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hustleGRL: Okay, one last question. The bad boy camp hasn’t had like great success keeping groups together like example would be like Danity Kane, B5, and Dream and etcetera. What are you guys going to do different so that you don’t meet the same fate?

Willie: Well you know what? At the end of the day man, I don’t even know any of those situations. So it’s not, it’s like, it’s hard. Me personally I talk to Slim and Q from 112, you know and they’re good friends of mine, but you know as far as Danity Kane we know they story, but B5 I’ve never met, Dream I’ve never met. You know by the end of the day, I think it’s about your business. You got to come the hardest. This business is 99% business and that 1% is what you — the glist and glamor that everybody else will see you have and you know, you have to have your business task straight. You can’t be around here just doing the work and not understanding where your money [is] coming from, how you’re going to get paid. It all boils down to somebody else getting paid more than you getting paid and you be like: “I ain’t really feeling that no more”. You just got to get up and do your grind. You got to get your grind, you got to make sure you can’t let nobody outwork you. One thing I will not do is I can not let Diddy outwork me trying to sell my product. So it’s like you have to work for yourself. The internet is so powerful right now. It’s like the world is in your living room when you on the web and it’s like you can talk to so many people. That’s why we Twitter, that’s why we YouTube, that’s why we MySpace, that’s why we Facebook. That’s why we try to do everything that we can do in our power that can make our fans feel so connected to us that they feel like an obligation, like it’s like family. Just like they follow me, I follow them. It makes it more of a — not such a ‘I’m up here, you down here’ type thing, you know what I mean. And we’re all equal. It’s my job, I’m making great music, you support me because you love my great music. And the more people you touch like that, you know, the greater your success will be. You know, I just be sitting here brainstorming the majority of the time like: “Man if I can get 3 to 4 million followers”, you know what I’m saying; what would that be like to have that many people following you and wanting to know your every move? At a marketing stand point, that’s so much, you can do so much, you know what I’m saying. You wouldn’t even need, realistically, you wouldn’t even really need a label if you had it like that. If you had so many people who were attached to you, then you can sell a t-shirt. You can probably get 1 million people to buy your t-shirt if you got 4 million followers. So it’s more like a business and I think that’s what Day26 is bringing that a lot of the other groups probably didn’t have in their head. They probably thought it was more so like: “Here, we work for Diddy and he knows what he’s doing and let him do that”. At the end of the day, Diddy is an artist too so Diddy got to do what Diddy has to do for Diddy too, you know what I mean. So I think Day26 is going to be around for a long time because we went and got our business straight. We know exactly where our dollars are going, we pay our taxes, we do what we need to do to hold on to our success.