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From the beginning of Sekou's journey he was convinced of a few fundamental strengths that he would remain focused on. First, his love of music drove him toward the hip-hop genre. Second, his passion for entertaining and theatre allowed him to remain zeroed in on the delivery of his message. Finally, the family history of entrepreneurialism allowed him to adjust as his journey continued. The main thing Sekou had going for him was being committed. "I remind myself to keep your eyes on the prize and your perspective wide." Sekou is fiercely focused and locked onto a goal. “You'll never get through the darkness. You'll never get through the hard times. You'll never get through the naysayers telling you you're crazy for quitting your job to become a full-time poet. Whatever your version of that is that the world is telling you, no, you'll never get through that if you're not tenacious."

Sekou was not going to let the record label rejection deter him from his goals. Throughout all his rejections from the labels, he stayed true to his ideals and what he felt was right. "I was going to be an artist and was going to make a living off my art. And record labels couldn’t see that, their bad. I'll build it myself.”

"I've arrived. I'm successful. I celebrate that. And like most entrepreneurs, like most successful people, one of the biggest challenges is to stop and celebrate the success. All we're doing is looking at the next day. We get consumed by, you know, that sort of serial entrepreneur."