Title: Harrison First | Long Live The Producer
(Currently Raised 1.63 ETH which has been placed in the FIRST Liquidity pool. We are still working on the album and look forward to this journey with everyone! )
My name is Lanre Odunlami, aka Harrison First, and I’m raising 15 ETH to fund my next album in 2022 in exchange for 40% ownership of my master royalties paid in $FIRST, free music nfts, and access to mp3 files of my music.
Who am I?
Born in Philly, raised in Pennsauken NJ, moved to New York, and currently living in Stockholm Sweden, music has always been in me. It's been a long-time obsession of mine; I love everything from the business aspect of it, to the creative side. Born in a very strict Nigerian household, music was not a very celebrated profession, but my father was reasonable and ensured that if I wanted to do music for a living, I had to finish school and graduate from college.
Shortly after graduating college I moved to New York and worked with artists such as Saint Jhn, Janelle Kroll, and Teflon Sega, helping build their sound as a music producer and putting my creative energy into their projects.
After a couple years of grinding I decided to move to Stockholm Sweden and develop my skills as a producer and songwriter. I started my own producer artist projects, and then started to sing and rap on my own tracks working with artists such as Quintino (Bad Bees Spinnin Records), releasing my song Ridin under Hexagon Records which is Don Diablos label and of course working with my artist Angie under my label JNRY FIRST
My Crypto Journey
I started out in web 3 in 2019, and was first introduced to this community via social tokens. Not knowing much about crypto I dove in head first and created my social token $FIRST. It started out as a fan token for the music I do in web 2 and rewarded my fans for listening to my music. Shortly after, I started creating NFTs, then finally being very active in the Metaverse. Now that I have three years of experience, I have had the opportunity to help other communities build their web 3 platforms, give advice on mistakes and successes I have made, and lastly, create something special for my community.
Fast Forward to now, $FIRST has a fully functioning DAO, a treasury, governance, and an access token to a platform I created called $FIRST AUDIO
My Music NFT Journey
As I continue to grow and develop in this web 3 space I am going on year 3 as an nft and social token creator. Finding new ways to communicate my message in music is a constant exploration but identifying new mediums for my music always excites me. Locating untapped spaces where my music could live creates a feeling of enjoyment. For years I played the streaming game and was pretty good at it. The music I released worked really well in the current web 2 system. The first song I produced was for Teflon Sega and SAINt JHN and reached 13.7M streams on Spotify.
Shortly after I figured out my style as a producer artist and started releasing my own records under Harrison First and that was very successful with several songs with millions of streams on Spotify.
Although I really appreciate what streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music have done in regards to music discovery, there is still lots they can improve on and NFTs have currently been the solution to lots of problems we see in the music industry.Currently my music NFTs will primary live on 3 different platforms which is CatalogWorks, MintSongs, and Myx.
CatalogWorks is where all my 1/1 music nfts will live (produced and performed by me)
MintSongs will be a place where all my multiple editions live.
Myx is where my instrumental and DJ sets will live
With each Music NFT the plan is to have utility around specific drops for instance, stems to the projects, $FIRST Token giveaway to the collectors which acts as a governance token and allows you to vote and make proposals in the $FIRST DAO, as well as wearable giveaways. All main nft music projects will be 100% created by me.
How it Works
I’m raising 15 ETH in exchange for 40% ownership of my master royalties paid in $FIRST for 1 year, free music nfts from my upcoming album that will be released in multiple editions on MintSongs, and 1K $FIRST
Decisions for this upcoming album will be 50% governed by the $FIRST DAO
The contract address for $FIRST is: [0xa69b892eed6f15f2d50dcb33dcd5d598df4123a8]
Each month, Harrison First team will be responsible for converting and accounting for off-chain revenue via streaming revenue of the 2022 album (Title Unknown) and bringing it on-chain via $FIRST. Revenue is calculated based off of an algorithm. We look at the month's streaming revenue from all platforms and then multiply it by 10%. Whatever that number is we make the payment in $FIRST. That number is then reserved for the backers of this project.
Legendary - 50% of the 40% of streaming royalties
Rare - 30% of the 40% of streaming royalties
Common - 20% of the 40% of streaming royalties
Other Benefits:
Legendary Backers:
Will also receive 1 Music NFT from the album.
1K $FIRST
50% Royalty ownership paid out in $FIRST from web2 streams
FIRST DAO
Rare Backers:
100 $FIRST
30% Royalty ownership paid out in $FIRST
FIRST DAO
Common Backers:
100 $FIRST
20% Royalty ownership paid out in $FIRST
FIRST DAO
Number of positions
Legendary: 5/5
Rare: 50/50
Common: 500/500
After the fundraiser has been fully funded we will start or within 1 month.
Use of Funds
Detailed below are the estimated use of funds. These amounts and exact figures are likely to change, but any and all expenses will be documented and shared with $FIRST holders via Discord.
5 ETH: will be reserved for the artist apart of the album
5 ETH: will be reserved for the production of the album
Mastering and mixing of the album
Music Videos for the album
Press for the album
Studio recording of the album
5 ETH: will be reserved for the the $FIRST Liquidity pool
The 5 ETH reserved for the album will go in a Metamask wallet that will be shared with everyone to see and can not be used until decisions have been voted on in the DAO. The metamask address will be shared in the discord.
The 5 ETH for the $FIRST Liquidity pool will go into an Qnosis safe and will be dripped into the $FIRST Pool on Uniswap
5 ETH for the artist will go into my person metamask wallet and reserved to pay artist who are a part of the album.
Motivation
For the past 5 years I have been an independent artist, and though it is very freeing and liberating to have total control over my own career, it can be challenging at times.
The music industry continues to change and as it does I want to stay at the forefront of that which is why I dove in head first to web 3 in 2019. Even though my music streams well on platforms such as Spotify, I feel like Spotify is dying and we all know it doesn't pay the artist what they deserve. That's why I want to slowly transition from web 2 platforms and fully focus on web 3 music platforms and truly find better ways to benefit my community.
The beautiful thing about this way of releasing and funding music is that if you do not fully understand my music, hopefully you can see the benefits in being a part of the community.
Links
https://www.instagram.com/harrisonfirst/
https://twitter.com/harrisonfirst
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0lcIRzEVZTKyNiEct4UKTo?si=6QkokEDiRDKL7Qayinrgig
discord.gg/GpGyUvWxnQ
https://jnryfirst.com/harrisonfirst
https://jnryfirst.com/nftprojects
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/harrison-first#social
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaFpMqesAaE&t=5s
Past Albums
Past Music Videos
Harrison First White Paper
Extra Fundraising on Myx (Polygon)
On Myx which a music nft and streaming platform that runs on Polygon. If you, the artist owns that specific piece of music: You can sell media fractions of your music to users. For example you can sell 1% of your song for 500 USDT. The owners of media fractions then share in this musics streaming revenue.
If its more than just you who owns your music: you can come to consensus on-chain and distribute media fractions amongst collaborators, who share in streaming revenues and royalties, you and your collabs can also fund raise
So this concept of a pod is very new but on a fundamental level there are two benefits for investors when funding a pod for artist. You get the rights to streaming revenue of music in this pod and also receive fractionalized ownership of all the music in the pod.