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38TH ANNUAL STELLAR AWARDS

The Stellar Gospel Music Awards, Gospel music’s biggest night, is set to return to Las Vegas for its 38th annual celebration. This year, the event is taking its renowned festivities to new heights with the introduction of the ultimate fan experience, the Stellar+ Experience (Stellar+EXP). Co-founders Rhonda Jackson-Sams and Michele Murphy have curated an unparalleled lineup of activities that will showcase the talents, vision, creativity, and innovation of the Gospel music industry.

The Stellar+EXP provides attendees and participants with a completely personalized experience, featuring concerts, discussions, master classes, and much more. As a multi-generational family weekend event, the addition of Stellar+EXP will heighten the festivities and create a unique atmosphere of faith, fellowship, music and fun. Now, fans can enjoy three full days of brand new interactive activities, offering engagement opportunities with their favorite artists, and immersion into the world of Gospel music.

The Stellar+ Experience events will take place at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, from Wednesday, July 12th, to Friday, July 14th, 2023. Limited edition passes are now available for purchase, ranging from $60 to $250, at www.eventbrite.com. For the full event schedule and more information, visit stellarplusexperience.com.

“We’re ecstatic to present Stellar+ Experience week, an incredible extension of the Stellar Gospel Music Awards. Through valuable input from our viewers and industry peers, we’ve curated diverse experiences that embrace community, fashion, comedy, and societal matters,” said Stellar Awards Founder and Executive Producer Don Jackson. This expansion, alongside our historic flagship show, amplifies gospel music’s influence, culminating in two phenomenal pre-show days. Prepare for an inspiring showcase of talent, uniting gospel music with all facets of entertainment in the vibrant city of Las Vegas.”

The new Stellar+EXP includes several exciting events designed to entertain and inspire. Stellar and the Community, an event partnership with the City of Las Vegas focused on the Arts, will promote the importance of art and its impact on communities. The Spotify Artist Experience will bring music industry experts to share valuable information with aspiring artists. Stellar Talks will feature intimate conversations with high-profile couples, fostering discussions on love, life, and faith. Additionally, Fireside Chats with special celebrity guests, Stellar Unplugged, Who’s Got Next? Showcase, and the Celebrity Basketball Game will provide thrilling entertainment throughout the weekend. The Legendary Game Changers Lunch, hosted by celebrity fashion influencers J. Bolin and Joyce Sheffield, will recognize trail blazers in fashion and beauty. Sanctioned events that are familiar to Stellar attendees will still be offered, such as Aaron Arringtonߣs Midnight Gospel Bowling and various Post-Event receptions. Full schedule of sanctioned events is available at www.thestellarawards.com.

Confirmed artists for the Stellar+EXP include Mali Music, Brian Courtney Wilson, Jokia Williams, Jason Clayborn, Titus Showers, Jabari Johnson, Jermaine Dolly, and many more. Each day will bring new announcements, adding to the excitement and anticipation of the event.

Co-Founder Rhonda Jackson-Sams expressed her enthusiasm, stating, “Akin to Gospel music, Stellar & Central City Production’s goal is to ensure that people feel encouraged and elevated while also educating our community. We are so excited to bring this special experience to all the loyal fans who have been coming to see their favorite artists at the Stellars for 38 years, as well as those learning about Stellars for the first time.”

Stay tuned for future announcements and follow @thestellar+exp on Instagram and Facebook for the latest news and updates about the Stellar+EXP week.

The Ned NoMad One Year

The Ned NoMad helmed by Richie Akiva celebrate their one year anniversary. The enchanted evening will kick off with flowing Moet Chandon champagne, stations featuring caviar delights, oysters, lobster rolls, and a bevy of passed hors d’oeuvres showcasing The Ned’s chef favorites. The ceiling will filled with gold-inspired metallic balloons, sheer metallic drapery and disco ball accents while jazz performers welcomed guests. Beautifully costumed dancers featuring champagne dresses, gold glitter ensembles, extravagant headpieces rotated the room and performed on platforms, with look and style inspired by the 1920’s Era Ziegfeld Follies showgirls.

