Tana Mongeau: Greatest Rapper of 2018.
17 July 2018 [link youtube]
#TanaForPrison #TanaCon #ActuallyAboutTheMeaningOfLife
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growing up there are some influences
that are forced upon us there's some influences that may be coming to our lives accidentally and there are some that we were seeking out for ourselves or that we selected for ourselves I think someone like Tanana Joe she both represents and actually is someone who pieced her personality together from powerful influences that she sought out and selected on the Internet primarily here on YouTube and then she went on to become someone on YouTube who influenced other young people don't get me wrong I mean some of the major influences her life like the rapper a little lane they existed on the radio but it wasn't through the medium of radio that little Wayne's influence became powerful in her life and then a whole bunch of see list and d-list celebrities most of whom you will have never heard of and I never heard of unless you noticed the big mentioned tomorrow's videos she you don't put together a bird's nest she found those influences and and and put them together and in so doing with the passage of time she really became she poured herself into a mold of her own creation and we all do that to some extent if you grew up in a Christian cult or you were beaten and whipped for anything you thought or said that was contrary which is the cult leader kind of another story yeah so the some extent to an extent each of us goes up this way and I think you know if you're really writing an autobiography examining your own childhood and your own development if you're looking back at those things it's very difficult to remember accurately in what cases an influence was forced upon you perhaps came into your life by accident or by chance and to what extent it was something you were seeking out something you select something that you made meaningful by your own volition however imperfect as a young people as opposed to something that was made meaningful for you by circumstances or by an outside Authority for me there's one I remember really clearly a comment from the rapper ice-t that was on Canadian television it was played many many times a Canadian back in those days Canadian television was kind of a smaller place than American television or European television there was an interview that ice-t gave zuly to the new music or one of the other Canadian programs where he just stopped and reflected that a lot of the time young people younger rappers complained to him that there was some kind of conspiracy in the industry the music industry to prevent them from getting had to prevent them from from being successful now again my point here is not that what he says in this topic is meaningful in some self F in a way that it's profound in a way that's gonna reach you right my audience my point is this was obviously something I was already wanting to hear I was already looking for I was already thinking about and this made a really big impact on me maybe because it was affirming a lot of stuff you know I was already animated about or concerned over that but he went on to say in this in this interview he said look I wake up every day and I talked to people in the industry and all of them are looking for new recording artists who can sell more records than I see who can who can perform for venues for bigger audiences and tiburtina see he said so if you're out there and you can rap you know like ice-t or you can rap better it's just not true that there's you know that there's a conspiracy against you in the industry on the on the news these words but on the contrary this whole industry is like a conspiracy to help you get ahead and you're just not you know you're not appreciating that and he said some worse effect you see I don't even think this is what I added to it this is my interpretation this is what I put onto it what I really got from this was he was fed up dealing with young people who were looking for a backdoor into the recording industry reliever way to trick their way in a way to use connections we'd asked him for help you know to get him set up with a meeting and he was saying don't use the backdoor use the front door like don't try to win through trickery or connections or favors just be good enough as a rapper as a musician as a performer that you can you can you know you can move the crowd you could entertain an audience of 3,000 people or you can sell some records or whatever it is and then go in the front door stop hanging around trying to get in the back door and you know it's funny but this came up in my life is young person again and again I remember really my last year of high school I had a bunch of conversations along this these lines but there was a young guy he was um his family was was Muslim for my conversation them I I felt he was an atheist so he seemed to be X Muslim or what-have-you and you know what he really wanted to be I think was a science fiction writer you know and I remember him asking me I know I'm you know why you asked me he asked me and he he used exactly those words he asked me about a back door into the publishing industry no case obviously we were both young I don't know what age were both in our last year of high school and I said to him in effect look you're young you're at the beginning of your life at the beginning of your career why now would you be talking about a backdoor into the publishing industry why would you be talking about cheating your way into publishing a book or a story or getting ahead in in science fiction you know look I can understand if you get to 55 years old 65 years old and you've been writing science fiction for years and you're really convinced that your science fiction is good but it's not reaching an audience then you start looking for some kind of friends or connections