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The GaryVee Audio Experience

Wyclef, Dealing with Rejection & How to Make it in the Music Industry | #AskGaryVee Episode 212

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.818.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

#QOTD: An election is coming up and Bernie started a movement and clearly Bernie's not going to be the candidate. But, Bernie's movement has become so strong that it becomes part of America's youth moving forward movement. How would the candidate you choose support some of these initiatives? Are you still going to be a part of activating your communities on this movement that has started? Who are you going to be voting for and why?

 

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0:00.0

On this episode, a legend stops by.

0:30.0

What's up everybody? This is Gary Vaynerchuk and this is episode 212 of the Ask!

0:35.2

GaryVee Show! And as we can tell, we have a very, very, very special guest. I'm not sure how for the four people that don't know who you are.

0:45.0

You're going to introduce yourself for me, from afar. We're just getting to know each other. But from afar, music and political icon is where I put you, my friend.

0:54.0

Black cleft, why don't you want to make a little say hello to the Vayner Nation before we get into India's question.

1:00.0

How you do? My name is YCLEF representing 212. I used to do this in the cafeteria all day. Back in the days, I used to listen to the NWA.

1:11.0

You don't know me, man, I'm from the Fougies. Born in Haiti, raised in Brooklyn, New York, C.T. then moved to New Jersey.

1:19.0

That's natural. That's what we used to do in the cafeteria. By the way, I'm sure to say. If I could naturally do that, I'd have 17.9 million followers on Instagram.

1:30.0

What are the principles of our fists now? When did you realize you had that ability? When did that first happen?

1:36.0

Oh, just the ability of words. Man, being in a small village coming from Haiti. When did he come to the US? 10 years old.

1:44.0

I tell my daughter, it's funny, because she gets everything. I'd be like, yeah, you know, your dad wasn't Haiti and then she goes,

1:53.0

oh, hey, go dad again with the story that he wrote a dunk. He went to the same story.

1:59.0

But it's true. I was born in Belarus, the former Soviet Union. We came here super poor. My daughter just had a birthday.

2:07.0

I looked at my wife and I said, she just got more presence on this birthday than I got in my life. That's just the way it is.

2:16.0

The way it is. India, can you flow? Can you wrap that a Y-Club? That's not where you're going.

2:25.0

Two of us. Why don't we start the show? I tweeted out to let people know you were coming. There's questions, business questions, music questions, other questions. Let's see where people went.

2:36.0

Where's Omar? Omar. Omar asks, making connections is a huge part of the music industry. For somebody who is starting out, where do I start?

2:45.0

Oh, man, that's a good question. I think it's a little more easier for you, Omar than it was for me.

2:52.0

100%. There's a thing called the fucking internet. Yeah, the internet is key. I mean, really for me, we had to sit the Fuji-Leader had to sit go through like 7,000 A&Rs,

3:03.0

saying, this shouldn't ain't gonna work. Like rappers playing guitars and women singing and rapping. No, no, no, that's too much. So with the internet, you can actually build your own audience.

3:15.0

And you were going through that process of trying to think that what like that was having 91, 2 and 3 before 4 and 5. It seemed like what? It was 94, 3, 4, 5, what happened?

3:23.0

It's going like 93, 94. Do you know where it is? 1993, a group shows up with an acoustic guitar. And we talk about we hip-hop from the hood. And you have one girl and Clef grabs his guitar and another kids a rocker.

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