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He wasn't born a celebrity millionaire. He dropped out of college (scholarship, and his mother was a professor there who didn't approve) to pursuit a career in
by nikcub 13y ago
He wasn't born a celebrity millionaire. He dropped out of college (scholarship, and his mother was a professor there who didn't approve) to pursuit a career in music, took him a decade to break out.
- Edmond 13y agoTrue. The interesting thing though about most successful rappers is that, while almost all of them come from poverty, they tend to achieve success early in life such that by the time they hit middle age they've been rich longer than they've been poor (Nas notes this in one of his songs)... A guy like Jay-Z talking about hardship increasingly sounds out of touch :)
- domrdy 13y agohttp://rapgenius.com/Nas-loco-motive-lyrics#note-880957 http://rapgenius.com/Nas-loco-motive-lyrics#note-880957
- pmorici 13y agoIf his mom was a professor at a college that sounds like an indication of at least an upper middle class upbringing. Edit: Wikipedia says, "middle class" and the college he dropped out of was an art school so it isn't like he was giving up a sure thing to take a course that was more risky. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West
- dragonwriter 13y ago> If his mom was a professor at a college that sounds like an indication of at least an upper middle class upbringing. Knowing what college professor's salaries are like, "at least upper middle class" is way optimistic, though "probably solidly middle class" is likely.
- nikcub 13y agoSingle mother in Chicago working at a state college? Straight up middle class. I don't buy the premise that you need to be poor to have an appreciation of risk. Risk isn't just financial, there is also career and personal risk. Think of all the well-off kids who didn't follow in their fathers footsteps or what their parents wanted and pursued their own dreams, at the risk of being alienated, disowned etc.
- ItendToDisagree 13y agoHe wasn't at risk of being disowned. He also wasn't at risk of going hungry. He may have been at risk of having to work a boring 9-5 for the rest of his life. But that's a risk shared by so much of the public that it seems pretty minimal.
- acron0 13y agoI don't think it matters how you make your money, just that once you've accrued a certain amount of wealth the concept of risk starts to fade...