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Jason Colapietro

AI tools for creators, music production, and solo founder stories from Jason Colapietro (also known as Johnny Suede) of Suede Labs AI. Covers building with AI, programmable IP, and what it actually takes to ship as a solo founder.

  1. May 15

    Stop Losing Rights, Own Your IP: Music RWAs, AI, x402 on Base | Jason Colapietro

    Jason Colapietro (founder, Suede Labs) sits down with @matthewjmalek to talk about why the music industry's IP layer is structurally broken — and how an artist-owned, on-chain stack actually pays the people doing the work. We get into: • Why songwriters and producers lose rights & revenue at every layer of the stack • Music IP as a real-world asset (RWA): tokenizing rights so creators own and earn from their catalog • Suede Labs' tooling — built so musicians keep ownership and get paid for what they make • How x402 + the Model-Pay-Per-Call (MPP) primitive change who gets paid every time AI uses someone's work • AI as a creator-side tool, not a replacement — agents that work for artists, not around them • Why Base is the right home for the music stack • The Vault: DeFi for music royalties — liquidity now, royalty yield for supporters • Building on Arena, prediction markets, and what crypto-native distribution unlocks for independent creators 🔗 Suede Labs → https://suedeai.ai 🐦 Johnny Suede → https://x.com/johnnysuede 🎙️ Hosted by → https://x.com/matthewjmalek ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 Cold open — LA stories, sleep schedules 5:00 Crypto origin — $3k cost-basis Bitcoin, the fiancée intervention 15:00 Rove on Solana, $2M raise, FTX collapsing 7 days before Clerks 3 23:00 CZ vs Hyperliquid, Binance Labs funding DEXs 26:00 The Suede Labs pitch — the ownership problem (DVD vs Netflix) 30:00 Vatican, Vermeer & how an art-history obsession led to building Suede 35:00 Why blockchain belongs in music — "I mailed cassette tapes to myself" 36:00 AI music as the biggest shield AND biggest earning potential for artists 40:00 Multi-chain swap, LayerZero, 40+ chains 43:00 Avalanche, Build Games denial story 46:00 App Store war — Rove was the first blockchain app approved (+ the burn-address gaffe) 50:00 Live tour: Suede AI's "Create with rights" feature 55:00 The on-chain registry — court-enforceable proof of authorship 58:00 Why every celebrity-token cycle ends the same way (Iggy, Soldier Boy, Derulo) 59:00 The launchpad fix: tax tokens that pay artists in SOL/USDC, not their own token 1:02:00 Suede Social — gear forums reborn with shareable rig DNA 1:05:00 "Programmable artistic matter" — beyond music to all IP 1:08:00 Cognitive Architecture test — the founder profile (Conductor / Future Scribe / Hunter) 1:55:00 Suede Studio: 197 pedals, polyphonic tuner, Dr. Johnny 2:00:00 DSP libraries, neural amp modeler, app-store live 2:15:00 THE VAULT — DeFi for music royalties (the killer feature) 2:18:00 Wrap-up + community duck race #MusicRWA #SuedeLabs #x402 #Base #ArtistRights #MusicIP #CreatorEconomy #OnChainMusic

  2. Apr 12

    AI Will Eat Music. Here's Who Gets Paid | Jason Colapietro on Music RWAs

    Jason Colapietro (founder, Suede Labs) on why music IP is the next big asset class — and how an artist-owned, on-chain stack puts the people doing the work back in control. We get into: • Why songwriters and producers lose rights & revenue at every layer of the legacy stack • Music IP as a real-world asset (RWA) — tokenizing rights so creators own and earn from their catalog • How AI use of music should pay the original creator, not the platform • Why Web3 distribution unlocks new audiences for independent artists • Building Suede Labs on Base — the music stack for creators 🔗 Suede Labs → https://suedeai.ai 🐦 Johnny Suede → https://x.com/johnnysuede #SuedeLabs #x402 #Base #MusicRWA #ArtistRights #MusicIP #CreatorEconomy #OnChainMusic

  3. Mar 14

    How Music IP Becomes a Real-World Asset on Base | Suede Labs × AVAX × Chainlink

    Jason Colapietro on building Suede Labs across Base, AVAX, and Chainlink — and why music IP needs a real on-chain home, not another platform-as-landlord. We get into: • Music IP as a real-world asset (RWA) — tokenizing rights so creators own and earn from their catalog • Why Base is the right home for the music stack • Cross-chain liquidity: how AVAX subnets + Chainlink price feeds make royalty pools work • What "creators stop pitching and start building" actually means in practice 🔗 Suede Labs → https://suedeai.ai 🐦 Johnny Suede → https://x.com/johnnysuede #SuedeLabs #x402 #Base #AVAX #Chainlink #MusicRWA #ArtistRights #MusicIP #OnChainMusic

  4. Mar 14

    AJ Writes Crypto and Suede Labs AI

    $SUEDE Jason Colapietro Johnny Suede fireside

  5. Feb 25

    Why Suede Labs Chose Avalanche for Music IP | The Subnet Architecture Bet

    Jason Colapietro on building Suede Labs on Avalanche — the subnet architecture bet, what AVAX makes possible for compute, and why sovereign chains matter for creator infrastructure. We get into: • Why Avalanche subnets handle on-chain compute without bloating the main chain • Music IP as a real-world asset — what an artist-owned stack actually looks like • The trade-offs between AVAX, Base, and Solana for music infrastructure • Why Suede Labs went multi-chain instead of picking one ecosystem 🔗 Suede Labs → https://suedeai.ai 🐦 Johnny Suede → https://x.com/johnnysuede #SuedeLabs #Avalanche #AVAX #Subnets #MusicRWA #ArtistRights #MusicIP #OnChainMusic #x402

  6. 09/24/2025

    Mario Nawfal × Jason Colapietro: AI, Music, and the Future of Culture

    @MarioNawfal sits down with Jason Colapietro (founder, Suede Labs) on what happens at the intersection of AI tooling and the music industry — and why the artists who shape culture should also own the upside. We get into: • Why music has always shaped culture before tech does • How AI tools change who gets paid when art moves through the system • Music IP as a real-world asset (RWA) — keeping rights with creators, not platforms • What an artist-owned, on-chain future actually looks like in practice 🎙️ Hosted by @MarioNawfal 🔗 Suede Labs → https://suedeai.ai 🐦 Johnny Suede → https://x.com/johnnysuede #MarioNawfal #SuedeLabs #MusicRWA #ArtistRights #MusicIP #OnChainMusic #CreatorEconomy

  7. 06/25/2025

    $SUEDE AI Interview

    $SUEDE AI Interview

  8. 06/24/2025

    Mario Nawfal × Suede Labs: The Web3 Music Stack, Explained

    @MarioNawfal and Jason Colapietro break down the Web3 music stack that Suede Labs is building — the layers musicians have actually been waiting for: rights, royalties, and a real on-chain home for music IP. We get into: • The four layers every musician needs to actually own their work • Why the legacy industry's split-pot model destroys creator economics • Music IP as a real-world asset (RWA) on Base — with on-chain settlement • How the Vault gives artists liquidity now without selling future royalty upside 🎙️ Hosted by @MarioNawfal 🔗 Suede Labs → https://suedeai.ai 🐦 Johnny Suede → https://x.com/johnnysuede #MarioNawfal #SuedeLabs #Base #x402 #MusicRWA #ArtistRights #MusicIP #OnChainMusic

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AI tools for creators, music production, and solo founder stories from Jason Colapietro (also known as Johnny Suede) of Suede Labs AI. Covers building with AI, programmable IP, and what it actually takes to ship as a solo founder.

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