Meet Nile Flame

Today we’d like to introduce you to Nile Flame.

Hi Nile, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I’m Nile an independent artist and founder of Majestic Gang a community built off a philosophy. To have an independent mind, body, heart, and soul. Be the first and last person you can depend on.

This is a philosophy birthed from lessons of life during homelessness, raising my siblings, and taking care of a sick mother.

I wasn’t born into a wealthy family, I wasn’t even born into a family with many resources, but I was born into a family, with heart, spirit and the will to never give up. They instilled that will into me. My mother has been a singer for over 25 years. My mother also has sickle cell anemia which caused her to seek income through entrepreneurial means. She sold shades, purses, perfumes, and other items that she bought wholesale off distributors in Atlanta, GA. Her sickle cell got worse in her final years of high school, so becoming pregnant with me strained her body and she dropped out. My father is 11 years older than my mother. He’s a man who loves basketball and all Arts. Becoming a spiritualist and man of Christian faith at the age of 30 he decided to marry my mother when finding out she was pregnant with me. While pregnant with me they had the wedding and my mother went on to get her GED all before finally moving back with my father to Philadelphia, PA. This is where my story began.

By 16 years old I’d started and failed several businesses. Selling cards and toys turned into selling candy and food items, and eventually selling custom t-shirts and clothes. All these businesses assisted in my siblings, mother and I sustaining housing in hotels, with family and friends, and homes across Georgia for no more than a year at a time. In 2008, my second semester of my sophomore year in high school, I planned to drop out. By this time, I’d gotten a job and learned enough about business that I felt I didn’t need school. My mother pleaded with me to graduate high school for her sake. I decided to finish, but I had already made my mind up on who I was and what I wanted to be. For spring break, I signed up for a business camp for young adults. It is here that I learned to write a business plan and the organization of the business.

By 2009 I had formed a rap group with my younger brother called Majestic Bohemians. We made great music together and had very little sibling rivalries. We had no help and did everything ourselves from start to finish of every project. By 2015 my brother and I had grown apart from each other and we decided to go our separate ways. This left me stuck for 2 years full of talent, skills, and knowledge, and unknowing of how exactly I wanted to move forward with my career. In 2017 I moved to Florida and finally decided to lead my career as an independent artist.

One of my greatest skills is public speaking. So, when I hadn’t moved the needle on my music career, I decided to add to my resume by starting a podcast. Majestic Gang podcast was started in 2018 on anchor and is available wherever you listen to podcast. The goal was 1 episode a week for a year. Every episode is my thoughts or feelings on whatever was most influential of my life during that week. At the time that is all that Majestic Gang was meant to be. 2020 during covid I realized my podcast was more than a podcast. Friends, families and listeners showed me that my podcast helped them in their life. Knowing this and always calling my listeners’ family, I gained clarity on the reality that Majestic Gang is a community I founded, and I am currently leading.

In 2022 I took a detour for my music career and opened http://majesticgang.shop to sell wooden accessories, apparel, merchandise all inspired by my nomadic, bohemian, and hippie lifestyle I live and the music I create. This business will be my most successful business to date and the asset that funds, grows, and evolves the rest of my business career to heights which have yet been known to man.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Raising my siblings when my mother was hospitalized. Having zero resources, mentorship, and finances to sustain any of my businesses early on. The most difficult challenge was staying consistent on the business when being there for your family is your priority. It causes you to be hesitant on going all in on your business though you know it’ll only be for a temporary time for an ultimate gain. This delayed my success by years.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I grew up singing and with a singer. I taught myself to rap and grew up listening to hip-hop. I also taught myself how to mix and master all my own music. I’m most known for having a diversified style and rapping and singing on my own songs well enough that listeners do not know it’s all me. All my song art, logos, websites and all forms of content is created by me, but what I am most proud of are my audio engineering skills I’ve developed with no formal training. The fact that I am building a community and I am detached from the traditional ways of being an artist makes me different. What I mean by that is that my goal is to be more independent than any artist has ever been before and have a system in place that allows my super fans and supporters to benefit off my success as it grows. Similar to stock in a corporation. I don’t like using the word fan, so I call my supporters my family. And super fans become Royal Members of that family. To learn more visit my site http://nileflame.net.

My wooden accessories, apparel, and merch shop majesticgang.shop gives 10% of every sale to organizations to help homeless blacks. This work will ultimately be the work I become most known for besides my business ventures and music career. I launched the store with wooden sunglasses. Wood being very significant for its contribution to nature and my last name being Woods.

What matters most to you?
Family. One that you create or are born into. Your choice. Family bonds are the only thing that you can create that will extend beyond time and space.

Pricing:

• Nefertiti (wooden women sunglasses) – $54.86
• Mansa Musa (wooden sunglasses) – $56.24
• The Queen’s Child (wooden sunglasses) – $24.00
• Black Excellence (wooden sunglasses) $22.14
• Woods Legacy (wooden sunglasses) $21.98

Contact Info:

• Email: independent4eva@nileflame.net
• Website: http://nileflame.net
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hiphopyoda/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nileflame
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/nileflame
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/nileflame
• SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/nileflame
• Other: http://majesticgang.shop

Image Credits
Bohemia Studios
The Solar Mates Company