Redefining Black Media—Without the Noise

What if media didn’t rely on gossip, rumors, or negativity to get attention?

In this episode of Right Now with Rhenotha, I sit down with Tahir Register, Owner of The Black Media – a Production & Entertainment Company built on a bold and intentional standard:

No gossip. No rumors. No negativity.

In a media landscape driven by clicks and controversy, this conversation explores what it really means to build a platform rooted in purpose, integrity, and culture.

We talk about:

The meaning behind The Black Media
Why “no gossip” is a business decision, not just a preference
The responsibility of telling our stories the right way
Ownership in media and controlling the narrative
Building something that stands for more than attention

This is a refreshing and necessary conversation for creators, entrepreneurs, and anyone thinking differently about media.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Yeah, I was congregated at my office when I was a teacher staff for the software house. And um he was in God's spell at Arts High School. And good evening, everybody. I think we're doing two right now with Red Nash and I'm so excited to have my guest, my special guest, my friend, my bestie, okay, the older and creator of the blackmedia.org, which is a production and entertainment company. Tahirman. Thank you so much for being here, Tyre. I so I so appreciate you. I so appreciate you. We are here to talk all about Tahir, the man, okay, and the black media, because the people need to know. The people already know, millions of views, millions of millions, okay, millions, oh millions, oh millions, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

Millions.

SPEAKER_02 1:02

How about that? How about that? On all platforms. On all platforms, because that's what we do from New York, period.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

It brings it in down.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

Down. Well, you're not there anymore. You were in Atlanta, okay? Yeah. And you know, not only are you the owner of the black media, but you are an amazing singer. You are an amazing songwriter. You are an amazing actor. You are an amazing photographer, cinematographer. You do all the things. All the things, okay? I know, but let the people know, you know, how all this came about.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

So all of this came about because I really wanted to be the consummate person, someone that Michael Jackson would want to hire. I was a super fan of Michael Jackson, I still am. And when I was younger, I was like, I don't want to put all my cars in one basket because if I do and I and I don't succeed in that, then Michael wouldn't want me to be uh signed to him or something like that. So I was like, let me be able to let me try to do everything. I want to do it all. Plus, I was just enamored with entertainment. I wanted to do everything, acting, thinking, things. I wanted every aspect. I wanted to create everything. I felt like music, I mean mus movies and film and photography and music, I always felt like it was magic. And I was like, I wanted to have these superpowers. And then when I discovered that I can sing, when I discovered that I can dance, my family would make me perform. Um, if we wanted to do anything in my house, Halloween party, Christmas party, anything would be like, well, you have to perform. And so my brother and my sister and I, once my sister was born, we would always have to perform in order to have any event at the house or any gathering, we would have to perform. And so it just was like a part of my life. I've never not done entertainment. Um, I've never even had a job, I've never even had a nine to five. Because I had entertainment when I was a kid. And when you started making money as a kid, I wasn't a child star, but I was a child actor. And a job is a job. Like if you book it, you book it. It doesn't matter if it's super famous or like or if it's local or off Broadway, it's still a job. And so I purchased a check at like eight years old, nine years old, and it was like $200 stinging. And I was like, at eight years old, that's I'm 1998. That's incredible. Like, you know, like that's that's a lot of money. I just couldn't fathom anything else.

SPEAKER_02 3:44

Let's just talk about real quick how we met.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:47

So I was I was the chief of staff for a councilman, and I was responsible for you as ambassadors for the mayor's office through the councilman's office. So we each each of the council people were assigned young people. And you weren't you weren't my young person, but uh, God bless his memory, Sham Tazen Abdul Hamid was my young person. Um, but for some reason, all of the kids came to my office. They all hung out and congregated at my office um when I was a chief of staff or the software now. And um, he was in Godzell at arts high school, and you were in Godzell. And when I tell you, Tyre acting, singing, dancing down, okay, and of course, as um lively as I am, whenever I see something good, I cut up, I slap loud, I scream loud, I laugh loud, and at the end of the show, when Shan was done, I went up to you and was like, you better go ahead. Right.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

