Blog of Jonathan Hay Publicity

Our publicity company has been working with Trakksounds for a few years now and he’s already being referred to as a “Super Producer”. With his most latest release titled Instrumental To Society (Hosted By DJ Holiday) you can see why people are gravitating towards this Houston Producer.

With all original music by Trakksounds, he manage to gather some of today’s biggest stars for his project including 2 Chainz, Bun-B, Wiz Khalifa, Royce Da 5’9, Devin The Dude, Freddie Gibbs, Killa Kyleon, Chevy Woods, Nipsey Hussle, Slim Thug, Pill, I-20, Chamillionaire, Cam’ron, Z-Ro, Alley Boy, Kirko Bangz and many more.  Wow!

This release was talked about literally everywhere. Check it out on Complex:

http://www.complex.com/music/2013/03/mixtape-trakksounds-instrumental-to-society

Stay tuned to more on Trakksounds…

Jonathan Hay has said his favorite publicity placement of all-time is The RZA Scratch Magazine cover story.  Jonathan arranged this when he was the publicist of Ringz & Partners Entertainment (RPEG) who handled the international representation of RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.

Jonathan arranged this RZA interview with Jesus Trivino, Senior Editor of Scratch Magazine (Harris Publication), and Cilvaringz (Founder of RPEG).  The writer for this interview was Thomas Golianopoulos and we set him up with RZA in a recording studio in North Hollywood, California on Friday, May 27th 2005.  This interview hit bookstores and newstands all across the country several months later.  It was a great issue and a AMAZING interview!  To this day, this is Jonathan Hay’s favorite publicity placement ever.

What people don’t know is that this interview almost didn’t happen, a story that will be further explained in Hay’s upcoming book, which delves into behind-the-scene details and never-before-heard stories from working in the industry.

Interesting Fact:  10 years ago, Jonathan Hay was once rumored to be the new manager of Wu-Tang Clan.  Read his past statement on Wu-Tang’s official website about this : http://www.wutang-corp.com/news/article.php?id=287

Our longtime clients, the GRAMMY® nominated Nappy Roots have just been officially inducted into the Full Sail Hall Of Fame. They were joined by other influential inductees such as Bruce Swedien (GRAMMY® award-winner),  Ed Jones (Academy Award-winner), Kevin Stolworthy (ESPN’s Senior Vice President), Al Schlesinger (former NARAS President and music attorney), Craig Evans (Live Nation’s Senior Vice President of Global Operations), Ricky Watters (former NFL Super Bowl winning running back),  John Saboor (Senior Vice President of Special Events at WWE), Cherie Hannouche (Google Executive), Steve Helling (People Magazine writer and New York Times best-selling author), and many more.

It sure is a good day for Nappy Roots! Read the Full Sail Press Release here: www.fullsail.edu/about/press-room/full-release/2013-1-30-full-sail-announces-4th-annual-hall-of-fame

On February 11, 2013 Jonathan Hay Publicity was on display for a major placement on television stations all across the nation on The Wendy Williams Show.  Wendy Williams is a famous talk show personality, actress and New York Times Best Selling Author, known worldwide as ”The Queen Of All Media”.

It’s a great placement and association to have something on The Wendy Williams Show.  In the words of Ice Cube, “Today was a good day.”  Contact Jonathan Hay Publicity at www.jonathanhaypublicity.com or email jonhay@gmail.com

Jonathan Hay Publicity will be providing a presentation for Sixty-First Street Elementary School for their “Career Day”.  We are truly honored to be asked to particpate in this event in which we will share with the students about the wonderful career of publicity and marketing.

Sixty-First Street Elementary School is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District which is It is the 2nd largest public school district in the United States.  This event will take place on March 15, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

We’ve been working on an upcoming major print story/interview to be released soon.  We were able to work with two extraordinary individuals by the name of Alex Pappademas and Brent Humpries, who are both working at the highest level in there professions.

Alex Pappademas is a writer who has too many amazing credits to name, but here is one of our favorites:  he did the the Jay-Z GQ Man of the Year cover story.  Alex Pappademas sat down with Jay-Z for a fantastic article that you can read at www.gq.com/moty/2011/jay-z-gq-men-of-the-year-issue

Brent Humpries served as the photographer for this upcoming piece and, much like Alex, he has too many exceptional credits to list.  Visit his website to view his wonderful portfolio at www.brenthumphreys.com.

… it doesn’t get better than that.

When this print story we’ve been involved with hits the newsstands, we will surely let you know.

One of our artists, Big Mike from The Geto Boys / Rap-A-Lot Records, will be performing at South By Southwest this year.  SXSW is considered “the only place to be” in the music industry from March 12 – 17.  We will have representatives in Austin, Texas during the festival/conference, so contact us if you are interested in connecting.

For more information on SXSW, go to www.sxsw.com

It’s also worth noting that our label partner Hoopla Worldwide will be releasing Big Mike’s brand new album here in the next few months.

Contact Sabrina Hale at www.twitter.com/yoursabrina for more info on Big Mike…

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