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Issue 8 is definitely packing some of the best features as of lately! Jerome Brooks, of Tyler Perry's The Haves and The Have Nots, graces this month's cover. In our exclusive, Brooks gives us the rundown on his character on #HAHN, as well as many of the other projects he's been a part of in the entertainment industry. His talent stretches well-beyond the acting realm, and he has a solid history in the music world. We explore it all in our cover story. Without giving all the details away ahead of time, we can say that we also have exclusives with Soullow & Neffe, who in addition to starring on the hit reality series Frankie & Neffe are also working to build a series of businesses, Toi & Rouvaun Walker, who star on the hit Bravo reality series, Newlyweds: The First Year, Graphic Artist Sharice Johnson who has built a solid name for herself creating some of the best celebrity portraits of our time, Jilly Anais, Slum Village, Producer James Worthy, Teedra Moses, and Teenear, along with regular features & columns like Critic's Corner and our fitness column with Nu Life Fitness. We also have Part II of our dynamic feature with Orange is the New Black's Marsha S. Blake. In addition, we've launched a new beauty column, and we're leading that column off with an exclusive with rising model Cydnei Chyan! These are just some of the things to look forward to in this issue!
Issue 8 is definitely packing some of the best features as of lately! Jerome Brooks, of Tyler Perry's The Haves and The Have Nots, graces this month's cover. In our exclusive, Brooks gives us the rundown on his character on #HAHN, as well as many of the other projects he's been a part of in the entertainment industry. His talent stretches well-beyond the acting realm, and he has a solid history in the music world. We explore it all in our cover story. Without giving all the details away ahead of time, we can say that we also have exclusives with Soullow & Neffe, who in addition to starring on the hit reality series Frankie & Neffe are also working to build a series of businesses, Toi & Rouvaun Walker, who star on the hit Bravo reality series, Newlyweds: The First Year, Graphic Artist Sharice Johnson who has built a solid name for herself creating some of the best celebrity portraits of our time, Jilly Anais, Slum Village, Producer James Worthy, Teedra Moses, and Teenear, along with regular features & columns like Critic's Corner and our fitness column with Nu Life Fitness. We also have Part II of our dynamic feature with Orange is the New Black's Marsha S. Blake. In addition, we've launched a new beauty column, and we're leading that column off with an exclusive with rising model Cydnei Chyan! These are just some of the things to look forward to in this issue!
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Back in the<br />
village<br />
DETROIT’S OWN<br />
W/ SLUM VILLAGE<br />
WHAT AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY IT WAS TO RECONNECT WITH SLUM VILLAGE! WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF RUNNING A<br />
CAMPAIGN WITH SLUM BACK WITH THE RELEASE OF DETROIT DELI. MORE THAN TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THAT TIME,<br />
AND THE COMMONALITY IS A LOT HAS CHANGED ON BOTH ENDS. OBVIOUSLY, WE’RE <strong>UGD</strong> NOW, AND FOLLOWING A SERIES<br />
OF UNFORESEEABLE CHANGES, THEY HAVE RE-SCULPTED THE BRAND THAT THEY WORKED SO DILIGENTLY TO BUILD OVER THE<br />
PAST FIFTEEN YEARS!<br />
A LOT IS GOING ON FOR T3, YOUNG RJ & ILLA J THESE DAYS. THEY ARE ON THE HEELS OF RELEASING THEIR NEW ALBUM<br />
“YES!”, WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THE WORLD IN JUST FEW SHORT DAYS. LED BY THE SINGLES “EXPRESSIVE” AND “RIGHT<br />
BACK” WHICH FEATURES DE LA SOUL, THINGS ARE LOOKING PRETTY GOOD FOR THE TRIO.<br />
MUCH OF OUR CONVERSATION INVOLVED US JUST CATCHING UP AND REHASHING THE LEGACY THEY’VE BUILT THROUGH-<br />
OUT THE YEARS, BUT THEY DEFINITELY SHED LIGHT ON A FEW THINGS, INCLUDING WHY IT WAS SO IMPORTANT THAT THEY<br />
CONTINUE TO KEEP THE LEGACY OF J DILLA ALIVE, THE CHANGES THEY’VE SEEN IN THE INDUSTRY IN THEIR YEARS HERE, AND<br />
JUST WHAT THEY LIKE MOST ABOUT THE NEW AGE. MOST IMPORTANTLY, THEY GIVE US THE FULL RUNDOWN ON WHAT TO<br />
EXPECT FROM “YES!<br />
BY JAMES JOHNSON
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