Chicago 1990

"APLUS, look here."

"ALPUS, look at this and thank you."

"Here, APLUS."

A week later, Song Yabi showed up at the opening ceremony of the new Dow Light Stick Products Factory in Michigan with his thumbs up, "Laugh, APLUS." The reporters greeted them with short sentences, and the shutter rang, and he immediately He grinned, showing white teeth.

"Mr. Vice President, can you get closer?"

"Okay, let's be together." The Vice President of Dow in the center opened his arms cordially, and put his arms around Song Ya and other employees with thumbs up.

"Your engagement ceremony? Haha, I will take my family with me."

After finishing the propaganda task, the vice president took over the helmet handed over by him and put it on together with Song Ya, and the group walked into the factory behind them, "Let's take you around here first."

Dow finally eliminated the hidden danger, or reached a compromise with its opponents. Song Ya didn’t know how they did it and what the specific conditions were. However, in the end, Dow failed to complete the goal of monopolizing the civilian market and only eliminated some. It is only similar products that use old compounds. In the light stick market, they will still face competition from notebooks and other large local companies in the United States.

Perhaps this result has made them a little emboldened. After all, the competition between American companies and books in the same dimension has not been very good. At the beginning, the fourth phase of the project with an investment of nearly 100 million yuan was quietly ignored. This old factory was renovated, not far from downtown Detroit, just off Interstate 75 on the west bank of the Detroit River.

However, the vice president is still full of energy. He is very satisfied with Song Ya's endorsement work, so he was very affectionate during the meeting.

"This is the production workshop..." He personally introduced Song Ya. The reporters just now were stopped outside the factory. Only two employees from the factory's propaganda department carried cameras to follow.

There are new and old equipment in the workshop. The workers have already started work. A group of people looked around at the door of the workshop and then retired. Someone handed the mass-produced light stick products to Song Ya's hands, and he broke the bend and played with it. After a while, I praised and marveled at the camera while holding a bunch of colorful luminous bodies, and had a full play.

"This is the laboratory..."

After completing the publicity task, everyone continued to stroll around the factory and stopped near a construction site. "There will be a new production line, using newer technology and better equipment, which can reduce the cost by half. It can be completed next year. ?"

Standing on a small slope made of earth, the vice president vigorously asked the former general manager of Barn, who is also the general manager of Dow's fluorescent department.

"It should be possible." The other party gave a positive reply.

"What do you think? APLUS?" the vice president asked Song Ya again.

"A very good job..." Song Ya complimented. He knew in his heart that the other party's target of these words was not himself, but the camera.

"You continue to visit, I have something to deal with." The vice president finished the task and found an excuse to leave. The camera continued to follow him, leaving the former general manager of Baen to accompany Song Ya.

"Shall we continue? There is a mold shop ahead."

Without the camera and boss, everyone let go a lot, and the former general manager of Barn Company asked Song Ya with a smile.

"What is going on here? I think most of the factories are already very broken."

Song Ya let go much before this front hand, and asked casually.

"It's okay, the annual output is not as good as expected, but... it's okay."

But since he was already a former subordinate, the other party didn't reveal much, he smiled bitterly while leading the roadside to hesitate.

There are a lot of forging presses in the mold shop, and they are very noisy. "Let’s go out and talk." Song Ya saw that the workers all use headset-like things, which are supposed to protect their hearing, and they don’t have anything. Don't want to visit anymore, turn around and exit.

"Yo..."

Just about to leave, someone from behind suddenly called him, "APLUS!"

"Hey! Stay away from him!" The accompanying bodyguard immediately stopped the one who suddenly put down his work.

"Everyone calls me Manix, maybe you can listen to my rap..."

This guy who looks like a purebred white is shouting outside the wall, but he has a black accent, and his voice is very distinctive. It can still penetrate in a noisy factory building, a bit like the crisp voice of a big E, and looks... …It’s okay, with the temperament of a street boy.

This kind of unknown rapper Song Ya who seizes the opportunity to try to behave in front of him has met too many, and he doesn’t care about it, and he doesn’t waste time listening. It’s too difficult for white people to mix in the rap circle, so he wants to praise him. Fergie has offended many people, and holding a white male Rapper will definitely be scolded by the whole industry.

"Uh, is this okay with the machine?"

Besides, he didn't think so much. His attention was completely attracted by the forging machine behind him. In order to behave in front of him, this kid didn't even turn off the machine. The old forging machine hit the empty hammer, and it was very harsh. Voice, he ignored the other party and turned to ask the former general manager of Barn Company beside him.

