Tee Grizzley Quotes

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

Shady's great; I love Shady Records.

I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.

Def Jam is an iconic label.

Who else is putting seven figures down for unreleased rap tracks?

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

People don't get signed by Def Jam every day on my block.

The music industry needs a TV outlet for hip-hop fans and artists.

Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella were two equal entities under the Def Island umbrellas.

Def Jam is the reason why I started a label.

I used to be a Def Jam artist. I was - I survived Def Jam.

I grew up carrying crates of records for Will Smith and those guys.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.