You've got to compensate for the fact nobody else believes by believing extra hard yourself.
Someone stopped me at Miami Music Week and asked, what's your best advice for someone trying to make it as a DJ and producer? I tried to come up with something different. And here's what I landed on.
Be ready for years and years of rejection. Because no one is going to believe in you. When you first start out, no one will believe in you apart from yourself. You'll send your music to record labels and they won't even reply. You'll ask if you can play a DJ gig and you won't even get a response.
But once you can prove that someone believes in you, then it's easier to get other people to believe in you. If you have a song people like, it's easier. If you have a thousand-plus followers, it's easier. Once everyone believes in you, then it's easy. Everyone just believes in you. Because people believe what the masses believe.
That's the point where all your mates from home will be like, oh yeah, I always knew this guy would make it. But they didn't believe in you at all. They only started believing once everyone else did.
So the message is: be prepared to have a fucking load of self-belief. You've got to compensate for the fact nobody else believes by believing extra hard yourself.
Never stop.
