Fresh Heir Black Business SPOTLIGHT

By Chris Juhn Staff Contributor

“I’m a hip hop artist, teaching artist, and entrepreneur in the Twin Cities,” said Malik Watkins, who is also known as MaLLy on the local music scene. “In addition to the music business, I also have a commercial and residential newspaper delivery service, Fresh Heir Delivery, LLC,” added Watkin.

The company, which has been in business since 2018, came about by chance, said Watkins. “I was reading a local newspaper and a friend of mine noticed the paper was looking for someone to drop off copies of the paper. I called the number, got in touch with the woman who inherited the delivery service from a previous owner.” (Full disclosure, the Minnesota SpokesmanRecorder is one of Fresh Heir’s clients.)

“Initially, it was called Lloyd’s delivery service. But once he [the previous owner] passed,” Watkins continued, “his wife transferred the business on to