Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It's Friday, September 29th, and we're wrapping about new investment opportunities. I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I'm joined on Skype by

fool.com's jack of all trades Dan Klein. Dan how's it going?

Oh it's going great and I promise not to wrap. Yeah I'm going to try to do the same.

It'll be hard not to though.

I mean, we are talking about something that is kind of interesting.

I got a lot of splashy headlines earlier this week.

Some cool news from the music industry that has kind of crossed over into the investment

industry.

Yeah, it's a really sort of bizarre but exciting opportunity, really full of pitfalls though.

So investors may soon have the opportunity to invest in rapper M&M's music catalog.

We're going to kind of do a deep dive into some of the specifics that are available at this point

with the filing, but before we get too far into that, I think it's probably worth going into how this type of opportunity came to be. This is a topic that we've touched on a little bit with the show before.

Yeah, it's really an alternate way to invest.

It's somewhat like crowd sourcing, but you actually do end up with shares of the company,

except for the fact that there's not all the financial due diligence

you see during a traditional IPO or other sort of investment opportunity.

And this really traces back to the Jobs Act, which was passed in 2012, I believe, as part of the

Obama administration.

Like I said, it's something we've talked about in past shows a little bit, but really this legislation

was aimed at making raising capital a little bit easier for smaller businesses and making the path to going public a little bit easier for smaller businesses.

So one of the things that it is probably best known for. It has a lot of different

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