Conscious Mind Records

Conscious Mind Records

SoulJah Bless the Business man!!!

I recently had a talk with John Leon, also known as SoulJah Bless, President of Conscious Mind Records Inc, on the subject of Negotiations and Deal Making. SoulJah Bless partakes in most of the negotiations for our company. Everything from budgets for events, to signing new artist, if a deal is to be made, SoulJah Bless usually is part of it. Judging by our talk I would say that appreciation is one of his biggest tactics. You see SoulJah Bless is a person who appreciates everything in life. So when he is in negotiations, many times his upbeat can do attitude, mixed with his appreciation for the person he is negotiating with, is all it takes to make the deal go good. SoulJah Bless has been one of the major reasons why Conscious Mind Records has been able to maintain its presence of positivity. Souljah Bless say’s he finds it way easier to come to beneficial agreements for all parties when everyone is in a positive mood. The appreciation you show the other person can be the main basis for them doing business with you. One of his other main focuses for negotiating is working toward a mutual benefit for all parties involved. This is key when making deals for C.M.Records because we pride ourselves on fairness. As a leader in one of Florida’s primary entertainment cities, he is in constant deal making mode. He is prepared and always does his research before jumping into a deal making situation. However he say’s there are moments where you stumble onto a good deal, and have to be ready to talk with little to know prep time. When it comes to this then he says the good old fashion respectful conversation will usually do the job! Thank you SoulJah Bless for being such a positive influence on everyone you come in to contact with!!! 

Conscious Mind Records Cannot be stopped!!!

Hello everyone!!!! These past few weeks have been like a train going 100 miles an hour for the Conscious 

Mind Records family!!! As usual Conscious Mind Records has been going hard in the studio!!!

     Skyy High’s single “Everything’s Alright” , was released to the world on the 1^st of February, to stellar 

reviews!!! She also had Performances on the 4^th at Stigma Tattoo Bar, on the 8^th at the haven for the 

“Strength In Numbers Tour" with SoulJah Bless and our great friend Remedy Da Franchise, and on the 14^th 

at Spoken Word Revolutions!!! Also SoulJah Bless, LaRue, and “T” Performed at Connor Smith’s Studio 

18 Block Party, and also at Spoken Word Revolution wich is hosted by our sister Society’s Poet. 

Performances have been GREAT!!! We have also been nominated for the “Soul Of da City” Record Label 

of the year in Orlando, Fl. An awesome nomination, because “Soul Of da City” has been leading the way 

for the musical Talent in Orlando Florida to be heard.

     We have a couple Great events coming up for the rest of the month. Skyy High will be releasing the 

video for “Everything’s Alright” before the month is up. On the 25^th is a BIG meet and greet with LaRue 

Entertainment and many other big players in the industry. Also coming up on the 3^rd of March is he Soul 

Of Da City, then on the 9^th of march Skyy High and SoulJah Bless will be performing at the “One Mic 

Jam” located at Singh’s On Deck.

    

      Conscious Mind Records is also looking for new Minds to help our family grow. We are looking for 

people in area’s of Marketing, Promotion, Composers, Recording and mix Engineers, streat team members, 

and more. If you are interested in joining the Conscious Mind Records Family, and building yourself in the 

music industry, please contact me at t@consciousmindrecords.com . We look forward to expanding and 

having new people to help us reach around the world! 

January was Pretty Busy for Conscious Mind Records!!!

Conscious Mind Records has been very busy lately! We recently finished up the recording of Skyy High’s new…soon to be released album “Divinely Protected”! Showcased so far from this Mega Hit was “Road Thru Hell”, next the first single to be released for sale from the album was “Everything's Alright”. Both songs have received a lot of attention. Skyy High will be releasing the entire album towards the end of March this year. The word out is that it’s going to rise on the billboard charts pretty smoothly. You can purchase your copy of  “Everything’s Alright” off of CD Baby. Also this past month Skyy High was Rocking the shows!! For the month of February she has a steady flow of performances, a video shoot, a video release, and of coarse lots more studio time... She is unstoppable and on FIRE!!!!

In the month of January we also joined PAAD’s movement and participated in the Martin Luther King Day Parades for downtown Orlando and also Eatonville. As a member of PAAD it felt good to be able to help in such an honorable event. To show respect to the Honorable Doctor Martin Luther King!

LaRue has been working on his new album Unconditional and also LaRue, SoulJah Bless, “T”, Society’s Poet, Skyy High, Perry, JLIT and 1DAWG have all been working hard in the studio on the Company Compilation album "Conscious Awakening".

As always, “Spoken Word Revolution”, the monthly spoken word poetry show hosted by Society’s Poet, had an awesome night! We had great performances from all of the Poets and Music Artist. Spoken Word Revolution has been leading the state of Florida for over a year now as the #1 Spoken Word show in the state of Florida!

