April 2014

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ONE GIRL’S STORY ABOUT FINDING HERSELF

PROM PROMPOSALS

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April Content Creative Director Evelyn Woodsen Photography Evelyn Woodsen Safiyah Mac Chuckie Williams Art & LayOut Evelyn Woodsen

E-mail. evelyn@affinityforlifee.com web. affinityforlifee.com

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ANOTHER MONTH, ANOTHER AMAZING ISSUE.

I can’t seem to believe that its April 2014. I

over these past few months. I hope It gets

started this whole magazine August 2013!

bigger. I’m excited for this issue because it

I’m so excited for this issue because it has

has some unlikely characters!

alot of fun exciting stories and pictures! I love all the accumlating support I been getting the best few months,You don’t know how much I appreciate it! Sometimes I feel like quitting the magazine all together but, the support people give me all the time is what makes me keep going! Even when I’m super busy with school and life, and catching up on Scandal! I’m your normal sixteen year old, just because I have a magazine doesn’t make me super woman (laughs).

This moment is my birthday too which makes it even MORE exciting! I’ll be seventeen! I feel like I grown with the magazine

Evelyn V.Woodsen Editor-in-Chief

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WHAT TO NOT EXPECT ABOUT PROM!

PROM HAS BEEN A TRADITION FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, AND WELL IF YOU ARE JUST LIKE ME, YOU ARE EXCITED TO JUST DRESS UP FOR ONE NIGHT BUT THERE’S SOME THINGS THEY DON’T TELL YOU ABOUT PROM!

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Don’t be so quick to assume someone will ask you, unless you have a boyfriend or girlfriend who you both know

clearly you will go together! Take the leap and ask someone who you know will say yes! It’s not fun to be two weeks away from prom, and still be dateless! If you don;t get a date then go with some friends, that’s always so exciting because you get to just relax and not worry if your date is having a great time or not! Besides having a date is so 1999! We all know boys and girls are so stressful! Don’t expect a promposal!

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Don’t get a limo or anything, because let’s be honest here nobody will even see it because everyone will already be inside.

SO chances are the only people who will see it, are the parents that dropped their children off! Limos are a waste of money! save that money for something. Prom isn’t like the movies, you will not roll up with your head out your rooftop limo, and everyone will clap! Nope, doesn’t ever work like that. Most likely you will pull up to the school, and nobody will be there, because everyone will be inside!

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DATES ARE SO 1999 GO WITH FRIENDS!

IF SOMEONE SAYS NO TO YOUR INVITAON TO PROM DON’T BE OFFENDED BECAUSE THEY SECRETLY LIKE YOU AND ARE JUST SHY, AND YOU ARE TOO COOL FOR THEM ANY AYS!

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If you are wearing a long dress, you DON’T have to wear six inch heels! Nobody will see it! It’s no point in being in pain for schools

nobody will see, now I’m not saying where really low shoes, but wear shoes that are comfortable for you. To be honest everybody usually ends up taking off their shoes when they get to the school. Nobody really dances in heels all night!

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Remember to have fun! Something will always go wrong! But just go with the flow!

I do not own any of these pictures, credit to the photographers, and or owners.

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[Chuckie] We started Lokul Divisons just so we can show everyone what we are capable of by rapping and bringing something new to the table and that’s art. We all have different styles, we don’t sound alike. Laquan (Jodie Fenix) has a 90’s era style and Brian (King Eternal), he has a hood/ city approach type of style. Then there’s me, Chuckie Williams (laughs) I bring more of a artsy skateboarding type of style. We all benefit equally.

Laquan created the crew. He pro-

MUSIC SCENE

motes and finds shows and keeps the crew straight. While I edit the videos/photography. Laquan and I work on the mixtape covers and Brian promotes as well! If you check out our videos it will really show you how our styles are different! Feel my art X trapped in our movement. We just want to motivate others to express themselves not caring about what others think but just having fun! living life and surrounding yourself with positive vibes!

[Brian] I would describe myself as a person who values guidance, especially sense I’m young and don’t really have too many role models other than myself. I was raised in East Baltimore down the Alameda, I went to LeithWalk Elementary.

I was the kid who stayed getting suspended for “entertaining” the class. Music has been in my family for many generations and I got into it when I was about 9. Really at this stage in my life I see myself growing up fast like I just turned 18 and I’m c/o 2014, I remember my first day of high school up Reginald F. Lewis like it was yesterday. It’s crazy, time goes by fast so I’m trying to have my goals achieved on time.

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WE JUST WANT TO MOTIVATE OTHERS TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES NOT CARING ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THINK ABOUT JUST LIVING!

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PROM PROPOSALS (TOO CUTE!)

