At the moment, the most popular hip-hop song is Whoomp! The Tag Team from Miami is in third place on Billboard, and the songs from Dre and Escuber's new album are in the second tier.

"West Coast rap has clearly overshadowed the East Coast, and now South rap is also on the rise."

After easily snatching the two original singers of Where Is The Love from Big E, Song Ah plans to go back to Chicago to chat with them, and before that, he has to meet Daniel, who has just come from Neverland, "Whoomp! This song is now very popular in the South, and it will be played on many competition occasions, and the popularity is not inferior to that of Remember The Name of your year, but fortunately, we have a NAS at Sony Columbia Records. ”

In a French restaurant in Los Angeles, the two chatted while eating, "Jodeci's strong single Lately was ranked third on the Billboard not long ago, and it is still tenth. Song Ya hinted.

"They're more rhythm and blues." Daniel pretended not to hear.

"Let me make it clear, Jodeci is my hidden danger Daniel."

Song Ya didn't want to be fooled by him, "Everyone knows the relationship between Jodeci and Daddy Braggart, and they also asked Bigger, who was shot several times in the nightclub shooting in Harlem, to give his voice on the new album to help Daddy Brag's Bad Boy record label make his debut. K-Ci's death has garnered a lot of sympathy from their fans, and the remaining three are becoming more and more popular with K-Ci's ex-girlfriend Mary Brig, which is not good news for me, although K-Ci's death has nothing to do with me. ”

"Don't worry, their Uptown Records is an MCA label, and I have a good relationship with MCA, so I can guarantee that at least they won't target you during Uptown Records, and besides, they rarely mention you in the first place, right?"

Daniel had no choice but to answer positively, "You can accept this state now, they have been blaming little Lowry in prison, and the braggart daddy is also very restrained." ”

"I understand their temper, sooner or later they will target me after they are red, and the reason why they don't step on me is that I'm still very popular, and they haven't figured out my true relationship with the gang."

The person who just let Tony and them pretend to be the Bobtail of Hell easily bullied Big E, but Song Ya will never have a delusion because of this incident, she still wants to go all the way to law school, and she will no longer have anything to do with the gang, "For me, it is absolutely unacceptable that they are more popular than me, otherwise the big mouth ghosts of the black singers can say something." ”

"You want me to suppress them?" Daniel asked.

"They have to be unaware." Song Ya didn't give the other party a choice, as MJ said, a group of children are gathered together, and someone will always use a little trick to make themselves the king of children, this is no longer the table of 90 years, Daniel completely relied on himself to sit in the prominent position of president of Sony Columbia Records, and the relationship between the two has changed.

"I'll do it, but it's not a priority right now, is it?"

Daniel replied: "Mariah Carey's new album is about to be released, and I have to prioritize her resources, and I'm busy fighting with the people of Motura, who is still the chairman of Sony Columbia Records, and I'm not at all relaxed right now." MJ: That's in trouble......"

"MJ's troubles can't you really tell me?" Song Ya has a lot of opinions about him on this point, and it is very unpleasant to hide the news from himself as soon as he sits in the position of president.

"No, it's a big or small trouble, but it's about MJ's privacy. Although MJ is still managed by Motura, he is undoubtedly a top priority for the company. ”

Daniel replied: "Oh, by the way, I relayed Aaron Grubman's question to him, and he said he knew, but what he would do with that person in the future was his own business, and I couldn't do anything about it." ”

"Okay." Song Ya wiped her mouth with a napkin and threw it on the table.

"But there's something I can do right away."

Daniel winked at him, "Kick Russell Simmons out of Sony Columbia Records." ”

"Oh?"

Song Ya immediately became interested, and saw that he and Quincy Jones were not pleasing to the eyes, "What are you going to do?" ”

"He and a lot of the executives were jumping up and down against us some time ago, and now I'm going to target him." Daniel bared his fangs, "Removing Def Jam from Sony Columbia Records' label, and removing him from the position of Def Jam's record owner, who told him to run the record company at a huge loss year after year, became my best target." ”

"Hah!"

Song Yale has long dreamed that this guy will have this day, "Is there anything I can help with?" ”

"If you want to help, you have a chance to make a fortune."

Daniel took a sip of wine, "After I start working on Def Jam, the value of this company is bound to plummet, I can introduce some of the shareholders to you, and even let you get a stake in Russell Simmons." ”

"Let me take over?" Song Ya frowned.

"Sort of, but that's a good plate, Def Jam was the most successful hip-hop label in the '80s, and in the very seniority hip-hop circle, the status is almost similar to that of Motown Records to black music in the seventies and eighties, and the value of the rights to the songs in their hands alone will definitely exceed your purchase price, and it will greatly increase your influence in the hip-hop music industry and various hip-hop awards. If you think about it, just like Paul McCottney has to pay MJ for singing his own songs, the veteran hip-hop singer LL Cool J will have to pay you for singing his own songs in the future. ”

Daniel is very blunt, obviously wanting to repay himself with this, and of course, doing this will also help him establish himself within Sony Columbia Records.

"How does it work?"

"Sony Columbia Records owns 50 percent of Def Jam......"

Daniel outlined his intentions.

"In other words, I have to prepare at least more than five million to win eighteen percent of this company?" Song Ya estimated according to this plan.

"That's Def Jam." "You're pretty much picking up money," Daniel said. ”

"You also said it, it's losing money year after year." Song Ya hesitated.

"The fundamentals are good, and they have a lot of talented producers and singers under their umbrella." "If I hadn't hated Russell Simmons as much as you did, I wouldn't have kicked them out of Sony Columbia Records, and now I'm doing something against the company," Daniel said. ”

"Then you have to settle my and Fergie's first college income for me in advance, otherwise I won't be able to raise that much money." Song Ya's current liquidity is only 5 million, "And Phigi has been urging me to buy a house in Los Angeles." ”

“OK。” Having the authority of the president, this is a trivial matter for Daniel, "Let your accountant come to the headquarters, it's the one named Song Asheng, right?" ”

"Coopers has been helping me with my record business for a long time."

Daniel's tenure as president was still short, and it seemed that he had not yet had time to fully understand the company's operations.

"Very clever configuration." Daniel praised.

The two talked about the follow-up cooperation, A+ Records, Al's first album is scheduled to be released in August, and next year there will be Common's new album and the original soundtrack album of my life.

Without the constraints of Motula, Song Ya now doesn't have to worry about being stuck by Sony Columbia Records, in order to achieve this, Song Ya also promised the capital of the book to modify the record contract between himself and A+ Records, and the two albums in five years were changed to two plus one album in five years, and the new album is a new song plus selection.

"The plans for Def Jam must be kept secret, otherwise it will embarrass me."

"Don't worry, I'm very tight, you know."

After eating, he said goodbye to Daniel, he didn't expect Daniel to repay him forever, but the honeymoon period between the two should last a long time.

In any case, Daniel is much stronger as president than Motula, for him.

It's hard to say whether Sony Columbia Records will go downhill in the internal struggle between Daniel and Motura, but how much does that have to do with themselves?

Sitting in the car, he happily asked Linda to hang up the phone to Becky, who was waiting for money, to report the good news.