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Since co-founding the company in 2008, Brown, now vice chairman, has played a key role in transforming it into a multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages top talent (Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, Megan Thee Stallion, Shakira, Big Sean and many others) and operates a label, with divisions devoted to branding, sports, publishing, philanthropy, music distribution and education. Noticing hip-hop's exponential, continuing growth, the former label executive (Interscope) and talent manager (Nas) started Translation, an advertising firm aimed at, well, translating hip-hop's cool to corporate America. On the heels of that success, he went on to work with Brandy (co-producing her 1998 smash duet with Monica, "The Boy Is Mine"), Michael Jackson, Madonna and others, while founding three labels: Rowdy Records, Limp and Freeworld Entertainment. FEATURES More than any other form of music, hip-hop is and always has been about business - one of its earliest call-and-response chants was "Make money, money.". [Extracted from the article] |
