Jonathan Miles Shecter (born August 4, 1968), also known as Shecky Green and J the Sultan, is an American magazine editor and music promoter.
[1] He is the co-founder[2] of the music and culture magazine The Source, former Director of Programming for the Wynn Las Vegas,[1] and current Editor-In-Chief for Cuepoint at Medium.
During his 1988 sophomore year, he began overseeing a rap music radio show called Street Beat on Harvard College’s radio station, WHRB 95.3 FM, with his then roommate David M. Mays,[7] To promote this radio show Shecter started The Source magazine as a newsletter, using an issue for his senior thesis, The Decade of Hip Hop.With high-school friend Kevin "Kevi-Kev" Krakower, he co-founded a rap group named Big Man on Campus.
Funding was via selling ad space, including to rap performer Christopher Wallace, also known as Notorious B.I.G.
[10] Shecter had launched a number of companies after his departure from The Source magazine in 1995. and was also involved in the promotion of rapper Marshall Bruce Mathers III, also known as Eminem, early in his career.