Chamillionaire on his digital strategy beyond ringtones

Entrepreneur interview by Bambi Francisco Roizen
June 10, 2008 | Comments (6)
Short URL: http://vator.tv/n/289

I caught up with Chamillionaire at the OnHollywood conference. Chamillionaire is a popular hip hop artist who won in 2007 a Grammy Award for best rap performance by a duo or groiup for his hit single Ridin Dirty, a song that also sold 4 million ringtones.

In this video he talks about how he leverages the Internet to distribute his music and to reach his fans. "If you're a hip hop artist right now, there's a conversation that needs to be had between artists and the tech world," he said. "Hip hop is going digital and you have to be at the forefront of what's going on."

Chamillionaire will be on stage later today with Quincy Jones III, CEO of QD3 Entertainment, Chaka Zulu, founder of Wemix.com and Ludacris' business partner and manager, DJ Pooh, Sha Money XL, and James Cruz, CEO, Cruz Control Entertainment.

Comments

Danny McGowan, on June 10, 2008

chamill keep hustln. you'll learn more from Vator than at one of those conferences. Niko do you know what the #1 visited .tv domain is? I sure would like to know. The "Real Experts" live in a dot com world.

Jimmy Wu, on June 10, 2008

very interesting and entertaining interview! chamillionaire is articulate and has good entrepreneurial instincts, no wonder he sold 4 million ringtones. and he reads techcrunch!

Danny McGowan, on June 11, 2008

hi nick, some tv domains are valuable. hence myLocator.tv :). I am a dot tv believer. i respect your passions and ambitions................great rebuttal. no fun or pun intended but i am still trying to find the most powerful .tv website on the internet.