I surprised 2 fans at their wedding ❤️ A couple weeks ago I got a random email from 2 amazing people from my hometown. We never met but they invited me to their wedding just in case I was home. Well… I was. Congrats Jack & Nicole! PS. I read every note y’all send. Promise.
And because I love you all so much, here are more recommendations:
Chiderah
Diamond Cafe
Elmiene
femdot
Kelsey Lu
Mk gee
Stephen Wilson Jr.
The Olympians
The War and Treaty
TOBi
Tom A. Smith
@BrianZisook Editorial playlists are also a lagging indicator, not a leading one. Culture starts with people not playlists. Build demand first & playlists will come. Ask any high school/college kid to name 3 editorial playlists. They can’t because that’s not where they discover music.
@BrianZisook Always loved buying an album or mixtape from the city when I landed to do the same thing. Hit even harder years ago when regional sounds/radio were really a thing.
L.A. Reid reveals his favorite album released on LaFace Records is Donell Jones album Where I Wanna Be, over other classic albums from artists like TLC, Toni Braxton, and OutKast.
(🎥 We Sound Crazy/Youtube)
@BrianZisook Only caveat here is that we don’t know how short the license is for his catalog. I recently worked with another star on republic whose license is only 3yrs, way shorter than anything I’ve seen in all my years. Needless to say, that artist is not as big as drake.
@myfabolouslife having a Neptunes beat with @Pharrell in the video that transitions into another song produced by @Timbaland and he appears in the video also along with @DJCLUE
Only in hip-hip will we never get this again, other genres are clicking
@BrianZisook Let’s take it one step further. If only artists could see what their “DSP support/pitching” looked like from their distributor to dsps. Z could tell us first hand. The lesson is nobody will go as hard for you as you will for yourself. Have to go get it.
@BrianZisook Even more disheartening is seeing what an agent sends to a promoter on your behalf, after you’ve armed & prepped them with everything need, to only be reduced to a 2-line pitch.. alongside 7 other artists.
. @russdiemon the industry's watchdog lol. You know what would be incredible content? An artist taking a first zoom meeting with a label and all of a sudden Russ joins the call. Mass panic!
this isn’t a gotcha, just somethin that’s been confusing for me to watch but paying 20% on all revenue for y’all to host an artists work that their fans can buy is indirect to consumer, not direct to consumer lol
direct to consumer means no middleman. y’all are the middleman and take 20% for it. Shopify is like $39/mo + 3% per sale. a domain is like $15/yr.
basically an artist can bypass this and get a website and sell directly to their fans
just food for thought