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18 Nov 2025

Hit-Boy Partners With HarbourView: ‘This Next Chapter Is About My Creative Freedom’

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HarbourView Equity Partners and Grammy Award-winning artist and producer Hit-Boy have joined forces in an exclusive partnership. Following the conclusion of Hit-Boy’s 18-year publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group, the new alliance finds HarbourView collaborating on forthcoming titles written by Hit-Boy. Transaction terms were not disclosed.

In announcing the news, HarbourView founder and CEO Sherrese Clarke stated, “At HarbourView, we are committed to investing in the creators who shape culture and are actively moving it forward. Hit-Boy’s work has defined a generation of music, blending innovation with impact in a way few others have. We’re honored to partner with him and proud to help preserve, celebrate and continue his extraordinary legacy.”

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“This next chapter of my career is about ownership, being innovative and my creative freedom,” added Hit-Boy. “HarbourView will be a forward-thinking partner and that is exactly what I want when making decisions about my catalog and my future.”

Hit-Boy’s extensive catalog, amassed over nearly 20 years, encompasses collaborations ranging from Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj to Ariana Grande and Doechii. Among the producer’s biggest hits are Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “N***as In Paris,” Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” with Drake, Beyoncé’s “Flawless” and the late Nipsey Hussle’s “Racks in the Middle.”

Three-time Grammy winner Hit-Boy also executive produced Nas’ Grammy-winning King’s Disease as well as the rap icon’s Magic Trilogy. His two other Grammy wins were for best rap song (“N***as In Paris”) and best rap performance (for his guest feature alongside Roddy Ricch on Hussle’s “Racks in the Middle”).

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As an artist, Hit-Boy’s most recent album is Goldfish with fellow producer The Alchemist. The project is complemented by a short film directed by Abteen Bagheri and executive produced by Hit-Boy, who also stars in the short with The Alchemist. Others featured in the film include Danny Trejo, Rory Culkin and rappers Big Hit, Conway the Machine and Lefty Gunplay.

HarbourView Equity Partners was established in 2021. Specializing in the sports, media and entertainment arenas, the investment firm’s music portfolio includes artists and producers such as Kelly Clarkson, T-Pain, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Luis Fonsi, Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie, Wiz Khalifa and Kane Brown, among others.

19 Nov 2024

HarbourView Equity Partners Acquires Master Royalty Income of George Benson

HarbourView Equity Partners has acquired the master royalty income of renowned jazz guitarist, singer-songwriter and 10-time Grammy Award winner George Benson. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

In the press release announcing the transaction, HarbourView Equity Partners founder and CEO Sherrese Clarke Soares said, “We maintain a commitment to be a canon for legendary culture movers such as George Benson. His artistry is distinct in its sound, with acoustics that forever stir emotions of a musical era that means so much to so many of us. We are proud to stand in partnership and welcome him to the HarbourView family.”

Fox Rothschild served as legal counsel to HarbourView in this transaction. Benson was represented by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Earlier this year, Benson announced his return to the Warner Music Group and released his long-lost album Dreams Do Come True: When George Benson Meets Robert Farnon. The 11-track orchestral project, featuring American standards and pop classics, was originally recorded 35 years ago with composer-arranger Farnon and under the guidance of Grammy-winning engineer Al Schmitt.

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Benson topped the jazz, pop and R&B charts with his 1976 album Breezin’. The three-time Grammy-winning album, which includes the crossover hit “This Masquerade,” has since been certified triple platinum and remains one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. Benson’s catalog of 36 studio albums and eight live albums also includes the 1980 hit “Give Me the Night,” produced by the legendary Quincy Jones and written by Rod Temperton (Michael Jackson). In 2021, DJ Steve Aoki remixed “Give Me the Night” with a rugged house beat, reintroducing the song to a new generation.

In 2018, Benson collaborated with art-pop band Gorillaz, featuring Blur’s Damon Albarn and visual artist Jamie Hewlett, to co-write and perform on the track “Humility.” The song has since amassed more than 100 million YouTube views.

Awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship in 2009, Benson has also been presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received honorary doctorate degrees from Morris Brown College, the Berklee School of Music and Duquesne University. In 2020, he was inducted into the jazz bible DownBeat Magazine’s Hall of Fame. And in 2021, Benson was inducted by Quincy Jones into New Jersey’s Hall of Fame.