Wirtten by J-Hatch

Whats up Stan? Let everyone know who you are and what you do.

My Name is Stanley Marseille, I work for Chase Entertainment & Nappy Boy Entertainment. I’m a product manager, road manager, A&R, and whatever else needs to be done for the camp, I’m a man that wears many hats.

Well I originally started in the music business January 2005 at Interscope Records. I interned for the director of marketing Robert Caiaffa. After almost a year at Interscope, Caiaffa was hired to work at Jive he liked what I was doing so he decided to take me a long with him. About a year later Caiaffa then left to Def Jam he asked me to come along but I decided to stay because I didn’t want to keep packing up and leaving everytime he got a new situation. I wanted to make a situation for myself. Caiaffa respected that and helped secure me a position as a temp under the Sony umbrella (well SonyBMG at the time) after about a month of being a temp I got a call from Sony HR stating that there is a position open as an assistant to the SVP of A&R Jeff Fenster. That was like a no brainer to me so I gladly accepted the position and started working for Jeff in July of 2007.

Working for Jeff at the beginning was very hard, his assistants wouldn’t last longer then a couple months before he would get feed up and let them go. I ended up being the longest assistant he had up until I decided to leave back to Miami to handle personal issues with my family. Jeff was the best thing to happen to me so early in my career being that he was very well respected among his peers in the business and with being the right hand man to Barry Weiss (CEO of Sony). From learning how to speak the artists language, understanding the process it takes to create a record, ship it, market it and promote it, and most importantly how to not to let the business take over you and your personal beliefs. For that I am forever thankful for Jeff and Jive Records for giving me the opportunity.

When I left NYC I started working at a very small Mom and Pop owned music label in Miami, I didn’t stay there long because the way they handled business was not how I expected it to be. I felt like my name was getting a bad reputation for being associated with them. I couldn’t afford that so early in my career so I decided to call one of T-Pain’s managers, Mike Blumstein because I knew T-Pain was getting ready to release his new album Epiphany. Long story short, I started working with the team about week after I made the call.

The main difference between a major label and a indie label is the money. Working at an indie you have to be a lot more creative on how money is spent. The major label have enough money to do pretty much whatever they want, but just as easily as money being the main difference they both share a common goal, and that’s to successfully establish an artist in the business and sell millions of records.

The game is def not what it used to be when I first got into it, everything is digital now. Hackers and leaked albums are at an all time high. We are in the digital era where album sales are at an all time low and single sales are just sky rocketing. The Consumer doesn’t want to listen to a whole album anymore.

Our top priorites are Ahmad Belvin (Pop artist signed to J Records), Sophia Fresh ( 3 girl R&B/ Pop group from Houston signed to Atlantic Records/ Nappy Boy Entertainment), One Chance ( 4 male R&B/ Pop group from Chicago), Tay Dizm (Rapper from Miami) and Young Cash (Rapper from Jacksonville, FL)

The creative sounds that are used, the arrangement of the tracks, a very creative bridge, & lots of energy.

There’s no date set for when T-Pain’s album is coming out but when it does it will def be a monster! This might be his best album he’s put together. I cant wait for everyone to hear it!

Be yourself! Create your own lane, dont be afraid to change the game!

Shouts?

To the boss man T-Pain & The Whole Nappy Boy Family! Ahmad Belvin, Detail, Bei Majeor, Catalyst, All-Star and everybody that enjoys life!