We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Shawn Douglas a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Shawn, appreciate you joining us today. Do you feel you or your work has ever been misunderstood or mischaracterized? If so, tell us the story and how/why it happened and if there are any interesting learnings or insights you took from the experience?
Being an artist with having multiple careers is hard because people will discredit being an artist and call me an entrepreneur which is frustrating at times because you want to be known for your music through anything first. Some people ask are you a singer or a rapper when I look at myself as an Artist just because I have a verity of sounds and music. Also I’m misinterpreted by my image when people see the music they might see a cocky or arrogant artist when I’m more humble than anything their perception changes once they get to know me.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
My name is S.A.I.N.T I’m an independent artist signed to an independent label “BeatRoot Music” I’ve been doing music since a teen but started putting out work in 2019 I’ve been in two deals with two different labels since I dropped my first mixtape in 2017. I got my start by putting out music by myself until the first label reached out. My goal is to stay consistent for my fans and people who listen so they can never get enough music. I’m a very versatile artist with a verity of mainstream Hiphop and R&B. What I believe to set me apart from other artist is my work ethic and dropping albums, music, and videos consistently throughout each year. Every song is different with the sounds and meanings I touch the females more with my R&B and club music as well as the fellas with hard Hiphop or rap music . I drop about 6-7 projects a year that’s pretty outstanding to most artist whom will only put out one or two projects. I’m most proud of recently is getting 6 million streams with a one to two month period. Most people aren’t putting numbers up and it sets me on another level than most. My brand is just being yourself the underdog who proves everyone wrong and prevails.
What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?
The most rewarding aspect as an artist for me is when someone says they can live through my music and it speaks to them in a way as in make them feel good or get them through hard times. That’s the most rewarding gift I can ask for.
Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?
I wish I could have learned more about marketing. Through the beginning it was very hard getting heard and reaching new people. I did a lot of studying the music didn’t matter if it wasn’t in peoples faces which now I take very seriously.
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