Streets, Rhymes & ‘Sugar’
A Hip Hop Memoir by Michael Elliot
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Streets, Rhymes & ‘Sugar’
Narrated by:
Michael Elliot
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Michael Elliot
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Michael Elliot
In this moving audio memoir, Michael Elliot chronicles his life from being homeless on the streets of Philadelphia to successful Hollywood screenwriter and business entrepreneur. He talks about how his cycles of success and setbacks have become moments to focus on opportunity - like how first big success eventually fell away, and Michael found himself working at the Gap. Confronted with who he really was - and truly understanding why he failed - a series of moments restored his faith and eventually taught him how to keep finding success through boldness and belief; “When you truly believe, your get down is different.” It’s a Cinder-fella tale that Michael Elliot hopes inspires listeners to see the big picture and never stop fighting.
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About the Creator and Performer
Michael Elliot’s career began in 1988 when he published
Krush magazine—the first publication devoted to covering the burgeoning world of hip-hop music exclusively. Months later, other hip-hop publications would follow his lead, including
The Source magazine. Soon, Michael set his sights on television and then the book-publishing world. He authored, designed, and self-published the hip-hop guidebook
The Unsigned Rappers’ Guide to Getting a Record Deal.
Recognizing his ability to "make things happen," the owners of
The Source offered Michael a position as special projects director. While at
The Source, he was offered his own weekly hip-hop show on one of Philly’s top-rated radio stations. Then, New York’s famed hip-hop station, Hot 97, wanted in. Michael quickly made the transition from the country’s number-four market to number-one. Before long, not even Hot 97 could contain him.
Sony Worldwide Networks had just partnered with hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons to launch a nationally syndicated hip-hop countdown show. Michael was chosen to hostand co-produce the weekly radio show
Street Heat. For the next two years, he would work for
The Source and Sony Worldwide Networks, hosting and co-producing what would become the most successful radio show of its kind.
In the mid-'90s, Michael, who wanted to make movies, became aware of Sean "Diddy" Combs’ interest to establish a film and television arm of his highly successful hip-hop label, Bad Boy Records. After meeting with Diddy, Michael relocated to Southern California and was appointed president of Bad Boy Films. Four months into the job, Diddy’s friend and biggest star, The Notorious B.I.G., was murdered. Forty-eight hours later, Bad Boy Films was dissolved, and Michael was unemployed.
Armed with a computer, a book on screenwriting, and a Blockbuster card, Michael began teaching himself to write screenplays. Without an agent or manager, he sold his first screenplay,
Seven Days, to 20th Century Fox. Seeing his success,
The Source magazine contacted him with an offer to return. The hip-hop publication unsuccessfully had tried to get their awards show on network television. Michael accepted the challenge, and as president of Source Entertainment struck an unprecedented deal for a special on UPN.
The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards (1999 and 2000) set rating records for the struggling network and generated more than $15 million in revenue. However, after violence broke out during the 2000 airing of the show, Michael resigned to focus on his screenwriting and producing career.
In less than one year of returning to the film business, he had three consecutive films green lit, including MTV's critically acclaimed
Carmen: A Hip Hopera, which Michael scripted and executive produced, launching feature film careers for Mos Def, Bow Wow, Joy Bryant, and of course, Beyoncé Knowles. In addition, Michael wrote the highly successful films
Brown Sugar,
Like Mike, and
Just Wright, for which he won for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture.
Currently, Michael is developing the romantic comedy
Technically Speaking for Audible Originals; the biopic
The Celebration for Searchlight Pictures; and the romantic comedy
Relationship Goals for Amazon Studios.
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Streets, Rhymes & ‘Sugar’
- A Hip Hop Memoir by Michael Elliot
- By: Michael Elliot
- Narrated by: Michael Elliot
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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In this moving audio memoir, Michael Elliot chronicles his life from being homeless on the streets of Philadelphia to successful Hollywood screenwriter and business entrepreneur. He talks about how his cycles of success and setbacks have become moments to focus on opportunity - like how first big success eventually fell away, and Michael found himself working at the Gap. Confronted with who he really was - and truly understanding why he failed - a series of moments restored his faith and eventually taught him how keep finding success through boldness and belief.
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Just what I needed to hear
- By Aldin on 08-11-21
A powerful lesson in struggle and faith
A powerful lesson in struggle and faith
Finding success in Hollywood can be a challenge for anyone, especially without connections or financial support. For Michael Elliot, rising out of homelessness on the streets of Philadelphia was, in his words, nothing short of a miracle. In his new Audible Original,
Streets, Rhymes & ‘Sugar,’ Elliot recounts his incredible uphill battle from a child with little hope to a successful writer and producer in Hollywood. With hit films such as
Like Mike,
Brown Sugar, and
Just Wright under his belt, Elliot is certainly more than qualified to share his expertise on self-motivation and the inner workings of Hollywood. He gets personal like never before, making this memoir equally a cathartic expression of self and a ''how-to'' guide.
Seth H.
Audible Editor
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