Showing posts with label Hip Hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hip Hop. Show all posts
Hip hop is not dead: Mary Nichols at TEDxOrlando
Mary Nichols (a.k.a. DJ Fusion) is a radio, mixtape & club dj, independent music industry consultant, and writer with a passion for both independent and mainstream music of the African diaspora. In 1998, she founded the syndicated Fuse Box Radio Broadcast, a clean, radio friendly mix that has gone global, spreading to over 25 national and international FM and internet radio stations.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
“Lyrical Rebels” Mixtape to be Released at Positive Teen Magazine Fashion Show and “The Hoodie Awards”
For
Immediate Release
GFL
Productions
Contact:
Dominique Deshield
Telephone:
202-670-5354
“Lyrical Rebels” Mixtape to be
Released at
Positive Teen Magazine Fashion
Show and “The Hoodie Awards”
This is a unique opportunity
for artists and business owners to advertise their products on a large scale
without having to spend the normal costs of going to an event on their own.
Dominique Rebel has been afforded the opportunity to attend VIP both the
Positive Teen Magazine Fashion Show in Miami ,
Florida Las Vegas ,
Nevada
There are two separate
opportunities being presented. The “Lyrical Rebels” mixtape is a special
opportunity for artists to have their songs distributed freely to fans at both
events. This project will feature a variety of music; from rock, pop, rap,
r&b, and reggae. Artists who appear on the mixtape will also be interviewed
on WOW Radio (www.wowuradio.net) and
Ryze Radio (www.ryzeradionetwork.com). The
mixtape will have an article in Positive Teen Magazine, and will be available
for free download via GFL Productions blog (RebelEntertainment.tumblr.com).
Artists will also be able to submit materials to be added to the gift bags.
Business’ have the opportunity to promote their materials via fliers or small
samples to be added to the gift bags. An
estimated total of 500 bags will be distributed across both events.
Founded in 2010, GFL
Productions is an entertainment services company dedicated to providing support
to artists and professionals in the entertainment industry. A mix of
professional services and community outreach, GFL works with artists of all
talent abilities and across genres and cultures. GFL Productions is a privately
held company based in Fort Washington ,
MD.
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Full
Contact Information
Dominique
Deshield, MBA
A&R,
My Rebel Life
GFL Productions
202-670-5354
DominiqueRebel
Twitter: @DominiqueRebel
Facebook: @Dominique Rebel
Jay Gregory Interview (The Cool Kids Music Video/Short Film Premier)
Martin’s Lounge – 1919 9th St. N.W. Washington D.C. September 15, 2011
Tonight was surely an event that could in fact, go down in DMV History. This is Insight Seeker and Monet “MoMo” Wright of W.O.W. Radio here at The Cool Kids Music Video and Short Film Premier in Northwest Washington D.C. at Martin’s Lounge.
We’ve managed to catch up and speak with several of tonight’s guests like “Joey Swagga”, Jay Mills, film producer Tanecia Britt and Tyrone Shelby just to name a few. Tonight MoMo and I were on a mission to speak with the night’s premier guests to get into the mindset of how The Cool Kids work.
Here, we catch up with one of their top music and video producers Jay Gregory, check out a few things he had to tell us about The Cool Kids and what they’ve been up to, along with a little bit of insight on how they came to be. Insight: What’s good people, this is Insight Seeker here with Cool Kids super producer Jay Gregory.
Jay Gregory: What’s up everybody Jay Gregory here, Creative Director, of The Cool Kids coolin’ out. We just premiered “Parachute” by DC’s own Tabi Boney, still working on a few projects lined up from The Cool Kids..yanno man, just trying to keep things movin’.
Insight: Cool, ok so real quick tell everybody just how long The Cool Kids have been active and how you all got started?
Jay Gregory: Officially we’ve been out since 2008 with our breakout video from Tabi Boney “Put Me in the Pocket” which, back then during production, we discovered we’d have to pay quite a bit of money to follow through with filming and so forth. So we then realized that, Hey! We’ve all been to college. We’re all pretty smart and know exactly what we want from this, we can create our own video. So we shot three videos, all three made it to MTV and from that point on we just “took it there”. Next thing yanno people got hip to our work and style and we’ve been on eversince.
