Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.
Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.
The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.
'Law 3' shows my growth as a rapper. I don't really like maintaining, so on every project, I'm going to show you my growth.
I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.
I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.
I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended up being the third largest TV studio in Hollywood.