There will be another show for all you talented singers! It has been announced that BET’s newest reality music competition series The Next Big Thing, will make its premiere on July 9 at 10 PM/9 PM CT. Judges, also known as “The League”, mogul Dame Dash, multi-platinum producer Zaytoven, and industry executive Tina Davis will place 21 up-and-coming R&B and hip-hop artists through a demanding and exhausting artist development boot camp designed to create the next big superstars.
According to the description from BET: Handpicked hip-hop and R&B artists from across the country will compete weekly in survival-of-the-fittest challenges leading to a showdown where A&R executives, Serge Durand, Capitol Records; Erika Coulter, Epic Records; Tuo Clark, Def Jam Records and CEO Ghazi, EMPIRE Records will have the chance to offer a record deal on the spot. Commenting on the show, co-host Dame Dash says, “We have reinvented the stale singing competition show for our audience.”
Executive Producer/Creator and “The League” member Tina Davis says, “This has never been done before and absolutely, not on this scale. The finale will change someone’s life.”
Handpicked hip-hop and R&B artists from across the country will compete weekly in survival-of-the-fittest challenges leading to a showdown where A&R executives, Serge Durand, Capitol Records; Erika Coulter, Epic Records; Tuo Clark, Def Jam Records and CEO Ghazi, EMPIRE Records will have the chance to offer a record deal on the spot.
Check out the trailer BET’s The Next Big Thing below.
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