contents
Features
Letters 6
Upfront News 8
Nightlife 9
Dawn Richard 10
Steph Jones 12
Sizzla Kalonji 13
Nell Robinson 14
Lady Sovereign 15
On Set with Fe-Nix 16
Competitions 18
The Brothers 20
Dwain Chambers 24
Ricky McCalla 26
Phillip Thompson 27
Beauty 28
Trendz 30
Style Report 32
F Report 34
Flavour Talks 36
editor’s letter
If you’r e striving for
scandal, his athletics ban, the court
case, his return to athletics. We give
success then against
him a chance to air his side of the story.
New singing sensation Steph Jones
all odds should be
walked out on a record deal and even
one of the mottos
worse was thrown in jail. Did he give up
or rise against the odds? Read on to
that you live by.
find out, but I’m sure you’ll appreciate
his honesty about the situation.
Whether it’s lack of knowledge,
Persistence is the key to each of
experience or money, these can be
their continued success and it will also
considered as some of ‘the odds’ that
be the key to yours. There maybe a
you are fighting against.
negative response to some of your
In this issue the cast of MTV Base
choices and things may go wrong, but
series The Brothers – Harvey, Jason
is that a reason to give up? Hell no! If
Barrett and Chucky Venn – admit
things in life were easy to achieve then
how they have managed to succeed
we would all be rich, own Lamborghinis
despite the obstacles in their way.
Editor-in-chief
and live in sixty-room mansions,
Negative press, stereotypes and lack of
but most of us don’t. It’s all those
Annika Allen
acting experience are just some of the
challenges that we face and overcome
challenges that they have faced.
that make life interesting and fun.
Danity Kane stunner Dawn is not
At the time it may not feel that way,
only talented but also very strong.
but when you’ve got to where you’re
Hurricane Katrina maybe a distant
finally going and are able to reflect on
memory to some of us but she had
what it took for you to get there, it’s
to live through it, so the disaster will
then that you will realize that it was
always be fresh in her mind. We all
worth going against the odds.
know the trails and tribulations of
sprinter Dwain Chambers – the drugs Enjoy the issue
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