Tatyana Jenene has been described as a “sharp and efficient music and entertainment journalist” with a formidable knowledge of current events, news, TV, films, music, and pop culture. However, she describes herself as the cross streets where DMX and Vanessa Williams meet. The Buffalo-born, Brooklyn-based writer earned her moniker “The Hip-Hop Homegirl” from a friend after an all-nighter where they debated music and gossiped about various rappers, telling her friend stories and tidbits about artists that weren’t widely known to the public. Her rap dreams were cut short while she was a Johnson C. Smith University student after her mother told her the family wasn’t paying for her to attend the prestigious HBCU to be a rapper. So, she settled for writing about them instead. Her mother is very proud of this decision.
