by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
June 27, 2025
The imprint, began by Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and Rob Walker, is again in enterprise.
Star Trak, the label co-founded by Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and Rob Walker, has been revived by way of a partnership with Create Music Group.
The label, as soon as dwelling to artists like Kelis, Clipse, Robin Thicke, Snoop Dogg, Teyana Taylor, and N.E.R.D. (which featured Hugo and Williams), was launched in 2001 and and led to 2015.
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— Create Music Group (@createmusic) June 18, 2025
“This isn’t nearly bringing Star Trak again,” stated Walker in a written assertion. “It’s about constructing a brand new chapter rooted in the place we’ve been and constructed for the place we’re headed. The power and imaginative and prescient that helped form a technology is getting into a brand new period. With Create as our accomplice, we’re giving artists the house to maneuver in a different way, assume greater, and faucet into an ecosystem of manufacturers and collaborators that Star Trak has cultivated through the years.”
Create Music Group will present worldwide distribution, know-how, and advertising and marketing companies to the label. The label beforehand had distribution offers with Arista Information and Virgin Information earlier than becoming a member of Interscope Geffen A&M Information.
“We’re honored to accomplice with Rob as he kicks off the subsequent chapter of Star Trak,” stated Kyle Bartelman, director of worldwide company improvement and M&A at Create Music Group. “Rob’s artistic imaginative and prescient and business expertise will uniquely place our artists for fulfillment with their music and past. We’re excited to have Star Trak be a part of the CMG household, and we will’t wait to assist Rob and the subsequent wave of Star Trak expertise.”
There was no point out of Pharrell or Hugo being concerned this time round, however Walker did inform Selection that it was the “Pleased” producer’s concept to convey Star Trak again. He additionally said that there could also be some reissues sooner or later, in addition to an opportunity to showcase some unreleased materials.
“Because it was (Pharrell’s) concept for me to rebirth this factor and put it on the market, it’s huge open for us to determine some particular, cool ideas or concepts that we might convey a few of that outdated stuff again that folks love,” Walker instructed the media outlet. “Just like the prequel mixtape he did for his Clones album, that was by no means absolutely launched. There’s alternatives for stuff like that that may very well be cool for us to launch and put out.”
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