Insight: Being a producer yourself and working with many artist, what are some of your personal inspirations to how you influence your own style?
Jay Gregory: I look at movies really. I try to get them [the artist] and try to take their music and make it into a picture. Try to make their lyrics into something the audience can visualize. We want to shoot videos that people can be entertained by and look at like as if it were a cinematic movie.
Insight: Nice, now with all the many concepts and lighting and ideas, what is one of, if not, the wildest video concept an artist has challenged you with, for shooting a video?
Jay Gregory: Definitely without a doubt that had to be a video we did for Fat Trell ft. Raheem Devaughn “Going Crazy”. We shot that video in a real deal abandoned Mental Asylum. Yes, we really got stopped by the police and the only reason we didn’t go to jail was because they didn’t have a truck big enough to carry us all. When I first heard the song, they wanted to make the video about a bunch of girls ‘going crazy’ in stripper scenes or regular ‘going crazy’ breakup scenes. I heard it and thought about real Women really going crazy, like insane crazy and the asylum just became a fixation to follow up on. ALL of us were in there scared, afraid, frightened, everybody from the biggest person to the smallest were all shook that evening into the night….yup even me.
{{{Brief interruption from another upcoming Virginia artist from Richmond by the name of Noah O. ‘Insight Seeker’ shouts out that we don’t just cover DMV in the local metropolitan area, we promote artist in the entire indie community from all over}}}
Insight: See? Whats whassup, we get people from everywhere tuning in to www.wowuradio.net to check out what’s in store. Ok, so Jay Gregory, I know you have to show face with a few more people tonight to further promote several projects. Real quick, where can people look to find you and The Cool Kids?
Jay Gregory: Well I’m on twitter, real simple to find me, no gimmicks I’m @JayGregory202, you can also check out @CoolKidsForever and Cool Kids Films Forever. Pretty much everywhere you see The Cool Kids you can find me, just check us out; we’ve got a lot coming up for y’all.
Jay Gregory, MoMo and I [Insight Seeker] then step out into DC’s night air to mingle with a few other of tonight’s event occupants. Unfortunately we unable to catch up with the speedy exit of Tabi Boney himself however, we’ll always be able to catch up with him but in the meantime, be sure to follow The Cool Kids and their many artist. Don’t forget to log onto www.wowuradio.net to hear them in the song rotation. You can also now download W.O.W. Radio to your mobile phone by simply downloading the FREE Live365 application to your cellular phone, then typing in the words WOW Radio in the search bar.
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by Insight Seeker, Creative Director, W.O.W Radio
Follow on Twitter: @AgentL7
Tonight was surely an event that could in fact, go down in DMV History. This is Insight Seeker and Monet “MoMo” Wright of W.O.W. Radio here at The Cool Kids Music Video and Short Film Premier in Northwest Washington D.C. at Martin’s Lounge.
We’ve managed to catch up and speak with several of tonight’s guests like “Joey Swagga”, Jay Mills, film producer Tanecia Britt and Tyrone Shelby just to name a few. Tonight MoMo and I were on a mission to speak with the night’s premier guests to get into the mindset of how The Cool Kids work.
Here, we catch up with one of their top music and video producers Jay Gregory, check out a few things he had to tell us about The Cool Kids and what they’ve been up to, along with a little bit of insight on how they came to be. Insight: What’s good people, this is Insight Seeker here with Cool Kids super producer Jay Gregory.
Jay Gregory: What’s up everybody Jay Gregory here, Creative Director, of The Cool Kids coolin’ out. We just premiered “Parachute” by DC’s own Tabi Boney, still working on a few projects lined up from The Cool Kids..yanno man, just trying to keep things movin’.
Insight: Cool, ok so real quick tell everybody just how long The Cool Kids have been active and how you all got started?
