"Tomorrow Call Billy Jam, Cause he's the Man".
Billy Jam really helped me to break my music into other regions back in the day. He had the Hip Hop Slam and he would run ads where he would put an artists album cover in the ads then you could call the Hip Hop Shop and he would give you options and you could press a button on your telephone key pad to hear certain new music. He put 3 of my albums on there and I started getting calls from everywhere.
Because of Billy Jam, executives from Japan would come out to The Music People and buy boxes of my Cassette Tapes and Cd's and take them back to Japan (thats why I move so much product in Japan). After The Music People closed down those same executives from Japan would go and deal with Showtime and buy boxes of product from him. Billy Jam helped so many Bay Area artists.
L-Love
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