IAmRoyalty Entertainment Group

"I Am ROYALTY!"... When you say those words you better mean them and carry yourselves as the Queens and Kings you are destined to be.

Cortez 'Tezof2Deep' Hampton vision for the entertainment group came along in 2006 yet the affiliation was re-branded in 2016.

I Am Royalty is an entertainment group created by the singer and host of The WkndwithTez Radio Show airing live every Friday beginning at 9p.m. on 100.9 WCHQ FM.

The group is filled with a lot of people who are currently living within various Kentucky and Indiana areas. However, most of the affiliates are present in Louisville, KY.

The talent within the entertainment group ranges from rappers to singers, deejay's, models, photographers, radio personalities and even bloggers one being known as Melody Simone creator of this here site, Melodically In Tune.

There are a lot of networking opportunities that come from being involved in IAmRoyalty entertainment group.

"Collectively our individual achievements range from opening for major artist that come to Louisville KY, creating a weekly open mic series (The Louisville Vibe), introducing another radio show dedicated to playing only local hip hop and R&B (WkndwithTez Radio Show), having live and recorded mix shows on 93.1FM in Louisville KY, and much more."

The collective goal is to take anyone of IAmRoyalty team members career to the next level. While continuing to solidify their brand as a team filled with true professionals and become the catalyst to how things should go for the next generation to come.

Tezof2Deep mentions that for those interested in being apart of IAmRoyalty, "just keep being dope! We are always recruiting."

Meet some of the affiliates by clicking here.

Follow IAmRoyalty on social media.

Facebook: @iamroyaltyent

Instagram: @iamroyaltyent

Festive Mac&Cheese Dish...Is it a Side or a Meal?

Time to settle this once and for all!

It tends to be a debate often whether Mac and Cheese is to be ate as a side or a meal.

What do you think!? Click here to vote.

Speaking of Mac and Cheese...

The city of Louisville's first ever Mac and Cheese Festival will take place on Saturday September 21 until Sunday September 22. The event will be hosted downtown at Fourth Street Live! bringing over 40 different styles of mac and cheese for all lovers to try regardless of how you like yours served. Recipes coming from more than 15 food vendors.

If you are competitive when it comes to eating food then there are some contest created just for you to go against others. One of the contest will be based on who can eat the most mac and cheese in two minutes. Sign-ups are only available for the first 10 participants. In addition to this contest there will be one for the cheese fries lovers. A fry-eating contest where participants will be given a giant bucket of fries and whomever empty out the bucket first wins the crown.

A few awards will be given for Best Tasting Mac and Cheese, Most Unique Mac and Cheese and other awards to be announced soon.

At the event you can expect a cheese fry bar, giant craft beer garden, live entertainment, axe throwing and a lot more games, activities and merchandise.

More vendors will be present at the festival to sell items such as funnel cakes, cotton candy, ice-cream, water ice and other sweet goodies!

General admission pre-sale ticket price is $10, includes entry and a drink voucher. In order to sample mac and cheese, attendees must purchase vouchers which come in sheet sets of 10.

VIP pre-sale ticket price is $50, attendees are able to take part in a two-hour early entry, two hours of all you can eat mac and cheese, four drink vouchers, one complimentary order of french fires and a commemorative keepsake.

The festival is a kid friendly event! There will be a fun zone, carnival games and activities. Children 10 and under are free and do not need a ticket to access the festival.

Online ticket sales end on Saturday, September 21 at 3 PM or until all are sold out. Tickets may be purchased here.

Mac and Cheese Festival will take place regardless of the current weather conditions. Be sure to check the forecast so you can plan and dress accordingly.

Follow the event page on Facebook for futher details.

T.H.U.G✊🏿

Where a teenage girl is constantly switching between two worlds... Speaking on the act of code-switching, which is when you're turning 'it' on and turning it 'off'... referring to one's blackness.

It is a film inspired by the book 'The Hate U Give' written by Angie Thomas. She happens to be a huge fan of rapper, Tupac as well. While writing this book Thomas was able to find a connection with the term "THUG LIFE" and events taking place in today's society such as: gang violence, black on black crime, white crime, police brutality and a 'corrupt' system.

When attending #NABJ18 in Detroit, #MelodicallyInTune sat in on the Arts and Entertainment Taskforce, 20th Century Fox Presents a Clips & Conversation Reception where director of the film, George Tillman Jr. spoke with moderator Roland Martin and fellow journalists and other professionals about the movie schedule to hit all theaters on October 19.

The main character, Starr Carter played by Amandla Stenberg is constantly reassured that her father Maverick Carter (Russell Hornsby) did not name her Starr for no reason and that not everyone was giving the same superpowers.

The Carter's (Regina Hall, wife/mother), growing up in Garden Heights only wants a better life for their family. Starr and her siblings Seven (Starr's half brother) and Sekani were all given unique names with a special meaning. None of them attended their "neighborhood school" because the only thing people do there is either get jumped, high or pregnant. Starr's parents sent them off to a predominantly white private school called Williamson.

"Our live is here [Garden Heights] because our people are here."

Garden Heights was one world but the school they actually attended was another. For instance, talking slang makes white people seem cool but for Starr it would only make her hood.

"We have not been trained to be unapologetically black"

-Roland Martin, NABJ18 Convention

The director Tillman Jr. faces these same experiences until this very day.

In the movie he wanted to display that Starr could have a white boyfriend, black best friend and still live the best of both worlds. He continues on to say "be who you are, don't be afraid of being who you are!"

We must have conversations about black and white people so that things can keep getting better and we can keep moving forward.

It's a movie displaying that "where you live does not define who you are." At one point within the movie, Starr feels as if she has to be quiet so she don't seem like a poor girl from the hood who just now saw her friend get killed.

At a point within the movie, Starr's uncle Carlos (Common) plays the role of a cop and states how the views of police officers are different and that we live in a complicated world. After being given two different scenarios, most people as in white people when dealing with blacks being pulled versus dealing with someone else white they "don't see it as a crime but another traffic stop gone wrong."

One of the incidents Tillman used as motivation amongst completing this film was the Philando Castile, who was a 32 year old man at the time who got pulled over in Falcon Heights, Minnesota and shot to death by a cop.

Within the movie it shows how it's "Just US for justice." Us meaning black people... Starr has to deal with the fact that her second life of people doesn't understand the seriousness of what happened to her best friend Khalil (Algee Smith) and being black in America.

"Violence brutality, it's the same story just a different name."

"Division is how they win unity is how they crumble."

The concept of acting black but still keeping the same white privilege isn't an option for black people.

Director Tillman Jr. presented this film to 20th Century Fox Pictures by telling them it's not only about the things that are happening right now today in society geared towards police brutality but also displays personal growth, love, respect, relationships amongst others and yourself...

Watch the official trailer of The Hate U Give.

The entire movie is heartfelt and had us in tears drowning in our feeling with a remarkable ending.