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For this episode we are joined by Anthony Martini, best known for discovering massive artists like Tyga and Lil Dicky, but his experience in the music industry is vast. Ant sits down with us to talk about how he evolved from an artist, to a manager, and the importance of hustle, on this episode of The Big Break.

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Show Notes
5:00When did Ant first get hooked on music, and learning instruments as a kid and in school
“I really enjoyed stories- lyrics and all that.”
11:55Forming the first band that started to get traction
E-Town Concrete
“There was a local music paper called The Aquarian, and I would go get it and then look in the back, all the advertisements for shows at all the venues, and I would just call the venues and try and get in opening slots for all the bands.”
23:30Putting out albums and getting interest from labels
“Just get in the door- don’t shoot yourself in the foot before you even get there.”
Razor and Tie
30:20Deciding to move into the business side of music, and leaving the band
“Hustle trumps talent in a lot of ways.”
36:30Big Daddy Distribution, and learning about labels and marketing
Learning management on a larger level with Ferret Records
39:30Moving into Hip Hop
Crush Management, and the next level of money in music
Almost managing Gym Class Heroes, and getting to work with The Pack
51:00Tyga
Receiving the Young on Probation mixtape
“He had a ‘it’ factor. When I met him he was a 16-year-old kid, but he just looked famous- he had this aura about him. He had it, he had the swag.”
60:00Closing thoughts
“Nothing is a loss or waste of time if you can get a lesson out of it.”

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This week we sit down with Domingo Padilla, a music legend with over 30 years of experience under his belt as a producer for some of the biggest names in rap and hip-hop. Domingo shares with us his experiences, the importance of mentors, publishing, and more, on this episode of The Big Break.
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Show Notes
1:55Where Domingo is from, where he is now, and the impact of Covid-19
“Business didn’t slow down- one of the business I own is online so it keeps generating, keeps running.”
5:26Domingo’s first exposure to music, and the path to pursuing it on a professional level.
Rapper’s Delight by The Sugarhill Gang
Marley Marl- In Control Vol. 2
18:00Being a producer versus being a rapper, the Art of Mentorship, and having thick skin
“If you can’t take constructive criticism, you’re in the wrong game”
30:30The give-and-take of working with other artists, and longevity
“I think mentoring the business-end is a lot more important… Longevity is the key.”
38:55“Publishing is like real-estate in the music business.”
Mediafamous.com
44:54What’s next for Domingo

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Anthony Lee Norris, better known as Lee on the Beats, joins us to talk about growing up in music, the people in his corner, the power of technology, and why it's important to believe in yourself, on this episode of The Big Break.
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Show Notes
1:30Where Anthony is from and where he is with Covid-19
Desert Storm
7:50The impact of family, support, pressure and guiding youth
“I’m not everybody…”
12:40Soundclick, and getting started as an artist
19:30Making the connections and turning music into a career from a hobby
“It really all goes back to Desert Storm, family and those people guiding me along the way.”
22:48The impact of technology.
“Twitter was one of the keys to succes… Myspace, Twitter, Instagram, these are relatively new 
things to life… Now when Twitter came along its different, because your looking at a feed and its people just writing messages, so I’m on their following people, following artists, and some artists start putting up their emails.”
28:03Pop That by French Montana, and leading up the DJ Khaled
“It was like FAST fast, and I don’t think anybody expected it- I didn’t expect it, I don’t even think 
my people in my corner expected it, nobody expected it. Maybe French expected it- you know like the people that were actually on the song expected it, but as far as the people on the outside looking in, I didn’t expect it.”
38:13Retrospective and what could have been done differently, and what’s next
“I felt like if all that time I spent in those clubs, if I had spent those times in the studio… Who 
knows what I could have done at that specific time.”
43:50“I want to shout out to all the artists I’m working with- there’s a whole list of them- I just want 
them to all know I appreciate them, and we’re going to keep making fire.”
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Like many artists, Brad Rempel got out of his first record contract. But unlike others, he harbors no ill will. In this episode of The Big Break, the High Valley founder explains why artists shouldn’t “crucify” the companies making early bets on your career.

