“Radio” Rodney Smith is a media and fashion personality, podcast host, and content creator. He has hosted events, and red carpets for the Country Music Association Awards,
CMA Fest, Academy of Country Music Awards,
National Finals Rodeo, and more. He is a catalyst for fashion in Nashville, and has reached millions of people through his behind the scenes content, and interviews across social media.

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Willie Boy is a rapper, singer, and songwriter from New York, who has collaborated with hit makers like The Game, Dave East, and CeeLo Green. He touches on his life leading up to music, and how working at Wu Tang Clan's studio in Staten Island, and his brief stint at Full Sail University - inspired him to pursue music full time. Throughout his career he has performed live with the legends like Joe Budden and Mobb Deep, and continues to push out music at a rate that few can compete with.

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1:00 Differences between NYC & Nashville
1:45 write first song day after grampas funeral
2:30 looking back at old songs
3:45 Went to Full Sail
4:19 recorded at Wu Tangs studio
4:30 Full Sail continued (father got cancer)
5:30 can learn everything nowadays through YouTube
6:30 WWE NXT
7:25 How Willie Got Into Wu Tang Studio
8:15 Willie’s Celebrity Collaborations
8:45 Antonio Brown
10:15 Creative Juices best at night
11:15 How did Willie get followed by Kanye
13:25 Lil Mabu & Fivio
14:00 Mabu going to college while in the spotlight
16:45 Nashville Music Scene is more than country
17:45 Nashville hip hop
19:00 Relating about our fathers passing away
20:00 Wu Tang studio and other artists
21:45 living in Florida
22:30 Social Media
22:40 What inspires Willie to branch into other genres
25:35 1 artist from each genre to collab with
26:30 what makes Billie great
27:45 Willie getting into production side
28:25 Best Producers in the world
30:30 Eminem
36:00 Song with Eminem
38:00 The Grim Reefer
40:00 Craziest Performances
42:00 artists making more money after music
43:00 Afroman
44:00 working with people you grew up with

Don Clarkin is an entertainment attorney, artist manager, and executive director of Young Entertainment Professionals Nashville. After leaving Dirickson Law - who reps stars like Walker Hayes - Clarkin founded AM/PM Entertainment and started his transition into artist management, repping clients like Netflix star Callum Kerr. Clarkin shares what basic knowledge artists should know before committing to any sort of agreement in their careers, different types of record deals, management deals, and loopholes, and how to use LEVERAGE to your advantage.

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0:45 How Don got into Law
3:50 Young Entertainment Professionals
7:40 large majority of entertainment lawyers business comes from managers
8:40 entertainment business has “rings”
9:40 legal clients and manager clients have to be separate
11:00 what’s the basic knowledge an artist should have before even getting a lawyer?
12:00 2 basic copyrights in music
13:00 Sync placements
13:45 there are bad attorneys
14:00 conflict situations: Like TV shows
17:40 It’s not the lawyers job to provide business advice - just the legal advice - artist needs to make gut calls
19:30 even in a group setting you can hire an outside lawyer to take a look
20:30 “Treat yourself like you’re worth something”
21:00 Management Contracts
22:00 firing your manager - manager works for the artist
24:40 If managers want publishing: Where is their value?
25:40 LEVERAGE: how to use it and when
27:00 If you have a hit consider doing a one song deal and see how much GAS the label can put on the FIRE
27:50 if you go in on an 80/20 360 traditional deal - DO YOU HAVE A TEAM?
30:15 licensing vs giving ownership
32:35 DYL - "Jordan Belfort" Atlantic advance and deal
36:15 Country Radio has it pretty wrapped up for major labels
37:25 Even if labels don’t want to put your music out - go do podcasts, go do YouTube series, non music content
38:20 360 DEALS **
39:30 the first $3m made from touring
40:50 Ask questions in the label meeting
42:20 within general framework of the law - you can do what you want.
43:20 Artist wanted one of the execs branded track suits in the label meeting
45:30 getting artists OUT of a “bad deal”
46:50 Worst Deal Don Has Seen
49:30 you can try to update deal but doesn’t always work. Not worth going to court
49:55 Representing Netflix Star Callum Kerr
50:30 Creators should want their team to “live their role” Rather than find one person who tries to do it all
51:35 Acting/Music contracts usually don’t interfere
53:00 If you’re successful as an actor you can negotiate more rights for the music side
53:55 “a smaller piece of a bigger pie is always a better deal”
54:15 Manager and agent don’t crossover
55:30 as an attorney are you pitching artists to labels?
59:00 eventually the goal is to have 100 or 500 people working for you

Paris Visone is an American documentary photographer and live video director based in Boston. She was a recipient of the Getty Images Editorial Photography Grant and has been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone, and GEO Magazine. Visone has directed music videos for artists such as Godsmack and New Found Glory. After serving as Godsmack’s tour photographer for 13 years, she has now transitioned into a role as their Live Video Director. Visone also serves as the tour photographer for New Kids On The Block, and
Big Time Rush.

