Every Tuesday we talk doctrine, systems, the business. Tonight we do something I never do. I'm taking my actual hits APART. Live. Off the MPC. 🎵 Birthday Cake — Rihanna 🎵 Anaconda — Nicki Minaj 🎵 A$$ — Big Sean 🎵 The Don — Nas The room. The sample. The miracle. The lesson. How these records REALLY got made, piece by piece. This isn't a flex. A hit is a little miracle. I caught lightning a few times and I'm still chasing the next bolt right alongside you. So let's study the miracle together. Free. Bring one friend who makes music. Members eat first. This is the preview of the full forensics class going down Thursday. Pull up https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89536201687?pwd=7bvHU6yqjfcvXBBajJDTERsas0LSRc.1

Last Tuesday at the Kookout we cooked on The Signature. The drum nobody else picks. The space you leave. The residue of a real life that AI cannot fake. Tonight we go to the next floor. You know your signature. Now what? What architecture do you build around it so it keeps printing while you're in the studio, on stage, with your kids, asleep, traveling, or grieving? That architecture is a System. We're cooking on three levels tonight: 🔹 The daily practice that protects the signature on the worst day 🔹 The tools you OWN instead of rent (whoever owns the inbox owns the artist) 🔹 The institutional vehicle that outlives the signature (mine is House of Palacios. Just locked it.) Plus: 🎵 Music Pulse — what's cooking out there 🎛 Production Tip Tuesday — leave the first idea ugly 🏟 BET Master Class Open Mic — I have 55 min on Center Stage June 27. Best ideas tonight get cited live. 👑 Founding Members get named on the deck. Pull up at 5 PM PT. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89536201687?pwd=7bvHU6yqjfcvXBBajJDTERsas0LSRc.1 Members eat first. Bring somebody. The table's got room. Let's cook. — Dr. Kosine

I have been saving my little pennies for some time and FINALLY I was able to get my Apollo Twin! 🚨🚨🚨 When I tell you it took me a full WEEK to get the software and the interface to work with my Mac M5, changing security settings, pulling up with my producer community, and calling the dag gone sweet water and UA agents but I’m outchea yall 😂😂 The music is about to sound real expensive over here and I’m so excited for it. *insert cheese grin* 😏 The journey continues…elevation on constant. 💫💫💫 The intern never graduates. 🎓📚

Another one for the books 💣 Thank you @Kosine Palacios and friends for another great session, tonight was epic. @Taurean Rideau song was complete FIRE as per usual. Your elevation is a blessing to experience. Kenny is calling 😏 I took so many notes but the best part was witnessing the camaraderie. The energy was felt and a testament in real time to the importance of building with others. It may not always feel good but when you find your people and lock in, you appreciate it so much more. For now and as @Kosine Palacios said in one of our past sessions . . .it’s good to get in on the ground floor. 💯 The intern never graduates. 🎓📚

We opened the doors tonight and the room showed up. First Kookout in the books, and it set the standard for what these Tuesdays are going to be. The thesis: in a year when everybody is scared AI is coming for their work, the real question is not whether a machine can copy your sound. It is what it is even copying. The answer is your signature. The choices you make, the space you leave, the lived experience that no model has in its training data. AI can copy the output. It cannot copy the lineage. You cannot prompt a life. We were honored to have Phil Cornish in the room. Phil has played and produced with Kanye West, J. Cole, Alessia Cara, and Coco Jones, and his story is a masterclass on its own. He broke down how he got the call to a Kanye session with no brief, and how he won the room by doing the opposite of what most people do. He did not try to lead. He read the room, listened, found the objective, and delivered it without getting in the way. His point landed hard: success in collaboration is about role clarity, not ego. The greats partner with talent. They do not compete with it. Crystal pulled up and talked through her collaboration with Kosine and her new single "What You Doing," out June 19. Go support it. Kosine tied the whole night together with the through-line he has been living for years. Be different, not just good. Confidence and team-building over chasing a look. And the reminder underneath all of it: connection without expectation. Phil's career-changing run started with a chance meeting in 2012 and a relationship that was never transactional. We also sat with the difference between chasing the bag and being the bag, and a quick stop on the difference between profit and prophet. Same sound, different soul. The challenge this week: bring one original loop or verse built from scratch. No AI on the core idea. Be ready to defend your signature out loud. This is the work. Next steps: - Want favor in the room (priority questions, DMs, replays, cohort)? Become an Internz Academy member.