I was on the outside of the industry. So I started a podcast early in the podcast boom and that caught on a little. I made an album that went to No. 1 on the iTunes charts. I made my own special. I started my own storytelling show.
It’s tough, with the iTunes and all the downloads… You’ve really got to make an impact to be heard and be unique and different.
Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that’s done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has.
I watch TV on my TV pretty exclusively. However, when I’m on that long flight between Los Angeles and New York, a great way to pass that time is to download movies on iTunes and watch them on my laptop.
Black Ken’ debuted number one on iTunes in hip-hop, and top five or ten top, top five on the whole iTunes, on all genres. It was really cool to be able to self-produce.
I would go on the iTunes chart and see the hottest songs, then I’d cover them. People would go on YouTube and search for those songs. That’s how I got my views. I’d post two or three songs a week.
I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old’ Friends’ and ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don’t think anymore.
The Walking Dead’ is my show. I download it from iTunes so that I can watch it the second it comes out. It’s a show that I’ve got really involved in, emotionally.
I think it was iTunes that first proved that people would spend money to get things they really wanted.
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