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Raqiyah

Raqiyah Mays

About Me

VIEWS:__CHECK ME EVERY MORNING ON 98.7 KISS FM WITH THE WAKE UP CLUB!!!!
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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:
Part 1
Part 2

My Interests

Acting, writing, radio, watching movies and TV

I'd like to meet:

People who are NOT sheep

Music:

ooh, this is hard. Hip-hop is kinda wack right now... Except for Jay Z, Kanye West, Nas and.... Nas

Movies:

The Departed, The Godfather, The Matrix, Face Off, X-Men: The Last Stand, Transformers!!

Television:

CNN headline News, The Wire, Heroes!!

Books:

The Artists' Way by Julia Cameron

Heroes:

Oprah, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Assata, Storm from X Men, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Iron Man

My Blog

New Platanos and Collard Greens dates added!!

If you haven't gotten a chance to check me out off Broadway in "Platanos and Collard Greens," you're sleeping on me! Stop it!! But it's ok, I still love you&for now. J  Promise you'll have a grea...
Posted by Raqiyah on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:29:00 PST

The Reel - The Dark Knight review

After attending the world premiere of The Dark Knight at the Loews AMC on the upper West Side of Manhattan on Monday, I am confident that this movie will be the biggest blockbuster of the summer....
Posted by Raqiyah on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:24:00 PST

August Show dates added!!

Just got a few new August dates for my shows "Platanos and Collard Greens" and "Auction Block to Hip Hop."  The theater (Florence Gould Hall) closes for two weeks in August for maintenance work, ...
Posted by Raqiyah on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:18:00 PST

Check me in the play Platanos and Collard Greens!

I told you this before, but after my debut this past Sunday -- Which was off the hook! The applause of the crowd is quite hypnotizing, mesmerizing, making me addictive prone to the love that boosts m...
Posted by Raqiyah on Thu, 22 May 2008 05:36:00 PST

Come see me Off Broadway in two shows!!!

Come see me Off Broadway in two shows  "Platanos and Collard Greens" and "Auction Block to Hip Hop!!"   Here are the dates:   Sunday, May 18 3p, Auction Block to Hip Hop Sunday, May 18, 7p...
Posted by Raqiyah on Thu, 08 May 2008 07:19:00 PST

Obama, Hillary, qualifications

On political qualifications&& I felt compelled to write my blog today after a discussion that took place on the Wake Up Club this morning talking about Obama And Hillary. Their sparing during the deb...
Posted by Raqiyah on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:14:00 PST

CATCH ME ON TV, HOT97.COM & YOU TUBE!!

I'ma be on TV everybody! Catch me on Thursday, december 27, at 8p on BET's 'Crank Dat Year Back.' And log on to hot97.com or go to You Tube and see me interview Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, and...
Posted by Raqiyah on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:56:00 PST

Sorry for being MIA

 I am so sorry for being missing in action, for real. But I've been busy people. Busy making moves making money making strides and differences in what I do in the world. But I will do what I can ...
Posted by Raqiyah on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:49:00 PST

The Pop Blog on 987kissfm.com

If you missed any of my entertainment reports this week on 98.7 Kiss FM's Wake Up Club morning show, I have a new way for you to play catch up. Check out "The Pop Blog" on the kiss fm website (987kiss...
Posted by Raqiyah on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:57:00 PST

I'm hosting the Paint it Pink Breast Cancer benefit on Friday, Oct 5. Come on out!!

  Did you know that Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women ages 15-54? And did you also know that although African-American women are diagnosed at lower rates than...
Posted by Raqiyah on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:21:00 PST