Back in 2016, my brothers @alchemage & @kennyskitchen told me to join this crazy thing called Steemit. Respecting their knowledgeable advise, I immediately responded by opening an account, although it took some serious guidance to learn how to make my first post back then. I was immediately thrown into this crazy chat to promote my posts (maybe it was Discord I can't remember), which I had even more trouble wrapping my head around. After my first few days on Steemit, I decided that it was currently a little beyond my technical skill and experience level. I spent the next 2 years so busy with other projects, that I literally could not find the time to sit down and study the platform's mechanics, so I didn't post again until this year.
::Fast forward to #anarchapulco in Febuary of 2018:: Since I finally had some free time, after a long two years of what seemed to be endless hard work, @kennyskitchen advised me to come to the #anarchapulco & #anarchaforko conferences. It took a few in person visits and a lot of convincing, but I am forever grateful I decided to say yes, and drop tons of money to make it happen.
After being in Acapulco for a couple days, @hempress and I sat down with Kenny in our paradise of an office, and started hitting Steemit hard with crucial content. With nothing to do but experience awesomeness and report on it through Steemit, it wasn't long before we each found our niches on this platform, and starting really ramping up our professionalism.
It also wasn't long until @kennyskitchen recognized the type of content we were creating was in line with what he was looking for in members of his Steemit tribe, @tribesteemup. From the moment I was nominated and approved to be a member of this tribe, I have felt only honor and pride, and continuously publish content that I feel is at least up to par with the expected & unspoken standards of the tribe. Not everyone will be a full time Steemian, and create posts that are as expansive and comprehensive as @kennyskitchen's, but every day I strive to get closer to his personal standards of writing Steemit posts (a personal work in progress, he is hard to keep up with).
Since returning to Portland, OR from the #anarchapulco & #anarchaforko conferences, I continued on my Steemit journey and expanded to other concepts in my life like cannabis and festivals. I have also received an immense amount of support for my upcoming debut album release through Steemit and discord. Another group on discord called Dynamic Steemians (which I will explain later in a future post) helped me find a graphic designer (@baa.steemit) to finally digitize my emcee logo in a timely fashion, that will also be my official album art (pictured below).
I have to attribute most of my success on Steemit to @tribesteemup, and I know I am not alone on that front. @kennyskitchen and @adamkokesh have also helped promote a good amount of my content manually, which has also helped my advancement on the platform immensely. I am so honored to be supported by such honorable individuals, and such an honorable tribe, who's members are posting to help the Earth and humanity, or at least raising awareness of the importance of these concepts. And I of course support all of these people as well.
In the midst of all this, I kept forging solid material on a plethora of conscious topics, with no plans of stopping or slowing down. One day @hempress and I figured out we needed to join the Tribe Steem Up curation trail, to help synergistically promote our tribe more. We now vote on every post made by any member of the tribe.
Later that same day, @adamkokesh surprisingly joined our curation trail also, which was and is a HUGE deal for so many reasons. For one it raised all tribe member's post values by a substantial amount, which is a huge plus, but more importantly, an official backing from someone like @adamkokesh gives much more credibility to what our tribe is about (not that we didn't have credibility before). I am forever grateful for all the assistance that @adamkokesh gives to all the Steemians he supports, and the freedom movement he is still continuously nurturing.
Then, a little over a week after this new addition to our trail, yesterday happened, AND THINGS GOT EVEN MORE EXCITING! Yesterday @jamesc delegated about 500,000 SP to @tribesteemup! No your eyes are not deceiving you, that was a five hundred thousand Steem Power delegation! The future is looking bright for the tribe, and I am excited to see what happens next.
In the mean time, I will continue to increase the quality of my posts, and keep chugging away FULL STEEM AHEAD! I will have my first full conscious Hip-Hop album published on the summer solstice, a record release party in Portland the following evening, and will post about all of it. Look for my album The Hex Wrecker, available to all of you wonderful people for FREE upon release.
Thank you to everyone who made this tribe happen and keeps it happening, especially @kennyskitchen. None of us would be here doing all this without you brother. Thank you for releasing the beast! Now lets sick it on the government, and let it eat away, one bite at a time! The movement turns and rotates back around in conclusion, don't confuse with the illusions - come into the revolution! TRIBE STEEM UP 4 LIFE!
TM