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As a young girl I always wanted to write. I started writing my own little novels and short stories in the first grade. I loved to read, and I had a vivid imagination. Being that my father was in the military and my mother was a school teacher I attended elementary school in Cuba. I started my own neighborhood kids club, and I wrote and put on my own plays during lunch. When my family moved back to the states I still remained active in writing short plays and keeping my head in a book. Today I can say I am still writing and I am still following my dream. I feel that we need more mentors and people to tell our youth to believe in their dreams and that one day they can be a reality. Will you be that person? Felicia Rivers CEO of Geechee One Magazine @geecheeone P.S. Please check out the 2013 Geechee One Award Photos throughout the entire issue! the 2014 Geechee One awards is scheduled for Sept 20th at Sterett Hall. !

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Rarely has there been a point in the music industry--and its related business processes from musicians’ perspectives-- whereby the corporate element of the industry was not perceived as shaky-baky, at best, in respect to artists earning an acceptable income. Ironically and consequently, commercial musical artists today spend much of their time-- in fact most of their time-- proverbially beating their heads against the wall trying to figure out how to get their loving and adoring fans

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to, literally, pay for their music. Therefore, it has become imperative that musical artists create alternative ways to sell their music. That alternative creativity must first begin with musical artists not only admitting but coming to honest terms with themselves that the music industry as well as how music fans see and respond to it today, in particular, has metamorphosed with no return to the processes of yesterday or yesteryear. In short, in an

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industry-wide effort to acquire the much divided attention of music fans, so much music has been given away that many (if not most) people today feel a loss at paying 99 cents for a digital download. I believe the grandfather of this sort of thinking may actually have begun with those enormous Columbia House mail order music giveaways back in the 1980s. With compact disc sales ever spiraling to a bottomless pit, largely due to today’s personal economics, more often than not, the digital download is as good as it’s going to get in the foreseeable future for most musical artists. Therefore as I see it, artists have two main choices in benefiting financially from their music while eliminating the ‘co$t of free’ scenario, which are: 1. Use, at least, a number of your absolute best singles as giveaways in their entirety to convince music fans to take a risk on your complete release, even if that means their strictly purchasing the rest of your music via downloads. And, for your songs that are, at least, three minutes in length, why not allow the listening time to be a minute long, as opposed to the standard thirty seconds of listening time that are generally allocated by online music distributors. The information in this paragraph likely works best for NON-performing or touring musicians. 2. For regularly performing and touring musicians, however, the listening times of artists’ music might ought to extend to the point of fans being able to enjoy the entire repertoire in order for artists to be

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more deeply embraced during their live performances. With fans utmost awareness of each song, the impulse to purchase the actual hard copy as a compact disc should automatically be generated by many fans attending artists’ concerts. In summary, today, each artist must decide on, at least, one of the above two perspectives and on how he or she is going to adopt and execute it. Upon reviewing it, you will note that each process contains some degree of psychology built into it in order to convince the fan to make a purchase of the music. If I were a racehorse better I, personally, would bet on Horse #2 as a winner due to several factors: 1. the granting of the music lover to experience the music in its entirety upfront, 2. the opportunity for the artist to earn live performance income by creating a live performance demand through the free listening granting of the music and, 3. the further opportunity for the live performing artist to sell the physical compact disc at his or her performances. Very often, the co$t of FREE is merely measured in the event of time. ______________________________________________________ Editor’s Note: Dr. Kenneth Love is a writer/author, Jazz musician/recording artist, and international promoter and publicist. Learn more about him at 1waypr.com and kennylovejazz.com

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Best Female Rap: Artist B.Kiddo Best Male Rap Artist: Dirty Dave Club of the Year: Blue Magic Slept on Artist: Mugga Man Best Album of the Year: "Determination" by See Best Mixtape: "Respect It or Check It" by Yung Rome

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GEECHEE ONE: Could you tell everybody out there who needs to learn a little about T Mac?

T MAC: About me, I'm Mr. ChuckTown! I been out there, a legend, as a young n***. I've been doing this street thing. Shining and Grinding—that's all I know.

GEECHEE ONE: For those who don’t know, you own 263 Records. Who’s on there right now? I know you rolled with a lot of celebrities in the past. Tell us about that?

T MAC: I was the first one who did a song with Baby from Cash Money. I used to roll with them boys back in the G. Right now, I’m rocking with my little brother Young Scooter and Shyst Red. That's a tight knit family I’m rocking with. As far as 263 Records, I have several already on the contract, but not on the label. Samo the Boss man is still on the label.

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people steal a lot of the Charleston style and run with it? I’m not calling any names unless you want to call some names. You can do that.

