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Ron Fair: Discovering Hits, Building Artists & Music Industry Secrets • R&B MONEY Podcast • Hotney 25 Streams • 5 months ago

The Authority On All Things R&B !
Ron Fair—legendary music executive, producer, and A&R visionary—joins J. Valentine for a masterclass on artist development, hit records, and the business behind some of music’s biggest careers.

With a track record that includes working with artists like Christina Aguilera, The Black Eyed Peas, Mary J. Blige, Keyshia Cole, and more, Ron shares stories from inside the industry and breaks down what separates stars from everyone else. From discovering talent to shaping records in the studio, this episode is packed with insight from one of the most respected ears in music history.

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0:00 Intro
1:15 Ron Fair Joins The Podcast
2:17 Why This Interview Feels Like Therapy
3:17 Growing Up In A Showbiz Family
4:13 Wedding Singer To Record Executive
5:04 Learning Engineering In A Small Studio
6:31 Recording The Original Rocky Score
8:26 “Gonna Fly Now” Becomes A Global Anthem
10:12 Receiving His First Gold Record
10:29 “You’re A Producer” — Life-Changing Advice
11:28 Becoming An A&R Executive At RCA
13:42 Getting Fired Five Different Times
15:04 The Pretty Woman Soundtrack Success
17:01 Discovering The O’Jays
19:31 Deciding To Produce “Emotionally Yours”
21:41 “One Square Inch To Groove In”
22:09 Learning R&B From The O’Jays
24:05 Building An All-Star Choir Session
25:20 The O’Jays Perform At Madison Square Garden
26:19 How The O’Jays Influenced Christina Aguilera
27:56 “Black Music Is The Major Food Group”
28:57 Seeing Christina Aguilera As An R&B Artist
30:29 Fighting For Music Over Politics
32:17 Why Hope Still Matters In Music
33:39 Eric Dawkins & Building Christina’s Sound
35:04 Mary J. Blige, Keyshia Cole & “The Hump”
36:12 Producing “Baby I Love Your Way”
38:41 Balancing Executive & Producer Roles
39:34 Producing Producers Like Jimmy Iovine
40:50 Wild Orchid, Fergie & Early Lessons
43:44 Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro After Christina
45:41 Jimmy Iovine Calls Ron Fair
46:41 “I Need A Guy Who Can Force Hits”
47:35 The Making Of “Lady Marmalade”
50:47 Maya’s Role In Building The Hook
51:41 Ron Fair’s Ad-Lib Arrangement Process
53:42 “Lady Marmalade” Goes Number One
54:30 Discovering Keyshia Cole
1:01:22 “I’m Forever A Video Hoe”
1:02:42 Keyshia Cole Wants J. Valentine In The Video
1:03:17 “You Need To Meet Ron Fair”
1:06:26 Ron Explains Label Protection & Contracts
1:07:24 Keyshia’s Early Singles Struggle
1:09:46 “Should Have Cheated” Changes Everything
1:10:38 Jimmy Iovine: “You Picked The Wrong Single 3 Times”
1:11:13 Tyrese Becomes Keyshia’s Video Co-Star
1:11:49 Working With Mya & “Moodring”
1:12:29 Turning Keyshia Cole Into A Reality TV Star
1:13:40 The Black Eyed Peas & Counterintuition
1:14:03 Mary J. Blige Calls Ron Fair
1:15:03 Jimmy Iovine Orders Ron To Fix “Be Without You”
1:16:35 Reworking Mary J. Blige’s Entire Album
1:17:12 “It’s All About What I’m Talking About”
1:17:42 The Story Behind “Take Me As I Am”
1:19:15 Why Today Is The “Star Business”
1:22:48 Speaking At An AI Conference
1:23:12 Dave Pensado Introduces Ron To Will.i.am
1:24:05 The Black Eyed Peas Tour Strategy
1:25:25 Justin Timberlake Helps Break The Black Eyed Peas
1:26:15 A Masterclass On Real Music Production
1:27:25 “The Vocal Is The Law”
1:28:35 The Making Of Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles”
1:29:38 Ron Fair’s Top 5 R&B Artists
1:34:03 Ron Fair’s Top 5 R&B Songs
1:35:28 Dream Project: Lionel Richie
1:36:42 Building The Ultimate R&B Superstar
1:39:13 Dream Producers: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
1:41:22 “No Names” Grammy Story
1:45:25 Working On Dionne Warwick’s Final Record
1:46:31 Outro

The Lumineers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert Hotney 5 Streams • 4 years ago

This performance was recorded on Feb. 28, 2020. We will continue releasing Tiny Desk videos of shows that had already been taped. In light of current events, NPR is postponing new live tapings of Tiny Desk Concerts. In the meantime, check out Tiny Desk (home) concerts! They’re recorded by the artists in their home. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

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April 6, 2020 | Josh Rogosin -- The Lumineers showed up at the Tiny Desk with family, friends and crew who travel with the tight-knit touring band. One special guest in particular was Lenny, the toddler son of lead singer Wes Schultz. As soon as Bob Boilen met Lenny, Bob searched for every toy he could find on the shelves behind his desk to entertain the restless tyke.

