Comments by "King Ali" (@kingali1606) on "The Best Time to Specialize or to Generalize" video.
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I'm a hip-hop artist and started out by specializing at first, I only did the vocals, and had the mixing and mastering done by an engineer, the beat produced by a producer, the artwork done by a graphic designer, and the lyric video done by a video editor. However, i've been trying to learn and takeover all these roles so I can take care of 100% of the means of production, as it costs quite a bit of money to delegate every task to someone else. But it's been quite hard, as i'm having difficulty learning how to do all of those other things and can't do them as well as other people can. I've been wondering for a while whether it's better for me to specialize and let other people handle the other stuff and just take the financial bullet, or generalize and try and do everything myself, even if it's lower quality?
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