The Ryan Sullivan Show

Lonely Leo is a rapper and songwriter originally from New Jersey, now residing in Arizona. He's most known for his polarizing and sometimes controversial opinions about everything from politics to sports on his TikTok page, LowLifeLeo.

In the past few years, he's made a name for himself on the internet while growing his fanbase at the same time. Leo's electro-trap Travis-Scottesque bars and wavy flows have solidified him as an artist to keep an eye on as he grows in AZ and beyond.

In this episode, we dive into his newfound TikTok rise, his unapologetic methods of content creation, how to know if you're ready to build a team, and his latest single, Medusa.

Ironically, Leo has created music with 2 other BopCast Guests, Tunezzup and Tireek, and it was fun to explore these collaborations.

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Stream Tireek and Leo's Album, "Crookland."

Stream Tunez and Leo's EP, "The Lonely Stoner."

Stream Leo's Latest Single, "Medusa."

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Tireek is a rapper, songwriter, artist, filmmaker, and creative individual. He's one of the most down-to-earth people we've had on the show, and it was incredible to hear his story.

We discuss his upbringing and his godfather bringing him to the studio at 13 years old. We get into songwriting, preparation, performing, and more on the podcast.

I connected with Tireek through his manager, Sam D'Yan. She put me onto both of her artists and being impressed with their music and content, I felt it was a great opportunity to have them on.

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Listen to me and Trett get canceled. This is the first installment of the Shit Show, enjoy.

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Today on the show we have my man Luke Miller. Luke is a filmmaker, producer, and director from South Jersey. He's the co-host of the Freelance Network Podcast and Chatting Cinema. He's been featured, worked on, created, and co-created countless short films, music videos, and media.

Luke and I met through a fellow guest and great friend, Joe Gibbs. He introduced us while at Stockton University where Luke manned the controls in the podcast room, also known as the closet. Luke graciously had me on the Freelance Network Podcast, which he co-hosted until he graduated. From there we became fast friends.

It's one thing to have a friend pursuing a career in video while you're pursuing a career in audio, but it's something completely different to see them grow over the course of 2 years. When we met we were still in college trying to figure it out. We haven't stopped trying to figure it out, we just happened to carve our paths much deeper since the last time we spoke. Luke works for Oak Leaf Media, a New Jersey-based production company while writing a movie on his own, and shooting freelance films and music videos. Our conversation today encompasses these topics, as well as the small role he had in putting together one of the biggest music videos of the year.

This has been a BopCast with Luke J. Miller. You can find him on YouTube here.

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Tyler Braddock is the founder and owner of The Vault in Boonton, NJ. The Vault is a music studio dedicated to mixing, mastering, tracking, and recording artists of all genres. Tyler's work ethic and mindset are unstoppable, and he continues to be a mentor for me in my life and my music.

On a whim, I applied for an unpaid internship at The Vault in the summer of 2019. I didn't have a job and I was paying my rent from savings, but I knew I wanted to be around producers and musicians. I drove 45 minutes each way to get to the studio each day, but it didn't matter. The experience I gained was invaluable and as Tyler did his job, he patiently responded to my countless questions about producing, mixing, and mastering music.

This is the second on-location podcast for us, and I can't thank Tyler enough for letting us come to the studio to record this.

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This is a special episode, being that it's our first on-location BopCast ever. We traveled to Flemington, NJ to interview Gabbi for the second time. Gabbi Truppi is an outlier. She's a young entrepreneur who is pursuing her dreams regardless of the status quo. She embodies the risk-taking, fast-moving characteristics of a young and hungry business owner. I interviewed her for the first time when she was 20 years old and had just launched her ice cream truck, Scoops on Wheels. Now at 22 years old, she founded, Humdoo Ice Cream which is the basis of our interview today.

After the engine broke down on her infamous truck with countless events booked for her to appear at, she took it as a sign to grow and move forward. Already in the works was her physical location, "Humdoo Ice Cream," on Stangl Road in Flemington, NJ.

In this episode, we cover what it's like to launch 2 businesses as a young, female entrepreneur, the difference between an ice cream truck and an ice cream shop, and the biggest lesson she's learned by launching this new business. We also spoke about Gabbi's philosophy around ice cream, the meaning of the word Humdoo, and more.

I had a blast recording this episode in her shop and hope to do many more BopCasts on-location. If you know somebody who would be a great guest, email me at [email protected].

