Grind Corner: Que Billah

BTN: Explained the mentality that it takes to approach someone and ask them to buy/listen to your music?

Also the mindset it takes to win over a crowd that may be unfamiliar with your music?

Q.B: Far as the customer, you know, the people may not know, but I been doing this for a minute. Really man, even before selling CD’s; growing up, my parents were hustlers, not in the traditional sense like selling dope or anything like that. But if you ever see people walking down the street selling inflatable balloons, or socks, different shit like that. My daddy sold bootleg tapes, CD’s movies; my momma sold teddy bears. Every since it was “Jew-Town”, my family and I have sold everything known to man. Now growing up I was definitely embarrass by that shit. Muthafuckers used to talk about me and shit; then there was the Bud Billiken Day Parade, that was like a big check for our family. We go out there and rack up; that would be like our All-Star game you know what I’m saying? (Laughs) I would fuck around and see some people I go to school with at the Bud Billiken Day Parade. I be embarrass and shit. You know growing up, I would be embarrassed, but when I got older and start making music, I applied that same hustle to my street grind, you know to get the music out there. So you know it comes easier for me, being a person that sold some shit that people don’t necessarily want. You know it’s easy to sell crack, because people are addicted to that shit; you know like cigarettes, one thing you are never got to worry about it being a drought on is cigarettes. You know what I’m saying? So that prepared me to get out here, and talk to these people and get in these people faces. At the end of the day, I still have a fear of rejection. I got on stage for the first time when I was in the 4th grade. I knew then that was the place for me. I just turned into a different person. So I learned to take that fear and turn it into adrenaline.

 

BTN: What’s motivates you to continue to grind on a daily basis?

Q.B: At the root of it all is the show. If the show wasn’t there, I probably wouldn’t do it. Getting on stage is my release, my outlet to forget about everything else that’s going on around me.

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