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New Music They Want Your Young Black Daughters To Listen To… by Shannon Rawls 🫡 #Embarrassing #Degrading #Indoctrinating #CheckThisOut #ShannonRawls Just some perspective from an OG who’s been all over, seen it all, done it all and knows a few things. My goal is to save you some heartache, headache, money & most importantly…time. Associate Producer: MR. SHANNON W. RAWLS Do you have content you want me to react to or discuss? Email or Instagram DM the information and we’ll check it out. If I use it, I’ll credit you for the find. ✊🏾 ~ Mr. Shannon W. Rawls ~ Fashion’ing • Producing • Conversat’ing...📍L.A. ~ Motivator • Realist • Father • Nupe👌🏾 • Fitness Fanatic ~ https://lnkd.in/gDfndw_Y __________________________ Support the channel here 🙏🏾 : CashApp • https://lnkd.in/gpiwp_UY PayPal • https://lnkd.in/g6Z8s5id T-Shirts I’m Wearing: https://lnkd.in/gNH89Dnd BECOME A MEMBER: JOIN THE MASTERMINDS! 👈🏾 Get commissioned in the S.R. Army by joining a group of high intellectuals who meet regularly in an alliance that is designed to take each member to their highest level of greatness. MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN: http://SRarmy.com. MEET WITH MR. SHANNON: Do you need to speak to Shan about something? Book a session with him and set the date. He’ll be there: https://lnkd.in/gAbyH__7. Message on social media 📱 : S.R. Army Discussions • https://lnkd.in/g96ZjeeG Instagram • https://lnkd.in/gi7RmwUm Facebook • https://lnkd.in/gchrMzHQ X • https://x.com/ShannonRawls LinkedIn • https://lnkd.in/g-qy-FJi Pinterest • https://lnkd.in/gyKPcvfU Email 📧 • CTO@ShannonRawls.com __________________________ If you are a new listener to Check This Out, we would love to hear from you. Please visit https://lnkd.in/gyE4jaWb and let us know how we can help you today! *** Do not download, screen-record, screenshot, copy or otherwise record the content on this channel, including this video, without express written permission from Rawls Enterprises. Email us for request & authorization. *** via YouTube https://lnkd.in/gmTdQuFT

Back in 2007 or maybe 2009, I took a work trip to Memphis to see #MuteMath at the New Daisy. I decided to leave Nashville early for a chance to see the incomparable Reverend #AlGreen preach at the Full Gospel Tabernacle. Al Green is on my Mount Rushmore of American Music. The idea of seeing him preach blew my mind. Honestly Reverend Green could have said anything that day and I still would have found myself in the spirit. Some of the standouts of the day were... - Honoring the Red Hats society   - Passing around a bottle of Dasani, calling it “Holy Water.” - The call for tithes, asking everyone to come to the front, one at a time - Seeing someone make change in the offering plate and hear the Reverend say, what are you doing boy? Put that whole bill in there! Honestly, I am pretty sure the Reverend knew there were folks like me in the congregation that day. Not so much there for the message but for the larger than life figure that he had become. If he expected such he may stop the service and ask where you were from. Each person he asked this question to was not from Memphis and did not have a Southern Accent... He knew.   Reflecting on that day, I think about what it takes to have a lasting career in anything. Reverend Green wasn’t performing; he was pursuing something bigger than himself. So, how does this all tie back to this pull-apart-lot of a business we call the music industry? I’d say this: the ones who stick around—do so in service of something bigger, something we might not always see. It doesn’t have to be spiritual (though sometimes, that’s the only way to explain it). As the year winds down, it’s worth reflecting on where you place your value. Did your song make an impact? Did it resonate with someone in a way that matters? Or are you more excited to show off your #Spotify Wrapped stats?

