Daily Inspiration: Meet Carmine Prophets

Today we’d like to introduce you to Carmine Prophets. 

Hi Carmine, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstories.
I started producing around 2009 in Dallas, Texas on my older brothers iMac using Garage Band. We would record ourselves with the webcam microphone and experiment with the little to no effects that Garage Band could offer at the time. I started making beats when I started high school on the same computer while my older brother went to college. Back then, making beats with a computer or laptop wasn’t the coolest thing in the world, usually people were making beats on an MPC, an ASR-10, or some other type of drum machine. My family couldn’t really afford to buy me drum machines or instruments so I just stuck with the computer, come to find out a lot of other people were having to do the same thing. Throughout high school, I was always making music and I had a group of friends that were either songwriters, musicians, or both and we all had aspirations of having a career in music. After I graduated high school, I started looking for more serious opportunities for a career in music and more specifically, producing records. Dallas didn’t have that much of an established music scene so I looked at other cities for more opportunities. At 19 I released my first demo instrumental project on Soundcloud and shortly after that one of my musician friends told me about Nashville and how his brother was doing music out there and was doing pretty well. So, in 2016 I decided to move to Nashville where I really started to get on a music career path. Then for the next 5 years, I was selling beats, playing shows, DJing places, and also started a studio with some friends where we provide services like engineering, mixing, recording, etc. Thus, all leading to where you see me today. 

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Oh yeah, it definitely hasn’t been the smoothest journey. Whether it’s a struggling for money, people not believing in you or just dealing with industry people, the field of art is never just completely easy, I think every artist can agree with that. All in all, you win you fail, and you keep your blinders on and stay the course that you want because no one can do anything for you, you gotta just do it yourself. That includes picking yourself up when you’re down, it’s all about the way you look at it. The dream stops when you decide to stop, it’s as simple at that. 

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
So, I’m an artist, producer, mixing engineer, and a DJ. People back then had only known me for making beats, that’s still what people know me for primarily, but for the past 3-4 years everything kinda gradually moved to just working on music as a whole, it’s definitely been beneficial though just challenging myself. Some of my proudest moments are when I first played my music in the city, making great music and putting it out, or playing amazing shows as a DJ or a band member, there’s so many things that I am proud of and I know I got a lot more to go. It’s all about outdoing yourself and not being satisfied and just getting better, that keeps your motivation and your ambition going. What sets me apart from others is my diversity and not being afraid to experiment and try things. I’ve been told that people like coming to our studio more than some others because some studios don’t have a personality you can’t get anywhere else. What makes me different is definitely my taste and working with all types of people who make all different types of art and different genres of music, I really just like it all. I also have a work and skill ethic that some people don’t necessarily have. I’ve been very fortunate to have worked with artists like Jah Frida, Case Arnold, The Bumbs, Black Pool Mecca, Clover Jamez, Marco Brando, BEZ, DTL Jams, ELEVEN, Endre on Purpose, Weston, Owen St, Ahmadmusic, Malik Jvon, OddMoon, TheRealStepson, Seene P and much more. And I’m very excited to work with new artists in the future while still working with the artists that I’ve already had a relationship with. Something that’s important is that I’m lucky to call some of these talented people my close friends.

What matters most to you? Why?
I think one of the things that matter to me the most is finding that thing that you really love to do and making that your means to a career, that to me is success. Doesn’t matter if you’re making a hundred dollars or a million dollars if you can pay your rent or bills with any amount from something that you would’ve already done for free, you’re winning in my world. It’s important because I believe if you can find a way to work how you want to work then it’ll keep your brain and soul fulfilled. 

Pricing:

• Beats – 100$ each
• Studio Recording – 40$/hr
• Mixing – 150$ per track
• Mastering – 60$ per track
• DJ – 100$/ hr (depends on what type of show)

Contact Info:

• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmineprophets/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carmineprophets/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/carmineprophets?lang=en
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSPeBug0eGnsH7kFMpKnLcQ
• SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/carmineprophets
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7rDiE0ZUcsK1A7JQRe997r?si=4Xw0OxsaTDC1KjuHnelZUQ

Image Credits:
Christopher Rajan
Ryan Jones
Madelyn Corinne