EVERY SINGLE YEAR PROM SEASON COMES ALONG, AND WITH PROM COMES OBXIONIOUS DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION, AND WE ARE HERE TO SHOW YOU!

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@safiyahmac

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What made you decidie to make a tum-

photos with my best friend.

blr?

What happened to your friendships and I was in the 9th grade when I made a

relationships because of Tumblr and the

Tumblr. I found out that my friends had

internet

one and I was like, “Oh that seems cool!

I want one, too”. I was sort of following

I have lost and gained a ton go friends

the trend and that’s where it all began.

because of Tumblr and the internet itself. I’m still pretty close with the people

How did you get so famous?

I formed friendships with from Tumblr.

I actually met one of my best friends

I’ve had a Tumblr for about a year or two

on Tumblr. It’s crazy how you can meet

before I started actually getting famous.

someone so wonderful on the internet

I would go to my former best friend

and actually connect with them with-

Sandra’s house (people know her as san-

out physically knowing the person. Ever

dracheeks) we would get all dressed up

since I made Tumblr, I found it easier for

to take pictures. That’s literally all we did,

me to make friends on the Internet vs.

take pictures. I can’t remember the pho-

real life, but with internet fame comes

to that got me really “famous” I took so

“haters” and negative energy. I have

many (laughs). I was so amazed at how

gotten into some drama and lost a few

speaking to me. You have to be careful of

popular I got and still am. It amazes me

friends. Some people thought I changed

what you say on the internet. I have also

to this day,, but it all started with taking

because of the internet and stopped

been in relationships with people I have found on Tumblr. Me being so “famous” put some pressure on my love life because everyone was in my business. I didn’t known how to handle it. I said too much about my relationships. I was too open with my followers and I set myself up to be attacked about certain things I said. My ex’s would be known as “l0vesaf’s boyfriend” which isn’t fair to them and I felt bad about it because they completely lost their identity.

At the of the day, you win some, you can only move forward.

What do you do with your time these days?

Nowadays, I do what any other teenager does. Instagram,Twitter, etc. I still go to NYC from time to time to visit my friends and girlfriend. I’m just living life and enjoying my last teenager year. I do still take pictures. Oh! and I draw, too in my spare time!

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ALL THAT GLITTER ISN’T GOLD TUMBLR BECAME THE OBESSESION OF MANY TEENS ONE SUMMER, AND WE ALL FOUND OURSELVES CREATING A TUMBLR PAGE TRYING TO BE “TUMBLR FAMOUS” BUT FOR SAFIYAH MAC, IT BECAME THE NIGHTMARE THAT STILL FOLLOWS HER TO THIS DAY, LONG AFTER THE HYPE OF TUMBLR HAS DIED DOWN. What do you want people to know about

too much for me. Granted, I did like being

you that they probably never asked?sked?

Tumblr Famous. I loved getting all the love ,support and likes on my photos. It was a

Hmm... This is a hard question because I

good feeling knowing that people that

share just about everything with my fol-

don’t even know are looking up to you,

lowers (laughs)

but like I said, I couldn’t take the negative comments and having people all in my

Did you like the internet fame?

business. I set myself up to be criticized by everyone. I put my business out there. I got

To tell you the truth, I liked it at first but

sucked into the negativity.

last year it started to get to me... ALOT. It gets so tiring when people are constantly

Outside of the internet who are you?

coming at you and putting you under a microscope and telling you that every lit-

Outside of the internet, I’m just Safiyah.

tle thing you’re doing is wrong. All the

This corky, curly haired girl from a small

negative comments and bullying were just

city in New York. I’m just trying to make it

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somewhere like everyone else. I think that

praise I was getting on the Internet. Be-

I act the same as I do on the internet and in

ing on Tumblr, knocked me down but also

“real life”. The only thing is that I have fol-

built me up. I would get called ugly and a

lowers and well if people were actually fol-

whole bunch of other nasty things. Kids on

lowing me in person that would be pretty

the internet are malicious and still are. TO

weird (laughs)

kick someone while they’re already down is just disgusting to me. On the other side,

Did you use to feel like you were worth-

I had people saying that I was beautiful

less? Did the fame kind of boost your self

and they looked up to me and they wish

esteem?

they were as beautiful as me. I thought to myself, “Safiyah, YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL. You’re

I did use to feel worthless. All throughout

helping all these girls love and care for

high school. I never felt good enough.

themselves and you should take your own

Even though I was this “famous” person on

advice.” So I snapped out of it and I was like,

Tumblr, I still felt alone,ugly and not worth

“You know what, I don’t care about what

self!”. I rather love myself than hate myself

anything. I felt as if I don’t deserve all the

anyone thinks of me because I love my-

because I’m stuck with myself.

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