Beyond The Threshold: Black Voices in Media
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Beyond The Threshold: Black Voices in Media
Ep.4 : From Beats to Broadcast w/Jahi Whitehead
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In this episode of Beyond the Threshold, host Sidney Evans is joined by Jahi Whitehead, currently lead Podcast Producer at Urban One Podcast Network.
As Jahi highlights his two decades of media/audio production experience, they discuss:
- His early experience as singer, DJ and engineer in the music industry.
- The pursuit of a career in radio and the transition into podcasting.
- The difference between networking and building genuine relationships.
- How his unique skillset led to his opportunity at Urban One.
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Sidney Evans:Tune in as we give flowers to black men and women making waves in the audio industry. I'm your host, sidney Evans, and this is Beyond the Threshold. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Beyond the Threshold. I'm your host, sidney Evans, an award-winning audio editor, mixer and producer. For those of you who don't know, on this show I interview Black men and women working in the audio industry to highlight the lessons and experiences it takes to achieve success in the field. We got another amazing episode in store for today and I will introduce today's guest shortly, but before I do, I just wanted to take the time to say thank you to anyone who has listened to the show so far. I appreciate your support and I hope you continue to support as we continue to grow the platform.
Sidney Evans:All right, so today's guest is actually someone that I did not know prior to the interview, but he was introduced to me by Dante Hodge, who I had on a previous episode of the podcast. So immediately I reached out to him and, because of the relationship that he and Dante has, we made it happen pretty quickly and he was happy to come on. So to give a little bit of a background on him, he is a Howard University alum, originally from East Orange, new Jersey, now living in the Atlanta area. He has over two decades of media and audio production experience, ranging from DJing, studio engineering, audio book recording and editing, radio producing and podcast producing and editing. He's the current podcast producer at Urban One Podcast Network. So I'd like to introduce our guest for today, jahi Whitehead. Welcome to the show, brother.
Jahi Whitehead:All right, thank you. Appreciate it, sidney. I'm glad to be here. Glad to be here, man.
Sidney Evans:Yes, sir, I'm glad we were able to make it happen so quickly. So we're going to jump right into things. Man, could you share a little bit about your background and what were some of the experiences that led up to you discovering your passion for audio production?
Sidney Evans:and then we're gonna get into the nitty-gritty
Jahi Whitehead:So would say that probably started with, uh, the movie Juice. Are you familiar with juice? I am okay cool, so I'll probably. That's probably where, like I believe, it probably all started. I was a big fan of that movie and particularly I wanted to DJ. So if you watch that movie, the whole DJ battle, that sparked my interest in wanting to be a DJ A little known fact, I don't want to say a little known fact, but the thing about me when I was growing up I was a singer, I was a singer, so that was the other thing that always got me pretty much involved into music, arts, studios, all that stuff like that.
Jahi Whitehead:So process fast forward till I got to the age of 13, I bought my little equipment and building this makeshift studio at my father's house, which I had no idea what I was doing. I promise you Zero. I had no idea as far as really doing it. I had this eight-track tape recorder that we used to record stuff on. This is before we had a lot of digital stuff, before we had a lot of that. I'm probably dating myself by saying all these things, but it was around that time. So after that started actually recording with local groups around the city, one group. So I actually got to like I won't say like it wasn't a real studio either, it was still someone's basement, but they had Pro Tools, started seeing that, then stopped messing with them for a little bit and then got along with this other group and we actually signed a deal. It ended up not working out but we was working with some people. But in the process of that we finally got into a studio studio so working with Big Boaz, the SSL and finally working on Pro Tools.
Jahi Whitehead:I remember there was this bass player who was also the engineers. He was the one that really tried to teach me about engineering and plugins, like the first one that initially started teaching me. Then I started working with my boy, the producer of the group, tyree, and he got this program called Cubase and we started recording at his house and I started learning how to do that and I began to start running the session because I had a knack for audio just because of my DJ stuff. So I was also DJing around. So I still had a knack for audio. Ended up buying an MPC 2000 right after him. Working on that, started doing production Fast forward, going to school, started DJing at Howard, started working at the radio station and while doing that, I think that's when I realized that I can take this audio production thing, just audio in general, and actually be a professional outside of just making music or just DJing. I can use this as a career path if I wanted to.
