My Friends Are Better Than Yours Featuring Chanel Rae Pettaway

By bigced 2 weeks ago

Chanel Rae Pettaway is a Public Relations, Branding, Events, and Media Specialist for top brands across multiple genres, including music, fashion, and technology

Chanel is a Public Relations, Branding, Events, and Media Specialist for top brands across multiple genres, including music, fashion, and technology. She is the co-host of a new podcast for the millennial mom, “Our First Time; AMommyCast, which has been mentioned on Hot97, Bossip, VIBE magazine, and more. She is also a writer for Mirren (an advertising consulting firm) and was the recipient of the Essence of a Woman award from the Queens chapter of the NAACP (March 2012) and named Top 45 Publicists you Should Hire (May 2014).

Chanel has worked in music, media, fashion, entertainment, and now government. Though Chanel is known for breaking artists in the music industry including rockstar Cardi B as well as today’s emerging artists like Zeddy Will and Honey Bxby, now you can also catch her in politics as she is now part of the PR support for Newark NJ’s Mayor Ras Baraka as he campaigns for Governor of New Jersey.

Chanel was named AllHipHop’s Powerful Women and Urban Magazine’s Executive Power in 2018. She was featured in Black Enterprise for the brand alignment between Dipset, the NBA, and Bleacher Report in February of 2020. She also secured a spirits and wine partnership between Jim Jones and Luè/JADE in September of 2023.

Chanel was highlighted on Urban Magazine’s Executive Power (March 2019), AllHipHop’s Powerful Women (March 2019), and Bossip as one of the Baddest Publicist Baes In The Game in 2021 and 2022. She was part of Sway’s list of 15 Black Women Making Waves in Our Culture (FEB 2024), and has now been added to XXL’s Awards Board (Feb 2025).

Chanel has worked alongside WWE, Hot 97, Jimmy Jazz, Shaggy, Cam’Ron, Jim Jones, Dipset, Cipha Sounds, Peter Rosenberg, Salaam Remi, Joell Ortiz, Chinx, Fatman Scoop, Chrissy Lampkin, Michael “Blue” Williams, Smack White / URLTV, Embassy Lounge NYC, Hitmaka, Torae, J1, DJ Juanyto, DJ Drewski, DJ E. Stylez, Pretty Lou, DJ LilTaj, Kinship Apparel, Yay Apparel, and more. Her goal is simply to “save brands.”

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