Creating at The Compound. This was a cool experience we all had about a year ago. An impromptu Saturday afternoon photoshoot in one of the rooms at the studio. It was the culmination of months of work behind a fashion brand called OSO that has been the brainchild of a Compound Kingz partner.

The brand I am speaking of is @spgbk watches. The name SPGBK is an acronym for “Spring Break” which, in their own words, “was always a refreshing reset before the end of the school year and they wanted to capture that essence in their name”.

I now understood I was speaking with Rey Wolfestein, a full metamorphosis into a persona that symbolized everything about the music he was currently promoting.

I will always give credit where it's due, especially when I see young artists being proactive about practicing their craft and stepping away from social media to reach out and develop relationships with potential fans.

One of the most difficult things for an artist is to step out of their comfort zone, to be vulnerable in their creation process and attempt to make music they are not necessarily familiar with.

If you don’t agree with the second amendment, I really can't argue with you. It’s a slippery slope. I do not believe everyone should have the right to carry a weapon, but how do you decipher good from bad.

Finding any new method of exposure in this oversaturated industry that is the business of music, is difficult. This is why the strategy with Rey Sparta has been strategic and deliberate from the beginning

It's difficult to stay current in today's technology without paying some attention to the virtual world. It remains to be seen if NFTs and digital art will have any longevity as far as value and investment is concerned.

We invested money into building a small, portable, yet powerful lighting rig designed to program and reproduce his live show at any opportunity that presented itself

We had thrown our own hot pot parties in the past for various occasions, and they were always a hit, but was something that just like a lot of good ideas, gets put on the back burner, as life gets in the way sometimes.

When you initially hear $8-9k food budget, you immediately think you’re onto something great. This is it; this is what we’ve been waiting for. If it were only that easy.

To dedicate your life in the creative landscape is both a gift and a curse. It’s a romantic tale of freedom and individuality away from the constraints of the normal workplace environment.