xxCivicxx;6527307 said:
To all of the people in here saying that financial empowerment is anything short of absolutely key in correcting the state of afro americans in this country please give me a SINGLE example of any sort of long-term positive changes that these "broke revolutionaries" have facilitated/influenced? Why are so many black people content with being hardcapped financially? Kanye was exactly right, as long as someone is signing your check, you're a slave. As long as you need to go to some bank for a loan to accomplish something(black people are also hardcapped on the size of business loans that we can recieve), you're a slave. Black people are all talk but when one of us tries to step up and do something, the crabs come right out of the woodwork.
Black people have been shut out of pretty much ALL distribution companies, and that's where the money is at in ANY industry. What Kanye is saying is that we need more black billionaires so that we can gain a GLOBAL VOICE because we don't have one. We have absolutely no influence on ANY global-scale decision has been made/is being made right now. Some of our more enlightened niggas feel some type of way about that. For all the talk of doing it by himself, show me one example of a black person that has successfully started a clothing line and worked it up to the gucci/givenchy/versace level? FUBU? Rockawear? Karl Kani? None of those brands even came close. How would the result be any different for Kanye? Especially since he's already proven that his previous fashion joint ventures have ALL BEEN SUCCESSFUL?
This shit is deeper than rap, it's deeper than clothes. It's about distribution. Kanye feels he has a calling in clothes and he feels like he kick the billionaire club's door in through that industry. More fucking power to him. He's in a position to at least attempt it, so why shouldn't he? He wasn't the first to try. Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, P Diddy, Suge Knight, Marvin Gaye, Same Cook as well as many other black artists expressed interest in starting an all-black music distribution company in order to break into that billionaire club. How many of those people are alive today? How many of those people didn't have their names run through the mud in the media? I mean diddy has a body and almost went to jail for shooting a club up. Suge Knight is broke in and out of jail gettin knocked out by small niggas outside of clubs. Michael Jackson would actually be a billionaire if he were alive today, his estate clears over a billion a year and it's still gaining more and more profits. This shit is deeper than music
If extreme confidence in oneself is some kind of mental illness then I probably have that same shit that Kanye has. I think his problem is that he thinks faster than he talks(I have the same issue) so he comes off as intense when he's just trying to get a bunch of points across at once. I think he's frustrated because of how dense a lot of niggas seem to be. C tha god is a funny guy but after this interview I'm forced to question his intelligence because this nigga was letting gems go completely over his head
I gotta say that after reading this thread I'm a little frustrated too. A lot of you niggas really need to learn some critical thinking skills
I cosign this post. I'm going through what Kanye is going through to an extent, but I try not to let it get me too angry.
I know what's like to be ahead of your time and be ambitous, but be surrounded by happy go lucky, small minded niggas who don't see the bigger picture. So it's like your speaking a different language have to time because you going over "negroes" heads(which ain't hard to do). All in all I hope Kanye succeeds and grows in whatever endeavor he pursues, but he does need to work on his approach when it comes to dealing with people, he needs to learn better patience, tact, and humility. All that matched with ambition is deadly, if you going at corporations you gotta be times more focused and can't get flustered. Kanye got the right idea but he needs to work on himself a little more, maybe he does need a new circle of friends.
All that shit he said about blacks not having power or any connections is on point that shit makes it a thousand times harder to prevail, because you gotta go outside you're racial/class group for money to get a project started or start up funding and the risk is magnified when you approach a investor/bank due to you're class or racial background they'll not fund you even if you got your i's dotted and t's crossed so it's a catch 22. I just hope I make it so I can give ambitious "blacks" a hand up that I didn't receive when starting out so this damn cycle of mediocrity and failure will stop. BTW all that shit Kanye is saying in regards to financial freedom, Claude Anderson, Malcolm X, Amos Wilson and Marcus Garvey already elaborated on it( and much more coherently), it's just that "negroes" are hard headed, ignorant. and selfish so they never get the message
