[00:02.69]此语音日记录制于2021年9月5日
[00:02.94]中国上海 闵行区万源路 宜必思酒店
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[00:03.71]It is now 1.45 a.m. September 5th, 2021.
[00:14.34]It has been, it has been almost two months since I left Hong Kong.
[00:25.99]Since I made that jump to Shanghai.
[00:30.83]Two weeks of quarantine, 14 days.
[00:36.45]I got myself into this hotel, IBIS, this hotel.
[00:41.58]6,600 RMB per month, 30 days.
[00:47.26]I'm recording this on a MacBook Pro that I've always wanted to get for a long time and never was able to, but I finally got it.
[00:58.03]And, you know, I'm here, I'm actually here.
[01:04.15]I'm here in the hotel, in Shanghai
[01:10.28]In the span of a month. I've met, I've met some of the biggest rappers in China.
[01:19.34]I've had dinner with them. I know them on a personal basis.
[01:25.84]I've had one-on-one meetings with some very influential people in Shanghai.
[01:35.19]I've met Gali, I've met Benzo.
[01:38.91]Not only that, but about a year ago, I was first put in touch with HARIKIRI.
[01:49.07]He's one of my favourite producers, someone I always looked up to.
[01:52.39]Someone I've always wanted to make music with.
[01:54.87]Someone I wanted to meet, someone I wanted to contribute to, to be associated with.
[02:03.28]I remember feeling so anxious, like wondering if I'd ever meet him.
[02:11.91]If I'd ever get to Shanghai. If I'd ever have these things that I've always wanted to have.
[02:26.51]It's crazy to even say that I met HARIKIRI and I had dinner with him.
[02:34.13]Same restaurant that I used to go to with my mother when I was young.
[02:39.79]Chartres Garden
[02:40.68]夏朵花园
[02:41.60]I used to want to go there all the time.
[02:44.36]When I was in Hong Kong, I used to just fantasise about being back there again.
[02:53.14]I met HARIKIRI for four hours and we talked about...
[02:57.79]I didn't even expect this at all, but he talked about wanting to sign me to his new label, IRIS.
[03:09.50]I never thought that would happen.
[03:19.82]I'm excited to see how things unfold in the next couple months.
[03:25.91]What's crazy is that today, yesterday, my song “Grey Clouds” was placed on Beats and Rhymes (Spotify).
[03:38.77]The same playlist that I watched other Hong Kong artists like Dough-Boy, Young Hysan.
[03:46.84]I used to watch them get on that playlist and I'd wonder when it's ever going to be my turn.
[03:57.27]All I did was just follow my gut.
[04:00.48]All I did was just exactly what that book said, “Think and Grow Rich”.
[04:05.36]All I ever did was send out my desire.
[04:09.99]I forgot about it, I just kept working towards it.
[04:13.80]I woke up and I was on Beats and Rhymes, just like that.
[04:19.93]Just like that.
[04:21.43]Never had to... You know, just like that.
[04:26.73]I didn't stress about it, I didn't ask for it. It just happened.
[04:34.02]Not only that, same day I also got on the cover of a Spotify editorial playlist.
[04:42.19]I remember when I used to release songs and they wouldn't get on any Spotify editorial playlists.
[04:48.90]I released song after song after song.
[04:52.25]No playlists, but I kept going.
[04:54.62]Because I knew that one day
[04:57.66]I knew that one day I'd hit the f***ing jackpot and they will recognise my greatness.
[05:04.56]They will realise that I can make music in a way nobody can.
[05:09.74]And it's crazy because after all these years, all this time, 20 months, almost 2 years I've been doing this since nothing.
[05:20.53]2 years. 24 months.
[05:23.24]I changed my life completely.
[05:26.48]Just the way I intended it to. Just the way I wanted it to.
[05:32.24]I've surpassed so many people back in Hong Kong, they don't even realise it.
[05:39.97]Because what they don't realise is that I don't do this to... Particularly for fame or recognition.
[05:47.52]I do this to prove that manifestation, the law of attraction is real.
[05:56.50]To prove it to myself.
[05:58.38]And every single time I prove it to myself, the more and more I believe in God's plan, laws of the universe, the more I believe that this is true.
[06:10.36]“Think and Grow Rich”, that book, the stuff in that book has been there for centuries and it's still relevant.
[06:22.29]People back then knew something that we don't know now.
[06:34.24]I used to be nervous, intimidated about my place, my future in China.
[06:42.90]Whether I'd actually be somebody in hip-hop.
[06:48.21]The more time I spend here, the more I realise, not only am I going to have a place here, I might actually be the greatest ever.
[07:10.39]Or most successful ever in Chinese hip-hop.
[07:15.70] Maybe not now, maybe not in a year, maybe not in two years, maybe not in three.
[07:21.86]But eventually, eventually, I'm going to be one of the biggest Chinese rappers in the world, if not the biggest.
[07:37.64]I'm going to shift the landscape of Chinese hip-hop.
[07:42.48]I'm going to have legendary albums, projects.
[08:01.19] It might not be easy, and I might have unexpected obstacles
[08:04.19]But I have the determination and I have the persistence to overcome anything thrown my way and the faith, the support of God.
[08:22.48]I'm 21 now. I'm going to make a fortune.
[08:28.29]I'm going to have an incredible legacy.
[08:36.36]It's just like how I have things now that doesn't even seem real, but I used to want it so badly.
[08:43.80]Things don't always happen exactly the way you want it to, but they always happen the way you ask for it.
[08:51.88]What you ask for always comes.
[08:54.72]Just not in the way you think it will.
[08:58.08]I think that's the secret, you know?
[09:05.28]We'll see where I am in a couple months.
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[09:11.00] 混音 / 母带 : 郑景曦 Haysen Cheng @ IRIS/Chengdu
[09:11.77] 人声录音 / 剪辑 : 郑景曦 Haysen Cheng @ IRIS/Chengdu
[09:12.54] OP : IRIS CHENGDU
[09:13.31] SP : Universal Music Publishing