00:00Some of the challenges I had was being a young artist and having a lot of gatekeepers
00:06to open the doors for you, you know, being a label baby. You had a lot of people regulate
00:12your career. You had a regional rep in every city. You had someone, you know, A&R in your
00:18event. So you never got a chance to one-on-one have the relationship with the person that
00:24they were setting a lot of these events up with. You did all of this free press, all of
00:28these promotional events. You performed so many places, but you didn't have the relationship.
00:34So some of the challenges for me was once I was thinking about getting on my own or doing
00:40things my way or trying to start my own, I realized that I had none of these relationships,
00:46all of these resources. So if I can tell anybody out here anything, you know how you give somebody
00:51else your phone and let them take the number down for you or take the pictures for you or
00:57keep this card and give it to me later. You have to hold on to your own resources and
01:05relationships because if you don't, management-wise and otherwise, when you leave management, when
01:11you leave a record company, they belong to them. So that was one of the challenges that
01:16I had, trying to recreate and not having those resources and relationships that I felt like
01:23I worked my ass to create.
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