April 2012 Blog Posts (8)

If you ever wanted to be a major radio personality here's your shot. Atlanta's V-103 radio station is looking for an on-air personality to join their team. It is a nationwide search so don't worry if you don't live in ATL. You have to be 21 and over to enter plus you've got to be able to do celebrity impersonations. You can apply for the job …

The magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff takes you to his studio to show you his vinyl collection as a part of the Crate Diggers web series. He tells you his process for storing records and explains how he started a…

Music producers VaNs BeaTs & Dayweed Beats make up The Cratez music production team. Watch them cook up a hot beat flipping an old school sample. You can check out another one of their beat making videos…

2 Chainz is the man right now. He’s doing exactly what his song Spend It says, “I’m ridin' 'round and I’m getting it.” After grinding for so long after his Playa Circle days, he is finally getting the spotlight that he has been longing for. People…

Music producers all have their own way of creating. Some producers take 15 to 20 minutes to make a track. Others may take months and even years to complete an idea. How ever you choose to create, I offer one rule of advice. Never erase your beats. I'm not saying that if you lay down a bass line for a song and you change it, that you…

Entertainment marketing is one of my areas of expertise. No matter where an artist falls within the product life cycle that I've seen a million times in marketing courses, some artists just do not have the right mix of talent on their management team to effectively handle their…

Rapper Tyga gives you a brief glimpse into his life as he promotes his second album …

Legendary music producer Ski Beatz invites up and coming artist Rashad to his studio to create some tracks. Check out the music video for his song The Return now…