The Ned NoMad hotel and membership club located in the historic NoMad district, have members and invited VIP guests to celebrate in the main level club atrium, The Library, The Dining Room, main bar, and then late night The Magic Room will cap off the evening’s festivities. Engaged attendees will enjoy flowing libations and engaging music to keep partygoers on the dancefloor all evening long for an epic celebration, which will feature some headlining surprise performances by iconic hip hop artists Fabolous and Ja Rule back to back. Earlier in the night, The Ned’s resident comedian, Mike Young, will showcase a guest comedy set highlighted by Fallon show late night regulars Ryan Reiss, Jourdain Fisher and Sam Woolf. After the engaging comedy sets, illusionist Elliot Zimet will wow the crowd with his white dove magic performance, as birds will literally appear in his hands and disappear into handkerchiefs.

VIPS that will be in attendance included Mayor Eric Adams (@nycmayor), Ja Rule (@jarule), Fabolous (@myfabolouslife), Fat Joe (@fatjoe), Davis Burleson (@davisburleson), Julianne Hough (@juleshough), Giancarlo Stanton (NY Yankees) (@giancarlos818), among many others. Various deejays will also perform throughout the evening, with DJ Stacks closing down the after party in the Magic Room.

The Ned NoMad has become the hottest members club and hotel in New York City, centered in the bustling NoMad district, with VIPS regularly rotating through its beautiful façade and bold glass doors. From Rihanna to Gigi Hadid, Drake to Anna Wintour, Dave Chappelle to Robin Thicke, Heidi Klum to Irina Shayk, Vanessa Hudgens to Kristen Stewart, The Ned regularly hosts the hottest performers and established industry notables, offering a welcoming environment and sophisticated haven for its members and hotel guests, with sprawling rooftop views of The Empire State Building.

About The Ned NoMad

The Ned NoMad is a sophisticated hotel and members’ club located in the heart of New York’s historic North Madison district of Manhattan. The Ned NoMad, part of Membership Collective Group, opened its doors in June 2022 in The Johnston Building, named after the original owner, Caroline A. Johnston. Visit their website for membership and hotel information, www.thenednomad.com.

SAM TOMPKINS – TIME WILL FLY

Today, Sam Tompkins has released fan favored track– ‘Time Will Fly.’ Taking to Instagram, Sam shared a preview of the song before it’s release.

Stream “Time Will Fly” HERE

Originally recorded in LA and reworked to accompany Sam’s recent Hammersmith Apollo headline show announcement video; ‘Time Will Fly’ received an outpouring of love from fans and artists alike including Raye, Timbaland, Logic, Ty Dolla Sign, Berwyn, Justin Bieber and many more.

Charting Sam’s rise from a 16 year old busking on the streets of Brighton to cementing his reputation as one of the fastest rising British male artists with his own headline show at the prestigious Hammersmith Apollo; the video has received millions of views and comments and trended on TikTok. Watch the video here

Due to popular demand, Sam released the full version of the track today!

With a huge 2023 planned as his debut album comes quickly into view, Sam Tompkins will head out on a full EU Tour in November. The tour will follow a packed summer of festival appearances, including supporting PINK @ BST Hyde Park on June 24 and an appearance at Boardmasters on August 12, with a stateside tour incoming.

Championing authenticity without taking himself too seriously and using his ever-growing platform to encourage others to do the same, Sam Tompkins is an artist apart – evidenced by his huge following that continues to grow exponentially.

He has quickly become the Brit of choice for huge US stars to collaborate with; Nicki Minaj sampled his song, ‘Whole’ on single ‘Love In The Way’ and JNR Choi’s track, ‘To The Moon’, featured Sam’s vocal and made waves across the music industry, peaking at #1 on Spotify’s Viral Hits chart.

With a literal army of followers moving alongside him, he crashed into the top 10 of the UK album charts with EP ‘who do you pray to’ last year and sells out every venue he puts his name against. Admired by the likes of Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, as well as UK legends Krept & Konan, Chip and Clean Bandit and with artists like Fred Again, Sam Smith, Bebe Rexha and Drake all having co-signed his work, he has been championed by Jack Saunders and Mollie King on Radio 1 to Vogue, Wonderland, The Line of Best Fit, Hypebeast and The Sun and become a mainstay on prestigious Spotify playlists.

