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APRIL TO JUNE 2024: A lot has happened in life, and I got a bit lazy in updating the thread. But there’s a ton of music here and I hope you enjoy and maybe healthy cry once or twice and then dance again.
PLAYLISTS HERE:
Got promoted a few weeks ago to Director of Commerce, Hip-Hop + R&B @ Republic
Just thought I'd let the internet know now lol
So far this year I worked on Metro Boomin, Daniel Caesar, Coi Leray, Kiana Lede and a lot more.
It's been a great year professionally and personally
Today marks my first week at
@RepublicRecords
🙏🏽 I've joined as the new Associate Director [of Commerce] on their stream team.
Very proud of what I've been able to accomplish so far in my career.
Excited to continue to grow, learn and create
Stay tuned ✨
This is the 1st platinum record I've ever worked on in my role @ Republic. The 1st of many.
I'm beyond happy for especially Coi and the team.
I wanted to join the label side of the business to be part of the artist journey and these are the wins I'll remember forever
First of more to come in my career 🙏🏽 pretty wild tbh. I've been working in music at some capacity since I was 17, working hard and grinding it out.
Can truly say this was earned not given — not just for myself but everyone involved.
My mom graduates from college next Saturday with her Bachelor's degree.
Trying to figure out which memeable ugly cry I'm going to do. Cause I'm going to CRYYYYY.
Usher won the Super Bowl. 3/4 of his set was straight up R&B at that. He didn’t downplay his catalog either. What an amazing and blackity black performance.
I waited a good week to properly make this post lmao. It’s been one hell of year yall. A lot of things I’m not going to share. But here’s one really good one
I met DJ Kool Herc. I low-key was star struck. If you don't know who this you need to da ya gooooogles.
I've met hundred of famous people. I had to take a photo and document this one. Rightfully so.
I worked on a Drake release legit. That's cool as hell to say.
Scary Hours 1 came out on my 23rd birthday and I was a coordinator fresh out of college.
Three years later and I'm an Associate Director who worked on Scary Hours 2.
Life is wild and I'm thankful
Today is my 1 year anniversary at
@RepublicRecords
. Time is weird because it feels like it hasn't been 1 year but it also feels like its 3 years.
Also just shout out to anyone who started something new this pandemic. These transitions are not for the weak.
Random, but my first few months at Republic have been great. Idc to go into detail, but to be part of the artists' story + journey has been amazing.
Plus leading Hip Hop + R&B as far as streaming goes has been great. Hard work, long hours, but it's rewarding. Genuinely happy.
When your inner voice says "stay your ass home" just stay your ass home. Don't even bother trying to find someone to convince you otherwise.
Just. Stay. Home.
I spent half my mother's day joking and laughing with my mom and the other half asleep on her lap like a child while she took photos 😂.
My mom is a real one for allowing her full adult son a space to sleep like it's 1999.
So I mentioned months ago how I heard an album with a very small group of ppl and how it was an emotional experience. It was this album.
Just being there was a privilege. I remember looking around, ppl crying. I teared up. A lot of emotions.
I'm happy you can hear it.
OMFG lmaooo.
I never talk about my days in Seventeen Magainze...but that was a time. (Also really bad advice, idk why I was trying to be cute)
My later teenage/early 20s years are something I rarely talk about...but if you know, you know. One day I'll talk about it more openly.
Dear Artists: PLEASE put long skits as seperate tracks so the song you made is easier to playlist.
You know how annoying it is to have a great song literally impossible to sequence into a playlist because the damn outro skit is 49 seconds?
This video never sat right with me, but it definitely doesn't knowing how his situation ended out.
Also this is still one of the best examples of needing more culturally intuned people to work with artists, because the general confusion/body language says more than enough.
Working in the music industry, I'll say this.
No one cares about your new music this week. This is not the time to push your new single, album, etc. unless it's directly related to what's going on in the world right now.
Otherwise, keep that shit to yourself for a while.
Imagine having several popular summer songs and solidifying yourself as a music industry mainstay WHILE being a whole ass (in person) college student.
That's hella fire.
I've been working super hard. I always have but it's been different.
And it's the type of hard that's productive and rewarding not unhealthy and aimless. The type of hard where you're like "oh I'm hitting a new level."
It's dope.
You never know who’s supporting you in the background. A lot more people may want to see you win than you realize
One of the many reasons to do right by people, genuinely.
Funny that video about the housing lottery went viral a few days ago, but coincidentally enough I won😂
Whole process took months, but the deal is done 🙏🏽
Travel in America is a sham.
I was able to book a flight from London to Paris cheaper than a flight from NYC to Boston. Domestic travel from point A to point B is annoyingly expensive here and
I. AM. TIRED.
The past year was filled with groundbreaking achievements from the worlds of R&B and Hip-Hop. 💥
#ad
From hip-hop's biggest and brightest stars to the executives who make it all possible, meet this year's Power Players, presented by
@infinitiUSA
.
Honestly, it helps to have friends in your industry. But what counts (if not more) are having friends in your field who can talk about OTHER things and not have a two hour pity party about work or "adulting."
Having the connections without the "I hate everything" part is GREAT.
I just celebrated my 27th birthday and you know what feels the best…having my mom sleep in a total other room peacefully
Like I haven’t fucked this adulting thing up to the point where my mom has her own room to chill in while she’s over
(Im in nyc so this is a big deal okay)
Really encourage people to have a live outside their careers. Have hobbies. Have friends pause your industry. Go build a family. Do something.
Because the older I get, the more miserable ppl seem to become when their job is all they have.
I have to win the son of the year award.
Kem, the Grammy nominated artist, just called my mom as a surprise because I told him I grew up on his music and my mom loves him.
BEAT THAT 😂
Rest In Peace DMX. Thank you for your talents, your words and your gifts. The fond memories of having a cassette tape of Party Up ripped straight from the radio...something I played religiously, will always be one of my fondest memories as a human.
Thank you
END 2020: My Year in Music
A turbulent year told by the music that got me through.
Biking, dancing alone in my room, sitting by the water, a lot of crying, precious laughs with friends....what a wild ride.
(spotify, Apple Music + tidal)
Remember how
@Nas
tried to inspire lil kids with “I Can” — one of those kids grew up to be
@YbnCordae
THIS IS WHY HIP HOP IS THE GREATEST SHIT EVER
Full Interview:
Years late and finished Season 1 of Insecure. I'll update at the end of every season.
Season 1 thoughts: everyone is an asshole but Lawerence. And the dude Issa cheated with is wack af for emotionally baiting her into that situation.
Also Molly is annoying.
I watched 20 minutes of the local news last night and it was easily one of the most depressing things I've seen in a LONG time. I have no clue how my grandmother and millions of others watch this every day.
There's a lot of great things locally and they never showed one. Smh.
Really fortunate I found the true meaning of self care during this pandemic
Sometimes I do nothing. Sometimes I practice the piano. Sometimes I sit by the water and just think.
Either way, I gave myself the time/space to simply and unapologeticly exist. Thankful for that
We should not be doing this. One, out of respect for the dead. Two, encouraging this is just fast tracking us to a point where we don't know if that unreleased song by an artist was really them or not. Can completely alter legacies, and train us to just be "cool" with AI music.
This is a momentous moment in music history!
Timbaland explains how he always had a dream to collab with Biggie, but never had the chance to.
Thanks to AI, he was able to make that dream a reality.
Disclaimer, THE SONG IS FIREEE 🔥
Transitioning into a new stage in life is hard. Its extremely draining in every way. But looking back at some old photos just puts things into perspective on how far I've come in such a short amount of time.
I'm always going to be proud of that
Moments like this feel special because everything about the rise of the song and Roddy himself feels genuine. You can't help but root for him.
And it's dope that so many people agree that we're seeing the hopeful beginnings of someone that's going to be here for a long time.
It’s sad that no one is surprised that Kyle Rittenhouse got off on all charges. We all knew how this shit was going to end.
Just a reminder how the courts will protect white boys/men to no end no matter how obvious the crimes are