YOUR MAGAZINE Avril 2011
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Contents A Month In Black History 7
By Kyle Roberts Birdie Madoff
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Money Hungry Music American Monster Guild Presents
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JaySmoove Austin Authentic:
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Muenster Entertainment
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By Kyle Roberts
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Contents Clevelands Own 21 Jayna Blackwell True Story 24 Life In The Gutta By TMUNT 26
The Interview Sheye T: The Cali Connect SERIOUS MAK
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MAK Life Models, Models,
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Making History
Written By Kyle Roberts
In 2019 in February we still homogenize and celebrate black history month . Thousands of people lived to do things so that communities of Africans and African Americans can enjoy the civil liberties and rights that laws and common law around the world writes , practices and allows people to have , laws that people fight for worldwide. People fight for these fights worldwide so that families can enjoy life and create families to enjoy life in peace, and so that future generations can have things. For generations and generations of the human race and especially in African American culture , a story is told of the matriculation into areas of government and law as community leaders so that a voice to speak can be heard , so that those with a voice without the strength to use it can be heard.
So many people over years influenced culture of what colored people can have access to , what colored people can afford , and efforts that colored people can have to voice all over the world . Through supporting affirmative action desegregation and forcing African American culture and knowledge of powerful Heritage stemming from North African , Egypt , pyramid land coasts of South Africa beautiful areas of South Capetown areas of West Africa Nigeria , Cameroon , and indigenious areas of South Africa. Africans migrated to to start societies and the African Americans who who migrated to America and created "Jerry" mandered societies who started governments during and before the Holocaust of the slavery movement that lasted 400 years surprisingly after the isrealite slavery that lasted 400 years by egyptians.
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Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Opra Whinfrey, Malcom X, Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali
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Africans and African Americans position that is deservedly needed for proper respect in a world where we all follow government systems of leadership and government
I study by conversation with people running for chairs of office and government positions , people that get involved in community activism , especially those running for 2020 chairs , as friends so that more people in different communities can be encouraged to reach out and make change as voters and holding government offices. Processes of telling these people stories encourages people to reach out to political figures and get involved so more people can be party to change as well. New political theories get formed as youth and current generations age so that a more modern relevancy happens. So more support happens , people's eyes can see what's going on in things going on as far as doing more for families , children in need , people with disabilities so help happens where the need is great.
HISTORY IS MADE EVERYDAY!!! So during these movements of government diversity being as important as entertainment in culture , focus on people involved in these areas story need to be told and show how important the industrial revolution, advances in science technology and technoligical revolutions is in things that we do daily today.
More exposure leads to confidence in individuals to get education and open doors for better education in diverse and concentrated areas so that closing gaps between poor and poverty , rich and wealth so that overall more people have access to things necessary to a happy lifestyle. This erases propaganda being a leader ,empty promises and views of lies in government and people get cured with truthfulness of what government and democracy means. So I can spark change by sharing words of people with experiences in change has to share.
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MONEY HUNGRY MUSIC: Birdie Madoff
Growing up on the East side of Kansas City Missouri (near 43rdand Cleveland) Birdie Madoff, was raised in a single parent household by his mother on strong family values is the youngest of three sons. At an early age, Birdie Madoff found a love and passion for music, but it wasn’t until his adolescent years that he discovered this was a God given talent. During Middle School lunch room freestyle battles; the reaction he received from his peers prompted him to pursue his dream. As a young black male growing up in the inner city fate took him on an adventurous ride which landed him out of school. He lost what he believed to be his only opportunity of ever playing professional basketball, so Birdie Madoff found refuge in the streets.
After observing "Cat's" inadequately hustle in the” Game”, Birdie Madoff decided to take his chances using his intelligence and wit to advance his hand, but a twist of unforeseen events occurred, and at the age of 19 Birdie Madoff ended up falling victim to the streets. He received a 13 year sentence, which he has successfully completed in the Missouri Department of Corrections.When asked what was the major turning pointing in his life, Birdie Madoff replied "From behind the walls, I realized my best at that took me away from the most important things in my life, my daughter, mother, and family.
But one thing that place couldn’t do was steal my ambition, drive, will, or willingness to use every single God given talent I have to make life better for my family and myself!”
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"I have to make life better for my family and myself!”
