Wiz Khalifa

And the single did pretty well.

It was called Say Yeah.

And while I was on Warner, I learned how to do radio and do drops and meet DJs and go to car shows and just really promote myself.

So from early stages, I got the street hustle.

And then I learned the business hustle and the creative side of it as well.

I'm always working on that.

I lost my record deal at Warner Brothers.

They didn't want to do my album because they just couldn't see the vision.

They had the option to...

do the album, and they didn't take the option.

So we had the option to leave or stay, and there was no reason to stay because they weren't going to work on my project.

So we did leave, but they didn't want anything to do with me.

They had already just chalked it up, the money that they spent.

They were like, it's cool, it's whatever.

You can go back to Pittsburgh.

So I did go back to Pittsburgh, and that's when the internet started to change.

YouTube, Twitter...

those were the main vehicles for me.

Like YouTube was brand new.

Cause I graduated in oh six and YouTube was like kind of still, you know, like turning around, but Twitter was brand new.