21st Century Hustle

The fashion elite and high profile celebrities that have historically occupied the front row at the shows now have new neighbors. With the rising influence of the internet and social media, some designers are granting  fashion bloggers a status upgrade to their seating assignments (the  industry’s most coveted status indicator). (more…)

Dear Bevy,
I’ve told my mother you’re like my twitter life coach, lol. You’re such a great person who’s honest and loving. But I was just getting down because in the fashion world, its so hard to break through and it does take connections and I don’t have any! And I thought that I wouldn’t be as successful as I know I can be. Do you have any advice on how to break into the industry and actually be successful?
SG, ( A Twitter Mentee)       Advice after the jump…

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Lil Wayne on his early hustle:

When I met Stunna it was May 13, 1993.

Cash Money had a group called UNLV, they had an album that dropped called Uptown For Life and I went to the autograph signing at a local record store in my hood called Odyssey. Cash Money had an artist from my block named Lil Slim. I had already rapped for him in the hood¹, he told me that he was gonna tell Baby and them about me. I was a kid, you know me, I was looking forward to it. I told my mom and she was like, Boy! Basically, telling me don’t listen to no man telling some kid he’s gonna give him a deal. (more…)

Jason Geter on getting his label and artist T.I. off the ground:

There was no real template, it was just go hard literally every day. We got an apartment together, me and Tip. Every day our mission was, what are we gonna do, what club we going to? What show we gonna do? Like literally every day that’s what it was. Dedication. A lot of times people never really, really go in hard. We were really doing it full time. Every week, I would go to Barnes & Noble and read Billboard magazine. Sitting with stacks of magazines, highlighting stuff, rip out pages. Not just doing the work but educating ourselves as well. That’s why we knew our value.
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