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City Girls – PINATA

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Miami’s trailblazing City Girls return with the new single “I Need A Thug.” Listen HERE via Quality Control / Motown. It’s the hip-hop duo’s first release of the year as lead artist — and serves as the introduction to their forthcoming third album. Having recently been named one of the 50 greatest rap groups of all time by Billboard, Yung Miami and JT are primed to make it a too make it the Summer to act bad. Real Bad.

With sex-positive lyrics and bombastic beats, “I Need A Thug” finds City Girls breaking down what they do and don’t want in a man. The song turns the corner on LL Cool J’s “I Need Love,” and features JT and Yung Miami trading verses about their ideal man. “I need a thug with swag, like a rock star,” raps JT. “Bonnie and Clyde s–t, tongue kissin’ in cop cars.”

“I Need A Thug” follows “Act Bad,” a recent collaboration with Diddy and Fabolous. Prior to that, the duo left their mark on 2022 with “Top Notch” featuring Fivio Foreign and “Good Love” — an uptempo linkup with R&B legend Usher. The latter was the latest in a long line of outrageous hits stretching back to 2017’s “Fuck Dat N***a.” Since then, they have landed platinum records with bangers like “Act Up” and the Cardi B-assisted “Twerk.”

With more than 15 billion cumulative streams to their credit and co-signs from hip-hop heavyweights ranging from Missy Elliott, who directed the video for 2021’s “Twerkulator,” to Lil Wayne (a featured artist on 2020’s “Pussy Talk”), City Girls are a legitimate phenomenon, who continue to rewrite the rulebook with every new release.

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NIKI – TAWWS

Directed by Isaac Ravishankara, the new visual for, “The Apartment We Won’t Share;” compliments the nostalgic track that reflects on what could have been with a past relationship. NIKI is contemplative as she strolls through her apartment alone before picking up her guitar to craft the introspective song. Watch the video HERE.

Most recently, NIKI made her NPR Tiny Desk debut where she delivered a carefully crafted & stripped-back performance of a handful of songs from her sophomore album Nicole, before closing with her hit single, “Every Summertime.“ Watch NIKI’s Tiny Desk performance HERE.

Following her sold-out North American headlining tour last fall, NIKI will be bringing her live show to cities across the globe with her 2023 world tour which will span across North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. The run also includes performances at festivals including Head in the Clouds NYC & LA, Lollapalooza, and Outside Lands. The full list of dates is below; please visit  https://nikizefanya.com/ for more information.

Previously, NIKI released the music video for her track, “Backburner”. The video is deliberate and intimate, taking viewers into her world as she watches old footage recorded on her camcorder and re-lives fond memories of a past relationship. Watch the “Backburner” music video HERE.

Last summer, NIKI released her sophomore album Nicole, a project that sees her where she shines, returning to her singer-songwriter roots in a carefully crafted coming-of-age juncture that sees present-day NIKI meet with her teenage self. The album was released to critical acclaim by the likes of NPR, Billboard, Vanity Fair, and V Magazine who hailed Nicole as NIKI’S piece-de-resistance that kicks off an exceptional new chapter for the burgeoning songstress. NIKI also released her live album Live at the Wiltern last month, which features live recordings performed at the final show of NIKI’s sold-out headlining tour at the Los Angeles venue last October.

NIKI has had an impressive career thus far, amassing over 2.1 billion streams worldwide and opening for Taylor Swift on tour when she was just 15. In addition to performing at Coachella and embarking on her headlining North American tour last fall, she has also headlined at 88rising’s Head in the Clouds Festival in Los Angeles, New York, Manila, and Jakarta.

