LABL Q&A With “S.L. Jackson”

Nametag Alexander: These two questions are random, but I like using them as icebreakers. If you had the opportunity to build, and run a
record label with millions in the budget, who would be the first five artists you would sign? What three producers
would you have on board, and why for each of your picks?

S.L Jackson: I could not tell you who I would sign, I can tell you the type of artist I would sign. I would sign three kid groups, that act like kids. I have a daughter and a host of nieces and nephews and its no real music for kids anymore. So I’d sign a kid rap group, rock group, and r&b group, I wouldn’t sign any producers, I’d commission producers for whatever projects we are working on meaning, I’d go get the DREAM to work on the r&b album for example. I would also use some of the budget to educate the kids and their parents on how the music industry works to ensure the kids/artist get paid for the rest of their lives off this part of their lives. 

Nametag: What is the number one classic Rap album to you?
S.L Jackson: I have so many classic albums in my head, but I would have to say it’s a tie for me between, Esham 1996’s “Dead Flowerz” and Brotha Lynch’s 1997 “Loaded” album.  Listening to both of those albums and to see the direction music moved in after that, both albums gave me that classic feel. But music is subjective, so one man’s classic is another man’s, “I’ve never heard this before.”  (Read More)