I've always been struck by how this band can make a crowd of 6,000 fans feel like an intimate jam session. Halfway through The Lumineers' set at the Newport Folk Festival in 2013, the entire band moved to the very back of the enormous crowd. I remember marveling that the worst spot in the field miraculously became the best.

Much of The Lumineers' Tiny Desk comes from the band's third LP, III, which tells a story of addiction in three acts. They began with gut-wrenching renditions of "Gloria" and "Leader Of The Landslide"(accompanied by a cassette recording of crickets made on iPhones and dubbed to play on a boombox). The third track is also from III, but was an assignment from director M. Night Shyamalan. He tasked Schultz and his suspender-clad writing partner, Jeremiah Fraites, with composing a song for the end credits of a film. "Jer and I worked really hard on that, and then he didn't need it," Schultz confessed. The result is the stark and haunting "Salt And The Sea,"which strikes a different chord than any other song they've written.

It wouldn't be a Lumineers show without a foot-stompin' sing-along to end the set, which came with their crowd-pleasing hit "Stubborn Love". Stelth Ulvang demonstrated a level of barefoot acrobatics unrivaled at the desk thus far, not an easy feat (or should I say, feet). Right after the Tiny Desk concert, the band and entourage rushed off to play a little club in town called the Capital One Arena for another intimate show in front of 20,000 fans.

SET LIST
"Gloria" "
"Leader of the Landslide"
"April (instrumental)"
"Salt And The Sea"
"Stubborn Love"

MUSICIANS
Wesley Schultz; guitar, vocals; Jeremiah Fraites: drums, piano, vocals; Stelth Ulvang: piano, accordian, vocals; Lauren Jacobson: violin, piano, vocals; Byron Isaacs: bass, vocals; Brandon Miller: percussion, guitar, vocals

CREDITS
Producers: Josh Rogosin, Morgan Noelle Smith, Kara Frame; Creative director: Bob Boilen; Audio engineers: Josh Rogosin, Patrick Boyd; Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Bronson Arcuri; Editor: Melany Rochester; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Production Assistant: Shanti Hands; Executive producer: Lauren Onkey; VP, programming: Anya Grundmann; Photo: Bob Boilen/NPR

Moneybagg Yo - A Gangsta's Pain (Official Music Video) Hotney 3 Streams • 3 years ago

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Lyrics:
Ran into some dead ends
Rerouted made away
Tennis chain, ring, watch
Light booming ice today
Street nigga from the M
That’s where you gotta keep a K
It don’t matter, Killers killing killers
Ain’t nobody safe, bullets don’t discriminate
Just had to remind you
No matter how you try to dodge
The bullshit it come find you
Tryna put me in the middle
Cause my night robbed you
Told you not to fuck with him
But you act like you had to

Pink slips, 8 whips ain’t none of them rented
Bitch I’m having money now
So talk to me different
Run the hunnids through the money counter
Before we deposit it
Life good, bitch bad, everything exotic
I’m cool with waiting a lil longer
For something I deserve
The streets ain’t for everybody
Thats why they made the curb
Be clumsy talking bout Elo
I’m tripping over words
It was Super Bowl night
When he ain’t make serve

Have you ever got that phone call
That made ya heart drop
Problems every time you turn around
You live a hard knock
Free my niggas, if the feds come
I’m picking up a box
Number switches on the glizzy
It came with the boss tho
I went back to wear I grew up and
I bought the residence
They come for me but I can’t let them get me
Out my element
It’s easy building up a name but
Can you keep it relevant
Play on my name
You see more choppas than veterans homie

And I said what I said won’t beat around the bush
Paint yo block my favorite color red
Now you a pound of Kush
I could put my hands in my pocket
Errbody wit me pulling
These Cartier’s around me
Other days when I was overlooked
Fuck up after fuck up day by day
Now I’m having my way
Reason you can’t get yo own steak
Cuz you keep watching my plate
I been laying low
playing slow
stacking my change
Made it through the rain
Can you feel a Gangsta pain
Made it through the rain
Can you feel a gangsta pain
The streets ain’t for everybody
That’s why they made the curb
Ran into some dead ends
Rerouted made away

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Music video by Moneybagg Yo performing A Gangsta’s Pain. © 2021 N-Less Entertainment/Interscope Records

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