When Music is Much More with DeJuan Brown

Rethink The Way You Sell

While we’re on hiatus preparing for a new season of Rethink the Way You Sell, we wanted to bring you some content from Jeff you probably haven’t heard before. Jeff produced a premium podcast called Deeper Thought from 2020-2022 and you’re about to hear one of those episodes. Enjoy!

This is an enhanced version of the Deeper Thought post When Music is Much More with DeJuan Brown including an interview with the author.

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” -Albert Einstein

I think in lyrics. I even bop rhythmically a bit when I speak. Music, generally, is in me. Hip-hop however, is DEEP in me. Seriously. I once told my wife that 'there's a Jay-Z lyric for every scenario in life,' only partially in jest.

I was born in the 70's in what I now know was the inner-city. For me that meant having hip-hop as the backdrop against which my experiential selfies came to life. It also meant that I'd unintentionally grow to love words, poetic expression and other creative uses of the English language to communicate.

Metaphor, simile, analogy, double (at least) entendre, multi-syllabic rhyme schemes and other devices sit patiently on the tarmac of my mind. Always at the ready for taxi and takeoff, dependent only on the situation at hand.

There's so many more parallels I can draw, but I want to answer the question that may be bubbling beneath your mind's surface.

"Why are you sharing this, DeJuan?"