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I'm a registered Independent.

Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.

I'm an independent.

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

Labels fund things and have resources for you to use. But just because you sign doesn't mean you sign yourself away so they can then tell you what to do. You need to have a plan yourself before they do.

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.