I’ve worked with him for a long time, and he and I are tight,” Korsan says. The A&R genius also works with a plethora of artists in the studio, Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q included. Producers are really running music now, and I think they’re the cornerstones of modern music more so than the artists at this point.” I always felt like producers were the underrepresented side of music, and it’s nice to see them finally getting their just due. “I’ve been doing producer management for close to ten years. “I manage mostly producers: DJ Dahi, Cardo, Ricci Riera, J.LBS, Nino, this new guy Mike Hector,” he explains. One of two studios, as he has one in West Hollywood and one in Santa Monica. “Around four or five I usually hit the studio,” Korsan says to us. Without those people I wouldn’t be here.” All those people either helped put me in the industry or helped catapult me and had faith in me. Krondon, Alchemists, Evidence, No I.D., Nick Tershay from Diamond. “I never had a big brother, but he’s definitely a big brother to me. “Chace Infinite, Rocky’s manager, is like my big brother,” he says. I would burn CDs, and when the mixtape game hit, I was on writing all the new songs down and downloading them on Napster.”Īnd while Korsan may have taught himself the ropes, he’s had a few mentors along the way. In college I spent my first-ever scholarship check on a CD burner. Other than that, I listened to a lot of fucking music growing up. “I can think out of the box will try to lead an artist into different territories. The right beats for people,” he tells us. You have to ask a lot of questions, read a lot of books, and you go through a lot of insecure times because you’re constantly amongst people who have been doing this for a long time and that have been groomed to do it.” He went on to add, “I’ve been fortunate that I’m pretty good at picking beats. “I came into it knowing that I had good taste-I never was insecure about that part, but just getting thrown into the fire. But how did someone who is self-taught within the industry go from being a kid playing sports to running around managing producers and artists? “I didn’t do this in a conventional way,” he tells us. The first thing we learned? The man doesn’t sleep a lot-we’re talking maybe four hours a night.Īs Korsan mentioned earlier, his afternoons are either spent at the Interscope office or running around from meeting to meeting. We decided to trail along with Korsan for a day to get a true, firsthand account of how he juggles his time with so much happening. While Korsan has been working independently as A&R for many years with artists like Alchemist, Kendrick Lamar, and Schoolboy Q (just to name a few), this is the first time he has actually worked inside a company, with an official title: VP of Urban A&R. Korsan is a jack-of-all-trades-“The Winston Wolfe of music,” as Complex calls him-splitting his time between artist management, producer management, consulting, being a managing partner for No Vacancy Inn, and working A&R (artists and repertoire aka artist development and talent scouting) for Interscope Records. The industry wouldn’t be what it is without these key players, a major one of them being Brock Korsan, known to many by his internet alias, Brocky Marciano. Now more producers, managers, talent scouts (otherwise known as A&R), and others who have been more BTS are getting some well-deserved time in the spotlight. While artists have been at the forefront of music for, well, ever, over the past year or so we’ve seen a shift in this.
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