Sidney Evans:Let me pause you real quick because I got a question. So did you actually study media production when you were at Howard, or was your major in something else?
Jahi Whitehead:So my initial major? Well, I was initially winning the Undecided, so then I switched to I was going into music business. It was more so music business along the lines of being a performer and being able to manage yourself as a performer, not necessarily the business of the music business. So it was a little bit different than what I was trying to do at the time. More along the lines of what I was trying to do was more in communication and media. So my degree is actually in more so broadcast media production. So I did get a lot of hands-on training with ProTube, even Final Cut writing in general, script writing, broadcast performance. Learning how to actually speak, public speaking was definitely a class that we had to take.
Sidney Evans:Okay. So first off, let me say when I was in college and I found out I had to take public speaking, I literally considered changing my major because I don't know what I thought. But I didn't think taking public speaking was going to be a part of that process. So let me just say that first and second. I hated taking the writing classes when I was in college. But now, looking back on it, I'm glad that I did take them and I kind of wish I would have put more into it.
Sidney Evans:But in knowing what I know now, the writing part was probably the most important out of all the classes I took. So for those of you who are maybe in college or you're early in your career, or maybe even if you're later in your career and you don't think your writing chops are up to par, I would recommend you take some courses, do whatever you got to do to increase that skill, because if you can write well, you'll be more valuable than most of the people working in the industry, especially those who can't write 1000% Me being able to write, or learning how to just script writing classes, or learning how to write just various things scripts for advertisers those things have helped me, taken me further than some of my peers in the same situations, just because I have that skill.
Jahi Whitehead:To be able to write along with producing Writing is super important. It's super, super important.
Sidney Evans:So yeah, All right, so you end up at Howard. You touched on your major in some of the courses that you took, but we all know the most important thing are the activities that you involve yourself in. So what were some of the things that you got involved in at Howard and how did that help you moving forward in your career?
Jahi Whitehead:Oh man, it was great because, see, at Howard we have WHBC, which is our college radio station, but we also have WHUR, which is our terrestrial radio station, which is like our bigger station, which is our commercial radio station. Steve Harvey's on there and stuff like that. So they do big numbers right, but those are our counterpart. We would have to go and pretty much intern with them. So when I was the music director at WHBC, I would have to go intern with the music director at WHUR. Vice versa, same thing with the program director. When I was program director at WHBC I had to go intern at the program directors at WHUR. So at the same time, and us interning there when this is only for the managers primarily, but us interning there it wasn't a situation where we're just doing like grunt work and they just wanted to do stuff. We were really learning how to run a radio station, no particular job. So when it comes to scheduling music for entire radio station, I have done that already before I was 20. I was able to have a leg up on a lot of people which honestly didn't bear fruit. So later on I thought that would help me out right when I graduate, right out the gate and it didn't necessarily work that way for me, so I had to use after graduation I used other. There were other means to, you know, to financially support myself.
Jahi Whitehead:I definitely took other jobs outside of audio, but one of the things I did. I started engineering at a studio in Maryland while I was finishing my last semester and that taught me more about just the music side of like engineering, because before at Howard and that school, we were doing more media production and broadcast and stuff like that. While I'm engineering, there's more music side, more emphasis on music, even though I've done it before. Now I'm strictly an engineer. I'm here to mix, master, record, mix and master all your stuff like that, and now helping putting records together too, because it was like master all your stuff like that. So, um, and now helping putting like records together too, cause it was like an A and R position as well, and it was, it was good, it taught me a lot, it was fun, it was able, I was able to um didn't make a lot of money, um, going into, going into do this. That's the one thing I will learn. I will teach anybody, or tell anybody that's in the audio space and in this media space. Learn how to use your skills to find other ways to make money.
