Episode 354 – YZ @therealyz talks hip hop history, investing, and more on @popolitickin

In this episode of PoPolitickin, we are joined by YZ. YZ is an artist and is the owner of Blackworld Entertainment, a record company & management firm. He re-entered the personal management field and is managing producer/artist Daddy-O of Stetsasonic, X-Clan, Sonny Bonoho, Actor Tray Chaney, Met Bronson, D. Rose, Birmingham J, Ozara Ode, producer/artist Bobbie Fine; and producers: King Midas and DJ Cozmos. Additionally he has brokered for Stic. Man of Dead Prez and is the managing Consultant for the record labels NREG(Nappy Roots Entertainment Group) based in Atlanta; and Team Maverick/700 Block, based in New Jersey. YZ has helped discover such acts as Poor Righteous Teachers, Agallah, Urban Thermo Dynamics, a group feat Ces, DCQ and Mos Def. YZ expanded his entertainment realm by getting behind the scenes of the television and radio world. He is the creator, executive producer, and host of the TV show Comin at Ya Live and the Internet’s first hip-hop talk-radio show The After Thought. He has recorded with Aim, Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Chuck D, Daddy-O, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Rae & Christian, Quest Love of the Roots, The Visionaries, X-Clan, Zimbabwe Legit, 2Mex and many others. https://www.last.fm/music/Yz/+wiki