A short spoken excerpt (YouTube video) in which a single speaker explains choosing Los Angeles over New York for music-industry reasons. The speaker cites better weather, greater career flexibility to move and shape their path, and contrasts New York’s people and scene. The speaker also recalls their first New York meeting while working at Delta and arranging meetings there.
But why LA in all places? Well, I didn't want to go to New York, boy. I was either between LA and New York in terms of, like, music industry and being able to move and shape. I was that. I'm going where the weather's good. I went to New York and rap and shit. People in New York different, maybe, like, stronger or something. I gotta see me straight on that. But you your first, like, New York meeting? My first New York meeting. Yeah. Yeah, I had my first New York meeting. My first New York meeting. This is when I was working at Delta. I would call niggas about email niggas. I'm like, hey, I'm in New York. We want to meet.
