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You know those people that have way too much power for their own good? In fact, they have so much power that they have developed an ego so big it would make Diddy look like an anorexic insecure suicidal teenage girl from the ‘burbs. You know the club bouncer, your boss, your teacher, the police, the parking enforcement dude, the gatekeeper, pretty much anyone that restrains you from doing something. Basically the people Socrates was referring to when he said “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Well here’s 10 ways to effectively deal with these ego-trippers. Read more »

People always ask me whats the best way to make money without doing anything illegal? Well, before I got into “legit” hustling, I was doing a lot of petty things such as selling bootlegg dvds and mixtapes (and things I can’t really say here). That was until, a friend of mine, asked me, “Why don’t you try the stock market?” My first reaction was to be scared as I had no clue about how stocks worked as they seemed all very mystical to me. It’s hard to describe the feeling, think of it like when someone tells you to try something you have never heard of before and the only “knowledge” you have on the subject comes from little bits of hearsay you’ve heard in the past. Since I’ve always had a open mind and have a good appetite for risk, I decided to investigate further -as any true hustler would.

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I received this question from one of our readers, named Mike, here’s what he wanted to know,

“Hi YoRapper,

I just purchased some really cheap tickets to the Kanye West Glow in the Dark concert from your site and I had one question. I am a 42 year old dad and I am taking my 14 year old daughter and 13 year old son to the Kanye West concert here in Los Angeles. I just would like to know how should I dress?

Thank you,

Mike”

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“Don’t let no one know, how much dough you hold, ’cause you know, the cheddar breed jealously especially if that man f*cked up, get your ass stuck up.”-Notorious B.I.G.

The line referenced above is rule #1 from one of Biggie’s most classic songs, “The Ten Crack Commandments“. In that song, Big gives out advise to would-be crack hustlers on what you should and shouldn’t do as a dealer in the game. Today I want to elaborate on rule #1 don’t tell anyone how much money you make whether your caking or flat broke.

When you make a lot of money and have been poor most of your life, you probably want to “share” it with as many people as possible, and at the same time “brag” and “stunt” as much as possible, because damn it feels good to have a lot of money right? Let me tell you, keep your mouth shut. Don’t tell anyone how much money your making and I mean anyone, not some strangers, not your friends, and certainly not your family or girlfriend. Why?

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I hate, no I despise, fake hustlers. I hate fake people in general, but fake hustlers make me want to throw a stack at them or something ignorant like that. For the unaware, a fake hustler is someone who says or thinks their “hustling” but really is working a 9 to 5 for SOMEONE ELSE. Either that or they are pretending they are running their own business. I have a “friend” who told me he’s running an “internet media company” with “a friend”. First of all, who is this magical friend that all these fake hustlers are working with? Secondly, my “friend” doesn’t know shit about computers, he doesn’t even own one, there’s no way he has a booming internet company.

I have another “homie” who told me he owns a mechanic shop. I was surprised because he had told me he was making all this money as a mechanic working for GM. I was having some small problems with my car and asked if he could take a look at it at his shop and he said “yeah sure”. I called him repeatedly for where his shop is located and when I could take it there but homie never returned my call nor have I heard from this guy since, it’s been like 6 months.

Fake hustling is worse than being a victim, because not only are you not doing shit with your life, but your also lying about doing shit about your life. Don’t try to impress me by lying to me, I can spot a lie or fraud or a snake by just asking a few questions and I think most people can too. Don’t set off BS detectors and don’t be a fake hustler.

Are you a fake hustler?

Well are you? A victim is someone who blames others for their misfortune, someone who depends on others for their livelihood, depends on alcohol or crack or any other drug to make it through the day, and/or someone who depends on the government to provide the basic necessities of life. A victim is pretty much the exact opposite of a hustler. And by hustler I mean someone who is entrepreneurial in that they take it upon themselves to change their financial situation.

A victim, on the other hand, waits for others to improve their financial situation. They buy lottery tickets praying to God their numbers will be called, they go to the casino, hoping to hit the jackpot, or they simply just work the bare minimal at their shitty ass job for the rest of their life and die without having accomplished anything. Now are you a victim?

If your reading this and thinking “nah I ain’t no victim”, I’ve got news for you, you are. The overwhelming majority of people are victims. Look at the democratic primaries right now, what’s the big issue, NAFTA. The democratic voters are blaming NAFTA for losing their jobs? Are you serious? If your job is so important and you loved it so much than you should move to where you think your job was shipped too. You’d only have to either move to Mexico or Canada, either which wouldn’t be as bad as being a victim blaming a governmental policy that promotes the free trade of goods and services across borders.

