133 new parts for the big machine
July is the most visited time in New York.
Tribeca, which already has a lot of tourists, is now even more lively.
Last year, Tribeca added two new "attractions": one is the Big Machine Record Studio where the Firebombs are located, which is always watched by tourists who are good at the streets; the other is Mariah Carey, who divorced Mothura in May, bought an entire apartment in Tribeca and is renovating her new residence.
The Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour, a non-profit organization under the Tribeca Neighborhood Association, even listed the two buildings as recommended tourist locations, and never asked the owners of this place for their opinions.
They arrogantly believed that these two properties in North Tribeca could be accepted by them, and they should be grateful. They should know that in the past they would not recommend the "Lower West Side" that is the unexpected studio of South Tribeca.
In the year when Bai Quinn bought the building, the security of the Tribeca area, especially the North Tribeca, where the Big Machine Records are located, has been improved. A large number of poor people have been moved away, and the vacant land has begun to build new buildings. Residents nearby are thanking Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and the guy who will not be thankful for being driven away, so naturally there is a sound of praise.
With the improvement of public security, housing prices in North Tribeca have also risen sharply, and Bai Quinn unknowingly made hundreds of thousands of dollars.
However, hundreds of thousands of dollars are really just a small amount of money for Bai Quinn now.
The album "20" sold well, and the US market alone sold double platinum, and the UK market was the same, and even the Japanese market was sold for more than 500,000 copies.
More than 30 million US dollars were lying on the account of Big Machine Records, and this was the rest after leaving David Geffen's share. Bai Quinn hadn't yet figured out what to use for.
In addition, there is a continuous stream of income flowing in through various copyright licensing channels. In order to ensure that all income can be accurately entered into the account of Big Machine Records, Scott hired a six-person financial team to cooperate with Deloitte accountants to supervise the collection of each partner.
Of course, this is not Scott's greatest contribution. His biggest achievement after becoming a manager was to sign two new singers.
One is the white rapper that Bai Quinn is about to meet, and the other is a little girl who is the lead singer.
Members of the Flame Bomb Band can form another band to carry out activities when Bai Quinn is busy with her career. This is also common in rock bands. Another lead singer is another band.
The lead singer is Laura Berglitz, who is only 17 years old, and she is the same age as bassist Jenny Lee. She is dressed in a neutral style and has the same short hair as Bob Dylan in the 1960s. Her bangs cover her eyes. It is difficult to tell at first glance, and even if she speaks, she has a neutral voice like Patty Smith.
Everyone is a musician, so they simply abandoned the long-winded greetings and spoke directly with music.
After her voice training in the preparatory vocals at Queen's College in New York, Laura's singing is particularly recognizable. With its strong explosive power, the same song "WarPaint" was sang a completely different flavor from Bai Quinn after her interpretation.
If Scott hadn't explained Laura's gender in advance, Bai Quinn would have treated her as a little boy.
"Hello! QB, I like your songs very much! By the way, please call me LP in the future!"
After singing a song "WarPaint" by Bai Quinn, Laura shook hands with Bai Quinn enthusiastically, just like meeting an idol fan.
In addition to the other three members of the Firebomb Band, the band with her lead singer has also added a female guitarist, Teresa Weiman, stage name TT, and is Jenny Lee's childhood playmate.
The new band's name uses the song "Bai Quinn": WarPaint, Warpaint.
Except for Travis, the entire band is full of girls around 20 years old. Travis, a tattooed bald head, appeared in it, particularly abruptly, but it is indispensable, because he is now the main force in the band's creation.
The four girls are also trying to create, but under David Geffen's picky eyes, only LP's works are still valuable, but still need to be polished.
Therefore, all the four songs prepared by the Zhanwen Band are Travis' works.
As a small shareholder, David Geffen had to help organize the business of Big Machine Records while Bai Quinn was busy filming.
The Battle Monster's debut single is scheduled to be released in September by Universal Records.
