TABLE OF CONTENTS LEE’S CORNER.............................5 WOMEN FIRST LOOK..............10 CUTTY PALANCE....................12 TELL EM...........................14 K.H.A.N..................16 QUEEN OF THE MONTH............17 VE JONO...................21 THE COUNT DOWN TO OUR FIVE YEAR ANIVERSARY........................27
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leveland, Ohio born actress Amanda Enzo moved to New York to attend NYU while pursuing her acting career. Amanda has worn many different hats such as dancer, singer, chef, athlete, and even writer but says acting is her life accelerant. Crediting the movie Chicago as the door that opened up her heart to the world of acting, she began to star in her high school productions because she knew from that one movie that acting was it for her. Enzo’s story is a very motivational one, leaving her family and her home to come to New York at the age of 18 was a big step, and now at the age of twenty two she hasn’t let
up. One of the things she loves about New York City is the fact that on any given day you can wake up and find an audition to attend, it’s re freshing to sit down with someone who has come far but continues to work as if no progress has been made. This year Amanda will continue to attend these auditions,
land these roles, and get her name out so that everything she has experienced including her leaving her family at such a tender age was not in vain. I cannot wait to see how far she gets in the time to come. Amanda we are all rooting for you! Amanda Enzo can be contacted via on instagram @og.ab email @actressenzo@gmail. com & on by searching Amanda Enzo on backstage.com
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p & coming creative Hailey Aromando other wise known as Allhail is a New Jersey native who is doing her best to show us what it looks like to boss up. Staying away from labels, it cannot be said that Allhail is solely a musican as she also engineers, produces, and runs her independant creative agency. The
twenty two year old has been involved in music, sports, and even dance since she was a young girl and the only time she has chosen one lane to pursue was when she was playing basketball. Shortly after not being chosen to attend NYU the college of her dreams she knew it was truly game time. Having so many hats it’s safe to say that she always has something up her sleeve.
Allhail made it very clear that her projects are so personal to her that sometimes you won’t get music, or a beat, or any other works only because she’s way more concerned with the quality of the work she is producing rather than how fast she can produce it. She understands that everyone will not see or support her vision and in such good fashion she doesn’t even care. Allhail has made two things very clear to me during this sit down one being the fact that she is not stopping and the second being that she is coming at us from every angle. Woman to woman I am so proud of her and wish her the best! To contact Allhail check out the following soundcloud.com/allhailent allhailent.com @allhailent on Instagram
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wenty three Year old Bay area native Briah Michel is a recently graduated fine arts student who moved to New York City while still in high school and is not sure she’s ready to go back just yet. After picking up her camera in 2010 to convey her take on the world more intimately than she could ever describe verbally she realized she was really on to something. Originally wanting to design clothes it’s amazing to see how much joy photography brings her. One of the most exciting things about Briah’s photography is that while she can and sometimes doesn’t shoot digital, she prefers to shoot film photography and her work comes out amazing either way. In the world that we live in today where the roots to things are forgotten more than sometimes it was refreshing to sit down with someone who not only loves the camera, but pays homage to the beginning consistently. Crediting her love for film photography to the process of developing the film, getting her hands dirty, and even realizing
she’s wasted a whole roll of film without capturing one good take. One thing that I got from Briah almost immediately is her appreciation for others and their points of view. Support is something that I can see is important to her be it supporting an art or an opinion she was open to all different points of views. We can expect more exhibitions, and photos from Briah who can be followed on
instagram @_lovebriah and more love. It’s more than apparent that she’s a genuine soul who has no plans of stopping anytime soon on behalf of Royal Press we wish you the best Briah!
