something much bigger.....

....... I once heard that you cant pick who your family will be. Well that has been proven to be wrong. There are those that you choose to make your family.

This is my third year in and this has became something much bigger than "my experience with the fakulte".
THE FAKULTE open the door to something much greater. When I started this journey I committed  my whole being into becoming a part of their world. I told myself I would do what ever it took to survive the experience. It has not all been laughs and smiles. We have argued and fought, there where times we didn't speak. We cried and some of us lied. But the true moments of reality and the moments of love, those moments we put aside the the little shit for the one who needed us most. Those are the moments that showed me what the bigger picture was about.

I put myself in a  circle of people that stood confident in who they was no matter what circumstance arose. That made me look at myself, it made me grow up, it made me face my own bull shit. Once you face that mirror you can no longer sugar code your actions. Every  one in this group of people I now call my family each made me face something about myself. There was couple that never let me get over. The best part about that is no matter what they have been there. Seems as if I did everything I could do to be pushed away and at the same time I was determined to stay. I thought about running and never showing face again. But then what would that prove. I told myself three years ago I could handle this experience and that was something I needed to prove to myself. Living this experience made me step up to the plate, made me learn to be humble, made me be myself with out the fear, made me love myself and made me stop lying to myself.

While all that was happening for me   I in turn got to know the passions, the dreams, the fears, and the reality of the ones in my circle. I got to become a part of each and every one of their worlds. I got to see the hearts and love they had for each other and they begin to show for me. Like I said the experience became something much bigger.

The future of my experience has already been written and it has only begun so its time to see it through. You can pick who your family will be.. or maybe sometimes, just sometimes your family can pick you.

The Fakulte Music Group is just a piece of the puzzle.....



One Up Recordings- Mr. Propane is mixing, mastering, an recording in south Atlanta

Fakulte Beat Commission- The FAKULTE production Team

Gibbz L.I.E. (L.I.E E.N.T)  - Personally one of my favorite rappers. SOME OF THE REALEST SHIT YOU WANNA HEAR














Dj Keep It Moving- the name explains it self

Kat Creations - Event planning and so much more behind the scenes.

Goode Eats- "O Bang" One hell of a chef and always on point.

... I want to work and I have found who I want to work with ... no one else will do it like me and no else knows them like i do and no one else will get it done like me...

Chappell Love

New Experiences To Come

My Experince With The FAKULTE: https://soundcloud.com/chappell-love/sets/uncrown...

My Experince With The FAKULTE:
https://soundcloud.com/chappell-love/sets/uncrown...: https://soundcloud.com/chappell-love/sets/uncrowned-heroes-fak-files-vol I HAVE WATCHED THEM DO THIS FOR OVER 2 YEARS NOW... AND I LOVE...

https://soundcloud.com/chappell-love/sets/uncrowned-heroes-fak-files-vol

I HAVE WATCHED THEM DO THIS FOR OVER 2 YEARS NOW... AND I LOVE WHAT THEY DO AND HOW THEY DO IT... THE MIXING DONE TO THESE TRACKS IS FRESH AND DIFFERENT... BEST OF ALL ITS ORIGINAL.  I CAN TRULY SAY I PERSONALLY LOVE THIS INSTRUMENTAL. DOWNLOAD FOR FREE AT THE LINK ABOVE... THE FAKULTE MUSIC GROUP... THE EXPERIENCE CONTINUES !!!!

Experience "THE FAK"

Growing is such a beautiful thing. I met a group of extraordinary gentleman and lived a year in the Experince of them. "My experince with THE FAKULTE" was the perfect name for this blog site. This experince has gave me the focus, goals, guidence,  and motivation that will be a major part of my life forever. To be apart of something and truely live in it day in and day out has aloud me to fit in to something, It allowed me to meet some great people and has lead me to a family. Times arent always perfect, yes it is a fight, true you have to prove you want it.... but thats what helps us rise above it all. These are the things that bulid charecter and gives you drive. 

When I met this group I didnt have what i needed and didnt know nothing i needed to know in order to be successful. I didnt give myself any credit for what i do know and I let myself be hidden away from a real world. I lived in my own world did my own thing. I took my own way and kept everybody at a boundary line. You cant tell me anything if you dont know nothing about me. Let me live, let me do how i want, and let me have my own way. Well lets just say that way of thinking lead me to a place I had to go in order to grow up because of two reasons. One im hardheaded... always have been, I have to bust my ass to learn. Two life is about experiences once you hit the bottom you find out how much strength you do have to stand up and fight or stay forever broken. For a person like me the experience is what i need to show me my strength, weakness, my wrongs and my rights. 

