Pretty excited... Woot woooooot wooooooot my friends, to be honest I've never been that kind of person who is excited by a new month and shit. So you probably won't see me sending Happy New month messages and stuff. But this month of October I'm for some weird reason especially excited about the Month. True to my nindo, I won't send Happy New Month messages and shit like that, you probably have even gotten a hell of them by now. But I do hope you have a very good October.…
New Emanate Updates...... One of the biggest ways to know a project you can bank on is one that you can see the team working steady and hard to push out updates for their Community. It gladdens my heart to see that one of the projects I have a bag in is living up to the hype I have built around them. If you have been following me for a while, you will know that I talk about and promote the Emanate Music project a lot because I love what they are doing there and I love their…
Walls... At some point we begin to realize that in all we do there are walls stopping us from progressing and moving to the next phase of our existence here on God's green Earth. Think of it, at work there are those walls you have to contend with and overcome to grow. At home there are also walls to overcome to become a better person to society. Even here on Uptrennd there are walls to overcome to become a better writer and to grow your audience and get more engagement. The…
Achievers..... Everybody loves an achiever, it's always really nice to say I knew him or I knew her back then, before they became what they are today that everyone knows and is celebrating. It's always nice once in a while to feed off the fame of others. But while everyone loves an achiever not everyone is ready to put in the work required to become an achiever. Not everyone can wear those shoes if given the chance to wear and run in them. The life of an achiever requires…
Time... How has your weekend been going friends, all good I hope. I have talked about this topic a couple of times here but I have come to realize that repetition is the law of remembrance. To get it past the thick skulls of some people I love, here I have to talk about it again. Time truly is of the utmost importance. I like to see time both as man's greatest asset and as man's greatest enemy. While time is something I recognize we still have alot of, so you can afford to…
Happy thoughts..... Sometimes the demons get to you, they come at you and it might even bring tears to your eyes. You feel you should be somewhere higher than you are currently, you feel you should have achieved more, you feel you should be bigger. Well the demons come for us all. On nights like those I take refuge with the happy thoughts. Happy thoughts of when I smiled genuinely, happy thoughts of when I loved truly, happy thoughts of when I was blessed more than I…
Music Meets Blockchain....... Blockchain truly is penetrating so many aspects of our lives that previously would have looked totally impossible. Today we are seeing the rise in use of Digital Art as Blockchain revolutionizes the whole industry and we are watching as NFTs become the new in-thing and some are making ridiculous amounts from it. Defi is still a big buzzword and we have gotten a glimpse of how Blockchain can transform how lending, borrowing and farming are done.…
Never stop Trying.... "God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try." -- Mother Teresa This saying is a highly debatable and not everyone will agree with it for sure but I have come to learn something in all I have been involved in. It's really not about winning or losing sometimes, it's all about trying, putting in the effort and just acting. Even when you fail, your failures teach you invaluable lessons and those lessons come back to be very useful…
Your Great Adventure..... Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you." -- Ewan McGregor I honestly am one of the staunchest supporters of the belief that you just have to do your path and keep showing up everyday, even when things aren't going at their best, keep being consistent and keep being dependable. You just need one day, 24 hours and when time and chance stumbles on you and rewards you for your efforts it carries your efforts and…
Equality in Music One of the biggest arguments and fights against centralized Online Music streaming is that it is truly hard for new guys in the industry to break out and make a name for themselves. The top guys already have a lot of attention and even have backing of media houses and press, so when they put out new works it’s getting to a larger audience, unlike the nameless and upcoming guys who don’t have the financial wherewithal to promote aggressively. Then there’s…
Friends and Family..... I think one of the greatest gift given to man by the Maker is the gift of other like minds, those we can call friends. Those who are there for you in your down times who whisper those words of encouragement to you when you are down on your knees and contemplating giving up. Those who are by your side who stand by your corner, cheer you on and give you advice to become bigger when you the tide is with you and you are winning. Those guys you should be…
Love your neighbor, Earn respect and live humbly.... We say it a lot but many times I truly doubt if many understand what this means to love your neighbor as you love yourself. As much as many won't want to admit it we all love ourselves really much, infact you could say every human is selfish in a way. We want the good things of life for ourselves, but then we claim to love our neighbors as ourselves and yet we still wish them bad. We speak ill of others when we don't want…
Think Big, but Start Small.... It's okay to derail from the path sometimes, it's okay to get carried away and sometimes even lose confidence in yourself. It's okay to even almost give up when things get overwhelming. But what you should never do is let it all get to you and you stop dreaming big. Never let your situations get to you that you begin to see your dreams as too big and unattainable. Never see yourself as not enough to achieve those dreams and plans you have. When…
The business arm of Music... I like to think I'm very knowledgeable when it comes to Music. Not only with the listening part as I like to sample different styles and genres of Music, but also with the business arm. Many don't know what goes into the Music business, for artists to put out the songs you listen to and love. So while many mainly concern themselves with the pleasure aspect of Music, I also concern myself with the business aspect as well. When it comes to the…
Grief and Hope Many times I wonder why we go through grief as men. Wouldn't it be far much better to just have joy and don't know what grief is, not experience the sadness and heartache that comes with grief and not have to live with the gloom grief brings. But then I have also come to realise that without the grief we won't appreciate and be grateful for the good we have. If we don't see the grief evident we won't celebrate the good like we do. The fact that we know death…
3 Places I would love to visit.... I've always loved to travel, well pretty much just like everyone else I guess. But yeah that sensation of going to a new place and knowing that you will meet new people and learn new things, it's beautiful almost can be compared to being orgasmic. But yeah in no particular here are 3 places I would love to go to when I get the chance; * **Italy**: The first just has to be Italy and Rome to be specific. As an art lover I would definitely…
Why Blockchain is for Gen Z.. The major difference between Generation Z and all the other generations, be it the Millennials or Generation X or even the Baby boomers is that for Gen Z information is at their fingertips. It is not something that requires extensive research that can only be gotten from libraries, it's always there out in the open and all that's required are just a few clicks in the right direction. That my friends is a major reason why Gen Z will always be at…
Stay happy, show kindness, and keep pushing..... Happiness should be one of the simplest things to attain, but man being the insatiable creature that he is always finds it hard to be really and truly happy. There are always so many things we still want, so many things we still want to achieve, so many more places we want to visit and lots more we want to do and that affects our happiness. But I think we should all work on it, the type of happiness that comes from inwards,…
Words matter, Stay confident... "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." -- Robin Williams I think it's hypocrisy of the highest order to say that words and ideas don't or can't change the world. The modern world as we have it today was inspired and built by and from the words and ideas of great men and women. Words from men like Martin Luther King Jr, Florence Nightingale, Mahatma Ghandi, the Bhagavad Ghita and so many others have shaped our…
Emanate as an Alternative..... When the former ways of doing things are proving frequently ineffective, without our best interests at heart and have failed us, the onus lies on us to discover and come up with new, better ways to get things done. A superficial glance would show that the former ways of doing things have indeed failed us countless times in the past, and across board irrespective of the industry they are located in. From the Stock Market Crash and the ensuing…
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