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Show Notes
2:30 Brad’s background, Canada, and life in Covid
9:00The start of music from living in a rural town, and falling in love with country music.
“I literally did not know who Michael Jackson was until I moved to Nashville.”
13:40The first concert, Mid South, and the creation of High Valley
20:00Learning about managing money, and touring
25:05The first ‘break’
Meeting John Mays and the road to a record deal
32:51The move to Nashville, Brad learns the truth about being a big fish in a small pond and what the 
real level of competition is.
35:20The second ‘break’
Buying out of the record deal to go completely independent.
“I don’t understand why we try and crucify them later on in our careers when all of a sudden 
we’re making real money and now we just hate them and think they’re evil people. What about 
back in the day when nobody would give you five bucks for anything you had, and this person 
offered you some real money to live off of?”
41:09A kids Jiu Jitsu class, and a bagel at Panera Bread bridges the gap to the US market, and 
everything blows up
Make You Mine
49:30Brad tells us about the business perspective for buying out of his contracts, and what’s next

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This week we are joined by Adam Craig. Adam has experience on both sides of the coin. He has pursued a career as a recording and touring artist, and was even named by Rolling Stone as one of the top 10 country acts to know in 2016, but he's recently put the road to rest to focus on his passion for songwriting.
Adam has contributed to Church Pew and Barstool by Jason Aldean, Whiskey on my Breath by Love and Theft, and Close Your Eyes by Parmalee among many others. Adam provides us with some great perspective as a songwriter, while keeping a foot in the performer camp, and how focusing on the work can deliver the goal in the end, on this episode of The Big Break

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Show Notes
3:10How the pandemic has affected Adam, both professionally and personally
8:24Social media and the new landscape of music promotion
John Marx and getting involved with XM
11:34Meeting Jake Owen’s producer, Adam drops everything to focus and improve and starting the 
road to Nashville
“I’d meet a girl and tell her I loved her just to get my heart broken.”
16:00Adam moves to Nashville in pursuit of country music
“I came here to be Tim McGraw.”
21:30Getting, and losing, publishing deals, and then the snowball of hits that lead to a record deal
Church Pews and Barstools by Jason Aldean
30:13Transitioning from songwriter, to performer, to songwriter
40:00How do you lose a publishing deal?
42:42What’s next for Adam Craig
My First Car by Meghan Patrick
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Matt Rogers is a songwriting dynamo. He has written for major country artists like Brett Aldridge, Luke Bryan, Dustin Lynch, Justin Moore, Chris Young, Jimmie Allen, and tons more- even branching out to other genre artists like Jordin Sparks.
Matt started his music career in Nashville, like many other artists, but it wasn’t until a chance opportunity allowed him to play some songs for a publisher, at a bar, while filming a documentary that things started to click into place. Matt joins us to share his experiences as a songwriter on this episode of The Big Break.

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Show Notes
2:10 How the pandemic has impacted Matt and songwriting as a profession
4:07How Matt first got into music, starting as a journalist
9:35Getting to Nashville, as an editor, and starting to work as a songwriter
“Okay buddy, you got something going on here that maybe we should try to pursue…”
15:10Getting meetings with PRO’s, Publishers, and Labels, and keeping momentum with your circle
“When I got there, there was like a camera man, and a couple people, and they were talking to the publisher and a couple writers, and the guy I was writing with was like ‘why don’t you play them a song?’ so I grabbed a guitar and played a song, and the publisher said ‘play me another one…’”
24:30Negotiating, and understanding, your publishing deal
“When you are getting to the stage of a [publishing deal], the best advice I would give anybody is get a great lawyer.”
28:45Matt’s first hit- We Went by Randy Houser
35:08The network and circles of writers, and working to cast a wide net
“You cast a wider net- let’s say I write for Sony, and I write a song with a guy who writes for Warner Chappell, and I write with another writer who writes for Big Yellow Dog. Now we have three sets of publishers slinging this song around town instead of just one.”
38:20Catalog sales, and what’s next
“We look at every song as a potential, life-changing, financial aspiration.”
45:15How do people follow you and keep up with you?
Freedom is a Highway by Jimmie Allen
A Little Less Broken by Luke Bryan
The One You Need by Brett Eldredge
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