Touring guitarist and executive producer Dru Decaro and I met years ago through a project with DJ Skee. Dru is a Grammy-nominated artist, and the executive producer of Vic Mensa’s HOOLIGANS album, as well Christian French’s Natural Colors record. Dru’s has performed with Vic Mensa, Andy Grammar, Miguel, Snoop Dogg, Chrisette Michele, Faith Hill, and many more. We go deep on the ins and outs of what it is to represent yourself, how it feels to be your own product, the business of his work as a guitarist and a producer, the value of time, the value of a song, grappling with self-promotion while keeping a learning mentality, branding yourself, and growing as an artist in an era where we are expected to create, brand, promote, and self-manage. References go deep and wide, from Viv Albertine to Odd Future. Dru discusses how he continues to progress as an artist, and his latest endeavor of creating a graphic novel (titled “Falconry: A World Apart”. ) Follow Dru on social: Instagram: Instagram.com/falconry  Twitter: twitter.com/falc0nry Vic Mensa’s HOOLIGANS Christian French’s Natural Colors Follow me (Lynae Cook) on social: Instagram.com/lynaecook Twitter.com/lynaecook To support this podcast, use LCOOK61 on your first HotelTonight booking. LZLRZ on your first Soothe (in-home massages) booking, or shoot over some funds via VenMo: @lynae-cook. Your support is appreciated!  Music on #BTSPodcast is by Benjamin Bethurum: soundcloud.com/bethurum Join Lynae's newsletter #askamillennial: bit.ly/askamillennial Become a supporter of this podcast: https://anchor.fm/btspodcast/support