At the end of the Everybody was gone, the whole theater left. Yes. And you were at the um, you were by the stage and I was at the exit door, and I opened the door to see what Shan was about to do. Like, because I was about to just get on the get in, get it, you know, go walk downtown and get on the bus. Cause because you know what's so funny? That's a trivial moment for me. Uh not trivial, but that's a that's a that play was a traumatic moment for me. Because my family never saw it. And I used to really hate the fact that they never saw me in anything. So I was getting ready to catch the bus by myself to go home at night alone after just getting off that stage and performing my ass off. And so I was about to do, and I was like, um, Jan, would you like, oh yeah, he was he had his whole family there and you. And I was like, oh well, I guess I'll just go home. And you was like, you better work. And of course, I did not think the fuck about me because why would this stranger be yelling at me? So I was like, yo, yo, you better work. And I was like, thank you. So all of that, all of my whole entire journey through the arts, it's it has been because of Michael Jackson and then the money. And then I just I would to say that to say that I got beat by the bug is not, I just was born into it. It was nothing else I was doing. I was very much F E White. This is all I can do.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

This is all I can do. Okay, I don't do oohs and odds. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

I was a clarinetist in arts high school to be flat clarinet is classically trained. People didn't even know I could play a clarinet. That's because I wasn't trying to show people that I could play, I was just trying to be the best musician of all time. Like, and that was my goal. Like, I'm the greatest. And I was on PH1 St. The music. My first music teacher, Mr. Sheely, was like, You are an exceptional instrumentalist. I want you to represent us. BH1 came to Newark and we took a picture with this huge tag. We did all this, and I got to meet India Iree and Bill Clinton and Mariah Carey at this big crust interview, Pris Press Junket thing for the Hollywood Reporter at uh Louise Spencer. And I was on stage, we were playing, and that was like a spark for me. It was like, oh, I can meet people and do things, playing an instrument. So I kept playing. I played at Shabazz High School, I was on the Shabazz um marching band for.

SPEAKER_02 7:42

And it reminds remind folks again how old were you when this happened?

SPEAKER_00 7:45

I don't even know.

SPEAKER_02 7:46

I was this was before high school, so young, 13, 12, I'm always an exceptional person doing things in the arts.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

So by the time I got to arts, it was like, oh, I'm about to eat this up. And I was first clarinetist, I was first chair as a freshman. Um I started acting. I was acting before then, but I started acting at arts high school because they had plays, and then we started doing outside work. And then when I started doing outside work, I started getting paid. And then I was like, wait, my friends who got jobs, y'all we got paid the same money, and y'all got paid that in a week, and I got paid this in an hour. That's what I was like, I yeah, I'd rather this is what I'm doing for the rest of my life. I'd rather hustle audition and try to get this, doing what I love, than to be so damn spoop, boop, and then make what you aggravated, your feet hurt, you tired, da da da.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

So it's nothing wrong with following your passion, and you are definitely an epitome of that. But your life, again, you know, lots of people know early on what they're destined for, and what you do now is literally showing that you were destined for this, and the Lord definitely has his hand all over your life, um, because you know, if it were not for him, huh?

SPEAKER_00 9:20

So fast forward, let's give an honor to God because I was raised in a church, and truly my entire life has been protected, and and my steps are ordered, and I know Jesus. Yeah, and I I have literally everything I've ever done, everything I've ever wanted, everything I ever prayed for, I got. I used to really, my brother and I used to really walk around thinking that God chose us specifically for a specific mission. Because he did. And Jesus has always been like the anchor point. My mother and my father has always made sure that we had God in our lives and we knew that word and we knew the Bible. And so when I was performing and I was doing all these things, I was always asking God to give me what I needed. Like, give me what you planned for me. And so when I got those things, that's how I knew to keep going and not to like to be bad. Because it was like, no, I want you to do this. No, I'm giving you this. And so being on TV, being in theater, be have being in front of executives, I was like, oh, okay, God is giving me this. So I'm supposed to keep doing this. So yeah, you just have a quick, you know, quick little moment for Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 10:36

Yay!

