"We just did a song a 4 this morning smh rip brother @lilmarlo_1," Yachty wrote on Instagram while JT tweeted: "Rest In Peace Marlo......damn. Thomas is 10 years younger than Coach K and took a slightly different route to become a record executive.The combination of Coach K and Pee is the ideal duo to run a boutique hip-hop label. Its productions were distributed through Universal Music Distribution until it was dismantled in 2015; the label's releases are now distributed through Motown and Caroline, subsidiaries of the Capitol Music Group. and Young Jeezy were changing the perception of Atlanta hip-hop and shaping the sound of what has become the most ubiquitous genre of music in America.What separates Quality Control from its competitors is that it’s an Atlanta company by and for its community. I’m really out here in it.”Despite their differences from, and independence of, other labels, Quality Control is aided by distribution and promotion deals with Capitol Records and Motown, a record label that Coach K sees as an “antecedent” to his business. COMPLEX participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means COMPLEX gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. 26,971 likes.
She took a chance on us when a lot of people turned the other way so I’ll always have her back. Verified. Motown is clearly an influence on Quality Control’s business and artistic strategies, and the label’s recent success makes the comparison even more apt. Tamika Howard, general manager of Quality Control, Pee acts as a sort of guiding force to the young artists Q.C. He also managed Gucci Mane (despite his violent beef with Young Jeezy) and Q.C.’s current roster boasts Migos and Lil Yachty, whose names have permeated popular culture far beyond Atlanta hip-hop.Migos are a hip-hop superteam and while Yachty’s debut album Sanneh wrote for The New Yorker that while Yachty is frustrated with his numbers and thinks he has something to prove right now, Coach K isn’t as worried:“Lee says that Yachty shouldn’t worry about old-fashioned hits, because his big and loyal online audience doesn’t worry about them, either.”Coach K, who is 46, clearly has an understanding of the current landscape of music, specifically hip-hop, and its relationship with the internet and what that means for fandom.His salt and pepper beard may give him an authority, as he told The New Yorker,“With this gray beard, I’m a O.G. I wanna send up a major Happy Birthday to @theethiopiandream She’s my friend,sister and partner.
That’s part of it. Kevin ”Coach K” Lee is a manager, and works at Quality Control Music. When I travel to Phoenix or to Chicago, or even Indianapolis or Cleveland, Orlando—when you walk into those airports, it’s a few of us. Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive.QC labelmates, Lil Yachty and JT of the City Girls, seemingly confirmed Marlo's death on social media. It’s hard getting money out here, especially for young black men with no education, coming from low-income areas.”Pee went on to explain that it’s Quality Control’s connection to the local neighborhoods, the streets, that has allowed their tiny label (Q.C. '”Coach K, who got his name from Jeezy for the label head’s proclivity to give instructions in the studio, is advised by his right hand man Pierre “Pee” Thomas, who he met through Gucci Mane. "People quickly started to claim that the car belonged to the rapper and that he had perished during the incident. And my friends be like, ‘How the hell do you understand that shit?’ I’m like, ‘This is what I love, and this is what I do. Quality Control Music (also known as Quality Control, QC the Label or simply QC) is an American record label founded by Kevin "Coach K" Lee and Pierre "Pee" Thomas in 2013. must have been through it. Me and one of my best friends, his parents had bought him two turntables, so we just started spending our money buying records.Then my cousin, he DJ’d so I got engulfed in buying records.”In search of a career in music management, Coach K moved to Atlanta from Indianapolis in the mid-90s, just as Outkast was blowing up and putting Atlanta hip-hop on the map. QC labelmates, Lil Yachty and JT of the City Girls, seemingly confirmed Marlo's death on social media. Want to contact Kevin ”Coach K” Lee? He was closely connected to "Hold it down for the four/In the nine with the woes/Marlo my dawg, that's for sure/We won't fall out about shit/'Specially not 'bout no bitch," Baby raps on the record.Marlo also made an appearance on QC's collaborative albums After news of Marlo's death hit the internet, several artists took to social media where they eulogized the rapper. 05:19 273,449 by Rahel Gebreyes. She such a smart courageous woman with vision and I promise she’s going to go down in History for being one of the best to ever do it. Offset, Lil Baby, Quavo, and More Featured on Marlo's New Project 'The Real 1'Quality Control Drops 2 New Songs, Lil Baby and DaBaby's "Baby" and City Girls and Saweetie's "Come On"a deceased individual by the name of Rudolph Johnson was brought in during the last 24 hours after reports surfaced of the rapper’s death.
On December 8th, the Atlanta hip-hop label Quality Control released their first label-wide project, It’s a massive, impressive, if not slightly overwhelming, project with guest appearances from Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, and Kodak Black.