Jahi Whitehead:Go back to how I met Dante. The reason why I got into audiobooks in the first place is because out of college, while I was still looking for certain things, I got a job at Audible in New Jersey. Their main headquarters is in New Jersey, north New Jersey, not too far from where I'm from, and I worked there for about two years. Once that contract ended, I kind of I moved. That's when I moved to Atlanta. So one of the first things when I thought when I got here, when I couldn't find work like I thought I would be able to find, was I couldn't really find work. One of the first things I saw was an audio book engineer position. I was like audio books, okay, cool, I did audio books before. I'm familiar. You know I worked on this. Cool, let me do that. And that's how I was able to survive survive until I was able to find some steady work.
Sidney Evans:So yeah, so that's, that's how I inevitably got into that Cool. So you're in Atlanta, you got the audio book gig. That's providing some decent work for you. So did things take off immediately afterwards, or was there still like a waiting or transition period to where you could find something more full-time and more stable?
Jahi Whitehead:Um, yeah, it was. I was working there for about, like I said, I worked there for about three years. But in the process of working there, uh, I believe after the first year and a half or so, I started working in radio, part-time and sports. Uh, sports radio, which initially I was trying to get to. Um, if you're familiar with Atlanta, initially I'm not even going to lie about this Now I could take this if my ex-boss ever hears this Sean, initially I was trying to get to V103, which is the urban, the hip hop station out there, one of the bigger hip hop stations out in Atlanta.
Jahi Whitehead:A friend of mine from college knew someone at 92.9 the Game. So fast forward, that's when I was at. So I went to 92.9 the Game. Their radio station is literally the floor above V103. So I thought eventually I'd go down there. But I got into that 92.9 the Game because at the end of the day, rather, I did all this music stuff, audio stuff through high school and all that.
Jahi Whitehead:I also did sports. I played football, I wrestled, I ran track. So, yeah, I was like a sports head too. So it wasn't necessarily a hard thing to adjust to. All of that.
Jahi Whitehead:Radio is radio. I want you to learn how you can produce. So the radio aspect of it was not the hard part, it was actually getting my bones together and like producing putting together a whole radio show talking about sports. Because when you're in sports radio and your sports talk radio in particular, like for that hour block, or you, you got a show for four hours, you're talking predominantly for those four hours, like, or someone's talking for those four hours. So you got to make sure that we got enough thick stuff to talk about within those four hours. So putting that show together. So that's really where that's where I got my skills at there a little bit better. Even with the writing stuff. I was starting to write better there. Working with that or not, that was a real goal. I was the executive network producer for the Hawks and the Falcons so I did all their football and basketball games. I had my own show on the weekends with Sam and Greg. Shout out to those guys Love them.
Jahi Whitehead:Even still still working another job, so I'm still probably engineering for someone else, like doing audio editing. I was working with this company, which I'm not going to say their names, they don't need to say their names, but pretty much it was a company that did Siri. It was the initial company that recorded Siri editing that stuff right. So I saw to. I saw the landscape of radio while I was in radio and I saw that I should probably leave radio. But the natural progression if you're doing talk radio, obviously it's podcasting right.
Jahi Whitehead:So, and quite frankly, while we're there, while we're there at 9 to 9 Game, we're producing podcasts as well, like on the side, like for our digital website. So, even while there, we're still working on podcasts and this is one thing I tell people and because of radio, because of the people that I've met, I was able to parlay that and to network with other people and able to get jobs easier after that. After that, I was recommended for a job at Georgia Public Broadcasting to edit podcasts. Now it's like all right. So we're really putting these audio documentaries together. For the most part, even though it's for an interview, it's still like an audio documentary. And now I'm really learning this podcasting world, not just this free form. We're just talking and we're just recording something. Now I'm getting a full landscape of how to really put together a podcast and all those things, and from there I just got better and got better at it.
Sidney Evans:Um, real quick. I want to dive into the radio and podcasting thing, especially the differences between the two. So obviously there are different mediums but the skillset is somewhat of an overlap. But can you really pinpoint, based on your experience, the differences between working in radio and then transitioning into the podcast industry?
