Your Network Is Your Net Worth: The Hidden Power of Connections with Turn Me Up YC!

The Brittney Mack Podcast

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[00:00:00] You're up. You're ready. And you're listening to The Brittney Mack Podcast. Everyone has a story. Applying them to inspire the world weekly on motivation Mondays, here is your host, Brittney Mack.
[00:00:24] Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Brittney Mack Podcast. I'm your host Brittney Mack. Today, we have "a rising producer in the hip hop scene. He has already earned credits with Moneybagg Yo, DaBaby, Lil' Baby, Stunna 4 Vegas and Dee Mula. He first gained notoriety for producing Dee Mula's hit single "Crank Up," which received a remixed.
[00:00:48] with Stunna 4 Vegas and Moneybagg Yo. He later gained even more popularity for producing the Moneybagg Yo and DaBaby collaboration "Protect Da Brand," [00:01:00] which became his first Billboard charting song ever. The track peaked at number 89 and on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week of January 25th, 2020. (Genius Media Group)"
[00:01:12] He also has more songs on the billboard cause right now, ladies and gentlemen. Please listen to the whole episode with the one and only YC, also known as TurnMeUpYC.
[00:01:28] Hey YC! Welcome to The Brittney Mack Podcast. What's good with it? Everything is good. How are you doing? Everything is good. Everything is blessed and humbled.
[00:01:39] How is your mom?
[00:01:46] She's doing good. How about yours? She's doing good. I know they probably haven't seen each other in forever 'cause my mama moved. Man, forever. I already know. Yes. I want to start out by asking you, can you take me [00:02:00] back to tell me how did you start being a producer? What made you want to do that? It was like my 11th grade year, the year ya'll graduated. It was me and RealRed. 'Cause you know RealRed went to Fayette Academy.
[00:02:20] When he left for the summer, class of 2016 summer, the year y'all graduated, we worked. Me and RealRed worked. I stopped making beats for a minute and I seen RealRed got good at it. I was like I'm irritated. This ism't going to work. Making beats isn't for me. I seen RealRed a month latetandingr. I seen he got cold in 2016. I told him he got cold and then I stuck to it. I was like if RealRed can do it, I know I can do it. That's how it started. That's the day I fell in love with [00:03:00] it. When I made my first beat, I fell in love with it every since.
[00:03:06] Yeah. RealRed's consistency and progress inspired you? Yeah, he inspired me a lot, like
[00:03:20] man, I gotta do it. So I stuck with it and I kept going. That's what's up. That is really awesome. One thing I was telling Red is I'm so proud of y'all because y'all are sticking together. Y'all are still holding each other up. One thing I love about y'all is, it's nothing like a crabs in a barrel mentality.
[00:03:42] And I see that a lot. Y'all are like butterflies that just, fly together. You know what I'm saying? Yes. I love to see it. I really love to see it. That's also what I like to call my guests. I like to call my guests, butterflies because we all fly [00:04:00] together and stick together and then, I just see everybody working together even after I'm recording different people and I just be I'm so impressed.
[00:04:09] I be so impressed by everyone. Right. What is something that people seem to misunderstand about you?
[00:04:19] How hard I work. People just think, man, I can wake up and just do this. It took time and progress, behind closed doors. It's dedication. I can make a beat one o'clock that evening and don't get out until 7 that morning. That's how dedicated I was, and I still am.
[00:04:45] I'm just not the same weight today. It was like, how hard I work, I want people to see that, but it's showing in my music and what...