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  • » Name: William E. Ketchum III
  • » Location: East Lansing, MI
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Amanda Diva: A Tribute


July 12, 2008 | Tags: none

Whattup doe?

I'm wide asleep right now. After working on this bio for a Famous Firm artist for literally all of Thursday night, I essentially slept all day Friday. Since waking up @ 1 A.M., I've just been shooting the shit - talking to the one of the best magazine editors in the game, fooling around with Blackberry applications, etc. I just started watching some of Amanda Diva's YouTube videos, and with A) her inspiration being heavy right now, B) her birthday just recently passing a couple weeks ago, and C) one of my readers (shout out to Rish) complaining that I needed something new up here, I decided it was time to pay homage.

Homegirl is literally my career goal. She's a multimedia mogul in her own right, and every area she's gotten at, she's murked.

Journalism: She's written for widely-circulated print and online publications, interviewing everyone from Jay-Z and Outkast to Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.
Radio: She had her own show, "Breakfast At Diva's," on Sirius Satellite Radio from 2003 till this year.
TV: She was a host on MTV2's Sucker Free, and I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) she was a VJ or something before that.
Internet: She has her own blog on OkayPlayer, and she has a really dope video series, "DivaSpeak TV," on her YouTube page.
Music/Poetry: She's Def Jam Poetry alumni, and she's got a few dope projects under her belt (I copped The Life Experience EP on iTunes and lost it when I reformatted my computer; haven't heard her new Foreplay mixtape yet). She's also part of the Aphilliates Music Group (shouts to Drama and Young Mase), and was temporarily a replacement member of Floetry.
Art: She also sells self-made paintings and handbags on her MySpace.

What I respect about her the most is how she's found a way to make everything that she loves part of her hustle. She loves hip-hop, art, poetry, journalism, etc., and they're all involved with how she makes a living. She brings to mind my favorite Lil Wayne quote right now: "I don't fantasize. I just mastermind, then go after mine." And that entire mindset is really important for me right now, as a multi-talented (journalist/blogger/radio personality) college graduate myself that's searching the job market, and hopefully being able to do so with hip-hop as a primary part of that. I've already got some crazy things in the works, along with what I'm obviously already doing, but seeing her hustle let's me know that it's real. I got to pick her brain a little bit when I interviewed her for HipHopDX's Fashion section, and I've since chopped it up with her via MySpace a little bit. Real cool peoples.

Not to mention she's fine as hell. So she's both my career goal career-wise, and my career goal life-wise. If I can get her success and the courtship of a gorgeous hip-hop chick like that, I'm set.


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