or conspiracy some kind of backdoor so you can get that outcome you can get that access without going in the front door but now for you whatever age we were I know 17 or what it was you know why aren't you looking at you know building up the craft building up your portfolio working on your writing doing the research whatever it is so that you really are the next Frank Herbert or george RR martin or whatever it is whatever is you aspire to be why aren't you interested in actually becoming that it actually being that instead of looking at you know for the back door instead of looking for a shortcut instead of looking to use connections so that you can in effect and what this is really about so why are you looking to get the trappings of success why are you looking to get the the trappings of Fame instead of actually earning what it is that's made these other people famous okay now guys some people are watching this video is the first video they've ever seen on my channel some people you know you've been watching my videos for years and you already know what I'm about um you know this this trope this thing with you know it came out of a momentary interview with a rapper my life has had nothing to do with rap music a minute it's not my field I'm not a recording artist and not someone involved in that world not involved in the performing arts you know you might think this is just you know a childhood memory but it's something that came up again and again and again even in academia even like in the formal context of my meeting with a professor who's offering to get me an MA in linguistics I would sing in my terms through a back door saying hey look we can set you up so you get this master's degree in linguistics and that's going to help you go ahead and do what you want to do and what I'm asking back yeah you can get me a master's degree but how am I actually going to learn this language like how am I going to do the work that the MA is supposed to represent how am I going to do the real thing hey I'm not interested in having the degree as it is creeping Hollow being just the trappings of learning I'm interested in the actual learning hundreds over the actual learning process and you know in that particular case there was no good answer for him for that know what they were really talking about was going through the motions of getting me an MA in linguistics but giving me absolutely zero language education and not even be able to supervise that or what-have-you and this is not the only example of its kind in several other disciplines where segregating an MA or first getting an MA and then getting a PhD there's a lot of talk about frankly this kind of conspiracy to give you the credentials of learning without you actually doing learning um anyway when I look at Tana mojo today this is 2018 what I see is obviously pretty sad Tana mojo presented to all of us an example of someone who was as she says again and again born dirt poor terrible education dropped out of school learned everything she knows by watching garbage on YouTube again these kind of self selected self reinforced you know sources of cultural and philosophical influence put together her identity from these from these bits and pieces and then she had this opportunity to be more to be something better you know morally and ethically and you know her flirtation with veganism was all obviously a part of that and in terms of her career or in her financial situation and everything else she had this opportunity handed to her which is really much more rare than one in a million she had the the potential to symbolize something much more positive for audience and to actually be something much more positive for herself for audience for anyone else who who cares and instead exactly what she got caught up in was having a crowd of people standing in the Sun screaming to get in you know was the crowd outside the barrier it was you know vanity of vanities it wasn't even the thing it was um anyway the worst most counterproductive elements of having people thronging you know to see you to hear your voice and at the same time these recent events jobs but absolutely no thought and absolutely no effort into what is it these people are gonna hear when they get in the door what is the show you're putting on what's the food and drink you're offering I mean ultimately she's offering like a concert with no music at this point you know what this what is the product supposed to be here what is the performance and so on those things were going unthought-of and she was utterly caught up in the the trappings of Fame so look guys Tana mojo she really is part of my personal experience here on on YouTube in a really weird and dynamic way I have within the last year watched a bunch of Tana Maggio videos you know with my girlfriend and and several years ago one of the first videos that really got my name out there within the the vegan demi-monde now got over I think 14,000 15,000 views was a video directly answering and talking to Tana mojo and you know all of us on YouTube or within six degrees of separation or each other I remember once she did a she did a video event with Charles Marlow Foreman wants to fee Conchita and this stuff you know that's back when she was vegan herself and there was some you know um she was part of the she was part of the demi-monde the same day we Mont I was in and so on and I say all the time in discussions of ethics on this channel that ultimately you know you have to ask yourself who do I want to be what kind of person do I want to become and it's a subtle distinction but you know the answer famous famous is not an answer to that question famous isn't who you want to be and may seem like a small step but what do you want to be famous for what you want to be appreciated for you know obviously tanomo joe was was just too stupid to realize the opportunities you had and she's instead just become another example of someone presented with an extraordinary opportunity who squandered it
