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“From Turntables to Storytelling: DJ Short is Remixing the Legacy of West Coast Hip-Hop”
Through his work on The Estelle Show and the launch of “Liner Notes With DJ Short” in early 2025, he has amassed an audience of over 90,000 followers through various social media platforms that are interested in cultural history and the exploration of music. With his presence on social media as well as involvement in the California music scene, he’s gained a wide array of connections and relationships ranging from music industry veterans to burgeoning underground artists.
ICONEK Films Introduces its Latest Holiday Feature, A Naughty Christmess Story, with an All-Star Cast Including Tray Chaney, Mojo Brooks, Darren Brand, and Jamilah Chanie
ICONEK Films, a leader in creating high-quality original content, has revealed that celebrated actors Tray Chaney (known from HBO’s “The Wire” and STARZ’s “BMF”), Dyon “Mojo” Brooks (of Wild ’N Out Season 21 fame), Darren ‘Big Baby’ Brand (also from Wild ’N Out), and Jamilah Chanie (featured in HighStakes, Revisiting the Heart (2022), and Bed-Ridden), will star in the original holiday movie, “A Naughty […]
Surviving Struggle, Finding Strength: The Story Behind Lay’na Michelle’s Rise to Success
Lay’na Michelle R’n’B Empress is an American songwriter from Detroit Motown. Lay’na Michelle R’n’B Empress started singing in the church choir at the age of 3. During her upbringing, she had a tough road to where she is now. At the age of 17, she survived rape at gunpoint during high school along with domestic violence. On November 14th, 2008 she met her husband and manager. The next year Lay’na Michelle R’n’B Empress […]
Breaking Barriers: Shaping the Future of Deaf Representation with VOCA Founder, Michelle Banks
Washington, DC Native, Michelle Banks is an award-winning actress, writer, director, and producer. The Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Visionaries of the Creative Arts (VOCA). With an extensive professional acting career that includes appearances includes Girlfriends, Soul Food Series, and more. Directing shows such as Camellia for Camille (Def Spotlight’s Short Play Festival), Broadway’s For Colored […]
PRAISE THIS STREAMING EXCLUISVELY ON PEACOCK APRIL 7, 2023
Sometimes the music can lift you higher than you’ve ever been. Five-time Grammy nominee Chloe Bailey, star of Grown-ish and half of the sibling musical duo Chlöe x Halle, stars in a new cinematic musical event set in the world of Atlanta’s competitive gospel youth choir praise teams. From director Tina Gordon, writer-director of Little and the writer of What Men Want and Drumline, Praise This follows […]
Debt Management in December
$timulating Tips Debt is when you owe money. You can owe money to someone, a company because you borrowed money, used your credit card or have some type of outstanding loan. There are many types of debt, but it all means you owe money. One year for Christmas I purchased gifts for all my nieces […]
Maya Von Doll and The SohoDolls
London’s influential electro-rockers Sohodolls are back! After being out of the limelight for more than a decade, a globally enforced lockdown revived one of their classics ‘Bang Bang Bang Bang’ into an unexpected viral TikTok hit among the Gen Z glitterati, which has inspired the band to reform and release some stunning new music. […]
Kristen Scott of Hit VH1 Reality Series, “Basketball Wives”
Television personality, philanthropist, wife and mother Kristen Scott is no stranger to multi-tasking. After three seasons on the hit VH1 reality series “Basketball Wives,” Kristen is now adding Author to her resume with the launch of her first book Broccoli Hair which launched in March of 2022. Inspired by her older daughter, Broccoli Hair follows […]
Shannon Jackson President of Shay-J Entertainment,LLC
Shannon Jackson was born in Akron, Ohio, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. She is the youngest of 5 children with a 16-year difference between her 4th sibling. She went to performing arts schools for ballet, jazz, tap, modern, drama, music, and more. She performed in stage plays and shows during middle school and […]
Working Moms
** Trigger Warning: Show contains very heavy subject matter.** Juggling motherhood with work is not new information. For decades, women have been piling things on their plate (often not by choice) while everyone applauds them. “I don’t know how she does it”, they say. So how come no one says, “why does she have to […]