SPEAKER_00 10:38

Shut down.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

Hallelujah. And we thank God. We thank God because you know it's one thing to know that, oh, I have this talent, but it's one thing to know that it's ordained by God and ordained by the Lord Jesus, you know. Okay, yeah, listen. All right, we're gonna talk about the Lord in our lives, talk to my show early childhood and how you got here. Now, let's get into the black media, honey. Okay, millions and millions and millions of views, celebrity interviews. I mean, you just have the platform that everybody wants. I'm just gonna say it. I'm just gonna say it. Tell me, how did the black media get started?

SPEAKER_00 11:21

The black media got started after I graduated college with a bachelor's degree in contemporary arts. I say that because my goal was to start an entertainment company. That's why I study contemporary arts because I wanted to study everything under the arts department to be for an entertainment company later on in life. I didn't know it would start right directly after college. I graduated college in May of 2013, and I started the Black Media June 5th of 2013. And the reason why was because at the time there was so much monolithic viewpoints of black people. There was so much rage and killing and fighting. There was like World Star, and people were fighting each other on World Star, and that was like the popular thing. It was a very singular view of black people, and I was like, well, who's gonna write the other thing about black people? Who's gonna show black people in a different light and a different image? And in lieu of complaining about it, I started the black media, created the name, created the idea. And I was here before The Shade Rung, I was here before Blabdy, I was here before Hollywood a lot, all of these places that now exist. I started the black media before all of that, and it was out of necessity. I felt like we needed a space to exist. I also felt like after over 20 years of trying to be in that industry, I was like, who was gonna put me on? I was a lot. I was up in New York a lot. I lived at SRR Studios. I was tired and exhausted of not making it.

SPEAKER_02 12:51

Let's just let's just pause right there. Um, you and I, um, you always say to me that I, you know, handed to me, just busted up in the in the in the industry. Um because listen, listen, favorite A sen. Yeah, yeah. Um, and you know, so and I know you I know what you're about to say. We're talking about booking thyself, okay? Um, because in this world you can't wait for nobody. You gotta build the table yourself, okay? So keep going.

SPEAKER_00 13:28

Correct. You gotta build the table yourself. And even when I met you and and I was at the early stages of you getting into the industry, you surpassed me like so fast. And I was like, okay, ordained. That was what she was, that was what she was meant to do. And I was I was so happy to just be a vessel to be there to help answer any question you had, took some of your early headshots.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

And let me and I and I hate interrupting, but let me just say that when you have comrades in the industry, it makes it so much easier. And by and I'm talking about true comrades, I'm talking about true friends, I'm talking about somebody who's there for you and you're there for them. Uh, because it could be the fact that you just said I surpassed you, and I don't feel that way, by the way. But the fact that you just said that um says that, you know, we can, you know, be to Tashina Arnold and um Tisha Campbell. You know what I'm saying? You know, we like like there can things can happen like that in the industry. You don't have to tear somebody down in order for you to get built up, you know? I mean, that was a long time ago, and look at us, you know? Look at us, we still here, but anyway, continue.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

That's so true. And I never to add to what you're saying, and people who are not envious of you, who don't want your life. The first time we hung out, you and I at the sham at that event at Sham's uh performance at NJ. Oh, sorry, at NJ Pack, we went to Little Italy. I say, I got in the car, I was like, You are going to be famous one day. You are gonna be a star. And I was like, let me just be clear, sweetie. I don't say that to people. I was like, if I say that, it's going to be because I know Sally. And I was like, what do you do? And you was like, and then you told me what you did and what you I was like, no, you need to be honest. I love you, Tahir. I love you, and then you were, and then you were, and I was like, Yeah, I knew, I knew, but um, so yeah, so I grabbed I created the black media after college because of all of those reasons, and I didn't know what I was doing when I first started it. I just didn't, I didn't have the new the knowledge, anything. I just started now. I'll start it took a month for me to gather it to get it together and to know something, but in terms of like search engine optimization, in terms of the business, in terms of what it means, you know, I didn't know any of those things. I learned it over time. The first day that I launched the black media, I wrote an article review for India I read's new single called Jets Do You. And she retweeted it on Twitter. That is how again God showed me this is what you're supposed to be doing. Because I had low-key, nobody knew this. I had a blog. Now, this is a media outlet, but I had a blog before that on remember Blog Spot? It was like it was a blog called blogspot.com where it was like the most popular blog space. Everybody was blogging. I had I had over a hundred posts over there, zero views, never, not any viewership, nothing ever. So when I created this new one, I was like, ain't nobody gonna look at this one just like the other one. I had this attitude, and the day I launched and I wrote that article, and she retweeted it.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

