Category: Business
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Designer & Def Jam’s Founding Creative Director Cey Adams (@CeyAdams) Discuss The Branding of Def Jam Records
Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label is set to hit stores early next month. The coffee table book will provide a narrative in both words and photograph’s of the historic label’s rise to the top and its impact to hip hop culture. Cey Adams, as Def Jam’s…
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@SteveStoute: Talks The Evolution Of “Cool” & His Personal Brand With The Daily (Video)
Steve Stoute sits down with Farnoosh Torabi of The Daily to talk about his new book The Tanning Of America: How Hip-Hop Created A Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy. During their chat Steve Stoute describes the evolution of cool, how to achieve it plus the major brands that are cool right now,…
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The Local Buzz: @ScrapExchange Grand (Re)Opening & Swap-O-Rama (News)
The Scrap Exchange is an environmentally conscious reuse center in Durham that provides every material imaginable for creative purposes. You can find just about anything there including zippers by the barrel, test tubes by the crate and all types of paper. The most interesting thing I’ve ever seen there was a huge walk in machine…
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@SteveStoute Talks “The Tanning of America” With Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, Jimmy Iovine & Lady Gaga (Video)
Photo: HuffPo Steve Stoute’s new book The Tanning of America: How Hip Hop Created A Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy will be available everywhere tomorrow September 8. In addition to the new book, Steve Stoute has teamed up…
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@Pitbull Talks Business, Empowerment & Building His Brand At @HR360Summit (Video)
Here’s a side of Pitbull fans rarely have the opportunity to see; to watch him talk business and how he grew his brand. Enrique Arbelaez of XL Alliance recently interviewed Pitbull following his speech at the Hispanic Retail 360 Summit in La Jolla, California late last month. Durning their talk, Pitbull explains why empowering the…
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New In The Nanci O Store: Fall 2011 Nanci O Is Hip Hop Apparel (Video)
Just in time for Fall and the back to school season, there are several new products available in the online store. The new products include a purple and teal (1988-2002 Charlotte Hornets colors) snapback, and a white and red stripe snapback. In addition to the snapback, there are also tank tops available, as well as…
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Pharrell Williams (@4real4rell) & Smirnoff Vodka (@Smirnoff_Aus) Commercial (Video)
First Revlon’s Grow Luscious Plumping Mascara, now Smirnoff Vodka. Skateboard P Pharrell Williams is the new face of Smirnoff’s Start Pure Vodka. Currently this ad is only running in Australia, and from the sounds of the video, not only is Pharrell in the commercial, he produced the soundtrack as well. AL. Pharrell is not just…
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Building The Brand Documentary Part 1 (Video)–@KeyshiaDior
In part one of model Keyshia Dior’s Building The Brand documentary, she discusses her beginnings in the industry as a video model, how taking acting classes helped her career take off, the process behind the manufactoring of her lipstick line KA’OIR, footage from KA’OIR promotional commercials, taking her cosmetics line to the next level, being…