Music

Hennessy Artistry Nigeria: Nneka, MI, Ice Prince, Bez, Shina Peters

In 2007, it began with a cocktail-mixing contest between renowned bartenders. In 2008, it evolved to a battle among some of the country’s finest DJs, and in 2009, it advanced to a live music contest between five of Nigeria’s fastest rising urban-music artistes. Now, in 2010, Hennessy Artistry returns with the ‘Like a Bottle’ experience …

Wellness

Ladybrille Lifestyle: Gabrielle Union Host BET Breast Cancer Special Oct. 24th, 2010

(NEW YORK, October 2010 ) BET Networks announced, two days ago,  [i]ts first ever Network wide campaign, “BET Goes Pink,” in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in collaboration with the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Circle of Promise and the Sisters Network® Inc. The integrated approach includes the BET …

News

How K’naan Delivered on Coca-Cola’s $300 Million Bet – Fast Magazine

Fast Magazine features a compelling seven page indepth interview on Somalian artist K’Naan as a hip-hop young marketer. Excerpt: Somalia. Spring 1989. “On a dusty street in a Mogadishu district known as Wardhiigleey (Somali for “river of blood”), three 10-year-old boys, known in the neighborhood as K’naan the Skinny, Shorty, and La’ib, are washing wooden …