With Coach K
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Coach K is the COO of Quality Control, a highly successful label from Atlanta responsible for the success of Migos and Lil Yachty, whose influence is evident within any club and across radio. It can be witnessed at any of the live shows around the world or online via social media, but it wasn’t always like this. It took them a minute to get to the point where they were recognised as household names. Before the raging chart success of ‘Bad and Boujee’ or ‘1 Night’ the creative merit of both acts was questioned, doubted, and ridiculed at different points within their career. The internet is a gift and a curse. Within moments you can be internationally known and heralded as ‘the next one’, but you can be bullied into conforming or condemned just as quick by social media and the online ‘rap supremacists’. Most MC’s will tell you that their come up wasn’t easy. That it was challenging, that they were either dissed, booed, blocked, or told to give up at some point. Despite the challenges, most artists...
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