The Breakfast Club Interviews D.L. Hughley And Jasmine Sanders
D.L. Hughley & Jasmine Sanders stop by The Breakfast Club and leave no stone unturned. Many were surprised when DL spoke so openly and candidly about many things such as the following topics;
– Tells story of his side-baby
– Getting into radio
– His CNN political show
– Oprah’s Golden Globes speech and her call to run for office
– Telling jokes in this climate
– Have you said anything that you regretted
– His son hiring escort services
– #TimesUp movement
– Harvey Weinstein
– Ivanka Trump
– Reverse Racism
– The book “Fire And Fury”
– America’s obsession with celebrity
– Why Bill Cosby didn’t like him
– Relationship with Steve Harvey
– Code of the comedians
– Why men view sexual abuse differently than women
– Charlie Murphy‘s funeral
See the interview below;
Trevor Noah Selects South African Based Comedian Loyiso Madinga To Helm Daily Show Segments For Africa
NEW YORK, January 11, 2018 – Comedy Central, the largest global comedy brand and part of Viacom, Inc (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), today announced that Trevor Noah, Executive Producer, Writer and Host, has selected Loyiso Madinga to helm topical segments for the African broadcast of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Inserting local relevance to the global hit, the South African-based correspondent’s segments will air intermittently on Comedy Central across the continent. The first piece, a field report from the African National Congress Elective Conference, will debut in Africa on January 11.
“As wild as Donald Trump is for America, many countries around the world have Trumps of their own and since The Daily Show is in many countries, we thought ‘why not give each country a chance to show off their stable geniuses?,’” said Trevor Noah.
“Trevor’s curious obsession with South Africa aside, this is a great step in the continual globalization of The Daily Show, which has expanded to unprecedented levels since he took over,” said Kent Alterman, President Comedy Central.
“We’re always looking for ways to take global hits and localize them for regions around the world by adding great local talent, like Loyiso,” said Jill Offman, Executive Vice President and Head of Paramount Channel and Comedy Central International. “This is a pilot, so down the road you may see more internationally based correspondents, making The Daily Show a truly global yet local show for regions around the world.”
“I am really excited to create a voice for local satire. What is really great is this places an authentic spotlight on local comedy and presents a reality that combats the stereotypical perception of Africa. Being part of The Daily Show, I get to join the best conversation in the world” said Loyiso Madinga.
Loyiso (@loyisomadinga) is a stand-up comedian from South Africa who has quickly risen to being a celebrated international comic. Loyiso’s career has been on the fast track since his debut in 2012 where he also shared the stage with international acts such as Tom Segura. Since then, he quickly became a regular on local comedian, David Kau’s “Blacks Only” line up. He has also travelled South Africa as part of Trevor Noah’s Nationwild tour and represented his home country at the Montreux Comedy Festival in Switzerland and Busan Comedy Festival in Korea. Loyiso has written and performed on the two-time Emmy finalist satire show, Late Nite News with South African, Loyiso Gola, and also written and performed on the hit local sketch show, Bantu Hour.
Internationally, ratings for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah were up +35% year-over-year for all viewers across 10 measured markets** for calendar year 2017, driven by strong growth in the UK and South Africa. On the domestic front, viewership for The Daily Show was up +15% in 2017 and ratings among the key demo of adults 18-49 were up +9%. In the U.S., The Daily Show ranks as the top late-night talk show among millennial men (18-34) and is the #2 talk show with all millennials, behind only The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Comedy Central’s programming list helped it reach 372 million subscribers in 146 countries worldwide in fiscal 2017, compared with 285 million in fiscal 2016.
Trevor Noah, Steve Bodow, Jen Flanz and Jill Katz are the Executive Producers of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, with Justin Melkmann as Co-Executive Producer. Max Browning, Eric Davies, Pam DePace, Ramin Hedayati and Elise Terrell are Supervising Producers. Zhubin Parang is the Head Writer with Daniel Radosh as Senior Writer. The series is directed by Paul Pennolino. Sarah Babineau is the Executive in Charge of Production for Comedy Central. Kagiso Lediga is the Director of Loyiso’s local segment for Africa.
In the U.S., The Daily Show with Trevor Noah airs nightly at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central and is available to stream the following day on thedailyshow.com and the Comedy Central App. The series airs at 21:30 CAT on Comedy Central across Africa. Viewers can follow The Daily Show on Twitter (7.3M followers) and Instagram (1M followers), subscribe to their YouTube channel (2.7M subscribers) and become a fan of The Daily Show on Facebook(7.5M fans). Fans can follow Trevor Noah on Twitter (8.5M followers), Facebook (4.7M fans) and Instagram (2M followers).
