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00:14Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Common
Common doesn’t take lightly to gross generalizations about his art form. Ah, make that art forms. “Chris Rock said to me one day, ‘As soon as rappers start acting, their raps aren't good anymore.’ I never ascribed to that,” the two-time Grammy winner, who also starred in the 2012 flick LUV, tells Keepin’ It Reel host Tim Gordon. “I’m an actor. I don’t look at myself as an actor-turned-rapper. I’m also a hip-hop artist. But because I do both, it’s like, you don’t stop working at it, training at it, trying to get better. You go out and seek and you put passion into what you do. I have a passion for rapping. I have a passion for acting. And because that love is there, I can wake up every day and work.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Common Chris Rock Tim Gordon
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Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Focus
If anyone knows the power of networking, it’s Grammy-winning producer Focus. After all, he’s collaborated with A-listers like Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé and Dr. Dre. And his advice to anyone looking to get in the music game is to be persistent. “I know it can be a nusance, but why would a Rick Ross or a Buster Rhymes or anybody of that caliber be on Twitter and not expect people to turn around and try to solicit themselves to them?” he tells The Sy Effect host Sy. “I’m still in the trenches with these producers. So the more persistent they are, the more it motivates me to be on my grind, because if I can’t fill the spot, I know they will. But new producers also need to find their own sound. Stop mocking what they hear on the radio. Find new textures. Be creative.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Focus Buster Rhymes The Sy Effect
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Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Gabrielle Union
We know Gabrielle Union as the star of hit flicks like Bring It On and Bad Boys II. But good luck getting her to bask in her own success. “If I know I’m going to have microphones put in my face, I’d much rather use that time to help save lives,” she tells The Stupid Cancer Show host Matthew Zachary. “Being a ‘celebrity’ provides a perma-soapbox, but it’s what you chose to do with it. You can chose to sell your wares, or you can use it to make people proactive about their own health care. I try to get the word out about where to go for low- and no-cast mammograms, and push the messages of early detection as much as I can.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Gabrielle Union The Stupid Cancer Show Matthew Zachary
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00:13
Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Jill Scott
Don’t try pigeonholing Grammy-winning diva Jill Scott into a single artistic discipline, lest you want a piece of her fast, fertile mind. “I just got a TV pilot. It’s call Second Sight. It’s kind of a science-fiction genre. I play Dr. Safreen Callier. We’re filiming now in New Orleans,” the R&B—and hip hop and soul and jazz—singer tells 6th Man Radio hosts Nadine Michel and The Bad Seed. “People feel I just came out of nowhere into acting. But I’ve been acting for 20 years. I started in theater. Poetry led me to theater. Theater led me to singing. And here I am. I do all these things because it makes me happy. And the hardest work I have is acting. But acting is mandatory for me because I’m a lover of words.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Jill Scott 6th Man Radi Nadine Michel
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Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Tiana Von Johnson
She’s the first African American woman to own a Wall Street real estate agency, an achievement that becomes even more impressive when you consider she built her company from scratch, beginning at an age when many of her peers were still figuring out what they wanted to be. “I started my business at 27. It was a risk a lot of young people wouldn’t have taken. But I’m different,” Tiana Von Johnson, CEO of GoldStar Properties, tells host Mecca James. “Being a black woman has definitely had its challenges. My competitors don’t want me taking away millions of dollars of business from them each year. But I knew that there wasn’t a firm that really catered to the athletes and musicians, which was a segment of the market my firm set out to capture early on.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Tiana Von Johnson GoldStar Properties Mecca James
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Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Aaron Dworkin
Whoever it was that said African Americans and classical music don’t mix never met Aaron Dworkin. Interviewed on Across the Arts, the violinist recalls his inspiration for creating the Sphinx Organization. “While I was at the University of Michigan, going to concert halls and looking not only onstage but around the audience, I saw very little diversity. And I kept asking myself why,” he tells host Patrick D. McCoy. “Classical music has played a pivotal role in my life since before I could read. And it didn’t make sense that the community wasn’t embracing this amazing art form. That led to this idea of, What if there was a competition for young musicians could come together, play music by composers of color, build a peer group and gain resources to be able to build professional careers?”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Aaron Dworkin Sphinx Organization Patrick D McCoy
