It is no secret that British music icon Tinie Tempah needs to be remembered as ‘greater than only a rapper’.
The 37-year-old himself stated in 2023 that he’s searching for extra from life than ‘primary hits and packed arenas’.
However talking to Metro forward of his look as a visitor on the most recent sequence of Dragons’ Den, Tinie realized how individuals nonetheless prefer to put him in a field.
“Everybody has the behavior of dividing individuals into classes,” he says.
“It is very tough when you see somebody in a single gentle to see them as one thing else.”
The chart-topper initially rose to fame in 2010 with the discharge of his debut single Cross Out. Since then, he has collaborated with international superstars and seen his music soar to breathtaking heights.
However regardless of his astronomical success, the rapper, whose actual title is Patrick Okogwu, has had an equally profitable profession investing in startup corporations as he does as an angel investor.
In 2007 he co-founded the document label Disturbing London and later based publishing home and artistic company Imhotep, by way of which he not too long ago launched his newest singles Nearer and Eat It Up.
As we speak, Tinie revealed how essential enterprise is to him, explaining: ‘If there wasn’t enterprise in my life and naturally my artwork and my expertise, I would not have been capable of create the social mobility that I’ve for my household and for myself.
“In case you do not construct your individual dream, you will find yourself serving to another person obtain theirs. Entrepreneurship appears to me to be the answer for this.
“I did not go to Harvard or Oxford or something like that. However whenever you begin to make progress, it is a liberating feeling, and never solely will you modify your life, however you may change the lives of others.
“With the ability to not solely be an artist, but additionally be an artist on a label or a publishing home… I really feel like I am bringing extra, bringing extra worth into the world than simply being on stage and simply performing my hits.”
Regardless of his success within the music trade, Tinie isn’t naive in regards to the risks related to the music trade.
The multi-platinum promoting artist stated we hear tales “again and again” about artists getting caught of their contracts, even with superstars like Taylor Swift.
“In case you do not do your due diligence or you do not perceive what is going on on, you may simply get burned, whether or not by a big firm or a person. It is treacherous,” he tells me.
The brand new Dragon additionally defined that regardless of the music trade being extra accessible to artists as of late, there’s “extra saturation,” making it tough to face out.
“Destiny continues to be in your fingers, and with social media it may be anybody’s second at any time, with out even attempting,” he says.
“So in some ways it is higher, however I believe I am talking as a privileged artist who already has a profile. In case you ask somebody simply beginning out, they could have one thing else to say.”
Of essential significance to Tinie, nevertheless, is the best way he approaches his enterprise ventures.
In comparison with the opposite seasoned Dragons he’ll sit reverse, together with Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman and Steven Bartlett, Tinie says he is considering his “personal life and never essentially strolling by way of the door and being welcomed with open arms.”
“Lots of the Dragons are so skilled at what they do, some have made tons of if not hundreds of investments and put myself of their footwear, I might simply be searching for the win,” he says.
‘I wish to name myself a inventive entrepreneur. I am used to going right into a studio and somebody portray an concept that hasn’t even been realized but and understanding what she or he is saying.
“Folks say I have never made this tune but, however here is a skeleton, and I am going to do that and this, after which I’ll combine it, then I’ll launch it, after which possibly it will be a success… I believe I used to be just a bit bit extra open-minded with that inventive method.”
Dragons’ Den airs on Thursdays at 8pm on BBC One.
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