October 8th, 2007
Making Of A Mogul: LA Reid
One of the most powerful executives in the music industry and a triple Grammy-winner, he’s in his fourth year as chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group. The star-maker has discovered talents such as Usher, Avril Lavigne and OutKast. But Reid has not forgotten his Cincinnati roots. He flies into town every April to take his mother, who lives in Blue Ash, to dinner on her birthday.
“I’m the only African-American in the business that does music across the board. That’s the thing that makes me unique,” he says, ticking off a diverse list of artists he is guiding, from Fall Out Boy, the Killers, Bon Jovi, Melissa Etheridge and Lionel Richie to Jay-Z and Ludacris.
Interesting read on one of the most powerful people in music.
Suggestion Box
October 8th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
HAHAHA BUT BIG UPS TO LA REID
October 8th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
AN INSPIRATION TO ME AS I STRIVE TO BE IN HIS POSITION SOME DAY
October 8th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
l.a. reid=jay-z= kanye west & rihanna.
so this dude is the one behind the success of my favorite artists….nice fact lol i knew it already but its nice to realize it again.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
LA Reid is the illest
mad cats shout him out!
October 8th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
shout-outs to black excecutives
p.s wtf’s up wit jay and his weak-ass baseball cap swagger…how u gonna walk the streets like that, you might as well be blind.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
thats a good look, i hope more black people would open they mind up to different kinds of music. i dont listen to alot of shit, but hopefully the younger kids will. if white people can manage every thing including rap, then when need to get rich off of them too.
and dont hate on the way jay wear his hat, its a brooklyn thing i guess. i used to wear my hat like that in high school after i got done smoking on the bleachers. i cant hide my high for shit. hell half the city started doin it
October 8th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Props to LA Ried you gots to respect his hustle he is a genius at what he does.
BTW it seems they make a great team Jay gets all the hate when projects flop but LA Ried gets the credit when project do great.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
number 3, what up with you and rihanna you stocking her.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:59 am
yea djgx get off rihanna nuts she is just ok and jay-z stop wearin that hat like that u look weird homie but props to la reid…
October 9th, 2007 at 5:05 am
nawmeehn whuz dat faggot azz nikkuh bwoay near yung hova ? la reid ? lmao ugly crackhoe , imma sell mah ishh 2 thiz biaaatch
im out , 1
October 9th, 2007 at 5:15 am
Never knew he was from Cincy, I saw it in their paper yesterday online – Good read
October 9th, 2007 at 5:46 am
Fuck La Reid & Jay-Z their the reason Joe Budden hasn’t brought out The Growth
October 9th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
i swear tht whiteboy and jb are the same person i put tht on my life mayne. im not “stalking” her if thts wat you meant. and wth,9…”get off her nuts”,tht juss proves you been on fifs too long to know wat females r huh??
October 9th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
number 13, im not jb if that what you think. and i wasn’t tryin to diss your punk ass. i was just wondering why you all up on rihanna skirt and shit like that….. you should leave her ass alone, she don’t want your ass….your on a fuckin website, and i no rihanna don’t want no useless website searhing ass nigga…i couldn’t even fuck with her cause im on this fuckin website too.