high school athletes who didn’t make it to the League. They didn’t have a choice but to join the military. And then, I later discovered that some of the most articulate, smart, educated, well-grounded people were in the military. So, I think, that in a lot of regards, it gave me a great foundation. I learned how to be on time and I didn’t mind to cut my hair or shave my beard. It taught me that regimen, which ultimately I used. I started a company while in the military called “Precision Management” and there is a lot in [that] name. You can’t be precision if you are not on time-- if you don’t do things in a particular order. So, I think that structure [I had] came from the military. I got that precision. I started managing accounts for record labels and I started doing independent promotions, like radio, retail, club, street promotions; working for Sony, Universal, and Tommy Boy.
ever I opened to, I started reading. I said, “This is going to be the thing that’s going to help me make my decision.” And the scripture said something to the affect of, “I already planted the seeds and the harvest is plentiful.” And it said to me, basically, that whatever is on the other side, you are fine, just go ahead and step out on faith and believe that it’s plentiful on the other side. And so, that was the thing that made me decide to chase my dream and do the independent promotions and music business thing.
B.O.S.S: While you were in the Army?
But the general smaller population of people who are successful, unfortunately, we don’t know those [super successful] people. So when we turn to folks for advice, we are not able to say, “hey, Donald Trump! Hey, Bill Gates!” We [typically] don’t know those people. If I would have went to Russell Simmons and said, “hey I have these ideas, I want to do this music thing,” he would have looked at my office and said, “Capp, I started in a college dorm room, look at what you have.” I had a big office compared to what he had. My office at that time was probably, 400 to 600 square
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Either they are going to be someone who is a dependent of someone else, someone who works until the age of 60 and retires, or someone who dies and doesn’t make it “that far”.
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While I was in the army, yeah. This was like 1993 and I started approaching the last years of the military […]. I was at the sixth year and I was at that point where either you reenlist for 4 [more] years and do 10 years and make this a career or you get out. So, I started my business and an interesting thing happened. I was really praying about [what decision to make] asking God for some direction and guidance, and I just picked up the Bible, I opened [it], and wher-
It’s interesting because most of the people you turn to for advice they are going to fall into 1 of 3 categories.