IN THE STUDIO - NAUGHTY BY NATURE!!

So we are back in the studio working on Tracks and hooks for Naughty By Nature
hanging out and vibing on some ideas was Harlem's own F-Mos ,
Queens own Sonny Black, Precise & songwriter Davila

As usual we had a lot of fun and a lot of great ideas and songs came out of the collaboration

Precise & Davila

Precise & Alexis (Makaveli Branded)

F-Mos & Kaygee goin' over ideas

We grabbed Marissa out of Cliff's room to do the vocal for one of the hooks...CRAZY!!

F-Mos, Sonny Black, Davila & Kaygee

PRECISE IN THE STUDIO WITH CANDACE JONES

A lil preview of PRECISE's New single

"Gordon Gartrelle"
feat. Candace Jones




As usual we had a ball working at SMT with Donna & Brian and Ms. Jones is always a character we LOVE CANDACE!!!

IN THE STUDIO - Da BEATMINERZ

Typical Day in the studio working on Naughty By Nature's album
Evil Dee & Mr. Walt came through to play joints

I always try to get Mr Walt to get excited about new advancements in music tech..but Walt is a SP1200 & Mpc 3000 guy (and obviously it works like a charm for him)




TRAMP

FIX YA FACE HAS A NEW LOOK!!!

MY
BEAUTY & WELLNESS BLOG-A-ZINE
FIX YA FACE


has a great new look and a great new interview with the CEO of Juice Beauty
KAREN BENHKE

click the above pic to come by and check it out

PRECISE

R.I.P - SHAKIR STEWART

R.I.P
SHAKIR STEWART

So I was on twitter, just Tweetin' away
and i got a Tweet about MY DUDE Shakir Stewart having passed..

Shakir was in my opinion one of the only REAL publishing guys in the biz..the first day I met him..he darted away from me (after our meeting) into the street to run after a car service (that had a well known R&B star in it) ..in order to place a record...(and the record got placed because he put the song in the artist's hand)

for years he was always a good friend and one of MY go-to's for ideas and advice,
he always had a sense of what was next, and what was best for his acts...

He will be sorely missed..

Shakir was recently promoted to Executive Vice President of Def Jam Records

He died of an apparent suicide today. Details are sketchy, but WVEE DJ Greg Street, is currently dedicating his evening show to my Friend Shakir.

Shakir was a graduate of Morehouse College, & has been the go-to-guy for finding talent since his days at LaFace Records & L.A. Reids Hitco Publishing company from 2000 to 2004, when he brought R&B siren Ciara to the company. He also played an integral role in bringing Beyonce to the firm.

The urban music industry is shocked by the news and my sincere condolences go out to His family

THE SESSION 10/29

Ok so every few months this year marketing maven Monee Perry
(along with her Wai big media team)
put together this Networking event.. It's called "The Session"
it is essentially a Music industry night that loosely focuses on publishing.. songwriters, lawyers, managers, producers and Label Exec's are in attendance (Sal What's up)

This month it was being held at Pulse NYC (our recording home) for the 2nd time

as usual some talented people came through and connected...we were so busy talking that we didn't take many pictures but here's a few of the ones we did manage to take..

Tramp, Ray, Ms. Monee & Kaygee

Precise & Sakiya Sandifer

Some party goers

Sakiya, Precise, A. Giles, Kim & Tramp

Tramp & Kim Jackson

Artist/songwriters/Sisters Kristen & Shaina

Professional Hustler Curtis Richardson