July 18, 2013
Black Blogger Month: Stuff Fly People Like, Because Anything Else is Normal
People look to us for…
Everything that’s fly. You can go to a HypeBeast or a HighSnobiety to get what’s commercially fly, but people wanna know what’s fly in the streets, so they come to us.
We started this blog because…
Five years ago, everyday we would go to the blogs–the YBF; Concrete Loop–and discuss everything that was on these blogs. We always felt that there wasn’t always one blog that incorporated fashion, music and entertainment. You would go to one for fashion…one for music or…one for entertainment, but there was really no place where you could go for everything. There were so many blogs with “the stuff.†There was Stuff White People Like, Stuff Black People Like, Stuff White People Hate; there were all these things and we were thinking to ourselves, fly people like stuff too. What we thought was only going to consist of telling people what stuff fly people like, turned into this whole lifestyle.
The best advice we’ve gotten since working in this space was…
From June Ambrose: It was the very first day I (Rae) met her. She said, “No matter how many celebrities [you] meet, no matter how many big time clients that [you] meet, always understand that this is a business and that these people are never really your friends.†It sounds really harsh, but it was truer than I thought it was. She said, because of our platform we’re gonna get celebrities who wanna be our friends and we’re gonna get other bloggers who are gonna wanna be our friends, but at the end of the day she needed me to really view this as a business and never get too attached; this way, when something happens [we’re] not really surprised and can keep on moving without the hurt.
The best advice we would give someone breaking into this space is…
It’s less about creating a voice and more about keeping a voice. A lot of people come out the gates strong…people come into politics and they’re very gung ho; they wanna change this and they wanna change that, and the minute they sign a big deal, it’s out the window. Somebody’s telling them what to do and how to say it. I (Rae) write for SFPL, for Uptown Magazine, for Vibe Magazine, [and] it’s very important that it’s my voice and that you can hear the same voice…no matter whose publication it is. I don’t ever want it to seem like somebody can pay me to alter my opinion.
Be sure to check out the rest of the digital thought leaders as they’re revealed each day by logging on to BlackEnterprise.com/BlackBloggerMonth.