Business vs Hustle

Business vs Hustle

What’s up folks. This is a post from my myspace. Check it out. I’m getting sloppy I know but when was I ever clean.

Let me just say I’m no expert on the art of Business or the skill and grind it requires to hustle. In fact I’m pretty atrocious at both. But my people I know a business when I see it. I know a good hustle when I see it. In this life I think too many people don’t know the distinct differences between the two. You need to hustle to run a business. But a business requires a certain respectability and product or service integrity to go along with it. A lot of people in this music business get a tax id, get a llc, or even inc and say they’re running a business. But you call them, but can never reach them. Or you call them and when the pick up they say things like I might forget to call you back so please go to this website or get my email and…etc etc etc.

When you are in business it is not just about working harder than the next person, it’s also about respecting your potential clients, maybe supporters/customers, or fans. You can’t treat people like you are doing them the biggest service in the world. I mean just by answering a phone call some people get on the phone with a bad attitude.(leave that to government run businesses et al the post office, voter registrations office, etc) And this trend is actually being made real by larger corporations. So in all fairness it’s not just the music industry. Hell, walk into Walmart you’ll get the same treatment there. My parents have been running a business for at least 14 years and if they had acted like I’ve seen some of these ‘companies’ act they  wouldn’t have lasted 14 months. I mean really.

Peace.

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