300 Entertainment Leaders Join Howard University’s Warner Music/Blavatnik Center

Rayna Bass and Selim Bouab person been appointed executives-in-residence astatine the Warner Music/Blavatnik Center for Music Business astatine Howard University in Washington, D.C. The brace are the co-presidents of 300 Entertainment and Atlantic Records Hip-Hop, R&B and Global Music.

Bass and Bouab’s assignment is successful keeping with the center’s extremity to link Howard University’s students with apical executives successful the planetary euphony industry. The programme provides one-on-one mentorship, maestro classes and applicable insights astir enforcement leadership, creativity and the aboriginal of the business.

In the property merchandise announcing the duo’s caller roles, Jasmine Young, MBA, manager of the Warner Music/Blavatnik Center for Music Business astatine Howard University, commented, “Rayna Bass and Selim Bouab are 2 of the astir visionary leaders successful the industry, and we are honored to invited them arsenic executives-in-residence. Our students volition payment straight from their knowledge, creativity and committedness to breaking barriers. This assignment reflects our ngo to supply Howard students with nonstop entree to the highest levels of enactment successful the planetary euphony industry.”

“Howard University, unneurotic with the Warner Music/Blavatnik Center for Music Business, has a beardown bequest of cultivating bold, originative leaders,” said Bass and Bouab successful a associated statement. “That ngo aligns with what we bash astatine our label, and we’re excited to stock our experiences and assistance rise up the adjacent procreation of euphony concern innovators.”

Bass took connected an expanded relation wrong the Atlantic Music Group earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile she was appointed co-president of Atlantic Records Hip-Hop, R&B and Global Music. She initially joined 300 Entertainment arsenic its archetypal selling prosecute successful 2014. Promoted to elder vp of selling successful 2019, Bass was elevated to co-president of 300 Entertainment successful 2022. A Billboard Women successful Music and R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players honoree, Bass has helmed campaigns for Megan Thee Stallion, Young Thug, Gunna, Mary J. Blige and PinkPantheress, among different artists.

Since joining 300 Entertainment arsenic good successful 2014, Bouab aboriginal served arsenic the label’s elder vp and caput of A&R earlier being named co-president with Bass successful 2022. Then again alongside Bass, Bouab added the co-president station astatine Atlantic Records Hip-Hop, R&B and Global Music this year. Along the way, helium has signed, developed and collaborated with artists including Megan Thee Stallion, Fetty Wap and Tee Grizzley arsenic good arsenic Young Thug, Gunna and Jordan Adetunji. Bouab, who’s besides established his ain Unauthorized Entertainment label, is simply a multiple-year Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players honoree.

“Rayna and Selim embody what it means to pb with some innovation and integrity,” stated Julian Petty, enforcement vp and caput of business/legal affairs for Warner Records and the Warner Music/Blavatnik Center’s Visionary. “Their careers correspond the possibilities for our students, and their willingness to determination into the adjacent procreation is what makes this concern truthful special. The halfway continues to acceptable the modular for excellence successful euphony concern education, and I americium thrilled to spot Rayna and Selim instrumentality connected this role.”