Steve Stoute
Steve Stoute is an American record executive and businessman who serves as CEO of UnitedMasters, the independent music distribution platform he founded in 2017. He co-founded the Paid in Full Foundation alongside Nas and Ben Horowitz to provide grants to hip-hop pioneers, and he founded the marketing agency Translation in 2004. He previously held executive roles at Sony Music and Interscope Geffen A&M Records and authored the 2011 book The Tanning of America.
“How does, how do you put, pour so much in and get so little out?... everybody became comfortable with that idea.”
Source→“It takes somebody, it takes somebody... it takes a crazy rap fan.”
Source→“These guys are pioneers above and beyond hip hop. They created the culture around the music that lives on to this day.”
Source→“If it wasn't for hip hop, for sure he was dead in the water. They were selling ties.”
Source→“The Grammys botched his celebration... they didn't pay tribute to this man properly to the point that his son... was like, let's do this.”
Source→“He put us, me, he put Kool Moe Dee on the radio when... he didn't have to. He created a whole lane.”
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