No Label Academy at Harvard

No Label and artist IDK are teaming up to teach a course on the music business at Harvard. The application for the course goes live on June 15th on the SNKRS app at 11am PDT. The academy plans to be free to students and will soon give people more insight than ever in the music industry.

No Label was founded by students at Harvard and has had panels with artists Travis Scott, J.I.D., Boston’s Cousin Stizz, IDK and more. Rapper IDK raised in Maryland has been one of the more insightful artists in the music industry with his projects “Is He Real” and “IWASVERYBAD,” IDK is working to help the community by teaming up with No Label in creating this course.

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Interview with Maybach Music Group's Smoke Bulga

Maybach Music Group’s newest artist and Boston rap pioneer Smoke Bulga sits down with Nick Fonzi from 617 Hip-Hop to discuss the day he signed with Maybach Music Group, his plans for the future, his acting debut and more! Check out his interview with 617 Hip-Hop! Smoke Bulga Bio: “Boston Emcee, Smoke Bulga, has one of the most decorated and respected resumes out of the emcees to taste superstardom from New England. Whether it be early smoke that was straight from the streets or the more refined and industry-ready artist that was seen on MTV, BET, and everywhere else worldwide, Smoke has never let his hometown down. (Smoke Bulga Spotify)”

P.A.

1. When did you start to make music? I always wanted to pursue music but I did not know how to. I really started about six months ago. 2. What/who inspired you to make music? It started off with me and a couple of friends recording shitty freestyles as a joke and we would just uploading them to soundcloud. The songs somehow got a lot of views and people were liking it so I said screw it let me take this a bit more serious. 3. What is the biggest opportunity you have earned/received in music so far? My biggest opportunity was probably the Longlivehshawn x Fajita performance. Before that I was not really sure what I wanted to get out of this music thing but after the show I decided I wanted to really take this music thing seriously 4. How does your music stand out compared to other artists? My music is very unique because of my flow versatility and melody game. I am able to combine my soft voice to hard melodic trap beats. I think I am perfect for today's hi

Diz

At the age of 17, Diz knows how to let his emotions out and make people understand the demons he deals with. On October 2nd, he released a project titled “Black Water,” which features songs such as “To See Is To Believe” and “Orange Blossom.” This project by Diz was straight from the heart and described it as going through some “dark shit.” Going into his freshman year of highschool, Diz started to make music with his friend Ziggi. Since then he has had some amazing opportunities, Diz mentioned “ my group Illegal Advisory we played a sold out show at the Middle East Downstairs, but even more important than that to me is being able to explore my own sound. That's made me so much more confident in my music and it's given me more drive to keep exploring and to be myself.” When it comes to his sound, Diz knows he is different, he explained “I think my music is a lot different than a lot of other artists right now. I'm not going to say if it's better or worse bec

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