Jay Gregory: Officially we’ve been out since 2008 with our breakout video from Tabi Boney “Put Me in the Pocket” which, back then during production, we discovered we’d have to pay quite a bit of money to follow through with filming and so forth. So we then realized that, Hey! We’ve all been to college. We’re all pretty smart and know exactly what we want from this, we can create our own video. So we shot three videos, all three made it to MTV and from that point on we just “took it there”. Next thing yanno people got hip to our work and style and we’ve been on eversince.
Insight: Being a producer yourself and working with many artist, what are some of your personal inspirations to how you influence your own style?
Jay Gregory: I look at movies really. I try to get them [the artist] and try to take their music and make it into a picture. Try to make their lyrics into something the audience can visualize. We want to shoot videos that people can be entertained by and look at like as if it were a cinematic movie.
Insight: Nice, now with all the many concepts and lighting and ideas, what is one of, if not, the wildest video concept an artist has challenged you with, for shooting a video?
Jay Gregory: Definitely without a doubt that had to be a video we did for Fat Trell ft. Raheem Devaughn “Going Crazy”. We shot that video in a real deal abandoned Mental Asylum. Yes, we really got stopped by the police and the only reason we didn’t go to jail was because they didn’t have a truck big enough to carry us all. When I first heard the song, they wanted to make the video about a bunch of girls ‘going crazy’ in stripper scenes or regular ‘going crazy’ breakup scenes. I heard it and thought about real Women really going crazy, like insane crazy and the asylum just became a fixation to follow up on. ALL of us were in there scared, afraid, frightened, everybody from the biggest person to the smallest were all shook that evening into the night….yup even me.
{{{Brief interruption from another upcoming Virginia artist from Richmond by the name of Noah O. ‘Insight Seeker’ shouts out that we don’t just cover DMV in the local metropolitan area, we promote artist in the entire indie community from all over}}}
Insight: See? Whats whassup, we get people from everywhere tuning in to www.wowuradio.net to check out what’s in store. Ok, so Jay Gregory, I know you have to show face with a few more people tonight to further promote several projects. Real quick, where can people look to find you and The Cool Kids?
Jay Gregory: Well I’m on twitter, real simple to find me, no gimmicks I’m @JayGregory202, you can also check out @CoolKidsForever and Cool Kids Films Forever. Pretty much everywhere you see The Cool Kids you can find me, just check us out; we’ve got a lot coming up for y’all.
Jay Gregory, MoMo and I [Insight Seeker] then step out into DC’s night air to mingle with a few other of tonight’s event occupants. Unfortunately we unable to catch up with the speedy exit of Tabi Boney himself however, we’ll always be able to catch up with him but in the meantime, be sure to follow The Cool Kids and their many artist. Don’t forget to log onto www.wowuradio.net to hear them in the song rotation. You can also now download W.O.W. Radio to your mobile phone by simply downloading the FREE Live365 application to your cellular phone, then typing in the words WOW Radio in the search bar.
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by Insight Seeker, Creative Director, W.O.W Radio
Follow on Twitter: @AgentL7
Joey Swagga Interview (The Cool Kids Music Video/Short Film Premier)
Martin’s Lounge - 1919 9th Street. N.W. Washington D.C. September 15, 2011
Recently I, “Insight Seeker” traveled to a local lounge in the northwest section of our Nation’s Capital with none other than Monet “MoMo” Wright at my side. We were lucky enough to catch up with several artist at this premier event and catch up on a few of their upcoming projects to look out for in the closing months of 2011 and in the opening of 2012.
Among the many performers, producers, developers, directors and local entrepreneurs our primary focus was on our natives to DC, The Cool Kids. Headlining their roster, with his media mainstream buzz continuing to climb, is Tabi Boney, who was in the crowd promoting his newest video release “Parachute”.
“MoMo” managed to catch the attention of one of the members of The Cool Kids music group, good friend and very talented recording artist “Joey Swagga”, and convince him to sit and chat with myself [Insight Seeker] and shed light on some of his upcoming works.
Insight: Whassup Joey what’s good?
