Rodney C.

Founder @gstatehiphop Featured in: @billboard + @djbooth + @hot97 + @njdotcom + @asburyparkpress PR: music & more

[Eric Jackson @ericjackson]

A Basquiat sold for $110.5 MILLION.

But the buyer didn’t get the copyright.

Years later, Dom Pérignon licensed a DIFFERENT Basquiat painting through the estate’s licensing agent.

One buyer owns a canvas. The estate says it controls the rights to reproduce the art.

Two very different businesses.

[Rodney C. @RodGSHH]

@NCAABuzzerBters I see who got taken out of the game.

[Mike H @mikaelheron]

A word to the youngins who’ve heard all my horror stories about the music industry and still wanna dance with the devil:

Take your credit as seriously as your money.

Like it or not, public recognition and credit are assets. For years, I thought demanding credit for work you were supposed to be doing was “corny.”
I actually thought the real could recognize real from the fugaz.

Experience taught me I was 100% WRONG.

If you’re not telling niggas what you did, somebody else will take YOUR credit. And if industry people don’t like you, they will absolutely diminish your contribution, regardless of what you actually accomplished.

Document your work.
Correct the record.
Don’t play about your credit.
Be as serious about it as you are about your money.

[Mike H @mikaelheron]

Getting a record deal isn’t the milestone it once was.

Your goal shouldn’t be to have some A&R data guy DM you the same cop & paste script he blindly sends 50 artists a day, take a meeting with people who don’t care, and walk out with a standard starter kit deal.

Your goal is to build something that means you don’t need to answer their calls.
Unless, of course, it’s Uncle Mikey calling.
But he’ll call you before they do, anyway.
So there’s that.

[Mike H @mikaelheron]

Larry Smith, the man who gave us Run-DMC’s “Sucker MCs” and “Rock Box” and Whodini’s “Friends,” spent his final years in a nursing home as a ward of New York State.

[Rodney C. @RodGSHH]

@mikaelheron Great take.

[Rodney C. @RodGSHH]

@YusufYuie Well said.

[Rodney C. @RodGSHH]

@theerainfiles That's easier said than done.

[SUPREME : LAW @SupremeStreet]

There are almost no Black American music executives left in the game.

[Punch TDE @iamstillpunch]

Where have all the black ppl gone in the music business??

[Rodney C. @RodGSHH]

@iamstillpunch Someone finally put this topic on the table. Great question! Thank you, Punch.

[Punch TDE @iamstillpunch]

The black executive in music is getting removed and replace systematically. Black women are the first to go in these industry lay offs. Which is the biggest mistake. Black women is where everything dope in the culture comes from. They are the culture. Smh

[Carl Chery @carlchery]

Hip-Hop comebacks have become rare because we’re a lot less forgiving today. Rap fans rooted for LL Cool J to bounce back in the 90s. But today’s toxic fan is more interested in mocking Roddy Ricch for pushing his album back than being open to him putting out good music.

[Mina Kimes @minakimes]

If athletes create less value, then surely universities would be comfortable letting the free market decide, no?

[Adrienne thee Creative | Experience Curator @brownandbella]

The same story over and over from Black actors and actresses.

[Rodney C. @RodGSHH]

@RapWikip LOL, if you paid to see this dumb shit.

[Z @BrianZisook]

Several labels recently froze marketing spend for Q4, with pre-approved budgets being slashed. Expect fewer high-profile releases before the end of the year, with artists holding albums for 2027.

[Scott Schneider @EdLawDude]

More people need to call BS on this sanctimonious nonsense.

John Calipari has made well over $100 million coaching basketball and left three college head-coaching jobs for other opportunities. Two programs he coached had Final Four appearances vacated.

Now he’s backing PCSA to “save college sports.”

Here are my questions: What is he putting on the table? A salary cap? A pay cut? Limits on his own mobility?

Everybody loves shared sacrifice when their share is zero.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Travis, a writer, being acknowledged in public, seems to have made his day

[Steven Godfrey @38Godfrey]

Now’s a good time to remind people Disney/ESPN, who want you to think @CollegeGameDay is just a fun show about football, has spent millions lobbying for the passage of the PCSA https://t.co/v6M0rD6xwE