The Company We Keep

Sean Starr's remix is gonna pop.

This is a promo conference call for Sean Starr.

The first stop on his promotional tour is Miami, we need that right away.

Adding Young Raheem to Sean Star's single,

that could be huge.

Okay, good afternoon, everybody.

Teri's here.

Okay, so let's get started.

Sales, Ashton.

Overall market is down 17% from last year.

Brick and mortar, down 12%,

nontraditional, down 5%.

Digital ringtones, up 32%.

And the charts?

Young Raheem is still strong

at number 39 after 42 weeks!

All right... good job.

Marcus A&R, what's going on with Sean Starr's album?

We got our clearances in from all the major labels,

I finished all the mixes, sent it out to mastering,

just waiting for the master to get back.

Okay, thank you... Kurt, promotions?

As soon as I get the single from Marcus,

I'm going for ads on radio.

Yeah, and to add a bump to the BDS spins,

I added Young Raheem to the remix.

Sean needs a hit. Yeah.

So do we.

Great job, everyone, thank you, thank you, guys.

Okay, that's great.

See you later about Sean's latest release.

Nicole, carve out five minutes in my schedule for Ashley.

Listen, I want to talk to you about Thursday.

Do me a favor, go to my desk, get my messages.

I would be lying

if I said I wasn't worried about Eclectic.

We're in the red.

We have a huge deficit

and I don't know where I'm gonna get this money from

to make this label work.

Eclectic, this is Yvette, how can I help you?

Just hold a minute.

Hey, how you doing? Fine.

You're looking good today. Thank you, thank you.

Hey, I'm fitting to go to the show after work,

you wanna roll with me? Sounds like a date.

Hey, Teri. Hey, Eric.

I got the first draft of Sean's album cover. Okay, make sure you get that to Kurt, I'll see you later. And let's get Sean on the phone, okay?

Yvette, Yvette, I gotta tell you something, girl.

I'll text you. You're the A&R guy.

Eclectic, this is Yvette.

I had to reduce the promotional budget

for Sean's tour.

He's not gonna like that. And neither is Barry.

I'll tell Ms. Stewart you called... Thank you.

Hey, Yvette, I left the cover on Kurt's desk.

Make sure he gets it? Sure.

See you later.

Eclectic Records.

Barry told me about this new idea.

I know, reality show?

Can you imagine all the hot designer digs

we're gonna get? So cool.

Man, look at those girls.

They'd be hot on a reality show.

So what's up with your people?

My cable network contacts are solid.

They want to do a show on you, your girls

and your lifestyle.

I'm not really with it, bro.

Like I said, there's no reality in reality TV, so... It'll expand your audience and increase your

merchandising opportunities.

I'm not with it, so just dead it, all right?

What?

Why? I don't understand.

That would be a dope opportunity for him.

It's Teri calling me.

What's up, girl?

Hey, Sean.

The album release date has been pushed.

What?

I'm not really with that.

I understand, but it's only six weeks.

The record needs another cut

and this is the time you need to make that happen.

Yeah, but what about my tour and the party for it?

What, we just supposed to put all that back?

No, it's all good.

The launch party and the tour schedule remains the same. All right, Teri, I trust you.

Just don't let anybody over there

do me in, all right?

You know how y'all get over there

at the label with that BS.

I got you, Sean.

All right, love you... gone.

Album got pushed back six weeks.

Unbelievable. Are you serious?

You're my manager... Why wouldn't she call you?

Well, Sean didn't like hearing that album release date

was pushed back.

His single doesn't have any heat.

Young Raheem on the remix is the key.

Now, everything Young Raheem touches turns platinum.

Not everything, Marcus. Yeah, he only had one album.

And that's the same thing you said

about Sean's last record.

Come on, now.

But listen... Marcus isn't that far off.

Raheem is holding his own, 42 weeks on the charts.

He's hot and he's ours, thank God.

Amen. Thank God.

Now Sean can do the same thing

if him and his manager makes the right moves.

Oh, but you know how Barry is.

He's really... Hey, babe. Hi, baby.

What's up?

How you doing? Good.

Everybody, Dwight.

Hey. Hey, how you doing?

Hello, what's happening, fellas?

What are you doing here? Oh, I got a lunch meeting

with my agent. Well, I'm gonna see you later?

Yeah, definitely... All right.

Love you. Love you, too.

I'm engaged to a wonderful man who I love deeply,

star athlete,

and the $100 million contract isn't that bad, I might add,

but here's the thing... Dwight wants me to move.

I can't move and run a label and be a wife.

I know women are thinking,

that is not a problem, girl,

go for the $100 million, but really?

Can't I have my career and my man?

So, Teri...

how does it feel being

Mrs. Dwight $100 million Davis?

We're not even married yet. She knows already.

Mm-hmm.

I'm surprised he didn't come up in here

with his little Super Bowl ring.

I know, right?

Why am I the last to know

that you and Dwight Davis is a couple? 'Cause you talk too much, Marcus.

Yeah, you do have a big mouth.

Do you know what I heard?

Charlene Williams... her husband came up in the studio

and whooped her ass. What?

That's what I'm talking about.

Right there. You're a gossip.

What am I gonna do, son? Right there.

They should have called the police. So what happened, what happened?

So he beat her ass and then what happened?

In front of the program director, pulled...

Shut up. Pulled her wig off.

No. Stop.

You should sell that to somebody. Don't tell him... Don't encourage that.

So I want to know, okay, so he pulls the wig off...

Look at you! I'm just saying.

Bad publicity for the company, absolutely not.

But tell me what happened.

Google it, Google it, let me see it. Let me see what's going on.

Okay, LA, we got a special,

special surprise guest who just came in.

None other than my main man, Sean Starr.

What's poppin', Los Angeles?

It's your boy Sean Starr,

two "R" s, AKA Superstar,

AKA the African-American idol.

Show!

I love when you do that.

So, Sean, what's going on with you, man?

Hey, man, it's all good over here, bro.

We got the new album "Starr Power"

hitting the stores,

we had to push it back, though,

about six weeks,

only because there's so much heat on it, we had to let it cool down

before the public could touch it, you feel me? That's right, that's right... So what else you got?

You got the tour party coming?

Tour party kicks off tomorrow night, Power Base club. If y'all didn't know, my man Kurt Franklin

set everything up.

That's what's up.

So right after the tour party, you hit the road, right?

Yeah, man, we hitting all the major cities.

We got Miami first up, of course,

Atlanta, we doing DC, my hometown, Detroit,

we bringing it back to Seattle,

back home to Los Angeles.

It's really, really, really poppin' right now, man.

Okay, that's what's up.

So right now, Los Angeles, we getting ready to hit you over the head

with Sean Starr's latest single,

"Right Left," from the new album "Starr Power,"

only on K-ROY.

Yo, that is John Blaze, man.

It's hot.

Sean, yo, so what's up with the six-week pushback?

The label.

I mean, they ain't got the finances

to push my album the way they need to right now