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Jacob Latimore

ARCHETYPE

The Pioneer

The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.

Jacob Latimore reads as The Pioneer because his multidisciplinary career was built from the ground up on a path nobody handed him. At eleven he was printing T-shirts and performing in FYE stores, then navigating the label system as a teenager and quietly stacking film credits until The Chi made him a household name. His candid reckoning with music industry economics, and his bet on independence while plotting a major-label return, marks a leader who absorbs every environment and keeps moving first.

IN THEIR WORDS, WHY PIONEER

I feel like anything I'm around, I'm gonna just absorb and I'm gonna get it. And just developed over time.

ON LEARNING THROUGH IMMERSION

I still felt like I hadn't made it yet. I ain't went platinum yet, I ain't sold out arenas yet. We can't stop here.

REFLECTING ON EARLY LABEL YEARS

I need to be more on time, arrive early, be off book, bring good energy — I need to show them more than I could tell them.

ON LEADING BY EXAMPLE ON SET

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