When I met THE FAKULTE I met a world of people that I could not run from. I had to take it, because I wanted to live the life of "the fak". In the process I learned so much and I have been truly humbled I have messed up and I have helped out. But one thing I have truly learned is loyalty has to be unconditional as love is unconditional. My confidence has grown and my horizons have broaden. I am in a great place and for me a new journey has begun.

I have to thank THE FAK.... I needed them in my life more then they needed me. I am so grateful for them.  "THE FAK" you have no choice but to accept the truth. That saying is so much deeper then just on a music level. Just dealing with THE FAKULTE is facing the truth.  I thought when i met this group this is going to be a great story. But now i can say its be life changing. 

Chappell

One Year Strong

Its has been one year since I met THE FAKULTE MUSIC GROUP.

AND what a year it has been, Ive seen my team go through hell and high water.  We have been hit from every angle of our lives. Outward, inward, up, down, backwards, and all round.  We started this year of with a running start. We was playing no games this company was established and pushed hard from day one. With strong promotions and digital networking we was able to reach different aspects of this business that we didnt expect to reach so quickly. Taking on each challenge head first we let nothing stop us.

Many Success we have had in the past year. From recording a total of four mix tapes and a album to starting our own radio show "Face The Faks Radio" on mjmgradio.com. We have been seen and heard world wide.  Making our first appearances on Ms. JJ Show earlier this year she helped our name get out into the world. We went from not being found on google to typing in "THE FAK" and we pop up... 10 pages strong. 

Me personally I have met tons of people that are talented and have the same grind and hunger in them as I do. A world of people exist that don't mind getting dirty to get the job done... I love the hustle that comes with true love for whatever art it is they are after regardless of the cost.

A year ago... I accepted the responsibly of following around a crew of talented people and I asked that I can tag along if anything for the experience.... and what a experience it has been. I have gained so much  knowledge in many different things i can truly say I have gotten that experience. I found out things about myself that i didn't know was there.  I found a strength inside of me that was bursting to get out. I fought with, argued with, cried with,  loved with,  laugh with, and grind-ed with these people and they are my family now and forever more. 

I have seen  what it takes to hold a crew together. We all are the glue that holds us together. THE FAKULTE is not one man but pieces that make a whole. We hold each other up, we keep each other strong when the other is weak. And that is what holds a crew together. 

We all stand here individually, together, stronger,  and smarter.... We are passionate about this thing we do. Each of us finding ways to grow individually and as a crew. We have done everything ourselves we are a team that moves as a whole.  Words can be exchanged and disagreements will come but at the end of it all we dap it up in love and peace. 

We have made it full circle bringing us back to where we began. As I sit here an look back i cant help but smile we have come so far and grown  so much.  Im thankful for every up and every down..... 

Thanks to.....

mAjAh LeAgUe- You hold me down through it all . I can cry to you or vent to you. Either way you keep it real with me and stay true to your words. You are the best big brother a girl could ask for... 

Propane_ You have taught me to analyze everything in front me.... not everything is what it seems.  Staying true to you i know I will always smile when your around, because you stay positive and never let the negative get into this crew.

K.S.B. (THE BEAST) - I love you.... my go to guy when i need it done i know i can come to you. If i have a idea i can come to you... thank you for listening and sharing... you are a brilliant mind when you let it come out you know you can show off. 

B. HOOD- What can I say you do what you do. Run and edit a video like a pro. Magic on a screen. I cant wait to see what the future holds for this talent you hold. Like what you can do with pen and paper i look forward to the magic.

RiRi and Fayrow- I have to address you as a team because you two mange to pull it through every time. No matter what i know you two are working on something at all times.... getting it done.. . grinding to the core. You guys make me wanna work hard....  I admire the hustle you have for what you do but you make it work together and for this crew.

Class- You are my dawg and I have enjoyed getting to know you... your a great artist and although you left for a sec... you came back at the perfect time... and you being here right now shows how time works in its on way.

Elion- Your words are crazy the talent speaks for its self... but i love that you keep a level head even with such a remarkable talent.... and always good for a smile.

Ole Earl (E.O.P.) - I spent a lot of time standing side by side with you., And all the while i have learned a lot about myself, about you, and about our crew.  We fought hard on so many different subjects on two strong point of views. We learned about this business together we grew together.  You pushed me and I pushed back. But at the end of the day we had each others back. I have to thank you Ive learned what I can do, and if thats what all the fighting was to get me to see, then I understand now. Where I stand today is what i needed to get to in order to see what you wanted me to see. I have enjoyed our journey and I'm ready for the next one. I'm on this ride until it ends.

