Gamma has a blizzard of projects in the works: collaborating with Warner Bros. and the studio’s label, WaterTower Records, on the soundtrack to the upcoming movie-musical adaptation of The Color Purple, executive-produced by Jackson’s pal Oprah Winfrey; possible big-screen appearances for Snoop; and an album from stalwart independent rapper Russ.

Rapper Chief Keef is gearing up to join gamma’s executive team.

Jackson has also been closely involved in the rollout of Scott’s Utopia, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Aug. 12. “He’s always at the roundtable with us,” Scott tells Billboard.

“I’ve got a lot of crazy, wild ideas. He has a million ideas, too. And he’s just able to bring things to life.” Although the rapper is not on gamma’s roster — at least, not yet — Jackson says he has functioned as “chief consigliere” to Scott and his manager, David Stromberg, since 2015.

Hate it when outside is hotter than inside

I hate when that happens

Might be because im broke too but not being european effects it fs

So Apple roped in Drake into the whole deal?

white privilege card declined

Larry Jackson's background Part 1

Jackson’s origin story seems cribbed from the script of Almost Famous, except his Rolling Stone was the Bay Area radio station KMEL, where he started hanging out at age 11. By the time he was 16, he was assistant music director.

“He was relentlessly dedicated,” recalls Joey Arbagey, a longtime major-label A&R executive who was then program director at the station.

Jackson helped select tracks to put into rotation, often ignoring the label’s chosen single in favor of one he thought sounded better. And he had his own show, developing a seductive on-air patter that always ended with a simple question: “What’s my name?” “He said it in a sexy voice,” Arbagey remembers, and callers “were lining up just to talk to him.”

Looks like maybe Drake has an ace up his sleeve for any "you are not black" shots that may be thrown his way

Ahh I see. No wonder he's big chilling lol

Don't you got a sponsor where you wanna be at?

Yeah hard to argue you're not supporting the black community when you're involved in something like that that's helping mobilize and support black commerce

Nah
U wanna help me out?

I got $3. What's your cashapp?

Larry Jackson's Background Part 2

After Jackson’s stints at KMEL and J (later absorbed into RCA), he hopscotched to Interscope, then Apple Music. “I didn’t graduate high school and didn’t go to college,” Jackson says. “My university was working with Clive. Graduate school was working with Jimmy Iovine.”

“Larry’s always had a feel for marketing, and he’s really good at understanding the flow of how music interacts with technology,” Iovine notes. “He’s always pushing the ball forward.”

Sounds like he's ready for whatever. Genuinely have no idea what angle that k dot will use but should be interesting if Drake has a rebuttal for all the bombs

Nah man not money
I need a visa sponsor
I will tell i am visiting you and s***
Even better if u can find me a job

You one of the few users that's actually objective and level headed on this site

Larry Jackson's Background Part 3

In the midst of all this deal-making, Jackson holds tightly to a piece of advice Iovine gave him roughly 13 years ago before hiring him at Interscope.

Jackson “is going to disrupt how people do things,” says Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, who started working with the gamma boss in the early 2000s as part of R&B songwriter-producer team The Underdogs.

“Creatives, we’re weird people, but he knows how to get the best out of us — that’s one of his superpowers. But then he can also do deals, structure agreements, really see trends and what is going to be next. He was built for this.”

At the time, Jackson was an A&R executive anxious about his future. “I said, ‘Man, I can’t leave RCA. We’ve got all these great artists I’m working with,’ ” he remembers. “ ‘What are you talking about?’ ” Iovine replied. “ ‘You can leave anytime you want. You’re the talent.’

Drake posting screenshots with his mum is the same energy as when he posted the note explaining blackface lol

History about to repeat itself

I'm just here for the music lol