alright, i have taken a couple of days to digest this thread.
Let's start with who it's about.
Dame dash is an african in america, that is insecure, brash, and from harlem, but, assertive, aggressive, and intelligent.
Bottom line, he is human.
Yeah, on paper, he looks like sh!t...but so did donald trump in the 70's, 80's and 90's with a rich dad and other people's money.
The advice he is offering is from his own experience, and even though i do not always agree with his delivery, it does not negate that he is tellin' the muthaf*ckin' truth about us, about looking to work a job rather than create opportunites for our family and jobs for others.
Now, this is one of the few threads that went waaaaaaaaay left, but for the better. We got to discussing being a "boss," rampant employee mentality in our community, and group economics. Let me shed light on this for a moment.
First of all, white people talking about entrepreneurship to me, means nothing at this point in my mental development, it's fraud. These mofos made it of a string of artificial advantages and never want to use their own talents or own money, but leech off of every one else and call sh!t original. They are only in it to make money and if others benefit, it is a symptom or a by product, not intentional, so f*cking what?!
That's not sustainable.
When you study africa, especially ethiopia, nubia, kemet, and egypt, from my research, there was a high concentration of "bosses," but not in the western and hip hop-erized concept many of us are seeing it.
You had orators, master teachers, and philosophers.
You had holistic practitioners, for the mind, spirit and body.
You had astronomers, astrologers, and mathmeticians.
You had metalurgists, brick masons, carpenters, plumbers, and blacksmiths.
And you can't have any civilization without people who can farm, and according to my research everybody had the skill of farming and a skill in addition to that.
These are all bosses. Everyone had a gift or "procured" a gift into a skill or a trade.
So, none of us africans in america can do these and make business out of them? Not to mention technological advances in every vertical has created evolving skills and trades.
In closing, i want to give a shout out to vicous and gametheory on group economics inclusion. The latest buzz is that we are ""40 million" strong and we have over "a trillion in buying power" and we spend a fraction of that sh!t in the community...a fraction!
It is unrealistic for us to shoot for converting the entire trillion. We have been to pschologically damaged for that to happen in our lifetime, unless there just continues to be a major awakening.
However, if we simply could rotate ten to twenty five percent of that trillion into our community, we will have data for our brothers and sisters who are completely brainwashed that the white man's ice is colder.
And dame was right for talking to the entire shows cast the way he did because envy was in the game before dame and dame was not asking him to be "him," but wonders why he does not have enough knowledge and/or confidence in his brand to strike out on his own. It would have been impractical when they first started, but with the internet and satellite radio, dame was right, ain't no excuses no more.
Think like a partner, hire a manager if you need to, but control your brand! The breakfast club is a brand, but they can replace them ninjas while i am typing this sentence. When you have a true reach, that ain't livin'.
Yeah, it's his blessing and his curse.
Yeah, i agree.
Sure, he will always be connected to jay but like dame said it has been 15 years. Even if dame talked about his handful of successes, it would take up 70 minutes and if he included his failures, you would run over
, but the ninja has no quit in him.
It shill does.
They got the oppotunity to be incompetent.
yeah, it's just that engrained into the mentality to where it is seamless and you don't even recognize it.
Well drayonis, i hear you and i feel you, but it's a student's job to learn the trade and do their thing. It will always be unique because it is art. Personality tends to have no filter when it comes to art. It's like personality you can see. No two student are alike, so yeah you are not planning competition, but it is the nature of evolving as a teacher and your students evolving as artists.
To your second paragraph, that's white folks, period. The "i want it all" mentality is straight bullsh!t. Profit can be had, while helping your fellow man, simultaneously. Build a business around a need and you have killed two birds with one stone. Its called cooperative economics. We don't need to do what "they" do...that's why were are in the situation we are in now.