According to the theory of the sealing of the record industry, Big Machine Records is a vassal of Universal Records, and the singer or band it signed is the "Knight" of Big Machine Records.
Universal Records, which is the owner, naturally has the priority to release the "Knight" records, not to mention that this is a topical band, and most of its members are also members of the Double Platinum Band and the Firebomb Band.
How could Global give up the business that must make money to others?
Bai Quinn was also happy to see other people in the band able to create something. His memory fragments were unstable after all. Although Liv Taylor was the "muse", it was impossible to catch a sheep and get the wool. He didn't see the recent song "Memory fragment" and turned into a little yellow song sung by a girl. He didn't know what else would happen in the future.
It's great now. If your talent is exhausted, there are still bands and singers under your command that can continuously bring profits to yourself.
After watching the performance of the War Monster Band, the next one was the performance of the white Rapper discovered by Scott.
The accompaniment is still the same group of people, just a front vocalist.
The one who took the microphone was a man with short blonde hair. He was older than White Quinn in his twenties. He was dressed in hip-hop, arm tattoos, big gold chains, loose white T-shirt, beating jeans, and sneakers. He learned the hip-hop black outfit well.
"Yo, QB, my song is called "JustDon't GiveaFxxk"!"
The song title is Fxxk, the boy has courage!
Bai Quinn remembered how Scott described the person in the previous email.
His name is Marshall Mathers III, and he gave himself a stage name E Fan NM, and the second E was written in reverse, but people usually call him "Em".
Scott found Eminem at the "Rap Olympics" held in Los Angeles, when the guy finished second in the 1VS1Battle competition, but because he was a white man, there was no hip-hop record company on the East and West Coast willing to sign him.
Which nigger would be so stupid that he listened to a white man singing hip-hop? Unless he sucked high!
Therefore, although Eminem started recording his own song tapes since 1989, and went through underground channels like black hip-hop singers, and later formed a team with friends to record records, it was never successful. At that time, the market did not accept white rappers.
The olive branch Scott gave was like a timely rain for Eminem, who had just been fired from the hotel where he worked before and had to take his girlfriend and daughter Haley in the RV with his old mother.
Em signed a singer very happily and brought a complete album "SlimShady" that he had completed his creation before but had never had the opportunity to publish.
Although David Geffen is not very familiar with hip-hop, he is familiar with the record industry. Eminem won the second place in Battle at the "Rap Olympics" where Rappers gathered nationwide, which shows that his business level is top in the industry. The disadvantage is that his skin color is not recognized by the hip-hop industry, which lacks channels to become famous.
This is not a problem for Big Machine Records and Universal Records. No one stipulates that only blacks can listen to hip-hop. Young whites born in the 1970s and 1980s have long been immersed in the ubiquitous hip-hop culture. They are calling for hip-hop singers of their own ethnic group, but no one cared about it before.
So David Geffen's advice was to let Bai Quinn take Eminem to show some exposure, and wait until August and September before releasing his album.
When Bai Quinn was filming in the UK, Eminem recorded the entire album and started a new creation. He also refilmed his own lyrics for the rap parts of the three songs "FeelGoodIn.", "DeTunns" and "Radioative".
He sang his own song and performed the rap part of Bai Quinna's three songs. Em on the stage looked at Bai Quinna with hope, hoping to get the recognition of the big boss.
Bai Quinn was also very happy at this time, worried about the performance terms in the signing of the film distribution contract with Global, and the task of at least one small disc every six months is difficult to complete.
When you are sleepy, someone gives you a pillow. The three songs "FeelGoodIn.", "DeTunns" and "Radioative" are directly used as an Eminem rap version, and then add the main "BetterMan" to get a small disc to deal with Universal Records!
"Great! Eminem, I'm looking forward to our collaboration. Scott, what's my recent announcement? I'm going to take Eminem to perform!"
The timid RZA, get out of here!
Chapter completed!