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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 05: Former Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson looks on during the official weigh-in between Canelo Alvarez vs Caleb Plant on November 5, 2021 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 05: Former Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson looks on during the official weigh-in between Canelo Alvarez vs Caleb Plant on November 5, 2021 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
When a music artist drops a banger of a song you can’t stop humming to, you definitely remember his name. But deep down, the content put forth comes out of the mutual efforts of many people behind the curtain. In a recent episode of Hotboxin’, Mike Tyson sat down with the man behind the success of some of hip-hop’s biggest artists in the last 25 years like Akon, Big Pun, Wu-Tang Chan, and several others. He is the founder of Loud Records, the legendary American music entrepreneur Steve Rifkind. It would not be wrong to dub him a man of enormous knowledge after what he said in Tyson’s podcast’. The 60-year-old provided a life lesson that left the co-host DJ Whoo Kid stunned.
Mike Tyson, the former two-time heavyweight champion sitting on the couch agreed to it because when he too looks back at his own his life, he finds that Rifkind was dropping truth bombs.
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What lesson did Steve Rifkind give that shocked the HotBoxin studio?
Discussing success and life, Rifkind narrated how his life changed after a sudden success. Though it might have appeared exciting in the beginning, it had its own repercussions attached to it. And who would know this better than Tyson – who after becoming the youngest heavyweight champion at the age of 20 lost the plot because he could not handle it.
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This is the reason, the music dynamo compared his first hit record to Tyson’s winning championship. According to Refkind, it was addictive.
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