Joey Swagga: It’s all good; you already know what it is
Insight: Right and I see y’all are doing big things. So for those who don’t really know, exactly how long have The Cool Kids been on the scene?
Joey Swagga: Well we’ve been out for several years building a foundation. I, myself, joined the company a few months ago and have been rockin’ wit’ it ever since non-stop. They’re definitely my home base.
Insight: Aight I see, as a matter of fact you just put out an album didn’t you?
Joey Swagga: Yeh I just dropped my first solo mix-tape, 2011 “Little Child Runnin’ Wild” and look out for that “Back to Business” mix-tape coming soon too. Y’all forgive me I’m in my {chill} mode right now.I won’t give you the date for that yet, I want y’all to follow me on twitter @JoeySwagga301 and stay updated on everything I’ll be sure to keep everybody informed.
Insight: Good and I got a chance to hear a few of the tracks and see you recording a few so I know the work you put into the “Little Child Runnin’ Wild” project but may I ask, what was your overall inspiration to the theme of that album?
Joey Swagga: The inspiration for the album was Supa Fly the movie, dated in the 1970’s so we wanted to do a theme that brought a Curtis Mayfield, Pam Grier vibe to it but like, with a today’s feel. Something that was real ‘slick’ ya can ride to, move to somethin’ the ladies can really groove to yanno, that swagg!? I know I honestly didn’t expect for this to be my first project and I’m extremely happy with how it turned out. So that’s a blessin’ in itself.
Insight: Mos’ def’ so do you have anything in the works as far as videos or any other production projects? Anything you’re working on where the people might get a chance to catch up to your performances or where they can get to see you?
Joey Swagga: We’re looking forward to shooting a video for the single “#Choosin” on the [Little Child Runnin’ Wild] album. All that good stuff so look out for that soon. That’ll be the next one out, we’re always doing shows, we have a Howard Homecoming performance scheduled (you can find details on my twitter page). Really we’re just trying to get this mix- tape out before the New Year.
Insight: Cool, now who are some of the artist you worked with on this upcoming mix-tape, who can we look forward to hearing you link up with in the booth?
Joey Swagga: This time around? I got 1080 Beats, I’m thinking about hookin’ up with Dirty Rebel, I linked up with Lois Black, Trell just a few I don’t want to give out all my magic. It’ll definitely be a different feel to it, a whole different sound. We come back even harder this time for y’all do be ready for that, that’s the “Back to Business” project.
Insight: Right right, always workin’ I see. Good so let me ask you this. Being an indie artist in the DMV, everybody is unique and gifted but what do you feel that you yourself bring to the indie community in music or otherwise?
Joey Swagga: As far as DMV, it’s filled with a lot of characters or rather people doing their thing. I, myself, just try to keep it 100 and do my thing. I’m always going to be honesy, never slack and just be me. That’s all joey Swagga can do is be myself, yanno? I think if we just do what we all truly do and not act it out, we can just pretty much maintain the realness of our music. It’s us, who we are and what we do. That’s pretty much all I’m trying to bring, originality.
Insight: That’s whassup ok well I won’t take up too much more of your time. I thank you for sitting for a minute to talk to the people.
Joey Swagga: Mos’ def, anytime. Aye definitely a big shout out to the whole community, the listeners and all the other artist out here grindin’. Big shout out to Wowuradio, CaribGem, Insight Seeker, MoMo and everybody else. Look out for #TheCoolKids and Tabi Boney’s new video “Parachute” coming soon to MTV. Much Love Everybody!!
Joey Swagga and all of The Cool Kids’ music producers, video production staff, engineers and music artists have been working very hard to bring you their newest film and video ventures. According to Joey Swagga , they will continue to do so and have a lot of things in store for the upcoming months into the New Year. As MoMo and I work our way through the crowd meeting several other DMV artist we bump into another very motivated man on a mission. Check out more on the Indie Newz section on www.wowuradio.net and listen to great Indie music!
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by Insight Seeker, Creative Director, W.O.W Radio
Follow on Twitter: @AgentL7
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