Music industry veteran, journalist, and television producer Elliott Wilson has added a new enterprise to his business empire. ELLIOTT WILSON EXPERIENCE is a first-of-its-kind video podcast that will bring the audience into the day-to-day life of Wilson as he steps into a snippet of his Hip Hop heavyweight guest’s life.
The launch of ELLIOTT WILSON EXPERIENCE was timed to coincide with Hip Hop’s 50th anniversary this year. Rather than sidling up to a red table or a bar on a set, Wilson meets his guest where they’re presumably most comfortable –whether it be at their studio, a pool party, or a private listening session – for a candid, fly-on-the-wall-style interview. Think of ELLIOTT WILSON EXPERIENCE, which has shorter episodes than a typical podcast, as an opportunity to “overhear” a conversation with your favorite artist and get a glimpse of them with their guard down.
For the first episode, which is available now, Wilson steps into the studio with the incomparable seven-time Grammy Award-winning and RIAA diamond-certified musical icon Big Boi. The pair discussed OutKast being only one of two Rap acts to win the Grammy for Album of the Year for Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, which was a double album comprised of solo albums from Big Boi and André 3000. (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was the first Rap album to win the award.) The pair also chop it up about how the music industry has evolved since the album’s release 20 years ago. Fans will also get exclusive access to DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Ja Rule, and others (hopefully, some women of Hip Hop) during the podcast’s first season.
Wilson is an entrepreneur who has enjoyed more than three decades of unparalleled access to the music industry’s top innovators. He believes that content creators and entrepreneurs owning and monetizing their work should be the standard, not a luxury. Therefore, he chose Patreon, which launched an incubator program for BIPOC creators last year, as the home for his podcast.
ELLIOTT WILSON EXPERIENCE sounds like it will be what the Hip Hop head listens to when they’re not listening to music.
