Nasik Rav is a serial entrepreneur, community developer, political candidate, and educator. Born Prince Rav Yisrael but popularly known by his pseudonym, Nasik Rav is a community and thought leader who hails originally from New York City. He moved to a city in Hancock County, Georgia where he contested for the city council in 2019. Nasik lost his bid by a small margin even though he only campaigned for two months.

Despite his political loss, Nasik remains committed to his goal of helping the community, and to date, he has continued to help by developing a residential community of over 200 acres in rural Georgia. He also founded a non-profit organization to help address food shortages and provide individuals and businesses with several economic opportunities. The success of this non-profit prompted Nasik to create an online entrepreneurship training to help aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners. Nasik helps business owners improve their businesses to gain more customers and make more profit by teaching and guiding them with proper brand management and its application. He also helps business owners acquire business funding and loans by helping entrepreneurs build their business credit score.

Also, Nasik understands that every business owner has a story to tell and he wants to help them tell it by using digital marketing, creative positioning, and media interaction to help every business reach their audience and improve their business recognition. To achieve this, Nasik employs a team of creatives that can provide businesses with graphic designs that can be used for storytelling. And apart from telling their story, Nasik also points out that graphic design can be used to help create an innovative web design to present and project their brands attractively and also create a successful event strategy whenever they need one.

Away from helping people and communities grow, Nasik recently started a new venture as a movie producer. His first production features stars such as Brandon T. Jackson, Clifton Powell, Juhahn Jones, and Erica Pinkett. The story revolves around a drug dealer who navigates through the struggles of life and his pursuit of a music career. Nasik was inspired to produce the movie thanks to his experiences while growing up in Brooklyn, on the Eastern side of New York, where he lived through the height of the epidemic and made his way out to become successful. Nasik believes this film is the story man can relate to.

With his growing entertainment career, Nasik is diversifying into music and is set to drop a new single titled, “Show Me That It’s Real” featuring the vocalist Shem Levi, and rappers like Jadakiss, MC King Los, and battle rap legend Murda Mook. The song is about love and loyalty with grit, metaphors, and energy that you have come to expect from these three world-class rappers. This unlikely pairing of talents was the vision of Nasik Rav.

On this track, Nasik made it clear that he didn’t come to play because the song is about love and loyalty. And the artistic delivery of melody, grit, and energy is what to expect when three world-class rappers come together to support an amazing vocal and chorus.

On how the song came about, Nasik Rav said his goal was not to make a good song, but to make a timeless song and after recording the chorus with an old-time partner, Shem Levi, he knew instantly that the song needed Jadakiss input. However, the addition of King Los and Murda Mook sounded right and, “The outcome is a classic hip-hop/R&B song that can be appreciated by everyone from street dudes, to your aunt at the barbecue, and even someone getting dressed before a board meeting.” He concludes.

The single “Show Me That It’s Real” is tentatively set to drop at the end of February and will be available on all streaming platforms.

To know more about Nasik’s ventures, you may visit his website, or follow him on his Instagram account.

Music has always had a family connection for Ngqabutho Mpofu, and now he hopes to welcome new artists into his mentor program and give them the guidance he wished he’d had starting out in the industry.

As a young boy growing up in Zimbabwe, Ngqabutho – better known as Kyū, The Producer – was often told by family and friends that he was an image of his grandfather, whose incredible vocal ability had been so entertaining that he was able to go places people of colour were usually banned because of racial prejudice.

His parents supported his passion for music, recording a television program featuring Michael Jackson that Kyū would later memorise and perform each morning. 

Kyū moved to London with his family in 2001. He spent time at a Summer School for gifted kids where he built upon his inherent musical talents for singing and dancing and learned to play the piano.

Upon earning a University degree in Music Technology, the musician began collaborating with a group of friends he affectionately referred to as a brotherhood. Together they would write, produce and perform, building upon their skills and giving each other a safe space to try new things.

It led them to collaborate with writers and producers in America, including Kyle Christopher and Chrishan, and later, the opportunity to pitch their demos to artists such as Chris Brown and Mario.

