Extra Credit: Whitney-Gayle Benta

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Class is back in session! In this bonus episode, we hit Whitney-Gayle Benta with three rapid-fire questions. From the tracks that first lit her fuse to the wildest “you-had-to-be-there” label moments, Whitney pulls back the curtain on the soundtrack of her life and the lessons she’s learned shepherding superstar careers.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Mixed and Mastered.
Extra Credit with girl WhitneyGail Bento.
Okay, Whitney, so tell me threeof your favorite artists and
why, oh gosh.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Eric B and Rod Kim.
Okay, just love the Paid inFull album.
My favorite artist, stevieWonder.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Because I think he is amazing.
I can't say enough about him.
Had the music playing at thebirth of both my kids in the
hospital Erykah Badu, okay, yeah, funny enough.
I don't know Something aboutthat Mama's Gun album.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, mama's Gun album is dope.
Yeah, super dope.
I don't know Something aboutthat.
Mama's Gun album.
Yeah, mama's Gun album was dope.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, super dope, super dope.
Yeah, my senior year, just yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, tell me three of when
you were on the label side.
Tell me three of the favoritesongs you worked on, and why.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Favorite songs on the label side tell me three of the
three of the favorite songs youworked on, and why favorite
song?
Well, I can say one of theprojects, uh, the ashanti album
that was uh the first one thevery first one, because it was
also the very first time that uhbeyonce was coming out with her
, her debut album and so it waslike we had to be number one.
You know, it was like we got tokill and we killed it and so it

(01:26):
was like that was.
I remember the pressure offeeling like, okay, we got to be
you know, beyonce.
She's, you know, leavingdestiny's child and we got
ashanti and she's hot in thesestreets and stuff, you know rip
or goddy, and I just rememberlike the pride of just working
on that.
So that was really cool,jay-z's, the Blueprint and, dare

(01:50):
I say, it was also.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, I remember.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
And I remember coming to the office, in the office,
because he had an in-store, andbeing like because you're so
trained to not think, just do.
I was like so are we stillhaving an in-store?
And they're like so we're doinglike because you're so trained
to to not think, just do.
I was like so are we stillhaving to in-store?
And they're like no, youjackass Like the world is ending
.
I'm like you know, are we stillyeah so, yeah that, yeah so

(02:18):
give me one more.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Give me one more.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Probably Music Soulchild.
Yeah, I really enjoyed one.
I loved his management team,mama's, mama's boy entertainment
and shout out to to mike andhips, and so I really.
It was also, you know,launching deaf soul, and so I
really loved it.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
It was just so different yeah, tell me one
concert that you went, went tothat changed your life.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Actually, I would say it was pretty recently too.
It would be the Missy Elliottconcert.
Ah yeah, that was awesome.
I went in with no expectationsand I was just blown away by her
command.
I felt like I was a kid in acandy store.

(03:06):
There was just so much to lookat.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
A lot going on.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, yeah, that like I'm like man, I need to like
see more.
You know what I mean.
So, yeah, that was.
That was incredible yeah.
For me yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, she killed it, she killed it, she killed it,
that's my girl yeah.
All right, now you got thequestions out of the way.
Now you can go play with thekids Ready to launch your
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