The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
J. Holiday is The Pioneer because obstruction became his raw material. Five label regimes, an abandoned Def Jam deal, and a blocked album could have ended the story.
“The minute you start saying yes to stuff you don't want to say yes to, more things that you don't want to say yes to start popping up. To stop that, you gotta filter that shit out.”
On resisting label pressureundated
“I haven't worked with a job in twenty-one years, so nobody's paying my bills. I try to be on the road every weekend, try to do fifty-two out the year.”
On sustaining an independent careerundated
“I recorded my whole second album at my house by myself as an engineer. I picked all the songs. They had to pay me to get the album.”
On taking control of his sophomore projectundated
R&B Money: “J. Holiday”
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