Penalty Office - Music Business 101

Manager, label executive, book publisher, Music Supervisor, brand builder Paul Stewart takes us on a journey from managing Montell Jordan, Coolio, Cypress Hill and Warren G just to name a few. Paul has always looked to the future. Paul has also done music film supervision for films such as Poetic Justice, Hustle & Flow, Fast 2 Furious to name a few. He also has been involved with the rebrandin...

Hailing from East New York, Brooklyn check out our interview with Domingo as he walks us thru his career from signing to Marley Marl in the late 80s to producing songs from Fat Joe, Big Pun, KRS One, Kool he G Rap, Rakim to name a few. Through all the changes and turmoil in the recorded music business Domingo has always stayed ahead of the curve by selling beats on-line to creating a new distribut...

Part 2 with Will Socolov discussing his venture after Sleeping Bag Records by starting Freeze Records and signing Jay-Z’s “Reasonable Doubt” classic LP. Will is a true pioneer that you’ll love to hear.

Will Socolov- As the founder of Sleeping Bag Records (EPMD, Joyce Simms) and Freeze Records (Jay-Z, Reasonable Doubt) Will details his career trajectory and what he’s doing now. Part 1 of Will Socolov’s interview on launching Sleeping Bag Records and Fresh Records as he discusses  signing EPMD, Just Ice and Mantronix.  Will is a true pioneer and has some great stories that resonate to this day. He...

Jack Forman serves as Executive Vice President of BiCoastal Productions, the New York City-based concerts and theatrical booking agency.  His current clients include: Lee Rocker (of Stray Cats), Naturally 7 , Colin Mochrie’s HYPROV (of Whose Line is it Anyway?), The Hit Men (Legendary Rock Supergroup), Scotland’s Red Hot Chilli Pipers , Vegas-Strip favorites The Bronx Wanderers and The Daily Show...

Check out our interview with Kxng Crooked formally known as Crooked I as he takes us down memory lane by signing to Virgin Records and then moving on to Death Row Records and his relationship with Suge Knight. He also moves on to joining the supergroup Slaughterhouse and signing to Emenim’s label Shady Records. Listen to how he’s stayed hot by releasing weekly freestyles on his Hip Hop Weekly Seri...

IZ316 is an up and coming socially conscious rapper from Wichita, Kansas who talks about the challenges faced by a young rapper with little money who has built a rising career going from 600 streams a year ago to over 250K streams for his new single “Top Down”. He talks about how he went from a juvenile offender, being incarcerated as a young man, and rose to run for city office, wrote a book, and...

Warren Schatz - Warren Schatz is a music industry veteran who details his life in the music business as an artist, engineer, producer, arranger and more. Warren has produced classic records like Turn The Beat Around and Express Yourself, Memories, To Sir With Love and many more, Executive Produced Evelyn "Champagne" King's  hit "Shame." He arranged "Our Day Will Come&...

Warren Schatz - Warren Schatz is a music industry veteran who details his life in the music business as an artist, engineer, producer, arranger and more. Warren has produced classic records like Turn The Beat Around and Express Yourself, Memories, To Sir With Love and many more, Executive Produced Evelyn "Champagne" King's  hit "Shame." He arranged "Our Day Will Come&...

Warren Schatz - Warren Schatz is a music industry veteran who details his life in the music business as an artist, engineer, producer, arranger and more. Warren has produced classic records like Turn The Beat Around and Express Yourself, Memories, To Sir With Love and many more, Executive Produced Evelyn "Champagne" King's  hit "Shame." He arranged "Our Day Will Come&...

Lord Finesse- Lord Finesse is a DJ, producer, rapper and performer who details his early days in the music business and how he continues to tour the world on his own terms.

Neil Levine - Neil Levine is a music industry veteran that details how he began in the music business as well a staying relevant.  This is another inspirational story of how to stay in the music business by embracing change and continuing to move forward.  In Part 3 Neil talks about moving jobs to run EMI/Capitol's urban division.where among others he signed Fat Joe and had a big hit with Mak...

Neil Levine - Neil Levine is a music industry veteran that details how he began in the music business as well a staying relevant.  This is another inspirational story of how to stay in the music business by embracing change and continuing to move forward.  Neil talks about leaving Sony and the decision to relaunch Penalty as Penalty Entertainment where he signed, Cappone N Noreaga, Statik Selektah...

Neil Levine - Neil Levine is a music industry veteran that details how he began in the music business as well a staying relevant.  This is another inspirational story of how to stay in the music business by embracing change and continuing to move forward.  Neil talks about his early days and how he started in the music business and his growing into building his premiere marketing and promotion com...

Neil Levine - Neil Levine is a music industry veteran that details how he began in the music business as well a staying relevant.  This is another inspirational story of how to stay in the music business by embracing change and continuing to move forward.  In Part 2 Neil talks about starting Penalty Recordings and his work with Cappone and Noreaga, NORE, Lord Finesse  and More.

Prayah is a rappers rapper who is focusing as being a great lyricist reminiscent of the 90s when lyrics really mattered. Prayah quickly caught the eye of Busta Rhymes who immediately signed him to his label Conglomerate. Hear how Prayah plans on taking his music globally and what it’s like to be an developing artist in 2020 

Joell Ortiz - Joell Ortiz is a rappers rapper. Joell discusses his career working with Eminem, Dr. Dre and his supergroup Slaughter House signed to Eminem. Joell’s story in inspirational and how to succeed being an artist in 2020. Part 2 - Continues with Joell talking about meeting and working with Eminem and Lin-Manuel Miranda and new projects. 

Joell Ortiz - Joell Ortiz is a rappers rapper. Joell discusses his career working with Eminem, Dr. Dre and his supergroup Slaughter House signed to Eminem. Joell’s story in inspirational and how to succeed being an artist in 2020. Joell talks about growing up in the the projects of Brooklyn and his journey as he becomes part of Slaughterhouse.

Cory Robbins - As the co-founder of Profile Records (Run DMC, DJ Quik), and founder of Robbins Entertainment. Cory outlines how he got started in the music business and how he’s kept up with the changing environment.  In Part 2 of Cory's chat he talks about starting Robbins Entertainment after he left Profile Records

Cory Robbins - As the co-founder of Profile Records (Run DMC, DJ Quik), and founder of Robbins Entertainment. Cory outlines how he got started in the music business and how he’s kept up with the changing environment.   Cory talks about his early days producing dance records his move to starting Profile Records