Kevin Hart

I don't think it's the worst thing, right?

Like it's, when it happens early on, like,

I got a lot of friends that are in the music business, a lot of artists that are now independent artists that control and own their labels and are doing much better at this position than they were when they were signed underneath the big thing and they were getting taken.

But after finding out how it was and why it was, I said, I'm going to go create my own.

When you look at the biggest labels that are independent and you look at the artists that fall underneath these independent labels, you'll look at a blueprint of people following artists

the person that was like in front of them and what they said, but it was only because they learned the business of the business, right?

Like, so being a part of a business that's just succeeding and you being embedded into it and just being the work for hire that just follows the suit of what they say,

Well, that's not smart if you have an opportunity to mirror what they're doing and create your own.

So what I do like within a culture is a lot of the artists that are independent or that are now like –

able to say I have my own version, whether it's studio, production company, label, independent label, whether it's own line of product that they share ownership with.

People are now learning to follow and repeat what the conglomerates are doing.

I can use a conglomerate and I can take your machine and create a small version of a machine underneath yours and partner with you and give you a piece of my machine.

But it allows me to own.

I can leverage the bank of opportunity and consumer that you have here under this brand.

You for sure have your days.

I'm absolutely stressed out.

I'm stressed to fuck out on the daily, but I operate within stress.

Are you happy?

I'm 1,000% happy, but I'm stressed out with the concept of I have to do.

If life ended today...