Do you think Dame Dash breakfast club interview ending up helping or hurting the blacc community?

[skokiaan]

Looked at where he was before and during the interview.

Learned not to undermine others, respect people.

One way or the other everyone has a boss. Even your boss answers to someone.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

I dont think that was Dame. I put that on the Wake Up Now/Pyramid Scheme gang

I seen a dusty nikka come into a bank one day and was trying to recruit the bank teller talking about “you don’t want to do this for your whole life do you?”. They had to charge him a fee to cash the check cause he didnt have a bank account

 

[JetFueledThoughts]

While this is true it also misses the point of what he was saying. Dame’s messages really rarely have anything to do with money.

If it isn’t money then what are we talkin about? When you die, do you wanna pass down $2 Million to your bloodline or 4 failed businesses?

 

[YeahN1ggaImmaLurker!]

Does his son still have cookies?

 

[timeless]

i think telling black people, especially men, to boss up and never let another man own you helps the community

its an interview that's deep and penetrates your mind with empowerment

So true.

 

[The Fade]

We need specialization and industry

Not come ups and scams

 

[jilla82]

That's not the issue...

I've had "entrepreneurs" slick talk the 9-5 life and then start dialing 9-5 numbers cuz they were broke...

There needs to be context and nuances in these conversations...

For every Dame, there are thousands of "entrepreneurs" who would be better suited getting a 9-5 and investing with others or developing a cash flow to pursue their goals..

thats life breh.
the reason the rewards are so great is because of the risk.

everyone isnt going to make it...
...we need more going after it.

 

[VoxSphere74]

Definitely helped. Don’t even ask me how.

I think so. Because Dame roasted everyone there with his be a boss philosophy. And shook up people who thought having a 9 to 5 job was a good idea.

Which for most Black Americans it's definitely not because it means working for a white person and being at their mercy when they can easily fire you or refuse to hire you for any reason.

And while not everyone can be their own boss. It should be the goal of everyman to try and be a boss in some way and leave something for his kids to inherit like a business, stocks, mutual funds, houses, etc...because otherwise what's the point of being a parent and sacrificing?

 

[Iverson_64]

Hurt.

He meant well in a Dame Dash kinda way, but as usual Dame doesn't give details, nuance, context...people ran with it because it sounded good. People run with so much shyt because "it sounds good".

This.

As an accountant, I can tell you I'm doing better than 90% of my friends who own their own businesses and are "bosses." People keep acting like bossing up means that you'll become successful and be able to build generational wealth but that's usually not the case at all.

Businesses have a very high turnover and failure rate and many business owners wound up having to work a side job for "another man" just to make ends meet.

I have friends and relatives who own different businesses including barbershops, hair salons, print shops, restaurants, auto shops, roofing/plumbing businesses, accounting firms, etc. and the majority of them are still living paycheck to paycheck regardless of the fact that they're the ones cutting the check. They're actually generally worse off than the people I know who work 9-5's, work at Fortune 500 companies, or work as managers for various businesses.

People hear the word "boss" and it sounds alluring and conjures up a certain image but this image is largely an illusion. Only a minority of business owners get to live up to that image and the average one still lives a regular life, deals with tons of stress, and is still only getting by without much disposable income.

While I don't think a Dame Dash interview on Breakfast Club is impactful enough to do anything to the Black community, I do think that Dame lacked nuance on the topic at hand which made certain Black people run with the "boss" or "CEO" image and narrative without viewing it on a comprehensive level. Business owners are just as likely if not more likely to work long hours and have sleepless nights to make money than the average 9-5 guy.

 

[Kurt off them percs]

Who gives a fukk about any of this.
Rich black people are not in charge of how I live my life.

 

[Vandelay]

This.

As an accountant, I can tell you I'm doing better than 90% of my friends who own their own businesses and are "bosses." People keep acting like bossing up means that you'll become successful and be able to build generational wealth but that's usually not the case at all.

Businesses have a very high turnover and failure rate and many business owners wound up having to work a side job for "another man" just to make ends meet.

I have friends and relatives who own different businesses including barbershops, hair salons, print shops, restaurants, auto shops, roofing/plumbing businesses, accounting firms, etc. and the majority of them are still living paycheck to paycheck regardless of the fact that they're the ones cutting the check. They're actually generally worse off than the people I know who work 9-5's, work at Fortune 500 companies, or work as managers for various businesses.

People hear the word "boss" and it sounds alluring and conjures up a certain image but this image is largely an illusion. Only a minority of business owners get to live up to that image and the average one still lives a regular life, deals with tons of stress, and is still only getting by without much disposable income.

While I don't think a Dame Dash interview on Breakfast Club is impactful enough to do anything to the Black community, I do think that Dame lacked nuance on the topic at hand which made certain Black people run with the "boss" or "CEO" image and narrative without viewing it on a comprehensive level. Business owners are just as likely if not more likely to work long hours and have sleepless nights to make money than the average 9-5 guy.

Everything is circumstantial. I remember for years, people thought "owning your masters" was the end all be all of the music industry. If you don't have a vehicle to shop your masters it's symbolic only.

 

[In The Zone '98]

Success is built off success.

Dame's fukk everybody I'll do it by myself mantra has never been the standard. And it's not even his own, lol. He made his money off the talent of others.

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

i think telling black people, especially men, to boss up and never let another man own you helps the community

its an interview that's deep and penetrates your mind with empowerment

How you gonna be a boss with no workers?

Everybody can't be in charge

Same mfs gonna be like, "Why don't nobody wanna work "

 

[Piff Perkins]

I don't see how you can argue enough black people even know who Dame Dash is or heard the interview to claim it helped/hurt the community, collectively. Bigger issue in my mind is that plenty of black people believed shyt like that long before Dame said it and even more believe it now. If you've been to a barbershop at any point in the last 15 years you've heard that sentiment. When I graduated college and was telling my (former) barber about the good new job I'd be starting soon, he asked me why I was excited about working for someone else instead of creating my own business. Mind you, this was a guy who sold Amway shyt out the trunk of his car.

A few more trips to the shop and hearing other people get put down for achieving made me realize this is a coping mechanism, and a part of being a hater. Most people don't start a small business. Most small businesses that do get started fail within a few months. So when someone asks you why you haven't started a business, odds are they do not have a business OR they had a failed business. On the flip side, most middle and upper class people in this country work a 9-5 for a company or boss. If you're a young mail breh working at the Post Office making 50k a year, you have a boss. If you're working IT at a company making 60k a year, you have a boss. If you're a doctor at a hospital making 200k a year, you have a boss. If you're an attorney at a big law firm making 500k a year...you have a boss. The way certain people in the community denigrate the "9-5" is very disturbing to me. We've got people who think you either work at McDonalds, sell drugs, go to the NBA, or start a business. That's insanity...

 

[O.G Bobby Johnson]

As a business owner, owning a business has a ton of risks, and is often times a headache. Even though I made more owning a business than a 9-5, the freedom is priceless, but it is stressful at times . Point is we need more black entrepreneurs and more of us need to be more risk takers instead of order takers.