Jahi Whitehead:Okay. So the thing about radio when you do local radio, your topics are generally localized, so you're going to do topics based on pretty much where you're at. When it comes to podcasting, you're a little bit more. You got a little bit more freedom to talk about a wider range of topics and you can expand a little bit more on particular topics. You don't have to worry about going to commercial break. There's nothing to hurry up here. We can talk, we can flush this topic completely out till there's no more to talk about and then we can move on to the next thing. We can flush this topic completely out till there's no more to talk about and then we can move on to the next thing.
Jahi Whitehead:I think sometimes in radio, regardless of what format you have, there are times when you're talking about a topic and you cannot completely talk about it the way that you want to because you have the restrictions of the commercials. You have restrictions of FCC. You have a lot of different restrictions that you have to go through. The only restrictions that you have in podcasting are the restrictions that you put on yourself. So the restriction that you put on your show, the restriction that you put on your network. So those are the restrictions that you have.
Jahi Whitehead:So once you abide by those things, you have a free range to do as much as you want as far as a particular topic, a particular subject, whatever the case may be, and you have your niche audience. That is going to like you, because with terrestrial radio that's always on. They're going to be on regardless. So I can just if I'm in my car and people say radio is dying which it is, but radio is still listened to a whole heck of a lot. So if you go into your car and just push something, it's just always there. I'm not searching for that necessarily. When it comes to podcasting, I have to search that out. That is something that I I've become a fan of now, like it doesn't just pass my day now. I have to search out for that. You a little bit more community built in the podcasting world than in radio.
Sidney Evans:That makes a lot of sense and, surprisingly, I never actually thought of it that way. So I'm glad you pointed that out. But I wanted to back up a little bit and touch on something that you said as far as building relationships, or highlighted as far as building relationships or networking, depending on what you want to call it. But I call them two different things, because I feel like networking is more of the go to an event with the intent of meeting a lot of people, have your business cards ready, being ready to shake hands, you know, give you a spiel about what you do and how you can help people.
Sidney Evans:And then there's the relationship building part of it where it's kind of more organic. Like you have jobs, you connect with people for those that are for you, y'all build relationships and you stay in touch and continue to nurture those relationships. Or it could just be you going to a social event and by happenstance, you kind of hit it off with somebody and you start a relationship or building a relationship that way. So what is your approach to whether you want to use the term networking or building relationships, and which approach has been more helpful for you?
Jahi Whitehead:I will say, sometimes just going out, handing out out business cards, like depending on and now, when you go and do that, if you go into networking, you're going to hand out business cards and stuff like that you have to be going somewhere where that is, where that's the goal. Like, if you're going to like a summit or a conference or something like that, that's the goal at some of those places, right? So when you're going there, you're actually going there to network. People are coming there knowing that you're going to network with them and the ones that are going to stand out they are going to take interest in. There have been good experiences with that. There have been bad experiences with that. Everything is not the same, but what I will say, my networking came from. A lot of that came from work. And when, like when I say when I was at a 92, nine the game, they got me to Georgia public broadcasting. That was literally the person that I worked with on a show. I, we were taught, we were having conversations, we, we went to a uh, to a baseball game and I was telling them some things that I wanted to do. As far as podcasting and things like that, next thing I know is hey, give this person a call, there's a job open for podcasting. I told them about you. They're interested. Simple as that. Two days later, I got the job. No real big interview no nothing. Two days later. Simple as that, I got the job.
Jahi Whitehead:Part of networking is you actually going out working, and one of it is being persistent, like even with the job at the radio station my first job in a radio station after college that I had to be persistent with, that. I had to keep caught. Like hey, it took me about a few months for that to happen. You do have to be persistent. Persistent to the point where you're almost at a point where they are tired of you. So they're like you know what? I'm tired. This person just hit me up. Let me do something about this. Be respectful but be persistent. If you got to DM someone, if you got to go on their LinkedIn page, be respectful but be persistent. Like, let's say, if I'm head of HR at somewhere, you know how many messages I might get on LinkedIn or whatever the case may be, about head of HR or about someone wanting a job. Like it's going to be that one person I always see that's going to stick out Like I keep seeing this person. Let me reply. Let me eventually reply, because if I don't, that person is going to continue to hit me, keep hitting me back. So let me reply. That is something that's really important in networking Doing good work.
