one of my underground ogs in l a told me something in ’05, ’06 people were sitting at his feet and learning game or whatever, and he said: “you’ll never really be able to make money off of rap until you can give all of your time to it ” and me, i’m sitting t as a person who has a college degree, who was teaching at the time i’m making like $35k a year, which is certainly not rich, but that’s a steady paycheck i wasn’t trying to hear that shit i’m supposed to quit the $35k a year gig and just start at zero?! but what i learned is that it was true you have to be able to take advantage of the money-making opportunities to make the money you can’t really do that if you can’t ever leave town, if you’ve gotta be up super early doing something else a lot of this business happens on the road, a lot of it happens overnight, and that’s w the money comes in you really can’t take advantage of that if you’re still beholden to something else on that same level

Open Mike Eagle