The Kid Laroi ≠ Scooter, fighting friends and I OH YOU founder Johann Ponniah

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"I did the deal with AJ in my final year of high school when I was 17, turned 18, and then 3 months after I finished High school I'm on the Soundwave tour with The Offspring" - Johann Ponniah, teenage tour manager and contract repurposer.

 

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Sydney rapper and certified global superstar The Kid Laroi has bailed on Scooter Braun’s management after only three months and gone to Adam Leber's Rebel Management. #AriGold James Murphy and DFA are in the news this week as it comes to light the famously contentious LCD Soundsystem big brain and man behind DFA records has ousted longtime label co-founder and friend Jonathan Galkin from the label. As in, “changed the locks” kind of oust. Fun fact: their slogan was “Too old to be new, too new to be classic.” Johann Ponniah. Label manager, great operator, party DJ, sender of 4am emails. I OH YOU Records founder.

The book Marcus refers to is Meet Me In The Bathroom.

 

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Sosefina Fuamoli - Instagram / Twitter / sosefinafuamoli.com

Marcus Teague - Twitter / The Guardian / Bandcamp

 

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