Take a look at his stand up below:
https://www.youtube.com/user/loymad87
Kevin Hart And Tim Story Partner For New Universal Film ‘My Own Worst Enemy’!
Universal has pre-empted the action comedy spec package My Own Worst Enemy, and is eyeing a summer start date for a film that will star Kevin Hart and be directed by Tim Story. This is a big commitment by the studio to the film, Hart and Story, and also Universal has cemented its relationship to make Hart a cornerstone supplier, as the studio has established a first-look deal with Hart and his Hartbeat Productions.
This comes on the heels of Hart scoring big in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and it gives Universal a chance to re-team Hart with Story after they worked together so well on its Ride Along franchise — and I’ve heard a third film with Story, Hart and Ice Cube is on the drawing board. Hart and Story also teamed on the Think Like A Manfranchise at Screen Gems.
The script for My Own Worst Enemy is by Chad St. John, the scribe behind London Has Fallen, the Pierre Morel-directed revenge thriller Peppermint that Lakeshore is shooting with Jennifer Garner, and the Jeffrey Nachmanoff-directed sci-fi horror film Replicas with Keanu Reeves that Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios acquired last Toronto.
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In the action-comedy, Hart plays an agent that is tasked to kill and gets help from an unlikely source. Story will produce through his The Story Company banner, and Hart is producing through his Hartbeat Productions banner. Story, who has seen seven of the eight studio films he directed finish number one in their domestic opening weekends, is currently in production on Shaft, the New Line film that stars Samuel L. Jackson and Jessie T. Usher, Alexandra Shipp and Regina Hall for New Line. Sharla Sumpter Bridgett, President of The Story Company, will be executive producer on My Own Worst Enemy.
The film is being fast tracked into Hart’s busy schedule, ont that most certainly will will involve another Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle sequel already being formulated by Sony Pictures for a film that is giving Star Wars: The Last Jedi a run for its money and has grossed $532 million worldwide.
Universal Pictures president of production Peter Cramer confirmed to Deadline the expansion of its relationship with Hart with the new production deal.
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“We are thrilled to continue and expand our partnership with Kevin Hart and Hartbeat Productions,” he said. “Not only is Kevin a comedic genius in front of the camera, but he has also become a very astute producer, with great creative instincts, deep relationships, and a tireless work ethic. We are confident that there will be many fantastic Universal releases from Kevin and Hartbeat in the years to come.”
Hart doesn’t often miss with projects he starred in and it is not an accident. He’s considered to be one of the most astute users of social media to stay plugged in with his audience, which has also been helpful in tours and other enterprise projects. Hart launched a Lionsgate-based digital network The LOL Network, and the app got downloaded 500,000 times in its first 30 days. Hart will star in two premium Laugh Out Loud series coming this year, including What the Fit? with Youtube, and Cold As Balls. He is also championing a new creators’ program that offers resources to ten rising digital creators to regularly produce social content for Laugh Out Loud.
Hart, Story and St. John are all repped by UTA. Hart is managed by 3 Arts Entertainment and lawyered by Schreck Rose Dapello & Adams; Story is lawyered by Ziffren Brittenham and St. John by Hansen Jacobson.
Source: Deadline
‘Snoop Dogg Presents The Joker’s Wild’ Renewed For Second Seasons By TBS
TBS has renewed hit unscripted comedies Snoop Dogg Presents The Joker’s Wild and Drop the Mic for second seasons for premiere in spring 2018. The renewals were announced during TBS’ presentation Thursday at the TCA winter press tour.
The two series marked TBS’ entry into the unscripted space and both have been strong ratings performers, emerging as the top two unscripted cable comedies in 2017. Both series reached an average of 2.5M viewers per episode across TBS’s linear, VOD, and digital platforms with 200 million social and YouTube views to date. Drop the Mic climbed digital audience score rankings week over week, holding the #1 spot three weeks in a row, based on all prime-time comedies that aired new episodes, according to the network.
“Our relaunch of TBS’ unscripted efforts hit the ground running with the series premieres of Snoop Dogg Presents The Joker’s Wild and Drop The Mic, and we never looked back,” said Michael Bloom, senior vice president of unscripted and specials for TBS and TNT. “And Season 2 is going to be filled with next-level celebrity beef under the guidance of Method and Hailey, and much, much higher stakes courtesy of some extra Snoop-a-fied gaming led by the Dogg himself.”
