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Music Lawyer Extraordinaire, American Idol, Snoop Dogg... Drops a MILLION $ Of Game — Gary Greenberg
50 minutes Posted Sep 25, 2020 at 12:36 am.
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Gary Greenberg is a veteran entertainment attorney based in Los Angeles, California. He has represented 2pac, Snoop Dogg, Bone Thugs N' Harmony, and Multi-Grammy winning producer DJ Dahi among others. He also spent 7 years as in house attorney for American Idol representing all of the contestants. He is a graduate from ivy league law school, Brown University.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS //
+ We discuss being a creative person and businessperson and the healthy balance of the two...
+ How he discovered his path into music law.
+ The huge low of losing his first major client.
+ The fragility of maintaining human relationships.
+ Anxiety being ever-present working in the music industry.
+ LA having the most talented artists in the world as well as the most talented hustlers preying on them.
+ How Gary ended up getting deep into the hip-hop world and how his colleagues were telling him he needed to leave rap because the genre was going to die.
+ The process he had to go through to become the main in-house lawyer for AMERICAN IDOL and also what he learned in that experience.
+ How many of his colleagues left the industry during the lowest points and how it made him 2nd guess if he was next.
+ How he stays on his grind even though he has reached a very high level of achievement and success.