Issa Rae’s Raedio file label has signed Grammy-nominated producer ThankGod4Cody in addition to rising acts Jae Stephens and GAWD.
ThankGod4Cody labored on seven tracks from SZA’s SOS, together with “I Hate U,” “Love Language” and “Search & Destroy.” This month he was nominated for album of the yr on the Grammys alongside the best-selling singer, who gained three honors together with greatest progressive R&B album. ThankGod4Cody additionally labored on 4 songs from SZA’s 2017 debut Ctrl, together with the multi-platinum hits “The Weekend,” “Love Galore” and “Damaged Clocks.”
Jae Stephens is a rising R&B singer and one of many winners of Raedio’s Creators Program with Google in 2022. Her newest undertaking is the 2022 EP Hello My Title Is and she or he carried out on Saturday Night time Reside with R&B-pop star Khalid in 2019.
GAWD is a LA-based feminine duo of Alana and Alayna, who’ve toured with Harry Kinds, Purple Scorching Chili Peppers, Anderson. Paak, Steve Lacy and Duckwrth.
“We’re thrilled to welcome ThankGod4Cody, Jae Stephens and GAWD to Raedio,” Xtina Prince, Raedio’s basic supervisor, mentioned in an announcement. “Their expertise and artistry symbolize a number of the greatest within the trade and we look ahead to amplifying their voices.”
Raedio is in a partnership with Def Jam Information. Its roster contains TeaMarrr, NCognita and Josh Levi, who has a present TikTok hit with the R&B groove “Birthday Dance.” Levi additionally voiced the character of Aaron Z within the fictional boy band 4*City within the Pixar-animated movie Turning Purple, and the group’s track “No one Like U” — written by Billie Eilish and Finneas — earned the sibling songwriting staff a Grammy nomination for greatest track written for visible media.
Raedio, which has been described as an “audio all over the place firm,” additionally focuses on music publishing, music supervision, music library, podcasts, digital content material and occasions.
Rae lately sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to foretell winners of the 2024 Grammy Awards, the place a number of of the nominees had been artists who bought boosts from her TV exhibits Insecure and the just-canceled Rap Sh!t — together with SZA, Victoria Monét, Leon Thomas, 6lack, SiR, Alex Isley and extra.
“It’s an honor that Insecure has been in a position to characteristic so many artists, given them their first syncs. We’ve carried out the identical on Rap Sh!t, and to see them be awarded and acknowledged on the Grammys, I really feel happy with them, and I really feel happy with our collective style in our ears. We’re clearly followers first — that’s why they make it onto the soundtracks. So, we’ll proceed to be followers and root for them eternally,” she informed THR.
“Music elevates the storytelling of all the things. I write to music, [and] you’ll be able to have a scene that performs out nice however music will add that little little bit of pressure, or that spark, or that feeling. It is going to cement a scene in your mind,” she additionally mentioned. “There are such a lot of songs that I affiliate with particular scenes which have additionally, in flip, affected my life and my reminiscences, and it simply provides an additional feeling to that track. So, they actually work hand-in-hand superbly.”