Snoop Dogg always counted The Joker’s Wild as his favorite game show growing up. He hosts the TBS version, which is set in his very own casino that includes an oversized slot machine, giant dice and playing cards. Snoop Dogg Presents The Joker’s Wild is produced by Sony Pictures Television, in association with Turner’s Studio T. Snoop Dogg serves as executive producer, along with Michael Strahan. Also executive-producing are Vincent Rubino, Constance Schwartz-Morini for SMAC Entertainment and Ted Chung for Merry Jane.
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Hosted by Method Man and Hailey Baldwin, Drop the Mic, based on the popular segment from The Late Late Show with James Corden, pits celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, music, sports and pop culture to face off against each other in a rap battle royale packed with lyrically creative genius and “I can’t believe they just said that” moments. At the end of each head-to-head battle, the studio audience votes to determine the winner. Drop the Mic is produced by CBS Television Studios and Fulwell 73 Productions. James Corden, Ben Winston and Jensen Karp serve as executive producers, with Joanna Gallagher as co-executive producer.
Source: Deadline
Tracy Morgan’s ‘The Last O.G.’ Gets April Premiere Date On TBS
TBS has slated an April premiere date for Tracy Morgan’s return to television in new comedy series The Last O.G. The series, starring Morgan and executive produced by Morgan and Jordan Peele, will air Tuesdays at 10:30 PM ET/PT beginning April 3. The date was announced Thursday as part of TBS’ presentation at the TCA winter press tour.
In The Last O.G., Morgan stars as Tray, an ex-con who’s shocked to see just how much the world has changed when he is released from prison on good behavior after a 15-year stint. Returning to his newly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood, he discovers that his former girlfriend Shay (Tiffany Haddish) has married an affable, successful white man (Ryan Gaul) who is helping raise the twins (Taylor Mosby & Dante Hoagland) Tray never knew existed. Wanting nothing more than to connect with his kids, but having neither the money to support them nor himself, Tray falls back on the skills he learned in prison to make ends meet while treading on unfamiliar territory.
The Last O.G. also stars Cedric the Entertainer as the head of the halfway house where Tray is staying, and Allen Maldonado as Tray’s cousin Bobby, who helps him adjust to life on the outside. Executive-producing with Morgan and Peele are Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, John Carcieri and Joel Zadak of Principato Young.
Guest stars scheduled to appear this season are Edi Patterson (Vice Principals),Chrissy Metz (This is Us), Malik Yoba (Designated Survivor), Joel Marsh Garland (Orange is the New Black), Heather Simms (As the World Turns), Wendy Makkena (NCIS) and Ray Anthony Thomas (The Hoop Life).
Source: Deadline
Taraji P. Henson Producing And Starring In A New Film Directed By John Singleton
In an interview with GlobalGrind during a press event for her upcoming film, Proud Mary, Taraji P. Henson has revealed she is producing and starring in an upcoming film on the life of Emmett Till. The film, now titled The Emmett Till Story, will be directed by John Singelton and Henson she will portray Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
She said, “We don’t have a start date yet, but the deal definitely has been done. That’s one (project) I’ve been passionate about since Trayvon Martin was murdered.”
While we initially thought this was the first public announcement about the project, news about the film actually appeared back in February 2017 in a Vanity Fair piece about other Till projects in the works. Back then, Vanity Fair reported that Singleton was directing and Henson starring — with Michael De Luca and Laray Mayfield producing, and Michael Roden and Jerry Mitchell writing the script.
Here are the other projects on Emmett Till that have been announced over the past few years. The status of these projects is currently unknown:
— In 2016, Goldberg has now also signed up to direct an Emmett Till film in her narrative feature directorial debut. This Emmett Till film hails from Keith A. Beauchamp (the director of the 2005 documentary, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till) and producer Frederick Zollo (Mississippi Burning, Ghosts of Mississippi), and will be based on Beauchamp’s documentary, as well as Simeon Wright’s Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till.
— A film produced by the late Roger Ebert’s wife Chaz Ebert, based on the book, “Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America,” co-written by Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley (who passed away in 2003), and journalist Christopher Benson. No director, writer or cast attached.