that are forced upon us there's some influences that may be coming to our lives accidentally and there are some that we were seeking out for ourselves or that we selected for ourselves I think someone like Tanana Joe she both represents and actually is someone who pieced her personality together from powerful influences that she sought out and selected on the Internet primarily here on YouTube and then she went on to become someone on YouTube who influenced other young people don't get me wrong I mean some of the major influences her life like the rapper a little lane they existed on the radio but it wasn't through the medium of radio that little Wayne's influence became powerful in her life and then a whole bunch of see list and d-list celebrities most of whom you will have never heard of and I never heard of unless you noticed the big mentioned tomorrow's videos she you don't put together a bird's nest she found those influences and and and put them together and in so doing with the passage of time she really became she poured herself into a mold of her own creation and we all do that to some extent if you grew up in a Christian cult or you were beaten and whipped for anything you thought or said that was contrary which is the cult leader kind of another story yeah so the some extent to an extent each of us goes up this way and I think you know if you're really writing an autobiography examining your own childhood and your own development if you're looking back at those things it's very difficult to remember accurately in what cases an influence was forced upon you perhaps came into your life by accident or by chance and to what extent it was something you were seeking out something you select something that you made meaningful by your own volition however imperfect as a young people as opposed to something that was made meaningful for you by circumstances or by an outside Authority for me there's one I remember really clearly a comment from the rapper ice-t that was on Canadian television it was played many many times a Canadian back in those days Canadian television was kind of a smaller place than American television or European television there was an interview that ice-t gave zuly to the new music or one of the other Canadian programs where he just stopped and reflected that a lot of the time young people younger rappers complained to him that there was some kind of conspiracy in the industry the music industry to prevent them from getting had to prevent them from from being successful now again my point here is not that what he says in this topic is meaningful in some self F in a way that it's profound in a way that's gonna reach you right my audience my point is this was obviously something I was already wanting to hear I was already looking for I was already thinking about and this made a really big impact on me maybe because it was affirming a lot of stuff you know I was already animated about or concerned over that but he went on to say in this in this interview he said look I wake up every day and I talked to people in the industry and all of them are looking for new recording artists who can sell more records than I see who can who can perform for venues for bigger audiences and tiburtina see he said so if you're out there and you can rap you know like ice-t or you can rap better it's just not true that there's you know that there's a conspiracy against you in the industry on the on the news these words but on the contrary this whole industry is like a conspiracy to help you get ahead and you're just not you know you're not appreciating that and he said some worse effect you see I don't even think this is what I added to it this is my interpretation this is what I put onto it what I really got from this was he was fed up dealing with young people who were looking for a backdoor into the recording industry reliever way to trick their way in a way to use connections we'd asked him for help you know to get him set up with a meeting and he was saying don't use the backdoor use the front door like don't try to win through trickery or connections or favors just be good enough as a rapper as a musician as a performer that you can you can you know you can move the crowd you could entertain an audience of 3,000 people or you can sell some records or whatever it is and then go in the front door stop hanging around trying to get in the back door and you know it's funny but this came up in my life is young person again and again I remember really my last year of high school I had a bunch of conversations along this these lines but there was a young guy he was um his family was was Muslim for my conversation them I I felt he was an atheist so he seemed to be X Muslim or what-have-you and you know what he really wanted to be I think was a science fiction writer you know and I remember him asking me I know I'm you know why you asked me he asked me and he he used exactly those words he asked me about a back door into the publishing industry no case obviously we were both young I don't know what age were both in our last year of high school and I said to him in effect look you're young you're at the beginning of your life at the beginning of your career why now would you be talking about a backdoor into the publishing industry why would you be talking about cheating your way into publishing a book or a story or getting ahead in in science fiction you know look I can understand if you get to 55 years old 65 years old and you've been writing science fiction for years and you're really convinced that your science fiction is good but it's not reaching an audience then you start looking for some kind of friends or connections or conspiracy some kind of backdoor so you can get that outcome you can get that access without going in