With pure dedication, determination, creativity and drive, he successfully released five solo mix tape projects during his time of incarceration: Money Hungry Bird from 43rd Volume 1, group project entitled The UNiON "Worth Tha Weight" featuring Money Hungry’s very on fallen soldier, artist, Dago the Spitter, Money Hungry Bird from 43rd Volume 2 "Outta Sight Outta Mind", Madoff Muzic, and The Best of Bird from 43rd. He’s also the featured artist on a project entitled Tha Infrastructure which he composed and engineered.
With a non-stop passion and drive strong as P Ditty, and Jay Z, Birdie Madoff spent a lot of his time focusing on the business aspect of the industry. His prior incarceration did not hinder him from accomplishing his dreams of starting up Money Hungry Muzic and Entertainment, which he managed to do from within the walls of the Missouri Department of Corrections. Using his time wisely, Birdie Madoff also made many other accomplishments, to his credits, not only working on his solo career, but also co- own and manage an entertainment company (dSharp Management B EYE V).
He has written and published his first book entitled "The Presents of Absences", and is currently working on “The Life I’ve Lived “which is his self told autobiography, his own publishing company "CUZSHESPOILED PUBLISHING”, and has produced two original beats which can be heard on his mixtape Volume 1, all while he was incarcerated.
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Despite his prior imprisonment, Birdie Madoff has become well respected and has generated a large following. He has earned a proud reputation as one of Missouri’s realist underground artists; he remains a strong presence in the southern hip hop scene as well. To learn more about Birdie Madoff follow him on twitter, facebook, myspace and youtube. For features, drops, or interviews contact dSharp Management at Money Hungry Muzic/ dSharp Management @ dsharpent.us@gmail.com or by phone at (816)-301-4522.
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Cali Native & AMG Artist: JaySmoove VERB'Z UP
"One of the hardest working emcees on the Independent Music Circuit."
California based rapper JaySmoove is a rare breed. He is everything you want in a Rap star, which is smart, confident, daring and versatile. He is a mixture of street-wise boldness and class. Jaysmoove is backed by the renowned, American Monster Guild. He is equipped with sharp lyrics, a dope delivery and exceptional cadence. Many are describing him as Hip Hop’s emerging artist to watch. The wordsmith is a breath of fresh air in an otherwise stale Hip Hop landscape.
JaySmoove is a certified diamond in a rap world full of Cubic Zirconias. His mission is to get his audience to feel of all of his joy and his pain through the expression of his art. If you listen to his music you can hear and see his life story unfold and it is a story that many can relate to. Moreover, JaySmoove is one of the hardest working emcees on the independent music circuit. He knows how to rock a stage and energize the crowd. He is currently heating up the streets with his single called “MaMa”.
The song is receiving kudos from DJ’s across the nation. As 2019 is just starting to heat up, Jaysmoove is slated for two tours this year and many surprising features to announce for some key major artists. It is safe to say that Jaysmoove is ready for everything the streets said he couldn’t have.
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American Monster Guild: Fear The Monster! American Monster Guild is a multi functional music distribution and talent agency that focuses on the development of the world’s top talent. In managing the top talent (AMG), as American Monster Guild is commonly referred to, distributes the musical and video content globally and internationally to facilitate the expansion of the fanbases’ and the increase of music revenue. American Monster Guild uses its ever versatile resources and affiliates to book the talent in venues all across the nation and organizes and structures music tours in order to aid the talent in the musical goals.
American Monster Guild serves as a diverse and multi dimensional bridge between the talent and the pending label to which the artists seek to be contracted with. American Monster Guild provides a rich and rewarding platform experience for the independent artists in which all resources are available to the artists.
http://www.americanm onsterguild.org/
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Austin Authentic: Muenster Muenster is a versatile wordsmith, a polished and flashy orator, and a prolific national performer. This Austin native/ Denton transplant is not your typical Texas rapper. The rhymesayer’s résumé boasts more than a decade of experience and dedication to his craft, evidenced by hundreds of live performances, several Warped Tour regional circuits, and a collection of meticulously crafted recordings that seemingly have no low points. His albums are the listen-on-repeat kind, ones that never give you the urge to skip a track (which is a rarity, especially in the hip-hop community).
Muenster seamlessly blends an array of vocal cadences reminiscent of the UK grime scene with a delivery as varied as a late-90s Project Blowed mixtape. Listeners will find sincere, insightful poetics that aren’t afraid to grapple with provocative social and political topics. His cerebral, timely lyrics result in a more fulfilling experience than your typical club banger, but Muenster’s tracks still bring the bang.
