If I hike, I go through emails and do my morning calls at the same time.
I feed my kids, get them ready and take them to school. I look at it like being a basketball coach or film director: it’s a lot easier to win when you have great players or actors to work with.Ĭan you run us through a day in your work life? I manage the day to day life and career of artists and help guide their creative processes as well as their business decisions. Now describe your job in a little more detail. How would you describe your job to someone who isn’t familiar with the music industry in three words? A bad day is just a good day waiting to happen.”
Every day won’t be your best, but without the bad days you wouldn’t notice the good ones. Sometimes you just need to walk away and revisit things later. “Nothing is worth getting too stressed out or angry about. If your mind isn’t right the work won’t be either,” he emphasizes to HYPEBEAST. “Exercise and going outside are super important. Upon graduation, he and Gibbs formed a team and worked on mixtapes like Midwestboxframecadillacmuzik and The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs, before Lambo became Gibbs’ full-time manager while simultaneously working at legendary labels such as Stones Throw Records and Innovative Leisure and managing other artists like Pink Siifu.Īlmost two decades later, Lambo still maintains a good headspace by obeying two practices: letting things run its course and taking care of himself. After high school, Lambo attended University of California, Berkeley, where he worked as a scout/intern for Interscope Records and, importantly, discovered Gibbs. 2 in exchange for merchandise and memorabilia. He took on his first stint in the music industry when he was 16 years old, working for Slum Village’s street team to promote their cult-classic 2000 album Fantastic, Vol. Lambo never doubted that his career would involve either music, film, art or something creative, and his early career path seemed natural.
After all, his home was filled with music and movies his father was always sharing the songs he loved while his mother, who worked in films, passed on her knowledge to him and his sister Molly, with whom he used to spend hours watching MTV and The Box to absorb as much ‘90s pop culture as they could. Lambo putting his family first doesn’t come as a surprise to those who knew him growing up. Lambo also balances time with his family and close friends, making sure that unless it’s an important studio session, concert, or festival, his weekends are spent with his wife, children and other individuals that he’s close with. “I’m a firm believer in both being able to co-exist and impact at the same level, ” he says. Lambo’s been focused on making himself less accessible over the last couple of years, detaching from the unhealthy notion that he owes everyone his time or responses 24/7. This shift in thinking started during the pandemic, as the music industry was put to a halt - giving Lambo time to accept that many people in creative industries put more emphasis on numbers rather than art. Those legal troubles are far behind the duo now, and these days Lambo’s biggest challenge is learning to put the phone down. “I actually considered going to law school in the process.” “I’m not sure anyone would know what to do without actually having to go through it,” he shares. Nothing in his career, which includes his many roles of being a manager, creative director, creative marketer, A&R, executive producer and record executive could have prepared him for the severity of the situation. He gathered and managed a legal team of 11 attorneys across three different countries to ensure that Gibbs came home safe and sound, and while the rapper was acquitted several months later, his manager remembers the struggles of it all, from his lack of a criminal law background to language barriers, veiled racism, inflammatory media reports and the responsibility of speaking up for his friend when the rapper was unable to do so himself. Lambo describes that 2016 incident, where Gibbs was arrested in France and extradited to Austria on charges of sexual abuse against two women, as the biggest challenge he’s had to face so far.
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