businessman vs.
business man
leroy mckenzie
few days ago the music icon JayZ released his 11th cd, and to much much avail. The Hip Hop mogul has been out of the game for several years now but you would not know it from all of the hype that he has gotten from the release of his latest cd. Jay Z has gone from what I call being a businessman, where he was on the street corner doing what he felt he had to do in order to survive, to now being a Business Man; and using his Brand to make his money work for him. The release of his new cd had me reflecting on how a man can be so influential in the way that our community and society sees itself.
This phenomenon is not just limited to just Jay Z but it also has a few other men, who are in sports and entertainment who seem to
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control the dynamic of how and the way our society thinks.Jay Z, releases a cd and there was even more hype at least a year or so before the cd came out because his wife, Beyonce, released her cd lemonade, which got people talking about Jay Z. Now, with the release of his cd people have been talking much about how his lyrics have gone from the hustler on the street mentality to the Business Man mindset of flipping Art and having good credit.
As I looked at Jay Z and these other men in music, sports and entertainment and the ones that have turned being businessmen into being a business man. Why do their words hold more weight than those of us who have been saying the same positive things to young men on a regular? How have they