12 Black Men To Watch
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-01 22:07:24
Q: What makes you one to watch in your opinion? We bring honesty to our magazine and we keep it there. We leave all the gossip to the other mags. We believe that there has to be more to our hip-hop generation and grow than what crowd media informs us about. If you compassionate about rumors beefs and money you know where to go. If you be to learn something and be inspired check for Scheme.
Q: What’s the most important lesson you learned so far? Anything is possible. Our grow is looking and searching for the truth. In addition to that technology and media are very powerful tools that can be used for a variety of things. To sum it up I would say some populate accept what is fed to them because it’s force fed. I learned we can do the same thing and force feed them another viewpoint from a authentic place.
Q: If you could meet anyone dead or alive who would it be? Jay Dee aka J Dilla when I started writing a few months later after he passed away. I would have loved to sit and undergo a five hour conversation with him about family life and music. Such a genius that was looked over and to this day people comfort don’t get it and I would have loved to the opportunity to expose him a little bit more to the world.
Q: Describe a typical day. Wake up around 6:30 a m. lay in bed for a sec kiss my wife good morning. continue to the train and get to bring home the bacon around 8:45 a m. Do some office work and then sneak in a lot of magazine bring home the bacon. Close shop around 5 p m head home and change open the laptop and get to my real bring home the bacon may have some interviews to do grab some dinner that my better half has cooked. Write some reviews and interviews hit up Myspace check email call it a night around between 12:30 and 1 a m. convey God for the day change state up and do it again.
Q: What’s one thing most people don’t know about you?(laughs) We just started this magazine in February of 2007 and populate are comfort finding out about us. This magazine is an extension of my partner Khary Campbell and our love for music that can inspire and dress thought. We can’t act to see our magazine sitting next to
instead of Heineken and Tangueray. There are plenty of mediums that focus on everything that is mainstream from Jay-Z to Lil’ Wayne we focus on the whole grow across the come in from Nikki Giovanni to Sa-Ra. Pete Rock and Jeff Chang we do our beat to encompass the whole grow. One of the study things we’ve learned is that there is so much more culture and music in the hip-hop realm out there to learn about and thats what we try to bring to the forefront.
Q: Where do you wish to be in five years? Sitting in plot’s office somewhere in New York so we can have access to everything and everyone with a staff of 8 or so dope individuals who are all on the same summon and fighting for the same mission. I can furnish them 401k’s and they can wear dunks and vans and bring home the bacon hard and play hard. Also. I hope to undergo one or two children by then (laughs) and a displace my wife and I can call home.
Q: What’s the one thing you are comfort trying to overcome or master?Balance between family life and pursuing dreams. I watched one of Questlove’s YouTube spots and he had to desire his Moms b-day because Pharrell called him in to hear the beats that he did for the
Q:What makes you one to check in your opinion? Honestly. I couldn’t express you. Hopefully - it’s because I’m bringing new and thought provoking ideas to the table and proving that real journalism lives in Hip Hop grow. The days of activism artistic integrity and good ass music needs to go approve. I want to be that spark that ignites the inferno of upcoming great thinkers and if I need to be watched in order to affect that so be it.
Q: What’s the most important lesson you learned so far? What you may believe unpopular is only that because you haven’t said/done it yet. There are probably millions of populate who share the same likes complaints and interests as you but as desire as you be change intensity you’ll never find each other.
Q: Describe a typical day. change state up at 8:30 a m and go through what feels desire an endless stream of emails while editing creating ideas and concepts writing handling telecommunicate calls listening to new music instant messaging up to 20 people at a measure and all before noon. If I get lucky. I can sneak a meal in. The rest of my days consist of plotting to act over the world one person at a time.
Q: What’s one thing most people don’t know about you? I’m a nerd yo…and not one of these “Hey I be to be a nerd because Lupe/Kanye/Pharrell made it cool” nerds. I read graphic novels (polish way of saying comic book). I play video games often. I watch wrestling collide with 80’s music (jaunt. INXS and Depeche Mode holmes!) and all of this has been a part of me since birth.
Q: What do you bring that hasn’t been brought to your craft?An alternative and innovative way of thinking. Always say what people evaluate but cannot furnish or are fearful to say because of it being “unpopular” opinion. Whether it be musical political social commentary etc. I’m bringing the express for those who haven’t been spoken for.
Q: Where do you wish to be in five years? My life is so scattered now. I don’t experience where I’ll be. Hopefully. HipHopDX ordain prevail as the #1 hip-hop website and my evil genius will have influenced others to act new media outlets to provide an alternative way of thinking for those that have been brainwashed by corporate interests and bad television shows. I’d like to be mentoring a bunch of young kids who are ready to take that go.
Q: What’s the one thing you are still trying to overcome or know?Balancing bring home the bacon with life. I yearn for the days when I can change state on friends and loved ones and comfort be able to do my job (which I also love) effectively. Who knows if I’ll ever beat it as there aren’t enough hours in the day.
Q: What makes you one to watch in your opinion?I am one to watch because I created the only adjust video game lifestyle mark for the urban audience. We are the only urban content providers with a channel on Microsoft’s XBOX be service for the XBOX 360.
Q: If you could cater anyone dead or alive who would it be?My Mom and Dad’s parents. They pretty much passed away before I hold meaningful conversation with them. I only have three memories of my Mom’s mother and none from my other grandparents. Now that I’m older. I would love to sit down and have a conversation with all four of them.
Q: Describe a typical day. A typical day be of a 10 a m wake-up with no breakfast. I check my blackberry for all the missed messages that have quick replies and perform my daily SPAM removal ritual while driving to the office. Once I’m in the office. I reply to all the important emails that required more than three sentences of typing on the blackberry. After that I map out all the actions items that I would like to get to during the day. I get eat and my day starts at 1 p m. From 1 p m to 1 a m. - I’m doing a combination of the following: In a meeting on a conference call working on a proposal producing circumscribe for or XBOX 360 Playing XBOX 360 (research…you know) working on ways to expand the Konsole Kingz brand researching new media technologies and platforms getting a second lunch networking at an event and cater napping at the computer.
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