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NahRight A Conversation with Wendy Day (Pt. 1) The Brains Behind the Operation
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She sounds like a mid level player looking for recognition.
These "industry" cats stay trying to pretend they're the talent
do your homework before you dismiss people.
She sounds like a mid level player looking for recognition.
These "industry" cats stay trying to pretend they're the talent
Anyone who knew who's who in the industry already recognize her and have recognized her since the '90s.
Anybody who didn't... doesn't.
Young/Nacho\Drawz
...come on let's picture the possibility...
Here's part two:
Read the rest here: http://nahright.com/news/2014/12/03/a-conversation-with-wendy-day-pt-2/A Conversation with Wendy Day (Pt. 2)
By Jimmy Ness
Wendy Day has seen it all. The 52 year old has spent two decades using her knowledge of the rap business to help create dozens of millionaires. 2pac, Pimp C, Eminem, and Slick Rick are just a few of the many artists that have trusted her expertise on industry politics. After being inspired by X-Clan and Rakim being jerked by their labels, she set up the Rap Coalition to negotiate deals, break unfair contracts and provide career advice. Some of her first deals were the biggest in music history such as Cash Money’s $30 million distribution deal with Universal and No Limit’s signing to Priority. In the first half of this interview, we chatted about what 2pac planned for his next album, Freddie Foxx putting a gun to Birdman’s head and 50 Cent crushing Young Buck. In part two, Wendy drops gems about Pimp C catching the New York subway, her role in Dr Dre discovering Eminem and the undisguised greed she’s witnessed in the music industry.
A strange pattern I’ve noticed is artists who’ve been screwed over become CEOs or label heads and then do the exact same thing to fellow artists.
Absolutely, I’ve seen that so many times that it doesn’t even shock me anymore. It’s almost like child abuse or domestic abuse where a child grows up getting beaten by their father and then when they have children they turn around and beat them even though they swore growing up they would never do that. It’s almost that same mentality and it happens more than it doesn’t happen. It’s more prevalent than you think.
Do you think labels manipulate rappers because sometimes their upbringing means they lack the required business savvy to be involved in the music industry?
You know, it could be. I wish I knew the answer to this because if I knew the answer I could solve the issue. I don’t exactly know what causes it because there’s a lot of guys that came from nothing to build real estate empires to pay their bills. It’s certainly prevalent in the music industry. Maybe it has something to do with fame, where somebody is such a narcissist that they desire the fame of screaming fans. Maybe there’s something involved in that narcissistic personality that says I’m not going to pay anybody. I don’t really know and I don’t know if that happens in the tech world or the world of people who make widgets. I can only speak for the entertainment world because that’s my world, but it’s prevalent and it’s definitely a problem.
You’ve seen a lot of exploitation and backstabbing in the music industry. Is it fair to say there are people who are legitimately villains for the way they’ve used artists for personal gain?
Yes, I would say that. Very much so. I remember when I was shopping DJ DMD’s deal before he signed to Elektra. The A&R guy at Sony and I wish I could remember his name because I would actually tell you, that’s how unbelievably bad this guy was. But he was at Sony at the time and he offered the deal as long as we kicked him back $50,000. The deal itself was $150,000 or $250,000, it was a pretty small amount of money. So basically he wanted a third or 50% of the money in order to do the deal and I had never encountered somebody being so basically extortionist in my career. It really shocked me. Another situation I remember was meeting a guy who was in Wisconsin and I can’t remember the name of the group, but I was breaking his deal with Universal. I was pulling them off of Universal and he said the group had signed a 50/50 deal with the A&R at the time, who was also the A&R of Cash Money. It was the price he had to pay in order to get his group signed and they were supposed to split everything equally but the deal had to be kept secret because as an A&R, he wasn’t allowed to have any ownership in anybody that he signed.