Wendy Day argues that being a boss in hip-hop means building a team and paying the people who got you there. Most artists chase money but forget about their crew. Even billionaires and Fortune 500 companies need large teams to reach global scale.
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And I think that that's the most important because in hip-hop there is this, like, I always say this, you can't be a boss without employees. Everybody wants to make the money, but they don't want to pay the people to help them get there. Or when they do get the money, they forget about the people that help them get there. And I think that's the biggest problem in hip-hop. And it starts from the beginning and educating people right now. There is no, there's no billionaire that did it by theirself. There is no Fortune 500 company that was started and finished with 4 people. It takes— if you just want something that's very small for yourself, that's a very easy business to do. But if you really want to be the biggest artist in the world, you're going to have to have a team that covers the whole world. And that doesn't— and we're showing and seeing you don't have to have a major label to do that, but you do have to have major people to help you.