VIDEO: 5 Hip-Hop Business Tragedies
In the latest installment of The Big Payback video series, I explore five tragedies of the hip-hop business, including: The Eclipse of Sugar Hill Records The Demise of Macola Records Public Enemy’s Raw Deals The Black-Owned Distributor Fails The Death of KDAY Get more of the story below! Play it, embed it, circulate it! Peep […]
VIDEO: Jay-Z… REALLY Decoded
In this new installment of my video series for The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, I discuss a vital factor in the Jay-Z-Damon Dash breakup that you won’t find in Jay-Z’s new book, Decoded, or in any other book for that matter… Play it, embed it, circulate it! Peep the video […]
Critical Raves for “The Big Payback”
Dan Charnas’ The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop (New American Library, December 7, 2010) is already getting big love from critics: Charnas’ “exhaustive, engrossing history of the genre” is #8 on the “Must List” — Entertainment Weekly “A classic of music business dirt-digging as well as a kind of pulp epic.” […]
VIDEO: Two Controversial Moments From “The Big Payback”
Two new installments in my web video series, where I discuss two controversial moments in The Big Payback: • Cash Money Records stiffed the woman who got them their landmark deal, Wendy Day. • Quincy Jones and Russell Simmons tussle over Vibe magazine. Play it, embed it, circulate it! Peep the videos after the jump…
VIDEO: 5 Hip-Hop Myths, Debunked!
The second installment in my new web video series for The Big Payback, produced by my comrade, the award-winning Antonio Neves, and shot and edited with great skill by the aptly-named Jon Genius. Play it, embed it, circulate it! Peep the video after the jump…