the front door but now for you whatever age we were I know 17 or what it was you know why aren't you looking at you know building up the craft building up your portfolio working on your writing doing the research whatever it is so that you really are the next Frank Herbert or george RR martin or whatever it is whatever is you aspire to be why aren't you interested in actually becoming that it actually being that instead of looking at you know for the back door instead of looking for a shortcut instead of looking to use connections so that you can in effect and what this is really about so why are you looking to get the trappings of success why are you looking to get the the trappings of Fame instead of actually earning what it is that's made these other people famous okay now guys some people are watching this video is the first video they've ever seen on my channel some people you know you've been watching my videos for years and you already know what I'm about um you know this this trope this thing with you know it came out of a momentary interview with a rapper my life has had nothing to do with rap music a minute it's not my field I'm not a recording artist and not someone involved in that world not involved in the performing arts you know you might think this is just you know a childhood memory but it's something that came up again and again and again even in academia even like in the formal context of my meeting with a professor who's offering to get me an MA in linguistics I would sing in my terms through a back door saying hey look we can set you up so you get this master's degree in linguistics and that's going to help you go ahead and do what you want to do and what I'm asking back yeah you can get me a master's degree but how am I actually going to learn this language like how am I going to do the work that the MA is supposed to represent how am I going to do the real thing hey I'm not interested in having the degree as it is creeping Hollow being just the trappings of learning I'm interested in the actual learning hundreds over the actual learning process and you know in that particular case there was no good answer for him for that know what they were really talking about was going through the motions of getting me an MA in linguistics but giving me absolutely zero language education and not even be able to supervise that or what-have-you and this is not the only example of its kind in several other disciplines where segregating an MA or first getting an MA and then getting a PhD there's a lot of talk about frankly this kind of conspiracy to give you the credentials of learning without you actually doing learning um anyway when I look at Tana mojo today this is 2018 what I see is obviously pretty sad Tana mojo presented to all of us an example of someone who was as she says again and again born dirt poor terrible education dropped out of school learned everything she knows by watching garbage on YouTube again these kind of self selected self reinforced you know sources of cultural and philosophical influence put together her identity from these from these bits and pieces and then she had this opportunity to be more to be something better you know morally and ethically and you know her flirtation with veganism was all obviously a part of that and in terms of her career or in her financial situation and everything else she had this opportunity handed to her which is really much more rare than one in a million she had the the potential to symbolize something much more positive for audience and to actually be something much more positive for herself for audience for anyone else who who cares and instead exactly what she got caught up in was having a crowd of people standing in the Sun screaming to get in you know was the crowd outside the barrier it was you know vanity of vanities it wasn't even the thing it was um anyway the worst most counterproductive elements of having people thronging you know to see you to hear your voice and at the same time these recent events jobs but absolutely no thought and absolutely no effort into what is it these people are gonna hear when they get in the door what is the show you're putting on what's the food and drink you're offering I mean ultimately she's offering like a concert with no music at this point you know what this what is the product supposed to be here what is the performance and so on those things were going unthought-of and she was utterly caught up in the the trappings of Fame so look guys Tana mojo she really is part of my personal experience here on on YouTube in a really weird and dynamic way I have within the last year watched a bunch of Tana Maggio videos you know with my girlfriend and and several years ago one of the first videos that really got my name out there within the the vegan demi-monde now got over I think 14,000 15,000 views was a video directly answering and talking to Tana mojo and you know all of us on YouTube or within six degrees of separation or each other I remember once she did a she did a video event with Charles Marlow Foreman wants to fee Conchita and this stuff you know that's back when she was vegan herself and there was some you know um she was part of the she was part of the demi-monde the same day we Mont I was in and so on and I say all the time in discussions of ethics on this channel that ultimately you know you have to ask yourself who do I want to be what kind of person do I want to become and it's a subtle distinction but you know the answer famous famous is not an answer to that question famous isn't who you want to be and may seem like a small step but what do you want to be famous for what you want to be appreciated for you know obviously tanomo joe was was just too stupid to realize the opportunities you had and she's instead just become another example of someone presented with an extraordinary opportunity who squandered it