Irving Azoff: Sorry to f--- up your New Year's, Ray. Billboard: I thought that was the motivation for announcing today. A: It wasn't to f--- up New Year's, it was to pay [taxes] on 2012 rates rather than 2013. Q: Something like this would seem to have been in the works for quite a w... Read more...
Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture. My being a music fan has left me wi... Read more...
1 comment,
10/12/2010,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Go Old Head,
Guest Blog,
Industry Rule #4080,
Music,
Real Hip-hop,
Video
There was a time… long, long ago… when the color lines were a lot more blurred on urban radio. Artists like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and others- without necessarily catering to the R&B audience- would still get certain records of theirs played on the primarily “Black” stations.... Read more...