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0:00 Intro
2:00 Hanson
7:00 at 40 changing career positions
7:51 “I’ve been Godsmack’s photographer for 13 years, got burnt out”
10:00 was a VIP photographer that’s now she got on tour
14:00 networking gets you jobs/using Paris’ photos to get me jobs
14:47 meeting on the set of Banded
16:30 scheduling tour to tour in the year
17:00 New Kids & Big Time Rush fans are insane. Old ladies love the boys with great bodies - mid 50s
18:30 Big Time Rush comeback tour / also actors they’re funny
19:30 big mix of bands - couldn’t be any different
20:13 country for a photographer could get boring
21:00 why do you get butterflies with the band
22:30 - transitioning to video directing / creating content for the video wall - iMag cameras vs camera
24:22 different people running the cameras, some people need instruction, some people have a good sense of what they’re doing
25:30 production side of the music industry - mini music video - more entertaining than showing just what’s there *** stick throw
26:30 collaborating on the content side for the screens
27:10 creating visuals using A.I - runway program
Example: took the original album art and made it move
28:00 A.I made it easier to redo older art
30:54 concert documentaries- keep thinking about production while watching the docs lol
31:45 we’re getting old, Forbes 40 under 40
32:45 GETTY Images Grant
33:00 publications been there done that
34:40 Kyle still posting the rolling stone article from years ago
35:30 going from “the grind” to focusing on the passion and art
36:30 collaborating with other photographers rather than “looking up to them
39:00 Courtney Kemp - “do you want to work FOR someone, or BE them”
40:00 first tour story - crew bus with blondie - tour bus rules - only girl on the bus
41:51 VIP / stage runners
42:30 New Kids tense moments going through the crowd
44:30 sometimes you film stuff that shouldn’t be shown - have to respect the privacy of the artists
46:00 how many cameras per tour / venue
48:00 camera / tech issues mid show - how does it get fixed
49:45: it content goes down, have a backup computer / live cam going down
53:00 smaller venues vs arenas
54:50 Top 3 Tours Paris has been on

Heather Richardson is a touring merch & VIP manager for metal-core band Imminence, and was a contestant on season 7 of Netflix’s “The Circle”, where she catfished as ‘Andy’. Heather dives into how she ended up working in the metal-core scene as the only female on tour to start her career, and reveals some of the behind the scenes secrets of “The Circle”

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DJ Grant Fisher is Nashville’s biggest touring DJ, boasting hundreds of thousands of followers. Grant currently produces multi-platinum, and #1 selling country star - Dustin Lynch's country/EDM crossover show, taking North America by storm. He also tours cross-country hosting and performing at festivals, and events such as Art Basel, the CMA Awards, and more.

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Ollie Joseph is an independent artist who has earned over 120 million streams on Spotify alone. Born and raised in Japan, Ollie found his stride in music once moving to the United States, consistently releasing music almost weekly for years.

We discuss how Ollie's consistent work ethic has been the key to his streaming success, growing up in Japan, social media in the music industry, keeping personal life private, and more!

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Cadillac Dale is an R&B singer and songwriter from Detroit. Dale was on track to earn a #1 Hit as part of the duo “Shawn & Dale” with their 1995 single “Soulful Moaning” independently selling 20,000 copies locally. Until Shawn was convicted of double-murder, which ended up squandering the entire record. Fast forward to 2023 where Jack Harlow’s “Lovin’ On Me” earns the thrown atop the Billboard Hot 100 - sampling Dale’s 1995 record “Whatever”. Thrusting Dale into the spotlight and earning him the international credibility he’s deserved for decades.

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1:00 How Kyle & Dale connected - thought Dale was dead
4:00 Just focus on making great music instead of “making it”
5:00 People without a million followers could be making way bigger moves
6:30 it happened the way it was supposed to. Most important thing is creating the art
8:00 grew up with MowTown legends
9:45 beautiful disease
11:00 When did Dale start music
12:50 “I’m a rapper that learned how to sing”
13:30 Singing on vacation - wouldn’t let him leave
14:00 got into hip hop after hearing A Tribe Called Quest
15:45 “the reason I think that I can do anything is because of my mother”
16:30 Soggy Bottom Boys
18:00 I owe everything to my mom
18:30 Soulful Moaning Project
20:00 Shawn was incarcerated as their song blew up
21:40 Jack Harlow sampled “Whatever” for “Lovin On You”
23:00 “music is important to Guys like us”
24:00 I would not sacrifice my children for music
25:00 ex-wife broke all his instruments
25:47 “the ball doesn’t have to keep rolling fast, it just has to keep rolling”
26:00 Recorded 175 songs
27:00 didn’t get paid from the label
28:15 how jack harlow came about
29:00 Rihanna wanted to sample “Soulful Moaning”
29:30 connecting with Jack CONT
31:00 riding around the city with Lovin On Me before it came out
31:45 Sean Momberger found the “Whatever” Sample
33:00 song went viral before it came out
33:45 was the song done when they sent it to Dale?
34:00 Detroit lions game
34:55 Met Jack and he said “Thank You”
35:50 jacks great grand dad died at a Detroit lions game thanksgiving day
36:30 Dale all red suit and hat “black Santa clause”
37:00 Responding to the halftime show criticism
38:00 they don’t love it remix
39:45 ultimate collaborator - Biggest rapper in Poland - OSTR
41:00 Jack Harlow halftime show Kyle response
41:45 Not lovin it - people not believing
43:40 Wife Makes Best Soup In North America
44:50: what’s worse than being booed
45:15 “If you look at the mistakes you’ve made and understand them, you know what not to do”
47:00: what would you say to new artists just coming into the industry?
48:45 Rakim The God MC - don’t sweat the technique
50:00 pick up an instrument
51:40 made a song with a guitar he found in the garbage
53:00 Lovin On Me remix
54:45 “Your life wouldn’t be anything without music”
55:49 “IM ALIVE!”