My name is Moshe Oldhead. The funny thing is that I am not old like my name may indicate. I am Young Moshe (no Young Hov). I am a new contributing writer to Gooldhead.com. The founder of the site, Sickamore, has given me the reigns to add some insight into what goes on in the daily battle of going against oldheads in the music industry and in life. I don’t know where this blog will take me. But it must happen for the sake of the battle. Please excuse my alias.

Where shall I start? Last week, while doing promo work and driving around New York City with one of my young talented artists, we tuned into HOT 97 to see what we could catch on the radio. I had been awoken at 7am by Jay Z’s “A Billie” freestyle on the station. I hoped for better things in mid-afternoon. And maybe, just maybe they would start showing love to my young bull, who was sitting next to me in the backseat. Low and behold, we sighed soon figuring out that the average age of artists in rotation on HOT 97 was 39.73 years of age. From LL’s new record “Baby” to Jay Z’s domination of the channel, what hope is there for the youngsters? But it was LL Cool J that got us the most. Ancient LL seemed to have lost his breath control and energy over a dope beat and phenomenal feature by The Dream. How was this track being so well received? I sighed and let my artist know his day was coming.

The grip of cobwebs on the radio was temporarily eliminated by a visit to a place with hope. We ran into some young and hungry NYC MC’s at a roundtable discussion. These youngsters use the internet and modern day marketing to get themselves ahead. I smiled as my artist networked with artists in his age bracket. His last trip to NYC had not faired so well, as Master P had cornered him at the Music Choice offices to explain his oldheaded ways of thinking. But soon we were back to reality, on our way to an online radio station in Brooklyn to face off with an oldhead DJ who was prepared to spew his elderly rhetoric to all of us.

I felt a ray of hope when the DJ began to ask my artist questions. We all respected who he was, but the reciprocation was not totally there. After flipping through my artists mixtape, while nodding his head to my artists new record (which had gotten cosigns from Rolling Stone, XXL, The Fader, and almost any magazine/online site in the world) he quickly went on to promote his party. The nerve of this primeval DJ! Did he not care how hard we had worked over the years? After the DJ announced his plans to start giving the younger generation more of a chance, it was time for LL the Oldhead to come back into play. We couldn’t escape him. The DJ announced that LL was going to make a special appearance at his party the next week. What to do?

In my first entry on Oldhead.com, I must continue to respect the oldheads from an arm’s length away. Or do I really have to? I am deeply involved in this music industry. I see its old ways. And as I continue to develop talent on my own, I find it hard to believe that I will keep on handing my artists off to major labels. It’s a simmering war between young and old. Oldheads don’t think the youngsters respect them. When youngsters try to speak out to defend themselves or move forward they are labeled as disrespecting their elders.

Young Moshe comes from a background of various jobs. I’ve seen a lot. I know when it is time for an oldhead to move along. I am confident that one day this will happen. For what I see, it is not a lack of effort or talent of the new generation. It is now simply a call for the younger generation and their leaders to start making their own mark by any means necessary.