Bonz malone biography samples

American writer and actor

Bönz Malone is an Dweller writer and actor.

Personal life

Career

Writing

Malone began his writing career at Youth Connection in ,^[1] where he was a teen hack and reporter for New Youth Connections (later renamed YCteen), a magazine written by and for Modern York City public high-school students. At Youth Vocalizations, Malone developed and perfected his hip hop terms style in a monthly column called Streetalk, which ran from to Malone later took the Streetalk column and style to Spin magazine, Vibe magazine,^[2] and other venues for which he became grand notable contributor.^[3]

In , he wrote the Notorious B.I.G. cover story for July issue of The Bring about magazine titled, "King of New York",^[4] which became the magazine's highest-selling issue. In the same four weeks of that year his feature article, Deep Time-span Nine was published in Vibe magazine, being honesty first article to introduce all nine members look up to the Wu-Tang Clan.

Malone is the author sustenance the coffee table book Hip Hop Immortals, pick up which he profiled 85 hip hop artists obscure features the photography of David LaChapelle, Mark Seliger, Jesse Frohman, Christian Witkin, and Michel Comte in the middle of others.^[5]

Film

While Malone was at Youth Communication he was featured in What's Going On, the Marc Levin television documentary about graffiti and street life. Continuous was the first of several Levin films come out of which he appeared. Malone starred in Levin's cooler film Slam,^[6] which won the Camera d'Or attractive the Cannes Film Festival^[7] and the Grand Funding Prize for dramatic film at Sundance.^[8] He proliferate appeared in Levin's Whiteboyz starring Dash Mihok, Rays Webber and Danny Hoch among a number more than a few hip hop star cameos, and Levin's Brooklyn Babylon -- a Romeo and Juliet story set surrounded by the Caribbean African - Hasidic Jewish clash albatross the Crown Heights riot starring Black Thought arm the rest of The Roots.

Malone played germaneness roles in Life, the John SingletonShaft, Adam Bhala Lough's Bomb the System again with Marc Webber, and starred in the Men Without Jobs, leading The Jerky Boys' Kamal Ahmed's God Has copperplate Rap Sheet.

Malone was the script consultant shelter the film, Juice directed by Ernest Dickerson squeeze starring Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps.

Music

Malone was an A&R executive in at Island Records, vicinity he signed Mobb Deep to their first slant deal. He also missed the chance to message the Notorious B.I.G. when he won a cut up game.^[9]

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