— Another film would be based on the play, The Face of Emmett Till. Skyland Pictures and FireRock Bay Pictures are behind the project, which James Moll is attached to direct, from a script penned by David Barr III and David Scott Hay, who are also co-producing. And just like the Chaz Ebert project, which will be based on a book co-written by Emmett Till’s mother, the play that this film will be based on, was also co-written by Till’s mother, the late Mamie Till-Mobley, along with David Barr III. The Face of Emmett Till is a true-to-life dramatization of the death of Till and the aftermath. The film adaptation had been set for a 2016 shoot in Chicago and Mississippi.
— An HBO miniseries, from a producing team that includes Will Smith, Jay-Z and Aaron Kaplan, based on Devery Anderson’s 2015 biography, Emmett Till. Deadline had described the series is described as “an immersive and in-depth exploration of the Emmett Till story.” Steven Caple, Jr., who was just recently announced as the new director for Creed 2, was on board to write the script for the 6-hour miniseries.
Source: Shadow & Act, GlobalGrind, Deadline
In Case You Missed It- Tiffany Haddish Hijacks New York Film Critics Dinner
The surprises at the annual New York Film Critics Circle dinner bash aren’t in the awards; they were announced last month. The appeal of this gathering – which in its raffishness is something like the Golden Globes but with noses tilted slightly upward – lies in how the honored artists will behave when addressing some of the most prominent bylines in the business. Graciousness generally prevails, which is no fun at all. Sometimes an honoree will let loose, and that’s when the fun begins.
This year’s affair, the group’s 83rd, at celebrity stable Tao Downtown, was more staid than recent years, and it could hardly be otherwise: As the Circle’s chairman and event host Eric Kohn, chief film critic of Deadline’s sister site IndieWire, said at the outset, the awards season has been cast in the long shadow of Hollywood’s very public reckoning with sexual harassment and assault scandals, as well as the death last week, felt personally by many in the audience, of New Yorker Films head Dan Talbot and the imminent shuttering of his indie palace, the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
So it was more than a tonic when Tiffany Haddish abandoned formality as she approached the podium and proceeded to kidnap the show. It was a relief. Accepting the award for best supporting actress in Girls Trip, she inspected the citation to be certain her name was spelled correctly (it was) and thanked God for putting her parents together, her parents for conceiving her and nature for the panoply of experience-enhancing substances she apparently had been partaking of freely.
Tiffany Haddish
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Haddish opened up about her attempts to get pregnant, her affection for the crews on her films (“When I work with people, I work with everybody from the person that’s working the camera, the person that’s putting the clothes on me, the person that combs my hair…because all of y’all make my dreams come true”). She was not the first honoree to insist she didn’t read reviews, but easily was the most sincere in dismissing her celebrants. (“Because I’m sensitive,” she said, “that’s just who I am.”)
She spoke of making the film, in which she is the unfiltered catalyst to some seriously raunchy femme bonding, and told an unprintable story about a bit she wanted to include in Girl’s Trip that the producers declared out-of-bounds as it involved branding a male body part and oral infidelity. (Evidently, you can get the whole squirm-inducing version by attending her stand-up act.) She also spoke of the positive influence of fear, and her hope that strangers approach her with a happy face.
Willem Dafoe
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Haddish was so terrific that Edward Norton, who had to follow her to introduce best supporting actor Willem Dafoe (for The Florida Project), opened by saying, “This is awkward but Tiffany gave my speech, word for word.”
It was an especially good night for women in the industry, with the best film award going to Greta Gerwig’s solo directing debut with Lady Bird and that film’s star, Saoirse Ronan taking the honors for best leading performance by an actress.
Ronan and Gerwig
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But the most resonant speech was by Career Achievement honoree Molly Haskell, a film critic not only of incomparable stature but one whose entertaining, enlightening analyses of the role of sex in films extends back more than half a century (notably in her books From Reverence to Rape and Holding My Own In No Man’s Land) and could not have been timelier.
Referring to the loss of Dan Talbot, Haskell recalled the flourishing of independent film in the late 1960s and early 70s less as a golden age of film than as “a golden age of critics. It wasn’t that the criticism was better, but it was a smaller world.
“Everybody was talking about films,” she said. “And at the same time, women were emerging, women’s roles were being shown, and that was where I came in. It just seemed natural to me to take an interest in men’s and women’s roles. I did say I was a film critic first and a feminist second. I always felt that my first
Molly Haskell
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allegiance was to film as an art form, and I still think that. Through the decades, people would be saying ‘this is the year of the woman,’ but actually, very little progress was being made. Until 2017. And this moment of reckoning turned into a groundswell. It’s really a revolution. Monuments have toppled. And it’s both exhilarating and terrifying, and we don’t know how it’s going to play out.”