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As an African-American choir director, the call and response tradition has been the heartbeat of my musical and spiritual upbringing. 🙏🏾 This practice isn’t just a theory of music - it’s a profound theory of relationship that reinforces the immense value of human connection. 👥 To truly engage in this vital call and response process, we must be willing to be vulnerable, putting our authentic selves out there for the group. 💗 But it’s a two-way street - the real power comes when we actively listen and creatively incorporate the feedback, allowing it to shape us in the moment. 👂🏾 This openness doesn’t just make us better musicians or speakers, it draws us into deeper, more meaningful bonds with our community. 🕊️ Embracing the vulnerability and active listening of call and response is how we build the sustaining, empowering connections that have uplifted the Black church for generations. 🙌🏾 Who’s ready to raise their voice and respond? mic drop🎤 #TedTalk #tedxtalks #CommunityBuilding #vulnerabilityisstrength #ActiveListening #whatcommunitysoundslike #blackchurch #ourstoryisone

What business development lessons can you learn from going to see Black Uhuru? I had the pleasure of going to a reggae gig with Steve Davies and Andy Green FRSA at the Camden Jazz cafe in London last night. 5 BD lessons learned: 🕺Music connects people. A diverse audience enjoyed the event connected by a shared love of reggae. 💪Adapt or die. Today there are few members of the original Black Uhuru line up. Despite the change in personnel the sound and spirit remains the same. ⛓️💥Engage, Engage, Engage. The experience of live music should feel different to listening at home. The band know this and engage their audience with energy in their performance. 😊Give your audience what they want. Black Uhuru repeated the fans favourites because that’s what they wanted. 💉Positivity is infectious. Look like you want to be in the room. #relationshipbuilding #businessdevelopment

Everything worthwhile takes time. On my way back from choir rehearsal on Thursday evenings, I often catch Bob Harris’s country music programme, on Radio 2. I have an eclectic taste in music. To me, country music is life personified: songs written from the heart and soul, digging deep on true life experiences. Recently, Bob played music by an artist who had taken 10 years to crack the Nashville country music scene. Just before she had her big break, she was about to give up and head back home to Kentucky. 10 years to crack Nashville. 10 000 hours to reach mastery. Everything worthwhile takes time and it takes time because we have to build our own ecosystem of connections, interactions and progressive momentum. If our business expansion plans involve promoting our proposition to strangers, then it is going to take time and persistence. Our ecosystems need to be built. Many people give up on an idea too soon, leaving opportunities for others. Perhaps some do this because their personal circumstances change, which is unfortunate. However, many give up because they thought their idea would take off immediately and become disillusioned when it didn’t. “Success is not the absence of failure: it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler. Thank you for reading. Have a great week! #MarketingSuccess #SalesSuccess #Persistence

Another great new on sale coming up… Grayson Perry: Are You Good? Wednesday 12 November 2025 📌Tickets on general sale Friday 22 November at 10am Are You Good? A question that I think is fundamental to our humanity. In this show, I will be helping you, the audience, find out if you really are thoroughly good or maybe quite evil, but in a fun way. I always start out with the assumption that people are born good and then life happens. So, let’s pullback the curtain and see where your morals truly lie. Are you as virtuous as you think? With lots of audience participation (don’t worry, no one leaves unscathed) and a few silly songs we’ll have an entertaining evening and come out with our core values completely in tatters. Is it more important to be good or to be right? It’s time to update what is a virtue and what is a sin. No biggie. If you're interested in experiencing our corporate hospitality for client entertainment https://lnkd.in/eFYht7-U

**Engagement is Like Conducting a Choir** 1. **Listening and Understanding**: A great conductor listens carefully to each voice and understands its strengths. Similarly, effective engagement requires listening to and understanding the unique perspectives and contributions of each participant. 2. **Inclusivity**: Every voice in the choir matters, from the sopranos to the basses. Engagement should be inclusive, valuing the input of all stakeholders and ensuring everyone feels heard and appreciated. 3. **Adaptability**: A conductor adjusts the tempo and dynamics based on the choir's performance. Effective engagement requires adaptability, being open to feedback, and making adjustments as needed to keep everyone motivated and on track. PS: I’m offering a “love letter” to Vox Camerata for their upcoming performance - “Musica Intimae: Us, Them, and Other Love Stories” They are the lovely folks in this photo, led by Shahril Salleh (PhD) Join us: Matinee Tickets (3:30pm to 5:00pm): https://buff.ly/3VKN8Rw Gala Tickets (7:30pm to 9:00pm): https://buff.ly/3VMELES

Learn more about Hip Hop and higher education with Professor of Hip Hop at THE Ohio State University and recent Tonight Show guest, Jason D. Rawls, Ed.D aka J. Rawls We talked earlier this year on the world's most important Hip Hop podcast. WATCH HERE: https://lnkd.in/eemHa8aa