Read the full interview on Variety.com! Steve Stoute shared some powerful words about Drake during a panel held on Friday (July 17). The two-day virtual SelectCon conference featured conversations with key players in the realms of entrepreneurship, music marketing, sports, personal finance, and other music industry topics.…
Read the full interview on Variety.com! For French Montana, accolades come in threes. His 2017 single “Unforgettable,” featuring Swae Lee, has accumulated over three billion streams in the three years since his album “Jungle Rules” made a home for the hit — all milestones the…
Read the full interview on Variety.com! New Jersey-born, Atlanta-bred artist Russ first came onto the scene in 2015 with the track “What They Want,” an underground hit that led him a major label deal with Columbia Records and the release of his platinum-certified debut, “There’s Really a Wolf.”…
Read the full interview on Variety.com! A silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic: it’s revealed the resilience of artists and executives alike in continuing to push out new music. You could even look at this time as a sort of A&R boom — with…
Read the full interview on Variety.com! If there’s a music video that captures the Black Lives Matter demonstrations of June 2020, it’s YG’s “FTP” — which, obviously, is an abbreviation of “f— the police.” The song and the clip are an homage to N.W.A’s legendary…
Read the full interview on Variety.com! Lil Yachty is no stranger to breaking the internet. In March, he dropped the track “Oprah’s Bank Account” featuring Drake and DaBaby along with a nine-minute visual that lampooned the entertainment mogul, played by the rapper himself, and her talk show. The clip was directed…
Read the full article on Variety.com! Cash Money Records is giving back in a big way. The iconic rap label founded by Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams has donated over $225,000 to a nonprofit organization called Forward Together New Orleans (FTNO). The effort…
Read the full article on Variety.com! 6ix9ine has officially broken the internet… again. The New York rapper was just released from prison in March due to concern over the spread of coronavirus within the corrections system and capitalized on being sprung by bragging on Instagram…
Read the full article on Variety! Music streaming platform Audiomack is launching a week of virtual panels, starting today (May 11). Under the banner “Moving Music Forward – An Industry Discussion,” the five-day event will feature top executives in the business and focus daily (from 3pm…
Read the full article on Variety.com! D Smoke first wowed the music world when he won the inaugural season of “Rhythm + Flow,” Netflix’s hip-hop competition show with Cardi B, Chance the Rapper and T.I. as judges. Impressing both the panel and viewers at home…