Snow NoLove: Retired at 35 | Ownership Over Everything | Music and Business Talk | Bankedoutt Radio Show

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Hi, y 'all. Welcome back to the Music and Business

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Talk. I'm your host, Andreas, and today we are

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sitting down with a horse out of middle Georgia

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that is completely rewriting the playbook for

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independent artists. Usually we talk about rapping

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to get the bag, but today's guest has already

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security. She's a graduate, a homeowner who bought

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in cash, and a corporate retiree at the age of

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35 who decided that if she wanted to close to

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the age of 40 to rap, she was going to do that

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and do it on her own terms and doesn't, excuse

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me, do it on her own terms and doesn't owe a

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dime to a soul. From owning the title of landlord

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to dropping gems on the 478 scene and building

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a digital empire at SnowNoLove .com, we're diving

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into the mindset of a woman who isn't just an

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entertainer, she's the CEO. Please welcome the

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unapologetic, the independent, and the unbothered

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Snowna Love. What's going on? Y 'all know what

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the fuck going on. I said it's cold in here.

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I'm going to try my best to keep this PG for

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you. You can do whatever you feel comfortable

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with, but thank you for - I apologize, it was

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too great. Let me do one thing real quick. I'm

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just going to show one little - Sorry, I don't

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have any extra noise. No, you're good. Hello,

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Raul, and thank you for having me here on your

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radio station tonight. Oh, you're welcome. So

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did you happen to check out any of the interview

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I sent you where I did with Boots of Locke or

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anything else? I did. I looked at some of it.

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Yes, I did. OK. So you know, this is just a conversation

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with me and you. And it just happens to be recorded.

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But I'd like to dive into the details and nitty

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gritty of stuff, especially with it being music

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and business talk, how I reformatted the platform

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because I don't think we talk enough about the

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business side of music. And I talk to people

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who are entrepreneurs as well. We're going to

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dive into that too. But when I was doing my history

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on you and getting some questions together, I

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thought these were some really good questions.

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And I don't like asking the same type of questions.

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Because I feel that when y 'all go on media runs,

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y 'all get asked the same thing over and over

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and over. A lot of the time. Yes, and I want

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this to be very engaging for you, but then also

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to walk away with a great experience as well.

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So I want to take it back to your posts and relevance

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of the teenage years real quick. So you've always

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been ahead of the curve. You started working

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at 15, and by 16, you were already in high school.

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and graduating and starting college. I did and

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it's funny because it sounds good until you hear

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where I was when I was doing all of that and

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why I ended up having to progress that fast.

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So that and that's actually was the the follow

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-up part to the question like you know um it

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was like a fast track loop Where did that come

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from? What happened was when I was, and I'm just

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going to give you the best breakdown I know to

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give you, so it's not too stretched, but probably

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around 10 years old, I did start acting out a

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little bit. I started experimenting with weed

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and running away with older kids, skipping school.

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just little stuff we weren't supposed to be doing.

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We had ended up moving to a different place and

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it was completely different from where I was

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from and ended up having to live with my grandma

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and take care of her. She was on bed rest. So

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it was like we got snatched away from what our

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normal life. And so it was like a disturbance

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in my adolescence. And, you know, I feel like

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I was just at that point adapted to my environment

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and my emotional distress. But there was a lack

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of support and parenting, I guess, in a way.

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So it was easy for me to find ways to do things

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on my own or, you know, whatever. So at about

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10, I started doing all that and by 11, I had

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been locked up the first time. Started getting

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locked up when I was 11 and I didn't stop getting

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locked up until I turned 18 Because I ended up

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getting committed to the state of Georgia as

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a juvenile Long story short when I went in the

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think it was like the third or fourth time. I

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had a year It was older up into my age. I was

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like I was 15 or I think I was 16 when I went

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in that time I was about to be 16. I had my first

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kid at 15 by the time I went to that jail that

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time. I was pregnant again with another baby.

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So it was like, a lot was going on and I had

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not even made it into, I had just gotten to ninth

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grade, but I was in juvenile detention. So it

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was like, I never really went to a real high

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school because I started. And so being committed

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to the state, I did graduate. As soon as I turned

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16, they gave me a chance to see if I was able

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to take the GED. A lot of people... based on

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your scores, if you don't do good, you take a

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pre GED or you take a real GED. I was able to

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take my real GED on the first go and I did graduate

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from youth detention in Macon, Georgia at the

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age of 16 where I did start participating in

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business, computer and cosmetology college courses

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because they were limited on what they offered

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there. I ended up being released right before

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I turned 18 and I only to catch adult charges

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at that time, but There was a lot of youth detention

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and I was pretty much raised by the government.

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No, no, no. I definitely get that because I went

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through foster care at the age of 15 all the

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way to when I went to college at 20. I think

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I aged out around 21, 22, something like that.

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So they did pay for a couple years of college.

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They commit you until you're able to. Yeah, exactly.

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So what happened to with your kids at that time?

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Were they played? My mom was helping with the

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first one and then the dad of the kids dad was

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helping with the other one. And then I ended

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up having like by the time I was 19, I had already

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had three under three. And then 20, I had another

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one and was married. It was I've been married

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three times. So it's like I had a lot of kids,

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I got seven kids. And I have kids like now. Okay,

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yeah, and I have kids like now that are grown

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-ups that are like ones already went to the army

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and came back, and then I have a 19 -year -old,

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an 18 -year -old, 16 -year -old, and then a few

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younger than that. Do some of them share the

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same dad? Some of them do, yes. I have six. How

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was it blending all those different children,

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the personalities and stuff like that? Blending

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the kids and then also, you know, working with

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the dads. The blending of all the personalities,

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everyone involved. I was saying, how was the

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blending? With doing this and then having to

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be talking about the kids or the... Well, everyone

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involved, all parents involved, you know, everyone

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that comes along with it, you know, because sometimes

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you have, you know, the grandparents that you

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got to deal with. Okay, so one of the dads died

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when we were young, and one of the dads is currently

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in prison for murder. And then I have one that

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is partially involved. Yeah. So you just holding

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down the fort for. I pretty much even when I

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was married, it was like that's why I'm not married

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now. It always seemed like I was trying to do.

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It was like I ended up carrying more weight or

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people would get used to me being the backbone

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and then slack off or. people would start doing

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things that I couldn't involve myself with or

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involve my kids with and I would have to. So

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off and on it was difficult to decide whether

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I was making the right decisions or not as far

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as taking the parents other and it wasn't I never

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I never denied the rights to the other parents

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again like one of them's gone deceased one of

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them is somewhere he has no control over life

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at all and then there's one that's off and on,

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but not with me, but as far as Keith, he's not

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a constant parent, but he is somebody that they

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could call on the phone and say that, you know

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what I mean? Yeah, I definitely get that. And

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that goes for, but I was also married to one

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person. Hey y 'all, there was the interview preview

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we did with Snow Your Love talking about a lot

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of different things here going viral, ageism,

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how to retire, it being the music, and it being

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business. So if you like that interview, go and

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