"The one who takes care of you!"

The former general manager of Baen Company was a bit dull, and shouted at the head of the workshop who was accompanying him behind him, "Let's go, let's go, and leave here." He hurriedly protected Song Ya and left the workshop.

I don’t know how the head of the workshop will punish that guy. Song Ya didn’t bother to worry about it. “I’m not going to visit it. This thing is a bit hot.” ​​It’s June, and the temperature in Detroit is not low. He took off his helmet and was hugged. Leave the factory.

It seems that the prospect of Dow’s light stick dream is a bit bad. The reaction is that the stock price has fallen from the high point at the beginning of the year back to the range of about 20. The two million shares in his hand are still too early to dissolve the ban. Song Ya has nothing to do. I want to do my part with peace of mind and get enough annual endorsement fees.

Among the more than 80 million stock investments, Apple and Dow, which account for the main share, are all half-dead. Game company EA has fallen miserably. Fortunately, stocks such as Microsoft, Cisco, Nokia, and Innovation have soared. In 1994, they still made a profit.

"Hello, Mr. Harrell..."

Taking advantage of his arrival in Detroit, he ran to the old headquarters of the city of Motown Records. This important company in the history of black music was just acquired by Polygram, and the multinational giant Philips bought it for 50 million. After half of DefJam's equity, he couldn't satisfy his appetite at all, and spent 330 million yuan to win the Motown record that owns the current most popular boy group BoyzIIman.

But now the main venue of Motown Records is Los Angeles. Only a few recording studios are operating in Detroit. Of course, there is also this monumental old headquarters. The new president Harrell is also there, so I made an appointment to come over and have a chat.

Harrell is the former President of Uptown Records. If it weren’t for his repeated refusal to boast Dad’s return to Uptown Records, maybe Dad boasted would not take risks to move Little Lori, and much of the latter would not happen. I had some entanglements indirectly with myself.

"APLUS, welcome."

Now that Uptown Records is over, Mary Blige and Jodeci switched to the parent company MCA, bragging Dad dragged other little singers to form a bad boy record, this guy also turned around in time, jumped to Poly Gold, and got the head of Motown Records. Position.

"How are you doing? I think you have been creating momentum for the film."

He is also a black recording industry executive who tends to be more white in his behavior. He hates the bragging father who is involved in the black industry from the beginning to the end. He would rather delay the release of the singers under his banner. Although he finally compromised, he still caused the rise. City Records fell apart.

"Yes, I'm mainly busy with this..."

The two did not have friendship. Harrell had a general impression of him because of the Harlem nightclub incident. After a few polite words, Song Ya proposed his main purpose and invited each other to the engagement ceremony. Singers come here, such as the former Diva Diana Ross.

"I'm not going. I'm going back to New York to be busy with other business. I heard that Boyz IIman will go, right?"

Harrell, like Russell Simmons, used the influence of the music circle to make a lot of investment in the fashion industry. He declined the invitation, "But I can ask other singers in Motown for you."

"Okay, but thanks anyway."

No way, Mariah Carey must make the engagement ceremony very grand, he can only try to invite the big players in the music circle to be there.

"Do you know the reason why the hip-hop circles on the east and west coasts have been so bad recently?"

Harrell asked suddenly.

"Bag Papa and Sugnat?"

After Sugnett helped Mary Blige get rid of the bragging father, the cooperation between the two parties fell through. After the hip-hop music awards in April, they started to DISS each other, and the fever spread quickly in just over a month. Small and medium-sized bandit singers They are fighting each other one after another, and there is a situation where conflicts are on the verge of breaking out.According to this trend, it is not far from the end of the big-name singer himself.

"Yes, that guy who brags old dad always makes trouble by having a gang background."

Harrell began to yell at the bragging father, with a deep hatred.

This guy is accustomed to being aloof. Song Ya feels that he hasn't understood the bragging father himself. For example, he hopes that bragging father and Sugonite will die directly. The bragging father is very cunning, and he basically won't set himself up. In a dangerous situation, except for the violent beating on the street by the stunned young Lori who had just come out of Chicago with a silencer, he really couldn't get off the stage.

And now Little Lori is much worse than him.

"Your Midwest won't be involved?" Harrell asked after cursing.

"Me? Haha, this kind of incident on the east and west coasts has nothing to do with me." Song Ya smiled.

"Very well, we have recently promoted some relationships. The chief may openly express dissatisfaction with the social chaos led by gang rap garbage. You are the light of the black, don't mix in." Harrell said.