Nique Love Rhodes

We have a social entrepreneur of a different kind, she is a rapper!  You will have an opportunity to learn how the social and business sides come together for impact with Nique Love Rhodes! We featured her once before on one of the other episodes, Bags to Butterflies, I think. You will have to check it out. And, since she is an artist herself, we will get to hear TWO songs today, one of which is an exclusive debut before her album even releases!

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Introduction
Welcome to another episode of the Bonfires of Social Enterprise! This is Romy and we have something new for you today! We have a social entrepreneur of a different kind, she is a rapper! You will have an opportunity to learn how the social and business sides come together for impact with Nique Love Rhodes! We featured her once before on one of the other episodes, Bags to Butterflies, I think. You will have to check it out. And, since she is an artist herself, we will get to hear TWO songs today, one of which is an exclusive debut before her album even releases! Too much…
Before we get started, let’s see what Luke has for our fun fuel …

Fun Fuel
Hi, This is Luke Trombley, and I am bringing you the fun fuel for this episode.
Nique has incorporated rap into her career, so we are going to take a closer look into rap and the history of this genre.
Rap has recently taken the world by storm. But where did it come from? In 1973, a man named DJ Kool Herc was sitting his apartment in the Bronx with his sister. The young DJ took two turntables and played the same breakbeat section of the James Brown record “clap your hands.” This method of recording is also used today by many producers. In 1979 rap took off and gave birth to many popular songs, including rappers delight by the sugar hill gang.

Transition
Thank you Luke! Always informative and fun, hence, why we call it the Fun Fuel, ha ha.
Okay, let’s get to it. Here is my interview with the amazing Nique Love Rhodes.

Main Interview
Romy: So, all right, so welcome to the podcast.

Nique: Thank you. I'm very excited.

Romy: Yeah

Nique: It's a big week for me; I get married literally in seven days from now.

Romy: What? I didn't know that.

Nique: Yes. Yes.

Romy: Congratulations.

Nique: So-

Romy: So you'll be married when this comes out.

Nique: Yes, I'm excited.

Romy: Oh my gosh. It's so great Nique. Well, you're our first artist, you're our first, let's say a musician artist-

Nique: Yep.

Romy: ... that is a social entrepreneur so, I've been really excited and waiting to interview you, and I wanted to talk about all the things that you do and why you're, why we consider each other social entrepreneurs. And because I don't think sometimes musicians who are doing inspirational things think of themselves that way.

Nique: That's true. That's true.

Romy: Yeah. So let's talk about what you do first. What's the kind of music for those who have never heard part of your messaging or your, listen to your tracks? Let's give the listeners an overview of the type of music that you produce.

Nique: For sure, so I am, I would consider myself a socially conscious hip hop artist. So all of my music is rooted in a couple of different things. So it's rooted in putting positive vibes out into the world and being a sense of encouragement, of inspiration, of hope to every listener, to anyone who...