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Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

Business, Bradlea, Success, Mentor, Coach, Advice, Money, Strategy, Training, Entrepreneurship, Therealbradlea, Entrepreneur, Comedy

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Mackenzie Sol has racked up 5.5 billion views, gone viral on TikTok, and lit up the American Idol stage—but he’s just getting started. In this powerful episode of Dropping Bombs, Brad Lea and Mackenzie go deep on viral video strategy, staying real in a fake industry, the ups and downs of fame, and his mission to bring back soulful music with purpose. If you're an artist, creator, or dreamer—this one's a masterclass in hustle, heart, and staying true to your passion.

Mackenzie's links

https://www.instagram.com/mackenziesol/?hl=en

https://www.mackenziesol.com

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0:00.0	24 years old, just got off American Idol.
0:03.0	My friend filmed this video,
0:04.0	woke up as 100 million views on TikTok.
0:06.0	Having 5.5 billion views, just looking at that,
0:09.0	it feels amazing.
0:10.0	But music is my passion.
0:11.0	I want to give people my secrets, my strategies,
0:14.0	the ways I've gone viral that genuinely had a talent.
0:16.0	And I feel like American Idol was my platform to show that.
0:19.0	So you'd rather stand in front of 100,000 crowd singing.
0:22.4	100%.
0:22.8	Like those videos I go, what I would give for this to be 100 million streams.
0:29.6	What it is, Bradley, back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio, folks.
0:34.9	As always, I got a real treat for you mackenzie soul in the house how you
0:39.1	doing brother is that a i'm doing excellent how are you doing i'm doing very well so 24 years old
0:44.9	just got off american idol damn near won the thing what what song did you sing a few um i owned up
0:51.8	the show bringing on home sam cook The one you went home on.
0:55.0	Oh, it's called False Alarms by Lawrence.
0:58.0	Did you blame the song?
1:01.8	No, that's the thing. You know, a lot of people exit shows, crying, like, sad, like,
1:06.2	oh, I wish I could have done better. I feel like I left showing who I was.
1:09.8	You know, I really just gave that last performance, my everything.
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