Now to someone Who is not FAKULTE but loves us just the same.... Goes just as hard....

Mr Gibbz  L.I.E. - Thank you for staying true to you. You seen my potential from day one and always been there to remind me of it every step of the way. You never gave up on the good you saw even when the ugly came through.  I had to go through the experience to see where you was coming from and now I do....

A long year it has been, we have regrouped and are going back in for year 2 But I had to stop for a min and reflex on the last year because whats the point of where we are going if we don't know where we have been. 

Chappell (Chapp_E)

Hometown.... where I use to be and where I am.

I sit here and I have flashbacks of a life in my hometown. A life that is familiar to me I can tap into the very feelings I felt as a lil girl. If I was to share that with someone close they would see it as a weakness in me. I see it as a beautiful strength. I don’t dwell on the woes of my past; they are not a weight on me. They are reminders of how I used to be. Everybody says get over it, and I have. But the truth remains. I will never forget it. It’s apart of me and the reason I am strong.  I do have my weakness, but that’s why I am growing with every climb in life. I forget sometimes how easily I can let myself go and give everything I have to others.

 When I was 12, a elderly lady at my grandfather church told me that “there is something special in you.”  I didn’t get it then.  However, five years ago my grandfather told me that “you know Shana I don’t think I ever told you this but you are a special person….. “ Like me, I laughed it off.  He then says “I’m not laughing I’m serious, you should know that.” I smiled but I still didn’t get it. A few nights ago, my ex-husband and I had a conversation about me and how I was reacting to my crew and how I’m letting things affect me in my life. He told me “Shana’, you have always been a person who gives too much of yourself and you can’t help it. So you tend let your feelings get hurt and overreact when you don’t always receive it the way you give it.” 

Right then it hits me, it’s a weakness and a strength. To give….. I never thought about how deep the phrase could go. I give and give and give, not just things, but myself. I lose all focus on me and give everything to the ones I love. I did it so much growing up I never had anything for myself. I ended up in the same place every time down and alone. Down from giving too much and alone, because I never asked or looked for it back.  When it was time to find “Shana” I could barely find myself. After four years I got to see her and really who she is. I found me, and I loved me living for me.

A year ago my life took a turn that I was not ready for. I lost touch with myself and everything I found in me in the last four years. I got sweep of my feet and endured a lot of pain. I faced it and got knocked down. I just didn’t know my own strength. When my crew found me, I was in a low place and when I found them I found such a deep love at a time, where I felt so low, I didn’t seem to have much to love about myself anyway. And I found something that made me feel needed again made me breathe and be excited about life I found something to give myself to. I let myself get so deep without really just being me. I hide it away in a place where I felt like I was protecting myself. It’s easy to say be you no matter what. When the reality of being who you really are has to be able to take on an I don’t give a fuck attitude so to speak. The truth about being yourself is you really can’t care about what anyone thinks of you. And although I agree with that statement whole heartedly I also know how judgmental a person can be without even knowing it. “Loyalty of the heart” and “giving from the soul” two godly traits.  Doing too much of anything good, can go bad.

I have come full circle in a year and I now sit in a place where I sat a year ago. But there is a lot different about the person sitting here. I had to find me again and that’s always a process. I grew up on the defensive team of Dorika Shana Chappell. I did whatever I could do to protect the weakest part of me—my emotions. I now sit here as a grown woman in a different position on the same team, and now I am gaining points in favor of me not scared of who may score on me. I am seen as many things but at least when I’m even at my weakest I’m still being me. This is my process of elevating through life and finding the most peaceful way to live it and still be me. I have to thank my crew. Being around them has taught me so much and though we have had many misunderstandings.  At the end of the day,, the love they have me is shown. I know that and never have to question it. The Fakulte to me is not just a group a crew or my team, they are my family. They have played the biggest role in my life the last six months and I have personally grown tremendously since i have met them. Not to mention they reminded me of some important things that I forgot. Another year and that’s another level for me.

I love those that always love me through my growing process. I love those who just don’t get my growing process. But I have to love me the most. I never tried to change anything about the person I am for another person but I will always work to change my flaws and weakness. The steps are far and in between, but each step taught me something that I needed to learned or  gave me a lesson that I needed to be refreshed on.

When I think about my home town I think about the girl I use to be

And my home town now is the woman I have grown to be

No matter where your hometown is through time there is always change in and around it.

My home town is where I choose to be.

 In my hometown.