Now I’m sorry for calling you a victim, I know most of the loyal yorappers are true hustlers and are consciously trying to change their situation and I am going through the same thing myself. It just erks me when these victims come crying on the tv screen hoping another person is going to better there situation. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, don’t depend on a politician, a pastor, a rapper, a friend, your parents, your god, don’t depend on anyone to change your life other than YOU.

What did you do today to change your life tomorrow?

No matter what you do, whether your in school, have a 9 to 5, run your own business or unemployed you are giving someone or something a deal. By “deal” I mean a service or a product. If your in school your giving yourself an education (because in 2008 teacher’s don’t really teach), if your in a cubicle, your giving your services to your company, if your running your own business, your giving your services to your employees and customers, if your unemployed your giving yourself a deal too -a bad one. From my experience, the majority of people want the best deal for themselves, but hardly take the time out to give the best deal or best service. Why is this a problem for YOU?

Not to get all mystical on you (where’s that foo anyway?), but the universe has a weird way of rewarding those who give the best deal. In other words, those that are passionate about their work/craft/hobby/thingyoudo get the biggest reward. And by reward I mean they become filthy rich, with endless supplies of money, fame, glory, women and more women. If you have the foresight to pick something your good at early, you’ll be a millionaire before your 20. If your like most people, you’ll have to get good at something first and give it your all -and by all I mean all, no half stepping, half ass, half attempt, anything with a “half” in it -matter a fact, eliminate the word from your vocab.

So if your thinking about studying the night before, showing up late for work tomorrow, or forgetting about going that extra mile for that customer. Ask yourself are you giving the best deal?

I’m going to introduce you today to a simple concept which has helped me a lot over the years. And it’s basically the idea, I call, individual responsibility. It’s a pretty straight forward way of thinking which I can summarize with the following motto;

“The Me Tomorrow is Going to Hate/Love the Me of Today if I Do action A or action B.”

Let me explain, what this means is that if you are going to drink and get crunk tonight “the you” tomorrow is going to hate your dumbass tomorrow for the puking and subsequent hangover, so you would drink in moderation. Now apply this to anything in life, school and work.

If your in school, it is only you that can get those grades up. If your working or running your own business, it is only up to you to make that money. Duh. I know. But with the recent election and with all these politicians telling us how they are going to save us, I feel the damn need to stand up and say “I don’t need to be saved, I can save my own damn self.” Don’t you?

To me only losers want to be saved, no scratch that, only losers are begging to be saved. No one on earth is going to save you (and no one in heaven is going to save you, but that’s for another day). For all my ladies out there, no man is going to save you, save yourself first before having kids and being another broke ass single mom. For my fellows, become a man first, before you have kids and screw up your life and some next persons life. Save yourself.

Act as if the government doesn’t give out welfare, act as if no one owes you anything, because guess what no one does owe you anything. Theres only one person that owes you everything and that’s yourself. This may not be the most popular thing to say (but hey I’m too popular anyway) stop believing in God and start believing in yourself. God’s not going to save you. The universe does work in weird ways to help your ass out, and God may or may not have something to do with it, but it is up to YOU to get there. Step up to the plate…

Don’t be an American Loser. BE A WINNER.

Ever get the feeling that your so close to making “it” that you can almost taste it? Well not taste it, but you know what I mean. The last few months I’ve been feeling like I am so close to making it, I just can’t wait. I’ve been working on a project over the last month and it seems like it’s actually going to take me to the “next level”. I almost started crying the other day, thinking about it, I’ve been flat broke for a while now and just barely making enough to scrape by, so its been hard seeing my friends go out and ball while I had to work and save, but I think I’m on the verge of my big break.

I just wanted to tell all yall, keep working with all your heart and you will be a success. Don’t settle for nothing less than the best. Let the suckers work a 9 to 5 and kill themselves, wouldn’t you rather work yourself to death for yourself? But hey, if a “real” job is your thing I don’t want to persuade you any other way, this post is really for my real hustlers, not these imaginary players. You know the ones that dream of doing something, but do nothing but dream. This is a toast to the doers. As Jadakiss once said, WE GONNA MAKE IT.

Okay Keeping with the whole web 2.0 revolution and since we as the hip hoppers don’t want to fall behind these computer geeks, I finally looked into this whole Rss feed business. I still barely know what an RSS feed is, but apparently your pretty cool if you have a lot of people “subscribing” to your site. I do know that when you “subscribe” you get to see whatever greatness I post in some kind of a RSS reader. Now I really don’t know if yall hip hop kids have embraced this technology yet, my guess is it’ll be sometime in the next three years, but even I haven’t totally figured out this whole thing. Anyway, if you are down with the RSS subscribe by clicking on that little ticker on the top left hand side or just by clicking this orange button and make me e-cool.

E-props to anyone who can tell me how this makes my life easier? and how it works?