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Sam Pollard is an award-winning director and documentary filmmaker who gives a voice to the voiceless and shares the rich stories of our community. His most recent project is the five-part documentary series, “Atlanta’s Missing And Murdered: The Lost Children.” In the documentary, Pollard investigates the mystery behind the killings of Black youth in Atlanta…

Dr. Holly Carter is the CEO and founder of Relevé Entertainment, one of the premier management and production companies for faith-inspired content. Her career in entertainment began in television casting for shows like “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” and “Martin.” Over the course of her 25-year career, she has produced “Preachers of L.A.,” “The Sheards,”…

Drumma Boy continues to stand out as a top music producer. The Memphis native shares his thoughts on producing music for artists such as Drake, Migos, Whitney Houston, Waka Flocka and more.

Regina King has signed a first-look deal with Netflix. The 48-year-old actress and director has agreed to a multi-year contract which will see her Royal Ties production company produce films and series’ for the streaming service with her sister. Regina will serve as head of the production. The If Beal Street Could Talk star previously had a…

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Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield are teaming up to co-star in an upcoming romantic film. The “Insecure” actress is set to star alongside the Get Out actor in the upcoming romantic drama set for release on Valentine’s Day in 2020, which Stella Meghie will direct. The film, The Photograph, will center on intertwining love stories in the past and…

Robin P. Hickman, the CEO and executive producer of SoulTouch Productions, has a love for multimedia and an even bigger love for young people. As a young girl, she knew it was her duty to instill the same principles her mother taught her in succeeding generations. What is your goal or mission with SoulTouch? The…

For over 20 years, Sam Walker has been an integral part of programming at BET. He’s been a part of classic shows (“Video Soul,” “Planet Groove,” “Cita’s World”), and he’s held numerous positions at BET, including senior producer of music specials programming and director of music specials. Walker is currently the vice president of music productions, specials, and…

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The year 2017 has been a great one for music releases. From Big Sean dropping I Decided at the top of the year, to most recently, Kendrick Lamar dropping the genre-shifting DAMN to critical acclaim, there is no room for talk of hip-hop music being a dying art form. In the past few years, many projects have been released…

During Remy Martin’s “The Producers’ Series” Semi-Final in New York City, superproducer Salaam Remi talked about how he met the late Amy Winehouse and how working with great artists makes for great producers

Presented by The New Group, “Rasheeda Speaking” pushes buttons and plays with its perspective, but mostly hits it’s targets when examining how the relationship between two women who are “friendly but not friends”

Rapper/producer Warren G, like any fan of West Coast hip-hop, is excited about Straight Outta Compton, the N.W.A. biopic currently being directed by F. Gary Gray. Of course, Warren is the younger brother of N.W.A. alumnus Dr. Dre, and Warren recently spoke to XXL about the film’s soundtrack and shared that he hopes to work on the music with his older brother.

Will Power decided to start his own record label in 1998 and release a compilation album featuring his artists. However, as a resident of South Carolina, he didn’t have access to major producers and there were only a handful of decent producers in his area at that time. Power eventually bought a beat machine, keyboard…

At this point, Kanye West may be making outlandish comments in his many interviews just to draw our ire. In his latest episode, ‘Ye reveals to Atlanta’s Greg Street of V-103 that he didn’t care much for the beats to Biggie’s first two hit songs. “That ‘Juicy’ beat, I don’t like that beat man,” said…

Producer Swizz Beatz was a major part of Ruff Ryders’ success, and he spoke recently about whether or not the label’s biggest group, the LOX, would be reuniting to work on a project.

Silver Spoon Brun had all of the resources at his fingertips to become involved in the music business. His uncle, Grammy winning producer/engineer Corey Rooney, was crafting hits for superstar artists, and the young boy from Queens began to pay more attention to what his uncle and his famous friends were up to. “I’d been watching my uncle doing music around great artist like Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Mary J. Blige. I just fell in love with that at a young age.”

Juicy J announced via Twitter that he is definitely producing a new project from the Port Arthur, TX legend

WondaGurl has gone from relative obscurity to sensation. The teen produced the track “Crown,” one of the more talked-about cuts on Jay-Z’s new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail.

The Jewish guy from Long Island, NYC was the man that took rap to platinum status

Rick Rubin admits the process of finishing Kanye’s sixth album was harrowing

Kanye West has reportedly recruited another hit-making superproducer to assist in last-minute changes to his upcoming album.