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Raqiyah Mays is a DJ in New York on Hot 97 FM, the number one Hip Hop and R&B station in the country. Her Sunday afternoon show mixes celebrity news with current events and social commentary. While during the week, she spends mornings as the entertainment reporter on The Kiss Wake Up Club, the morning show on Hot 97s sister station 98.7 Kiss FM.
Although she broadcasts to 4 million listeners a week, Raqiyah prefers to deem herself a writer on the radio. With nearly a decade of print journalism experience, shes written about music, culture, politics, and women for The Associated Press and publications like Vibe, Essence, Billboard, Newsday, Complex and XXL. She was a columnist with both Impact and Honey magazines. And was hired as reporter at large for the Vibe book Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of The Notorious B.I.G. Shes currently Executive Editor of the new, socially aware hip hop magazine, The Ave.
Raqiyah is featured in two documentaries -- Rap Sheet, a documentary about hip hops relationship with law enforcement; and The Art of Love and Struggle, a film following 14 powerful women in hip hop. Her work as a journalist has also been featured on MTVs hit reality show Making the Band II. And Raqiyahs intelligent music commentary has appeared on UPN Nightly News, BET Nightly News, The Fox News Channels top rated talk show Hannity and Colmes, and internet sites around the world. Syndicated radio shows across America, like the ABC Networks Sean Hannity Show, Fox Radios Alan Colmes Show, and the Urban Radio Networks Bev Smith Show, have all had Raqiyah as a guest. And her vocal opinions have also been discussed on The View, The Howard Stern Show, The Wendy Williams Show, and Comedy Centrals Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.
A former DJ on New Yorks Power 105 FM, City Colleges WHCR FM, and Sirius Satellite Radio (where she produced shows for legendary DJ Grandmaster Flash), Raqiyah has moderated and sat on countless industry panels, talked to hundreds of college and high school students, and still finds time to teach reporting and writing classes to disadvantaged youth in Harlem, New York. Currently executive producing a documentary on women in hip hop, Raqiyah works to preserve her beloved culture of hip hop, while stimulating and inspiring the minds of people worldwide.
Check out video of Raqiyah on the Red Carpet:
Interview with Denzel Washington and Cast Members of "The Great Debaters"
Black August Concert:
VH1 Hip Hop Honors:
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Part 2
