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dim room lit only by sunlight, Brittney Mallory sits alone working at her desk on Sunday morning. Tired from the previous night's celebration - Mallory just turned 21 - she chooses to keep the lights off. As rapper T.1.'s "Whatever You Like" plays softly in the background, Mallory taps away at her computer. Suddenly she speaks, and a burst of energy fills the quiet room.
" Honey B buzzzzzzin' all over your radio.
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Here's Ludacris and Chris Brown. They know what them girls like," Mallory says. Mallory, better known to the Richmond community as Honey B, is one of the youngest on-air personalities at iPower 92.1. Always interested in the entertainment industry, Mallory wasn't always sure of how to enter the business. "You always listen to the radio, but you don't ever think that could be you actually talking. I would have never thought that at such a young age I wou ld be the one talking on the radio." According to her mother Cindy Mallory, even as a child Brittney loved to be the center of
attention. "She wanted to be in everything. Something came along; Brittney wanted to be in it." Brittney Mallory entered the enterta inment industry by acting in school plays and doing an Arby's commercial. During her freshman year at Norfolk State University, Mal lory was told she didn't have what it takes to work at t he school radio station. Determined not to give up, Ma llory began working for the school TV station taping artists live at the radio station. Under the pretense of catering, Mallory attended an iPower 92.1 event and used the opportunity to break into the industry.
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