NICOLE WORLD TOURÉ DATES

AUG 01 – AUSTIN TX – MOODY AMPHITHEATER

AUG 03 – NEW YORK NY – PIER 17

AUG 05 – CHICAGO IL – LOLLAPALOOZA

AUG 06 – LOS ANGELES CA – HEAD IN THE CLOUDS

AUG 10 – VANCOUVER BC – PNE AMPHITHEATER

AUG 12 – SAN FRANCISCO CA – OUTSIDE LANDS

SEP 11 – BANGKOK TH – BCC HALL

SEP 13 – MANILA PH – MALL OF ASIA ARENA

SEP 15 – SINGAPORE SG – F1 GRAND PRIX

SEP 18 – BRISBANE AU – FORTITUDE MUSIC HALL

SEP 21 – SYDNEY AU – HORDERN MUSIC HALL

SEP 23 – MELBOURNE AU – FESTIVAL HALL

SEP 26 – JAKARTA ID – JIEXPO HALL D2

OCT 06 – LONDON UK – EVENTIM APOLLO

OCT 08 – PARIS FR – TRIANON

OCT 10 – AMSTERDAM NL – MELKWEG

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ABOUT NIKI

Since breaking through with her 2018 EP Zephyr, NIKI has made a powerful imprint on the pop scene, amassing a devoted global fanbase with over 2.1 billion streams to date and making history as the first Indonesian artist ever to perform at Coachella. But after delivering her critically acclaimed debut album MOONCHILD, the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter felt compelled to completely reexamine her artistic process move that found her revisiting the vast catalog of unfiltered and indie-folk-leaning songs she’d created in high school. As she returned to the stream-of-consciousness approach to songwriting that defined her earliest material, the 23-year-old musician soon arrived at her sophomore album Nicole: a boldly self-possessed body of work written entirely by NIKI, spotlighting her finespun storytelling and warmly expressive vocals more fully than ever before. With the album’s first half comprised of new or never-before-heard songs and its latter half featuring her favorite tracks from her widely beloved YouTube channel, NIKI imbues her songs with the kind of lived-in specificity that immediately reconnects the listener with the rush and devastation of their own first love.

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CARLY RAE JEPSEN – SUMMER SHOWS

Multi-platinum GRAMMY®, Juno and Polaris Prize nominated singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen announces New York City and Los Angeles summer dates. Jepsen will perform at The Rooftop at Pier 17 in New York on August 7 & 8 and The Bellwether in Los Angeles on August 11 & 12. Poolside will support on the New York dates and Harvey Sutherland supports on the Los Angeles dates.

Artist presale is Wednesday, June 7 at 10am local time with general on sale Friday, June 9 at 10am local time. VIP packages will be available. Below is a complete list of New York City and Los Angeles summer dates. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit https://www.carlyraemusic.com/tour-dates/

August 7 New York, NY The Rooftop at Pier 17

August 8 New York, NY The Rooftop at Pier 17

August 11 Los Angeles, CA The Bellwether

August 12 Los Angeles, CA The Bellwether

Jepsen kicked off summer festival season with a performance at Bottlerock Napa Valley last month and will play other festival dates including Glastonbury, Lollapalooza and Osheaga. A tour of Japan is set for June/July as well as three North American dates supporting boygenius. For a complete list of tour dates click HERE.

Carly Rae Jepsen’s knack for distilling a sea of emotions into brilliant songcraft has wooed critics as deeply as fans. The singer, songwriter first burst onto the international scene in 2012 with the sly and sublime “Call Me Maybe.” That blockbuster hit from her breakthrough album, Kiss, topped charts in over 47 countries, sold over 47 million singles, and was certified Diamond in the U.S. It also earned her two GRAMMY® nominations for Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year. Since then, she’s amassed even more acclaim across the music spectrum. On her 2015 synth-pop stunner E*MO*TION, Jepsen collaborated with Sia, Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes, and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij expanding her sonic palette with shimmery synths and euphoric dance beats. The album landed on multiple year-end ‘best of’ lists including Pitchfork, Stereogum, Noisey, NPR and many more, while the beaming single “I Really Like You” went platinum. Her 2019 follow-up, Dedicated, covered even more musical and emotional ground with The Atlantic calling the album “brilliant” with its “godlike bops.” Jepsen returned the following May with a gift for her fans: Dedicated Side B, a buoyant set of dance-floor tunes. Last fall Jepsen emerged from a period of isolation with her latest album The Loneliest Time. Her most introspective body of work to date, The Loneliest Timeexpands on the emotionally potent songwriting and effervescent sound that Jepsen has showcased on past work teaming up with longtime collaborators like Tavish Crowe and Rostam Batmanglij (who helmed production on The Loneliest Time’s acclaimed lead single “Western Wind” which Jepsen debuted at Coachella 2022), as well as producers like Bullion, Captain Cuts, John Hill, Kyle Shearer, and Alex Hope.

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Contact for Carly Rae Jepsen:

Christine Wolff

Interscope Records

Christine.wolff@umusic.com

Top Four Reasons To Use SMM Tools For Promoting The Auto Business

Social media marketing is a powerful and important system for promoting goods and services on the modern market. No wonder knowledgeable businessmen say: “If in the 21st century your business does not have an account on social networks, then it does not exist.” Social networks for business can do many sorts of different functions, but the fact that they are useful is a fact. What to do with the auto sphere? After all, this type of business has special conditions. The cycle of making a purchase decision from the target audience is quite long. Do social networks need to be used for the auto business? We’ll figure it out!

Image

Social networks are primarily about visuals, and high-quality visuals are a great step towards direct sale! This applies to the absolute majority of businesses, including the auto business. If a customer sees a cool result, a desire to buy arises in him. Therefore, the demonstration of machines in a certain concept is an opportunity to create or maintain the image of the company.

You can create an image not only through the demonstration of goods but also services, such as tuning or ppf for car. Each promotion strategy is individual it depends on what makes your business unique, depending on your capabilities and your tasks. Highlight the specific advantages of the promoted service for your audience. So, for example, the obvious advantage of painting a car is the long-term preservation of a presentable appearance, aesthetics, and safety. It is quite easy to highlight the advantages in the car repair business because this is a critically needed service. Literally, every car owner needs constant optimization of his car.

Advertising and special tools

Social networks are a platform for communication, which means that there are a lot of people here, and in one way or another, there are representatives of your target audience. Many social networks provide a wide range of advertising opportunities for business owners. This means that you can not just spontaneously attract users but also interact with specific segments of the target audience. This is a very important plus for those who own a business with a long cycle of making a purchase decision.

Expertise

In social networks, a brand can easily act as an expert in its niche. This is another way to gain the trust of consumers and increase the level of reputation among competitors.

As research in the expert field shows, marketers underestimate the work of creating guides for customers, especially in the B2B segment. Many buyers note the importance and necessity of such articles, also noting the positive impact on the attitude to the brand.

Reputation management

Having your own “voice” is very important for business. Someone has a director or an ambassador, someone has their own media, but it’s still much easier and more effective to represent their business using a social network. Your customers are already talking about you, even if you don’t answer them. Manage your brand reviews, encourage the positive ones and don’t ignore the negative ones before they escalate into a global problem.

Do you feel that you have haters who lie about you? Share your point of view, calmly and professionally. Is someone praising the brand? Don’t forget to say “Thank you”.

This is not all the functionality of social networks as a marketing tool, this world is limitless! Learn it competently, learn from the mistakes of others and grow! We hope we managed to convince you that the automotive business, like any other business, simply needs social networks!

Time Travel: Make a Better Past With a More Positive Future

How’s your memory? It’s probably not as reliable as you believe it to be. That’s not because there’s anything wrong with you but because you’re human, and our memories are fallible. They’re not just unreliable but are also colored by how we feel about both events in the past and events in the present.

That means that if you think of yourself as a generally unlucky person, you probably focus on the times in your past when you were unlucky, and the converse is true as well. The good news is that you can change your actions right now in a way that positively affects your future, and what you’ll usually find is that you’ll start telling yourself a more positive narrative about your past as well. In addition, there’s a chance you wouldn’t have worked so hard for your future if not for those past setbacks.

