Reservoir Announces Publishing Deal With Grammy-Winning Artist and Songwriter Killer Mike
March 15 2022 - 8:00AM
Reservoir Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSVR) (“Reservoir” or the
“Company”), an award-winning independent music company, today
announced a global publishing deal with Grammy-winning artist and
songwriter Michael Render aka Killer Mike, who is part of the
popular hip-hop super duo, Run The Jewels. The deal includes his
entire catalog and future works.
The Atlanta-born Mike has released four studio albums alongside
his Run The Jewels partner, EL-P. Their most recent, RTJ4, soared
to the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 and was met with widespread
critical acclaim, landing at #1 on NME’s The Best 50 Albums of 2020
list. Named the 2020 Spin Magazine Artist of the Year, Run The
Jewels have won eleven Libera Awards, including the 2021 A2IM
Humanitarian Award, took home four Clio Awards, including two
Gold-winning Music Marketing campaigns, and received a 2018 Grammy
nomination for Best Rap Song. The duo confirmed a tour with Rage
Against The Machine, set for later this year.
Beyond his work with Run The Jewels, Mike has been an active
solo artist for over 20 years, releasing studio albums and
mixtapes, while also collaborating on projects by some of the
biggest names in hip-hop including Outkast, Jay-Z, Big Boi, T.I.,
Black Thought, and more. Mike secured a Grammy Award for Best Rap
Performance Duo or Group for his collaboration with Outkast, “The
Whole World,” and also featured on “Poppin’ Tags” off Jay-Z’s #1
and triple-Platinum album, The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the
Curse.
In addition to his success as a musician, Mike has gained wide
recognition beyond the industry. He acted in several films,
including Baby Driver, Idlewild, and ATL. He also provided
voiceover for the 2021 Netflix film America: The Motion Picture and
is the host of multiple series including PBS’ Love & Respect
with Killer Mike, Facebook’s Roll’N with Killer Mike, and Netflix’s
Trigger Warning with Killer Mike.
Mike is an advocate for the disenfranchised, a business owner,
and a frequent public speaker on politics, race, and inequality in
many communities. In 2020, Mike’s extensive work as a social
justice activist earned him the first-ever Billboard Change Maker
Award.
On the deal, Mike said, “A great publisher is a major key to
success, and I’m excited to embark on this phase of my career with
the dynamic team at Reservoir.”
Faith Newman, Reservoir Executive Vice President of A&R and
Catalog Development, added, “Killer Mike has been a fixture of
hip-hop for decades now, and both his past successes and upcoming
music continue to push boundaries and address deeply meaningful
topics. Artists and visionaries of his caliber do not come around
often, and we are grateful to be the publishing home for such a
trailblazing creator.”
ABOUT RESERVOIR
Reservoir is an independent music company based
in New York City and with offices in Los Angeles, Nashville,
Toronto, London, and Abu Dhabi. Reservoir is the first U.S.-based
publicly traded independent music company and the first female
founded and led publicly traded music company in the U.S. Founded
as a family-owned music publisher in 2007, Reservoir has grown to
represent over 140,000 copyrights and 36,000 master recordings with
titles dating as far back as 1900 and hundreds of #1 releases
worldwide. Reservoir holds a regular Top 10 U.S. Market Share
according to Billboard’s Publishers Quarterly, was twice named
Publisher of the Year by Music Business Worldwide’s The A&R
Awards, and won Independent Publisher of the Year at the 2020 Music
Week Awards.
Reservoir also represents a multitude of
recorded music through Chrysalis Records, Tommy Boy Records, and
Philly Groove Records and manages artists through its ventures with
Blue Raincoat Music and Big Life Management.
Source: Reservoir Media, Inc.
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