Turn your ideas into a reality with Shopify: bit.ly/3ieAQfX Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:20 - Childhood + Introduction to Rap 04:10 - College Years 05:06 - Meeting J Cole 07:30 - Building A Fanbase 10:10 - Bigger Ambitions 11:10 - Getting Signed 12:40 - Conceptualizing Dreamville 13:37 - Being Signed + Working with Jay Z 15:18 - The First Breakthrough Record 16:19 - Battling Criticism + Social Media 17:20 - Making Born Sinner 18:06 - Leveling Up 18:56 - the BET Awards + staying true to yourself 21:08 - Making Forrest Hill Drive 23:09 - Dreamville’s Rise + Mission 24:18 - 4 Your Eyez Only + KOD 25:25 - Being A Manager and Label Head 28:10 - Dreamville Fest 29:13 - The Dreamers Session + Revenge of the Dreamers III 30:12 - Plaques 30:50 - Looking Ahead Manager and music executive Ibrahim Hamad takes us on his long journey from meeting a then-unknown rapper named J.Cole in college to becoming his manager to helping him build a label, a festival and a media company as partne...