Develop THIS Mindset to Become Ultra SUCCESSFUL! | Joey Bada$$ | Top 10 Rules

You're gonna do everything in your power to get there. You feel me? It's that grind, it's that hunger to get into your goal. My main thing is always being myself. No sleep, no days off. It's just so much hard work.

Hello, Believe Nation. My name is Evan Carmichael. My one word is believe, and I believe that entrepreneurs will solve all of the world's major problems. So to help you on your journey today, we're gonna learn from actor and rapper Joey Badass and my take on his top 10 rules for success. Rule number 1 is my personal favorite, and I'd love to know which one you guys like the best. And as always, as you're watching, if you hear something that really resonates with you, please leave it in the comments below. Put quotes around it so other people can be inspired. You might win a prize as well. And also, when you write it down, it's much more likely to stick for yourself as well. Enjoy!

My advice to people is to follow your heart, you know, like, eff what anybody is saying to you about a dream or an idea that you have. If you really feel that gut feeling, you know what I'm talking about, like that gut, that deep feeling, that wrenching, like, I can do this, or I can do this. Just do it because we only got one life to live. And honestly, that might be the test of your life. That might be the test of this journey. Everybody has the chance to jump. You have the choice to jump. And you know, sometimes you gotta make that jump. I encourage everyone to make the jump, you know what I'm saying? Because you don't want to live your life thinking like, damn, I should have jumped back 20 years ago, 10 years ago. Life could have been different. Life could have been, would have been different, but the thing is you would never know because you never took it. I want to put people in the mind state that I have because I think that it's a real healthy one to keep, you feel me? I think it's real beneficial. But what you said, the mind state that I have, what is that mind state? I'mma explain. It's real beneficial to, I think, you know, just society, period, to mankind. And like, with this current album, you feel me? Like, you know, with the message that I'm currently trying to push, the concept of like, you know, this whole picture is basically, you know, I'm welcome— I'm welcoming people to this Before the Money Mind State. And what that really is, is like, you know, that Before the Money Mind State is that time where you at before you realize, all right, like, you know, you got this goal, you got these things that you want to do, and it's that moment where you realize that, you know, you're going to do everything in your power to get there. You feel me? It's that grind, it's that hunger to get into your goal. And even once you get there, it's all about is keeping that mind state. Like, you know, like even me right now, like, you know, I feel like I've attained so much, I've came so far, but I'm still in that before the money mind state. Like I still got that same grind as if I was just like, you know, still rapping in school and shit like that. You feel me? And you know, I want people to apply that to life no matter what their goals are. Like, you know, if they want to be a doctor and shit, like, you know, I want them to be in that before the money mind state of it. Like, yo, I got it. The genuine passion. That genuine love. Yeah, the genuine passion. Yeah. And I just want people to always relive that and like, you know, live with that every day. I've also seen comparisons to, to Nas, Illmatic, you know what I'm saying? What, what type of pressure does that put on you, if any?

Or maybe inspiration?

