Worldwide Wes Is The Clarence Avant of Sports

What I Learned From The Great Authenticators of Culture

“Shoutout to Worldwide Wes. Everywhere we go we leave a worldwide mess.” -Jay Z

The news of Leon Rose becoming new President of New York Knicks should be exciting for Knick fans. According to reports Knicks will also bring over “Worldwide Wes” whose government name is William Wesley but that’s a name never used by those of us in the know. What’s exciting is that a guy I have known for 20+ years is now running a basketball team in NYC, the mega-media market in the world. Also exciting is another legend / OG from my world has “some of his story” out in the public and my “John Henry-like” stories of another Authenticator have gone mainstream. My career is both built on and patterned after the great co-signers in culture. Starting with Clarence Avant whose work I admired after meeting him in the early 90’s to Worldwide Wes who I would meet in the mid 90’s while trying to convince his friend Michael Jordan to listen to my at the time unknown Columbia Records artists (Fugees, Destiny’s Child…