I was like, Oh my goodness, and D I read.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

I had thousands. I received 5,000 views that month, and I was like, what is this? What's going on? And I was like, okay, God, I hear you. Again, I had just graduated college and I started the black media, and so it was like right after that I was doing Lincoln Park Festival. I was also I was a part of Lincoln Park Festival like from the beginning. Like, I don't even know. I've been a part of that festival since I was a little boy and a teen, young adult. So I've been a part of the Lincoln Park Festival forever. And so I was at Lincoln Park Festival and I was debuting the black media. So I was interviewing all these celebrities, pictures, and like putting, you know, telling people about the black media was like the launch for the black media. And so to have that launch in North, and then that happened, it was like, oh yeah, this is gonna be something big. And so um I just kept working at it, not knowing what I was doing, just figuring things out along the way. And I told myself, if you're gonna create a business, it's gonna take you about 10 to 15 years to actually make a profit. So don't rush into thinking you're gonna make a profit. So I was still auditioning, I was still acting, I was still releasing music.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

That's right, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 18:15

And here I moved to Atlanta with my and I started making money with the black media. And I was like, oh, I thought it would take 10 years, and it took like a year and a half. And when that happened, that was when I started to put more time into the black media and kind of let everything else just kind of pause for a second. Because I got older, I lived in a different state and a different town. It was a culture shock for me to move to the south. I was like, I can't do it all anymore. I was doing acting, singing, dancing, photography, I was doing all this in North. Background, okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:53

Auditioning. And we we know what background life is like 16-hour days, 12-hour days, for $120.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

Hurry up and wait. Hurry up and wait. So when I moved to Atlanta, I was like, I can't do it all. I just can't. You gotta focus on what's getting you money because we ain't had none. We needed money. You know what I'm saying?

unknown 19:14

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

So this is making me money, let's go hard. So it was like I put myself through search engine optimization, media outlet, business class. Like it was like, it was like I literally took myself through a full.

SPEAKER_02 19:26

I mean, I don't wanna, you know, do too much on this, but the fact that, and that's another reason why I'm so inspired by you, because you knew you had something, but you figure you had to try to figure out. No, you didn't try. You figured out, you figured it out. Um, you figure out how it could work for you. And I'm talking about like the back end of owning a website, the back end nitty-gritty on SEO and um you know clickbait and you know doing all those things.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

Everything. CSS, HTML, files, um, I mean, just everything. Uh everything.

SPEAKER_02 20:07

At your own pace. You you set what you want to do for the day. You set your intention, you go with your flow, and and it's and it's exactly how the Lord intended.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

Yes. And so to now have a brain ambassadorship with Donna's recipe by Tabitha Brown and Gina Woods, something I never thought would ever happen. Uh uh a hair company is paying me to represent their hair. Yes!

SPEAKER_02 20:32

And Tabitha Brown, no less. Tabitha Brown. You talk to her on a regular face.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Yes, but it's just like it's amazing. And to now be friends with India I re who always looks out for me and makes sure that I have placements whenever she's doing anything. Um and to just be in rooms with people who already know my name or to be recognized. Like, oh my god, you you do the black media. It's it's insane. It's so cool. Because I always thought they would recognize me for my my vocals, my my songs, my music, my accent.