Well everyone that was a quick update on our past month and some things to look forward to in the future. Conscious Mind Records has been growing every single day. Our fans have become part of our family!!! Everyday more and more people are coming to the light. We will continue to keep everyone up to date with our progress and will continue to represent those who are trying to change humanity for the better. To bring everyone together like we all belong. Much Love, Peace and Blessings to you all!!! Peace! 

Clay Shirky speaks on Ted Talks About why SOPA/PIPA is Bad.

I watched a great video of a Ted Talk presentation today.  Clay Shirky gave a speech about why SOPA is a bad idea. In this speech he talked about the Stop Online Piracy Act. This act will allow the government to censor what you can or cannot put onto your website. This act is a bill in congress right now that states if you put media on your site that does not belong to you.. Ie..music, pictures, movies, video’s . ect… The government can shut your site down and will have all the search engines take their link to you down. Also they can come after you and prosecute you for steeling. The concept is actually to have a way to control online piracy over seas, however it gives a lot of leeway for the government to step into the domestic domain and control everything we do online.

 I speak for myself when I say I totally do not like this ideal. I am against online piracy, but I don’t agree with controlling what I can put up or not. Its kind of a catch 22. As a Record company owner, I 100% do not want anyone to use our music without paying for it. It’s like a painter painting a picture and everyone in the world being able to get it for free. The difference is the original painting is always worth more then copies, where as with music a copy is just as good as the original. As a person who loves music, I would like to continue to get music for free. I love being able to get all kinds of music without having to spend money to get it. I would be the customer that put’s my record company out of business.  SO the question is how do we fight this. Well we can call, write, and downright bother the mess out of our congressmen. With this being said, the choice is yours how you would like this to play out, but if you take no action do not be upset when the bill passes and you are now under more control. Peace!!! If you want to take action click this Link!

A.S.C.A.P.

The entertainment industry is one often depicting the glamorous or fun side of life, often leaving the business side out of the public’s eye. However in order for a lot of people to get paid for their work they must collect royalties. Royalties are money paid for the use of a writers, or composers works. People purchase the use of their music, usually licensed to them through a music publisher. The money for radio , club, elevator, and all other non-dramatic public performances of their copyrighted works are collected by performance rights organizations. Organizations such as American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

         A.S.C.A.P. is an organization made up of music writers, composers, and publishers. They collect royalties for the composers and writers, and distributes them accordingly. They along with a few other Performance Rights Organizations, have made it easy to collect royalties. Years ago a publisher would have to have connections with every radio station that plays there music. With organizations like A.S.C.A.P., Radio stations along with others pay them for a blackent license fee for the use of songs published by a large number of artist. The data of plays are sent to A.S.C.A.P and A.S.C.A.P will divide the royalties according to equal statistics for the music played.

         Performance Rights organizations allow writers such a s myself to be able to focus on our music instead of collecting money. I am a member of A.S.C.A.P. and have been for the past 6 years. It greatly effects my ability to make money. I highly recommend anyone that is in the music industry should deafeningly have a membership with one of these companies to get their fare share of the pie!.

A busy month for Conscious Mind Records Inc.

This past month has been a stellar month for Conscious Mind Records Inc. We have been nominated for the “Soul Of Da City” Record Label of the year. This is an honor for our company, because “Soul Of Da City” has done a lot to help build the Orlando music scene. Allowing many local artists to show their music to the world.

            Along with this great award nomination, we also released 2 music video’s.. the first one was “Judge Me” a great song off of LaRue’s “Saturn Returns album. After releasing this great video to awesome reviews, we released JLIT’s “Keep Talking" video. This is a wonderful song, about no matter how someone can try to put her down, she will continue to thrive.  Both of these video’s have been receiving great reviews.

            We have also started planning for 3 more videos in the near future, and multiple recordings coming soon.  On top of all of this, we have been notified that our music has been consistently being played on radio station all across the U.K. We have been asked to try and set show’s up over there. LaRue also won a recent contest with his new song “Move On”. Kay Tenko produced the beat, and had a contest for someone to come up with the best song for it.  

            Conscious Duplications has stepped into full production creating quality duplicates of CD’s and DVD’s to the public. Conscious Frames Photography has been working overtime on multiple projects for Conscious Mind Records and the public. We have taken our company to the next level and have many more wonderful ventures coming. 

            With a wonderful team/family working with us, Conscious Mind Records is a force to be reckoned with. Collaborations are in progress for many business ventures and we are expanding our staff. Adding on to our Marketing and Promotional teams, in order to effectively reach markets everywhere. Look for further post on here to keep you up to date with the progression of this great company!!