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WOMEN FIRST LOOK
by Sugarhill Sky
Fellas, its been said that women already have an idea if a man will be a potential lover, acquaintance or boxed into the “Friend Zone” after the first look. Way before a man opens his mouth to say one word, a woman has sized him up twice and possibly three times, for an intelligent independent woman. There has been a debate going on for years of who actually does the attracting? The man or woman? Are men lured in to Charlotte’s web or are women enticed by man’s bravado? This is something that will be argued for centuries to come, however recently, women were asked on social media, what is the first thing women look at on a man? The results will follow but before that let’s talk about the documented laws of attraction. “The Law of Attraction is one of life’s biggest
people are fully aware of how much of an impact the Law of Attraction has on their day to day life. Whether we are doing it knowingly or unknowingly, every second of our existence, we are acting as human magnets sending out our thoughts and emotions and attracting back more of what we have put out. Hundreds of years ago the Law of Attraction was first thought to have been taught to man through the immortal Buddha, who wanted it to be known that ‘what you have become is what you have thought’ – a belief that is deeply intrinsic with the Law of Attraction. With the spread of this concept to western culture also came the term ‘Karma’, a belief that is popular throughout numerous societies.” As written by The Law of Attraction.Com Now back to the question of the hour, what is the first thing on a man that women look at? When this questioned was posed on social media (FB. @sugarhill sky) the ladies responded heavily. Women were very opinionated. For the majority of woman that weighed in they leaned
on the side of shoes and teeth. When asked to go a little more in depth, these are some of the responses. Simone from Harlem: Swag, nails, feet and clothes. Because u can buy clothes, but u can’t buy swag. Nicole from The Bronx: Face, teeth, outfit, footwear, hands & fingernails #indatorder Elizabeth from N.C: This is really shallow but its just something about a man who wears nice shoes. If a guy has on some dirty beat up shoes on it makes me think he is the same way. When u see a dude with some fresh and clean shoes you know he likes to stay fresh. He takes care of himself. Shoes tell a lot about a man! When it comes to attraction and first impressions the most important factor depends on the individual. As some women zone in on a man’s shoes others may look at his arms and body physique to see if he has an athletic build. As many different types of women there will always be that many answers of, what does a woman look at first on a man?
Cutty Palance is an all around Renaissance man out of Brooklyn, New York. Many talents run through this young man from his one pure love as party promoter. All started as just love to get money and girls now to just to focus more on the money and the brand behind it. The thing loves about being a party promoter and an event planner not only that your entertaining the people whose coming to his events but, he as well is having fun doing what he loves. That is what it’s all about, why do something you don’t enjoy and love and make a living off of it. Hard work and dedication are part of the ingredients that will help you get there and Cutty Palance is on the right path. To build the brand even bigger he decided to get in the artist management. One of the hardest lines of business in my opinion not only your in charge of your career but another person career and part of their live and I commend him for this cause its not easy. His first artist was Jay King, a hip hop artist out of New York , but he stepped back from the artist management for a bit then came back strong and better to continue Jay King and eventually picked up singer/song writer Malika Esdelle as his second artist. Now to inparty promotmanagement starting his own his business Alexander put where artist music can perUnderground
tertwine the ing and artist together by platform where partner Ve Jano together a place of all genre of form called the Concert I
Thought that’s all left in Cutty Palance, well no he also has a weekly Sunday bunch called Gouyad brunch what started as a one time theme thing what turn into a weekly ritual to eat food and have good drinks with good prices. Their next big Gouyad brunch will be May 28th theme will be their Chicken and waffles get your advanced tickets for $30 which gives you limited chicken and waffles served up until 4pm, oh I almost forgot this is not like any other brunch on a Sunday afternoon this is also a silent party so come early get your headphones, $3 shots, $20 mimosa pitchers, and much more. What makes him different from most party promoter is he doesn’t care about the money cause the more fun he is having people are seeing he’s having fun they will have fun more people will come and the more money as well. Before his life of promoting he was and still a philanthropist were he coaches a basketball team for the youth, raise month for causes in need and much more.
“TELL EM” I got to sit down with singer, songwriter, and hip-hop artist, Superlative Sain, from Queens, New York. He just released a new project entitled “Tell em” which was released May 5th. Tell em is a project that Sain has been working on for almost 2 years, its basically about where he is as an individual and artist from what’s going on in politics, society, etc. he doesn’t talk bout those stuff much so this is how he is going to talk bout it through his music. He also talk bout he relationship, falling love, falling in lust, and he group OGWN, and much more. The project has 8 songs, listed in order; Tell em, O.N.S (One Night Stand, Hurt No More, Summer Nights, Vibes, Never Giving Up, Glitch, and Late Night (Bonus Track). All track with a different and unique message, which is the massage behind the titled of the project to tell em all.
