Cardi B

But I was making money.

So I was investing in my music career.

I was investing in my studio time.

I was investing in my own clothes.

It was never managers.

It was never a label that cut me a check.

Like, it's like, oh, here, if you want to get into fashion, here's a check for you.

And you could invest in fashion and go to fashion shows and everything.

Everything I had to invest in me.

It was never like I had a manager and he believed in me and he invested so much money.

He was doing the work, but I was investing every single dollar that I made every single night hosting these clubs, promoting T-shirts, promoting other people's business to my music career.

And it paid off.

did it even like with my with my first music video I was just like I have to put out this music like I have to turn my personality and I gotta put it in the music and I gotta put it in the music video even with that I was like I had to pay like some influencers that they were like really funny at the time I had to pay them and I was just like kind of upset like it's like damn

I'm going to have $2,000 left when I'm finished with this.

But it's like, I was saying, I was saying myself, like, it's like, if I get a million views on YouTube, I can make about $30,000 with this music video and people would take me more serious as an artist.

Because some people think, some people think that when you start off in a reality show and when you're really funny like me, it's really hard to convince people that you're being serious.

It's like, yeah, yeah, you want to do music.

And it's like, no.

I really want to do music.

Like I went to so many different labels and it was just like, um, Oh, this person tried to, this person, a reality show, try to do music.