"As a producer who's not an artist, you hit a glass ceiling eventually. I don't wanna rap, I don't wanna sing. If you really think about it, not many producers have lasted who never did anything but produce. At some point you gotta find another angle. Otherwise, do you wanna sit there and make beats forever? It's just like rapping — artists tell me all the time that they get bored with it after a while."
"You have to make good music, but you have to know how to sell it."
"What I'm trying to accomplish with this whole thing is to connect more pieces to both sides of the puzzle and still make commercial success out of it."
Maybe I read too much into what he was saying but when I hear people say they need another angle, that means you need another hustle to get more money. Everyone one of the 8 questions he was asked in that article had to do with business, not creativity and music production. The second question did have to do with his music editing but it was still about how he brands his songs with his name as a commercial device.
So no, he didn't say he wasn't getting doe as a prodcuer word for word, but I felt the gist of the article was:
"I could just produce beats the rest of my life but that ain't where the money is at."
His first question was about the money he missed out on in the Ring-Tone biz.
