“You gotta invest in your career, man. Especially when nobody else will.”
Big K.R.I.T. had been recording for years on an old beat up laptop. When he received his first big paycheck he spent it on a new computer. Next he spent almost everything he earned from his first label deal in order to go on tour with Wiz Khalifa.
He might not’ve loved dropping that kind of cash on a promotional opportunity, but he explains in the video above that it was necessary in order to get to the next level. As the saying goes, you gotta spend money to make money.
What’s the best investment you ever made in your music career? Let us know in the comments below.
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Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.