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Troy Carter

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  1. “Yeah, I went back to Philly sort of with my tail in between my legs and my cousins in Philly had started a small management company as sort of a production company that they asked me to come in and run. And one of the clients was a girl that I met when she was 16. So she and I had known each other. And we started working together and it was the rapper Eve. But I had absolutely no clue what I was doing.”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Done James basically, you know, he saw the route that I was going and I was taking a lot of shortcuts and I was kind of living this LA fast life and sort of the stereotypical fake executive thing. You know, I thought I was much bigger than what I was at that particular time. And he kicked me out of LA. Like he said, you're going back home.”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “I would pay like the office manager and say, hey, the bill's going to come in. I got you covered or whatever. And one time I think I pissed the office manager off over something and she told James that I had been using this car service to visit this girl. And James came in and fired me and sent me back to Philly.”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “I was in my late teens, early 20s doing sort of that transition period. I was working at Will and James's production company, and I was having the time in my life and I'm very hard-headed, thought I knew everything, and I didn't have a car. I thought it was going to be like Philly where you just can take the train everywhere. And in LA, everything so separated. And I was taking this car service from the office to visit this girl probably two or three times a week or whatever, but I would pay the bill every two weeks when I got my check.”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Yes, James gave me a job. I had a few jobs within the camp, but I was James's assistant. I was jazzy Jeff's assistant. And I ended up moving out to LA and working with James and his production company with Will.”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “Yes, and you know what? And Will has a partner still to this very day named James Lassiter. You know, he was in the studio that day we played the demo tape. And he was Jazzy Jeffson and Fresh Prince. He actually got the job as their manager because he was the only guy in our neighborhood with a car. And James had become this sort of mogul in the industry. And I wanted to be James in my soul. I wanted to be less fresh prints and more James. So I just kind of put myself under James. And James became my teacher.”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “We thought it was really good. Will thought it had some potential. We put it out and it went double wood. Made no Zero money. I probably still owe Will Smith money for that record.”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “It was a song called Where's the Party? That was like, oh, I'm not telling you. You got to tell us how to go. And actually, I shouldn't even say the name because you're going Google now.”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “He listened to it, and we actually went outside, it was snowing, and we said, well, we want you to see us dance too. So we actually started dancing in the snow. I think we quickly found out we sucked. But, you know, Will saw some potential in us. And he said, look, how you guys getting home? And we said, we don't know. drove us home that night and basically told our parents that he had us covered we were going to be okay”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “Yes, we actually hop the train and we didn't have money, so we just would, you know, wait for the train to pull up, then jump over the turnstile and take the train down to Delaware Avenue. And we knew Jazzy Jeff had a recording studio there. And we just would wait outside of the recording studio. And I think we did that for almost six months. And Jeff used to see us outside, but would never let us in. I think he thought we were like stalkers or something. And then one day we saw some friends in the studio that led us in, Will Smith and just happened to be in the studio and we walked in and we played our demo tape.”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “They were the only guys from Philadelphia. They were from our neighborhood. They were successful. They were like gods in Philly. And they were the way out. That was plan A, B, and C”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “We had this idea that we were going to be this rap group, you know, called Too Too Too Too Too Too Too Many, and it was me and two of my best friends. And we called ourselves too many because it was we only had enough money for one of us. So it was always too many of us. And my best friend said, if we ever meet Will Smith or Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince, they're going to give us a record deal. So that we had this sole focus and sole purpose of meeting Jazzy, Jeff, and Fresh Prince.”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “It was over. I didn't have the cash flow and the phone started ringing and it was the landlord of that building saying, you know what, rent hasn't been paid. All of my vendors started calling me. My house was under foreclosure and my wife and my mother-in-law ended up pawning their wedding rings to save the house. You know, and with me, I never considered suicide, but I know why people do.”

    2018-05-28 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT