Enchanting Is A Smooth Operator
Introducing your new favorite rapper. By Matt Marzahl. Courtesy of Warner Music Group.
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An already-hefty fanbase swelled when she shared a snippet of the single “Want Sum,” but although she embraces her success, she can’t quite put her finger on her why recent songs have had explosive responses. “I don’t be expecting certain things to blow like they do,” the 23-year-old says. “I just post s and I get on the internet and it’s every damn where.” Her comment led me back to my thought about an intangible factor that makes her music resonate.
A year ago today, you probably didn’t own as many tracksuits. You still had Pret receipts in your purse and holiday plans in your diary. Captain Tom Moore was an unknown Bedfordshire nonagenarian, and you had never heard the term Oxford AstraZeneca. All of this would rapidly change.
Below, a reminder of all the things that captured the nation’s attention in our 12 months in lockdown.
March 2020
On 16 March Matt Hancock told the Commons that “all unnecessary social contact must ease”. A week later, Boris Johnson decreed that we “must” stay at home. We spent what was left of the month ricocheting between the surreal and upsetting daily coronavirus briefings, and the surreal and upsetting
Howard University, REFORM Alliance Among Warner Music / Blavatnik Foundation Grant Recipients
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As part of its mission to invest $100 million in organizations focused on achieving social justice, the Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund has announced its initial six grant recipients: Black Cultural Archives, Black Futures Lab, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC), Howard University, REFORM Alliance and Rhythm & Blues Foundation.
The WMG/BFF SJF was established in June 2020 in the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and many other Black people. The Fund is intended to serve as an acknowledgement of the contributions Black culture has made to the profitability of today’s music industry. Over 10 years, the Fund will invest in organizations around the globe that build more equitable communities and create real change in the lives of historically underserved and margi
Warner Music Group Invests in Saudi Arabian Label Rotana
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Warner Music Group has announced an investment in the Arab world’s largest independent record label, Rotana Music, which is part of Rotana Group, widely considered the largest entertainment company in the region. According to the announcement, “the deal will expand WMG’s presence in the rapidly growing Middle East and North African region, while driving cross-cultural opportunities for the label’s renowned repertoire.”
Owned by Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, the company is headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with branches in Jeddah, Dubai, Kuwait City, Beirut, and Cairo.