, you're not going to get that clear. So to me, freestyles are not going to get paid for. I mean, depending on how the freestyles go. Like a remix to a song or something. But you could, but, but he could get. You could blow off a remix. Yeah. I mean, there's so many artists that have blown off of somebody else's beat. You could blow off a remix. Young and May is dope too. I definitely felt we're young and may be.   You know what I'm saying? Casting over. Drop music a lot. You know what I'm saying? I definitely was messing with casting over music a lot. Before the. Yeah. Before the little situation. Don Q. A Boogie. Don Q. Like Don Q reminds me of that old school. Like the music that I love listening to like bars, the, the, the consistency. I like, I love that. Like Don Q's music is dope. He has a lot of substance in his. So you have to compare yourself to a, a nation artist. Like who would you say are you similar? Nobody. Oh yeah. Why is that? Because I'm me. I never put myself in the same shoes as the next man because the next man is different from me. We may have went through different struggles. You know the sound tip. Like who artist would you say you sound like? You know what's funny? How you say Sean? Because a lot of people say Sean. I've gotten Sean. I've gotten biggie. And I tell people that, that's a big. I'm like, I respect that. But yeah, that's, yeah. I'm like big in the whole other category. God rest his soul. But I got Sean. I've gotten biggie. I've gotten G that before, which was interesting. Not in a bad way, but it was interesting. But yeah, because it's my voice. The deepness of my voice. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm like. Who'd they collect kind of conversion?  So is that conflicting with doing music? Nah, not at all. The goal is hand to hand. Because I actually gain clients out. I meet new people. I meet new artists. So when I make shoot a video for him one day, we might get on the song the next week. You know what I'm saying? So I always said like that goes hand to hand for me. Like that really does increase my networking. Because I end up meeting a bunch of people that I may have not met through music at the time, but I met through as being a cameraman. So I feel like I love like me being multi, be like multi-tasking like that. Well, isn't it hard to like cross-brand though? Nah, not really. Not really. I feel like it's cool for me because like I work on my own pace. I got my own schedule. And I know what I need to get done at a certain time. Okay. So as far as being an upcoming artist from New York City, what are some of the obstacles you face like walking with music? Hate. Hate. Like whether low-key or high-key. Hate man. So hate come on different levels? Definitely does. Hell yeah.  Somebody might hate you because you might dress better than them. Somebody might hate you because you have more connection. Yeah, it's different levels of hate. It's different reasons. Yeah. So when you're in the studio, like what's the record process like? You need your friends? Nah, I'm usually on my... You need a story to tell. You gotta be inspired. Like what? Well, all my studios are closed. I don't really invite nobody to my sessions. Like I'm one of my good friends that I would quote with Nat Cave, who was in Brooklyn. I'd be the only one in my session. The only time I ever have another artist in my session is if we're working on a song together. So you're not with all the extra people? Nah, I don't like having... Because my thing is like what purpose are you serving just by sitting there going live on Instagram previewing my music to people that I may not want them to have a song writing in there. And then if you're not helping me become a better artist, be like yo bro, I like that but you could have did that better. Or I feel like you need more energy.  Some people have friends that do that. Some do. People have friends that don't. So I guess it just depends on the person. It does. It does. I don't like all the kumbaya in the studio. It's just me. So get into some of your music. Get single, beautiful mess, great title by the way. Thank you, thank you. So like what inspired that song? So the whole project is Obsessions of Diary for Women. I wanted to jump out of being a rapper all the time and do and like divert myself to do something different. So I never did music strictly for women. So I did a whole project just dedicated to women. I felt like I needed to touch the female fan base. And Beautiful Mess was the song that I thought of that I felt like an uplifted females that may have insecurities or low self-esteem.   You know what I mean? So I think us men need to magnify that. I'm not saying that I don't really hear that in songs much. Yeah, we need to magnify our females a little bit more. It's more than just bitches and hoes. It's like, it's the females that go hold it down. So you feel like it's hard to push like music like that being that it's so in-depth and hard and strong topics like that? Pushing music is hard in general. It really depends on how hard you work in as the artist. You know what I'm saying? It really does depend. I might think that me being the hardcore rapper might blow but then a song like beautiful mess get played on the radio and I get more clout. Yeah, I feel like you don't know what song is going to go viral and I think it's going to be like, yeah, I'm playing that. Right. That's a fact. So what's your take on that? Well, I kind of asked you already. This is like on the hip hop scene currently. Like all the music that's been dropping lately. I feel like we got the Detroit wave coming. We got the down south wave, the Pink or Freddy's and all that. Down south, Bentley. Cali doing their own thing. How do you feel about the music scene? I love it. I love the diversity. You shouldn't know what I'm saying. I think that everybody comes from different struggles. Everybody comes from different backgrounds, different lifestyles and if you want to rap about that in your music, that's music is expressive. Yeah. So you can talk about what you want.  