SPEAKER_02 21:08

I'm saying the same thing, and not to take anything away from you, but everybody's always like, Oh, are you writing? Like, do you are are you singing? And I'm like, I sing whenever somebody calls me, but is that my bread and butter? No, it is not. And and we know why, you know. There's there's something that takes precedence in in both of our lives, you know, over what we thought would. You know, we had in our minds that oh, I'ma do this, oh I'm gonna get on, you know, such and such is gonna make me a background vocal ward. You know, but the Lord says something.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

Yes, and it's all divine timing. Things can still happen for all of us, both of us. But the path that God has the both of us on is the path that God needs us to be on, and I think that we. Are all intrinsically tied together, every human being on earth. So what I'm doing, what you're doing, every person we interact with is affected, and then they affect somebody else, and they affect somebody else.

SPEAKER_02 22:11

So it's we are here to bless to be a blessing to others, you know?

SPEAKER_00 22:15

All tied together. So I will get a or maybe I will write a hit song or have a whatever. But right now, what I'm doing is this, and it's it's stabilizing me, and it's it's it's it's keeping me. It's also um lighting a fire under me to continue. So it's all in God's timing. It's all in God's timing.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

And well, and and again, I'll say what we thought is it's a it's a not right now. You know, it's a not yet. Right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

And never lift me. Envious never lift me. I know, you know, we're friends with it. Never. Never.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

Tahir don't care about nobody. It's not that he don't care, it's just Tahir is not envious of anybody else's success. He he's gonna root for you. Um because what God has for you is listening for you.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

When you know, I have the knowing. God gave me the knowing when God re when Christ revealed himself. God revealed himself to me when I was a kid. When you have the knowing, the other stuff don't even, that isn't even phased you. We are friends with MJ Rodriguez, the first trans person to win a golden globe. Neither one of us is somewhere like right, mad at MJ Rodriguez. We are you found up, we are cheering it on. You know what I'm saying? And we don't live here. We just we're so proud, we're so grateful, we like, okay, boom. If it happens for you, it can happen for me. I just gotta keep doing what I'm doing. I keep hustling. Um, and even with you, like when I when I owned my studio, you kept hustling. I kept hustling. I leaned on you when I needed help, and you helped me, and it let me know because not everybody, you know, not everybody will show you that they they love you and they believe in you.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

Right.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

But you showed me that you loved me and you believed in me, and you was like, you know what? I'm gonna help you because I believe you and I love you, and I know that you are going to make it one day. And I can honestly say nobody in the world has ever done that for me. And it's not that people don't love me or support me, but again, it's something different when somebody shows you. So I just need to stay on your show. Oh, thank you again. Because I literally could have been on the street, like that was about to happen. And it was like, no, I got you because I believe in you, not just because I look no, I believe in you. That just gave me another boost, and I never I think about it all the time, it never leaves my brain. Everything I do, everything, every place I go, I'm like, look, I you believe you believe in me.

SPEAKER_02 25:11

And when you find people like that, you don't let them go. You know what I mean? You don't let them go, you don't let them flail, you know, you you you you stick close to them, and you find you find it to to encourage each other, and that's just it, you know? And that's just just literally how I live my life, you know. Um, and so you're so welcome, and and I'm thankful for you too. I'm thankful for you because you know, so many things, so many reasons why I am where I am, is you know, also because you poured into me. And you know, and I'm and I learned from you. Um and so look, the Lord does everything well. So um, I really want people to understand the mission behind the blackmedia.org. Um, I know you mentioned earlier that you know there were other sites um that weren't telling the other side. What is the other side?

