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" To me, mentorships and internships are two big pillars in business development. I believe in having multiple mentors. "

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" 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. "

" When we're looking at strategic partners, it may be that they're larger partners or big corporations or start-ups. But, when you look at Gilt and places like Amazon and Starbucks, they're all places where it's a lot of foot traffic or digital traffic. "

" 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. "

" There's less clutter in the beverage category than in the music category. A lot less clutter. "

" The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.' "

" The way consumers interact with music is different now. It's not an albums business anymore; it's a singles business again, and the industry has gone through that before. "

" 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. "

" The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs. "

" You're basically competing with the same exact product. Coke and Pepsi are at least in different cans. Lyft and Uber drivers are just swapping out the mustache for the U on the dashboard, depending on which one they're getting the call on. "

" My biggest frustration is the lack of scale in the music industry. The fact that no one has sold 100 million copies of an album is frustrating. "

" Money doesn't make me tick. This definition of success doesn't make me tick. Managing some of the biggest stars in the world doesn't make me tick. Making my family proud makes me tick. "

" The music industry really has to learn a lesson from the tech industry about what scale means at the end of the day and learning how to monetize. "

" When you think about brands and movie studios and everybody who is trying to reach millennials, having a captive audience in the back of Lyft or an Uber is a pretty great place. "

" We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us. "

" I was Jazzy Jeff's assistant. "

" When you sit down with Zynga and Google, and they talk about billions of impressions, you think, music has way more of an emotional connection than technology, but we haven't cracked the code. "

" With what Enrou was doing with helping women and taking products from local marketplaces, we thought it was really great. "

" I think piracy itself is going to end up going away. "

" There are not a lot of black men in the pop business. "

" It isn't that every company is going to be successful. The law of averages shows that 80% of companies are going to fail. "

" Priyanka and Red One made a great record that we think will stand on its own. People won't buy the music just because she is who she is. We want them to buy it because it's good. "

" It's always boiled down to the quality of your music and the quality of your deal with whoever's distributing your music: There are artists who sold a lot of records and didn't make money because of their deal, and artists who didn't sell nearly as much who made a great living because they own their masters. "

" When you look at how technology companies are funded, it's not a zero-sum game. It could be 20 investors in one company, and everybody has to work together for the benefit of that company. "

" It's pre-roll or post-roll on Vevo. The record company makes money off of that, and then it trickles down. "

" 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. "

" It's more important to have the one million diehard fans than to have 54 million people who aren't necessarily fans, or they might have liked one thing you said or one video. "

" I come from a place where when you shake someone's hand, it is a deal. "

" I think overall, and this isn't specific to Spotify or any streaming service or any label... when you consider the overall value chain of the music industry and how important the songwriter is to the business - I think there needs to be another look at the value chain. "