Watch Oya Obinidodo - Telling A Fib Remix-Official music video
Today, Telling A Fib Remix music video was submitted to two more film festivals. Those film festivals were, the Flux Screening Series Film Festival, and the GutterCast Film Festival. The music video has been submitted to a total of nine festivals so far. I also submitted the music video to Worldstarhiphop and other music blogs.
As of April 2024, GutterCast was not able to accept me for the festival, and I haven't heard from the rest. I haven't submitted anything since.
Same record label, different name
Last year, I ran a blog and record label called Holy Death Records. It lasted for one year. I performed at local venues and open mic nights until I outgrew it for good. I get no pleasure or money from performing in front of these crowds. I did it for free and I did it just to get my name out there. It's 2024, and I refuse to perform for free now. If the stank, gross, racist hillbillies can't pay me, then they aren't good for anything. I'm sick of swimming in poverty and I'm sick of gay fagg*t women and men, acting like I owe them something.
Anyways, after I deleted the domain, at the beginning of 2024, GoDaddy gave me the option to sell it for $100. I didn't try to sell Holy Death Records. I just moved on instead. I figured no one would want it, and the money I invested into it I just considered it a lost. I spent several hundred dollars running the GoDaddy website.
I switched to blogger, which I use to use for a previous site I ran called The Rough Outdoors, and started No Females Allowed. All I have to pay for is the domain and the email address. The site itself is free. It might not have as many high tech features as GoDaddy or another platform, but for my budget it's good enough.
None of my social media accounts are for sale but they do have a monetary value, just like any other company.
The official monetary value of No Females Allowed (@Oyaobinidodo) in April 2024
(value increases every time new content is posted)
Official SoundCloud: $100 & up
Official Instagram: $500 & up
Official YouTube Channel: $2,000 or more
Official Website: $1
Official Vimeo Channel: $700
Musixmatch: $70
Official Daily Motion Channel: $10
Official Spotify: $320 or more
Official Merch Shop: $130
Recording Equipment: $2,000
I don't wanna get myself prematurely killed trying to chase fame and money
If I want to become famous I probably could. I could fly to Hollywood and go to the BET awards and sit in the audience and then go find some after party to perform my new music at. Or I could go to all those film festivals and local bars and see how many competitions I can win, but why do all that for attention?
Unfortunately fame isn't what I'm chasing. Money is. Like legendary hip hop god Biggie Smalls said, 'Mo money, mo problems'. If I do make it big, everybody in VA gonna have their hand out acting like I owe them my soul. I don't even know these pigs. They rejected me my whole life and then going to have the nerve to act like I owe them everything I struggled to get.
I Hope These Hating, Greedy, Pigs are Happy: I'll never be rich and I'll be spending the rest of my life poor
There are thousands if not millions of other people chasing the same dream. Why waste my time? I already been to Hollywood and all I was able to witness was the dark side of it. People die all the time. Nipsey Hussle, Pop Smoke, and Tupac are the deaths that are in the headlines. There are thousands and thousands of other rappers dying in the streets that people don't even speak on. I don't wanna get added to the list, trying to chase a bogus pipe dream. There are hundreds of thousands of men and women throughout the United States, that really hate me. It's scary, but I live through it.
Flexing with A Flex Card: How I get free wine from the government
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| Mini Bottles of La Marca Prosecco on ice 2024. © Oya Obinidodo. |
Every month, I get $75 loaded onto a health insurance benefits card called Healthy Benefits (Nations Benefits). With the Healthy Benefits MasterCard card, also known as a Flex Card, I can buy food and wine from certain grocery stores. Each month, on the first of the month, I buy usually between 3-4 mini bottles of La Marca Prosecco. I've never tried to use the card to buy another kind of wine. I know it works for La Marca Prosecco for certain because I've been getting the free Prosecco for several months. The 187 ml La Marca Prosecco bottles are $8 each at the grocery store where the Healthy Benefits MasterCard card is accepted. That basically means that I can not purchase more than 9 bottles with the Healthy Benefits card.
Unlike EBT, I didn't even know that I could get wine with the card. It doesn't take long to max out a $75 card. I won't spend the whole card on wine because I don't want to sit around drinking everyday. I usually spend the rest on food. Turn your noses up all you want- I can't go wrong with free wine! If you're looking to score free wine, and have a Healthy Benefits Grocery MasterCard Flex Card, you might wanna head on over to the store and see if it works!
Wine is expensive in the nightclubs. The same bottles that are in the retail stores can cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars in a club or upscale restaurant! For example, those same 187 ml bottles of LaMarca Prosecco, cost $15 at Benihana.
If I wanted to, I could save the Healthy Benefits card and use it for wine only. The card works for any kind of wine, not just prosecco. I'm all about saving a dollar, and that doesn't mean I'm being basic. I'm just being conservative.
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References:
https://www.nationsbenefits.com/FlexCards
Last updated: September 19th, 2024 5:13 pm
