Innovative Podcast opens International Doors for Entertainers and Entrepreneurs

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By Sylvia Dunnavant Hines Texas Metro News Correspondent

unlikely combination, paralegal, Bella Washington DuPlexis and hip-hop artist John Bouka Baptiste are combing their efforts to create an innovative podcast targeting the entertainment industry.

Congo-Brazzaville and resides in South Africa, and performs as a rapper under the name of Albooby. Although the two are over 9,000 miles apart, they have come together to produce their weekly podcast, Coming Right at You with Al booby Show, which can be streamed on YouTube.

my friend, Mark Ayers Jr., who is a gospel artist released a new song. I thought the song was phenomenal, and I wanted the world to hear it. I made a clip and post ed it on my personal Facebook page,,” said DuPlexis. “Then something mirac ulous happened. I continued to push the record with a Facebook live posting. After my postings, I began to get friend requests from around the world. In a few days my followers on Facebook went from around 1,000 to 5,000 people.” she joined forces with Baptiste who ditionally have that type of access.

As they are completing their third season they have had as many as 40,000 viewers for one episode. One of their seasons is equivalent to 10 episodes.

Their increased viewership has landed them national sponsorship with major companies which includes Frito Lay, Coca-Cola, and Chanel.

“Due to our large audience, we have a great opportunity to impact the careers of the artists that come on our show. We had two artists on our podcast Adrienne LaShe and Lashae Love, who were both nominated for independent artist of the year for the BET Music Awards,” said DuPlexis. “For us this was a huge success story because these artists did not have a large audience prior to being on

As their audience increases, DuPlexis said they are expanding their concept to include celebrity guests like Martin Emerson, a cornerback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League.

“As artists our platform is to help and support people in different ways by giving them global exposure. We are becoming a change agent in the industry. Once people have done one interview, they want to do a second interview,” said