South, or be able to do a certain number of dates
that would beneficial to the fans and artists alike.
So, those are the plans for 2015; to do maybe a
couple Hip Hop Gods tours, like two or three,
and have them run like in some kind of flow, a
modern day chitlin circuit with better hotels and
play hopefully.
Tru: Who are some of the artists you are considering taking out on the tour with PE?
ChuckD: Well, we also set up an agency. One
thing we do in order for us was we had to do a
2013 tour. And we set up an agency, which would
be able to accent the management, kinda do quasi
management work, and be able to have many
artists that were available to just perform but also
to do other things. All of this was formed out of
those who began to question, like “How do you
do it man?” “How do you guys get on the road?”
and “How do you stay a group for 25 years and
make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”? And
“Chuck you have been on the lecture circuit for
22 years, just how do you do that?”
So that is how these things started, and we became able to build our own agencies that worked
with our agencies too. And situations that used
kind of the same things that we would use from
bussing, to companies down to venues. And see,
if we can actually build up the profile of artists to
be able to understand that you may have started
your recording career in the 80s but now everybody’s fans are scattered.
Everybody is older. There might be accessible
income for some fans who followed you as a
teenager and are now in their 40s or 50s. You also
want to see, are you on Facebook? There, let’s
connect that. And do you do Twitter or Instagram
or whatever? And they’ll get it through their
whatever and once you connect these things, it is
like “Wow, okay I know you exist and I see you
are coming to town.” And you are over there or
over there we may be playing a cruise. So, there
is already a maturity that has happened to rap
music and hip hop. And how do we structure and
organize maturity to make sure it is engaging for
artists, and make them feel like they can do what
they do forever? Although, it is a
different realm of understanding-like
what that art is and where it should
go and it is going now. That is the
meaning of a Hip Hop God and the
age and the agency of the Gods who
set this up. We think it could be three
to four tours this year; we are looking
forward to that. Of course, it would
be regional with ten to twelve dates
and everybody will go on, but these
dates and these plans for these tours
I will just say it doesn’t stop when the
show is over, when that performance
is over and done. How do you stay in
contact with something that you have
admired physically. That is what we
want to connect.
Tru: What’s your TRUTH Chuck?
“The key with rap and hip hop music
is that you have to leave with something better than when you started,
and hip hop was always able to do
that. How I came in, I know I left
better than I came in, which means it
was really exciting on the stage.
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