Chappell

Me inside THE FAKULTE MUSIC GROUP

It has been some time since I have sat down and told the world what is going on with me and my experience with THE FAKULTE….

Well first let me say its funny how 6 moths of being around a group of people all the time makes you feel like you have known and loved them for years…. Time is something that comes and it goes, it waits for no one and once it’s gone you can’t get it back. For a simple four letter word it carries great meaning along with it. Time moves no faster than it did yesterday and yet we get lost in the concept of how fast time has gone. When really all that happened is we stop long enough for the moment to slow us down while time keeps on going. And for the last few months that’s where I’ve been.  I was stuck in a moment in time. In reality its probably been about two months since I wrote on this blog. But for me its seems like its been much longer. My journey with the Fakulte has taken me to another place in my life that I wasn’t expecting to get to so quickly and so greatly. It’s like chapters to my book are just now being reviled to me and I am seeing things about myself I didn’t see once before. When I joined THE FAULTE I saw a dream of one person and I saw the love, believeth, and confidence he had in a group of people that he loved and cared for pulling them together from all parts of his life creating one family.  To me that was a beautiful thing and all I wanted was to be able to see their dreams come true and tell the story. And now I am a part of this dream.  With that came a great family but it also brought a reality and a choice I had to make…..

I spent a good part of my life in a bubble… nobody understood me in my own family as I grow up.  I was trained from real young to stay quiet and do as I was told. So as I grew only a few have gotten close enough to know me… and everybody else got a wall. For two reason I didn’t want to know what “they” thought of me and I don’t give “them” the chance to form an opinion. So when it came down to it … all I had was me. I have spent a lot of my life running from people and situation and problems, just to end up with them in my face again….. I could blame it on my childhood but instead I won’t I will just say that growing and learning is something that never stops from the day we are born so I am teaching myself again a new way…..   I’ve always been hard headed and the same remains true…. But like I have heard from my dad all my life…. A heard head will make a soft ass ….. Meaning one day you will learn.

So with my personal life being in ruins and having nothing else I poured myself into this FAKULTE life…… and although I loved it and some good came out of it for me personally it brought out a lot of bad things in me I had never seen before. Since I had nothing else my world became The FAKULTE and I held on to it for dear life… with the great fear of losing it like I have lost many other things through life.  It brought me to some turns in this road that I would have run from early in my life. It also made me face some harsh realities about myself.

With this road I’m going down now it comes with some rocky highways and smooth byways but I see where it can take me. And this time I didn’t want to run anymore…… I’ve always been one to let my emotions run rapid with me….but with a lot of humbling and listening I realized I don’t need to run anymore.

….. I love my crew because they fit me…… we all have our own paths that we walk but the thing about THE FAKULTE that I love is we all come back to where we fit…… we come from all different places and we fit perfectly together…….

I have sat back and watched my team for the last few months and although we all had to deal with life and the harsh reality of it…. We all remained focus on our goal together while supporting each other in our own personal struggles. If you ever got somewhere worth any value, then you know it takes a lot of something to get there. We as a family have been through it but we as individuals have grown from it.   We can now appreciate where we are going as a unit a lot more then what we may have if we didn’t go through anything at all.  With a team like this where was I going to run….. I need my team and they need me. We live this life and with each other and we are learning how to do it the right way with each step we take. We all play an important part in the greatness that is going on within the company; and although there is always someone that can do the job I do and possibly do it better….. There is no one that can take the place of the love and loyalty I carry for my team….. So Chapp_e won’t be going anywhere I have found a family that loves me and got me no matter what…. That was hard to find in one person throughout my life and here I have found it with my family of misfits….

This experience with THE FAKULTE has been a REAL one and its only getting realer.

This life we all choose to live is as much personal for us as it is business. We carry each other through the hard times and we stand strong together. We have built such a foundation that everything we build on top of it will be carefully thought out and planned before it becomes part of the structure.

THE FAKULTE MUSIC GROUP is still going strong with no intension of slowing down. We are in the process of starting up our own radio show (Face The FAKS Radio) with other projects going on.

Everything is about timing and everything comes in its own time. We want more than anything to make things happen in our time, but we all know the world doesn’t work like that and for me I personally like it that way. If i got what I want when I wanted it then I wouldn’t have learned anything…… So ill take the lessons and wait for the right time.

We THE FAKULTE have reached our time and this time right here is all we have…. With each sec with each min with each hour we are taking the moment for all its worth and we aren’t going to let time pass us by….. We are running with it and now that the time is here we are going with it non-stop until our time to is done.