A brief interview excerpt in which two participants discuss forecasting a single's commercial performance and the role of salesmanship. Speaker B distinguishes between "capping" (exaggerating or lying about likely success) and genuine belief, framing some exaggeration as an accepted part of a sales pitch intended to persuade industry partners to support a record.
Now, at the time, with crew coming out and making these calls, did you forecast that the single would be doing so well that in a year later, that 10,000 you would. You'd be asking for would be able to make it a hundred thousand? Nah, see.
I was capping, so I was capping to the N. Cause, you know, there's a certain level of capping that is like, you know, being, like, telling, like, dream, you know? You know what I'm saying? Like dreaming, you know what I'm saying? There's a certain level when you capping people down, you know you're lying, right? But there is a level of, like, belief, and I think. So when I'm talking to ask, I'm like, yo, this record about to go. You know what I'm saying? I was being one of them industry niggas. Like, yo, this record about to go. I'm telling you that you better jump on, because that was the sales pitch, right? You know, a good salesman do some capping within their pitch, 100%, you got to, you know.
