Category: Business
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Russell Simmons Invests In Skinny Nutritional Corporation (News)
Yesterday it was announced that entrepreneur Russell Simmons has invested in Skinny Nutritional, the maker of the Skinny Water product, as a consultant to assist with the products’ expansion and to help build a healthy lifestyle brand. Skinny Water is currently available in nine different flavors, and upon reading the description, appears comparable to Vitamin Water,…
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T-Pain Teams Up With iZotope For The T-Pain Effect (News)
"Chillin’, willin’ to be killin’, on penicillin’" though T-Pain? Teddy Pain has teamed up with digital audio software maker iZotope to release "The T-Pain Effect", a multi-functional software package that allows the user to make beats, create vocal sound effects and more. The product includes The T-Pain Engine, a beat-making application; The T-Pain Effect, which…
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Wall Street Journal: Hip-Hop Artists Drop Defaults x Foreclosure Knowledge
“Wouldn’t it be nice if the banks didn’t f— up the loans / And people ain’t have to move out they homes? … That’s the world I’m talkin’ about is where we would like to be / Worried about debts, recessions and foreclosure…”–Bun B The Wall Street Journal featured an article detailing several rappers who…
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#FF: Learn Something Edition w/ @RapCoalition @SenatorSkid @LisaDavisMusic @UrbanThreshold x @RonaldSkelton
While I occasionally enjoy joking around online, my primary reasons for being on Twitter are to 1) Tweet about hip hop related topics (duh), and 2) learn something valuable that can be applied to my brand. If you know who to follow, there’s plenty of established and respected music industry veterans and business experts on…
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@AlLindstrom.com: Best Of Both Offices w/ @YoungSavv x @StevoBOBO Part 2 (Video)
I still say AlLindstrom.com has some of the best original content on the internets. They’re the only site I’ve found so far that consistently brings the stories of behind-the-scenes hip hop business people to the forefront. In part two of AlLindstrom.com’s sitdown with Young Sav and Steve-O from Best Of Both Offices, the duo discuss…
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@TechN9ne Talks Starting His Own Label + More On @SuckerFreeMTV2 (Video)
Get More: Sucker Free Tech N9ne was on this week’s MTV Sucker Free Sunday. I never get tired of hearing about how he built his Strange Music empire from nothing to the #1 independent label in the game. Every time I hear/read about his story, it always makes me wonder why anyone would want…
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Branding Soul? Considering The History of Black Music x Big Business (Article)–@NewBlackMan
Duke University’s Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, professor of black popular culture and host of Left Of Black, wrote an article that appeared in today’s The Atlanta Post. In the piece, Dr. Neal discusses the history, rise and decline of black music as it relates to business and branding. He draws comparisons between Detroit’s Motown, Memphis’s…