“It Can’t Be Corny!”

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS LANGUAGE THAT I WONT USUALLY USE ON THIS BLOG. THAT BEING SAID, I’M RETELLING AN INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT AND AS I RETELL THE STORY, I’M GOING TO TELL IT IN ITS ORIGINAL CONTEXT.

I have friends. From all walks of life. ALL.

Some of those friends are in the entertainment industry. I can’t say I know A-list artists personally. My pond is more a mid-size fish pond. But, my mid-size fish run with some BIG fish and my folks will stick their heads out for me because of what I’m about.

That being said, I don’t like anyone to blow smoke up my XXX!

So I broke the Urban Bailout out to one of my dudes and I asked him, REAL TALK, what are your thoughts about the UB? What’s the word on what I’m trying to do?

He said, “I feel you and I’m not worried about YOU being corny…I’m just saying, you gotta see how you try to sell it to folks.  I mean, the whole thing is cool…but it  can’t be corny. You just gotta remember you are talking about hood.”

I said, let me ask you this…do you have a mentor?

“Yes.”

Does your mentor have a mentor?

“Yes.”

When you guys deal with the real big wigs, white folks, rich folks, successful folks…do they carry themselves different than people in the hood?

“Yes.”

You think they use life coaching, they read self-help, and they have dreams and goals and plans to keep them focused?

“Yes.”

Shit, all I’m saying is the hood needs that just like ya’ll need that. That’s not corny. That’s real.  Cats are out here taking penitentiary chances for chump change. They fuck around and risk their entire probation, freedom, and their kids having their daddy  and  go get a QP that ain’t going to make them no kind of real money just to have a couple dollas in their pockets…and let’s not even say that they are thirsty to get their hands on an 1/8 on any given day. 

These broads are out here having kids and they don’t even know what they hell they are doing, they don’t know how to read to a baby, how they are going to feed this kid, buy clothes for it, if this dude going to be around, they don’t know that their district school only had a 40% graduation ratio and that’s the education they are going to exposing their kids to…they don’t know. Come tax time, these broads are selling their kids, they are bringing out 6, 8, 10 W2 tax forms and you add them all up and it adds up to 8-13k. That’s , 8, 10 job interviews, first days of work, going to pick checks up, getting to work…for 8k in year—-you know me and you have walked away from deals just cuz we can’t make 8-10k in one deal…these folks are making that in a year?

This shit is in-fucking-sane and you’re worried about this shit I’m doing being corny? You industry dudes kill me man, you guys make money off this hood life, and you don’t live it no-more and it seems to me, ya’ll should be breaking your NECKS to get some shit like this together just off these being black people.

I can put together professional contacts that are motivational speakers, authors, teachers, college professors, business men, lawyers, and doctor and there is little to NO chances that they will ever share what they know with the REAL urban market.

 I’m going to tap into that urban market that is on the internet that does want to do better and we are going to put everyone together using internet tools.

We are going to get the information to people, and teach them how to do better, because for the most part it’s not about the people in the streets not being as good as anyone else.

Daily coaching, weekly calls, and classes twice a month about motivation, goals, and focus and then the same thing about other topics like career, interviewing skills, parenting, education, nutrition…man, we need this.

People in these streets need to know dope law, they need to know what political issues are on the table, they need to know how to start a business, how to raise their kids, black history and culture, what what to eat and what to feed  their kids!

Okay, some people won’t like it and some people aren’t interested but some people are going to tune in cuz everyone in the hood doesn’t want to just stay living this bullshit.

People in the hood have dreams too. We have more talent and genius and strength in our streets than White America could ever pay for! We just need help, structure, coaching, and education…just like everybody else. We need to learn to think and problem-solve and make money.  Everybody ain’t grimy. Everybody ain’t stupid.

Yeah I’m making them pay. But what’s the fee for everything? $10 a month? You can’t get a ride across town without having to break someone off with a $10.  I’m not running some bullshit ghetto ass operation here, I’m bringing real professionals on board and we are taking real time out to do daily chats. There’s a cost to that.

I’m also putting a lot of stuff out there free too.

If the members want to grind and make money, they can join a business and promote the program, and get all that plus make money for the same $10. I can take a single mom and help her make an extra $500-1,000 for promoting and she’s learning to focus and she’s learning to help her kids. I can take a felon and tell him to go get busy and make $500-1,000, same thing.

What’s corny about that? You tell me? You tell me something better?  

“Nah, Nah, Nah babe it’s cool. I mean it’s a good idea. You’re right. I was just saying.”

 

Check this: For everyone that I have come on, for every professional, for every life coach…I have 14 that tell me no. I’ve been trying to put this thing together for 2 years. I don’t need people to tell my project’s hot, I’m grown. I wanted to hear his opinion. That’s why I asked.

But, the idea of even thinking of it in “corny” terms fired me up. Because while we are busy being “cool” we are busy dying, we are busy getting locked up, we are busy not getting educated, we are broker than ever…and guess what?  Those low end jobs we used to get, 10-15 years ago, they are taking them overseas and the ones that are staying here in the U.S., with the unemployment the way its…they’ll give them to some white mom from the suburbs with a degree that’s willing to take it before they give it you or me!

I’m bringing real knowledge, real caring, real love, and putting money on the table!

So, corny? Kiss my ass! I’m doing what no one else is going. 

Real Talk.

NOTE: We are still not done with the “Successful People Dont’ Feed Their Kids Honey Buns –You Shouldn’t Either” we just wanted to address last night incident. Look for the final post tomorrow!