Kanye West Is Coming For Your Oppas and Your Money

[agoongprincess.livejournal.com]

The Kanye West Creative Team will establish a joint-stock company, 10-Jones, in Korea.

Malik Yusef Jones, producer for Grammy Award winning artists such as Kanye West, Rihanna, and Jay-Z, will be the company’s CEO.

The company comprises of three divisions: brand, agency, and entertainment, and each division will be headed by the Kanye West Creative Team. The team’s main producer, Malik Yusef Jones, was looking into the Korean market when he received an offer from an associate in Korea to establish a company in the country.

Members of the Kanye West Creative Team, who have contracts with big labels such as Cash Money Records, Def Jam, and Roc-a-Fella, will be working the agency division.

The 10-Jones brand will be launched in the second half of 2015, and designers from the Creative Team are already working on brand products.

Malik Yusef Jones is researching the Korean music industry and hopes to create synergy between his company and the Asian idols. He is also in the process of creating collaborations between Korean artists and other artists from abroad, hoping to infiltrate not only the Korean music scene, but also music industries abroad.

source: soompi

will namjoon's dreams of feeding Kanye dubboki finally be realized? will we see another Ayy Girl collab? will GD try to break into the US market? so many possibilities

Comments

[princetabi.livejournal.com]

OP I don't want any of those things you listed to happen lmao

[agoongprincess.livejournal.com]

lmao, im here for them all to happen for the lolz. i have my popcorn ready.

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

I'm scared...but intrigued....

[babyonions.livejournal.com]

[mlmello.livejournal.com]

lol perfect gif.

[rmarques.livejournal.com]

Oh this should be good.

[jaelissi.livejournal.com]

*Insert this_isnt_the_reality_I_wanted.gif*

[adlyeith.livejournal.com]

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

hmmm ... sm has more money/power, but yg has more style ... what company will they partner with??
or maybe they'll go for a lesser company? i'm interested to see how this plays out.

[yolleh.livejournal.com]

I don't even care, if they make more jams like this:



Then I will come back to whole heartedly stan kpop like the good old days.

[agoongprincess.livejournal.com]

i still can't believe this is real

[hyungmoney.livejournal.com]

(http://imgur.com/UPLRKSK)

[leighbee333.livejournal.com]

perfect gif

[htothem.livejournal.com]

I want to see Kanye meet Kim Heechul!

[kwonsoonyoung.livejournal.com]

lol same

[hongaerin.livejournal.com]

I'm still not over Ayy Girl. I watch this MV when I need a good laugh

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

this could get real messy real quick...

AND YET...

i'm kinda curious.

[skidadler.livejournal.com]

I wonder how it will go considering the xenophobia in Korea and Kanye's constant cry about racism.

[agoongprincess.livejournal.com]

i have hopes it will go well. Kanye is well respected and a person of power/influence. I think this could be a good opportunity for him to shut all try hards down and force them to see the light.

[hagar-tammaa.livejournal.com]

I don't get why tho

[hagar-tammaa.livejournal.com]

But wouldn't it be hilarious if GD got to collab with RIRI??

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Considering how big multinational record companies have failed to get much of space on Korean market I doubt music side will be a big success. Like maybe writing songs for Korean artists under other companies might work out and some collabs, but if they try to debut their own new artists they'll be in trouble 'cause lack of connections and lack of ready built fanbase, plus obviously lack of understanding of the local culture.

What comes to design products like clothing lines etc. maybe they will have more chance there, but still it might be pretty hard considering how much power Korea's own big companies have. So if they step on wrong foot they might find it very hard to do business in Korea.

Anyhow I'm guessing that someone has over sold Korea's market potential for Kanye and he will end up losing money. But good luck for his team anyway!

[mlmello.livejournal.com]

[keki7.livejournal.com]

Grabs mic, "Exo I know you accepting your award right now, and Imma let you finish, but JYJ had the best drama filled kpop boyband exit of all time!"

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

(TBH Jay Park had the best drama filled exit, just less legal drama, but much more delicious fan drama.)

[momomoing.livejournal.com]

I feel like when big name Americans get involved with Asian acts, it is so half-assed (like IDK if it they are just doing it for the money and don't feel like they have to put effort in?). I.e. BoA's Eat You Up American MV (the blonde wig scenes, smh), the choreo for Double and Amuro Namie's BLACK DIAMOND MV (Namie doesn't even use the original choreo during concerts, it's so bad), Ayyy Girl. I guess the only exception I can think of is Wonder Girls' Be My Baby choreo, which was pretty decent.

[yakuniku-8.livejournal.com]

Not only in Asia. They also sold filler songs to European singers which were supposed to be the next hit but failed.

[digitalqueen.livejournal.com]

the oppaest!!!!

[dirkismyhomeboy.livejournal.com]

Kanye please take your flawless production skills and brilliant mind over to YG and go get TOP. Bond over your love of art and fashion and make beautiful music. Please and thank you!

[aki-san.livejournal.com]

The most interesting part of this: hoping to infiltrate not only the Korean music scene, but also music industries abroad. An American artist trying to use the Hallyu wave as a springboard into Asia? I'm intrigued.

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

Oh hell.

[leighbee333.livejournal.com]

I can't tell from this announcement whether Kanye's going to have any personal involvement with this venture of if this is just his associates. And I'm kinda confused about what the objective is...

[angela-derp-otp.livejournal.com]

They are coming for your wig YG!

[sheisagentleman.livejournal.com]

im here for namjoon feeding kanye dubbokki tbh

[sjtaazrz.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Namjoon/American rapper interactions.

I just figured out today that he tweeted Strange Music Inc (the label of Tech N9ne and Krizz Kaliko) about how they used their song in their gayo intro/trailer with a link. And the label followed back, tweeted the video and was "whoa look at this dance!" and even left a comment on the official video like "thanks to all the new fans who saw BTS's dance and came to listen"

It was super sweet of them. (whoever is running the twitter and youtube, probably not both of them but still)