“As a young aspiring artist and producer, I got to experience a lot of what the music industry had to offer,” Kyū said

“It was always a passion of mine from dancing to a Michael Jackson tape my parents recorded for me on a VHS tape as a child to winning talent shows, dance competitions and eventually opening for some of the UK’s biggest stars like Tinie Tempah, N-Dubz and Kid British.”

The collaborative environment is one the Artist Development coach wants to replicate with his students.

Using his almost two decades of knowledge of the music industry, Kyū wants to work with aspirational Pop and Modern RnB artists to help them on their journey to finding their sound. Building and cultivating a fanbase and creating a sustainable income.

Kyū began his company, LNTC Group, after noticing how difficult the industry was to navigate when first starting out. The business name is an acronym for “Life Narrated Through Creativity”, a mantra he wants others to repeat so they know they can build a life by chasing their dreams to create music.

His vision is to provide music production and artist development to new musicians and offer them, someone, to sound-off their issues and gain advice.

“I was frustrated with the music industry and seeing talented artists giving up because they didn’t have the tools to navigate the space, so I created LNTC Group to help aspiring artists,” Kyū said.

“I wanted to develop artists to understand how to leverage their independence through releasing radio-ready hit songs, building a fanbase and becoming an affluent artist, knowledgeable enough to navigate building a career with or without a record label.”

He also wants to provide the support he wished he had had in the early days, such as being there at shows and rehearsals and assisting with PR campaigns and photoshoots.

Kyu’s management style has created success for many aspiring musicians. He has achieved number 1’s and top 10 singles in some independent charts. Some artists have also managed to earn 1 million streams on the streaming platform Spotify.

“The wealth of knowledge gained over the years was working and worth passing on so the artists I worked with so didn’t have to “learn the hard way,” he said.

In 2019, Kyū was recognised as one of the UK’s best producers, coming runner up for the British Songwriter and Producer of the year. He had previously received “The Princes Trust Young Person’s Award, ” which gave him the capital to start his company in June 2014.

Growing up in Mount Dora, Florida, Herbert Welch always knew music was his passion, right from when he started singing as a child in the church. He had a passion he held through the years, even before he started singing in local restaurants, theatres, and venues. As a child, all he wanted to do was pursue that passion. The foundation of his artistry is deeply rooted in his ability to capture people’s attention anywhere he performed. His passion has seen him travel the world as a teenager doing background work (vocals) for different companies, established artists, and studios around the world.

As a teenager, music was a stopgap for Herbert, more like a coping mechanism. As he started making music, he had a lot of feelings bottled up inside of him, and instead of wallowing in self-pity, he would listen to his beats and lose all control momentarily. Now, Herbert believes it’s time to step out and show the world that it doesn’t matter who you are, where you are coming from, and what you have done; what matters is the goal you have to pursue.

He describes John Legend, Future, TI, and Rod Wave as some of his musical influences. According to him, these artists gave him the strength to begin writing his songs. He expresses himself and his feelings better using his lyrics, words, and phrases that perfectly describe what he is going through. He believes he is doing a great job because he is not only expressing himself the way he wants to, but the world is also hearing what they deserve to hear.

Herbert described himself as different from his competition because in everything he does, he is always looking to make a statement. He also believes his desire to make a difference and change the world, especially for kids who are currently in the same situations as he was growing up, sets him apart from his peers. All he does is make music with lyrical content and a message with which people can relate. He creates music that anyone from the age of 14 can listen to and enjoy, and his desire to see upcoming artists shine or support them and their brand is another thing that sets Herbert apart. On his motivation, he said, “You can do anything you put your mind to, You just have to rise above, believe in yourself and soar.”

Herbert admits that he got to where he is right now thanks to the support he received. Now it is the time for him to be there for someone else. Being a motivational speaker is also at the top of his list of plans for the next half a decade.

Herbert wants his story to motivate people and help them try and get out of their current situation and realize that they can do it too. “After all,  if I can do it, anyone can do it. But only if they set their minds to it,” he said.

To learn more, connect with Herbert on Instagram or donate to help him pursue his dream.