From Randell

This past weekend I was involved with promoting a well known rapper of Chicago named Twista. Twista is the fastest rapper in the world and still holds the record for the most words spoken in a fast pace. You can find him in the Guiness Book of World Records. His performance took place in Palatine Illinois at Dirty Nellies. This was the clubs first time having a major artist perform live. The tickets got sold out pretty quickly but I didn't have to worry about that since I was going to be on stage with him and his entourage. I was not attending this performance by myself, my good friends attended with me along with the group he was promoting, the AG Squad. The AG Squad went on stage first and got the crowd really hyped up. The doors opened at 9:00pm so by 12:00 it was packed. Everyone came there to see Twista perform and he didn't end up making it on stage till about 2:15am. The performance was a major success even though people were not that happy that he came in so late, but once he got started the crowd tended to forget about that.
I put about 2000 dollars into promoting Twista at this event and after the tickets sales sold out by the end of the performance night I raked in about 5500 in profit. I would say that pretty good considering I wasn't the only one doing promotions. The next performance that my friend and I are going to have will be in March in Elgin Illinois. We are supposed to have Kanye West Perform for a couple hours and sing some new songs off his new album. I'm hoping to make more money off of this performance and see what happens after that. I like being able to meet major artist in the game. I work for Atlantic Records every summer so I have already gotten to meet a great deal of important people in the music industry but my focus is more on money, not trying to know everybody and get on there good side. I'm doing this because this is part of my career and I plan to continue to strive and make as much money as I can and try to have as much fun as possible while doing so.