As time has gone on I’ve become more open about my desire to become a rap artist. I talk about it even with people that couldn’t care less about music and they slowly but surely begin to regret they ever uttered the question “So, what do you do?”.
More and more because of this I’m now beginning to run into different thoughts and opinions…and not all of them are rosey. Well, in truth no they’re not at all that bad but I guess maybe I’m just sensitive to some of the things people have to say. Two of such opinions have been about money and music, and I guess money comes up quite a lot In these conversations because I talk about money a LOT.
Both of these opinions have come from their conclusion that I’m obsessed about becoming financially successful from music over and above being a brilliant rap artist In the first place. They both believe that I should follow the passion before everything else because trying to get rich off rap is only going to frustrate the f**k out of me.
The funny bottom line that I guess these views fail to see is that as I continue to follow my passions, things become more and more expensive to accomplish. I’ve been on this journey long enough to realise that eventually I will have to think about how I can use my art form to pay myself because I’ll go broke doing it otherwise! When you’d willingly invest the entirety of your life into something you love so deeply there’s no telling how much you’d throw into it financially, and that’s why you’ll eventually come to a point where you’ll start to think about how you can recoup.
Thinking about money makes my creative ambition that much more serious because I’m beginning to think about the practical foundations in which money Is going to transform my dreams into a reality. It doesn’t make me any less passionate about my art and if anything it’s a measure of how seriously I really am about this. It’s not just a dream anymore it’s real life, and my obsession with how I’m going to make it happen is a testimony to the shift Ive grown through in my own mindset. I’m no longer doing this from the perspective of some kid whose trying to seek validation from his friends and family, I’m doing this from the perspective of a grown ass man who needs to get his numbers right so he can pay his bills out of the very thing he loves to do.
It’s appreciating that barely any of this success will come to me easy, and that building something great won’t come without the nights where I’ll be sitting there scratching my head, wondering how the hell this is all going to work.
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