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The artist's mind will never fail to fascinate me. If you create and release music, you're setting in motion an unknown chain of events. People can guess and assume, but at the end of the day, "the fans are always smarter than you," to paraphrase John Mayer (a quote I bring up way too much). That does not mean that the artist is not smart, it means that the artist never knows exactly how the world will interpret what they let it consume. Ron Solemn, for example, released his song, "Body Bags" in 2018 and it continues to receive 10's of thousands of plays as it climbs closer to 1 million on Spotify alone.

As Ron mentioned in the interview, "Body Bags" was one of a series of songs released in 2018, and he did not expect it to gain the traction that it did - something I find so interesting as I come across more examples of the market knowing what's good more often than the artist.

Ron Williamson is a rapper, singer, and songwriter releasing hiphop and RnB music with a focus on mental health. He's done this under the name Ron Solemn for the past 5 years.

In this podcast we cover:

• Ron's transition from singing to rapping and songwriting, and how friends influenced him to rap.
• Gaining confidence on stage by singing covers.
• Songwriting, going by feel and creating a full song from an idea.
• Marketing music, and remarketing released songs.
• His song, "Bodybags" and how it went viral and gained almost 1M plays.
• Using music to say what's on his mind.
• And more...

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Amanda Sikoral is a musician that blends singer-songwriter, country and soul into a melodic fusion of hooks, and lyrics that you won't forget. She even performed the chorus for her newest single, "Home," at the end of the podcast. On top of her own music, she's been branded "The Manifesting Musician," for good reason. Her positive, daily TikTok mantras have garnered hundreds of thousands of views, and over 9000 followers on the platforms. She blends songwriting with short, positive affirmations and was pushed to make an entire song out of one after hundreds of people requested it.

I loved our conversation about music, growing as an artist, social media, and more. One thing I've realized while doing this is that meeting in person is mattering less and less. I've had countless guests come to my house to record after only a phone call or folks like Amanda who I met on IG, and then hopped on Zoom to record.

In this episode we cover:

• Amanda's willingness to take her music to the next level after 15 years of practice.
• Blending country and soul while being from New Jersey.
• Influences growing up, and how that shaped her sound today.
• Producing from scratch, and how she learned to improve.
• Her rise to TikTok fame as the "Manifesting Musician."
• How she created positive mantras that allowed her to grow on the platform, and gain thousands of fans using her sounds daily.
• Live performances, and how one chance encounter lead to her first one.
• Amanda's aspirations and the future of her music.

We hope you enjoyed the show!

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I love all of my guests, but as an artist myself, I feel like I connect with other artists quickly and easily. The artist's schedule can be prone to disorganization, but Gino Lomanto, known by his artist name, Gi theRapper has created a consistent system for releasing music. If you've noticed, my consistency has been nonexistent in the last year as far as my music goes, and it was inspiring to hear Gi's simple and effective system for keeping his content and tracks on the schedule. The worst thing you can do as an artist is fall behind, and this was even more motivation for me to get back on track.

In this episode we cover:

• Gino's Podcast, "Vino with Gino," the reason for starting it, and his aspirations moving forward.
• His interest in real estate and its specific facets that made it particularly appealing.
• Gi's consistency in music, and the system he put in place to stay consistent.
• Relationships, dating, and being upfront with yourself about your goals with people you're seeing.
• Why having a great producer can be the key to finding your sound.
• Gi's next moves in music.

Gi and I got together to release, "Easy 2 Call" a quarantine single with our spin on how easy it is to simply make a phone call. He also interviewed me on his podcast, "Vino with Gino," and we had a blast talking music while sippin' a drink. Stay tuned for our video to Easy 2 Call coming soon.

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The last few episodes have been packed full of examples of how mindset and self-improvement can (and will) change your life. Personally, I have some pessimistic tendencies when things don't go my way, but in the last few years I've become much more positive. Contributing to that positivity in my life has been today's guest, Nick Gates - founder of Strange Living Collective, coach, and speaker.

Nick's relentless positivity has fueled what he calls, "The Beautiful Journey:" a 3-step process of self-discovery he developed as he set out to build a life surrounded by his dreams, purpose, and passion.

In today's episode we cover:

• Relentless positivity and if it's possible to maintain positive through anything.
• How his business, Strange Living Collective came to be and what he learned building it.
• The Beautiful Journey: Nick's personal 3-stage process to find and live a fulfilled life.
• Overcoming negative emotions, and how to use others to identify your flaws.
• The power of coaching to build the life you want and identity blindspots.
• The power of planning to achieve any goal, and how to start immediately.

This episode was completely different than my last two with Nick, but somehow even more mind-blowing and uplifting. I had the privilege to go through a simple exercise after the show that changed my perspective on my own life goals.

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