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The new Digital Media phenom, Jazzie Belle, knew at an early age that her life would somehow revolve around music and entertainment. Now how she would go about that would change a few times over the years. She grew up in a house that was dominated by masculine energy and during an era of hip-hop where women were telling the industry to After auditioning to be the replacement host on BET’s 106 and Park (after the years of AJ and Free), going into radio, and doing everything she could in the industry, Jazzie would still feel like she wasn’t gaining the ground she wanted. What do you do when everything that you try to do fails? It’s not that you are not able to accomplish anything, but when you approach specific goals in life, you find that the more you push for this “dream” the more you hear “no” or nothing at all. In the movie Hustle & Flow, there’s one line that has always stuck out to me. DJ Qualls’s character (Shelby) and Terrance Howard’s character (DJay) were on the back porch talking about how hip-hop is just an evolution from the blues. Qualls told Howard, “You’ve got to get what you got to say out because you got to. Every man, you know what I’m saying? Every man has the right, the goddamn right ...to contribute a verse.” While this may seem far-fetched, it’s true. Some verses correlate with our lives and songs that we feel were written directly to us. That’s what makes Jazzie Belle’s book “48 Verses of Power”, that much more profound. These are 48 Verses that spoke to her life directly. Jazzie started “Inside Hollywood” in the summer of 2020 as a means to encourage people to reach for their goals while taking the audience behind the curtain with some of Hollywood’s elite to converse about their rags to riches stories. Jazzie hopes to send a powerful message that the road to realizing your dreams comes with its adversity that you can push through! I wanted to find out where that hustle from Jazzie started and how growing up as a child in Detroit helped influence her drive as an adult. There’s always a backstory. Today, we are sharing the Jazzie’s. SUAVV: Okay. Did you, did you ever want to be a hip-hop artist? Like, was that ever in your mindset? Jazzie Belle: It was. Early on while I was in Detroit, where I grew up, my love for hip hop came from watching the women do their thing. SUAVV
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