Jahi Whitehead:I can't stress that enough. Doing good work, because if the host of my show can't vouch that I do a good job, he's not going to. You know what I'm saying. He's not going to put his neck out there for someone that's not like that. You know what I'm saying. He's not going to put his neck out there for someone that's not like that. You know what I mean. Your work has to speak for itself and I'm going to answer your question even before we even get to there.
Jahi Whitehead:This is part of Urban One, because it's the same situation that happened. I never had a job interview with them the official job interview. I started working with them mainly because I got laid off as a podcast producer for another company whose name I won't mention. But I got laid off there and while I'm getting laid off, one of the people that worked there, one of my co-workers, called me up and said hey, heard you just got laid off. I'm starting somewhere new soon. I'm about to give them my two weeks notice. Anyway, I'm starting somewhere new. I think you'll be a good fit there, and that was urban one.
Sidney Evans:So the most important thing to me that stood out about what you just said is letting the work take care of itself, because essentially, it's the only thing you can really control.
Sidney Evans:No matter what career field you're in, you have to deal with things like politics and unfortunate circumstances, as maybe you're getting laid off or flat out fired or you're going through an interview process and you get far along in the process but you don't ultimately end up getting hired and you start kind of stressing out about and reflecting on why things happen and didn't happen. And a lot of this stuff is timing. Man like you might have the skill set, you might be the perfect candidate, but things may not work out for you, but you can't control those things. But if you spend as much time and effort as you can't control those things, but if you spend as much time and effort as you can and just perfecting the craft and letting the good work that you do speak for itself, I honestly feel that you'll end up where you're supposed to end up and things will actually end up working out for you in the long run.
Jahi Whitehead:Absolutely, absolutely. I agree with that wholeheartedly, because I tell you that situation was just like that. I was like, man, I don't know what I'm going to do, I'm getting laid off. It was so crazy. I got laid off on a Wednesday and the next day someone told me it's like hey, you should go to this. They gave me a free ticket to this concert. I was like hey, you can go. I was like I shouldn't go, but I'm like, nah, I'm going to go Because it was my favorite. It was Nas. It was Nas and Wu-Tang. I'm a big Nas fan. So I was like I'm going to go.
Jahi Whitehead:The next day, literally while I'm at the concert, I get a text like hey, this is blah, blah, blah from Urban One. I want to hire you full time. That process right there, like it literally was just it's one of them things that again that was something that was out of my control, but again it was networking and just being a good person. Half of that like that's the other half of networking being a good person. Like no one wants to work with someone that's just not a good person, that you don't like to work with, that you're not cool with you, don't mesh with you don't work well with. Have a good attitude. It's okay to be a good person. You don't have to try to snake everybody, or snake everyone and get ahead. It's not important.
Sidney Evans:Be a good person 100% agree, because people focus so much on climbing the ladder, progressing their career, that they ignore all the people that they encountered along the way and the way that actually treated those people that they did encounter. You never know how that may come full circle, and when it does come full circle, you actually want it to benefit you and not hurt you or hinder your chances of achieving success and, at the end of the day, just just scrap all the. You know that you did things the right way on, and could you highlight the things that y'all are currently working on or producing that people can look forward to?
Jahi Whitehead:Absolutely so. I've been at Urban One as the podcast producer for our network for a year. It's been officially. It's been a little bit over a year, but it's been a year doing that. It's been a little bit over a year, but it's been a year doing that. Like I said, I was working there previously freelancing, but as their main sole producer. Actually it's been a year.
Jahi Whitehead:Some stuff I worked on it was a podcast. The initial podcast that I worked on when I first got there, which was the Undressing Room with L'Oreal and Claudia Jordan. We did great numbers for that. Once that ended, moved on to something else. But before that, even that, we go back to what you were saying about radio shows and turn those into podcasts. We made plans to turn a lot of our shows, a lot of our assets that we already had, into podcasts, which is Ricky Smiley, dl Hughley, the Morning Hustle, get Out Mornings with Erica Campbell, amanda Seals. So I've managed all of those Ricky Smiley. We're well over a million downloads before our first year doing that. Also. I work with our TV One stuff do Failure Attraction Also worked on.
