A serial businessman and a recording artist Victor LombardAlso known as Divine, this week announced the launch of a new company, in partnership with RichOne of the more hipse hip -hop.
Company The notes are calledIt is Fintech specifically for independent urban musicians and creators. It provides knowledge and tools to help artists manage their career – such as providing resources to help them apply for loans or access to credit grades. It provides financial literacy and teaching music by providing multimedia courses, step -by -step evidence of financial management and how to flow music. It also contains an advantage that allows artists to write words and communicate with their peers on the application.
Notes has a “digital passport” feature that allows users to track credit, access loans and budget tools. The company is partners with lenders and creditors and earns a committee on referral fees when users apply for loans through the platform.
The app, currently in the experimental version, contains Amnesty International tools, including AI Voice Assistant in Rakim Voice. He hopes to fully launch at the end of February.
In chatting with Techcrunch, Divine said it was an inspiration to launch this company alongside Rakim because of his direct experience in dealing with the independent urban music scene and the difficulties that come when trying to finance a profession. It is well documented, through films, files, and the same music, which cuts the music industry Difficult and costly. Every great artist bears his name, who hits the plans, there are thousands who simply struggle to get them.
He said: “The music industry, as it is, is organized to benefit from artists through exploiter contracts and limited financial resources, which compels them on predators only to survive.” After spent the past Ten years building Fintech companies also said that technology will be a great equivalent, a way to redistribute control of artists and creators. Divine was previously established Fintech Blak, which focused on providing local communities under banks and solvents, which is also a new bank for deprived societies.
So think about notes, for musicians who teach themselves, finance their own projects and build jobs on their own terms. He now said that it is an appropriate time for this product because independent artists and creators have become more powerful and influential, yet they still lack a lot of financial support.
Delaine said that the divine then presented the company to the Rakim team as a way of partnership, and “it has become more powerful for change.”
Rakim is part of the hip -hop Erik B collection. & Rakim, which made waves during the golden age of the hip -hop in the eighties. Their album “Paid is completely” as one of The greatest albums in all ages Through the Rolling Stone in 2020, it was one of the first albums to use the fang samples and was affected by the flow of rapper.
Delin says he is known Rakim for 20 years, and he has always admired him because of “staying faithful to artists and his principles.”
“When I started to rewrite the notes, I knew that it should be more than just the Fintech platform, it should be a movement rooted in the values of empowerment and cultural originality,” the divine continued. “For this reason it made sense to bring Rakim on board.”
The partnership believes that Rakim comes as a co -founder and as a member of an advisory council. Rakim’s son, Tahil Griffin, is an executive center in the company.
At the present time, the company has become self -funded, but the divine said that the company is seeking to the pre -seed tour. It provides partisan and distinctive subscription membership notes. It seeks to earn money from its subscription models, and referral fees. He says this company is the culmination of its music and its technological journey.
“I want the notes that the narration from the artists who are exploited by standard stickers for artists who have their financial future and their professional success,” said dellaine. “If one of the artists can use notes to obtain funding for his next album, learn how to manage his musical career as a business, and benefit from society’s cooperation for growth, then we succeeded.”
