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" Actors play different characters, so you have to build a new base around each new movie - with few exceptions, most actors don't have a fan base that just follows them around. With musicians, the fan base just goes everywhere they go. "
Go
New
You
" A lot of corporations now have venture arms that are investing in young entrepreneurs or building programs within so you can disrupt yourself internally instead of looking to those external factors. "
Building
Young
Yourself
" As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business. "
Business
Resilience
Rejection
" As we look at Hollywood and the controversy around the Oscars, it goes back to the voting block and the lack of people who come from that culture. For example, the NWA movie is a fantastic, fantastic movie. You need people who can look at a piece of art like that and understand the artistry in it. "
Culture
Art
You
" Backplane will provide a platform and tools for communities to socialize and communicate on a more focused level. "
Will
Tools
Focused
" Before I even agreed to work with Hennessy and the Privilege Awards, I wanted to do some research on it, look up past winners, and find out more about it. "
Past
Research
Work
" Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail. "
Born
Learn
Try
" Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you're wrong about something. "
Same
Wrong
Never
" Coming from the music business and seeing the transition from artists to fans, fans to consumers, it's really about understanding the psychology of why people want to associate with your brand. "
Understanding
Music
Business
" Exclusives are bad for artists, bad for consumers, and bad for the whole industry. "
Consumers
Artists
Whole
" Fifty-one million likes doesn't mean we're going to sell 51m albums or concert tickets. "
Mean
Likes
Going
" GaGa is a digital baby - that's how they communicate. There cant be any layers between the artists and their fans. "
Fans
Artists
Baby
" Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture. "
Business
Culture
Nobody
" Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it's difficult to actually do the work. "
People
Lot
Work
" I am inspired by the diversity of the entrepreneurs that come into 'Shark Tank' and the ability of the show to reach all Americans. "
Ability
Diversity
Shark
" I believe in outgrowing a mentor and getting a new one, and I think that you can never be too old to be schooled by your mentor. "
Believe
I Believe
Mentor
" I bring in the record label who distributes the music. "
Record
Who
Label
" I came up with Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Those guys, they took me under their wing at an early age. "
Up
Fresh
Age
" I come from a place where when you shake someone's hand, it is a deal. "
Someone
Come
Place
" I didn't go to business school. I actually didn't even graduate high school. I ended up with a GED. So everything that I've learned in business, I've learned through experience. "
Everything
Experience
School
" I'd like to open doors for underserved communities and minorities in entrepreneurship. "
Like
Open
Entrepreneurship
" I don't think holograms are the future in the music industry. "
Think
Music
Music Industry
" I don't think we're out there aggressively looking for deals. Our strategy is that business follows the creative. We're not out there scouring the marketplace for opportunities. "
Creative
Think
Business
" If a kid goes and buys a CD at Best Buy, we have no idea who the person is, how many times they listen to it, or anything like that. "
Listen
Best
Idea
" I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself at age 19. The letter included my goals and dreams for my life, and even then, I was writing about the management company that I built today. "
Today
Life
Goals
" If you can't see it, you can't be it. "
You
See
" If you look at a company like Uber, a company that so anti-establishment that cab companies are trying to find ways to shut it down, one could compare that to how Public Enemy and NWA went after then-modern society in hip hop. "
Look
Down
Society
" If you wake up in the morning and your favorite artist isn't on the service that you're paying ten dollars a month for, sooner or later you lose faith in the subscription model. "
Service
Morning
Faith
" I grew up carrying crates of records for Will Smith and those guys. "
Up
Records
Will
" I had this little rap group, and we were called '2 Too Many'... We used to hang out in front of Jazzy Jeff's record studio every day. "
Group
Every Day
Used
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