Stories About Money

Do you tell yourself you’re bad with finances, or unlucky when it comes to money? You can change that by cleaning up your spending habits, making a budget, starting to pay down your debt and finally beginning to invest. This can seem like a lot but take it one step at a time. Many people have been where you are and come out wealthy on the other side. Start by just tracking your spending for a few months. From this, you can make a budget and figure out whether you need to spend less, make more, or both.

You can start small with investing as well, putting away a little bit in a retirement account or opening a brokerage account with a small deposit. Later, though, you should think bigger. Real estate can be a great long-term investment if you do your research, which means finding out more about the neighborhood, future development plans, past growth, as well as the capitalization rate, a common measure of investment potential. You can review a guide about what this is and how you can calculate it to make a smart investment decision.

Stories About Your Career

Do you tell yourself that you’re in the wrong career, that you cannot achieve a positive mindset in this role, and that you aren’t good enough to advance in your career or that you should want a career when all you really want is something that’s not too stressful that lets you pay the bills and pursue your hobbies? For the first dilemma, see a career counselor or do some reading about choosing a career and find something better suited to you. For the second, work on upgrading your skills, and let your supervisors know you’re ready for promotion. Change companies if you must. For the third, be at peace with what you want. You don’t have to pursue a high-powered career to live a worthwhile life.

Stories About Relationships

Everyone struggles with at least one relationship in their life whether it’s with a friend, a family member or someone they’re romantically involved with. But if you look over your relationships and see a pattern in which you’re the common denominator, it might be time to make a change. This won’t happen overnight or without setbacks, but it can be done. A counselor or even just talking with a friend or writing in a journal can sometimes help you get to the root of what is causing this.

RED BULL 1520

This month, Red Bull officially debuted Red Bull 1520, a new YouTube channel dedicated to hip-hop programming from the world of Red Bull, featuring beats, bars, and live performances from rap’s next movement. Ensuring fans never miss a beat, Red Bull 1520 will showcase exclusive content from Red Bull’s various music events across the U.S. as well as original series featuring content you won’t find anywhere else.

Informed by the artists and movements born from the last 50 years of hip-hop but focused on the future of the genre, Red Bull 1520 pays homage to the culture through talent-driven and engaging programming, starting with the debut of two new monthly hip-hop music series: Red Bull Spiral and Red Bull Rap IQ.

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It concludes with the standout song “Legend,” and its chorus says it all: “Where we stand, the test of time/If I die, I’m gonna die a legend.” By creating a portrait of the place that raised him so impeccably, Nana has carved out a permanent space for himself in the landscape.

Based on the popular Japanese format, Red Bull Rasen, Red Bull Spiral invites 3-4 MCs to Red Bull’s LA recording studio to collaborate on a one-of-a-kind cypher. Filmed in one continuous take, Red Bull Spiral challenges even the most seasoned artists to stay cool under pressure and deliver perfect bars as the camera spins through the studio, capturing every movement. Watch LA crew Coast Contra kick off the series with their debut episode here, and look out for upcoming drops featuring KenThe Man, Kalan.FrFr, Baby Tate, LaRussell, Buddy, Nana, and more.

“We definitely had to take our time and approach this like a show,” says Coast Contra’s Ras Austin. “It’s a challenge but we wanted to make it as fun of an experience for the viewers as we could. When Taj gets in a certain pocket and everybody starts a rotation in sync with his flow. Super dope moment!”

Also launching on Red Bull 1520 is Red Bull Rap IQ, a game show that invites artists and tastemakers to compete to see who’s the ultimate rap genius through multiple rounds of challenges and trivia. Hosted by comedian, artist and creator Patrick Cloud, Red Bull Rap IQ puts guests to the test on everything from artist collaborations and song lyrics to hip-hop long arithmetic. Tune-in here to watch the debut episode featuring Westside Boogie, GRIP, Brittany Sky and Dee Moe. Stay tuned for new episodes of Red Bull Rap IQ featuring D Smoke, Buddy, P-Lo and other special guests.

“This isn’t your regular game show,” says host Patrick Cloud. “I aim to get the rappers to show their audience a side of them they barely get to see. And if they show off their hip-hop smarts along the way then even better!”

