Urban Trendsetters Magazine June 2015 | Page 17

OTbeats

I know most people say “I’m just a dude trying to make it from the bottom to the top or something like that LOL but me. I got a lot of God given gifts and talents and I am not trying to just put on for myself but my team and my state. It’s a lot of talent in the Carolina’s if we can get past the hating and crabs in a bucket mentality. But I am a mogul in the making.

GFM: What made you want to be an entrepreneur?

OT: What is funny is, at first I didn’t have a desire to be an entrepreneur but I started doing more and more myself to keep from depending on people who are not dependable. By doing so I became one. I love to network for a bigger vision than my own but I was like why work for you when I have the skill, knowledge and know how to have my own Label/Company! Also it’s a sense of freedom to say you are an entrepreneur.

GFM: To what do you attribute your success?

OT: First and foremost God for giving me the talents and guiding my path. After that it would be hard work, dedication, consistency, prayer, persistence, and acceptance to hearing the word “NO” . As far as people first off Chedda Man for making me the beast you see today. With my success and growth I have to attribute C.T Kirk, Stacey Lemay, James Holston, Carlton Sparks, Arnold Green, Maurice Revell, Kim Green, A.T Murdock, JME Brown, and my right hand Inducelife!

GFM: If you could take back one mistake you did in your past, what would it be and why? One???

OT: I have had a couple traps and situations that I got myself into that cost me in the long run but if I have to pin point one situation it would be when I got into some legal trouble recently. I didn’t display control and knowledge in the situation and it totally pulled me out of character. This situation cost me a few points to my integrity, leadership abilities, as well as a setback personally, financially and business wise. Never will that happen again.

Pictures taken by: Faces of the Upstate