Tommy Silverman Finds God(dess)
By Robert Phoenix, eMusic Contributor
Tommy Silverman might be as seminal a figure in hip-hop as Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin. Under Silverman's stewardship, Tommy Boy Records was synonymous with old school megastars such as De La Soul, Queen Latifah, Digital Underground, Coolio, House of Pain and Naughty by Nature. The amount of money made off of those artists alone equals the GNP of some small countries. But around 1995, Silverman began to think about "functional music" — music designed… more »