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After leaving Tommy I lived in hotels and on the road before I was finally able to make ahome for myself. I came very close to buying Barbra Streisand’s exquisite1, palatial2 CentralPark West penthouse in an impressive Art Deco building. She famously has a passion fordesign; her home was decorated with impeccable taste that was totally compatible withwhat I loved. After all I went through to build Sing Sing it would have been a relief tohave a gorgeous turnkey home. But alas3, the conservative co-op board was afraid therewould be too many rappers, and their entourages, aka big black men, milling about, anddidn’t approve me. I eventually found a perfect building downtown, in Tribeca, andmoved into the kind of home I dreamed of as a child. Having my own glamorous5, giganticNew York City penthouse apartment was exciting but also totally disorienting. I wasfinally in my own space, but I often didn’t know where any of my stuff was or where itwas supposed to be yet. And I had no time to get my new place in order because I wasworking nonstop. I had a reputation in the industry for being a beast when it came toproductivity. I went hard in the studio, and I went equally hard promoting and marketing6. Iwas an all-in artist, and everyone I worked with knew it.
Having a new project on a new label was taking all I had, and I was giving as much asI could. There were all these new people at the label, and my personal management teamwasn’t properly restructured to accommodate the new demands. And quite honestly, allthe change and new, higher stakes overwhelmed them. My schedule was brutal8. I wouldhave a shoot or an event until 3:00 a.m., then a 5:00 a.m. press call. It was relentless9.
Nowhere in my itinerary10 was there R-E-S-T, and at the time I didn’t know how to demandit. When you’re working like a machine, there has to be human care built into the process:
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