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Nick Raphael

Entrepreneur

Jun 26, 2026

29:49
So first, tell us a little bit about some of these candidates that won these primaries in the state of New York and just where where we're heading.
29:56
Yeah, definitely.
29:57
I mean, first off, I'm not surprised by the results from a few days ago.
30:01
It's all the Mom Donnie momentum.
30:04
And a lot of these people who are coming out are, you know, transplants.
30:08
They're not native New Yorkers, and they're a bunch of... hipstery people who like work barista and bar jobs and they found community in the dsa and then and they came out and vote i mean um voter turnout for new york city is historically abysmal and i'm not surprised by this at all but to talk about the candidates i mean they're just you know you're one of the mill socialists they hate america they want to tax the rich give it all to the poor and let all the immigrants in and lgbtq and all that good stuff that they love
31:49
But tell us going forward, how can Republicans take back over these states and what should we be looking for? What do you guys look for when it comes to candidates and revitalizing that that spirit of America?
32:02
Yeah, well, I'm glad you brought that up.
10:51
Northwest Side co-founders Nick Raphael and Christian Tattersfield speak on the mutual motivation they and Rockefeller all shared.
10:59
You know, we had to prove that, you know, we'd left the home of London Records, which treated us wonderfully and were great people to us and brought us into the record business.
11:08
We really wanted to show the world that, you know, that we weren't all air, we actually could do something.
11:13
And the funniest thing, when we met Damon and Jay and we had that first meal in the Italian restaurant, I got a real sense from them.
11:20
They were, you know, they had a chip on their shoulder.
11:21
They wanted to show the world.
11:23
It'd taken too long for Jay to get recognized.
15:04
Nick Raphael and Christian Tattersfield share a reflective moment and speak on why they look at Reasonable Doubt as the best hip-hop album of all time and Jay-Z being the greatest of all time in the rap game.
speaker_2HOST
9:49
After getting North West Side Records off the ground, Nick and Christian travelled to New York to meet the Rockefeller founders at their John Street office to talk business.
9:58
Christian and I flew to New York, we went to their office in Wall Street and we went We went and had a meeting in the office.
10:06
Damon sat on the desk.
10:07
Jay sat on the radiator reading radio reports and determining which parts of the country he needed to fly to to do the radio shows or the hip-hop show or the breakfast show or the morning shows.
10:19
And he was making the plan.
10:22
Literally the artist, not the manager, not the promo person, the artist.
10:25
It was unbelievable.
speaker_2HOST
12:01
Neither Nick nor Christian had met Clive Davis or had a relationship with him.

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