T MAC: (Laughs) How I knew you were going there? To be a hundred with you because that's all I know how to be. Baby took a lot of my stuff! He took a lot of our slang and my swag. You know, the two watch thing, I been the first one wearing them two watches. Now I wear two, three, four of them. He put it out to the world first. Salute to him, man. He got the first dibs on it but in his heart he knows where it originally came from!

GEECHEE ONE: Your latest mixtape you got hosted by your boy Swamp Izzo. Could you tell everybody about that connection and how far that has taken you?

T MAC: On My Grind Volume 1, Swamp hosted that. It’s been a long time coming with me and Swamp. Swamp grew up on

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my first album, Shinin & Big Tymin and he'll tell you straight out. My first album inspired him to get into music. This isn’t a joke. I can pull up a couple of other magazines where he said that in his interviews. He's a real hundred n*** it’s been a long time coming. Til this day we like best friends. We talk about personal stuff. If we don't talk every day we talk every other day. That's how real it is and that's how I feel about this rap game. I go by vibes. It was a match made. So we’re just turning up. It’s a 263 Hood Rich Affair on the next joint. It's going to be real crazy.

GEECHEE ONE: Some people say you’re sort of like the Suge Knight of Charleston. I mean how do you feel about that comparison?

T MAC: A lot of these dudes, my homeboys, rappers in Charleston don't understand the music business. What I mean by that is, if you sign a contract to do something, then you going to be held accountable if you don't do it. Sometimes they push these wrong buttons and they take you and your business for a joke. They bring out that wild side.

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So, what I do now is, my vice president, Jd-Hawg, I let him deal with the artists. I don’t deal with artists because I still have a little bit of that street mentality. If you disrespect me, then there are repercussions behind that. At the end of the day, it’s just business and the people who say that don’t understand the business. I'm probably the only person who has publishing contracts that go along with my label contracts. Who you know have different management contracts? I'm probably the only person in Charleston really who fully got the game.

J MIX: You had a deal with Koch. Did you have a problem getting away from that deal? Or you had your lawyers set up for that?

T MAC: No. Koch let me go for breach of contract. They let me go because I had a group artist. TKoch signed my whole label. Koch had 18 Radio promo dates set out for them for a hit song with Waka Flocka. I paid ten grand for Waka to do a verse. Then turn around, Koch really loved the song. They wanted to get behind it one hundred percent. So, they set out

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these radio dates. These guys didn't even get to the first radio dates, not the first one! They (Koch) call me like, “T Mac what the hell going on? These radio stations calling saying you’ll aren’t showing up.” What can I say? The more I argue at them lil n***, the more they run. It’s more so like, I'm f***! That’s why I don't want to deal with artists anymore, like that. That’s why I started back rapping and doing it myself. I know what I’m going to do. I know I can show up.

J Mix: Artists also have to make themselves somewhat of a commodity and valuable enough for somebody to invest in them. You developed artists didn’t you?

T Mac: Yes. My problem was only with one group who had a name and buzz already. I spent money on them. I was making artists from out the gate. They didn't have a name and nobody really knew them. I invested time and money in them. It was one artist I put in four years of craft and how he rap. I gave him a name. I developed them. I did everything for them, everything! I got my n*** in every city. You got to go in the cities and you got to stir it up. That’s what it

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GEECHEE ONE: What can we expect coming from you in 2014?

T MAC: I got two videos I’m about to shoot and drop in two weeks. I'm going to shoot one in Charleston and one in the A. It’s new singles and new joints dropping off the new mixtape. I got the one with Benzino. This new joint is going to be crazy. I got Scooter, Jose Guapo, Fresh and Hog on it. I got the home team, we just turning up on this new joint. I got a documentary that is dropping with my mixtape.

GEECHEE ONE: We were talking about the GeeChee One Awards, you've been doing this for a long time, correct? Basically right now when people think of say the big names, they calling out Dirty Dave, Fat Boy, Marly Marl and I'm assuming you were doing yours longer than all them is that correct?

T MAC: Yep. Fat Boy was almost this close to sign to my 263 label, before I was locked up.

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GEECHEE ONE: I think that some of the issues may be because you disappeared. Being back on the scene, do you feel that people should just remember what you did 15 years ago?

T MAC: No. My thing is this I don't want a m****** to give me s*** my whole life I go get it. When I walk in the room you ain't got no choice

but to look at me. Now I can tell you this, I put God first through anything. When I walk in that room I got the light shining on me. You’re going to see me. So that's just the way it is. Bosses when they walk in the room they stand out.

