Creator to Creators S7 Ep 41 Queen Diamond

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To her careers as an entrepreneur, author, MC host, and inspirational speaker, Catrese
Alston, under the artist name Queen Diamond, has added singer/songwriter to her list of
accomplishments.
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,” she
said. “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 melody
and an upbeat rhythm that perfectly punctuate the lyrics, which are possibly the only hip-hop in
existence that includes the word “portfolio” and the term “LLC.”
Imma show you how it’s ’bout to go down
Portfolio fat like them 808 drums
LLCs, that’s how freedom comes
Every single deal—ka-ching—outcomes
“It’s basically telling you how you can make it,” she said. “I’m telling them you got to
have those LLCs in place, and you got to be able to turn those deals into money
outcomes. 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 sums
Power moves quiet, then the check screams loud
Jumpin’ off the jet in designer, head-crowd
Eagle-eye vision—spot a bag in the cloud
It 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 the
back burner because I’m always putting everybody else ahead and helping everyone
else. 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 and
some extreme hardships intervened.
“I got pregnant at a young age. My mom was murdered when I was five. My
grandparents 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 made
me feel better.”
She passed her love of music on to her children, who are now singers and rappers in
their 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 during
the time of COVID, when she discovered she had stomach cancer. She beat it, and
early 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 too
old to live your dream.’ And I said, ‘You know what? That’s one of the things I want me
to do.’ And so now, after overcoming cancer and even going blind in 2023 and getting
my 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