{"id":9740,"date":"2026-02-06T14:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/?p=1236172431"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:43:25","slug":"larussell-talks-meeting-jay-z-kyrie-irving-paying-11000-for-his-album-performing-at-super-bowl-lx-im-here-to-represent-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarmiento24h.com\/?p=9740","title":{"rendered":"LaRussell Talks Meeting Jay-Z, Kyrie Irving Paying $11,000 for His Album &amp; Performing at Super Bowl LX: \u2018I\u2019m Here to Represent the\u00a0Region\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\" data-pmc-adm-ad-id=\"10140328\">\n<h3> Trending on Billboard <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> Nearly a decade into his rap career,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/larussell\/\"> LaRussell<\/a> is finally starting to enjoy the fruits of his labor. The Bay Area native has been hard at work, rewriting the script as an independent trailblazer, which caught the watchful eye of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/jay-z\">Jay-Z. <\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-related-artists \/\/ lrv-u-margin-tb-1 lrv-u-flex u-flex-direction-column@desktop-xl u-flex-direction-column@desktop-xl-max lrv-u-align-items-center lrv-u-margin-l-00@desktop-xl a-glue@desktop-xl lrv-a-glue--t-0 lrv-a-glue--l-0 u-margin-t-29px@desktop u-margin-t-250@mobile-max u-margin-lr-auto@desktop-xl-max u-max-width-400@desktop-xl-max u-width-100p@mobile-max u-max-width-80@desktop-xl\" readability=\"6.6153846153846\">\n<p><h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title lrv-u-color-white a-font-primary-fancy-m lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-text-align-center a-article-related-module-title lrv-u-padding-tb-050\"> Explore <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"a-article-related-module-wrap lrv-u-flex u-flex-direction-column@desktop-xl lrv-u-flex-grow-1 u-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"o-card lrv-u-flex u-flex-direction-column@desktop-xl u-flex-direction-column@desktop-xl-max u-align-items-center lrv-u-position-relative u-flex-basis-100p lrv-u-padding-b-075\">\n<div class=\"o-card__image-wrap lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column u-width-80 u-width-160@mobile-max lrv-a-glue-parent lrv-u-flex-shrink-0\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image lrv-u-height-100p\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/larussell\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\"> <\/p>\n<div class=\"a-crop-1x1 lrv-u-height-100p\"> <img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-billboard-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" alt data-lazy-srcset data-lazy-sizes height width decoding=\"async\"> <\/div>\n<p> <\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"o-indicator lrv-a-glue a-glue--b-n050 lrv-a-glue--r-0 a-glue--t-auto a-glue--l-0 lrv-u-margin-lr-auto u-pointer-events-none lrv-u-background-color-brand-primary lrv-u-border-radius-50p u-width-20 u-height-20 a-icon-related-artist lrv-a-icon-after\"> <\/span> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"c-tagline a-font-secondary-fancy-xxxs@desktop-xl a-font-secondary-fancy-s@desktop-xl-max lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-black u-padding-t-13 lrv-u-padding-b-2 lrv-u-margin-tb-00 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-color-black lrv-u-width-100p\">See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DT6drpaCDOF\/\">LaRussell met Hov<\/a> last month at the Roc Nation offices in Los Angeles, which resulted in the rapper <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TX7ioAoVMr0\">inking a deal with Roc Nation.<\/a> The 31-year-old partnered with ROC Nation Distribution, while retaining rights to his masters. In a way, LaRussell took both the $500,000 and the meeting with Jay, which has been a nauseating debate on social media for years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> \u201cI got to a point in my journey where I\u2019m the first in my lineage to do a lot of these things, so I no longer have a guide,\u201d LaRussell tells <em>Billboard<\/em>. \u201cAnd Hov is who is now another guide for me that I could look to and say, \u2018Hey, man, how did you navigate this?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> Doors are already starting to open, as the NFL took note of LaRussell\u2019s movement, who will be curating the house band for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/super-bowl-2026-time-performers-commercials-everything-to-know\/\"> Super Bowl LX<\/a> at Levi\u2019s Stadium, and is also slated to perform in Santa Clara on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 8) at the Tailgate alongside headliner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/teddy-swims\">Teddy Swims. <\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> Inspired by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/nipsey-hussle\"> Nipsey Hussle\u2019s<\/a> entrepreneurial $100 mixtape approach, which saw the late Los Angeles rapper sell 1,000 copies of his <em>Crenshaw<\/em> project in 2013 (Jay-Z was a buyer), LaRussell is looking to sell 100,000 copies of his <em>Something\u2019s in the Water<\/em> album. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> Delayed until March after falling short of his six-figure goal, LaRussell\u2019s \u201cpay what you want\u201d model charges fans as little as a dollar for early access to the LP on the EVEN platform. Plenty of celebrities have also stepped up to support LaRussell with four and five-figure purchases. The list notably includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/kyrie-irving-larussell-somethings-in-the-water-album-payment-1236149204\/\">NBA star Kyrie Irving<\/a> ($11,001),<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/snoop-dogg\"> Snoop Dogg <\/a>($2,500), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/e-40\">E-40 <\/a>($1,000) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/raphael-saadiq\">Raphael Saadiq<\/a> ($10,000). