{"id":43757,"date":"2015-11-09T22:26:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T22:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.aws.dancingastronaut.com\/?p=230981"},"modified":"2015-11-09T22:26:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T22:26:40","slug":"g-o-o-d-music-announces-pusha-t-as-new-label-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/?p=43757","title":{"rendered":"G.O.O.D. Music announces Pusha T as new label president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a\ntitle=\"Pusha T\" href=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/pusha-t\/\" >Pusha T<\/a>\u00a0has claimed a huge stake in the dance world throughout 2015, sealing collaborations alongside acts as diverse as <a\ntitle=\"This Time\" href=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/11\/axwell-%CE%BB-ingrosso-time-original-mix\/\" >Axwell\/Ingrosso<\/a>, <a\ntitle=\"Yogi\" href=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/10\/yogi-siri-feat-elliphant-pusha-t\/\" >Yogi<\/a>, Major Lazer\u00a0and <a\ntitle=\"Push It\" href=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/02\/ishi-push-feat-pusha-t\/\" >iSHi <\/a>to facilitate\u00a0a quality spike of urban and electronic dance crossovers. Now, the infamous Clipse cohort and Play Cloths founder is adding presidential duties at\u00a0G.O.O.D. Music to his already\u00a0monstrous list of achievements for 2015, bringing his ball back into the hip-hop court in a big way.<\/p><p>The Virginia rapper had already found allegiance with\u00a0Kanye West as both a collaborator and label affiliate, but now joins the family behind the likes of both Tribe icon Q-Tip and upcoming talent Kacy Hill. The announcement arrives with the news that longtime manager Steven Victor will join as A&amp;R to the label, making for an intriguing influx\u00a0of talent into the Universal\/Def Jam imprint. Speaking to\u00a0Billboard of the circumstances surrounding this new venture, Pusha spoke of\u00a0the<span\nstyle=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">\u00a0manicured and unrushed process that first caught Kanye&#8217;s attention. He explained:<\/span><\/p><blockquote><p><span\nstyle=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">&#8220;I think he looks at me and my other businesses and understands that\u2019s why I have this luxury of time in whether it be my clothing stores, my clothing line, just things like that. He just notices me and him don\u2019t ever have that type of pressure, tension, producer-artist relationship. I think he respects that a lot and not to mention, ever since I\u2019ve been on G.O.O.D. Music, there\u2019s been a host of artists that I\u2019ve brought to the table, tried to sign, brought to his attention in trying to sign, whether something was super hot or I called it it\u2019s not going to stand the test of time, it\u2019s wack. I been pretty right in a few regards.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><p>For all his ventures into both electronic music and fashion, Pusha T&#8217;s allegiance with G.O.O.D. Music leaves little room to argue where King Push&#8217;s loyalty to hip-hop stands. Promising no delays on his hotly anticipated <em>King Push<\/em> album, 2016 just took a turn for the interesting where G.O.O.D. and its newly elected head of state is concerned.<\/p><p>Via: <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/biz\/articles\/6754118\/pusha-t-named-president-of-good-music-exclusive\">Billboard Biz\u00a0<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p><p><a\ntitle=\"This Time\" href=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/11\/axwell-%CE%BB-ingrosso-time-original-mix\/\" >Axwell ? Ingrosso \u2013 This Time (Original Mix)<\/a><\/p><p><a\ntitle=\"SIRI\" href=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/10\/yogi-siri-feat-elliphant-pusha-t\/\" >Yogi \u2013 SIRI feat. Elliphant &amp; Pusha T<\/a><\/p><p><a\ntitle=\"Warriors VID\" href=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/07\/pusha-t-featured-hudson-mohawkes-warriors-music-video\/\" >Pusha T featured in Hudson Mohawke\u2019s \u2018Warriors\u2019 music video<\/a><\/p> <img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DancingAstronaut\/~4\/xxUGumWezj0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G.O.O.D. Music announces US rap titan and entrepreneur Pusha T as its new label president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43758,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43757\/revisions\/43758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}