if you're different, let them hate
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Why should you listen to your haters?
I think you should listen to your haters more than you think. I actually think it's a really good thing that you have someone who does not like what you're doing. It means you're going against some kind of grain and you're striking a chord. It's probably a minor. No. Okay. We're leaving that in 2025. All right. We're going to act like that never happened. By the way, I'm going to squish this person. Okay. Haters are good. Haters mean progress. They also mean that you have some kind of pull, some kind of attribute in your work, in what you do, that is not normal. Now, let's be real. Some of you may have made things, right, like art, music, or written things that are objectively trash. Terrible. Somebody is probably sending an Instagram reel to their friend laughing at you about it, okay?
But I want you to know that anyone that has made anything good... They got laughed at. 100%. It's very rare that you find someone that's immediately goaded.
How can haters signify progress in your work?
Yo, no way, bro. McGee is immediately goaded. But what people don't understand is McGee took time. And in a world where people want things instantaneously, time will be your friend. If you have people that hate, what I think it's imperative that you do, especially if you want to develop as a human being, as an artist, as an athlete, whatever you do, ask them why. Why are you hating? It's corny. Why is it corny? I don't know. It just sounds weird. Okay, that's not really constructive. Your gut's telling you this guy's a shme. Move to someone who can give you constructive criticism. This is kind of mid. Why is it mid? I just feel like it's not authentic. One of the best comments I ever got early in my career, talking in front of the camera, right, was that I was trying to be funny.
I wasn't actually just being me. I wasn't trolling around. I was instead like trying to dance monkey, dance monkey, dance monkey. It just, nah, no. the more that you talk to your haters, and the more that you actually befriend your haters and use them as constructive criticism, the better your work will become over time. The better you're going to get in life with dealing with people, with dealing with yourself, with understanding, okay, I need to figure out how to make something palatable. Because there's a good chance you don't even like what you're making. There's a really good chance. Or you don't even like who you are. And somebody hating on you, right? There's a difference between them just being like a jackass and actually saying, this is not good.
The latter is rooted in some kind of truth, especially if it hurts you. If you feel confident in what you do, if you feel like, you know what? I made this song, I freestyled on it, it was a banger. All right, then that comment won't inflict that much pain onto you. But I find that in the people that are the most defensive about their work, they know it stinks. It sucks. Because I think if you had faith in what you do, you wouldn't care. You wouldn't care. So use that discomfort to recognize I can do better. I 100% can do better. I can make things that are way more impactful. I can make things that just feel more authentically me. But I'm scared. I'm scared. Of what? Of people hating. Okay, but who are you making it for?
Your art that you want to start. Why are you so defensive over it? I think it's because you're trying to impress people. I don't actually think it's because you want to make genuine art. And instead of looking at the process and looking at what you can learn, you immediately judge any kind of improvement based on the critique of other people. That's not how this works. And I've had to learn that the hard way. Man, I used to have my entire ego wrapped up in my own mind about what is somebody going to think of what I make and what is somebody going to think of my song and me singing. You will not be around for very long. Use that as motivation. Also use that as a precursor to if somebody is going to laugh at what you create and laugh at something passionate that you made and they're not going to see the humanity in it, they were never someone that was going to support you in the first place.
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