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)”

Wavy Ry

Starting to make music at the age of fifteen, Wavy Ry considers himself as more than a rapper. He is an artist. Wavy Ry describes music as “an art, not a trend.” At the beginning of this year, Wavy Ry was able to release a track called “Replace You” which featured Chief Keef’s Cousin Matti Baybee. Wavy Ry had the opportunity to take a trip and stay in LA for a while to get in the studio and network. While talking about the trip, he mentioned “ I came across Paramount studios and locked in a session. Paramount has had so many great musicians that have recorded there. literally some of the people I grew up listening to have recorded their best tracks in Paramount Studios. So being there and walking through that type of Atmosphere, seeing all the plaques on the Walls from Ice Cube and Lil Wayne to Guns N roses, Linkin Park, Flo-Rida, so any of them throwback 2000 vibes were made there it was just dope to be there and actually record a song in the same booth as Icons.” He was

Greyhound

At age 11, Greyhound started to make music himself, he had also started playing the cello at the age of 8 and shortly after starting to make his music he pickup up the bass. At the time, he was into punk rock, and wanted to start a band with his buddies. He wrote his first rap at the age of 13 and was releasing his music on YouTube. He would record his music with his Rock Band USB mic. At the beginning he had a lot of doubters telling him his music sucked. At the time, Greyhound listened to them, however he kept making music, but wouldn’t release it publically. When he was 20, he decided that he wanted to finally release his music and stop selling himself short. Greyhound has now release an album, and doing lots of shows in the Boston area. One of Greyhound’s biggest influences in music was Eminem. Greyhounds said “I fell in love with rap through Eminem’s “Recovery” album. I was 12 when it came out.” Greyhound also mentioned “So ultimately, as cliche as it is for a white rapper

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