Nawley...everybody else knows
me as Supreme.Supreme
comes from a knuckle head
in the streets and I'm not that
person anymore. Therefore, I
transitioned. When I first hit
the scene, I came from the real
Ricky Ross, not the rapper. I
was first signed with him, even
though we had creative dif-
ferences, that is still big bro. I
linked up with the hall of fame
boxer Roy Jones Jr. But LEMI is
the homies, so it's like it's cool
to have people like this to cosign
for you. Got to have them in your
back pocket. I mean like, when
you see a vision, you gotta shoot
for that vision. I don't believe
in making other people rich, I
believe in making me and fa mily
rich. That's my main focus. I
don't mind helping with this,
helping with that, you know that's cool
but I mean we focused on that. My
manager right now is my homie Skeet,
Eardrummer Skeet, he's signed with
Rae Sremmurd and them. I mean but
that's what it is man, we're just work-
ing. You know I had to really change it
to Nawley because for the last couple
of years, especially dealing with Roy
Jones Jr., I really got on the business
shit. The business side is what really
took me to another level. That's why
after I learned the business, I was like
this is life. Because you're dealing with
people that really have money, it's not
no street money. When you dealing
with people thats worth forty million
dollars and you're seeing how they op-
erate and how they invest, it opens your
mind to a whole different field, that's
different from just New Orleans. It's
more than just saying, I'm bout to buy
that house, more like I'm bout to buy
them 300 acres. It opens your mind so
we sat down and said, lets shoot for it,
and musically being around these
that gave the game to me. When it
comes to contracts, I know what I want.
I'm not gonna just sign anything, so
that's real important to me and until
I get what I'm looking for, we rather
keep it pushing like independent. To
have big dawgs like that feels good,
but what we're focused on as a unit
is beyond. Ain't no settling, if so we
would've signed a deal long time ago.
type of people it was easy to be around
them but at the end of the day, I'm still
going in the hood to sleep, I'm not
sleeping in million dollar houses like
them. So it makes me think differ-
ently. I'm not the type of person that
sit up there and hold my hand out...I
don't want nothing, instead teach me
how to make what you got. give me
that knowledge. That money gon run
out but knowledge will never run out
and I can keep making this money. So
that's how I am, so I soak the game
up. On that music tip with the whole
Nawley thing, it was just time for a
change. I'm in a different headspace.
When I left New Orleans, I moved
to Atlanta and when you meet new
people, you experience new things.
Music is like a time capsule anyway,
I was just like yo I know what I want
and what the vision is and that's what
I shot for. With the whole Roc Nation
situation, not a situation but I've been
dealing with the big homie Emery
Jones in like the last two years but it's
on a business tip. He's another one
J Beezy..people try to throw two, three
million dollar deals at you and then
they end up owning you and you ain't
in control no more. When any one of
them record labels decide to hit you
up at 4 o' clock in the morning, telling
you to bring your ass in the studio, you
gotta stop what you're doing and slave
all night until you get our masterpiece
right. They want what they invested
in and I only can respect that because
that's the business. That's why we take
our time, we gon turn down every deal
that don't seem like it's right. If they
offer us a match deal, we might con-
sider that if they gon meet us 50/50.
Then afterwards, their expectations,
they are out our way. As an indepen-
dent artist you own everything. B
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