[2] Hawkins is a reporter and news editor for The Wall Street Journal.
In 2009 he presented the CNBC special NEWBOs: The Rise of the New Black Overclass, which profiled LeBron James, Kirk Franklin and Terrell Owens, among others.
[1] Hawkins won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the R&B category in 2011 for his song "I Love You Woman".
He then appeared on their 2014 DVD Wiggle House, and was a guest singer (on "This Little Piggy Went to Market") on their 2014 album Apples and Bananas.
[4] In 2015 Hawkins released the Christmas album Songs About the Birth of Jesus, in which he sings with his father.