We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Buck Stallion. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Buck below.

Buck, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. I’m sure there have been days where the challenges of being an artist or creative force you to think about what it would be like to just have a regular job. When’s the last time you felt that way? Did you have any insights from the experience?

Lemme break it down for the people at home…. So, sometimes I gotta ditch the wild artistic ride and clock in at a regular gig – what I like to call “Einstein time.” It’s like stepping into a different zone, vibing with the community on a whole new level.

Doin’ the 9 to 5 hustle? Yeah, it’s like an artistic boot camp. I’m expanding my craft, soaking up new flavors, and peeping into the everyday grind of folks. It’s wild how it can feel kinda fruitless, you know? Like, creativity’s bubbling inside me, ready to explode like a dang volcano.

So, I take a breather, maybe a year or so, soak up that regular life, and then bam – back to the creative chaos. It’s like a frickin’ eruption of ideas and vibes. Going from the grind to the artistic flow, it’s like yin and yang, man. The contrast fuels me up for the next creative rollercoaster. It’s a dance between the structured and the wild, and I’m just riding that Buck Stallion wave, trying to find the sweet spot.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

Howdy! I’m Justin Pickering Smith, formerly “Jay Smith Biatch”, the man behind the beard and the entertainer known as Buck Stallion. I grew up with a home video camera and a need to create music and videos and movies. I felt like it was a calling of some sort to turn peoples worlds upside down. I guess the monotony of the world seemed really dire growing up in a blue collar industrial/packaging town. Back in the day, I was always told there’s a time and place for everything, and guess what? Now people pay me for that time and place to step into character. Sometimes it feels like I am just a genie in a bottle lol

In this wild ride of creativity, I wear many hats—lounge singer, digital artist, music composer, and the guy keeping the improv stage alive. The truth about entertainment is that when you walk into a gig you can let yourself be compartmentalized or you can absorb lots of tasks and have a lot of input on the end product and in a lot of place. People, generally, aren’t focused on the end product most of the time, they’re focused on their one job and how it serves them and that kills me. Whenever I show up on a gig I just can’t even do that…I can’t ignore the issues that I can tend to because there isn’t a project that doesn’t have issues. As a child and even in my younger days, I was often told it wasn’t the time, but now? Now, it’s my time. So many years of different experiences sometimes whenever I tell people specific stories it almost becomes surreal people always say to me wow you’ve done a million jobs, but really it’s just one job, and that’s getting it done. And making it sick.

Let me introduce you to my parody umbrella brand and record label, Buck Stallion’s Emporium. It all began as a simple way to say hello to businesses around a new venue, and it snowballed into an umbrella parody company. I mean who doesn’t want a free commercial with me, as Buck Stallion, acting CEO, and building a friendship in the community. Now, under this virtual roof, we promote businesses, services, products, and random ideas, making it a one-stop shop for entertainment and random wonders. My friend Leroy calls it a wormhole. But I’m thinking more like my own kind of ACME.

And that’s not all – it’s also the name of my record label, Buck Stallion’s Emporium (Records). I mentioned that it was an umbrella, right? Where ever you get your music from, search: Buck Stallion’s Emporium and you’ll find original music by yours truly, Buck Stallion, alongside talents like Jon “Slie One” Booker, the Testerossas Rap Star Group, DJ Madd209, and Tilly Siucra. Working on a new project right now called Them Rancho Boyz and it’s a pretty funny project to say the least. It’s something to behold I’ll say that much and I’m not trying to be too mysterious I just think that if you can’t see it live, it’s too stupid to explain lol Shout out to Keyboard Steve and DJ Mentl

I think my favorite thing to do is be a character and I feel like recently the acting aspect of it has been being more appreciated. In a lot of ways the art becomes us the longer we play a character it doesn’t mean that we necessarily become that characters values but sometimes the character starts to morph into who we really are and I think to a lot of people I have become Buck Stallion. I think the part of the journey every artist should embrace is blurring the lines between art imitating life and life imitating art. It’s the best feeling really. It’s probably the part where most artists flys the way of the cuckoos nest, I suppose.

So, potential clients, collaborators, followers, and fans, when you step into the wormhole of Buck Stallion’s, you’re not just entering the realm of entertainment. You’re stepping into a dimension where creativity knows no bounds, and every moment is a chance to discover something wonderfully random. Let’s create something unforgettable together! I have references lol

We’d love to hear your thoughts on NFTs. (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

NFTs crack me up. People figured out a quick way to make a buck, and you know, I’m all for the hustle. But the inflation game? That’s mad hilarious. Trading millions of bitcoins, tron coins, dosia coins—it’s mind-blowing that folks had that kind of cash to throw around. Some are still deep in that world. The sheer ridiculousness of it all is perfectly captured in a song I cooked up with my guru, Rog. It’s called “Stake ‘n Chill,” and it’s a flex in the crypto world, I guess. Imagine a musical comedy about the wild ride of crypto, where the laughs just keep on coming. Life’s too short not to find the humor in it, especially when we’re talking about virtual coins and the whole circus that comes with them.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

The journey of a creative soul can be a bit like riding a wild stallion through uncharted territories. For non-creatives, it might be challenging to grasp the constant dance between structure and chaos that fuels our inspiration. The struggle isn’t just about making something pretty; it’s about turning emotions, thoughts, and experiences into a tangible form that resonates. Not everyone can see the creative process, and not everyone will respect it. Every time somebody told me I should get a normal job, be it friends or family, it made me contemplate that path. But here’s the kicker: every time I took on a regular job, it made me realize my value. See, in the art world, it’s like living on a commission-based salary – there are highs and lows, but both create epic art. It’s a journey full of surprises, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

If you have artistically motivated friend maybe they are messy maybe they seem cluttered maybe they look like they’re covered in paint all the time you just have to know that they are constantly creating even if it’s just their eggs in the morning they did it “that way” because they have no other way.

There is no such thing as non-creatives in my opinion. I think sometimes we are programmed by what society tells us we need to do. I mean there was a time where I thought I just needed to go work at the cannery and go to college. Dodged a couple bullets there . I think there’s a lot of ways to think outside the box that some people are just afraid to do… it doesn’t make them not creative it just makes them afraid of random probability . When I enter a room I take a deep breath and prepare for a shouting match with a random person. I like to think of myself as somewhat of a Clint Eastwood of words lol When a verbal shoot out doesn’t happen then I’m pretty stoked, but everybody is a main character now . Since the 2020 lockdowns, everyone’s gotten this entitlement that may lead them someday to finding their creative side. It takes a little bit of ego to break the crust . Just don’t be afraid to cringe when you look back at what you used to do.

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