Now he Sain came up with a great marketing strategy to promote this project more of a challenge, which is to listen to the whole project then pick your favorite song, make a video with the song sing along to the lyrics or just vibe to it then post in up on social media; Facebook, instagram, twitter, etc. then put #tellemchallenge the first four people to do he challenge will receive one piece of apparel. Check out Superlative Sain new project “Tell Em” out now on all music platform , such as, soudcloud, iTunes , spodify, etc.
to their female audience, instead their rapping about violence, drugs, and money now don’t get him wrong not saying the ladies of this generation don’t enjoy a little trill music but his music reminds them they are gentle creatures
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.H.A.N, a Hip Hop artist from Brooklyn, New York, with a passion within comes from his neighborhood church “Full Effect Gospel Ministries”, a place where he was surrounded by talented musicians, poets, and vocalist as well as encouragement. The name K.H.A.N came from his original last name Khan and is something that originated from Genghis Khan the mighty conqueror. His music is mostly inspired by women, growing up he always was a lover boy basically a ladies man. He was the guy that would hang out with a group of ladies instead of a group of guys, but that isn’t the only reason, also he feels like all the music and all the artist that are currently out are forgetting to tend
K.H.A.N has a few projects in the works but his most important one is his very first one which will be introducing his brand “ Ya Girls Favorite Rapper “ , YGFR Tape is a project that he has been working on for about a year & he feels like its ready to be brought out to the world it has features and collaboration with some of underground hottest artist as well release date coming soon We at Royal Press got the first listen to his new single titled “Full Course” , which is a great song, great message of course talking bout the ladies with a smooth cool beat. Check out K.H.A.N on all of his social media below and as well as his music
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ROYAL PRESS QUEEN OF THE MONTH STAR ROSS AGE: 23 GOALS: TO INSPIRE WOMEN TO LOVE THEMSELVES AND TO EMBRACE THEIR BEAUTY. TO TELL A STORY AND DISPLAY ART THROUGH MY PHOTOS. HOBBIES: COOKING, WORKING OUT,PHOTOGRAPHY, AND BLOGGING CURRENT RESIDENCE: BRONX,NY
Ve Jono Alexander better known as VJ, the Co-founder Under Ground Concert Series (UGCS), founder of The Alpha & Omega of Business Inc., , and activist. Hailing all the way from St. Vincent, but now Brooklyn, New York is his home. He told a bit more of UGCS which is a platform for music artist to perform of no cost of their own with excess to a larger outlet and help them connect to a larger audience. They started their first show at the Lox Lounge in Brooklyn, New York with a vision that it was hard to bring out his artist to then looking for an outlet to now becoming the outlet. VJ part of the partner shit his that he focuses more on the marketing aspect of the brand, like how the make it better, whether for the events, artists, etc. His advice in marketing your brand is to tell your story, get your audience involve, tell us what you offer and who is your audience, and plan. His biggest inspiration is motorcycles, yes motorcycles his biggest goal is to build a motorcycle racetrack because back when he was 177 years old he use to work in a motorcycle shop he was an apprentice and he
fell in love. Motorcycles are amazing to him. The person at the time who inspired him was his friend Cole. Cole was riding a white Yamaha R1 and he got into an accident on a bridge with a truck and the bike ran over his ribs, but instead of giving up Cole made a full recovery and then bought a new bike and started riding again. That to VJ said to him that Cole had persistence. After that he took that into what he eventually and educated his self in started multiple businesses. With the 3 most important things t start off a business; resource, knowledge, and connections. Started off with help managing a bodega in the
Bronx, New York. Eventually after another bodega in the area approached him about help managing theirs. Now the Alpha & Omega Business Inc. is a consulting company that helps small start up businesses help the start and grow their business. They take the business owner mold the passion and make it grow and profitable. Their motto is their with you from the beginning to the end.
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