Okay, okay, okay. So if you had to put your music in a category, say hip hop, R&B, trap. Hip hop. Straight hip hop. Hip hop. Yeah, straight hip hop. I don't mind touching all the genres. Like little rock and roll, little alternative. You don't do rock and roll. Listen, I feel like you should try anything in this world. You don't not get to, you try it. Nah, you not. Not anything. Think about like Run DMC did the song with Aerosmith, right? Who would have ever saw that coming? At that time. I just feel like you can't just try anything. Nah, you, okay. You try what you comfortable with. How about that? Yes. Because you may not be comfortable with everything, but try with something that you might be comfortable with. Yeah. Okay, so out of all the songs you have that's out right now, what song would you say best describes you and why? I gotta go through five, make six. Hold on. Out of all the songs. That describes the current you, right? The current me. Shit. Could be something you did recently. I would say, I would say Lost in NYC, which was a song off of my third mixtape. Basically me rapping about though, just don't get lost in New York, be careful. You know what I'm saying? I feel like, cause I was talking about the city.  And I love my city. I love where I'm from. So I say Lost in NYC. Beautiful mess most definitely if it comes to the females. Yes. You know what I'm saying? Okay. And when you go about selecting beats, what's your beat selection like? Do you look for a certain type of beat? You know how some people are like, this is your type of beat? Yeah, I look for... Are you kind of taken from what producers or whatever vibe they give you? Like how do you... What's your beat selection like? Cause I feel like it's a little different. It is not, it definitely is. Like when I'm on YouTube, I'll type in like a Vinnie the Butcher type beat, a Meek Mill type beat, a Dark Q type beat, a Kim, a Joelle Santana type beat. So I'll go with like people who I've listened to. Yeah, so you're particular. Got it. Okay, so who's some artist that you want to collab with? Oh man, that's a... Well you gave us just one already. It was like... Yeah, Billy B. Kate Goddess most definitely. Jesus, a lot. I will work with Favio. Favio? Yeah. I will work with Favio. Like Favio's lyrical? I mean I'd be lyrical, but he might have a sound that I might be, you know, listen to, I might kevab with. Cause I'm the kind of person where like I'll get on... Cause I'm like, your name is Jay Lyrical. Yeah, yeah, but that... I would put the song title when I was called, cause like Favio and Jay Lyrical, like how is this... It'd be different.  Even if he's saying what he's saying, I might feel the beat. I might feel the vibe and I might just bring what I have to that. I know. I think Favio do bring a different side out of every art that we work with. Definitely do. Pop Smoke, if he was alive, you know, rest in peace, Pop Smoke, I definitely would have wanted to work with Pop. Yeah, mainstream, mainstream. Mainstream? Young and May, Benny the Butcher, West Side Gun. I don't know. I don't know. You ask. I don't know what it was. That's what I said, it's a list. So like, what's one thing that's on your bucket list when it comes to music? Like, do you want to win the game, be a tier one, but you just want to get out the hood? I want to... I want to... I want to put my people in a position, in a better position in life. So like, in a better position? Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship. So like, you got to help people that want to be helped. You do? You do? So you see that they want to be helped? Yeah, you tell you. Of course. If not then, oh well. Oh well. So what's next? Like, what's upcoming features on the way to projects? 2021 got come strong. 2021? Well, we're here today. You know what I'm saying? We're here today. Whenever shows start warming back up, doing more shows, I'm actually working on my sixth project right now called Let's Chat More Rap. Features. Probably still be the home team, people who I got in my camp right now until the doors open up for other people. And just staying positive.  You know, we lost a legend today. You know what I'm saying? We lost a legend today.  So, meaning that you said that, like, a lot of people are saying that being an artist is dangerous. It is. But then again, walking out your crib is dangerous. Straight bullet could come hit you out of nowhere. You get hit by a car down the block on the corner. You might go in the store and get a sandwich from out there.  Nah, nah. It's your lifestyle. It's really your lifestyle, actually. Because look at Kanye West. Kanye ain't really had no street problems like that.  You know what I'm saying?   Kanye ain't some business man. Fill me though. You know what I feel like, before you really, really sign a deal, learn a business before you jump into it. Because we think just, dropping music, getting signed. It's a whole other umbrella behind that wall. You know what I'm saying? And a lot of us, especially young people who are so eager to get signed, they don't know the business. Where they just quick to sign page 22 and don't even read the 21 pages before it. You don't sign your life away. So you should learn the business. That's my advice to everybody, even people in my camp. Learn the business. Surround yourself with people who are in the industry and who are willing to sit down and take that time to tell you this is what's ABC and D. You know what I'm saying? Knowledge is key. So how do you keep up learning the business while still doing the business while still being a camera man? No, it is a lot though. It is a lot. But I feel like I make the time for just like how I learn how to be a camera man. Yeah, it's time management. I feel like it's time management with everything. Alright, so you said 2021 you plan to do more shows. More shows, more radio, more interviews, more music dropping. Hopefully more features coming from outside people. And it's late. Definitely. So tell people where to find you or where to get to go out where they can reach for them. Instagram, y'all can reach me. Y'all can reach me officialJLiracle, official J-A-Y-L-Y-R-I-C-K-A-L that's my main page for videos Reggie J Films, the letter J on YouTube, YouTube.com slash Reggie J Music that's where all my videos are posted. And SoundCloud is SoundCloud.com backslash officialJLiracle that's where all my projects at.


Thank you for giving us your advice and helping us. Thanks, bro And he read it and didn't respond like I'm not even like a like a thank you Thank you. You're awesome or like anything you do you bro Like I did not know that we had standards and if I had a million subscribers would you have responded to me? What is up mama squad welcome back to our channel If you guys are new make sure to hit that subscribe button Go hit her on your post notifications, and you always get notified when we post and we give out two shoutouts In the beginning and at the end of the video That was my line, but yeah, we do give out two shots every single video. Do not want to miss out on that This video as you can see we are DMing today see labs or youtubers or whatever Celebrities we're gonna do youtubers that we like to watch we are going to DM them I'm not sure what we're gonna say You're actually talking about that earlier on what to say and what not to say. Yeah, no, we're just gonna I think we should just I think it should be like hey you guys want a collab We should do some collabs, but we should also do like just something funny We're gonna wait a few days to let them respond, and then we're gonna film the rest of like the response If they don't respond then you're gonna respond. They're gonna respond I've talked to a couple of youtubers, and they we've talked before so they'll probably skip my DMS Hopefully they'll respond then so just be it could be on here, but I don't know yet Now it's time that we're gonna give our pre-video Notification shout out and that's shout out Mariah goes to who we're gonna give a shout out to one of our cousins Mallory Ritter We love you so much. Yeah, but thank you Mallory for always supporting us Yeah, you and Markey always come Markey's always calling me asking me giving us video ideas So shout out to you guys. We love you so we're gonna get on to DMing these celebs I should be on the girls you should be on the guys. Oh, yeah We'll do a double-screen recording right yeah, we'll do it at the same time Find your first person that you're gonna do This is overwhelming. I don't know actually. I'm gonna start off with my boy Jack Brinkman I'm gonna DM Gabrielle because we've actually DMed before so you guys will probably see our DMs I've talked to her about I asked her for like YouTube advice Oh, and I talked to her about where she gets her clothes because she has like the cutest clothes I am going to message Jack right now. What up? No No I don't know what to say.  It's just that hopefully he responds. I think you will I've talked to his girlfriend. Yeah, I feel like is really good with no I know we are going to DM Jack's girlfriend Gabrielle. We have messaged before she's super nice And let me think what the message and then I'll read it off to you guys in a minute So just give me one minute and we'll be back I have my message right now, and I'm going to say hey girly me and my boyfriend are filming a YouTube video where we DM 100 celebs last youtubers and wanted to DM you because you are one of our favorites And we look up to you guys a lot, and we hope someday we can all be friends. Love it Defend it. Yes. Okay, cool. Next people. I think we should do JD vlogs. Oh, yeah, we should do that Or I'm gonna message Katie. He's gonna message Josh I'm gonna message kind of the same thing that I messaged Jack but a different way but in a different way Yeah, all right, so she is about to DM Katie. She's writing it out right now. I have mine written out for Josh I'm gonna send right now. It's saying I Actually sent it right now.  I hope they respond So I thought so so I'm actually gonna message Josh again from Josh and Zev.  We talked to them.  Well, it's crazy to think now We're like we were in like their position And now we have 80 some thousand that they're at like 200 and some thousand almost 300 like they're doing very cool And I just actually just talked to Sabi the other day because she did give me one of her outfits She sold me. Yeah, and so that's actually I remember when you bought it. Yeah Yeah, I bought a lot of stuff from her and I don't know I just we've we were kind of close with them because they were like the first youtubers We ever got to like talk to so, you know, it just be cool and I know we've already been DMing We've DMed the other day because I sent her a picture of my outfit and she was talking about how cute it is So we're gonna DM them. So you write out your message. I'm writing out to Josh right now And uh, yeah, they're they're really cool. Congrats guys Congrats you guys are doing awesome. Yeah, I'm getting engaged. Congrats on your guys' engagement You guys are so adorable. We just thank you guys because you guys are the reasons like You guys are like the first youtubers We're really the only ones that actually told us. Yeah FaceTime does we talk to And now to say that like how far we grown it's just insane like thinking about we were only at 100 subs when we talked to you So hopefully you guys respond now. We're for real youtubers now. All right, so I am sending josh right now sending it Damn pretty long one. I just I need to talk to him. I also want to tell him more But you know, I didn't want to keep the message a little shorter. Hey, josh We are filming a video DMing 100 celebrities new youtubers trying to get them to respond I also wanted to say hey because it's been forever since we talked and I don't know if you remember But you and your fiance sav actually FaceTime does over a year ago when we had 100 subs Thank you for giving us your advice and helping us start our youtube journey to get us where we are now Hoping you respond. Thanks, bro. This is what I said. Is that good? I think that was pretty good I said, hey girly me and my boyfriend are filming youtube video blah blah you guys already know the beginning part And we had a DM you and josh because you were the first people to reach out to us and FaceTime So we started our channel and we wanted to thank you both for all that you've done and congratulate you on your engagement How much you've grown us? How much you've grown as people and on your channel? We love you both and hope to meet up with you guys sometime in the near future. Yours is better than mine Let's focus. Yeah. No yours is just as good. All right guys now we got three. Oh my god. All right. We're doing Maddie and Elijah. Oh, we are. Yes, we are. We're doing them. I don't know if they're gonna answer 11 11 1,100,000 subs Congratulations you guys. That's awesome. I hope you're freaking answered because I can't imagine how many dms you guys are getting I know probably not gonna respond But it's the thought that matters. It's in there if you ever want to look through them If anybody answers like before we end this video, we'll obviously read to you guys But if they don't we'll film it the next time they when they do. All right, so I'm sending to Elijah right now Hey, bro. We are deming on our youtubers blah blah blah me and my girlfriend love your videos Always and are so happy for how much you have grown since we started watching you over a year ago Um, hope this message makes its way up for you to see and hopefully respond to even the smallest message Would be great. Thank you. Peace All right guys, so I DMed Maddie and I said hey girl Me and my boyfriend are filming a youtube video where we DMed 100 youtube to see if they will respond And you guys headed me on our video because we look up to you and Elijah and want to say congrats on one mil One mil subs you both deserve it all and I wish you guys the best for your future. Boom. Boom. Sent Okay, cool sending. Oh, he read it. I was kidding. I was kidding. Oh my god. That'd be awesome Oh, Gabrielle messaged me back. Oh, so wait All right. All right.  