On behalf of SS Global Media & Entertainment, I am proud to officially announce our 2026 AMP Community FYC selections for GRAMMY® consideration: @Sirap TheHybrid @Kent Wade @NyAira Collins Originally, we were only selecting ONE artist from the AMP Community. However, after reviewing the recommendations from my executive team and seeing the level of creativity, talent, commitment, and overall readiness represented, I felt there was good reason to personally commit the additional resources and expense to move forward with more than one. So instead of one, I committed to three FYC submissions from the AMP Community alone, completely separate from the artists being submitted through SS Global Entertainment. HOW THE DECISION WAS MADE As I stated in the original announcement, this was never going to be based solely on who had the best song. To eliminate my own personal bias, I removed myself from the final selection process. My executive team conducted the review and made the final selections. There was an incredible amount of talent and creativity represented. The fact that these three artists were selected does not mean others were not talented or did not submit great records. There was a lot considered. We looked at the music, creativity, originality, talent, presentation, and overall quality. But we also looked at your commitment to what we are building within AMP. Are you actively involved in the AMP Community? Are you testing and using the resources and tools we provide? Are you applying those tools to your content, marketing, music, and business? Are you completing the assignments? Are you participating when opportunities to test, learn, and develop are presented? Are you consistently showing up? Are you doing something with your music career beyond simply releasing records? Are you demonstrating through your actions that you are applying what I am teaching?

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” — George Bernard Shaw You are allowed to have fun while you're building your dreams. Laugh. Turn the music up. Do something just because it makes you happy. Everything doesn't have to be about the next goal. Enjoy your life, too.

Hey AMP Family! If you are a songwriter who writes your own lyrics but uses Suno or another generative AI platform to create beats, music, instrumentation, or vocals, this information is important as we as well as those you are and have submitted to review music for potential GRAMMY consideration. USING AI DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFY YOUR SONG FROM GRAMMY CONSIDERATION. The Recording Academy allows works containing AI-generated material to be considered. However, only human creators can be nominated for or win a GRAMMY, and there must be meaningful human authorship or performance appropriate to the category being entered. FOR SONGWRITERS If you wrote your song yourself, your human authorship matters. For a songwriting category, the Recording Academy requires that a majority of the song be written by a human creator. This means that simply using Suno does not automatically eliminate your song. However, there is an important difference between: YOU writing the song and using AI as part of the creative or production process and AI generating the majority of the song for you. For example, if you personally wrote 100% of your lyrics but prompted Suno to generate the beat, instrumentation and/or vocals, your work contains human authorship. However, that does not automatically establish that the entire song, including its musical composition, was human-written. The Recording Academy will ultimately determine whether the human contribution satisfies the eligibility requirements for the category entered. Writing a prompt is not automatically the same as personally composing the music the AI generates. AI VOCALS A recording can contain AI-generated vocals, but an AI voice cannot be recognized as a human performer for a GRAMMY. If your vocal performance was generated entirely by AI, we would not recommend representing that AI-generated vocal as your human performance. A songwriting category is different because it recognizes human songwriting rather than simply the vocal performance.

PROJECT: AI FOR BUSINESS MASTERCLASS — JACKSON PILOT SERIES THE ASK: $2,250 For my Day 29 project, I’m submitting the first pilot of my AI for Business workshop series in Jackson, Mississippi This is a four-part, beginner-friendly program starting Aug 29th designed to help 20 creators, entrepreneurs, and small-business owners learn how to use AI as a practical tool for business, creativity, productivity, and growth. My budget is built around one principle from today’s assignment: Every dollar should point to a person. The $2,250 ask covers: • Founder facilitation + participant support — $600 • 20 participant workbooks — $240 • 20 Between Worlds journals — $400 • 20 Between Worlds shirts — $400 • Materials + supplies — $100 • Marketing + community outreach — $150 • Administration + reporting — $110 • Participant completion award: 1-year ChatGPT Plus subscription — $240 • Community venue — $0 / in-kind This is the pilot. The larger vision is much bigger 🫡✨ But I’m learning to fund the next executable step, document the results, and build from proof. Jackson WILL be known for what we built, not just what we survive @Tiffany Gaines

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action.” — Martha Graham What you bring to your art can't be duplicated because no one else has lived your story exactly the way you have. Don't water down what makes your creativity yours. 🎶