We were lucky to catch up with Drew Hamilton recently and have shared our conversation below.

Drew, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

Currently, one of the most meaningful projects I am a part of, is owning/operating a recording studio in Philadelphia with my family.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

Music has been a big part of my life since I was a kid. I grew up in Philly around a lot of family and friends who were musicians, and had a recording studio in my house for most of my life. After college, I moved to Atlanta, and eventually started a production company with three of my friends called “Fortune Music Group”. Today, the group consists of five of us. @tma_1k @itsgominho @ypthisbangs @zakadelic and myself. Recently, I moved back to Philly to help run my family’s recording studio. I feel really lucky to be able to take all of the information I learned during my time in Atlanta, and apply it to what I’m doing here right now. The studio has made a lot of progress in the past few years, and I’m looking forward to see where we end up with it.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

One thing I had to unlearn, is the idea that being selfish while working on music will get you anywhere. Philly is an amazing place, but sometimes people here have gotten caught up thinking that success is a limited resource, and that there’s not enough for everyone. Living in Atlanta showed me how important it is to be collaborative, and always embrace what’s next. I think Philly has gotten a lot better recently though, and continues to everyday.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

It depends on what you mean by support artists. I think there is a big difference between making great art that is purely for artistic expression purposes, verses making art with the expectation of generating money from it. In my experience, a lot of the frustration from artists/creatives comes from them making amazing art, while not giving equal thought to the monetization process, and then wondering why they haven’t automatically made money from it just off of how great it is. It’s okay to just make art for fun, and I think it’s easy to forget that.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @drewcashinout

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