Caveman & Shawna Talk Management, Discovering Producers, Engineering & More
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Channel: ProducerGrind · 2018 · People & Blogs
Caveman & Shawna Reed Rosario Interview on the Producergrind Podcast. We got to discuss Shawna's career managing Tammy Rivera (Love and Hip Hop Atlanta), and Caveman's career as president of Brick Squad Monopoly (BSM). We talked about Caveman's early career as a "road engineer" for artists like Freeway and then transitioning into being Waka Flocka's engineer and recording classics like "Oh lets do it" & "Hard in da paint" as well as classics from OJ da juiceman, Peewee Longway & more. Caveman Rosario gave us the story on how and why he chose to work with Waka over Nicki Minaj. He also gave some producer advice and told us about him discovering producers like Metro Boomin & Lex Luger. The power couple also discussed the new deal they were able to lock in for their artists with LA & Aaron Reid without having any music or buzz. We talked about the importance of building genuine relationships in the music business in 2018. Producergrind Merch: https://merch.producergrind.com/ Sound Kits: https://producergrind.com/shop/ 1:37 How Caveman got his start engineering 2:16 Being the first engineer to have Pro Tools on a laptop 2:56 Getting invited on tour with Roc A Fella 3:45 His first deal with Method Man & Right Guard Deodorant 4:08 Keith Murray choking out Ab Liva from Def Jam 5:13 Recording in Philly with Freeway, Young Gunz & Beanie Seigel 6:38 Having control over the music during the era of leaking 8:38 Freeway paying him out of pocket to make his last album 9:39 Working with Don Cannon & meeting Waka Flocka 10:37 Passing up opportunities with Asher Roth, Nicki Minaj and Justin Beiber to work with Waka 11:58 On engineering Waka for Oh Let's Do It and No Hands 12:18 On arguing with Waka on Hard In the Paint 16:10 How OJ Da Juiceman gave Metro Boomin his name 16:57 Relationship with Gucci 17:21 Getting the first mixtapes on iTunes 17:56 Bailing DJ Drama out of jail after the raid 18:34 Owning the rights to the Gangsta Grillz catalogue 19:06 Overrated/Underrated 20:26 Being married and working together 23:23 Major label deals being overrated 23:54 Managing Tammy Rivera's music career 24:16 Managing relationships with streaming companies 26:22 Appearances at the club 28:51 Social media being underrated 29:57 Shawna Reed-Rosario's relationship with Tammy Rivera 30:28 Caveman being under contract with Gucci 31:07 Rico Love producing Tammy Rivera 33:05 Their relationship with Cassius Jay 34:30 The difference between executive producing Trap vs R&B 35:16 The Umm Factor 36:04 Tidal only paying out once a year and only paying the top artists 38:44 Having two artists signed at Hitco 39:40 Meeting Aaron Reid through Tommy Hilfiger's son 40:58 Designing Peewee Longway's studio 42:05 Their artist Crazy Black & ATL Jacob 44:25 Recording music in the trap house 45:16 Their role on Meet the Flockas 47:14 Getting to record with 7 Aurelius & Ashanti 49:33 Finding out he got a Grammy 50:15 Preferring Trap to R&B 52:47 Gucci Mane book and the author Neil Martinez-Belkin Listen to this Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/producergrind-podcast/id1198178787?mt=2 Hosted By @ceodylan @theletterlbeats @producergrind Special Guests @cavemanpromo @shawnareed Directed by @cookitupkayo #ProducergrindPodcast
