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By the time the cancer showed up, Lonnie Battle had traveled around the country with his turntables and heard thousands of fans cheer for DJ Lonnie B. Once, he performed onstage in New York alongside Aaliyah. By any measure, he’d become a success. Yet here he was, in 2013, ...

Check me out on ‪#‎CoffeeWithStrangers‬. I fell in love with this concept back when Kelli & Matt started it. It was an honor to be interviewed for the final episode of season 2. Check It Out. ‪

I remember around early 2013, sitting in Skillz’s car as he was telling me about an album he was working on with the legendary producer Bink. After a quick run down of his plan, he started playing tracks that he wanted to use for his project. All of them were fire but ...

40 to 40 #Day2 “Alex Erby” A teenager breaks into the JL Francis recreation center and steals a basketball and a boombox with 2 of his friends. This man right here [Alex Erby] got word on who the teenager was and went to his house to question him. The teenager was ...

40 to 40 #Day1 Today I’m 40 days away from my 40th birthday. Because I followed my dream as a kid and never gave up, I still feel like I felt at the age of 21. My life is far from perfect but I’ve never been happier. 40 is that age when you’re supposed to start using your ...

  I never wanted to tell my youngest daughters about my Cancer situation unless I absolutely had to. Well, Aliyah was on her moms phone looking at Instagram and she saw some of my posts. She asked, “Does Daddy have Cancer.”… “Why didn’t ...

Before writing hits for Luther Vandross, Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Mario, Jamie Foxx, Trey Songz and more, Harold Lilly was just another brother with a dream. #DreamsDoComeTrue