New episodes of Red Bull Spiral and Red Bull Rap IQ launch monthly. Subscribe to Red Bull 1520 and also get access to exclusive music content, behind-the-scenes clips, and exclusive artist features you won’t want to miss.

Yourself. Held in Los Angeles, it sold out entirely on the strength of his budding fanbase, dedicated friends, and unwavering determination.

The concept behind Save Yourself came on the day Mac Miller died. “Mac was one of my favorite artists of this generation, and to see him go the way he did, I was like ‘I need a title that speaks to this generation,’” Nana recalls. “Especially having seen a lot of the rappers and the kids go in the way he did. I was like, ‘Yo, we have to save ourselves.’” It was a reflective, deeply personal artwork that laid the foundation for where he wants to grow.

In April, Nana released From the District to the World, a frequently hard-nosed project that still makes room for moments of levity and grace. Across eight tracks, he makes the most of the classic LA sound (“Bet It Back”) and dabbles in the jazz-inflected style of hip-hop that has become especially dominant in the last decade (“DontPlayDat,” featuring Buddy). On the latter track, Nana creates a series of character sketches and gives some gentle advice, like “If you broke, that’s fine too, just say that.” His years spent observing the people around him have paid off beautifully with this cohesive project that pulls no punches.

Whereas Save Yourself was introspective, From the District to the World is about everything beyond the four walls of your skull. The characters in these songs are the people Nana would see at the mall, at school, or out on the street. There may only be eight songs here, but there are eight million stories in a place like Crenshaw, and the EP touches nearly as many souls.

Ways to Foster a More Sustainable Logistics Business

Some lines of business are less eco-friendly than others, but that doesn’t mean those working in them are less responsible. It’s just that they have more work to do to protect the environment. If you own a logistics business and you’re looking to implement more sustainable transport practices, the following are things that you should consider.

Be a Trucking Pioneer: Go Electric Right Now

If you have never really thought about using electric trucks rather than dirty, fume-belching diesel beasts, it is time to start looking at the idea and seeing the positive side. Many people have never seen an electric truck. Maybe you haven’t, either, but you know they exist. You’ve heard them being discussed by your peers, others in your position. Maybe what you’ve heard is that it may be okay in the future, but for now they’re going to (reluctantly) carry on with what they’re used to.

You Know Deep Down That’s Not How Leaders Think

Once upon a time there were people opting to stay with horse-drawn wagons because this internal combustion engine idea was untested and too much of a gamble, or people were going to keep using trains, despite the limitations that put-on deliveries. Then one forward thinking person took the big step, and soon everyone was doing it. Taking calculated risks is one of the top tips for leaders who want to innovate and move the needle. How about being that pioneer at this crucial stage in history, when you know sustainability is essential?

Use Smaller Vehicles

Do you really need those super-heavyweight monsters or are they relics of a less enlightened past that you keep in case you need to fill them again one day? If that is the case, why not bite the 21st century bullet and trade them in for smaller, more efficient models? You’ll save on fuel, so it’s good for you as well as the planet. If the smaller ones can be electric, even better.

Make Your Existing Smaller Vehicles a Part of Your Image

If your fleet is not dominated by the giant apes of the vehicle world, the transition is even easier, and therefore more pressing. Replace your cars and vans with the top EVs and watch your fuel bills plummet, while your reputation skyrockets as the person who made a difference.

Use a Fleet Management System

Efficiency is one of the great goals of business, and with fleet management technology, even if your fleet still uses fossil fuels and pumps out harmful emissions, you can at least keep the vehicles off the road as much as possible. That can be achieved by simple measures such as using optimum routes, and you may have established these, but are your staff sticking to them? A fleet management system can tell you where all your vehicles are always, so you can work with your drivers to make sure these routes really are the best ones.

Combine Loads

Just like people sharing cars to get to work or for the school run, commercial vehicles can also be used for several customers. Obviously, the courier companies do this all the time because they’ve got loads of single items, but if you’ve only got half a truckload for one customer, think about filling the truck with another half or two quarters for other customers. This may complicate matters as regards routes and timings, but it’s worth looking at seriously. The world is changing, and sometimes, we must change our way of thinking to adapt to it.