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outchea with @prime_obsession #blacknationmag #poplitical #mar/apr_15_issue2

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For our event features in the magazine. We cover the Umswenko Pop Up Market that went down last week at Wits O-Week. #BlacknationTV #BlacknationPhotography #BlacknationMAG #BlacknationFashion . We are #POPLITICAL

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#mankind #mankindsa #blacknationtv #blacknationmag #myswagg

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Mankind drops a hot 16 Bars in High Position. The track features Guyos Leven, one of the dopest vocalists that South Africa will discover soon. 

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#TBF STR.CRD 13 // WE'RE STREET CULTURE (Shot & Edited By BlacknationTV)

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JAMAL EDWARDS’ TIPS ON BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL DIGITAL ENTREPRENEUR

From a teenager on a council estate in west London to the CEO of a multi-media company, Jamal Edwards is reportedly worth £8m at the age of just 23. The founder of SB.TV blogs for CONNECT

 ZA and shares his ambitions, thoughts on digital content and provides advice to upcoming creative digital entrepreneurs. 

One of the things that propelled SB.TV forward above the rest was when I started filming singers. I shot a video with Ed Sheeran that was outside the grime and rap zone and everyone was like ‘what?’ And I was thinking is this the right thing to do? Will my audience like it?

I’ve taken a lot of risks, and it’s one of the other things that pushed SB.TV above the rest.

Be across all social media platforms

Putting SB.TV on all the SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

, like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest helped. Some people may only follow me on Facebook and not on Twitter or follow me on Youtube and not Facebook or the other way around. In the creative media business, you need to be across all SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

 and use a different tone of language for each platform. With Twitter I try to be cheeky but not rude, while Facebook is quite informative because you can write longer statuses. I try to utilise the different types of social media platforms as much as I can. When I first started to Tweet, I Tweeted from SB.TV online but I reached a point where I needed to divide the two into SB.TV Online and Jamal Edwards and then they started becoming powerful entities in themselves.

Good content

What makes good content is content that tells a story. What grabs peoples’ attention is something that they haven’t seen before. I try to film things that people don’t know about or if they do know about it; I try to film it in a different way. That’s what will keep you relevant with your audience. You might have an artist that goes around doing videos for everyone, but you’ve got to think how can you make the video different and not the same as the five other videos already online. I always have the challenge to think how can I make it different so that people will watch my video. So that it’s the one that they come back and watch all the time. That’s how I make my content stand out.

I monetise my content through YouTube. It’s a great monetisation tool. If you get a certain amount of views, you get a cut from the advertising revenue. That’s one of the main ways.

Advice for digital media entrepreneurs

Research things: Make sure you know what you’re making videos about. So research the artists you’re filming, make sure you know about them.

Taking risks is another piece of advice I’d give.

Keep on banging at doors: It might be difficult to get the funding or support that you need, but keep thinking of ideas and writing them down so that you have them when it does come. And I do believe it will happen. You’ll be more prepared that way. Also, go to events and network, MEET PEOPLE

 and learn. Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

And don’t be scared to be different. There’s going to be a load of people out there that are doing the same thing as you. You need to figure out how to be different from everyone else and find your niche. And once you find your niche, be consistent with it.

 Social Media

I have over 152,000 followers on Twitter and SB.TV Online has over 150k as well. One thing I try to do is marry the two together because what I’ve realised is that some people follow SB.TV but not me and others follow me and not SB.TV. Those two avenues are a good way to promote and compliment what I’m doing.

Social media allows you to get in touch with people. I’ve had people in South Africa get in touch with me, British Council Connect ZA and Livity SA saying ‘Lewis and Theo are in good hands’ or ‘Lewis and Theo are a great team.’  Social Media has allowed that to happen and has allowed me to keep updated, as I’ve been following them and what they’re doing via Instagram. Social media allows the barriers to communication to be broken down so that I can be talking to people all over the world. I’m excited to be a part of it.

‘Youth Lifestyle Broadcaster’

When I first started SB.TV, it was about grime and rap, and then I MOVED

 onto pop and R&B. I slowly built my audience by changing gradually. I think if I had started off doing pop and R&B, my audience would not have gotten it. Grime, rap and hip-hop are also what I knew. Now I can do it because I’ve built my core audience. For SB.TV to grow it needed to branch out and feature big people like Kelly Rowland, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and even Davido and a few other Afrobeat artists.

For me to broaden SB.TV is the next step. Move outside music into fashion, sport, business, games and gadgets. In the next five to 10 years, I want to build that in the same way I’ve done in music. I want to find the next fashion people, the next entrepreneurs, the next GAME

 designers, find the next footballers, tennis players. That’s what I mean by building SB.TV into a ‘youth lifestyle broadcaster’. I want to be the driving force behind that. I see myself growing at the same rate that SB.TV is growing and staying as relevant as possible.

Steadily Building The Vision - SB.TV, that’s the acronym that I use. That’s where I see it going.

- Jamal Edwards

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blacknationtv presents: The Castle Lite Concert #ItsAThrowBack

On Saturday the 7 June 2014, Castle Lite hosted the next generation in concert experiences – the Extra Cold Music Concert at SuperSport Park in Centurion. Exclusively produced by Grammy Award WINNING music legend Timbaland, this was no doubt prove to be a world class musical event.

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Qhawekazi believes that to be an artist is to touch lives, to evoke potential in people’s hearts and lives and to provide an escape. This is a belief that never fails to develop and reinforce itself in Qhawekazi’ s heart, so much so that it has influenced her decision to obtain a degree in drama and film and give back a product of substance of value. Qhawekazi believes in an authentically and holistically African way of life. She believes that it is the root of all Art forms and that it sits at the basis of all she creates but believes in creating work that honours and does justice to a genuine way of life.

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I represent #TheBlacknationCollective

Born Tswelepele Tsotetsi in Emalahleni, formerly known as Witbank…I am dropping my first ever project as ManKind this June. I grew up in Standerton, a small town in Mpumalanga where I began smashing drums every Sunday at a local church, this was around the age of 13. While showcasing my new found talent in artistry, I would also recite poetry in front of various audiences. Now at 23, I’ve only managed to work with my older brother to get through my first year of study in Journalism.  And as for MUSIC…it’s always been a big and vital part of my township, sometimes poverty stricken life. Another aspect to it is that my dad was a religious follower of the Jazz sound and this led to a great influence on my music taste. I am certain about God’s existence, and as Mankind I preach greatness and share on what I’ve seen, heard and believe to be. The content in my upcoming EP (ExtendedPlay) displays a fountain of wisdom and memories of my life experiences as well as knowledge. The EP will feature tracks like Tony Yengeni; an ear enticement covering real social issues within the global society and these are real matters that people normally turn a blind eye to, and the society does this through kindness or as an act of humanity. Thus far, I am only concerned about making real and positive changes with my music, affect people in some way and this stems from the irresponsible role that we’ve assumed as messengers.  My last words, LET’S FUCK SHIT UP!!!

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Many people in this country have paid the price before me and many will pay the price after me. SPEECH IN MITIGATION OF SENTENCE AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF INCITING WORKERS TO STRIKE AND LEAVING THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY, OLD SYNAGOGUE, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, NOVEMBER 1962

 copyright © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation orFrom Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations