Blakroc Released! Kinda!

The Black Keys have created their own version of the classic Heavy Rhyme Experience, live music mixed with great hip hop MCs, and have called it Blakroc. I’ve been excited about this since I first read about it. It was released yesterday and is currently #1 on iTunes’ hip hop chart, (where I bought the [...]

A $1000 Studio: Recording The Get Busy Committee

Sorry no installment last weekend. I would have had this post up last Sunday but I came down with a pretty nasty flu/fever thing which put me down/out/way behind this past week. Ouch. As I’ve mentioned, by the time I came into the Get Busy Committee project the record was finished, so I was and [...]

Alert, Connect, Sell: Releasing Get Busy Committee

As I mentioned last weekend, the band I’m co-managing is releasing a record called Uzi Does It at nearly every digital retailer on the planet (with INgrooves as our digital distributor) on Tuesday, November 10th. We’re having a party at Zune LA sponsored by True Love & False Idols; if you’d like to come please [...]

Koalas and Uzis: Managing Get Busy Committee

You’re going to laugh, but it’s true so I’ll own up: I’ve started co-managing an artist *. The artist is Get Busy Committee and consists of Ryu (Styles of Beyond, Fort Minor, Demigodz), Apathy (solo super-MC, Army of Pharoahs, Demigodz), and Scoop Deville (young and in-demand producer for Snoop Dogg, Clipse, The Game, Murs, and [...]