A Long Weekend for Some

With the lovely long weekend here in the UK and Memorial Weekend in America, most people were off in the Hamptons putting their feet up or dashing inside from the British rain and mostly not even thinking about work....

Except for me and the UHHS team...with intricate schedules to arrange for over 50 artists and speakers throughout the summit events which begin July 2nd, we all put in some tireless and enjoyable hours today while we had quiet time. Right now with all the media coverage, we are on track to reach no less than approx 8 million people worldwide, now that's pretty amazing for something that no-one had heard of a month ago, don't you think??

I did have a little chance to enjoy a chick-flick, BBQ, Birthday and social gathering this weekend and I learnt that one TV presenter's idea of a good birthday is having all his guests sit in his front room with a bit of BBQ-ed chicken in one hand watching Big Brother.....nooooo!!! Apparently he makes up for his lack of hosting skills by way of his remarkable rapping skills, interesting....

Thanks has to go to my girl Miss Info at Hot97 in New York for the fabulous shout out on her Sat morning show, she's truly repping the UHHS for us out there!

Follow Me

So my first post below gives you a little idea about me, I can be completely non-conventional which is probably why after scoring the world's luckiest foot in the door in New York and having wanted to move out their for so many years, I found myself moving back to London at Christmas after less than a year to pursue what it really was that I wanted to do.

Gradually you'll get familiar with my lifestyle and daily grind, as I bring you into my funny little world. What I do is probably the one thing I couldn't define to you in the space of a sentence but it has alot to with business development and brand management for anyone from corporate brands, artists, celebrities and smaller or new companies and projects within the very varied and fascinating entertainment industry throughout the world.

Vague? Perhaps, but you'll see why it's so ambigious the further you follow me.

Currently my clients and projects involve one dashing and dapper Mr. Fonzworth Bentley, one huge future Diddy-meets-Pharrell character by the name of Ryan Leslie and not forgetting my every heart beat at the moment...the UK Hip Hop Summit (UHHS), which you'll see throughout the world on July 16.

Yes I'm British and my clients are mostly American, so I'm hoping that the UHHS will make a huge difference to the hip hop scene here, the aim being to empower both the youth worldwide and the artists within the UK by bringing global support and coverage. We even have support from the original members of the Furious 5, Ice-T, Afrika Bambaataa and every single UK artist that we've managed to call so far.


Among other things, all of this keeps a smile on my face, a quick step to my walk and a heart to my hustle.

-- Hustle Mama

Hip Hop & I Grew Up

I wasn’t a brainiac, I never lived in a bad neighbourhood (even my short Brooklyn stay was nice), I wasn’t sporty, I was a tomboy, I had bad hair and embarrassing teeth, I listened to hip hop from America and rode horses. That pretty much sums me up as the universal no-fit kid.

I went to a girl’s school where we tied our hair back, walked in single file down the halls, polished our shoes and our P’s and Q’s and knowing boys, even at 15 was taboo. If the other kids thought you had money, it didn’t matter they usually had more. If they thought you didn’t, low and behold the bullies, they got me good.

Then came Watford, where all the elegantly polished vocabulary in the world wouldn’t help you. They took it upon themselves at college to ask me almost daily if ‘Jeeves The Butler’ did it, as if I had a personal man servant that did everything, drove me home and bowed when I walked past. My lovely words fell to the floor, I was the no-fit girl again and my accent got mangled. These days people don’t know where I came from but they sense someone taught me to be very polite and lady like, but they’re not quite sure when I’m holding my ground fiercely with one more American millionaire mogul, but they still manage to take one sniff while I’m sitting trying not to hold my breath in a room full of American rappers who smoke weed and sense I’ve never lived a day in a council estate.

Now, approaching my first quarter century it doesn’t matter where I’m from, or that what social class they position me in, it's what I've been through that moulds me, makes me strong and I'm proud of who I've become and what I do. My experiences have led me to some truly amazing people and my friends are the best bunch you'll ever have the pleasure to meet.

People seem to be at ease and even like the fact that I can float from hip hop to the corporate board room in the same day in a dress fit for Park Avenue. I no longer feel like a two piece Rocawear outfit will make me more comfortable to those in hip hop, they take me as I am, working-middle class, determined and open minded.

Hip hop has grown, haven’t we? I know within I’m the same girl that used to play Tupac in my Walkman on the bus to college full blast. My threads now just reflect who I have grown into, a young entertainment industry business woman who can rock the world in 4 inches and pearls.