this tick tocker with NUMBER_TOKEN million followers has written and or produced some of the biggest records of the past NUMBER_TOKEN years NUMBER_TOKEN of those reaching number one on the billboard high NUMBER_TOKEN. love yourself by justin bieber perfect by ed sheeran i kissed a girl by katy perry diamonds by rihanna moves like jagger and many many more the year is NUMBER_TOKEN a NUMBER_TOKEN year old named benjamin is cold-calling record labels trying to show them some music but they keep slamming the phone down before he can finish his sales pitch benjamin has to get creative he goes online scrolling hundreds of sketchy and unreliable websites trying to get the phone numbers of important people in the music industry this is before google had all the right answers he discovers jay-z's lawyer's phone number he calls and says there's a pressing matter that the ceo needs to address immediately he gets sent through to the lawyer but there was no issue he just wanted to show him some of the music he made who cares about pride just keep calling someone until they answer i wish i could tell you this is how he made his big break but benjamin levin aka benny blanco doesn't actually belong in the music industry unfortunately a lot of success stories and music involve taking advantage of people being manipulative and really using others as a stepping stone for you to get to the next level the only other way is to be in the right place at the right time along with having a massive amount of talent you will come to realize that benny time and time again ended up in rooms with massive stars almost accidentally NUMBER_TOKEN benny is a five-year-old who's obsessed with music he has an old boombox and a couple of nas tapes he starts singing then making beats on tables pots and pans hitting them with his hands he messes around with the record function layering recordings of his table beats and adolescent vocals literally producing his first creations like a young prodigy at age nine he won a music competition through his school that allowed him to work in a real studio he recorded his first rap song called easy life after the session benny knew where the rest of his life was headed the obsessive tween spent all of his free time making raps inspired by eminem and he would experiment with beat making every summer he went to a jewish sleep away camp called mount airy showing his friends what he had been working on all year he even met his present day manager there when he was just NUMBER_TOKEN years old his older brother jeremy who absolutely adored benny and wanted him to be successful was in his freshman year at the university of delaware and would bring benny up to his fraternity to perform at parties benny was about NUMBER_TOKEN at the time one of jeremy's fraternity brother sam was an aspiring musician himself and i'm guessing he was a little bit music industry connected because he had access to a nice studio which i'm assuming was in new york city and very shortly after this benny's wrapping caught the attention of the source magazine and columbia records before the internet a rs
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