After all that waiting for the DistroKid payment… $52 finally landed. 😭💸 Months of checking, refreshing, stressing, reading Reddit, wondering if the money even existed… DistroKid really said: “You’re welcome.” 😂 Big payday, boys. Retirement starts tomorrow. 🤑

I’m sitting down tonight, winding my brain down before bed, reading and listening to this podcast at the same time, and I was surprised to see Rick Rubin pop up on The Diary of a CEO. I loved the story in the intro about Jay-Z sitting there listening to a beat, basically mumbling and rhyming in his head, then stepping up, recording it two or three times, picking the best take, and boom, there’s the song. You know what that tells me? He has his process down. And I love that because it reminded me so much of the way I (and a lot of you) like to create music now. Sometimes I’ll literally start by humming a melody or rhyme, type it into ChatGPT — or just record it directly — and build an entire song from that one little idea. Then I’ll listen to the beat over and over, mumbling, singing, and rewriting parts in my head until the song feels right. That’s honestly one of my favorite parts of making music. Growing up in the ’90s, when everybody wanted to freestyle and rap, that part of the creative process is just fun to me. I’m only at the beginning of this interview, but it’s pretty damn cool hearing how similar parts of Jay-Z’s creative process are to the way we naturally like to work with AI music today. Different tools. Same creative instinct.

Here’s a new video of me going through the updated workflow using the same tools, along with the new Suno updates. So far, I don’t think we’re going to have any major issues. It looks like we can still get pretty much unlimited downloads without much trouble. Check out the video and let me know how the new workflow is working for you!

Is there a SIGNIFICANT difference between Mureka, SUNO and Mozart? One that deserves to change platforms? I find SUNO's repetitiveness in lyrics really annoying. Do you, dear tribe, have a way to fix this, that won't impact my work flow (I copy/paste the 20 prompts Gemini spits. After 4 albums, it becomes very repetitive)? Thanks!

Hey everyone, I want to say this real quick because this free community has grown fast and I don’t want anybody thinking I’m ignoring them. There are several hundred of you in here now and I’m getting hit with hundreds of notifications a day. Comments, questions, screenshots, song feedback, DistroKid stuff, Spotify stuff, YouTube stuff, release questions, all of it. I’m doing my best to answer as many people as I can as fast as I can. But I know some of y’all are getting left hanging longer than I want. That is not me ignoring you. That is not me brushing you off. That is just me trying to keep up with a community that is growing fast. So I do apologize if I missed your comment or didn’t get back to you yet. I really do. This free group is still here to help people get started and learn the game. But I also want to remind everybody that there is a paid AI Music Empire Skool community for the people who want more direct access to me. That is where we do the live calls every Thursday and Sunday. That is where you can DM me. That is where you can ask deeper questions, pick my brain, and get more hands on help with what you are building. So if you are serious about this and you want more direct help, come join us here: https://www.skool.com/aimusic/about I just wanted to put this out there because I know some of y’all are getting left hanging in the wind and I don’t want it to feel like I don’t care. I appreciate every single one of you. I’m not ignoring you. I’m just one guy trying to keep up.