Good luck on the video. Yeah, that's crazy. Do it all wait. Let me check. No Oh, come on jack, what are you doing? Oh, she messaged me like a minute after I sent the message She's yeah, she's good at responding. She's good at responding. Thank you. Gab. You were the first person You were the first to respond. Hopefully jack responds to bill. It's my face. Yeah, I think that's good That doesn't sound like Make jack respond to me, which you know, you could you could need not to know a little bit, but Jules and sod. Jules and sod were the next one. Jules and sod So what I said to sod is uh, hey, bro We were filming a video just wanted to say we always watch your videos and love the upbeat vibes You always spread hoping to see hoping you to see this. Thank you I said, hey girly me and boyfriend filming youtube video blah blah blah and we love both you and sod's content I want to say congrats on one million. You guys deserve it. I'll hope we can all one day meet up. Perfect Honestly, what is that one two three four five 10 people We did 10 people so far. We are now messaging meddling and Stephen to get them to respond and they are actually just engaged as of like two days ago.  I think so. Yeah, so that's like that's awesome So I just sent to Stephen. I wanted to say we saw your engagement video and I'm so happy for you too We've been watching you guys since we first started youtube and always loved your content hoping you see this Thank you. I said to Madeline. I said just wanted to say congrats on your engagement And I want to say how much we love your videos and hope someday we can all be friends and maybe collab in the future That'd be awesome. Yes, but good. Good. All right. Last one guys. I am um DMing join boat He comes up with like all these ideas and we've done personally a lot of his videos I said I wanted to say your videos you make are crazy good and you are great with coming up Um with trends personally, we've done many videos that you have started. Thank you Hoping this comes across your eyes sometime. I said to Jordan Jones. I said, hey girl I have a boyfriend or filming that a lot Okay, we had a DM you because you and Jordan are super cute and come up with some Amazing content that we have also recreated because of how amazing they are We love you both and it'd be awesome to meet up someday guys. You better respond I'm looking forward to seeing some of you all of you. Yes. That'd be awesome. What about every single one? That'd be awesome. What if they did like Tomorrow we'd have to like today like tonight. We'd have to get up on the camera and get it filmed Anyways, we will see you in two days one second for you. I guess we love you guys so much And we'll be in different clothes We will be in different clothes different hairstyle different everything. So yeah different girl But we'll see you in two days two days What day is it? It is monday monday. This is two days later Two days later right now. Is that insane? Yeah, we filmed this on saturday and today is monday We're gonna get our phones out because we have some amazing news. Oh my god Do you want to start or do you want me to start because I know we they just want us to get right into it Yeah, so basically I'm actually really excited right now everyone who responded me savannah timmies She said odd. Thanks girl. We appreciate it so much. She Love you savannah responded back, which I love her. She's the best. Yep, but We gotta talk about something else. No, we got another one. I have to say for it, but no, this goes along with saff Oh Oh, yeah, saff Kind of hurt not at you But my boy josh, um not throwing any shade he uh Like we were talking about how like you guys we looked up to you guys we still do and Like we talked to you when we had a hundred subs and you had said like 60,000 subs and Dude, I sent you a long paragraph and like you read it and you didn't respond So like thank you Because like that kind of hurt, you know Um, I think I think I'm being dead serious. He read it. He it says scene I don't like I don't want to show like I said, um You guys remember what we said. Yeah, I read it to you guys about the you know how we facetimed. We had a hundred subs Um, thank you for giving us your advice and helping us. Thanks, bro And he read it and didn't respond like I not even like a like a like a thank you Thank you. You're awesome or like anything. So I don't know I could say stuff, but I'm just you know Seth like thank you. Thank you for answering. That was really nice of you. And I just don't know why josh Had to do that, but I guess you do you bro like I did not know that we had standards and If I had a million subscribers, would you have responded to me? Yeah, it's kind of like it's kind of funny how people react like oh you have only this many subs So I can't communicate with you. It's not throwing hate, but like, but it's like we're not even that far behind that We're not even that if we had 50,000 subs 20,000 still you are the reason we talked to you guys We FaceTime you guys. We don't have FaceTime any other youtuber. Seth You're all good.  I can see you. Let me let me just say I can see where we stand like At least in your mind. So Just wanted to get that out there. I know you probably don't think I'm serious, but I am serious. I actually like it kind of hurt but um Onto the next person it was more we're not three shade against them at all. It's not what it is It's just more of like a channel. It's just like if someone was like people are showing love and support Don't you isn't like the kind words to thank you. It's almost like you're being It's almost like they're being like who what's going on in your head when you read that one? Message and you don't reply. It's like it's not like we're asking you to like go post this everywhere It's we have our own time. Yeah, like we have our own not even that didn't even like double tap part it thumbs up something to know I like to get feedback. It was just I don't want to talk about this anymore.  