Corporate Activity - Jullian Boothe VP A&R/Slip-N-Slide Records
As far as producers I've been working with a kid name Mad Screws who produced the first single on the new Jagged Edge project. I'm also working with some producers I discovered off the PMP called The Sound Twins, incredible guys. I was looking through the site and I ran across their page, started listening to some of their songs and it was actually a song that was posted as 'sold' and then I called them like 'oh no I need that, we will buy it back'. Then they started sending me more music and I've been using them ever since so you will hear a lot coming from them this year. They'll definitely be on Honorebel's project and I'm working on some other stuff with them with Trina and some of our other new Slip N Slide artists as well. I'm also working with another kid Youngfyre who's been bringing a lot of heat to the table. Matter of fact my man that works with me Young Money actually found Youngfyre off the PMP and then he brought him to me. Both Youngfyre and the Sound Twins are incredible new producers and I look forward to doing my best to get them some hot placements for 2010 and beyond.
Corporative Activity - J Ellis A&R/Rap A Lot Records
Congratulations on the success of the new Bun B album Trill OG debuting at the #4 spot on the Top 200 album sales charts
Thank you. To be honest we're just thankful right now because we really haven't gone into our couple of lead singles yet. We recently inked our deal with Fontana Distribution so shout out to Fontana/Universal for everything they've done to support Bun B with his third solo album.
Can you talk about some of the post-release promotional plans Rap-A-Lot has lined up for the Bun B project?
The lead single is called 'Right Now' featuring Pimp C, Tupac and Trey Songz, you should definitely hear a lot more about that single in the upcoming months. I believe it's going to be one of those timeless records you're going to be playing forever. We also got the Drake song we haven't completely went all the way in on called 'Put It Down'. Our current single is 'Trillionaire' featuring T-Pain which the video was just recently completed (now available). We also got a positive single called 'All A Dream' featuring Letoya Luckett so all of these singles will be dropping as part of the post album release push as oppose to the traditional pre-album promotions.
Corporate Activity - Sha Money XL Sr VP A&R/Island Def Jam
You definitely have to be active when it comes to working with digital technology. With the PMP for example I've been in the back office, listening to tracks and learning how ya'll guys whole model is setup which is real dope and efficient so I'm all about being on the cutting edge as far as the Internet is concerned.
Make sure you shop your music to a lot of people that got good ears. Make sure your shit is really hot and not be caught up in just glorifying yourself. Take the time to study the game and become a real student of the game; don't just jump into the business not knowing the history behind it or what's currently happening. Once you become a great student then you can graduate and become the teacher