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Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Styles P
At age 38, rapper Styles P is close to aging out of his demo. Or is he? When The Knicks Blog host Anthony Donahue suggests that today’s teens wouldn’t appreciate last year’s Wu Block, a collaborative album by fellow Gen X hip hop artists Ghostface Killah and Sheek Louch—with one track by Styles himself—the Good Times singer begs to differ. “You’d be surprised. There’s a lot of young hip-hop kids that find that album. Some of them like to look back on history,” he says. “Actually, I have an 18-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old son and they have friends who are fans of mine, which always amazes me. I’m like, Why in the hell would they know about it?”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Styles P The Knicks Blog Radio Anthony Donahue
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Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Melinda Emerson
Two hundred and fifteen thousand Twitter followers can’t be wrong about Melinda Emerson, aka The Small Business Lady. So you might want to listen up when she tells Smart Companies Thinking Bigger host Kelly Scanlon, “Launch your business while you’re still working! Don't cut your paycheck off prematurely. Because, honey, once it’s off, it is off.” The CEO of Quintessence Multimedia, whose 2010 Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months became a New York Times bestseller—and who’s featured on CNBC’s new reality series Crowd Rules—then goes on to offer this bit of wisdom: “Ninety percent of all small businesses get business from referrals. So, quite possibly, the person in the cube next to you is going to be your first customer or your first referral.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Melinda Emerson Become Your Own Boss in 12 Month Companies Thinking Bigger host Kelly Scanlon
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Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: PJ Morton
What is it about PJ Morton that attracts A-list acts like Lil Wayne, Stevie Wonder, Adam Levine and Jazmine Sullivan, so much so that they’ll step into the studio with him at the drop of a hat? That was the first question on Conversations with Music host Cyrus Webb’s mind when he sat down with the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-producer to chat about pushing the boundaries of pop music on his new album, New Orleans. “Even before I decided to be a full-out artist—because I’ve done independent albums for years—I’ve always had the love of my musical peers,” said PJ. “I think that’s why I can call in those favors and get friends to come and collaborate with me. Because they know I do music for real. It’s not a hobby for me.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio PJ Morton Stevie Wonder Cyrus Webb
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Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Matthew Cherry
NFL-wide-receiver-turned-filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry breaks it down about his new web series, Almost 30—suggesting that Hollywood do a better job of keepin’ it real in the comedy department. “You watch shows like Entourage and you always see an epic victory. There’s always these guys who always get the hot girl, their car is always nice. Like in the rap industry there’s always the same depiction of young black males,” he tells host Iyanna Jones. “But I was like, man, it would be so much funnier if you showed the struggle—you pull up to that club in a beat-up car and you gotta get out on the passanger-side door and stories like that we have from being young and trying to make it in L.A.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Matthew A Cherry Almost 30 Iyanna Jones
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Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Rashidah Ali
Like her dad Muhammad before her, Rashida Ali is as adept as a jackhammer at breaking new ground. Only in Ra’s case, it’s the business world she’s out to mess with. Interviewed on Rodney Perry Live, the entrepreneur explains the essence of shoe consulting—an industry she pioneered. “You may reach out to a salesperson who works at Saks, where they sell hundreds of designer brands. And you’re reaching out to him when he’s not at work and asking about pricing and styles. But he thinks of himself as a salesperson for Saks, rather than a shoe broker. But really he is a shoe broker. Because there’s a commission being made and he’s selling merchandise that’s not of his own—just like being a real estate broker. So I created that title and ran with it.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Rashida Ali Encore Shoes Rodney Perry Live
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Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Adesola Osakalum
Adesola Osakalumi, star of the Tony-winning musical FELA! based on the life of Fela Kuti, explains how that Nigerian pioneer of Afrobeat music made honest ladies out of his concurrent wives. “The majority of women who lived with Fela in his compound often did so without the blessing of their families,” the actor-singer-choreographer tells host Joy Keys. “So they were considered less than upstanding women. There’s a line in the show where he says, ‘They’re not dope-smoking whores. They’re not prostitutes.’ So what Fela did—which was courageous—he said, well, if the institution of marriage is what makes a woman legitimate, then fine: I’ll marry them. Now the onus is off them and it’s on me. If you have a problem with them, come to me.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Adesola Osakalumi Fela Kuti Joy Keys
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