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> \u201cShout-out [Nipsey Hussle]. He did the $100 album. And this was my way of just giving a nod to Nip, but opening the door for more people to have access,\u201d LaRussell adds. \u201cIt\u2019s been really dope to see, especially the artistic community, because you don\u2019t often see artists supporting artists in this fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> Check out our full interview with LaRussell ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/super-bowl-2026-time-performers-commercials-everything-to-know\/\">Super Bowl LX<\/a>, which finds him detailing his meeting with Jay, getting love from his peers and advice for independent artists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>You\u2019re curating the house band for the Super Bowl. How does something like that even come<\/strong> <strong>about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> A lot of long conversations. We\u2019ve been meeting with the NFL for the past few months, speaking our piece and stating why we think we deserve the opportunity and it finally came around. They sent it up to the top, and the Tailgate was something that was last-minute. But the house band curation is something we\u2019ve been working on for a minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>What\u2019s your vision for that and the Tailgate performance?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> It\u2019s just gonna be a nice welcome to the Bay Area. A nod to my region and where I\u2019m from. You\u2019re gonna hear a lot of sounds that, if you\u2019re not from here, you might be unfamiliar with. It\u2019s gonna be a lot of collar popping and a lot of collar holding. It\u2019s gonna be a lot of head-swinging and shaking. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> I\u2019m here to represent the region and the turf, and I wanted to show the rest of the world what we got to offer. Historically, we haven\u2019t gotten an opportunity to really be on this level and on these kinds of platforms. So I feel like it\u2019s rightfully due. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>You pushed the album back to March; we got more albums to sell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> It\u2019s crazy because the day after we bumped it back, I got a sale from Gary Vee for $18,000 and Raphael Saadiq for $10,000. So I\u2019m really grateful that I stuck with my gut and chose to push it back, and just campaign some more. I wanted to get the people more involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>Touch on some of those celebrity purchases, like Kyrie Irving paying $11,000. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> Kyrie Irving, $11,000 and we donated that back to the hood. E-40, $1,000. Cedric the Entertainer, Snow tha Product ($5,000) and Snoop Dogg ($2500).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>I just saw Raphael Saadiq did too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> I was surprised, yeah, I didn\u2019t know. That\u2019s so cool for somebody who shares the same lineage and legacy as me to do that. That\u2019s a special moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>It\u2019s been cool to see how much love you\u2019re getting on social media from like Busta Rhymes to Charlamagne Tha God.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> I feel like it\u2019s been years and years of build-up. Charlamagne gave me one of my first really big opportunities by allowing me to come on <em>The Breakfast Club<\/em> and rap. That really expanded my career beyond just my region. He watched me turn down Roc Nation and watched me go through all these different phases of my journey. This full-circle moment of like, \u201cDamn, you did it and you stayed indie and you stuck to your guns.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>How cool is it to see J. Cole on the EVEN platform with <em>Birthday Blizzard<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> That\u2019s really insane \u2014 because, yeah, we was really in the bedroom in my mama\u2019s crib during that first launch. How do we make this efficient? How do we make it effective? How can this benefit everybody? And to go from that all the way to J. Cole, Wale, 21 Savage. We\u2019ve had so many people use the platform and sell more units than they\u2019ve ever sold, and be able to make more money than they\u2019ve made traditionally off streaming. It\u2019s been a beautiful thing. That\u2019s something that came from us. That exists because I\u2019m alive.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>How about the new single \u201cI\u2019m From the Bay\u201d with Lil Jon?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> Yeah, we fired up. It\u2019s produced by Lil Jon and my homies. That\u2019s the part that makes me feel really good. I put Jon in the studio with people that I\u2019ve been building with, who\u2019ve been here with me from the jump. Hokage Simon, we did our first show out of town together, my very first booking, and to make it to a point where he\u2019s working on records with Lil Jon beside him for this album is a special moment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>How was linking with Jay-Z? You didn\u2019t take the $500,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> I took both; it was really incredible. It was dope to see somebody climb so high up the ladder and still have their feet on the ground. You don\u2019t experience it often. You get to a point where you can have money, where you don\u2019t have to deal with anyone and still take your time out to deal with people that you don\u2019t have to and share how it makes you feel and your experiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>Take us into those conversations with Jay. What game did he give you or what were those questions you were looking for guidance on?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> We talked about what the future looks like and what the past looks like, and how we can\u2019t replicate the past, and how necessary it is for us to move forward, and how all the infrastructure needs to shift to look different and just how many blows Hov has to take by being innovative. We allow everyone else to do anything that he does, but Hov does it and it\u2019s an issue. We allow everybody else to make streaming platforms, but Hov does and it\u2019s an issue. And that\u2019s something that\u2019s deeply rooted, far beyond him. But he\u2019s really in a fight for what we\u2019re after, the same fight that I\u2019m fighting. That\u2019s why it meant so much to me, because he understood what it took for me to get to where I am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>Were you starstruck talking to Hov?