Cupcakke Quotes

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.

I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.

I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

The only thing I think of is the next hit record.

My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn't ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.

The money I earn from a live show is divided into two parts. One section goes towards producing my music videos, and the other goes into my savings.

I'm actually going to self-produce my next tape that I'm working on, 'Platinum Frame'. This going to be my second official mixtape.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.

I think the process of 'I Love It' becoming such a big song opened my eyes to sides of the industry that I'd never been aware of, which I wasn't so into.

I'm a fan of music documentaries and I always love seeing what goes on behind the scenes. In kind of the new era of record companies and record releases and that sort of thing, there has to be way more content for the audience.

I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.

My first love was basketball, but that wasn't gonna launch me, and I knew I had to get into other things. So me and my friends, we started making mix CDs and going down to South Beach or to the parking lot at Pitbull concerts to spend all night hustling.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place.

I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.

It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland.