Drew Dixon: In the Room Where it Happens

Podcast: Great Art, Big Ideas · International Festival of Arts & Ideas

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

She was checking a track listing for a Method Man album when she noticed an unused interlude. She pitched it as a duet, got Mary J. Blige on the vocal and Puff Daddy on the mix, and the result — “I’ll Be There For You / You’re All I Need To Get By” — became one of the defining records of the era. Her name wasn’t on it. Drew Dixon spent the 1990s in rooms where hip-hop was being decided. She started as an unpaid receptionist. At Zomba she signed Nas to a publishing deal before Illmatic came out. At A...