Interview Series: Ep. 2 (feat. Hovain)
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
On Episode 2 of the NTK Interview Series, Alex is joined by Hovain (manager, A&R, father, husband, and President of Cinematic Music Group). The two discuss a completed Lloyd Banks album on the way (2:20), managing talent outside of music (7:13), Hovain’s introduction to the industry (13:00), and balancing a personal life. Hovain speaks to managing T-Pain (27:30), Johnny Shipes & CMG (32:50), and how he chooses to use his free time towards other ventures (34:30). “What’s your why?” (42:40), Brownsville beginnings (48:00), reviewing contracts (52:00), influencing the youth (55:00), living for the gram (1:03:20), and MORE!
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| 0:00.0 | Oh no. |
| 0:01.0 | We good now? |
| 0:02.5 | Hey, what's going on, everybody? |
| 0:03.9 | It's your boy, hey, you might know me as Alex. |
| 0:05.9 | You might know me as A. |
| 0:07.4 | Shit, you might even know me as Scream, man. But today, today, I'm your, I'm your guy who's going to show you. Now, yo, let me do that real quick. I can start. I can start from the top? I bet. you want me to clap for you so I can kind of do it in my head like a little countdown |
| 0:20.4 | I bet cool |
| 0:21.9 | hey what's going on you want me to clap for you so I can kind of do it in my head like a little countdown all right back cool |
| 0:21.9 | hey what's going on everybody |
| 0:25.3 | and this is your boy hey you might know me as Alex |
| 0:28.3 | you might know me as Alexander he put his radio voice on I wasn't ready for that |
| 0:32.0 | we were just talking regular he said hey ladies you know this your boy Alex |
| 0:35.2 | you might know me as A you might know me as Alex you might know me as boy, Alex. You might know me as A. |
| 0:38.3 | You might know me as Alex. |
| 0:39.5 | You might know me as Alexander's shit. |
| 0:40.7 | You might even know me as screaming. |
| 0:42.5 | But today, today I am A from the Need to Know podcast. |
| 0:45.7 | And you're probably looking around if you're watching this, like, yo, why is it just Alex here and one other guests? |
| 0:52.6 | Right now, I'm taking a part of our new installment |
| 0:55.2 | on Need to Know. And that is called our interview series where we locked in with certain |
| 1:00.3 | people where we really wanted to talk to. Shout to Savon. Savon has already done a couple of these. |
| 1:04.5 | This is probably my third installment of this interview series. And I really like these I enjoy |
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