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We are KosmicRhyme Productions, LLC, an up and coming indie label based in Nashville,TN. We have vast backgrounds in Rap, R&B, Jazz, Rock, Funk, Contemporary Gospel, Pop and Contemporary Country. We produce demos, backing tracks and intrumentals. We also provide music publishing for unsigned artists and songwriters.

Von "Professor Corleon" Cox, Shane "Big Nez Tha Show" Winfree and Travis "I.G.Nyte" Cox, are the three Producers who make up the Label, KosmicRhyme Productions, LLC. This trio has been producing, writing, and arranging their music for the past 6 years! Blending a wealth of musical talent and knowledge, with lyrics that range from party anthems to politically relevant, KosmicRhyme has cultivated a unique new sound since the late '90s that is fresh, deep and raw. The three producers spent their early years moving the crowd as musicians in various country, rap metal, jazz and gospel bands.

The three talented musicians combine a variety of influences and experiences to shape their own sound. The group is inspired musically and professionally by geniuses: Prince, Quincy Jones, Herbie Handcock, Timbaland and Issac Hayes. The group was also heavily influenced by Larry Graham, Mint Condition, Busta Rhymes, A Tribe Called Quest, Cream, Earth Wind & Fire, Rick James, Mos Def, Parliament Funkadelic, Comon, Wu-Tang, Roy Hardgroove, Tito Puente, Morris Day, Living Color, Guns N Roses, Return To Forever, Aerosmith, Jill Scott, Tupac Shakur, N.W.A., Jimi Hendrix, Commissioned, Primus, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Alice In Chains, Just Blaze, Rage Against The Machine, De La Soul, R. Kelly, Missy Elliott, Dave Matthews Band, Sade, etc. Each member brings their own element to the group to build the eclectic Kosmic sound.

KosmicRhyme takes time to give back to the community by participating in various charity events. In 2009, the group hopes to aid in the development of Bright Start, an academic program out of Nashville, TN that helps children k-5 strengthen their Math, writing, reading and language skills. Bright Start also Provides a mentoring program to aid in the development of young community leaders.

Currently, KosmicRhyme is working on "The Galactic Bee"

(Hot compilation album mixed with hip-hop, jazz, funk, rock, metal, neosoul and spoken word). We will also release our hot new R&B single "Truf About It" which is a smooth collaboration with premier Break-out artist Meself.

Downloads will be available through iTunes, Rhapsody, cdFreedom and through many other digital music distributors. The album is tentatively scheduled for an 2010 release.
KosmicRhyme Productions is collaborating with Organic Planet Production

on projects for future release.

HOT COUNTRY COMPILATION FEAT. RACHEAL WILLIAMS, JOHN ADAMS, ANTHONY SNAPE AND MORE....



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Regulation? We don’t need no stinkin’ regulation!

For quite some time, conservatives and smallgovernment
advocates have derided government in
general, and government regulation and oversight
specifically, as an evil that must be purged if America
is to survive and prosper in today’s highly competitive
global market. Experts from Allan Greenspan to Phil
Gramm to Grover Norquist have beseeched us to free
our corporations and economy of the stifling effects of
regulation. The Bush Administration certainly drank
the Kool-Aid, as witnessed by eight years of rampant
deregulation and the manipulation of regulatory agencies.
Bush grew infamous for appointing former
industry leaders to regulatory positions in the industries
they once worked. Sometimes choices were purely
political in nature. Probably the most notable—and
disastrous--was Michael Brown to be Undersecretary of
Emergency Preparedness and Response. Brown simply
was not qualified. His incompetence in the aftermath
of Katrina is memorable, as is the famous Bush line,
“Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” The escapade
was fodder for late-night comedians, but the sad fact
is that many poor people in New Orleans lost their
homes and, in some cases, their lives, thanks to the poor
response from FEMA.
Two recent events have shown just what a lack
of government regulation and oversight can produce: The
global financial crisis of 2008, and the environmental
disaster in Harriman, where a 40-acre coal-waste holding
pond at the TVA Kingston power plant collapsed,
releasing over a billion gallons of toxic waste into the
confluence of the Emory and Clinch rivers and destroying
several homes nearby.
There are multiple reasons for the financial crisis
the entire world is now trying to cope with, among them
lax or incompetent regulatory oversight, the elimination
of previous laws designed to protect the public from
unscrupulous mortgage lenders and greedy corporate
CEO’S, and investors who asked no questions about
financial instruments they didn’t understand so long as
they got stellar returns on their investments.
Investment banks packed lots of mortgage loans
into Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO’s) and sold
them as securities on Wall Street. The revenue
returns from the interest payments were significant,
and these instruments became very popular
worldwide. But these innovations were largely
unregulated and no one seemed to consider what
might happen if a large number of mortgages loans
defaulted. When one acknowledges that many of
these mortgages were made to unqualified applicants
by predatory lenders, it’s clear that these CDO’s
were a time bomb. Where were the regulators?
The Securities and Exchange Commission
failed to raise red flags in 1992 after three small
firms associated with Bernard Madoff were
sanctioned for illegally raising money for Madoff.
Madoff was recently arrested for running what he
himself described as a massive Ponzi scheme, in
which not only many wealthy investors lost millions,
but many charities that invested in his hedge funds
did, as well. Clearly, the SEC failed abysmally in
this case, seeing as how it had information it should
have followed up on. Could one reason have to do
with the fact the SEC is significantly understaffed?
In the case of the Harriman disaster, the
chief problem is not with regulatory agencies
but with plain lack of regulation. For years,
environmental groups have tried to get the waste
from coal-burning power plants regulated, without
success, thanks to intense lobbying from the
industry. TVA knew it had problems with the
Harriman holding pond but rejected recommended
solutions out to financial concerns. Now, the cost of
dealing with the disaster will be many times more
that what the solutions would have cost.
The lesson to be learned here is that
regulations and regulatory agencies exist for a
reason. That reason is the protection and well being
of the public. Be it in regard to clean water and air,
food, pharmaceuticals, toys, or a multitude of other
products and services, government regulation has
a purpose. Yes, too much regulation can be stifling
and a drain on the economy, but too little can have
disastrous consequences. ■