Bayer Leevince Mack (born August 26, 1972) is an Americanrecord executive and filmmaker. He is the publisher of the late-1990s, early-2000s urban entertainment websiteHOT 104.com, the founder ofBlock Starz Music and the director ofThe Czar of Black Hollywood.

Mack attended Central Middle School (now Central Magnet School) andOakland High School.^[1] He is analumnus ofMiddle Tennessee State University where he majored injournalism and wrote for the school's editorially independent, student-run newspaper,Sidelines.^[2]

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Mack relocated to Louisville, Kentucky in the mid-1990s and founded thedot-com company Infinity-Digital. His website HOT 104.com gained notoriety after a story it published about the shooting death ofTyisha Miller by police officers in Riverside, CA went viral.^[3] In 1999, Mack signed an affiliate contract with theAKA.com Hip-Hop Network created byLoud Records founderSteve Rifkind.^[4] In addition to Hip-Hop reviews, chart analysis, entertainment news, MP3 downloads and African-American swimsuit models, Mack routinely publishededitorials that touched on hot-button issues, like ineffective African-American leadership andsexual violence against women.^[5][6] HOT 104.com also covered several police shootings.^[7]

Mack became the marketing manager of a German hip-hop website calledYoRaps.com in 2008.^{[citation needed]} Later that year, he and the site's owner, Kai Denninger, formed anonline record label called Block Starz Music to promote free mixtapes by the independent and unsigned artists featured in YoRaps' “Next 2 Blow” section, likeRasheeda. The label's early association withWiz Khalifa helped boost the company's profile and attracted other artists.

Mack made his directorial debut in 2014 with the documentary filmOscar Micheaux:The Czar of Black Hollywood. He self-financed the project and released it independently through his production studio, Block Starz Music Television. In an April 2014 interview withThe Washington Times, Mack said he was inspired to produce a film aboutOscar Micheaux's life because it mirrored his own.^[8][9] Mack is also executive producer of theweb series,Profiles of African-American Success. In 2016, he wrote and directed theMartin Luther King Sr. documentaryIn the Hour of Chaos, which takes a critical view ofliberalism's effect on the black civil rights movement. The film was named runner-up at theSan Francisco Black Film Festival and was featured at San Francisco'sde Young Museum as part of the Bay Area's "MLK Day of Revelations".^[10][11] In 2019, Mack wrote and directed a documentary film on the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry, calledNo Lye: An American Beauty Story.^{[citation needed]} Mack's filmBlack Seeds: The History of Africans in America won the "Best Feature Documentary" award and a $20,000 camera package fromPanavision at the 2021 Denton Black Film Festival.^{[12][13][14][15]}

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