I'm just kind of like sad Are you pranking me? Are you pranking the squad or something? No Aren't you sad? I'm not really sad because we're not they're not I don't like I mean it's just very annoying because I respect every youtuber to every single extent no matter how many subs they have Sorry That's just that's just what I mean. I know you're the same way. Yeah, but it's just it's like Dude onto the next person we're gonna stop talking about them Yeah, so who good news good news going on a good news. Um, that was have good news. Yeah, so uh jack and gab Gabrielle she messes me back. She's like, oh, thank you. Good luck on the video And she would have talked before so I had a feeling she was gonna respond back to me So shout out to her. I freaking love her to death. So for the grand finale From solo, um, yeah, we had probably the best response from these youtubers, which like I freaking love And I know you're freaking out and we've been wanting to message them for a while Like we knew we knew nate gunner wasn't gonna respond. We knew they weren't gonna see our posts, but We've always wanted to message Madeline and steven and They both And they also followed us and it's pretty cool because they they were so sweet about it They were so nice and like so now we're gonna start getting to know each other. Hopefully. Oh my god Good friends, which I am totally down for that. That'd be just so cool because yeah It's hard to honestly find some true youtube friends That you click with and I feel like they just click would click with us You know if we did start talking more, um, I hope so, but uh you guys Do I don't read one of the things that I'm not gonna read like we talked a lot kind of but She just said um That's a nice video idea. Thank you for the kind words keep the awesome work On y'all's channel steven was like hey, what's up, dude? I love the video idea. Thank you for the congrats And uh, thanks for watching us can't wait to see how the video turns out So if you guys are watching this video, we love you guys So this is the end of the two day venture Or it's actually more like a three day because we filmed it on saturday But two days of filming and um, this is where we got we got a couple people to respond Which is awesome a couple other things that I found out that I wish uh We're different, but life is uh, how it is everything happens for a reason guys and Don't take anything for granted because you know, we know what's gonna come and bite you in the ass Oh my god, but first before we leave we have to give our End of the video And then I was actually just gonna go to madeline steven for being so awesome Yeah, totally the same thing so madeline steven shot it to you guys. Um, obviously You already know who they are if you don't go check them out, but you already know who they are Like if you don't like I say go check them out So we'll see you guys in the next video, but until then check us out and take that by the way We're gonna film some right now, so


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Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome back to Art of Awakening. My name is Ona and we have a requested topic today. It is a heavyweight one and we're going to be looking at kind of dark entities. Just here's the question that I was sent by a viewer. He said, I would like to know more about the entities that like to fool you and feed from you in dreams and in the astral plane. I have fought against them all my life. I've learned a lot from these archons. If you know anything about them and the weakness they have inside dreams and the astral plane, I would be very grateful. Okay, so this is definitely a deep topic. So let's start by calling in light. Just a couple deep breaths here. Breathe into the heart space.  Connect with the breath all the way up through the crown to the central sun and feel that connection above and below to the crystal light aspect of the sun and the earth. So let's bring our awareness to the four directions to the East, True South, True West, True North and calling in light from these directions, calling in our spirit guides, angels, ancestors, all protector beings of light to hold space for this topic because it's an intense one. All right, so here's Danny here in sacred space. Let's examine this whole topic of dark entities, darkness and how to overcome it, how to work with it. And there's a lot of information out there around archons and dark entities. And what I want to, what I'm going to be sharing here today is really based more on spiritual principles. And I do want to mention that the map is not the territory. Okay, so all these things are in the energetic plane, their energies that we can see, feel, interact with, have experiences with. So the mind understands things in one way. We can understand things very logically. Other parts of like our subconscious understands things through symbol, right, through archetype, through even through personality and through story. Okay, there are certain traditions that talk about Satan and, you know, Beelzebub and those kind of entities. There are other traditions that talk about demons that talk about gods and goddesses. There are traditions that talk about reptilians. Okay, so I'm not going to really talk about whether these are true or not because in, in my perspective, they're all different ways of understanding the energies or race. So I'm going to explain things in a very logical way according to spiritual principles. And this does not negate other ways of understanding, but it hopefully will shed light on other ways of understanding so that you can more clearly work with these principles and work with however the, you know, these beings show up for you. Okay, so the one principle that I think it's like the most fundamental principle that we need to understand is the principle of all mind. And I also like to refer to it as the principle of divine oneness. And that is that everything is a part or an emanation of one universal mind. Right. So this is the first thing that we really need to understand when we're looking at anything, exploring the concepts of light and dark and the concept of, you know, evil, each one of us is an aspect of the all. We can't wrap our mind around the all of the all. Okay. But just to understand that it exists and that everything including dark entities are part of this oneness. Okay, everything is part of the oneness. And so right there, we can understand that the dark evil has a role to play somehow, right. Then from the law of one, right, we also experience duality. This is the law of polarity. Okay, we have to understand that everything that exists has a little seed. You know, at least a little seed of darkness in it, and at least a little seed of light, right, because the dark and light together are polarities of the all. Okay, so I feel like the ultimate polarity is this aspect of the all that is creative that wants to expand. And this is the life force, right. And then there's the counter force to that, which is the, the death agenda, basically, which is usually construed as evil. Or offered, right, this can be really, really, really complex. But in when we're coming up against entities that feel evil, right, that feel dark or feel like we want to fight them. Okay, there's a couple things that can be happening. One is that it's some kind of energy that's actually ours that belongs to us that has not been integrated that's been somehow suppressed, and therefore coming up and just like a child who's been neglected will often act out in order to get the attention that they need, right, because it's the only way they know how to do it. This is one type of dark entity. It's a neglected piece of yourself that is coming forward and causing trouble, because