Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 429 July 31, 2019

So I’m going to really start
concentrating on putting my own
music out on my record label. I have
a Christmas album out on there and
things like that, but there is a track I’ve
done with a South African producer.
I don’t want to spill all the beans,
but we are going very Afro-tech. The
cover will reflect that, and we have a
little video where we are animated in
it. Someone animated us, and it looks
very much like Wakanda. So I’m going
to really start focusing on my own
label, and I believe that anything you
focus on and put your energy towards
will reflect that and will get bigger and
better. The label is called Ny-O-Dae.
It’s the same name as my publishing
company. My mother always told me
when I was a kid: “There’s nothing like
having your own.” I’ve always
He said, “We have to talk when you get
back.” Now, everyone knows what “we
gotta talk” means! He said, “No, it’s not
like that. I’m just wondering if this is what
I have to look forward to—you never
having time for me. Is that what this is
going to be?” I said, “You know what,
let me call you right back.” I never called
him. He kept calling and calling. If you’re
that short-sighted, than you can beat it!
Eventually I picked up, and he said, “I’ve
been calling and calling you.” I said, “You
don’t have to, I’m good.”
ES: That’s a great story.
RR: After interviewing 4,000 people,
it’s very hard not to do an interview
when someone’s doing an interview.
Right, it’s just second nature.
ES: So, Inaya, is there anything else
that you’d like to share that I haven’t
covered?
I don’t know if I mentioned it the last
time, but I have my own record label.
I’ve had it for quite some time. I’m really
going to start focusing on it, because I’m
always on everybody else’s label, and I
really have neglected my own.
followed that. I just need to put more
energy into my own.
ES: You’re right. Artists really have
a hard time making money these
days.
Yeah, you need at least seven streams
of income. Oh, and did you know
that last year Adidas licensed “Keep
Pushing”? They showed the song
during the Grammys. Actually, they
remixed the song, and they had Dua
Lipa, an award-winning pop artist,
singing it. They had to send me the
music, and I had to approve it. That
was so cool. I get to approve Dua
Lipa! So I was watching the Grammys
with my mother, and all this new
music was showing up during the
commercials. All the songs that had
sync licensing, you see them with
The Gap and things like that. It was
getting toward the end, and I told
my mother, “Man, they’re not going
to play ‘Keep Pushing.’” Then maybe
the next commercial, no sooner had I
said that, it came on. I was screaming.
That was a great feeling. That’s a peak
watch hour. So millions saw it, and
that was brilliant.
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