Haskell noted that the ’70s were a time of male buddy films, but “in my experience, women do a lot more bonding than men.” Both Lady Bird and Girls Trip helped redress that imbalance, and that the latter “is wilder and raunchier than any Rat Pack film,” she noted with amusement. “I looked at that tonight and thought, ‘Yeah, man, you got it.’ So if this award is reparations to women, I’m quite happy to accept it on behalf of women everywhere – and especially women critics everywhere.”
Source: Deadline
Kerry Washington Talks New Facebook Show, ‘Scandal, And More
Kerry Washington, star of ABC’s “Scandal,” said the scripted teen drama she’s executive producing for Facebook’s Watch video platform is an example of how technology is eroding the clout of Hollywood’s traditional power brokers.
“The latest inspiration for storytelling in the digital and tech space involves more voices at the storytelling table,” she said. “Hollywood is going to spend a lot of time grappling with this… The power of the gatekeepers is being lessened and lessened.”
Washington discussed her new show for Facebook, “Five Points,” at CES 2018 in Las Vegas as part of Facebook’s C Space Storytellers session Tuesday.
Announced in October, the 10-episode “Five Points” is set on Chicago’s South Side and follows high school students from five different points of view. When violence shakes the community, all of the characters’ different perspectives will be necessary to understand the truth.
Washington said Facebook’s Watch ability to combine distribution with community-based group discussions — as well as providing live interactions with the show’s cast — made “Five Points” ideally suited for the social service. The series deals with topics including LGBT identity, gun violence, drug use, and bullying, and her hope is that “Five Points” will spur Facebook audiences to participate and get active in talking about those issues.
“What I’m thrilled about is not only the content itself… but that we get to have it live in a space where we can combine it with groups,” she said. “I wouldn’t want to put this out without creating a place for discussion.” The cast of “Five Points” will be able to create Facebook accounts for their characters to interact with the audience, as well, Washington said.
“Five Points” will premiere on Facebook Watch “very soon,” according to Fidji Simo, Facebook’s VP of product for video, who hosted the discussion with Washington.
“We think it has the potential to be truly genre-breaking… to really bring content and community together,” said Simo.
The show’s cast includes “CSI: Cyber” alum Hayley Kiyoko, actress-model Madison Pettis, Ray Cham Jr., Trey Curtis, Nathaniel Potvin, Jake Walker and Spence Moore II.
Years ago, Washington said she was wary of participating in social media. But now she credits social media with the success of “Scandal.” “When ‘Scandal’ came along, we were not poised to be a hit,” she said. It took a grassroots base of viewers “to build a community around the show and uplift it.”
Ahead of her appearance at CES, Washington on Tuesday shared a behind-the-scenes photo from “Five Points” on social media of herself with executive producers Rodrigo Garcia (left) and Jon Avnet (right):
According to Simo, Facebook’s Watch platform has the potential to “reinvent” a lot of genres, including reality television, game shows and scripted dramas. “Through the lens of what would that look like if you’re putting the story in the hands of your audience in real time.”
Washington’s production company, Simpson Street, is looking at developing other new storytelling projects in the digital space, including using virtual reality and augmented reality. “We’re all trying to figure out how to utilize VR in a way that best serves storytelling,” she said, adding that VR has the potential to let the viewer “step into someone else’s shoes.”
The actress, producer and activist — who is attending CES for the first time — also said she much prefers producing to acting from the “time-management perspective.”
“You don’t have to sit in the hair and makeup chair for three hours as a producer,” Washington said. She said she isn’t hanging up her acting hat, but “I find producing feeds me from a creative perspective, from an intellectual perspective, from a technical perspective.”
“Five Points” was created by Adam Giaudrone, who serves as writer and executive producer. Washington will executive produce under her Simpson Street banner. Jon Avnet and Jake Avnet of Indigenous Media will also executive produce with Indigenous’ Sage Scroope and Ben Fast also producing. Rodrigo Garcia and Thomas Carter (“Save the Last Dance”) will also executive produce, with Carter also directing.
