Wayne Barrow

Barrow began his career as a hospital corpsman in the United States Navy as a petty officer.^[3] After eight years in the Navy, Barrow began a new career in the music business by teaming up with Mark Pitts, where he managed business operations of his company, Mark Pitts Management.^[5] Their clients included Changing Faces, Shyne, Queen Pen, LooN, NAS^[6] and the Notorious B.I.G. During a Q and A session which he held on the set of Notorious, Barrow stated that he first met B.I.G through his cousin Mark Pitts, who used to intern for Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs while working at Bad Boy Records.^[7] He secured a deal with EMI Publishing with Aqil Davidson of Wreckx-N-Effect.

In 1998, he became the president of Bystorm Entertainment, a record label that he founded with Mark Pitts, to sign up-and-coming artists. He signed rapper Tracey Lee and launched his debut album, “Many Faces”, with the Universal Records which gave the initial success to the company. The album sold 500,000 copies. They entered into a joint venture with RCA Records and signed Miguel,^[8] Mali-Music, Ro-James, and J.Cole.^[9]

Barrow has also produced movies, including Notorious,^[10][11] Blue, Kicks, BIGGIE I Got A Story To Tell and City Of Lies.^[12][13] During his career, he has managed the recording artists such as Wreckx-N-Effect, J.Cole, Miguel, Loon, Shyne, Ro-James, Kardinal Offishall, and The Notorious B.I.G.,^[14][15] who was also known as Biggie Smalls.^[16]

In 2025, Barrow sued Faith Evans on behalf of the late Voletta Wallace’s estate that he oversees.^[17]