5. What keeps you motivated?
Honestly, I have a very strong faith in God, you know my lord and savior Jesus Christ. I’m not afraid to claim it. You know I don’t know about the illuminati stuff going on, but I’m gonna claim it once again. Make sure I say what it is. I talk about him on twitter. It’s all real for me. Besides that, just moving forward and seeing progress. There are some people I feel, will keep doing something because they said they will do it, there is no progress.but you really have to assess yourself. Every morning I try to wakeup and assess well what am I doing wrong? What am I doing right? What progress have I made? what do I need to work on? who do I need to contact to try to create a better bridge? Who do I kind of need to let go in this situation, because there are plenty of people you need to let go of everyday. I think I’m just real with myself. I think that as hard as I am on people on interviews, I’m hard on myself too. It’s not like i’m just out to get people, it is to make sure I’m at my best. I don’t like fluff interviews I don’t like to give myself a fluff assessment. Like oh girl you so good, look at all the stuff you are doing, that’s not what I’m saying to myself every morning. I’m saying lets be real, you messed up here but we are going to work it out today and that’s the motivation for me.
6. What has been your most challenging interview?
People recognize a lot of the video interviews because they see me get posted on a lot of sites and such. But I think the independent interviews are often the most challenging because I really sit down with these guys or women for a good hr and we talk and we really delve in to a lot of topics, and it hurts me to see someone who I know has talent and can’t get on a mainstream level. It hurts me to really talk to somebody who is really oblivious to the fact that they are whack. It hurts me to talk to someone who is a good and genuine person, but they just don’t have it talent wise. It hurts me in all those different areas and to me that’s a challenge because I want to be like the person who is encouraging them, but the reality of the situation is, that it’s just not going to happen. How do you convey the objectivity of the journalist and yet hold back the emotions of a human. Its not rational when you think about it, but those are the things that come to my mind and those are the challenges that I have to face when I interview people, who partly you become invested in because you are sitting down with them for an hour. Even in the short time that you talk to somebody, there is a certain investment that is made because you are sitting down with them looking at them giving eye contact and you are really trying to make sure you convey your message and they are really trying to convey their message.
7. You have been compared ot Wendy Williams and Angie Martinez, to influential women in radio, how does that make you feel?
It is definitely a compliment. Nothing is negative because you have to take the good with the bad, and a compliment is not always the best thing. You need honesty and to be able to take constructive critiism. I take the good with the bad to better myself. Like, take away the negative from Wendy Williams and see what she has done. I have no complaints being compared to either and I am glad people put me in the same category.
8. With the name Drama, people will atutomatically assume that you like to cause or start trouble, but what are the common misconceptions of Ms. Drama?
Its not about the “drama” I cause, it is about the drama I expose. Drama is short for dramatic. I give dramatic or dynamic interviews. I am reserved, tactful and professional, but I will make the artist get emotional and that is where the title drama queen came from. I am not into attacking people, but I am not going to shy away from the question. I always put out a disclaimer- I am tough but you will get a real interview. If you are not about real things then my show is not the show you should be on.
9. So when Ms. Drama is not involved with all of the “drama” what can we find Ms. Drama doing?
Traveling. I love to travel, especially if it is work related and I can get paid for it. I like chillin with good people and pampering myself, you know with sleep and go to the spa. This time is not about Ms. Drama, it is about Candic. ou have to take care of yourself.
10. HGB is mainly a fashion blog, so I have to ask you a style question, what three words describe your style?
Comfortable, I hate to be uncomfortable. I like fashion, but I don’t let it hold me up. Sometimes I just feel like putting on jeans and a shirt. I do not stress over fashion but I feel stressed because of the pressures of the industry
11. What are three things you can’t live without?
God, he holds me down, food, I love to have a good meal, and family and friends.
12. If you can interview any person, dead or alive, who would it be? Why?
Wendy Williams, Oprah, Barack Obama, Jay-Z, just to get in their brain and to try to figure out their thought process.
13. What is next for Ms. Drama?
Doing everything bigger, better, harder, stronger-that’s my motto. I want to be on a bigger and better platform. I have met a lot of great people, but I would like to go national on radio and or tv. Also to travel and interview people all over.
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Ms. Drama was so down to earth. After the official interview, we stayed around just talked “off the record” She gave great advice on how to survive in the business. She said
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Develop tough skin
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Focus on your goal
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Be true to yourself
Follow Ms. Drama on Twitter: @MsDrama
Visit www.MsDramaTv.com and her YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/msdramatv