Jahi Whitehead:Black Health 365 was one of the other podcasts that I worked on while I was there. I'm not doing that anymore. That was one, maria Moore's Mind, body and Business. I was working on their production for that for a while. Right now I just created a show, co-created with our leader there, called she Said it First, with Lene Monet and Indescribable aka Gerilyn Lake.
Jahi Whitehead:Hello ladies, I'm a second producer for that and that's going well. We are probably we're going in our second or third month. We're going into our third month actually at this point and uh, we've been doing really good. Uh, within the first few few weeks we thought we already hit the top 200 like 30 times in the comedy podcast. That podcast is doing great and we're just trying to develop some new podcasts over there. We already bought well, it's not part of me, but we have the Fun House with Kid N Play over there, just did Dear Future Wifey with Terrence Whitfield and we're bringing some other podcasts along. We're creating some new original programming. Trying to do that in the short run in the long run coming soon. So, yeah, just trying to build that up to one of the preeminent podcast networks.
Jahi Whitehead:Black Owned Black Ran Within our first year. We're already in well, I don't know if we still are, but we already were in the top 20 of podcast networks. So we are growing pretty fast and pretty quickly doing a lot of hard work. It's a small team that we have work. It's a small team that we have, but it's a it's a great team that we have. We're able to build and we're able to uh, you know, trying to put out our stories and trying to tell our stories the way that we need to uh tell them super dope man.
Sidney Evans:I'm glad that you all have incorporated podcasting, and especially the podcast network, into your content. Kind of just made sense with already having that name in radio and kind of repurposing the radio shows and creating the original stuff as well. So glad to hear that. So that kind of takes me into my next question. Obviously, urban One is well known and there's a lot of talent out there, a lot of people trying to get their foot in the door. So what would be your advice for you know up-and-coming talent that wants to break into the industry? What are some of the things that you look for and some of the skill sets that can separate them from their peers?
Jahi Whitehead:the first thing I would say hone your craft, like to, whatever you do, whatever, whatever you're good at, rather as, uh, rather your audio engineer. That can separate them from their peers. The first thing I would say hone your craft, like. So, whatever you're good at, whether you're an audio engineer, whether you are a producer, meaning like just because you're a producer doesn't mean you're an audio engineer, which is something else I would say too but hone your craft, be the best. Get your 10,000 hours in there with that. That's the first thing.
Jahi Whitehead:Now, the second thing is don't be one-dimensional. Be able to do other things. So, if you are an audio editor, learn how to produce. If you are a producer for a show, learn how to audio edit. If you don't know how to write, learn how to write. If you're bad at research, you can research a little bit more. If you're good at booking guests, start booking guests. Be able to do everything. Be able to be a one-man show to where that they can't fire you, like they can't get rid of you. Or if they get rid of you, you'll be fine because you can do something else.
Jahi Whitehead:You can find another job easily because of your skill set. If you're working and this is with anything and this is with any job market right now, especially in this climate, and what we do as far as media production, audio production, anything like that. If you can only do one thing, you're not that useful. You have to be able to do multiple things to be useful, because I can get a college kid to do one thing, I can find someone to do one thing and I don't have to pay them that much. You have to learn your value. Biggest thing when you learn your value, you have to know what you're good at and what you can do. When you learn your value as far as what your capabilities are, then you can take that a lot further.
Jahi Whitehead:All those things, those are the things that we are looking for, or any company's looking for right now, because I don't have the time not just me, and I'm saying I as far as if I'm a company I don't have the time, I don't have the bandwidth to sit there and teach or train anyone to do certain things that you should be able to do. Obviously, at the beginning we can do that, but all the time we can't do that, and then you're going to have to be able to do more, because a lot of these companies are doing a lot more with a lot less, or trying to do a lot more with a lot less. Urban One Podcast Network. We have a small team. That's because everybody on our team could do almost everything. It's a team of five, so because a small team can do multiple things. That's why we can grow the rate that we're able to grow, and people have a lot larger teams than we have and they can't do what we do. Learn as much as you can and be indispensable.
