J Dilla Music Tech Grants Roll Out in LA and NYC Through New Five-Year Deal

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A caller concern betwixt Wasserman Music and Save The Music is backing euphony tech programs successful six precocious schools.

Wasserman creator Niko Rubio coaches students during a Melody Making Workshop connected October 8, 2025.

Wasserman Music has launched a five-year concern with the Save The Music Foundation to enactment J Dilla Music Tech Grants astatine six precocious schools successful Los Angeles and New York, aiming to broaden entree to prime euphony acquisition and link students with nonrecreational artists and manufacture leaders.

Save The Music Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring euphony acquisition successful nationalist schools, has invested $75 cardinal successful instruments and exertion crossed 2,800 schools nationwide implicit 27 years. Through its collaboration with Wasserman Music, the instauration volition absorption connected empowering students successful culturally affluent communities portion bridging gaps successful entree to modern euphony exertion and vocation opportunities.

In the archetypal twelvemonth of the partnership, 1 precocious schoolhouse successful Los Angeles and 1 successful New York volition person support, with pursuing years alternating betwixt the 2 cities. Each motorboat volition see songwriting workshops, unrecorded performances, student-led interviews and panels featuring Wasserman executives and clients.

The archetypal event, held Oct. 8 astatine Warren High School successful Downey, Calif., celebrated the school’s caller euphony exertion program, made imaginable by the Save The Music J Dilla assistance and Wasserman’s support. Over 150 students from Warren High and Stauffer Middle School attended, engaging with a sheet of Wasserman execs — including Marty Diamond, Kevin Shivers and Lee Anderson — and lawsuit Niko Rubio, who besides led hands-on songwriting sessions with nonprofit spouse We Make Noise.

The grants are named aft J Dilla, a pioneering hip-hop shaper and creator from Detroit who passed distant successful 2006 astatine property 32.

Wasserman president Lee Anderson said the company’s extremity is to springiness young radical “access to the tools, education, and opportunities that spark a lifelong passion.” Save The Music enforcement manager Henry Donahue added that the concern volition assistance students unfastened doors to “mentorship, vocation pathways and the inspiration that comes from connecting with moving artists and manufacture leaders.”

The adjacent motorboat is acceptable for October 28 successful New York.