Chicago 1990

"It turned out to be a female rap..."

Song Ya was shocked by the new Apocalypse song. Although this London Bridge (London Bridge) is the first hip-hop song that cannot be slobbered, and the metaphor of the lyrics is quite indecent, but the melody is very ear-catching, and there are basically no female singers involved. Rap solo (solo),'Future' Fergie's skills have been very deep.

The TLC under BABYFACE can’t be considered a female rap group, only Lisa "Left Eye" is responsible for the hip-hop part of the song, and their main style is still rhythm and blues. Although LondonBridge has many other elements, there is no doubt that it is dominated by popular rap style.

He quickly figured out several things.

Whether it is for friendship, affection, or business, this song must be given to Fergie, and she is the most suitable one to sing this song.

In another world line, the future Fergie will definitely be popular, so you have to hold her firmly in your hands, and her next contract must start to plan how to get it with the least cost. Then, until the next contract is finalized, don't take out this song for the time being. Once it is taken out, a shrewd girl like Fergie will definitely be aware that she will become popular.

Fergie's first album now has two strong singles, ihateuiloveu female solo version and LondonBridge. The style has been very fragmented. Other songs can no longer exceed the style of these two songs, so as not to repeat the mistakes of their own first album.

After the release of this song, I am afraid that after the genre pioneers of talk-sing-speak and Chicago rap, the title of fusion hip-hop master may not be able to escape, plus the existing unknown style rhythm and blues song YoungDumb, my own journey The APLUS will definitely have a place in the historical evaluation of the American music scene.

The more I thought about it, the more happier I was. Suddenly the order out of control on the dance floor outside, it seemed that there was a riot.

"Hey! Stop Tony!"

Song Ya looked up and saw his followers grabbing a strange white man under Tony's leadership. Tony raised his fist and quickly shouted at him, "What happened?"

"He dared to do something to your girl," Tony said.

Song Ya saw a clear slap print on the man's face, and turned his eyes to Fergie. It should be Fergie's bold behavior that gave the other party the illusion that she thought it was a girl who could use it casually.

Fergie's eye makeup was crying, and there were two tear marks on her face. She lifted her leg and stomped on the man's thigh with a pointed heel.

"This lady, please calm down." The security personnel at the venue rushed over to separate the two sides, "Please don't break the rules here."

Taraji poked his waist in the back and signaled that the BBC reporter was still nearby. Song Ya saw that the guy who was beaten didn't say anything and didn't say anything. Indeed, there are a few big-and-big-and-big-big-big-big-and-brother black men on his side. There is no win in choosing to go hard.

"Don't fight, let's go, Taraji, check out."

He clamped Fergie under his arm and took the lead to walk outside.

"Long-eyed kid." Tony said, and the group hurriedly walked out. When they reached the door, the salon manager chased them out.

"Mr. APLUS, you have been marked as an unwelcome guest by this salon." The other party said.

"FXXK, it's up to you." Song Ya didn't pick him up, and he won't come anyway.

"Do you have monitoring? I want to keep a backup. Mr. APLUS doesn't want to be taken out of context by the media in the future." Old Mike said to the manager in no hurry.

The manager nodded, went back and took a cassette of videotape and handed it to Old Mike.

"APLUS, I don't need to write this paragraph." The BBC reporter said with a smile.

"It's okay, if you don't write it, I guess the news will go out tomorrow." Song Ya glanced at the paparazzi on the street. It's better to just sell it. It's not a big deal for hip-hop singers to fight in a bar.

Anyway, that’s it for the trip to the UK. In the fifth week, WhereIsTheLove took the top spot on the UK Gold Chart singles chart completely according to Motura’s design. I heard that it sold well in Germany, Australia and other places, and the results were quite impressive. Song Ya was satisfied.

The group returned to Chicago. In the fifth week, WhereIsTheLove was still No. 1 on the Billboard Double List, but they were already in jeopardy. Song Ya hadn't become so popular that he hadn't appeared in the U.S. media for nearly a week and could still remain hot, but neither So-called, due to the delay effect, next week will be crowned for another week, and it happens to be smoothly handed over to Mariah Carey.

KrisKross is a bit miserable. Song Ya's singles and albums were completely suppressed. How many weeks did Song Ya get the number one, and the two kids got the number two of the week. This is also because they signed the Sony Columbia Records. The label is under the pressure of Motura. Otherwise, if you change the artists of other big record companies, I am afraid that you will start to make small actions against Song Ya secretly after you find something is wrong.

"Rap plus pop, love songs, Fergie's first album must be limited to the following range."

In the conference room of A+ Records, Song Ya called Fergie to have a meeting with Dion Wilson, Dile and others.

"Rap? Fergie alone?"

Dion Wilson was surprised to confirm: "No girl has entered this field yet."

"Our company happens to be the first one." Song Ya will not disclose LondonBridge to anyone for the time being. "You can pick from the company's lyrics and music reserves."

"Well, it's a gimmick." Dion Wilson thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

"Jimmy, you also have to help Fergie collect the songs. Ask her friends in her circle about the relationship and so on. Anyway, do your agent's job well."

Since there were no objections, Song Ya announced the adjournment of the meeting.

"My dear, thank you." After being frightened once in London, Fergie also knew that the trick to gain from Song Ya by losing her temper was no longer working, and now she started to change her mind, "I know you treat me The best." She kept killing Song Ya's will with tender affection.

"We have one hour left."