SPEAKER_00 26:19

So the black media is no gossip, no rumors, no negativity. The other side is to show people that black people are not a monolith, which means we do not all want the same things, we do not all think the same. So show things in entertainment, and I use entertainment because we live our lives through it, to quote the devil risk product. We live our lives through it. So if I use entertainment to bring up hot topics or certain taboo topics or whatever, the purpose of the Black P, the mission, is to redefine what it means to be a person of color in entertainment, bringing to light what is constantly made dark, as if being dark is a bad thing. And so it highlights a variety of shapes and sizes, a variety of orientation, a variety of thought processes and experiences, skin color, different types of mixes, the variety of blackness versus a singular idea of what it means to be black, and it uses comedy and entertainment. And unfortunately, because we got that fool in the office, I had I had to now step into politics, and so I'm still highlighting political figures, even now, too. And so that's what the mission is, and that's what the point of the black media is. It's to give you unbiased news, but the truth it is it is to get you to question everything, even the things that I post, so that you have autonomy in your viewership and your thinking and the news that is being reported to you. And I've been an independent news outlet since the beginning. And people like Joy Ann Reed and Don Lemon, who are just now stepping into the independent space, they're they're doing a great job. But let's there's been people here for many years before them. And they took a more traditional route. And now that they see the hard work and things like that that's happening, they have to do in the independent space, they're doing that with a budget. They're doing that with some type of digital that they got from whatever. I've been doing this by myself for my own money my entire career, and still not making nowhere near as much, still not having as much support because I handle positive news, I don't do gossip and rumors. I get way, way less money than most people, and I'm still impactful, and I'm still reaching people, and I'm still making you know able to live off of what I make. But let's be clear, I need more money, I need more resources, I need more support.

SPEAKER_02 28:50

Let's just tell the truth. Let's just tell the truth. The blackmedia.org. I'm gonna put that across the screen. The blackmedia.org, okay? Listen, for all your entertainment news, okay? For all your media production, for all your production needs, okay? You need a background, you need a background. Listen, we we need we need money. We need money.

SPEAKER_00 29:12

I'm there. So the goal right now is to expand the black media by having some type of donations or investment or just making enough money and profiting that I can hire more journalists, I can do more productions, I can have a steady podcast, I can do interviews and just be a media hub of blackness for greatness. But not just celebrities, but like doctors who have done magnificent things, black doctors who have done magnificent things, black lawyers who have done magnificent things, highlighting politics, highlighting mayors and governors and you know local politicians so that I can make sure that we have impact there. But then also I want to have also have uh the black media cares where we're raising funds to help homeless people and to help people who are struggling with rent that I've gone through to make sure that people have what they need. So it's a whole plan that I have involved, you know, involved with the black media, and I'm just at the precipice, the the cusp of what's to come for for this company. And I will say it's very tiring. I can get very um feeling like I want to quit because it's so much work.

SPEAKER_02 30:18

We all do, you're not alone.

SPEAKER_00 30:20

I don't have a team, and it's like I be needing help so bad, but I just give it to God and I just take my time, and whatever happens is what happens, and every time I do, every if I don't work, I don't so every time I take a break and I just give it to God, I get a random job from somewhere, and I be like, oops, we good, we good, and I just have to start over with a black media, like just starting.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

What's that Tamil Man song? Um, God provides, right? Hello, He provides. I'm trying to say you you stay in him, baby. Honey. And give it to him, give him all the glory.

SPEAKER_00 30:59

You could jump off the bridge and be okay. Listen. So I'm so grateful for all of that. But you know, I just needed to say that it's very, very difficult what I do, and there are things, productions I have done that have never released because it's just so hard to even think about it or even go into that space.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

And I've lost you haven't released yet.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

I haven't released yet, amen. I've lost so much, I have seen so much, and it's just like still here, still here, okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:33

Seeing so much, going through so much, and I was just talking to a friend about what it means to go through, and he pushed back on me. He said, I said, you know, um, what did I say to him? I said, you don't be so hard on yourself, right? Um, but sometimes you have to be hard on yourself. Sometimes you have to be reflective and show that that you could, there's something, there's more that you could be doing, right? Um and and because that that's what stops you from being, that's what stops you from stopping, right? Um, and that's what stops you from giving up. Um and so, you know, we just and the good thing is that you can go through, but it's nothing wrong with going through.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

It's nothing wrong with going through, and also sometimes you just will have to, you know.

