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00:12Toyota 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: The Dlaminis
It’s not easy being Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters. Though no matter how much pressure that lot in life poses, it’s got to be a breeze compared to staring Jaws in the face. Speaking with Film Festival Radio host Janice Malone about their new Cozi TV series, Being Mandela, Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway and Swati Dlamini reveal the depths to which they went proving that political activism can go hand-in-hand with adventure. “It was absolutely frightening and scary,” Swati says of shark-diving off the coast of their native South Africa. “I talked my sister into doing it. But by the time I got on the the boat, I was like, This is such a bad idea. Can we get off this boat? But in the end it was fascinating to swim with great white sharks in their natural environment.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway Swati Dlamini Nelson Mandela
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Toyota 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: Douye
Talk about down for whatever. She’s a diva who hails from Nigeria and elicits the memories of legends like Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn. And her musical collaborator hails from, well, the rodent family. Interviewed on The PM Show, Douyé recounts how she came to write her hit single Life Is Good. “That song was literally inspired by a squirrel. I went to a park where I normally jog every morning and I encountered this squirrel that just kept following me around. So I got tired of this and just sat down and started asking it, ‘How are you?’ and ‘What are you up to?'’’ she tells host Philippe Matthews. “I laughed so hard that day. I felt so at ease, so blissful. Then the squirrel followed me to my car, and I sat there for over two hours, just talking with the squirrel. When I finally had to leave, the melody of Life Is Good popped into my head.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Douye The PM Show Philippe Matthew
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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: Ellen Ector
The Huffington Post has hailed Ellen and Lana Ector as “two spunky women seeking to break the myth about how black women interact with fitness,” while Ebony magazine called their Black Girls Workout Too video “an exercise program that pushes females to rigorously increase their heart rate while toning their entire body.” So when Saturdays host Joy Keys asked the mother-daughter team ‘Who’s your supertar crush in terms of body type?’ our curiosity was piqued. “I like Pilar Sanders. She’s really slim and sexy, with a little muscle tone,” said Lana, 23. Ellen, however, simply replied, “Myself. I’m 60 years old and I like the way I look and love what I’m doing.” If only every sexagenarian sounded so sexy!
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Ellen and Lana Ector Black Girls Workout Too Joy Keys
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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: Desmond Bishop
Desmond Bishop may be a linebacker for the Greenbay Packers, but that doesn’t mean the only post-NFL careers open to him are ESPN commentator and product pitchman. From the sound of things, he’s got his eye on becoming the next Tyler Perry—or even Aaron Sorkin. “A few years ago, I started writing this script. I had no real foundation. I just started writing. And I’ve always liked movies,” he tells The Conversation host Cyrus Webb. “So when I got older, writing became a hobby, and a passion, and now I’m trying to forward it—relentlessly chasing it, actually.” To that end, Desmond recently attended a Universal Studios’ writing program called Hollywood Boot Camp. From here on, he says, “I want to hone my literary skills, learn more about the industry and see where it takes me.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Desmond Bishop Cyrus Webb The Conversation
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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: 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: 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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Toyota RAV4 Presents Going Places Radio: Yolanda Moore
Yolanda Moore isn’t a two-time WNBA champ because she sat on her butt dreaming about victory. She’s a champ because she believes—as the title of her memoir attests—You Will Win If You Don’t Quit. “When you have that purpose inside you, you know it, you feel it, you can see it clear as day,” she tells Wealthy Sistas host Deborah Hardnett. “But if you have that purpose suppressed, you have to live with regret—what should have been, what could have been—and you just die inside. So what I would tell kids is, if this is something you truly want to do, then do it. But you have to put in the work.”
Tags: Toyota RAV4 Going Places Radio Yolanda Moore Wealthy Sistas Deborah Hardnett
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