it, it's, it's pointing out the imbalance or the lack of love in this particular area. Okay, and with this kind of entity, it's the task is to integrate it. The task is to bring it into the light and to give it love so that it can, you know, transform and become integrated into ourselves on the other side of the polarity. There are entities out there that are really deep dark anti life energies. They're not part of, you know, they're not going to contribute to a healthy being by integrating. Okay, these are energies that need to be, you know, there need to be very specific boundaries that you need as an individual, and to just, you know, tell these entities that you can't come further, right, that you're not allowed here. So there's energies, dark energies that need to be integrated and dark energies that need to be banished or kept out. Right. And so it's really, really important to be able first of all to recognize that, you know, that there are these two types of entities, and then to know what to do with them and how to discern which one is which, because there are entities that are outside of yourself, right, that want to come in and take over. And if you let them in, thinking that you're needing to integrate, and you let them in, they actually will take over. And this is what's called a possession, right, have to be very, very confident and very, very firm. Right, because these are trickster energies and a lot of them don't want to be seen. Okay, that is where their power lies in not to be seen if you think in terms of this whole idea of quote unquote light and dark. The dark wants to hide that's where its power is and this is why it's so dangerous to deny the existence of unsavory entities right, even the word evil. And in many new age circles, people will just completely deny that it exists. This is where it gets tricky with the duality right because in truth, if you're looking at it from the eternal all mind standpoint. It's all integrated into one and so evil is an illusion right evil is illusion, but when we manifest into the world.  This is the parts that that forgets completely that it is part of the all, right, it has completely forgotten that it's part of the all so completely that it thinks that it has the ultimate power, which is a complete falsehood, right. And so it's so so so important for us to recognize this and to know this and to recognize that at the very, very deepest level, even like the most quote unquote powerful evil is powerless because it's simply ignorance that it is part of the all. And we also have to recognize that there's that seed of us there's a part of each one of us that cannot recognize the all because it's so fast, and we're human right and that's that seed of darkness. That's there that is the reason why these things can come forward, right, and tempt us because it's just a part of the way the universe is built. And we also have to recognize that this performs a function right that that darkness is there to help us to learn, right, and because it shows us where where we're not we're sure it shows us our blind spots, it shows us where we can't see the light. Every time it shows us where we can't see the light. It helps us bring light into those places and so it makes us stronger so the function of evil and of dark entities is to challenge us in such a way that we start bringing light into it. This is why evil has at its core a seed of light and why evil will ultimately kind of destroy itself. Okay, so knowing that is empowering knowing that because these forces can appear very very powerful. And they prey on your sense of fear. They feed on the ignorance inside and they feed on your sense of doubt. And so, when you realize exactly what's going on through these universal laws if you have enough of a basic understanding the universal laws, you can see this pattern and understand this dynamic. And that allows you to have incredible faith and confidence that no matter how frightening or powerful these things appear in the light of the all they have no power. You have to know your rights. You have to know the spiritual law you have to know the spiritual principles and to be willing to learn these things and to uphold your rights and to insist on them. Because these things will want to argue with you. You can't argue, you've got to know your rights and just stand up and insist on them, and they will go away because light is ultimately stronger than dark you have to have supreme faith in that. So that's one aspect of dark entities is just they need to be banished. You call on your angels and you ask them you relinquish it to the angels don't try to send it to the light yourself relinquish it to the light beings relinquish it to source light whatever it is that feels good to you. Right. Relinquish it and allow source light to take care of it allow the angelic forces to take care of it. Um, there are certain things that are very ancient energies that are not willing to go to the light and it's important also to respect that. So know your limits.  Um, I'm going to leave that to them. Um, I need to be very, very clear on our rights and our space. When I work with people in session. The first thing I'm always going to do is create sacred space. Okay, and this is calling in the light in all the directions calling in the ancestors calling in the angels calling in the person spirit team and holding the seven directions right north south east west above below within creating this sacred space that's guarded and protected also connecting with the masculine principle the feminine principle the ascended earth and the central sun. We do this in order to create this space of light right and especially in the heart space coming into the heart space. Okay. And so if it is one of these entities. You can call in the light and just say get get the heck out of here. Okay, so that's the one type of entity that just doesn't belong in the space and that you can deal with the other type of entity is the type that needs to be integrated. Okay, and I was instructed. This is a painting that I was just really shown the other day of an image of this kind of fearsome face and I was told it's a self portrait and paint it. Okay, I was like oh my gosh. So I painted this thing and it was like oh my gosh it looks just like Kali right this the Hindu goddess of destruction. It was a very kind of profound experience painting it. The reason the stars on here is that I recognize that okay this is actually a dark force a negative force, right that actually is in service to the light. Let me explain this right we have as part of the life force right what the energy of the life force is nurturing. And it's the energy of growth and of expansion and of nurturance. And there's also within each of us as living embodied beings, especially in our animal beings our animal self, right there's this part of us that will fight to the death and do anything it takes to survive. That's actually a dark force a dark energy within us that when it's in its proper relationship. It's supportive of the life force we need to all be aware of this because we need that parts we need that part of us. Without