Rise Rashid

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Jamal “Rise” Williams is a celebrated musician, actor in both film and theatre, radio personality, live show host, loving father, and a devoted husband. In this young man’s life, financial struggle, coping with death, and life’s many tribulations have stood between him and his goals. He has made a way for himself in the entertainment industry by relaying his life stories through his music and the characters he has portrayed. As a minority in America looking from the bottom up, Rise remained determine to see change in America’s urban society. Even with the corruption in the entertainment industry growing parallel to the corruption in America’s political system, staying focus on his dream has come through the lessons learned in life’s many tests. Ironically, forty-four years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the pursuit of a dream is still being defined.
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Congradulations to Rise and the Cast of FENCES!!!
August Wilson's sensational play Fences has won every major award, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, New York Drama Critics, Tony and Pulitzer Prizes. Directed by Jennifer Petticolas and performed by the Black Theatre Ensemble, Fences centers around Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who is working as a garbage man in 1957. He is very bitter that he was excluded from major league baseball during his prime and was too old to play when the sport finally was integrated. Maxson's son wants a chance at professional sports, but Maxson refuses to let him try his luck.
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A MIC & A DREAM - MAY 27 2008!!!
On May 27, 2008, Virginia-based hip-hop artist, actor, and radio disc jockey Jamal "Rise" Williams is set to release his sophomore album, A Mic & A Dream. Featuring guest spots from Mayhem Family, and Rastafarian Spice Defari, along with production from The Legion of Boom and others, the album delivers a striking blow to the recycled, generic drivel that has been clogging the urban airwaves.
Arriving nearly three years after his debut album Pure Talent, the 17 brand new tracks on A Mic & A Dream showcase a more mature and thoughtful world view from Rise that reaches across age, race and gender barriers to relate to the listener on a personal level. The cd presents song after song of insightful lyrics, and musically rich production that encompasses broad sounds and live instrumentation. Rise sets the bar higher for all other local artists and for hip-hop in general.The first single "No Stopping Me" featuring Sef has already been receiving regular rotation on central Virginia radio on WNRN's nightly hip-hop show "The Boombox." The second single "Be Yourself" looks to be a massive crossover hit, due in part to a guest appearance by one of the biggest rock bands in the world, U2. Rise doesn't forget about the streets either, as he recounts the struggle he and countless others have faced on the track "My Song Cry."With numerous live performances on the horizon, along with an upcoming interview on one of the internet's biggest hip-hop websites www.hiphopgame.com, A Mic & A Dream promises to take Rise to a higher level.
Catch Rise LIVE on Charlottesville's WNRN 91.9fm "The Boombox" Every Tuesday & Wednesday night from 10pm-midnight Listeners in the Richmond area tune in at 103.1, Charlottesville 91.9, Lynchburg area 89.9 and EVERYWHERE ONLINE AT WWW.WNRN.ORG. Call in with your shout outs and request @ 434-979-0919 or toll free @ 877-967-6762.
JEWSLIM 2008!!!! Abdul Rasheed (Jamal "Rise" Williams)is an architect who is in love with an attorney named Rachel Caldwell. Their religion is the one thing that is keeping them apart. Abdul is Islamic and Rachel is Jewish. Rachel and Abdul's relationship cannot grow properly because they are always hiding it. Rachel's friend Ariella Walsh (Kayla Cooper) and Abdul's friend Marshall Bradley (Arlando Whittaker, BET's College Hill) are behind them 100 percent. They both face obstacles with their parent's involvement with trying to set them up with the right soul mate. Things get heated when a friend of Rachel's mother Daniel Kohen (Gentry Ferrell, Bigfoot at Holler Creek Canyon) attempts to kill Abdul due to his obsession with Rachel. Eventually they reveal the truth which leads to more controversy. From Actor, Producer and Director Eli Harris (The Nanny Diaries, Saga Tier,16 Blocks, XXX2, The Sopranos)comes a gripping and epic tale of an age old war with a modern day love divided by centuries of hate. This is their story JEWSLIM.... A Forbidden Love. An Accepted Hate. Written by Staff .. " "