@michaelmiraflor Lots of collabs with Channel 5 as well. I think he was inspired by Andrew and is taking the same small team, back in the field approach to the relaunch.
@michaelmiraflor The scene was also massively subsidized by brands. This was the era of large experiential marketing spends and "lifestyle" marketing as an idea. You could survive on cheap rent, Open bars and cocktail hours from every brand and music videos, tours paid for my the same brands,
@dances This!! Us, The Cool Kids, The Pack, Dan Deacon and Spankrock had a crazy ass sxsw show at an amtrak station sponsored by Keystone light. Real Hipster shit
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@michaelmiraflor I think about this a lot.. having been a blog era famous rap group so much of that internet is gone. No cloud storage and expensive media that people didn’t see the need to save. There also still was a lot that happened IRL, especially in NY.
I’ve worked with artists for a long time and one of the reasons I started a collective is I’ve given so many ideas to other artists that they never act on so I was like, why not just implement all my ideas to an artist that will affect it every time.
@cheo_coker In general this was a weird era in music esp for interscope. So many shelved and incomplete albums. Producer run labels that had deep rosters that never dropped.
The answer COULD be that they are trying to finalize the split sheets, credits and paperwork on the backend and would not want to be sued for anything not directly related to the album.
Janice Jose, Head of Brand Partnerships at UMG is allegedly the Janice Drake told to STFU on his new album Iceman. Now UMG is copyright striking content
creators videos using Drake music. The videos mostly affected are those with mashups. So this highly affects reactors. #Drake
The rap blog era scene was so pure like fans and industry folks really supported artists from the ground up and all artists had to do was make dope music