it, we become weakened to the point where we will not survive. And so this deep deep animal fierce nature of ours is very important. But it's also important to know that this deep deep animal nature that will do anything to survive can also be used and manipulated. Right in in service of these dark or con energies that that want to kind of bring life on earth or at least life on you know human life to an end. Okay, so this I feel is a very, very important, very pivotal and critical thing to understand about dark energies that there are certain dark energies within us. They're necessary for life and necessary for sustainable survival of life on earth. But that has to be brought into right relationship. So these are energies that must be fully integrated and put under the command of our are are logical nature that's aligned with light. So many of these myths and stories like Andrew Cleese and the lion Andrew Cleese end up in the lion's den and he he he sheltered with these lines the line was going to eat him but it had a thorn in its paw he very compassionately took the thorn out. He was compassionate towards the pain of this animal nature. Right. And it became a protector of his so he was able to live in the lion's den without being harmed. And went their separate ways and later on, Andrew Cleese ended up as a prisoner and a slave in the Roman Empire, and he was actually thrown to the lions in the Colosseum. And behold, when he's in the Colosseum he's got all these people during at him, waiting to see him eviscerated by lion. The starving tortured lion comes out. And instead of ripping apart the lion goes up and purrs and rubs against him. It's the same lion. Okay, so he has befriended or integrated his wild nature. Through compassion and understanding. And it is now his greatest protector. And, rather than, you know, it ended up that Andrew Cleese was pardoned so was the lion and they were allowed to go free. And this is the this great victory, you know, over our dark side but it has to understand that there's this the dark side that belongs to us, the dark side that is there as a protector. The thing is that these negative entities or energies. The first thing that they can do the thing that is the most empowering for them is to co-opt that dark force energy. And the reason why is that this is an energy that cannot be vanquished through fighting, it will fight to the death. It will actually be vanquished through death, and even in death.  It's only going to follow you right through the next. It's not going to allow you to be enslaved. Right.  But if these dark entities can go in and through fear, convince this wild nature of yours to fight for something that's really not in your highest interest or the highest humanity, that is their greatest victory. Okay, so we really, really need to understand where our rights are, we have to have our higher self involved in our higher in our mind, right, we have to understand what our rights are. And the law is what, what natural law is, and the nature of right and wrong, which is written in our hearts says why is so important to be in the heart space, because only our heart knows for sure, right and wrong, our heart is the only thing that can tell for sure, right and wrong, we have to be very, very quiet, and, you know, release attachment to emotional attachments to things in order to really get into that heart and get into the pure emotions that will tell you right versus wrong. And the reason this is so important right now is that there are massive agendas out there that are designed to trigger fear to trigger resentment to trigger anger in such a way as to support the anti life agenda. Okay, and when it does that it takes this fierce energy that is meant to protect us and to be a protector of life. In the Hindu tradition, Kali Ma, she's an aspect of the Shakti the life force, right she's this divine tiger mother kind of energy that will protect she's seen as divine protractors but she's fearsome. There's a story about Kali Ma, that the great mother goddess Durga, who rides a tiger or a lion was fighting a great demon. And her anger against fighting this demon was so great that Kali, an incarnation of this goddess came springing out of her forehead, just this horrific demon. Female demon is Kali, right, Kali Ma, and but she was the only one who could overcome the worst of the demons. You know, there becomes the worst of the demons that no other of the gods and goddesses can overcome. They send Kali after, because she's the one that can really dispel any darkness, right, because she's got that within herself. And so when she's in the service to the light, she's unstoppable. But what happened was she demolished the demon and then she kind of went on this rampage because she couldn't stop herself. Right, and the only thing that could stop her was the Lord Shiva, who's her her masculine counterpart who represents this eternal nature laid himself down, he didn't try to fight her you cannot fight this. It's, it's unstoppable. That's why it's so effective against God forces that's why they're trying to get it on their side. So Shiva laid himself down in the story. And she suddenly realized that she's dancing on Shiva himself and that was the only thing that stopped her. Because remember, this dark force is part of that world nature and it's actually driven by love. It's actually animated it's a force of love it's the destructive force of love. It's the protective force of love. And by laying himself down, she had to come to grips with that that, you know, that this is actually her counterpart. And it was through that realization that love based realization that actually stopped and brought her back. Okay, so it's only through love. This is why it's so important to be in the heart space it's only love that contain this wild nature. This is why Andrew Cleese, you know, was able to be friend the lion, and to get that lion inside it was through love. And so the only way that the real dark forces can co-opt this force is by trickery, and by getting it to think that it's protecting us when it's really not on our side. It's super important to remember. Okay, and I'm going to be releasing another video very soon that has something to do with this. So watch for that. Okay, but it's it's it's very, very important to remember that this wild animal nature of ours. So a lot of us are afraid of it. Okay, this is how this is how it can be manipulated to work against us. Because if we're afraid of it and suppress it, or for afraid of it and other people, right. It's important to understand that each person each individual has this. This is why it's so important to understand and reflect respect boundaries to respect personal sovereignty, both your own personal sovereignty and that of others. This is why it is so important to set boundaries. And to constantly have that spiritual hygiene of building those boundaries to respect that each one of us has this animal nature, and it can be pushed when we are aware of it. That's when it can. That's when it's at its best, right. If you respect a wild animal in nature, and don't go past its own boundaries, you're very unlikely