I invented the remix: A new Fall TV lineup with re-imagined classics

It's finally fall! Time for dirt pumpkin flavored everything, 4-hour long playoff baseball games and fresh new tv shows.

Yep- this year's fall television premieres are here and they're ... mostly underwhelming.  Here are some new ideas for old shows that would make this fall legendary.

Before the Beltline: LaFace Records Part 2

Atlanta in 2015 is characterized by hipster hangouts and yuppie neighborhoods that each present a whitewashed view of the city.  "Before the Beltline" will highlight the people, places and cultural happenings that made Atlanta the place to be before Yelp reviews, Buzzfeed articles and "The Walking Dead" arrived late to the party. 

By 1994, LaFace Records established itself as a big time player in urban music.  Their roster was top heavy with two acts, TLC and Toni Braxton, that appealed to both the mainstream and R&B's core audience.  They sold lots of records, won plenty of awards and made (or in TLC's case, should've made) a bunch of money.

Carving a niche in R&B is like investing in established stock: you build enough assets to buy in, play it tight and make steady dollars.  The genre had been around forever and showed no signs of fading as LaFace's vocalists took their place atop the business.

Top 5: NFL Starter Jackets

Who says a top five list is only for hip-hop?  Top 5 is a list that ranks the best of any and all. 

Today, children of the 1990s are in a state of euphoria when surfing the worldwide web.  90s culture is tight again.  Blog posts and click bait lists are loaded with our memories of Nickelodeon cartoons, Super Nintendo/SEGA Genesis games and the unhealthy snacks our parents gave us before anyone cared knew better.  

Reliving Doug, Donkey Kong and Dunkaroos is fun, but this post is dedicated to the greatest 90s throwback of them all, one that united all- sports fans and artsy types, slobs and fashionistas, suburbanites and city dwellers with a single product- the Starter jacket.

Before the Beltline: LaFace Records, pride of Atlanta

Atlanta in 2015 is characterized by hipster hangouts and yuppie neighborhoods that each present a whitewashed view of the city.  "Before the Beltline" will highlight the people, places and cultural happenings that made Atlanta the place to be before Yelp reviews, Buzzfeed articles and "The Walking Dead" arrived late to the party. 

If you were alive and cool in the 90s, there's a good chance you owned a CD/ cassette tape stamped with the script logo of LaFace Records.  Founded by LA Reid and singer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, the label introduced us to TLC, Toni Braxton, Outkast and Usher was the first major R&B/Hip-Hop label to operate out of Atlanta.  

Prior to the post-Olympics blitz that brought about extra traffic and gentrified in-town living, LaFace's producers and talent were collectively proud and original, the eternal gatekeepers of the next big thing.  This is a timeline of the label's early years.