09/03/2022 / PRZen / OAKLAND, California — Legendary singer, producer and writer Suga-T Stevens is being honored for years of entrepreneurial success. She was recently named Business Woman of the Decade at the 16th^th Annual West Coast Hip Hop Awards. Stevens also presented and sponsored a HER Museum exhibit at the ceremony. The museum is one of their newest ventures; one that celebrates the achievements of women and girls.

“The award came as a surprise and I am honored to be recognized,” says Stevens. “I’ve been a serial entrepreneur most of my life.”

She started her first business with her grandfather when she was only eight years old. By the age of 12, she was running her own mobile hairstyling business. Today, she is the CEO of a conglomerate of businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations known as Sprinkle Me Social Enterprise (SMSE).

“I always felt like I had to create opportunities for myself,” she says. “I was a single teenage mom; I’ve suffered domestic violence and I’m in a business, hip hop music that values ​​youth and can be pretty harsh on older women. Entrepreneurship gave me freedom; and in life and in business ventures I can teach others how to create and maintain their own opportunities.”

SMSE includes the Sprinkle Me Learning Academy (a coaching and mentoring platform); a music and video production company; a beauty and health products company and the HER museum. Stevens is also the founder of the nonprofit Work It Well Project 501c3, an organization that serves vulnerable populations and mothers of children with autism. She is also the author of several books on empowerment and business issues.

The busy singer and businesswoman will perform at the Bay Area’s first annual hip-hop music festival, Hiero Day, on September 5th and will be in Sacramento on September 10th^th In the…