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5 Tips For Black Entrepreneurs From Media Mogul Byron Allen
Gorilla Zoe Arrested For
Domestic Battery Following
Altercation With Girlfriend
ISLAMORADA, FL – Gorilla Zoe and his girlfriend’s stay at Florida’s La Siesta Resort & Ma- rina evidently got violent on Sunday (November 3). The 38- year-old rapper was arrested for domestic battery after getting into an altercation with his sig- nificant other.
Hotel security called the Mon- roe County Sheriff’s Office after seeing Zoe, whose real name is Alonzo Mathis, and the woman in a physical dispute on the hotel’s balcony.
Zoe allegedly tried to push his girlfriend into a room and shoved her to the ground when she refused. According to a re- port obtained by TMZ, she man- aged to escape and locked him out on the balcony.
Witnesses claim the former Boyz N Da Hood member re- sponded by punching and kick-
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ing the glass door, which led to his girlfriend letting him back inside. When cops arrived, they saw Zoe pinning the woman down through the hotel window.
Kanye West's ‘Jesus Is
King’ Ties Eminem With
9th Consecutive No. 1
Billboard 200 Debut
Kanye West has earned his ninth consecutive No. 1 Bill- board 200 album with Jesus Is King, tying Eminem’s streak for the longest in the chart’s his- tory.
According to Nielsen Music, the polarizing project has de- buted in the coveted spot with roughly 264,000 equivalent album units for the week ending October 31. While the majority of sales came from streaming, approximately 109,000 of those were pure album sales.
From 2005 to 2019, all of Ye’s albums have entered the chart at No. 1. Kanye’s only project not to land in the top spot was his debut effort, 2004’s The College Dropout, which de- buted at No. 2.
As reported by Billboard, Jesus Is King’s first-week SEA
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units totaled about 151,000, which equates to 196.9 million on-demand audio streams for the 11 tracks on the album, re- sulting in the fifth-largest streaming week for any album in 2019.
This week, media mogul, Byron Allen, broke the inter- net with a viral interview on The Breakfast Club. The CEO of En- tertainment Studios dropped numerous gems for success and told his incredible story of build- ing an empire from his kitchen table.
Allen doesn’t mince words: Black people may have been “blackballed” from the day they were born, but they can still suc- ceed. He tells young entrepre- neurs not to be afraid to speak out and dream big.
“You cannot live in fear. You were born Blackballed. You know you’ve been positioned to fail and you have to recognize where you are.”
These are five other gems from Allen’s interview that re- mind us to pursue our greatness and know our true potential.
1. Open your own doors to your dreams.
So many young entrepreneurs just want to know: “How do I get my foot in the door?” Who can I talk to, where can I work, or whatcanIdotogetmeinthe right rooms. If you follow in the footsteps of Byron Allen, you’ll realize that the door might take an extra push.
2. Money is a mindset.
If getting money is your goal as an entrepreneur, then don’t sweat it. Sweat for it.
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ble will find you. You can put up a radar and say, where’s this? And it will come to you,” says Allen.
“Money is easy. Don’t be afraid of money. Let money love you. Money will always be with you. There’s plenty of money.” Allen learned about money early on out of necessity.
3. Be persistent.
If you want to start a business, get comfortable hearing the word “no.”
In 1993, while trying to get ‘Entertainers with Byron Allen‘ on-air, Allen heard ‘no’ from about 1,300 television sta- tions.
“On average, they all told me no about 50 times,” Allen re- members. “And literally, I sat in my dining room table from sunup to sundown, and I got about 15,000 no’s. And after a year of doing that, I was able to squeeze out about one hundred and fifty yeses. And I got a TV station in every market from New York to Waterloo Island.”
Entertainment Studios, one of the largest independent produc- ers of TV and film, with hit movies like “47 Meters Down,” a shark film that grossed $62.6 million dollars worldwide, and only had a budget of $5.5 million dollars.
“I didn’t have two nickels to rub together, and I decided I’m going forward,” Allen recalls about his early days. “And I went forward. I didn’t know how I was gonna get it done, but Martin Luther King, like he said, that’s faith...”
4. You’re never too young
You should never let your age hold you back, whether you think you’re “too young” or “too old.” Allen got his start at only 14 years old, doing comedy rou- tines in Los Angeles.
“I started when I was a kid because I was watching Redd Foxx and Johnny Carson and all of these comedians, and I said, ‘You know what, I’m going to start doing stand up,'” re- members Allen.
5. Pull up (at least) two chairs when you take a seat at the table.
Everyone deserves equal ac- cess to capital, but so often, black communities and busi- nesses are not given a fair shot. When this happens, we need to turn to each other before anyone else. Understanding that most companies are started with bank loans, Allen approached Presi- dent Barack Obama with one request: audit the banks.
“Making money is easy,” Allen said. “That’s a mindset. You could put up a radar and say, where’s trouble? And trou-
Allen would go on to build
Chris Brown Holds High-End Yard
Sale At His Los Angeles Home
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Brown held a high-end yard sale Wednesday at his Los Angeles home, with hundreds of fans, gawkers and bargain-seekers waiting for hours to try to get a piece of the singer's stuff.
Brown posted a flyer on his Instagram and Twitter accounts Tuesday night that included the address of his suburban mansion in the Tarzana neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley.
"Featuring significantly marked-down high-end items," the flyer said.
Brown captioned the posts "DA CRIB ... 2 day event" and in- cluded a heart emoji.
Brown, often called by his nickname Breezy, burst onto the music scene as a teen in 2005, won a Grammy Award in 2011 for best R&B album and remains a major hitmaker. His newest album "Indigo" went to No. 1 when it was released in June, he has a current top 10 hit, "No
People line up around the block of singer Chris Brown's home in the Tarzana area of Los Angeles Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Brown says he's having a high-end yard sale at his Los Angeles home, and a crowd has been gathering for hours.
Guidance" featuring Drake and he's nominated for a pair of American Music Awards.
But he's also in the past decade been nearly as well known for a stream of highly publicized run- ins with law enforcement, start- ing with a felony assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 to which he pleaded guilty.
The crowd of hundreds began gathering late Tuesday for the yard sale, who were joined
Wednesday by news trucks docu- menting the scene and news heli- copters hovering overhead.
A long line that stretched down the sidewalk for several blocks ended at a driveway filled with large canvas canopies shad- ing rows of clothes.
Some said they had driven from as far away as Arizona and didn't care what they walked away with as long as it belonged toBrown.
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