“When I walked back through campus, all I saw were all my CDs I made thrown all over the ground,” says Derrick Milano. Fresh off a flight from Toronto, he sits comfortably on a couch at Billboard’s New York office, reflecting about the early days of his artist career back when he was attending college in Florida, stretching his last dollars to invest in making CDs of his music to pass out, only to find them spread out on the pavement. “If there’s one thing that chapter in my life in Florida taught me, it’s persistence.
Imagine I had just stopped then and there after seeing that?” he continues. Fast forward to 2020, and persistence is what kept him in the game.
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