Hala Taha

And then I didn't show up.

Angie fired me, cut me off, and not only cut me off, but blackballed me from the industry.

She told all my DJ friends that I'd basically like done everything for that they can't even talk to me anymore and fired me and outcasted me from the industry.

So I was really upset.

I felt like somebody died.

I felt like a part of my identity was stripped away from me.

Everybody knew me as Hala from Hot 97.

It felt really embarrassing that I had lost this job and this career.

But I decided I was going to start something new.

I got fired on a Thursday.

By Sunday, I had this new idea that I was going to start something called the Sorority of Hip Hop.

And I launched a blog site that became ended up becoming really popular.

So I'll pause right there because I know I just spit out a lot.

And it's a long it's a long story, my journey.

But I'll pause there.

Oh, yeah.

I was like really, really the black sheep of my family.

So not only was all my four siblings, three other siblings in med school, but my other immediate family were cousins that lived down the street and all three of them were also in med school.

So like I was the only one and like not only taking an alternate path, but taking like a very alternate path, you know, not just like going to business or something like that.

And so I remember at Thanksgiving, I would always just be like talked down to.