Yeah, or inspiration. If anything, it drives me to not sound like that. Okay. You know? Yeah. It drives me to be myself because, you know, the comparisons are great, they're always great, and, and, you know, it's an honor to be compared to like somebody like Nas. Yeah. And Illmatic, you feel me? Because that's a great an immense body of work. But, um, you know, my main thing is always being myself and sounding like myself. I don't want to sound like anyone. I want people to be like, yo, you sound like Joey. We became the change that we wanted to see slowly. Like, that's what we started growing to and, you know, progressing towards. When I basically grew up and I got older, you know, even when you see movies as a child and you grow up and you watch it again, you understand it differently. You know, you see different things about it. That was pretty much the same case with music for me. You know, when I got older and then I revisited these things and everything, it was just like, it hit me like an epiphany again and everything. And I identify that as what rap really is, you know? That's traditional rap for me, you feel me? And basically when I started, you know, making 1999, when we formed Pro Era in 2011, 2012, what we realized in the game, like, you know, what we loved about hip-hop so much we didn't see in the game. So we basically decided to become the change that we wanted to see. What's your success? What's your secret? I mean, you know, the game changed as soon as the internet came around. With the internet, I know what it did for me. It cut out the middleman. I didn't have to, you know, go out physically and, you know, meet somebody, an A&R from a label or some shit. My A&R was YouTube. Me putting my videos up, you know what I'm saying? And sending it to WorldStar and hoping it get picked up, which it eventually did way after the shit. You know, the fans are who, you know, got me traveling overseas. You know what I'm saying? The fans who got me playing on the TV, playing on the radio. So, you know, I think is extremely important, is extremely imperative to, you know, give back to those people and, you know, make sure that that they're happy, they're, you know, not just content, but they're, you know, elated from like, you know, what you're giving them. And also like, you know, these people are inspired by me. So I just do the best that I can to, you know, keep uplifting them and to show them like, yo, they're just like me. And same way I follow my dreams, why can't you too? How difficult has the journey been in the 4 years that people don't like get to see? Um, there's a lot of late nights, early mornings, you know. There's a lot of— it's, it's little sleep. I shouldn't even say there's a lot of that. There's like, you know, absolutely like no sleep, no days off. There's just so much hard work, you know. Um, it's never really— especially for a guy like me, like I'm such a hard worker, like I don't— I'm one of those type of people that don't know how to relax. I don't know how to chill out, you know, like even if I'm on a vacation, like I'm still trying to find a way to work. I already know the energy and the passion and, you know, just the truth that I put into my music. So it's like I don't need people to validate that for me. Mm. You know what I mean? So, so, and, and, and that's, that comes from me being at a level where I just want to be content with everything I do. So if I already know what I'm putting into my work is like, I don't need to be wrapped up about what I'm finna get out of it, get out or get back from it. It's like, you know what I mean? I'm just here to do this, you know what I mean? And yeah, that's what it is. It's like, don't worry to be, you know, there's a quote, I can't remember who said it, but it is basically like, "Don't strive for recognition, just be worthy of it." You know what I mean? So it's something along those lines. [Speaker] I love that. But yeah, yeah, you can't live your life waiting for validation from people, cuz you always be miserable at that point, you know what I mean? It's just, it's, it's never— it's like my happiness is determined— it's on you. Yeah, it's outside of me, and it should never be that way. I think they are. I think, um, you know, is an interesting thing to watch me grow, you know what I'm saying? Um, I tend to look at myself from an outside perspective a lot, you know, and I just try to be my role model. Like, you know, I try to be a cat that I could follow if I wasn't myself.

Thank you guys so much for watching. I made this video because K.A. asked me to. So if there's a famous entrepreneur that you want me to profile next, check out the link in the description and you can go and cast your vote. I'd also love to know which clip resonated the most with you. What lesson are you gonna take from this video and immediately apply to your life or to your business somehow? Leave it down in the comments below. I'm really curious to find out what you have to say. I also wanna give a quick shout out to Hideo Yoneyama. Thank you so much, Hideo, for picking up a copy of my book, Year One Word, and making that post put me on Twitter. I really appreciate the support and I hope you enjoyed the read. Thank you guys so much for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. Much love. I'll see you soon.

When I'm doing something, I do it to the fullest capacity, the fullest potential. Like, I want to be one of the greatest artists of all time. I don't just rap to be an underground rapper. I rap because I want to be one of the biggest, one of the greatest ever, greatest influences in the world when it comes to music, you know what I'm saying? So that's my mission. That's my goal. I always love when I challenge myself to make something different. That's always something that makes me happy and makes me proud of my work. 'Cause like anytime I approach the mic, I'm trying to create a new sound. I ain't never trying to remake what I already did. You know what I'm saying? So yeah, at that point I was like, "Hey." I feel like the challenges for young artists probably comes more when you're like, all right, I need to go beyond throwing down a 16. I need to put together a complete record. I don't find it too challenging because, like, you know, just as an artist, it's like, you know, something that we do. The thing with me, I don't just keep it basic. Like, I won't just have a normal structured song, like, you know, a verse, hook, verse, hook. Like, you know, I might just have a long-ass verse and then a hook at the end. There's no rules.