#UpCloseAndPersonal w/ @IamGambinoATL

1.Where are you from?
Atlanta, GA all over this b.i b.i

2. When did you fall in love with hop hop?
2014 is when I began to take it serious, because of my girlfriend

3. How did you start interning with HOT107.9?
In 2010 I threw a crazy mansion party with over 500 people with only one day of promotion and ET came out, he liked the event, told me to come to the radio station and the next day made me a Durtty Boy to build the brand.

4. Whats the first event you put on?
T.G.I.S Thank God its Saturday

5.How is your brand different from others?
Because I made it myself and I didn't need any big name to make my brand bigger.

6.How Battleground Mondays come about?
BattleGround Mondays has been around for a very long time but ET decided to put it in my hands for some extra cash because he knew I could bring people out.

7.Is it hard branding an artist?
It is hard branding an artist because all artists don't take their brand seriously, so it ends up being a waste.

8.What events do you have coming up?
Battleground Concert and more stuff I can't speak on because its gonna be amazing.

9.Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
I see myself as an A&R for a major record label, chilling on the beach still working with the artists that I helped blow up.

10.In your mind what has been the best event you've done?
My birthday party on Jan 10, 2014

11.What is your dream job?
To be an A&R of a big record label.

12.What do you consider the five most important aspects of successful marketing?
1. Know what you want to do and how you want to be viewed.
2. Have a plan.
3. Know how to execute it.
4. Be consistent with it.
5. Believe in it.

13. Did you always see yourself in radio or throwing events?
No.

14.How do you come up with ideas?
What type of questions are these? lol

15. What's your approach at marketing your brand?
Being out in the streets, networking, staying on the radio, and making future moves that will land me in a bigger market.

16. How did you come up with your name Gambino?
It was given to me by my 9th grade basketball coach.

17. What has working with the DuurtyBoyz taught you?
A lot. So much I can't even explain in this whole interview.

18. How does what your doing now shape your next 10 years?
Learning from my failures to know what to do and how to be better in the future. It is all a learning experience.

19. What would you tell someone who is trying to do what your doing?
Don't do what I do until your willing to be broke for a while until you come up. You will take a lot of losses until you come up.

20. What experiences in life have made you who you are today?
Losing everything and trying to get it back.

21.When everything is said and done what do you want GOD to say you?
Good job, you made it.

22. Who are you?
I am somebody nobody would ever understand, I'm the man.

23. Would you do it all over again?
No. I would keep my job and be a regular ass person.