Word: rows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things that set Iovine and Field apart make them a formidable business duo. Iovine's nose for the unconventional enables him to sniff out promising bands before anyone else. "I don't care if it's eight donkeys in a row playing harmonicas," he says. "If they all look great and sound great, I'll sign...
Since then, Interscope's sales have nearly tripled, to about $340 million this year. A hefty portion of those sales was spun off by its hugely profitable rap subsidiary, Death Row Records, whose owner, Suge Knight, is in prison and whose biggest star, Tupac, is dead, victim of a gangster-style rubout as he rode in Suge's BMW. Facing this kind of continuity problem, Iovine and Fields started focusing the company's resources on nonrap acts, and the shift is paying...
...helped Jimmy because I saw that he had incredible business instincts." Iovine's ease with musicians helped Interscope strike up several profitable partnerships with subsidiary labels, including Trauma Records, through which Interscope signed multimillion-seller Bush; Nothing Records, which brought Manson and industrial-rock innovator Trent Reznor; and Death Row, through which it co-financed discs by Snoop and producer...
Interscope still has a management problem with Death Row Records, given that the label's president, Knight, isn't making many meetings from his jail cell in San Luis Obispo. Suge is doing nine years on parole violations for stomping a man in a Las Vegas hotel shortly before Shakur was gunned down. A few weeks later, the Los Angeles Times reported that the fbi was investigating allegations of organized crime at Death Row. Then, in April, Shakur's mother Afeni sued Death Row over money allegedly owed her son. She won several million dollars and control of Tupac...
...last people in were the first people out," said Valerie EdmonsonLopez '00, ecstatic about her eventual fourth row seat in Sanders...