As an entertainment business entrepreneur, Paul Stewart has done it all. He’s started multiple companies. He’s worked in music, film, fashion, and now books. He’s had years with multiple mega-hits, and years where he just barely scraped by.
His story is about the struggle: Wake up everyday and hustle. Stay true to what you know. Connect with good people. Be generous. Never stop fighting.
Here are just a few of the gems that come out of our interview:
On the keys to his success: “I got down differently than other people. I thought the parties were important. I do some of my best networking running the streets at night and connecting with people.”
On the people running major record labels: “They are not creative people, so they hire uncreative people underneath them and its like, ego driven maniacs, nepotism and just unqualified.”
The problem with book publishers: “There is just so much institutionalized racism in regards to urban culture and hip hop and things like that. It’s just a lack of understanding of what people are interested in because they are not in touch with this world. Most of the people that are the decision makers have a total disconnect to urban culture. Basically just the wrong people making decisions.”
On the artists he’s worked with: The Pharcyde, House of Pain, Warren G., Coolio, Montel Jordan, Freestyle Fellowship, and so many more
And movies he music supervised: Poetic Justice, Dear White People, Barbershop, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Four Brothers, Hustle and Flow we won the Oscar
Subjects featured in his books: Murder Dog Magazine, Pimp C, Curtis Snow, Kendrick Lamar, ASAP Rocky, Drake, Lil Wayne, Bobby Brown, Too Short, Iceberg Slim, E-40, Marcus Garvey, Bushwick Bill, Scott La Rock, Tupac, Eazy E, Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, and many many more.
The EDM.com track of the week is:
https://soundcloud.com/your_secret/badflite-falling-down-ft-anuka
If you enjoyed the music you heard in this episode, here's the list:
Mista Grimm, Indo Smoke
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/indo-smoke/id192999606?i=192999894
Run-DMC, Rock Box
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rock-box/id255372435?i=255373612
Three Times Dope, Funky Dividends
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/funky-dividends/id945454956?i=945454963
House of Pain, Jump Around
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/jump-around/id121050245?i=121049658
The Pharcyde, Passin Me By
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passin-me-by/id912597149?i=912597179
Greg Hein, Down
https://soundcloud.com/greg-hein/down
WC and the Madd Circle, West Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMFvmgR6G3U
Problem, Like Whaaat
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/like-whaaat-feat.-bad-lucc/id600041534?i=600041829
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