Sidney Evans:Thank you for sharing that man For all those up and comers. Hopefully you take heed to that bit of advice. All right, so we are getting close to the end of the show, so kind of want to wrap things up on a much more fun note, not so heavy, and I think you're particularly enjoyed this portion of the show, based on your experience in the music industry. So I got a few questions, and the first one is your favorite piece of equipment that you've had?
Jahi Whitehead:Um, I had a Phantom G6, a Phantom G6 keyboard. That was my favorite thing that I ever had. I used to love that thing, but outside of that I would just say Pro Tools.
Sidney Evans:So I'm not a musician, so I'm not too familiar with all that type of stuff, but I'm going to assume the Phantom G6 is a keyboard or piano or something of that nature and obviously Pro Tools is the industry standard, starting off in music and now into other industries as well. So obviously that makes a lot of sense. All right, so next question favorite album of all time I'm going to do.
Jahi Whitehead:Prince and the Revolution, purple Rain. I'm going to do Stevie Wonder's Songs and the Key of Life, and I'm going to go with Michael Jackson Off the Wall, so obviously just went with the cheat codes by mentioning Prince Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson.
Sidney Evans:Your taste is your taste, but they are kind of the cheat codes. But obviously solid choices, all right. Next one Favorite music producer.
Jahi Whitehead:See, now you just did that, so I'm going to go with Quincy.
Sidney Evans:Okay. So I see what you did there as well, because we mentioned, you know, being multi-talented and obviously he's a great music producer in a traditional sense, but he's done music scores. He produced first prince of bel-air from the tv side, and then he also did the infamous san francisco theme song. So, quincy jones, say no more, all right.
Jahi Whitehead:Next favorite film score all right, so this is gonna be interesting. Uh, the prince of egypt.
Sidney Evans:Yeah, not too familiar with that one, but who did? Who did that one, by the way?
Jahi Whitehead:I don't know who did the score. I'll I forget who. I forgot who did the score. Uh, I have to go back and look at it. But um, was it hans zimmer? Yep, hans zimmer, just looked it up. Hans zimmer is my favorite, but um, but yeah, that that prince of e Zimmer is my favorite. But yeah, prince of Egypt is my favorite.
Sidney Evans:All right, cool, I'm going to have to confirm that on my own time. Next favorite TV theme song.
Jahi Whitehead:That's actually easy and no one would probably say this but Taxi, the theme song to Taxi. Go back and listen to the theme song of Taxi.
Sidney Evans:I don't think I remember that one.
Jahi Whitehead:It's no words. There's no words to it. Go listen to the theme song of Taxi. One of the hardest theme songs, man, right now. I would want to sample it. That's how good it is.
Sidney Evans:Okay, cool man. Um, but yeah, I think that's it. We had a uh, we had a great conversation, man. Definitely appreciate you sharing all your experiences and giving you know helpful tips and bits of information that people can walk away with and you know implement on their journey into achieving audio success. So appreciate you coming on the show, man, and yeah, I enjoyed it.
Jahi Whitehead:I appreciate that. I appreciate you having me. And to go back to what we said before about networking, you said a name. You said Dante. So I mean, once you say that you're like that's a person I work with, that's a person I know that's legit. So once you say a name that I know that's legit, I'm going to have to, and he gave you my name. So that means that he values something, that that's legit there.
Sidney Evans:So I will have to. That's. That's a no brainer. Definitely, definitely. Well, yeah, that's a wrap for today's episode and for everybody out there. Thank you for listening. Thank you for joining us on today's episode. Please don't forget to subscribe to the show and leave us a review. If you'd like to work with me or connect, please go to soundbysitcom and schedule a call. There. You can also check out the full list of productions I've worked on. If you'd like to connect on social media, my handle is soundbysitcom on Twitter and Instagram and I'm Sidney Evans on LinkedIn. Like to connect on social media? My handle is soundbysetcom on twitter and instagram and I'm sydney evans on linkedin. Don't forget to follow beyond the threshold on instagram as well. I'll catch you on the next episode.