He showcases technically complex delivery matched with quick-paced lyricism, which comes off as natural and almost effortless, deploying surgically sharp enunciation and precision that somehow results in an insidiously listenable swagger.
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Entertainment w/ Kyle Roberts
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t is 2019 and in February we are still celebrating Black history month as a national holiday month. Many different areas of political science, capitalism, entertainment , health , community service has been molded and inserted into culture and became part of our history and into parts of what will become our future through activism and education . Money people worked and honed various skills and was able for black people to achieve goals and create new ways to make doors open , create history and become great by developing shared ideas that stemmed from dreams and becoming great at it. Through literature such as magazines, books , media outlets , newspapers , journals , and radio we have able to witness people who made marks in different areas of time , and let the present put views on what people should think of the past and the future that we are molding into perspective. Due to our love for music and entertainment as a human race, the market of entertainment, through music and thespian expression has been apart of everyone's life, and the technology today , becomes a bigger source of sharing and learning communication, and sharing expressionism. Love for that expression allows thousands of people who I know and have met who wish to share their vision with me so that we both can bridge platforms to reach other around the world. So I wish to share these visions that my friends and family have , using music and entertainment to share their voice in areas of music artistry , music production , film production , film directing , sound and music creation , with models , dancers , promoters, fashion and fashion designing , as well getting into details of sharing a message for all to see. In 2019 as I create a template for people in the future to view and use as being able to use the past to mold minds and vision of their present and what their future can share with music sound and media vision , using these music sounds and art to have the way. A map of beauty and aesthetics of love and art shows where we can go and how influential as entertainers and those who , write , interview and document what these entertainers are doing can show how important art form is to the world.
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Cleveland's Own Jayna Blackwell
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nown as the “Mistress of Soul”, a title given her by a local promoter/producer, Jayna Blackwell has been singing since she was four years old. Singing first in church you could often find her in the youth and young adult choirs of various local churches.
“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, si dici consecte tuer adipisci elit integre.” While still holding on to her gospel roots, Jayna began singing R&B professionally in the early 90’s and she hasn’t stopped yet. Her eclectic musical taste and style has enabled her to develop a voice that includes genres such as R&B, Funk, Jazz and even Rock & Roll. Jayna credits her first band; ThrillTrain for opening her up to singing Rock & Roll and credits Mr. Barron Edwards for strategically placing her in his Motown Revue Tribute Show and his well received R&B show band, forcing her into an exciting new world of professional singing. Jayna quickly became known as an established background vocalist supporting several local bands and solo artists over the years. She often says her “experiences have shaped the voice you hear today “ and credits her family and peers for pushing and loving her back to center stage in 2012. The year 2014 marked a career turn for Jayna as she was again nominated and awarded the “Best Neosoul Performer” by the Bay Area Black Music Awards and was signed and also made the First Lady/President of the record label “Curency Kingz Entertainment” (CKE) by the label’s CEO, Kenneth Christian. She has since been nominated and honored with many accolades and her newest single “That’s My Song” which features Ken’Yaun is set to be released in the Summer of 2017 by C-Town Records a hot Hip Hop & R&B independent label based out of Cleveland, Ohio and distributed worldwide by Centurian Music Group.
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Jayna is looking forward to the release which will be her first nationally promoted single. Reached by phone in Cleveland, C-Town Records President Gregory Beasley adds: “The initial response to the single has been great! We dropped the single July 21st with a LIVE global kickoff on Radio station 985 The Boom in Texas. Top mix show DJ’s around the country such as Dj-b1, Dessert Storm Radio’s DJ Verbal Klint, DJ Mack Ditty (NY), The World famous DJ Smitty (PA), Harlem’s DJ Les Love, DJ Mingo (Atlanta) DJ JackHammer of the Northern California Hit Squad DJ’s), DJ D-Money of Fresh Juice (Seattle) DJ Russ Dogg (Ohio) and Hotline Radio’s DJ Mike Styles (NY) are all loving the track and were some of the very first Deejays to play it since its release. We thank them for their early support.” ayna is currently in the process of recording her freshman album “Uncompromised”. The future looks very bright indeed and Jayna Blackwell The "Mistress of Soul" is looking forward to forging new industry alliances…
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MEET ACTOR ZIKO: Ziko Farajzada started his career as a martial artist studying different disciplines such as capoeira, Muay Thai, Judo. Later in life he transitioned his skills into acting and stunts. Ziko is an actor and stuntman. He started his career booking commercials and stunts in Austin, TX and doing independent films. He performed his first acting job on the TV show American Crime and since then has performed stunts and has been acting on a number of hit television shows and movies.
