Category: Finance
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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…
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The Local Buzz: Feed Your Kids For $1 (News)
While hitting up a couple of local hip hop events this past weekend and talking with people, I know folks out here are working hard to make it. The economy is still tripping and looks like it won’t put some get right in it’s system anytime soon, so here’s a deal y’all might find helpful.…
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Steve Stoute Defines “The Tanning Of America” w/ @Soledad_Obrien (Video)
Steve Stoute, CEO of Translation Advertising and Jay-Z’s right hand marketing guru, sits down with Soledad O’Brien at the National Association of Black Journalists Conference in Philadelphia, PA earlier this month. In this clip from their conversation, Steve Stoute defines what the "tanning of America" is, how it has laid the groundwork for transformation of the nation’s…
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Steve Stoute x ‘The Tanning Of America’ (News)
One of my favorite industry businessmen, Steve Stoute, will be releasing a new book, The Tanning Of America, on September 8. He is the founder of Translation Advertising, which is an advertising, marketing, branding and consulting firm. The Tanning Of America will focus on the impact hip hop culture has had on the global economy. In…
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Wall Street Journal: Hip-Hop Artists Drop Defaults x Foreclosure Knowledge
“Wouldn’t it be nice if the banks didn’t f— up the loans / And people ain’t have to move out they homes? … That’s the world I’m talkin’ about is where we would like to be / Worried about debts, recessions and foreclosure…”–Bun B The Wall Street Journal featured an article detailing several rappers who…