What do you call a man who has smooth brown skin, stands about 6'2” tall, with an intoxicating speaking voice, but can rap his ass off? We call him: Filthy Rich. We had the opportunity to catch up with the talented rapper who, by the way, is also a DJ; at Future Images Model Call.

Like most artists you meet in Atlanta Filthy Rich actually hails from Wilingborough, NJ. To the average southern, that means his back in the day stomping grounds was Philly and south Jersey, i.e., Camden & Trenton. He is a suburbanite. Most suburbs are offspring of the hood. They house the same junkies and street thugs that inner city has because they have migrated to the suburbs. Here's what Rich had to share with Urban Iconz. - read on -

UI: We're here with J-Trx; R&B artist of Rise 'N Grind Records. Hey J-Trx! How are you doing today?

JTX: What it do, baby! You gotta know what it is man.

UI: J-Trx, what kind of artist are you? An R&B artist? Hip hop artist? What do you feel you classify as?

JTX: I feel, I classify myself as a Popular artist. Not Pop, not R&B, not Hip Hop, not Rap or Rock, but Popular. Really, going back to what my name represents, I feel like I touch every style of music, every genre of music, every crowd, every person that has a certain emotion or feeling of what they wanna hear out of a song or out of a record, whether it be as an artist or as a producer. So I would consider myself a Popular artist in whatever genre of music that you feel that you take from whatever I'm making. - read on -

Ghost Riders Entertainment started off as a management company that developed into a marketing company. Before I knew it I started doing a lot of consulting. I'm good at looking at something and figuring out how to make it real to everybody else. Such as the Shaker situation; when I got there they just really didn't know what to do with the place. So I incorporated the Friday part now I'm working on the Tuesday Open Mic I'm good at do things like that. Photo shoots I can run them. I can hear music and know how you should pushing it. As London of Purple Ribbon; tells me I'm a strong creative mind and I'm a calculator, because I calculate everything. In addition to Ghost Riders, Greg took me in and I have Vice Presidency of his company, which give me more power in the industry. - read on -

Judge: Right now I have Dirt Law Radio; Dirt Law Radio is a spin off of my popular Dirt La mix cd series. It's been 14 volumes of that in addition to that the special edition Dirt Laws. The Mix Show spun off from that, currently it's airing on four stations in Macon, GA, Colombia, SC, Montgomery, Al, also on my internet site and a station in London just pick it up, starting this week. That's the mix and it's heading towards syndication.

Judge: Lol, That's a question I always pause at because I've been in the game for a long time. I started djing early in about 88. Started radio in 90, doing the over night shift at a college station. Then I move from there to regular shift then ended up being the general manger of that station. That's when I started doing programming before that, I did the programming of a hip hop show, and the programming of the whole station all different kinds of formats. Went from there to commercial station WIKS FM, KISS 102 in North Carolina where I was living at, at the time. I've been in and out of radio since about '90.- read on -

Every good company needs a great leader. Skinnymen Productions is a multi-media edutainment company founded in 1997 by Hip Hop mogul Hotep a.ka. Hustle Simmons. Hotep is an educator, visionary, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, therefore, an Urban Icon.

How many people do you know that can “do it all” in the entertainment industry? When I first met Hotep he was about to release his first movie, “Independent Doin’ Major Things” fall 2005. The title alone sums up his life. Like most men he started as a rapper, then a producer and then a manager; till wearing all those hats and a few more, Hotep IS a Hustler.
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Why “Hustle or Kill Ya Self ?” some will ask. Fair question, and here's the fair answer- 'cause that's the ANTHEM!! I truly believe that if you're not on this planet providing products and/or service to your fellow man; if you're one of the many artists, entrepreneurs, or even employees- who walk around feeling like the world owes you something because you're so great- you're dying slow anyway. I said it before, and I'll say it again, the feeling of entitlement is a sure path to homelessness, divorce, and/or all-around unhappiness- I guarantee it. I guarantee that if you don't seek to become valuable in some way to the people you value - you WILL end up a loser in your own personal hell. And hey, if that's the life path you're choosing for yourself, you might as well…
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