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TRUE STORY: Mind of a young thief... "Errybody wants to be a gangsta until it's time to get hit up. I wouldn't say I'm a blacc male who refuses to become a statistic, but I fall short to society. I didn't come out of the woum screaming "Wild Life"... It's just the people and places you are around influences you. I always ran with the homies older than me, I seen my step-daddy with a lot of money and drug so I became to want more, but as I got influenced to just take what I wanted bc my mom taught me how to steal at the age of 8 years old.....
"Life In The Gutta" by TMUNT So my mentality changed and I just started taking what I wanted once I learned "Tha Game" I seen the consequences that come wit it..... So once you see the consequences that comes wit the s**t you do, you can't be mad. I had to learn that and process that. My momma used to tell me: "If you gone do sumn, do it FR" by -TMUNT ____________________________________________ I had the oppurtunity to meet this young man during my time incarceated in the Lubbock Co. Detention Center. He is not a lost cause but a person who's gotten lost along the way of finding his cause in life. He wanted to be a completely different person other than the one he's been conditioned to be by his enviornment.. -Joe Dert REACH ONE TEACH ONE VERB'Z UP
The Interview Sheye T VERB'Z UP: Who are you & where are you from? SHEYE T: I'm Sheye T the Cali Connect & I hail from Bakersfield, California; the Battlefield that is. VERB'Z UP: What do you do & for how long? SHEYE T: I'm a hip-hop artist, songwriter, & I've been holdin down my craft for 15 years thus far. VERB'Z UP: What does the Underground Industry mean to you? SHEYE T: Underground just means selfmade. I'm doin it all wit my people; no help, no hook-ups, no button pushers. Jus me and my squad. VERB'Z UP: There’s plenty of other things in this world to do… What’s your alternatives? SHEYE T: My alternative would be to become a mentor in the black community.
The Cali Connect Supply my people with jobs and oppurtunity. Clean up the streets and put on for my people. VERB'Z UP: Who/What was your inspiration(s)? SHEYE T: Nothing really inspires me, I just know what I want and I'm gonna do what it takes to get it done. VERB'Z UP: In your honest opinion, Do you think that Underground/Indie music is better than Mainstream music? SHEYE T: I don't think the music is better, good music is good music regardless, but the hustle is mor appreciated and applauded because of the grit & grind. VERB'Z UP: Where do you see yourself in 10 years? SHEYE T: In 10 years? Somewhere with my feet kicked up watching the artists that I put on do this shit. VERB'Z UP: Everyone is different… What do you think it means to be successful? SHEYE T: Being successful means doin what you love todo. It's not a dollar amount, it ain't how many fans you got it's about doing what you love. VERB'Z UP: If you could spread one message to every single person in the WORLD, What would it be? SHEYE T: Stay humble & get back to God's words! VERB'Z UP
SERIOUS MAK: MAK Life VERB'Z UP
Let's Get Serious!! The Serious MAK Story
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erious MAK (Born Michael A Kover, 1987) writes real world songs that many can relate too because he draws his inspiration from the people around him.
“A dream in action results in MAK attraction.” You can feel the excitement from the drop of the first beat, the second Serious MAK hits the stage. The MAK man hails from Olympia, Washington. He has taken his musical talent on tours nationwide. He puts in a lot of hard work, time, and dedication for his fans while making his dream a reality. Serious MAK found his purpose in music and has been following his dream since a young age, writing lyrics at the age of twelve, with his first performance at sixteen. Throughout the last 15 years he's faced challenges and grown, but while still loving and pursuing his goals and dream. Get Serious MAK's most recent CD “Life Passion 4 Hip Hop” EP is available online worldwide everywhere thru distribution. Serious MAK has fans all around the world, small and bigger known countries, city and in the U.S. MAK has a very successful rapport with his fanbase. He reaches out the his army size market of fans everyday with new updates, news, thru social media! With having three pages with 5,000 + Fans/ Followers on his Facebook alone, Serious MAK has the ability to draw in public awareness and promote his sponsors sales, upcoming events, and more.. "Team work is how we get to the dreams on earth" -Serious MAK “Nothing is impossible, it’s just an obstacle" - Serious MAK
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