Shout out to the GeeChee One Awards. I heard it was a success. Felicia you know I support you. Sorry I didn't show up. You know I support you. I had a funeral to go to. Let me close out and give my shouts. Shout out to the CHUCK and all the artists out there man. You’ll keep grinding man. You know, get your money up. Find you a backer or whatever you got to do to get where you got to get at. Shout out to GeeChee One. Shout out to my little brother Shyst Red. GeeChee South. Shout out to Augusta. Flock O you already know what it is. Shout out to blog radio. I thank y'all for the interview. Everything mix! My whole 263 team. The JD Hawg, all my G’s with me, camera man and all. Shout out to The Streetz, If I missed you, it’s on me, man. I give you a hug when I see you. I got to keep it 100. That's it! God got me! We flying, let’s go!

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so he got on it. Two of the artists I really liked working with was Chyna White and Mr. Serv-On simply because of so much knowledge they had to share. Points, publishing, contracts, I obtained a lot of knowledge from those dudes. Mitchy Slick and Glasses Malone are two artists that also got on some tracks. I wasn’t expecting the Mitchy credit, but Mega Bucks and Slick go back. So Bucks shot him the track and he jumped on it. That was a real good look for us. Geechee One: Some people say that track is all about the Beat. Do you believe that? Rick Flare: No, I do not believe that at all, and here’s why. As a producer, you have to do a lot when it comes to just production. It’s not just making the beat, but in certain situations you have to quarterback the song, or the album sometimes. The beat can be the hottest beat in the world, but a takes the artist to bring life to the beat. The artist can be the greatest of all times, but it takes the producer to give him life. It’s a mutual effort I believe. I think if the artist and the producer are both willing to listen to each other, the tracks have a chance to come out good. Geechee One: Do you love your city? Rick Flare: Of course I do, very much so. I just really want to see someone get in the door. Once someone gets in the door, the floodgates will open. I’ll give you an example of what I mean. I don’t know if you remember but around ’99-2001 there was this movement going on in Canada. You had artist like Choclair and Kardinal Offishall who made great strides, but they didn’t get the door fully open, but cracked it enough. A few years

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later, Drake starts to make his push, and he opens the door not just for Toronto, but all of Canada. I think the same thing is happening with Charleston. You had dudes who started it like Skip Ski and MC Double D, I would guess you could say they found the door. Then you had dudes like The Phlava, and the Carolina Pathfindaz who knocked on the door. T-Mac and 263 Records turned the knob. Pachino Dino, Mista Taylor, Marly Mar and Dirty Dave have opened the door, now it’s just someone getting in. We have tons of talent rap and production wise. Whether it’s Jro from Str8 drop, TwinD, or 40 oz, we have very diverse producers. Rap wise there’s damn near too many to name. St. 6, B-Kiddo, Big D, B-Kill, Mugga Man, Mega Bucks, $ee, Free Gram Weezy, Mally Racks. I think we have a lot of talent. I think the only thing we are lacking, but you are seeing more of is actual unity. That’s what I always ask an artist I produce for who isn’t from Charleston, and the one thing I notice is they have unity, and willing to take a base hit so the next man can have a grand slam. An example of this is Mike Jones. Still Tippin wasn’t his song, Slim Thug already had that song recorded, and he gave it to Mike Jones. That song was what Houston needed for resurgence and it got them back on the map. I think if we had a lot more unity, it would speed up the process of the city finally getting i’s recognition. Once that is done, it’s just staying focused, and staying prayed up through The Most High in Yashaya’s name. Geechee One: As a producer do you feel that Charleston has its own style of music or do you feel that too many people are copying styles from other cities? Rick Flare:Damn, that’s a hard question. What I can say is it is a yes and no question. See, Charleston has never had a particular sound or a style. I remember when NYC ran rap and we were wearing jerseys with Timbs, and everyone was rapping over sampled beats. I also remember when Cash Money blew up and everyone started wearing Soulja Rees with white t-shirts. I think now we are starting to find our footing as far as originality. You have dudes like Pachino Dino, B-Kill, and Killa Skip who are just doing this real grimy cutthroat type music that no one has really heard in a while. I think it fits the city a lot. If you travel, and run in to dudes who have been to Charleston, we have a reputation for being a wild city, so I think that music goes well with the reputation and that the sound has not been visited in damn near twenty years. I think if we did that music, and the videos and images depicted that, it

