Things seem to be going great for Chaka Zulu right now.  Not only does he serve as the CEO of ‘Disturbing tha Peace’ Records (which just signed ‘Lil Scrappy’) and Ludacris’ Manager, Chaka Zulu was recently invited to be an Honorary Speaker at a Yale University Master’s Tea.  I had the pleasure of speaking with Chaka Zulu about some of the secrets...

A lot of people who visit my site are often confused about the relationship between Asylum Records, Atlantic Records, and Warner Bros. Records, since some of Asylum’s artists such as Paul Wall and Webbie have had the Atlantic Records logo on their albums. Well, let me try my best to explain this to you all to where it will make sense.

WordofSouth.com: Go ahead and introduce yourself for the people. Greg Gates: Alright, it’s your boy Greg Gates. 850 Fort Walton Beach, FL. I’m a writer for Down Magazine, Murder Dog, and The Source. I’m the head of Revolution DJ’s record pool, and I’m the CEO of “Greg Gates Music Conference.”

In my experience, there are two ways to get signed to a deal that could possibly lead to a successful career in the music industry. One way is to put out your own CD and sell enough CDs regionally to create the leverage to entice a major label into signing you to a deal that will lead to success, and the second way is to sign to an already established platinum recording...

In all honesty, most web sites will probably not feature you unless you are a major label artist, independent doing major things, or it suits their personal opinion. Hey, it sounds fucked up, but hell, that’s life, and this is the Internet. A lot of the times artists, labels, publicists, managers, or whoever it is that e-mails us Web site people do not have...