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Put a finger down if you ever hid your flip phone under your school blazer because it started yelling ‘Smack That’ mid-assembly…
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00:00The ringtones, everywhere I go, I would hear songs on people's phones.
00:04And I say, yo, how much is that that you're paying for?
00:07They said $4.99.
00:08I said, damn, that's for like a couple seconds?
00:11$4.99?
00:12And we selling singles for $1.99 for four minutes?
00:15So then I started making music specifically for the phone.
00:20Because it's $4.99 for a few seconds.
00:23Any basic businessman will tell you, that's where the money is.
00:26So every song that we was releasing was very ringtone friendly.
00:31Especially Mr. Lonely.
00:32Bro, at that time, I was in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most ringtone sold ever.
00:38I mean, above Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, any catalog, Beatles, it didn't matter.
00:43We trumped everybody.
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