SPEAKER_02 32:29

It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. And you just gotta be realistic and face it.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

And just face it, which is why I I surrender. I surrender a lot because it's like mm-mm, no, not finna. I can't how? And so I just let it happen. I just what okay, you know, it is this is what's happening.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

This is what's happening.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

Thank you, Jesus. God take this and handle this, and I just deal with it afterwards, because what I'm gonna do, like I can't do nothing but what I can. And I could do a whole lot, and after I've done a whole lot, that's it. You know, I don't really have that's it. I did it.

SPEAKER_02 33:04

That's it. That's it. Okay, I did it. Alright. And we're gonna keep it moving, and we're gonna keep it pushing.

SPEAKER_00 33:12

We're gonna figure it out. So I'm so grateful that the black media hasn't been able to provide my life, but then opportunities outside of that, which is how I make a lot of my money. I would, for a long time, I was saying most of my money, but lately it's been the black media, which is incredible.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

Wonderful.

SPEAKER_00 33:29

So I'm so grateful for that because I started getting paid on social media like a year and a half ago. And I wasn't this entire time, I was not getting paid on social media. And so when I started making money off of Instagram and threads and Facebook, I was like, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_02 33:45

He was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Explain.

SPEAKER_00 33:49

Explain, honey. And even though, you know, oh some, you know, even though it's hard to do to achieve those things, because you have to you have to get millions of views in order to make money. Like, I remember I got I remember I got like 400,000 views and made 10 cents.

SPEAKER_02 34:11

This this social media is a racket. They run in a racket, okay?

SPEAKER_00 34:15

It's running a racket. It's well, no, talking about OD's views didn't qualify. Why? I hear you. So it's a game, it's a game, but it's one that I rather play than to be somewhere hate to be or do something I don't want to do. And because I never had a nine-to-five, honey, I can't get a job if I drive.

SPEAKER_02 34:40

Okay. Oh my goodness. Well, thank you, Tahir. Okay. You have really been dropping some jewels and dropping some gems for anybody who wants to start an entertainment company, production company. Um, and I just so appreciate you for being here, being in my life, being on the show. Um, let me let's do a real quick game, okay? You know I gotta get a game, you know, I gotta get a game in. All right. Okay, so I'm gonna name some topics, and you're gonna say, because we're gonna this your production hat now. Okay, yes, he's a producer, okay? He's a producer. Um, that is uh another one of his hats. And so we're putting on your production hat right now, and we're gonna the game is called Produce It or Pass. You ready? Pass. Huh? Shut up! Shut up. Let's go. Reality TV spinoffs, producer pass. Okay, all right, me too. Same. Listen, hello? Listen, I'm with somebody um could follow me around with a camera all doing one day. Okay, sine. I'm again. Do you hear me? All right, uh, documentary storytelling, producer pass.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

Produce, that's what I do. I love my favorite produce.

SPEAKER_02 36:00

Yes, you love, uh, please. Website, the blackmedia.org, tie register.com. Yes?

SPEAKER_01 36:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:10

Hello, receipts. Okay, producer pass, celebrity interviews.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

Produce, for sure.

SPEAKER_02 36:16

For sure, for sure. You're already doing it and excelling at it.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

It has to be very specific because there's so many of that out here that what I would do would be so different from what everybody else is doing. It will be in-depth conversation in a different way.

SPEAKER_02 36:34

Yeah. Alright, one more. Producer pass, social media influences. I knew you were gonna say that. I know you were gonna say that. I mean, that's a whole nother show. It's too much. No me. No, oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Typo shot Hawaii, Hawaii.

SPEAKER_00 37:01

Oh, everything. Everything, Hawaii.

SPEAKER_02 37:04

Hawaii, oh my gosh, you gotta know. You gotta know. Okay. Thank you, Tahiya. I love you so much. I love you so much. Please, everyone, go to listen, the black media on everything. Instagram, the TikTok, right? Threads, Facebook, all the things. The black media on everything. TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, threads. Listen, it is where you want to be. Please, please, please follow, like, share. Um, Tahir Register is amazing. If you're in Atlanta, listen, he does photography, honey. Okay, you need background vocals. You call Titan. All right. Anything else you want to say? No, I just I love you, Ty Here, and thank you everyone for tuning in to Right Now with Renata. Good nap.