Drums

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hello everybody

i am malik dope representing washington

d.c

and today i’m showing you a little bit

of my dope way you know

so sit back and enjoyed it and let’s get

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reality

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hey

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and that’s the dope way

so yeah what goes into just

the science of all of that is being

comfortable really knowing

following your rhythm inside and out

when i’m doing this

you might not even have known that was a

freestyle that whole thing was freestyle

i literally only knew the track i was

gonna play before that but i didn’t know

what i was actually going to play on the

instrument

and sometimes that actually just frees

you you know you you want to

know that you’re navigating whatever

you’re doing your instrument whether

it’s your camera your drum

the car you want to it’s all about being

comfortable so

that’s that’s a little bit what i call

my dope way you know dope way that’s my

one of my brands

it stands for doing what you love

extremely right now

and that’s the drums i love it i’m

getting into it

right now and when i go into that it’s a

mindset

you know and when i’m doing it being

from dc

is very natural as you see that last

beat i played that was called a bounce

beat that’s

go go music so in dc go go music is very

big

and it allows everyone to feel

comfortable when i was in school

people are banging on their desks

natural percussion you know they were

just comfortable with it

you didn’t even have to really go to

school for it so

that was one of the blessings even being

from washington dc and how it even

relates to me being comfortable

on any type of kit of any percussion

anywhere

at any time extremely right now so yeah

that’s one of my brand’s dope way my

other one is definition of percussion

entertainment which basically focus in

education entertainment and healing

using percussion is that tool for your

mental clarity therapy fun edutainment

anything you need

so when i when i’m doing that i’m

showing you the definition of percussion

entertainment and

how i’m doing it i’m doing it the dope

way you feel me it’s freeing your mind

and your body

and letting that coexist right there

together so

anytime i’m hitting the drums

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i don’t know what i’m doing

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i just did that i didn’t even think

about it i’m very comfortable with it

it’s therapy to me

i love it it’s how i live and breathe

and do

everything i do in life so

that’s how i live my my life on the

rhythm you know is through percussionist

through drumming

and that’s what’s what allows me to feel

free to be free

this is my voice it is my instrument of

communication

everybody in this room or anybody

watching out there i’m communicating

with you right now

even though you might think it’s just

entertainment it’s a language to me and

i’m

conveying it to you you know you might

not know what

you might not know what that said but

you know what you felt

you know and that’s all that really

matters it’s about feeling it

breathing it and just being it because

once you just

are just allowing yourself to be free on

whatever you uh

your instrument is or your practice is

you will find success in that

you know and it’s very important just

simply

to be comfortable to be free uh

away from any insecurities about if

you’re not good enough

or whatever i’m not sure if you notice i

messed up sometimes in my set

but guess what the show goes on i drop a

stick

oh man still

see that the show must go on and that’s

all about life

the show must go on you drop a stick you

you

lose a job you do anything you must keep

on going and you must keep on bouncing

back

and that’s what the one of the great

luxuries of life is to actually just

recover from mistakes recover from

anything dropping a stick

or dropping well don’t drop a building

on people that’s a little crazier

but when you drop the sticks you know it

doesn’t hurt anybody but your

your own ego maybe it’s all about

recovery

freedom being yourself doing what you

love extremely right now

doing it the dope way so yeah i am malik

dope

and i just showed you my dope way and

i’m from washington dc

shout out tedx bless up

you