DJ Khaled shared his worries when he almost lost his longtime mansion after the financial crisis!
In a candid revelation, DJ Khaled has peeled back the layers of his life beyond the glitz of music stardom and motivational mantras. The We The Best impresario, who now graces the cover of Rolling Stone, shared the rollercoaster journey he experienced in the mid-2010s, which came perilously close to making him lose his luxurious mansion.
In this interview, Khaled divulged that around 2015, he was “hustling not smart” before his game-changing Snapchat escapades and the release of his chart-topping “Major Key” album in the following year.
Though prosperity now surrounds him, there was a precarious moment when the “God Did” maestro found himself struggling to cover the substantial rent for his Miami mansion. This predicament arose from having invested a substantial portion of his capital into his We The Best enterprise.
Recalling that trying time, he said, “I remember I had like a month to come up with this [significant] amount of money. I kept saying, ‘There’s no way in the world that we worked this much this far and we don’t have nothing to show for it.’ I changed that right away.”
He continued, “I was like, ‘Yo, if I want a family, I got to get my shit right.’ And I gambled on myself. I always bet on myself from day one. But I tripled down that day.”
Even as he basks in his current triumphs, DJ Khaled emphasizes the role of intuition over analytics in his creative decisions. He dismisses the desk-bound analysts, saying, “You got people that work behind these desks, they hide behind their desks, and they’re not even in the field. If you’re not in the field, how are you going to feel something? Some people work off of analytics. I work off of heart, blood, sweat, and tears.”
In another segment of the interview, Khaled elucidated the meaning behind his forthcoming album’s title, “Til Next Time,” making it clear that it doesn’t signify his retirement. He said, “I’m treating it like it’s my last album. But it’s not a goodbye. You’re going to start seeing and hearing about all these new things that I’m doing. I’m going to be doing more TV and film. We taking over the TV and film.”
He added, “That’s what ‘Til Next Time’ is — it’s like, I’m going to give you an incredible album, but also while I’m giving you that incredible album, you’re going to see all these big new moves that I’m doing and new categories that we going to take over.”