Taraji came in to remind him that he would go to the Chicago Coliseum to cheer for ‘good brother’ Jordan. By the way, it was exposed. The Chicago Bulls once again entered the NBA Finals and are beating the Portland Trail Blazers.

"Yeah." Song Ya looked at them and told Taraji to close the door, "There is still some time, do you remember the two main towers of Tower Bridge in London?"

"Remember, what?" Fergie asked.

"We are like this...Taraji, you are here, Fergie, you are here..."

After watching the NBA, he went to the International Summer Consumer Electronics Fair in Chicago the next day, which was a platform for innovation and technology.

"The PCs of my record companies also use sound cards from innovative companies, which are very useful."

Song Ya smiled and said to the reporter who came to the exhibition, Tony and others scattered around the booth to protect, but it didn't seem necessary. The IT guy who came here was not very enthusiastic about him.

"Yes, I really like the effect of this sound card."

"Haha, of course not. Are civilian equipment used in record production. Which one? I won't help them with advertising, and they didn't give me money."

Twenty minutes passed quickly, and the people in the innovative company were satisfied with the results.

"Thank you APLUS, our cooperation is very successful." Mr. Hu, one of the bosses happily shook hands with him.

"Of course, I will continue to support you." In April, Innovative Technology was listed on the Nasdaq. Song Ya bought a million dollars in stocks, basically squeezing in the advertising expenses that the other party gave him twice. I'm looking for it.

"It seems that there are many investment opportunities here..." He said to Mr. Hu: "It seems that there are many small companies."

"Yes, the future of the technology industry is very good. There are many startups." Mr. Hu smiled and said, "How about I take you around?"

"can."

Under his leadership, Song Ya strolled around the electronics exhibition with relish. Naturally, he would not go to the booths of large companies such as Apple that have little investment potential. He looked for small companies that were not listed, and tried to compare the Apocalypse MV in his mind while watching. Screening, intending to replicate the miracle of "Huiyan" investing in DTS.

"The kind of visual effects for movies?" Mr. Hu is an insider. After hearing the demand, he took him to the SGI booth. "Many major Hollywood film companies use their products, a server It will sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars."

"Really?" Song Ya watched the demo for a while with the help of the other side's staff. Indeed, you can see the shadow of many Hollywood blockbusters.

However, the other party is a listed company, he has a high self-esteem, and he is not very enthusiastic about himself as a hip-hop singer. He stopped for a while, then raised his leg and left.

"C-CUBE?" In front of a shabby booth as big as a small hot dog stand, Song Ya stopped. It was not what was found in the Apocalypse MV, but the company and IeCube's stage name. so similar.

"Interested?" Mr. Hu smiled, "The boss of this company is also Chinese, Sun Yansheng, Yansheng! Here!"

Unexpectedly, the company boss was personally looking at the booth, "Hello, Mr. Sun." Song Ya shook hands with the other party, of course in Chinese.

"Hello."

The other party's Chinese is very good among the Chinese, and the two communicated without any hindrance, but he didn't seem to recognize the famous APLUS, and he was worthy of being Mr. Hu's friend.

"Is the MPEG chip? What is it for?" Song Ya asked about his product.

"Image decompression is the ability to decode the compressed data stored in the disc into sound and images that can be viewed..." The other party asked his subordinates to start showing.

"This thing is amazing!" Song Ya didn't expect that CD discs could be used not only to listen to songs, but also to watch movies! However, the presentation effect of the other party was not very good, and the sound and picture quality effects from the monitor were very rough.

"Yes, due to the limitation of the amount of data stored on the optical disc, the data needs to be compressed in advance, and the quality of the sound and image will be lost, and some will be lost when decoding..." The other party sincerely stated the inadequacies of their products Place.

"Do you accept investment? Angel investment?" Song Ya was moved.

"This..." The other party was a little embarrassed.

"Hahaha, Mr. Sun's wealth no longer needs that kind of investment." Mr. Hu laughed, "He is the founder of many technology companies~www.wuxiaspot.com~Uh..."

Song Ya's face turned dark, so why did he come to the front line if he was rich and dressed like an ordinary engineer? It made me embarrassed, really! "Then do we have a chance to cooperate? I am very interested in this technology."

"Of course, we are looking for partners who can help our chips be used in consumer electronics." Sun Yansheng said.

"A manufacturer that plays this format? That's easy to find, right? Are big companies like Sony and Panasonic not interested?" Song Ya asked.

The other party was embarrassed again.

"Big companies have their own industry standards to implement, and they don't want people to get in and get a share of the pie." Mr. Hu relieved again.

"And the film source is a big problem." Sun Yansheng added.

"I see." Just like the recording industry, companies like Sony control the upstream recording resources. It's not that no other company has tried to build another set of music players, but there is no song to listen to. What is the use of just making a machine?

"In short, if you have a chance to cooperate, please remember me." The two sides left the phone and said goodbye to each other.

"Graphics processing..."

Mr. Hu took to the booth of LSILogi. In short, there are many Asians in the consumer electronics industry, especially the proportion of East Asians such as notebooks, Shillas, Chinese, etc. is very high. In front of the company's booth There is also a Chinese descent standing.

"Hello, Huang Xun." The Chinese was not good enough. After reporting to his home, the two sides switched to English.

‘Cang! ’

When the two held hands together, Song Ya suddenly heard a clash of gold and iron in his mind, sounding like a sword drawing in a movie.

"This person seems a bit dangerous, I'd better stay away from him."

After a little chat, Song Ya hurried away.