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Rapper Remy Ma gets 8 years Over Money
NEW YORK - A weeping Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday for shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub. “I feel so bad for all the physical and mental pain you’ve gone through,” the Grammy-nominated rapper told the victim. “This has taken a toll on us and both our families. I would never wish you harm and I pray the best for all of us.”
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Jermaine Dupri and Island Def Jam Music Group Launch New Hip-Hop Label in Partnership with TAG Body Sprays
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Image via WikipediaIsland Def Jam Music Group
(IDJ) and Procter & Gamble’s TAG brand announce the formation of a new
hip-hop record label, TAG Records. The new label will be led by hip-hop
mogul Jermaine Dupri, who will act as president of the New York-based
venture. As president, Dupri will set the creative vision for the label and
play an integral part in identifying and developing its musical talent.
This is a milestone for the music industry as TAG Record’s artists will
be supported with a multi-million dollar marketing effort that is
unprecedented for any new artist, including television, print, radio,
digital and event marketing.
“Today, we make history in the music industry with TAG Records,” said
Jermaine Dupri, president of TAG Records. “This label is going to provide
new artists with a chance of a lifetime. New artists will receive ten times
the typical marketing support - a first in the industry. I’m hand selecting
and molding these artists to make history in hip hop.”
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Recipe for a High-Tech Hub
Rhode Island’s efforts to drive innovation and subsequent technology jobs to the state aren’t unusual, but building a technology hub is hard. I’ve watched Austin, Texas, where I live and work, fight to get to the point where it can claim to be a technology center and then continue fighting to stay there.
To get there, a city needs three things. Money, big companies and good weather. That last one isn’t a joke; quality of life is important. For example, many people want to live in Austin, while few want to live in Houston. So even though there are a lot of huge companies, money, and a real effort by folks at places like the Houston Technology Center and Startup Houston, building an information economy there is going to be a challenge. Blame it on the humidity. The same goes for places like Tulsa, Okla., Detroit and even Chicago, where weather or other factors such as crime make it hard to convince people to live there. (Note to the Chambers of Commerce in named cities: I said hard, not impossible).
Big companies can push technology innovation in a number of ways. They can act as customers for local startups and also contribute executive talent — preferably talent that has struck it rich with stock options and can work for free or invest in other startups. Dellionaires made great angel investors during the 90s.
If the big companies were venture-backed, their investors are likely happy to back other startups in the region, especially those with executives from former portfolio companies. In Austin, Tivoli, which went public in 1995 and later sold to IBM, fueled most of the enterprise software startups that helped the city make a name for itself in industries other than silicon.
Finally, there are the venture capitalists. Austin initially only had a few of them, but Austin Ventures helped fund scores of startups and bring to the area investors from both coasts. As the boom hit, venture firms sprouted like mushrooms, but only a few remain today. Sadly, AV isn’t really funding many of the social sites that are hot today, nor does it have a clean technology focus that Austin is trying to push.
The fact that Austin is missing those key ingredients of money and big companies has left me kind of down on the city’s technology community right now. There are thousands of talented people, but few folks willing to fund them and few big public companies with growth. It’s 65 degrees and sunny today, but good weather is only part of the equation.
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