Music Industry

Do gifted and talented people deserve fame and success? 

In the music industry you need to be flashy, gimmicky, and catchy in order to make an impact and have people take notice of you.  I am determined with every cell in my body to have success in the music business without being a sell-out. Without doing things that are not true to myself.  I am a genius and a powerful being.  I am gifted, and I'm talented.  My music is dope but my bank account isn't.  I have spent too many years toiling for success:  going to open mics,  puting up flyers,  writing blogs, posting my art on facebook.  None of this is getting me anywhere.  I wanna live the good life.  I want wealth like Lil Wayne or Nicki Minaj.  I deserve it.  And all gifted and truly talented people do!  We are rare.  We are like diamonds in a stone kingdom.  Why should Miley Cyrus or other big acts get all the attention and success?  I want a piece of the pie, too.  I am going to start performing again.  So God bless my efforts and PEOPLE listen to my music.  Give it a taste and if you like it tell your friends about it!  Peace! 

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Hello and Welcome!

Greetings!  I am Justin aka the CiscoKid of Burlington, Vermont, USA.  This is my first blog in the CiscoKid persona.  I haven't made music in a while but I still possess a lot of music I made in my creative Golden age which is the year 2007 (which I will link you to).  2007 was such a great year for me.  I was smoking tons of weed.  I was getting in touch with God (went to Jehovah's Witnesses meetings regularly and studied the Bible with Lance Taylor, an elder of the congregation).  Things were good.  I made lots of great music, mostly experimental stuff, at the time.  Some Rock, some Hip Hop and everything in between.  Everything took a turn, however, after I took a trip to Jamaica in January, 2008.  I had an excellent time there talking with Rastas and meeting Peter Tosh's mom at the house Peter grew up on.  I got to see weed growing in the wild and drink Red Stripe on the beach.  I met some nice Jehovah's Witnesses from England who were visiting Jamaica.  I had a good experience.  However when I came back to Vermont, where I live, everything changed.  I wanted everyone to be like a Rasta, a powerful Rasta.  I became schizophrenic and I became rude, abrasive, judgmental, and inappropriate.  I ended up alienated myself from many friends and family. But those dark days are over.  I know am a highly functioning person with schizophrenia.  I take medication and see a doctor.  Anyway that's just a short introductory blog of what has been going on with me recently.  I include a link to my newest Untitled Album which is really what I call a greatest hits album of my best material I made in 2007.  Enjoy.  One Love,  Cisco --

http://ciscokid.bandcamp.com