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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