Amina Diop has had a chicken’s eye view of hip-hop from a number of angles. The present CEO of the thriving artist administration firm The Diop Company, Amina moved her method by the music trade whereas carrying quite a lot of hats together with managing a few of hip-hop’s favourite artists. On this episode of XXL’s Inside Observe podcast, the Queens native discusses working carefully with Gucci Mane, being a gatekeeper for Younger Thug, Lil Uzi Vert’s rock star standing letting artists be their very own boss and extra.
After rising up in Queens, Amina attended faculty in Atlanta, the place she earned a enterprise diploma and later started work as an intern at Spere Data, a subsidiary of Arista Data, “many moons in the past” in response to her. She later received into social gathering promotion earlier than managing well-known video vixens like Buffy The Physique, Hoops, Maliah and Rosa Acosta. She opened her personal administration firm, The Diop Company, in 2011, which now boasts shoppers like Gucci Mane, Lil Uzi Vert, Bandhunta Izzy, Peewee Longway, SleazyWorld Go and others. Amina additionally served as Senior Vice President of A&R at Republic Data for seven years.
“After I first labored with Gucci, I used to be his assistant,” Amina explains within the video under. “He had simply come residence from jail and he simply wanted somebody to deal with some issues for him and he was in a transition part…and he gave me a shot.”
As Younger Thug’s former supervisor, she was tasked with preserving the ship collectively throughout his prolonged authorized state of affairs.
“I used to be undoubtedly his gatekeeper—will at all times be his gatekeeper,” Amina says. “Belief is essential, so far as like coping with their enterprise. Gucci’s group may be very, very small. Thug’s group may be very, very small. So, we kinda stored it that method.”
She additionally addresses the Younger Thug trial through the episode, which was filmed previous to the rapper pleading responsible within the case.
Amina additionally speaks on letting the artists she manages be true to themselves with little interference. “Usually, they’re tremendous inventive. Until they’re attempting to do one thing that’s actually detrimental to the model, then more often than not I will go along with it,” he provides.
XXL is again with one other episode of Inside Observe, a biweekly podcast that spends time with a few of hip-hop’s most influential trade executives, entrepreneurs and extra. Hosted by XXL Editor-in-Chief Vanessa Satten and music govt Courtney “Courtney CL” Lowery, every episode will proceed to discover hip-hop by the eyes of people that have lived and breathed the tradition.
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