For what it's worth that's not a 1:1 thing. Lots of people are better at handling other people's careers than their own. Same shyt happens all the time in regular life. Quite a lot of people that give excellent life advice, therapy, etc, have their own lives out of order.
It doesn't seem crazy at all to me that Yayo might be better at management and A&R work than making it as a solo artist.
He still might have failed. I'm not saying he would've made it work. But the idea that he'd fail because he couldn't get his own career to pick up is not accurate.
Lil Bibby came to mind. He never had a "hit" as an artist; and looks at what he became and did for other artists.
J-cole would have blown up no regardless. All he needed was to get his foot in the door. Someone that talented with that much hustle is rare. He put dreamville on and they got their own festival. Doesn't he Hoop FR and teach algorithms @ Harvard? & he STILL takes rap serious. Someone like that was/is not going to lose. All he needed was to get his foot in the door so he could kick that shyt off the hinges.
Anyway hype to see the full interview when it drops.