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  Sneakers have become a booming industry. Many brands such as Nike and Adidas only drop a limited stock of sneakers, driving the demand of sneakers. With sneakers selling out in seconds on release day, it leads many consumers to shop with secondhand markets.  This whole process has been coined as hype culture. Mack Soles and Tre Solez are two online resale businesses that specialize in getting you your favorite hype sneakers. I was able to sit down and speak with the owners, Daylen Mack and Tre Bizzell to learn more about how they define hype culture, how they got their start in the business, and the process of obtaining these hype sneakers. What is hype culture? " How I personally define it is, is that it's based on the trends. It's always a different thing." Mack says. "It's more of like a hey, what's hot? Aye, let's bandwagon that trend type thing." He added.  "Let's just say New Balance. You would see a New Balance [shoe], a couple ...

Qiuntelli is a Grammy nominated R&B songwriter and singer from Arkansas. He recently dropped a new single titled, Rent Free. The song was highly anticipated, as Qiuntelli first previewed it on TikTok. From there, fans started curating a challenge to the song, which is a late-night R&B slow jam where Qiuntelli is remencising about a relationship that is living in his mind rent free. I was able to speak with Qiuntelli about the new single, his success with TikTok and what is next for him in music. photo courtesy of Qiuntelli Q: Of course, you just dropped Rent Free. What was the creative process for the song? Qiuntelli: "My producer was sending the beats and I just happened to come across that beat. It was the last song that I recorded before I left. When I heard it, I was like..“Oh this is fire”. And I usually like keep topics in my phone. I type it up, if it comes. If it pops into my brain, I just type it up. So when I record I have it. And I always wanted to do a song cal...