What's up everybody? Welcome to another boardroom out of office. Today, we are at the offices

of Victor Victor Worldwide with my man Stephen Victor. Stephen Victor is the former CEO of Good

Music, the former EVP at Def Jam, and the current EVP of A&R at Universal Music Group. He's the

founder and CEO of the Victor

Worldwide Label. He's worked with artists including Pusha T, Little Uzi Vert, Ferrell, and is credited

with signing the late Pop Smoke. And he's expanded into the fashion world with the collaboration

with Nigo.

What's up, bro? What's up, babe? How are you?

Okay. I saw a quote of yours that you did everything for the opportunity. That more than anything I read that you said clicked to me because that's the opportunity is like basically just to make it. Yeah. And it's not about money, it's just that like feeling that recognition.. And I see, like, the way you moved around a bit, very similar to my path. Like, within the music industry, you always can tell when your path has to pivot. Like, you can see it. And if you can't see it, you get stuck. For sure. You have to be that way. And you started, so you grew up in New York City, right? Yeah, in Brooklyn.

In Brooklyn.

Were you always that dude, like you loved cars as a kid?

Listen, I love cars so much that, you know, my dad used to, he never had any nice cars, but like I was so obsessed with cars.

Like I would clean his cars, like on the weekend.

Like, all my friends growing up, they would know me as the kid dad.

Love cars? No, I'd be washing my dad's car. I just wanted to see it, like, looking the best it could look. Yeah, even though it was like a shitty car, but... And was that like some kind of North Star you put in front of you? Like, one day I'm gonna buy... Yeah, definitely. I was just like, you know, one day I'm gonna to have all the nicest cars. Did you have the New York hustle growing up from the beginning? Yeah, I think so. So what were some of the things you did? I never really hustled as a child. It wasn't until I got into high school, you know, and I started, you know, so... Yeah, hustling. Yeah, that's why that got the word. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. And what about the music industry from afar? What did it look like growing up? Like almost unattainable, because I always thought, I always had this opinion of the music industry kind of, like that you had to have musical ability to work in the music industry. Like you had to have some sort of talent. Yeah. could sing, rap, produce, you know, direct videos, I always thought you had to have some level of talent.

Until my friend got an internship, he was a producer, but he got an internship with Bad Boy,

but he wasn't doing anything that was, uh, that had any creative.

Creativity, yeah. Yeah.

I was like, you had internship doing what?

Yeah, but he was in the room.

He was in the room.

And do you think now your parents is like a little shocked at the success you had?

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