Are there clear-cut lines between job titles in the industry outside of recording companies?
Mary Datcher: Well you know its funny cause we get stringent in our terminology in this business. Promotions in the terminology of the record structure would be considered radio. But when you really break it down I remember when I was working at Def Jam as a little pup back in the day, we were still dealing with Columbia/Sony. We were the black sheep under the Columbia structure. Columbia had their Mariah Carey and their Celine Dion and their Fugees. They really had the crme de la crme of artists at the time. Def Jam was this Hip Hop, street, raw, kinda imprint type of label that they had just to make sure that they had a touch in the street. But they werent really taking us seriously. Our staff had to think beyond radio. Everything that Russell [Simmons] laid his hands on Def Jam was what we were part of. So if we had Def Jam comedians in our marketplace, we were responsible for making sure that they were taken to and from the venue. Or making sure that they were picked-up from the ai
