A Day in the Life of a Hip Hop Heroine: Koch wants in!

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Koch Distribution, already a force in independent hip hop, announced the addition of three hip hop labels yesterday: Damon Dash Music Group, Kedar Entertainment and Big Oomp.

Two of the labels are run by names well known within hip hop circles.

Damon Dash Music Group is headed by Damon Dash, who along with Jay-Z co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records in 1996.

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Kedar Entertainment, a business group founded by former CEO of Motown/Uniersal, Kedar Massenburg, has a label as well as artist management, publishing, consulting and film & television. The three artists currently on the label roster are Algebra, Lil Rok Playaz and Samson.

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Big Oomp is an Atlanta-based label with a roster that features Baby D, Intoxicated, Loko and DJ Jelly.

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posted by C Love "The Rap Addict" @ 5/26/2006 01:08:00 PM

4 Comments:

At Friday, May 26, 2006 1:38:00 PM, i like liquor and tv said…

whoa, this is big news. I wonder how this will work out. Will all of the artists under those old labels become somewhat independent artists?
At Friday, May 26, 2006 3:12:00 PM, Al said…

Koch already distributes a lot of hip hop labels and artists, the New No Limit, D-Block, the Alchemist, some Diplomats releases, I assume these new deals will be pretty much the same thing, and they're all technically independent labels.
At Friday, May 26, 2006 9:53:00 PM, C Love "The Rap Addict" said…

The artists that these labels already have will probably just get bigger pushes or they will be distributed in a wider area. Koch has their own streets teams (in this area even)...they promote for a wide range of artist. so would imagine that they just enhance whatever it is that you already have going on. Dipset sell a hell of a lot of CD on their own....through their stores and distribution networks. Those are some hard working guys.

I was shocked [nah..surprised..then pleased]to see that Dame took it over to Koch...where was he after the break. I think i do remember hearing that he was dropped from somewhere. Gots to make a hit record....perhaps he will set it off now that he has signed Sizzla....YES!!!!

Friday, May 26, 2006 9:51:19 PM
At Friday, May 26, 2006 9:54:00 PM, C Love "The Rap Addict" said…

sorry for the typos! ^^^