to be harmed by a bear or a lion if you stay a respectful distance away from it, right. These energies are unpredictable, but we have to be able to integrate them. Okay, and so this is a long roundabout, but long story short, there are aspects of the dark when we call them forward to be seen. Sometimes it is this wild beast nature and sometimes it'll come forward. I've had that come forward in sessions as, you know, a ferocious bear, or something like that. And when you work with it and start to dialogue with it, you can ask it what it wants, you can ask it what message it has these things, right. But often, as you dialogue with it in a respectful way, it will tell you what it needs. And often if it is a wild beast coming forward, sometimes it will change or it will become friendly. And that's where you've managed to take that portion of yourself and you know that has become alienated from you and integrate it and it becomes your ally. Okay. Other times, that may not be the wild animal force that's coming forward, it might be another entity. Sometimes it's an inner child force, right. That it will, you know, sometimes it'll be, you know, a raging whirlwind or something it'll turn into a child. You know, you converse with it ask it what it needs. And a lot of times it'll need just love, it just needs to be loved and you hold it. A lot of times when that happens it'll turn into something innocuous like a money rabbit or something like that. Or sometimes it'll just ask to be sent to the light, and that's beautiful too. Okay, so these are ways of integrating. I know this has been a really long video and sort of meandering, but I'm really hoping that it's shed some light and some understanding on the different types of dark entities and energies that you can come across and how to deal with them. And then finally, it's, it can sometimes be difficult to deal with your own dark and energies. Sometimes it can be hard to see them. So it can be helpful to work with somebody who can be a third person to hold space in a strong way for these things to be either, you know, vanquished from your field, banished or integrated in a proper way. If this is something that you feel you need help with and if it feels resonant to work with me, I'm going to put the link for information or working with me below. I do do this work. So just bear if you need me. And otherwise, thank you so much for watching. Take care and remember you were born to be free.


Catherine, we have the latest in your temporary arts for the summer here at the Post Office Park. Tell us about it. Well, this is a piece by Christian Prash. It's called Occupied Wall, and it's really up to the community to decide what it is. Is it a barrier, or is it a gateway? His idea is to spark community conversation about things like walls or community conversations, things that are important to people, and coming together. It's pretty cool. You're the Tempo Art Organization, and this is probably the most temporary of the temporary arts that you've ever done. What made you think of this? Well, there were three actually this summer, and each of them are just four of the months, so this is the month of August. All of the artists were chosen because they were a little bit about the American Dream, which really riffs off our larger installation from a year ago that's in Lincoln Park. But this one in particular is interesting because of it has some political overtones, but again, that's really for the community to decide how deep those run. Christian, you've just finished your piece, Occupied Wall, but it's only the beginning of it. Tell us about that. Yes. Well, it's a work in progress. It is a social experiment where I provide a wall that's made out of components that is providing the wall, but also providing seating that the public can disassemble the wall and take away pieces and turn it into seating for dialogue. And what will remain, once all these mobile pieces are away, is a gate that opens you up into the plaza. And so it's a discussion of wall versus public dialogue and a place for public dialogue. And how did you come up with the idea for this? Well, the American Dream revision that Tempawart wanted us to look at was something that I was thinking about how to think about public resources and how we choose to spend them. Do we choose to create walls that create barriers or protection, quasi-protection? Or do we create spaces where we talk about our similarities and differences and really work out how to become a better community? And I thought that was how American Dream should be really thought about. Being in the American Dream for everyone, regardless of their differences and their similarities with us. So, for this piece, you really have a lot of, hopefully, a lot of co-artists working with you, but you won't be here? True, exactly. I'm going to be visiting the site every morning and every evening to kind of lock down the site so that in the evening time it doesn't walk away necessarily. That's something that could very much happen during the day. It's up to the public to really respect the peace and respect the community that is hoping to engage with it as much as they will. And so, yeah, it'll be somebody else's work for the month. I just gave them the platform, just gave them the media to make it what they will, the wall or a place of engagement. So when you took down the yellow tape a few minutes ago, that was sort of the handoff? That's exactly correct. We needed kind of our own space to make it. And then once that tape went down, it's up to the public to decide what it is to become. Do you think the public will be afraid to touch it because they think it's supposed to stay as it is?  Don't touch it. I've created some signage that really allows you to take that extra, that leap of faith and say, I'm going to make it what I want. It's me. And I think art has that capability of becoming engaging, or it could be challenging in just how it is visually. I think it's going to be a piece that hopefully the public consumes for themselves, takes respect and sees it as a piece of the community, not just something that they can take away. It really gives them an opportunity to think about the public space, our public resources, what we should be doing with them, all of those things. That's really what this temporary installation is about. Tell us a little bit about Temporal Art as an organization. What's your philosophy and what do you hope to accomplish here in Portland? We're a group that raises money to do site-specific curated public art temporary, public art installations. Something that we hope builds a sense of community. This is such a wonderful city and we have a strong reputation in the arts. Public art is something that sort of combines the fine art and then the idea of community participation. If people want more information about Temporal Art or upcoming events, where can they go? Well, there's lots of places to find out. You can go on Facebook and like Temporal Art, you can Google us, you can find us and if anyone's very interested, they can just go online and find us and we'll be sure to send out information on what's coming up next.