Media personality Angela Yee and DJ D-Nice joined ESSENCE Deputy Editor Cori Murray for the Wealth & Power experience at the 2021 ESSENCE Festival of Culture presented by Coca-Colato discuss how they’ve each managed to continue working, thriving, and pursuing their passions through the unprecedented year that was 2020.
While most know Angela Yee for her delivery of breaking news and irreverent humor on the early-morning airwaves, the media maven is not only a radio host, but an entrepreneur with a touring podcast, a juice bar, a coffee shop, and a coffee company, among other ventures.
(Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)But a chance encounter at a party where Q-Tip was DJing reignited D-Nice’s love of music. “I heard Q-Tip spinning, went back home, called up one of my buddies, Chris Lighty, and told him ‘bro, I think I want to DJ.’’ He left his thriving web business from that moment. “I found this lane where I could just play what I love. It wasn’t considered open-format at that time, but I just knew I wanted to be able to play everything.”
Both concur that with diversity in their skillsets, they each have increased opportunities to pursue the things that truly excite them, rather than blindly following the money wherever it leads. For Yee, no check comes before her own personal integrity.
“For me as a radio personality, it’s important for people to feel like they can trust me. So certain things I won’t do,” she told Murray, recalling a time she was offered a massive payday to endorse a fur company, though she doesn’t wear fur. “I had to turn that down. I don’t do anything with cigarette companies, or vaping, things like that. I don’t promote things on the radio that I wouldn’t recommend somebody to do.”
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