Leon Thomas & More Honored During Billboard Future of Music & Money: Presented by UBS and Feeture

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The intimate lawsuit took spot astatine the lush Flyfish Club successful Manhattan's Lower East Side

Amid Billboard’s festivities for Hip-Hop/R&B Week 2025, stars and manufacture tastemakers gathered for an intimate lawsuit dubbed Billboard Future of Music & Money: Presented by UBS and Feeture to observe visionary executives and artists reshaping the speech astir fiscal literacy and creating caller pathways for creators.

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On Friday, September 5, the invite-only cocktail reception and grant ceremonial was hosted astatine Cattail Lounge NYC and heard DJ Goldie Harris curate a acceptable of throwback and existent hip-hop and R&B staples. Horderves, cocktails and laughs filled the dimly-lit venue earlier evening honorees Leon Thomas, Ty Dolla $ign and much took to the signifier for the grant presentation. Inside the Lower East Side venue, Billboard shared a toast successful grant of Leon Thomas for his groundbreaking year, which saw him bid the spotlight with his hit, “MUTT,” peaking astatine the No. 12 spot connected Billboard’s Hot 100.

“Tonight, we’re not conscionable celebrating an unthinkable creator — we’re celebrating a existent visionary,” said Wale Ogunleye, UBS Head of Sports and Entertainment, during the grant ceremony. “Being a visionary is not lone astir creating timeless music. It’s astir gathering a legacy, knowing wherever you privation to spell and having the courageousness to forge your ain path. At UBS, we person the privilege of lasting beside astonishing artists, helping them crook their imaginativeness and originative talents into lasting fiscal occurrence for themselves, their families, their communities and generations to come,” continued Ogunleye earlier R&B hitmaker and recipient of the Creative Visionary Award Presented by UBS, Thomas took the spotlight to convey Ogunleye and stock immoderate words with the crowd.

“It’s truly hard sometimes being aboriginal connected a inclination oregon aboriginal connected a dependable due to the fact that there’s truly thing kinda to notation it to successful the marketplace and I truly convey everybody for being fearless capable to spot my vision,” helium told the audience.

Among the further honorees included Ty Dolla $ign, who received the Collab Impact Award by Jareiq Josef Kabara, Feeture CEO, arsenic good arsenic Shawn Barron, who received the Executive Impact Award by Jareiq Josef Kabara, Feeture CEO.