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> Oh yeah! After he walked in the room, my whole crew was starstruck. We just started fiddling. We just started hitting buttons on our computer with nothing on the screen. And I felt really grateful for that experience, because I don\u2019t get that anymore. I often give that to people, but I don\u2019t get that experience. So that was the first time for me in a long time where I met someone who made me feel like, \u2018Damn, larger than life.\u2019 Hov is tall, but he\u2019s a giant outside of his height.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>How was putting together that $1,000 Backyard Experience for your fans?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> Legendary. That was my first time asking my community to support me that deeply. Yeah. And it was another thing, like the $100,000 album sold campaign. We\u2019re just on a walk, popping our s\u2013t. And I decided to launch the next day, and it sold out immediately. The first show went just like that. Within hours, we announced the second show. We sold 250 tickets total, quarter of a million dollars off a low-capacity show. I feel like I got the Guinness World Record for the lowest amount of tickets sold for the highest amount of revenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>Does it feel awkward charging fans that much, like I gotta deliver on this experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> It don\u2019t feel weird because I meet people for a dollar. They paid because they believed in what we were doing and cultivating an experience. But like, whether you pay $1000 or you pay a dollar, if you come to my show, you\u2019re gonna meet me, you gonna get a hug. But this one was just more intimate, because we\u2019re gonna go to dinner and come to the crib early. This was really the community rallying around somebody they believed in. You\u2019ve never seen your favorite artists in their backyard. Only my fans get to say that for the rest of every artist\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>What\u2019s the plan for when you run it back?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> I am going to run it back, but I\u2019m gonna scale it up each time. We\u2019re gonna make new history every time. And I want to add more amenities. We\u2019ll do pop-up shows, and then I\u2019ll go play pickleball with the fans. We\u2019ve been really finding ways to cultivate and build that relationship deeper than just come watch me rap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>What makes a star in this era? Mainstream stardom is very different from when we grew up. It\u2019s very niche, like you got a Rod Wave, an NBA YoungBoy and now a Don Toliver. How do you view that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> I think they\u2019re very popular, but they\u2019re not stars. Stars are hard to come by, like a star shines everywhere, not just in the niche, not just like in random places, but no matter where you at. I think that only God could cultivate that. You know, everyone\u2019s not chosen for that role. I don\u2019t even think there\u2019s an amount of work you could do to get that. Like Michael Jackson was chosen. He earned it, and he worked his a\u2014 off, but he was chosen. There was a certain light about him that just existed. I don\u2019t think we really have too much say in that; it\u2019s just a life that\u2019s unfolding. Like, I\u2019m really a n\u2014a from Vallejo who had no star quality at one point. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>Looking at the music landscape now, what are your tips for independent artists?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> Be hyper authentic. I think that\u2019s like a very cliche one, but it\u2019s the most important, like I\u2019ve gotten this far, because when people see me outside, it\u2019s the same person that they seen online. They never encounter a different version of me, and they can relate to that. They feel the human. They feel like they can bring their kids to me, they can bring their grandmother to me. And that\u2019s all due to authenticity, like they connect at a real, genuine level. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m some star and I\u2019m up here and they\u2019re down here and you just got to witness me be that. People come up to me like I\u2019m their cousin. Like there\u2019s certain people you\u2019re scared to meet, but then people treat me like I\u2019m literally a relic, like they grew up knowing me their whole life. I think being really consistent, honing your craft to the point where you become undeniable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> 2021 was my first viral moment on the scene, and I lasted five years independently, spending my own money and building my own ecosystem. There\u2019s artists who have been on majors who disappeared completely. It\u2019s a really hard feat, but you can only do that by making yourself undeniable. You stay consistent, and you do so much work that it\u2019s even if you don\u2019t want to see me, you have to see me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> <strong>How was linking with Wiz Khalifa?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \"> Legendary, I got to hit a joint. It was really beautiful, especially the moment we had after, when the world took to it, and it was like the narrative of, \u201cMan, I haven\u2019t heard Wiz like this in a long time. This is <em>Kush &amp; Orange Juice<\/em> Wiz.\u201d It really lifted the tide. Him dropping the album after that, I felt like I added a pillar moment to that journey leading into that album. I was just grateful to contribute to his journey in that way, and vice versa. It was a special moment. 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