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Legend is talking about a rap world where the scales are tipping towards the self-made artist. More and more, big-name labels have been desperate to sign MCs with already-established, self-produced bodies of work. Take, for example, 50 Cent—his tracks were making waves on homemade “mixtape” CD-Rs for years before he got a major-label deal...
...making music, a guy who’s ready to quit his job and pursue it all the way, no matter what kind of music it is, it’s gonna be good, and it’s gonna be successful,” says Jesse Ferguson, label manager for Definitive Jux Records, one of the most successful labels for artists who shoot for music outside of the mainstream...
...stage, to a certain extent, might be set. Then why haven’t any recent Harvard hip-hoppers made it big—even on a smaller, independent-label scale...
...League’s Dominique C. Deleon ’04, Nicholas H. Barnes ’04, Brandon M. Terry ’05 and Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06 met each other at an audition to open for major-label star Fabolous at Boston’s Orpheum in Deleon’s sophomore year...
...League blew up, too. Start-up campus record label Veritas Records put their track on a compilation CD. Then, the Facebook advertised a League music video to all users. They started getting calls from Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records...