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I’m often asked who I look up to as an artist, or who inspired my style as a poet, emcee or writer — and that’s easy to answer. I could go on for days listing singers, songwriters, emcee and poets. The tougher question to answer has been, “who did you model AG One after?” The honest answer, its simple — I created an home for artists, namely myself, that would stand behind someone with talent that had something to say in their music but needed an avenue to be heard [of course there’s more to it, but I’ll save that for my first prime time interview :)]. I came to terms with the fact that I would never be signed to a major and get the type of love that I’d want to music to get — from a business perspective, I’d be joell ortiz’d, if you will.

Mr. Notes and I often joke around saying that AG One really started as concept for an album, and grew into being a lucrative business venture. Now, in no way did I declared my mission to be that of trying to emulate a Motown — that is a staple in music history.

…There is a lot to learn from Berry Gordy and how he built his indie label into a music empire. How their sound is so special that no one has yet come close to replicating it proves that there was more than music being made — they set precedents which became standards for them, standards that many artist spend a career trying to attain, or live up to.