Youtubehttps://www.lbdcorptherightchoice.comInstagramBioTo her careers as an entrepreneur, author, MC host, and inspirational speaker, CatreseAlston, under the artist name Queen Diamond, has added singer/songwriter to her list ofaccomplishments.She has just released four songs, hip-hop and R and B, but “Money Wave” is THE song.“‘Money Wave’ is talking about me, in a sense, and also as it relates to money,” shesaid. “It’s talking about how you get that money and live that life.”It is kind of like her inspirational speeches rendered in hip-hop, with a beat and a chiming melodyand an upbeat rhythm that perfectly punctuate the lyrics, which are possibly the only hip-hop inexistence that includes the word “portfolio” and the term “LLC.”Imma show you how it’s ’bout to go downPortfolio fat like them 808 drumsLLCs, that’s how freedom comesEvery single deal—ka-ching—outcomes“It’s basically telling you how you can make it,” she said. “I’m telling them you got tohave those LLCs in place, and you got to be able to turn those deals into moneyoutcomes. Sometimes you don’t have to move where everybody can see everything.You need to move in silence. And when you move in silence, but you move effectively,those checks gonna scream loud.”Turn a risk into a ring the way I marry sumsPower moves quiet, then the check screams loudJumpin’ off the jet in designer, head-crowdEagle-eye vision—spot a bag in the cloudIt is almost certainly the most fun financial advice you will ever hear.It is also a personal statement of intent.“I have held back. I’ve had a lot of challenges in life, and I have kind of been on theback burner because I’m always putting everybody else ahead and helping everyoneelse. But now I’m gonna show you how it’s about to go down for me.”Music is something she has always wanted to do, but life, the need to make a living andsome extreme hardships intervened.“I got pregnant at a young age. My mom was murdered when I was five. Mygrandparents raised me and my brother, but they both died by the time I turned 18. So,I’ve always been independent and finding my way, and music was what always mademe feel better.”She passed her love of music on to her children, who are now singers and rappers intheir own right, and she has her own production company, BossCat Entertainment.“I pushed them and supported them, and now they’re pushing and supporting me.”The tipping point that decided her on doing what she always wanted to do, began duringthe time of COVID, when she discovered she had stomach cancer. She beat it, andearly this year she celebrated her fifth year of remission.One particular moment was when she was playing around with her music with a friend,who said, “Oh my God! You should be doing something.”“And I said oh, no, that was a dream I had before, and she said, ‘Okay, you’re not tooold to live your dream.’ And I said, ‘You know what? That’s one of the things I want meto do.’ And so now, after overcoming cancer and even going blind in 2023 and gettingmy vision back, everything that I always wanted to do, I’m going to do it.”Of the four songs she has just released, “It’s My Birthday” is pure hip-hop celebration,with what sounds like a bass sax joining the drum in the beat, and “Pleasure and Pain”is an R&B and hip-hop fusion on relationships — the pleasure and the pain.The other two, “Money Wave” especially but also “Stone Cold Lover,” are Catresestaking out her ground as Queen Diamond.“‘Money Wave’ is letting you know I’m coming forth. I’m wearing the crown, and it is theQueen Diamond era.”In “Stone Cold,” the singer is talking to a lover, but warning him, too.“I’m trying to reach my goals, and although I may want someone to be beside me, and Imay care about you, you can’t let your emotions get involved, because I’m on amission.”I’ma show you how it’s ’bout to go down—Risin’ to the top, we don’t play ’round—Money wave comin’, watch me surf that “Money Wave” is all about the mission, and money is a big part of that, but it’s noteverything.“I’m about building a legacy,” she said. “When you leave this earth, what do you leavebehind? I’m not talking about things that can disappear. Materialistic things, they can bedissolved. How have you impacted somebody else’s life, through inspiration, throughwords, through motivation, through music?”And, the music is also about fun, which comes out when you ask her what she wants todo with it, where she wants to go with it.“I want to have fun with it. I want to be able to reach a vast amount of people, share mystories through my songs, because it’s very relatable to a lot of things that people dealwith in their life, and I want to be encouraging.”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/creator-to-creators-with-meosha-bean--4460322/support.
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