Nov 2020 - Present
Melanie McClain
- @melknee
- Current A&R. Future VC.
- Brooklyn, NY
- she/her
Resume
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Head of Digital Culture, Airtime
Aug 2019 - Nov 2021
Publishing A&R, Secretly Group
Oct 2017 - Jul 2021
Hip Hop Music Content Specialist , YouTube
Portfolio
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Started a new job as Head of Digital Culture at Airtime
Set up a session in Lagos, Nigeria for Secretly Publishing's Asuquomo and Nigerian musician, PSIV
Interviewed in NYLON Magazine's The Infiniteness of Alt Black Girls https://www.nylon.com/life/alt-black-girls-rico-nasty-doja-cat-willow-smith
Spoke on African NFT Community's Music & NFTs panel
New Releases
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My artist at Secretly Publishing, Heno. released a remix with music video for his song “Parallel Timelines” with Mick Jenkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2xGwYbf3D8&feature=youtu.be
My artist at Secretly Publishing, Haviah Mighty released a new song called "Coulda Been U" https://open.spotify.com/album/5Qg3GM9GcplqBy1uiyWne9?si=V8KQ3hM9RFyy9BFyjL3njw
My artist at Secretly Publishing, Darryl Rahn released an EP called Regulars. On March 3rd 2020, Darryl posted a TikTok asking people to comment with their name and he will write an original song f...
My artist at Secretly Publishing, Haviah Mighty released a new song and music video called "Tesla" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nBq-xdgirw
Panels
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Spoke to a class at NYU about my experiences as an A&R and leader in the NFT community
I'm featured onthe new episode Tonya M. Evans' Tech Intersect podcast where we chat about Web3 world-building, music NFTs, digital ownership, crypto-driven economies, new revenue streams for creati...
Spoke on African NFT Community's Music & NFTs panel
Spoke on Black NFT Art's Women in NFTs panel
NFTs
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Bought Black NFT Art’s Rise Token NFT https://opensea.io/assets/0xd9e86b0e6185f457cf3274fdaa16be59c58bc9b4/1
Bought a Creatures NFT https://opensea.io/assets/0xc92ceddfb8dd984a89fb494c376f9a48b999aafc/5323
Bought a The Superlative Secret Society NFT https://opensea.io/assets/0xa7ee407497b2aeb43580cabe2b04026b5419d1dc/7393
Bought a Smilesssvrs NFT https://opensea.io/assets/0x177ef8787ceb5d4596b6f011df08c86eb84380dc/7650
Sync Placements
Secretly Publishing’s Haviah Mighty's new song "Pull Up" with Keys N Krates is featured in ASOS Fall/Winter campaign! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STNumJGTftA
My first publishing singing to Secretly Publishing, NNAMDÏ landed his first movie sync placement for his song, “Wasted” in Malcolm & Marie on Netflix, starring Zendaya and John David Washington. h...
Secretly Publishing's Kenneth Whalum's song "Mine In Time" was feature on the new episode of the STARZ show, Run The World. He is also featured on the TV soundtrack of the show scored by Robert Gla...