{"id":15532,"date":"2010-08-06T13:06:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T11:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=15532"},"modified":"2010-08-06T13:06:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T11:06:34","slug":"kevin-liles-talks-to-soul-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/kevin-liles-talks-to-soul-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Liles talks to Soul Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ChXXrpUX6-E&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I wanna build a entertainment company &#8211; not because I need to build it but because I have a lot of people that I wanna make rich. I have a lot of people that I wanna change their lives and I want to give them an opportunity that was given to me by Russell [Simmons] and Lyor &#8211; and build something special. So I have to go back in to do it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna go back in for young America because I think it&#8217;s needed, I think it&#8217;s missing and the mentorship needs to be there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Liles talks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soulculture.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">SoulCulture TV<\/a> about the ventures he&#8217;s currently pursuing and reflects on his Def Jam days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t now how not to be everything to everybody&#8221; he says of his thorough involvement in artists&#8217; careers, before making a case for 360 deals as a reasonable return on record companies&#8217; extensive investment of time and money.<\/p>\n<p>He also talks about how he became Trey Songz&#8217; manager and his plans for the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I wanna build a entertainment company &#8211; not because I need to build it but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-42w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}