What 3 things does anyone starting in your industry need to know?
First, be relentless in your pursuit to success. Second, the music “business” is a business, so you gotta understand that your music is not gonna be treated like your baby the way that you would treat it, to the business it’s a product with an attachable dollar amount. Lastly, this shit is pay-to-play, and that’s why you see mediocre artists with massive fanbases.
What would you do differently if you were starting in your industry now?
I think that depends on where you see yourself fitting in. I’m being me so I don’t think I would change anything. If I had to change one thing it would probably be making a TikTok, people are getting a lot of notoriety off of that.
Which people or books have had the most influence on your growth and why?
The Art of Peace probably contributed the most to my growth. It’s a book by a master Aikido practitioner and it basically says you control everything you control, and everything outside of your control has to enter your circle of control for it to affect you. Create habits to maintain your circles integrity and nothing can truly effect you if you don’t allow it to. That shit helps in this industry because every single person you meet is trying to take you out of your element. As far as people who’ve influenced the growth, there are so many but I gotta say Hov & Ye. I started telling myself I really had to fucking go for it after hearing Watch The Throne. As a rapper, producer and engineer I felt like I couldn’t compete with 2/3rds of that in any variation. It made me level up.
What would you say is the #1 key to success in your music career?
Working on it while everybody else is still sleeping. My ambition coupled with my natural talent allows me to give ya’ll a great product. I think it stretches beyond music though, I could be an amazing electrician or some shit too if I put my mind to it. Apply yourself.
Talk about the biggest failure you’ve had. What did you learn from it?
Sheesh… I fail often, I don’t know what my biggest failure is. It’s probably like missed opportunities. Like I had the opportunity to open for Lil Uzi Vert in like 2016, he had it on lock then. I had a whole live conversation with ASAP Twelvy before a Rocky concert and didn’t know who he was back in like 2012. My biggest failure is probably being so consumed with creating an excellent product that I overlook opportunities or feel it might not serve me. It almost happened with this interview.
What has been your biggest success story? Why do you think it was a success?
My biggest success story has to have been building my studio. It’s bittersweet because I lost a lot of people along the way, but I had a vision, I made a lil’ plan and I executed and got it done. I own my own masters, I record whenever I want, I don’t have to pay somebody to engineer my shit (if I don’t want to). In a song I’ll probably release in a month or so I said “I went outside to acquire what I became” and I feel like that’s my style, I’m a go-getter. Gotta be the studio build.
What keeps you going when things get tough in the music industry?
Movies, cars, fucking… There are so many outlets, man. Literally, just focus the attention elsewhere until that shit comes back around. I love cinema, I think film is the coolest shit ever. I like modifying my vehicles, making them unique. Doesn’t everybody like fucking? Nah all seriousness, it’s probably detachment in a nutshell. Just because the industry is rough, doesn’t mean making the music has to be.
What made you pursue being an artist full-time?
I do what I want in life. You gotta live and die with the decisions that you pick. Sometimes you gotta be responsible and pay your bills. But realistically if you’re not doing what you want in life, you’re not alive, you’re just living. I just made being an artist my lifestyle, I don’t feel like it’s full time because it’s not a job, it’s who I am.
Would you sign to a label?
I hate this question lol. If the contract is right then sure. Where I’m from, most niggas never even seen $100,000 all at once. So if a label comes and tells me they’ll give me half a milli, I know what to do to turn a fifth of that back into 500K. If I own my masters, we’re not doing 360s, if I’ve got creative control, then sure. The label tryna hoe you out is why people don’t wanna sign, but if the contract is fair, why the fuck not? If I gave you a million dollar loan right now, with 16% interest, across 60 mo., you wouldn’t take it? People do it for 50k with cars, you might as well do it for cash and bet on yourself.
What projects are you working on for the rest of 2022?
I think I will drop another project in the 4th quarter. I definitely would like to drop a couple of videos before the summer is over. Maybe a single… I don’t know, I have a bunch of material and I think I’ll just do what I feel based on the demographic and the numbers and what kind of fun I feel like having come Autumn. I got some singles to throw away too… Just stay a tuned man. Everything coming in so many levels above what you guys are just now getting your hands on.
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