Robert Greene
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So 50, he did his first album called Power of the Dollar.
And it's absolutely fantastic.
But right before it was to be launched, he got shot.
And the producers dropped him on the album.
They didn't release it.
And they dropped him from Columbia Records.
It's too dangerous.
And so he was thinking, you know, the failure, instead of it had been a big hit, would have gone to his head.
You know, who knows what would have happened to him.
Here he was, like, completely back to square zero.
In fact, worse.
He had nothing.
He'd done all this work, and he had this price on his head, and nobody would come near him.
And he wanted to learn what the lesson was from this, from this failure.
Well, the lesson is, I can't be dependent on a record label.
They're too conservative, they're too cautious.
I'm somebody who lives on the edge.
I'm not going to put out a record.
I'm going to do mixtapes and I'm going to sell them on the streets of Queens and then Brooklyn and then Manhattan.
He learned from that.