Source: Variety
EXCLUSIVE: Interview With New Group ‘Band Of Brothers’
The Band of Brothers is comprised of four highly talented brothers. Andre “MoDre” Brown (Bass), Jerome “Jslim” Monroe Jr (Keyboards), Sharod “Mister virtuoso” Allen (Guitar) and Jordan “Jhemby” Hemby (Drums). This type of unity and harmony is what is needed in the cutthroat world of the music industry. Bands are no longer viewed as an accessory in the background, they bring so much more to the table and bring the entire show to life: visually, aesthetically and of course musically. The mood and tone of a concert is set by the first note and with the Band of Brothers it is always kicked off on a high note.
US: How did the Band of Brothers come to be? And besides playing a specific instrument, what else does each of you bring to the table?
BB: Each one of us brings different assets to the table. All four of us produce music and more. The Band of Brothers originally formed from another group called the 630 Band, which included lead vocalist in 2011. Besides playing instruments all four members of the Band of Brothers adds different flavors to the band like: music production, creative directing and great energy.
We all play multiple instruments, as well as produce and sing.
US: Do you see performing on stage as work or living out your dreams?
BB: Definitely living out our dreams, we’ve all in some shape or form dreamed to be able to use our gifts to travel the world and inspire people. It just so happened we got to make that dream a reality together.
US: Do you organically get picked for each gig or is there a bigger network you are apart of?
BB: As far as touring behind Artists it’s usually based on relationships and reputation. Fortunately enough for us, we spent the better part of 5 years paying our dues, gigging around the city of Atlanta, hitting almost every Open Mic, Jam Session and Friday Night Club gig there was. I think at a point we were playing 6 nights a week which was not to bad for a 18-24 year old musicians. Through maintaining great relationships we had built with promoters, managers and Artists alike we’ve been very blessed to be able to land some pretty dope gigs!
US: Do you have a certain niche of artist you prefer to play for or are you open to new opportunities regardless of the genre?
BB: I would say we’re pretty open, especially being that we all come from different musical backgrounds. Sharod is a Neo-Soul guy and Dre is more Motown and Rock, so it actually works out because it allows us to be a lot more flexible when it comes to the genres. As for the Artists, we honestly just love working with good people that we can have fun with on and off stage!
US: Gracing stages with the Roots, established artists like, Big KRIT, Raury and other scan you see this as a career you can retire with?
BB: Definitely not retire! The world without music would be a miserable place, so we will keep pushing positive vibes until the day we die.
US: Have any of you branched out beyond music?
BB: Of course, Modre established his Business (Classic Music LLC), which is a company that prides itself on helping other musicians and Artists create longevity in this Music industry. Slim is a creative person who loves the Arts such as: Photography, Videography and Creative Directing. Jordan has done a great amount of Event Planning around the Atlanta area as well as promoting shows. Sharod loves to engulf himself in the Film industry as well as engineering recording sessions. So we all bring different things to the table.
US: Which stop on any leg of all the tours you have been apart of, is your favorite?
BB: That’s a hard one…. It’ll probably have to be between Australia and Amsterdam with Raury.
US: How important is it to give back to Independent Artists on the rise?
BB: Very Important! Every Artist out now has been Independent at one point and time in their life. We all need support and help to become great, and that is what we are about, giving back.
US: Who are your mentors?
BB: We have a bunch of older kats that have looked out for us over the years
Jorel Jfly Flynn, Abyss Graham, Claude Deuce, David Price and so many more.
US: Is your single, “No Worries” a stand-alone project or a taste of something more to come?
BB: Our single “No Worries” is a friendly introduction to who The Band Of Brothers are and what we represent. So there will be a lot more to come.
US: What is the inspiration behind “No Worries?”
BB: The inspiration behind No Worries comes from an honest place that we all share in our hearts, concerning our involvement with the music industry. The ups and downs of it all and how we continue to press through the negativity we’ve been through with our positive vibes.
US: Do you have any words of advice for students and musicians who have a desire to perform and play full-time?
BB: It’s not always about how well you play better than others or how talented you are, it’s about your character, heart and intentions. You will make it far if you are an honest, hard working and easy to work with. So work hard, have great integrity and character and connect with as many people you can.
US: How can our fans stay connected with you?
BB: They Can Join the Family @Theebandofbrothers on Instagram and twitter
The teaser for season two of Atlanta is here. The 59 second clip gives us glimpses of the Donald Glover led series. The new season takes place in Atlanta during the holiday season, a time when robberies spike as people have more money and need more money. Brian Tyree Henry’s Paper Boi, Lakeith Stanfield’s Darius, and Zazie Beetz’s Van characters are also returning to the hit FX series.
