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  • Vice’s Noisey asks Booker Sim to trendcast EDM

    January 2, 2014

    “Spotify gets criticized for ripping off artists, yet they are posting significant loses. Techcrunch calculates that Spotify would have to reduce royalties […]

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    • remix
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  • “The coolest NYC companies” Booker Sim in Time Out New York

    July 30, 2013

    “Of all the music start-ups among NYC companies, Legitmix stands as one of the coolest…It all started with a movie: […]

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  • Booker Sim in Magnetic Mag

    May 23, 2013

    “What if we told you there was a way you could sell, or better yet, buy music that was formerly […]

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  • Sonicscoop interviews Booker Sim

    June 22, 2011

    “With operations based in Brooklyn, $1.2 million in seed financing, and a beta launch set for this summer after a […]

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  • Booker Sim & Legitmix in BILLBOARD

    April 9, 2011

    Shortly after the launch of Legitmix, the innovative startup Booker co-founded, BILLBOARD caught up with him and fellow co-founder Omid […]

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  • “8 MILE vs GET RICH”

    March 18, 2008

    by Booker Sim Eminem and 50 Cent have both overcome tremendous obstacles to get where they are today. Both tell […]

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    • youth
    • Ideas
  • “Rap and Kicks”

    March 16, 2008

    by Booker Sim Run DMC dedicated a whole a song to their Adidas sneakers.
KRS-One used his Nikes to mark his […]

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    • branding
    • equitable
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  • “Co-Branding Puma and Queensbridge”

    July 27, 2007

    by Booker Sim “My first year of ninth grade, can’t forget that day of school/
It was cool, till your man […]

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    • branding
    • equitable
    • youth
  • “The JuJu Method”

    May 8, 2007

    by Booker Sim JuJu is west African magic.
And JuJu is a creative collective I started with childhood friends Alexandre Trudeau […]

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    • youth
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  • “On Branded Content”

    December 16, 2006

    More and more people agree that branded-content will “the ways of the future,” (or one of the ways of the […]

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    • branding
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  • Montreal Gazette review of Booker’s Tragedy doc

    October 5, 2006

    “Montreal’s Booker Sim turns his lens to one of rap’s most talented and troubled protagonists, for whom every triumph has […]

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  • XLR8R reviews Booker’s Tragedy doc

    August 4, 2006

    “Drawn to New York in the late ’90s by the promise of a possible feature film project with Prodigy of […]

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    • Tragedy
  • “The Rap Illiad”

    June 16, 2006

    by Booker Sim photo by Boogie “Sing, Goddess, the Wrath of Achilles.”
— Homer’s “ILIAD” Thousands of years before Brad Pitt […]

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  • “Get rich or Die Tryin?” — Tragedy review

    November 15, 2005

    “This past week 50-Cent (forever in the artistic shadow of Eminem and Dr. Dre) made his debut on the silver […]

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  • “Slamdance vs. Sundance: Brooklyn Filmmakers Debate”

    February 5, 2005

    “‘Tragedy: The Story of Queensbridge’ covers the hip-hop scene that stems from a Queens housing project. Directed by Booker Sim, […]

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About Booker
Booker has nearly twenty years experience WRITING, RESEARCHING, PRODUCING, DIRECTING and EDITING projects about music, youth, sports, war, geopolitics and world travel. He's produced encounters with politicians, war criminals, terrorists, spies, gangsters, CEOs, activists, athletes, child soldiers, refugees, rappers, famous DJs – and lots of everyday folks. Other experience includes equitable, inspirational and urban branded-content, music technology, startup entrepreneurship, online media, screenwriting and TV show pitches. Booker has access to a vast network of freelancers around the world.
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