When I began managing musicians in 2009, I didn’t believe my race would be an issue. Sadly, it was naive of me to think that I wouldn’t experience racial bias in an industry that claimed to be so diverse. It was a shock to my system and an immense eye-opener for someone whose attitude was that, if you planned and worked hard enough, anything was possible. In the years that followed, I have encountered numerous circumstances that contained either indirect or direct hints of racism. In one instance, I was managing a young white artist who I had met by accident and we clicked really well. We worked really hard and suddenly we were getting calls from some major labels; we were both excited…
While many new music tech companies are trying for subtle tweaks on existing concepts, there are plenty of aspects of the modern industry that do genuinely need refreshing. These range from the…
Houston-born producer Mike Dean is the hip-hop world’s version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone in the music industry today who he hasn’t either worked with…
On the fifth episode of Show & Tell, Jack Harlow reveals to us the battles he’s checking out on Instagram live, his obsession with ‘Survivor: Winners at War’ and Cloroxing the…
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