Promo Tour Day 8

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 SAN ANTONIO, TX

Prior to arriving in San Antonio, I received an email from Yolanda, a manager based in San Antonio. She had just received our email blast about hitting #1 on the Billboard rap singles sales chart, and was offering congratulatory wishes. She also asked when we were planning on coming to San Antonio… a spot we were planning on hitting three short days away from the date of her email.

Yolanda was kind enough to blitz her MySpace friends with bulletins about our in-stores at FYEs at both Ingram Park and Southpark Mall. This brought through a lovely bunch of TMI fans anxious to support our efforts. Yolanda was also kind enough to hook up a video interview and a performance for the guys at a showcase at The Venue, downtown. DJ Ghost put together an awesome gathering of about 7 or 8 talented local artists in a venue that held the capacity crowd of about 500 party-goers. We were told by fans that this was the largest turnout they’ve had at their event, but I think they were just being kind.

Regardless, I came home with a purse full of demo CDs from hopeful artists who don’t understand what I do, and I even managed to piss off some wanna-be manager who asked me to watch his artist perform. I knew he had no clue what I do in the industry (sometimes folks assume white people are either managers or label executives, as if we can’t be at a rap event for pleasure), so I asked him why he wanted me to watch his artist, and he said for “feedback.” When I explained that I don’t give feedback because I am not his artists’ market and that there isn’t much I can do to help anyone get a deal until they’ve sold CDs, he hit me with CRAZY attitude saying they weren’t looking for a deal. He said he was looking for me to bring other established artists to his artist’s release party in a few weeks (no, he wasn’t kidding).

Note to up and coming artists and managers: if you want to network with me or if you are asking me for a favor (like watching your artist perform after I’ve already stood through 7 long performances for 3 hours), it’s best to be polite and not let me see your stank attitude. If you don’t know what it is that I do, don’t assume, come up and ask me. Not knowing isn’t a problem—showing your ass, is. Needless to say, I missed homie’s performance.

Earlier in the day, we did two in-stores at FYE locations. First we hit the Ingram Park Mall from 1 to 3 pm, and then we headed over to Southpark Mall for a 5 to 7 pm in-store. TMI Boyz got to interact with fans, sign autographs, and take pictures. It was very tiring for all of us to do a double in-store today, and by the time we got back to our rooms, we were ready to pass out.

We woke up early the next morning to make the trek to Victoria, TX, about an hour and a half southeast.