"First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar?" - Rap lyrics that reference the music biz

"[r]: we rollin with rush"

i always wanted this to mean that lee, lifeson, and peart were part of their entourage

walediscography.doc

an xls would be much more efficient

Industry rule #4080...

record company people are shaaaaady

more Tribe:

so jet to the store & buy our LP
on Jive RCA cassettes & CDs
produced & arranged buy the four man crew
& OH SHIT skip anslem he gets props too!

ah i knew there was a thread for this ... well not exactly lyrics, but nasally white a&r's who wander onto the track to
do voice overs or skits

i was asking d40 if they still do this shtick anymore and he wasn't sure if they still did but confirmed my suspicion it's maybe not as common but we weren't sure why or why not

https://youtube.com/A6-Abvdthn0

see @ 2:05 and 3:45

"invite all your friends ... everybody from the projects can come down"

"spinkelstein"

:-/

speaking of nasaly white execs and :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqqrX0KJVcs

ah yeah a true exemplar of the form

thought this pharaohe monch line was the most brilliant lyric ever when i was 18:

"still get it poppin without artists and repertoire / cause monch is a monarch only minus the A&R"

I still think that's a dope line tbh

I live large, caviar and limos
Spent most of my time refusing bullshit demos
Can you understand, do you understand
Well let me explain I'm the A and R man
Dave Gossett. Yes I rock it
I rip the mike and I stuff pockets

Black Sheep - 'Pass The 40' has a pretty decent freestyle from their A&R man Dave Gossett (above) and a dodgier one from Chris Lighty who ended up managing most of the big NYC acts in the 00's