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would work well around the south and the west coast. Geechee One:What would you say would be that Charleston sound if you think we have one? Rick Flare: I’d say the first person I heard, that I know the sound didn’t have a distinctive influence was Twin D. When Pachino Dino’s album came out I remember me and my cousin riding around to it and I had never heard a sound like that from Charleston. You could tell it was keyboard heavy, but it wasn’t just two instruments, and a drum track. It was layers of sound. So yeah, TwinD. I’ll stick with that answer. Geechee One: Are there any other hidden talents you may have that we should know about? Rick Flare: Well I am a writer and a cook. Before I took rap real serious, I had this dream of being a writer. So in school I got a few awards for writing. It’s something I’m still in to. I’m a semester away from a degree, so once I get this degree, I may pursue a bachelors in Journalism, but Journalism is a broad field, so I have to really sit down and figure out if I’m going to be in to sports writing, screenplays, or just a plain newspaper journalist. I’ll figure it out hopefully soon. When it comes to the cooking, I worked in restaurants for a good 10 years before I moved away to Ohio, so cooking is something I am decent at. So if production doesn’t work, and that degree isn’t making any money, I’ll be in someone’s kitchen staff pulling tickets (laughs). Geechee One: What are the top 5 songs you have produced Rick Flare: Mega Bucks feat. Mitchy Slick “No Matter What”, St. 6 “Stackin”, HBM feat. Mook Montana “Glorified Life”, Huey “What You On”, and Big Lunny feat. Glasses Malone “Gangsta Life”. Geechee One: How can our readers get in contact with you? Rick Flare: Hit me on Twitter. @RFBeatArkitekz. Thank y’all for the press. I greatly appreciate it. Prayers to the Most High.

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“ I decided to pursue acting because I wanted to expand my horizon. I wanted to be looked at as an all around threat. I always looked up to Denzel Washington, Forest Whittaker, and Idris Elba. Never thought about if I wasn’t going to be any good at it because I feel that would be like putting a limit on my talent. I feel like the only way to find out if you can is to do it.” Twitter: @bishopdrippa

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MAG CD REVIEW: New artist MAG makes his debut release with his project "Animal Planet". Mag comes off in the paint with the track "Hex These Haters", letting his haters know that is how they r getting dealt with. Mag also gives us a couple of freestyles from his "Sucker Free Flow" series with some clean verses. Then he slows it down a little bit with Loosin My Mind". Which is a laid back track that puts you in your zone. Tracks like "Killing 'Em" & "My Addiction" hold the project together well with a little more energy. These tracks highlight MAG's delivery well. Reviewed by: Jay Mixx Get your mixtape reviewd by Geechee One Magazine. Email us at intheplug@gmail.com

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Written by: Lachondria Taylor LADY MAFIA from Hour Glass to Levitate Magazine. With tracks like "Ice Cream", "Baby Boy", & "We F**** Round(off dat Rocko We'n Going Steady)", you see why she calls herself Lady Mafia. Not just a pretty face the music tells a whole ‘nother story.

The hustle and struggle of a female artist making noise and checking folks with her lyrics at the same damn time. Don't let the smooth look fool you. Born and raised in Eadytown, S.C., A HOMETOWN HERO Kizzy ' Lady Mafia' Jones was and forever be a force to be reckoned with. So hit the YouTube and type in Lady Mafia and her tracks will come up and you will see what I'm talking about. REST IN PEACE LADY MAFIA.

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What do you feel that the Carolina entertainment industry is missing? “Unity. The love for real music. Everybody seems to be settling for trap music instead of reality.” How do you feel about winning Slept on Artist at the 2013 Geechee One Awards?

“It felt good to accept the award. Just getting noticed in a city with a 100+ artists is big to me. Thanks to the family, friends, and fans who voted for me.”

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Dear Chiina, After being in a relationship for two weeks I want to tell my man that I want to take it to the next step. What do you think I should do? Miss Two Weeks. Dear Miss Two Weeks, The best way to tell him you want to go to the next step is to just say it. No need to beat around the bush, but you most definitely need to think before you say you want to get more serious. I believe in lust not love at first sight. Two weeks is a short period of time to get serious with someone you most definitely don't want to get yourself hurt be mindful of your own heart good luck sweetheart. !

Dear Chiina, I have a boyfriend but I also like this other guy. I don’t know what to do about that situation and I need some advice. Signed So Confused. Dear So Confused, Are you sure you're in love with your boyfriend? Sweetheart you may love your boyfriend but you're most definitely not in love with him anymore! When you're in love with your partner every other man is invisible. You need to make a decision babe. Who do you really care about? Are you just with your man because he's convenient and you guys have been together for a minute? Do you really love this other guy? Is he worth your current relationship? Either way you need to let one of them go because you're leading them on. Somebody will get hurt in this equation. Let's pray that it's not you. On another note never leave someone you love, for someone you like. With that being said good luck boo. !

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Location: Florence, SC Likes: Spending time with my children and family and friends, modeling and networking. Dislikes: Negative People and Haters Goals: To become the first plus size video vixen. I want to become a plus size model as well as break into acting to prove that size does not matter when you have God given talent, faith and drive. Twitter: @aquafina843 Booking: Contact my manager Chevey @askchevey@live.com oraquajezellexxx@gmail.com.

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