Looking back.. Did Dame Dash's Breakfast Club interview do more harm than good?

[Jekyll]

Its not just him but that whole be a boss or you’re a loser culture has a hold on the black community and probably holding us back. There’s probably more skilled employees making 6 figures or better than there are entrepreneurs who net that personally. Money is the only thing that matters at the end of the day, fukk all the bravado, and I work for my self shyt.

There’s are a whole section of upper middle class workers that we have absolutely no representation in. You can blame amerikkka’s usual bs but its probably not that simple. We don’t push our kids enough into high paying fields like other races. Its more, “be your own boss, chase your dreams. do what makes you happy” shyt which isn’t necessarily the wrong message but it leads to the outcomes we see today.

 

[The Burger King]

What a lot of these “be your own boss” idiots fail to understand is that you will always have a boss.

If you own your own business, your customers are still your “boss”.

More black people starting businesses is good, but too many nikkas want to sell t-shirts or do shytty graphic design and then brag about how they’re a “boss” rather than actually get into something lucrative that can help build up our economy.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Yea, it made naive people think making millions a year and having a boss is worse than making $30k a year and being a CEO

Dame has a horrendous track record personally and professionally. Even as a label “boss” his reign didn’t last that long and his peers at the time had way more success. Can’t even compare him to J Prince, P, Suge, Puff, Andre Harrell or Birdman.

And his success was tied to a single golden goose. Kanye rose up off of sheer ambition and being a sociopath. Dame didn’t realize that people tolerated him because they wanted access to the golden goose — himself who was initially ignored.

But for someone who preaches so much business babble he still acts like a woman scorned when his golden goose had other life plans that didn’t involve other people. Turns out the goose knew the places he wanted to get to in life looked better with some CACs behind the scenes instead of Dame and there was only room for his true day ones.

Dame could’ve saved face and got a lil VP job at a label or at least pretended to know how to develop artists — which he can’t do. He wanted to be a “boss”. shyt, he had a chance to pivot out of music altogether instead of being shoved out.

What the fukk can Dame Dash do for anyone in 2023? Let’s keep it 100

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Especially if the nikka he talking shyt too on the show has a higher networth than him

Dame is a potential VH1 show cast member instead of the boss he wants us to think he is. After Jay left he should’ve used that time to be nice to people like Just Blaze and figure out his next move.

Dude is a habitual bridge burner who happened to have access to 2 talented artists and the rest were either mediocre or okay.

 

[UnQuantized]

Dame is flawed and his life does not seem to be perfect order (which is fine, who's life is really in order) but there were some essential truths to his POV. In the long run really owning something may be more valueable than being a high paid employee (unless you are a Surgeon etc), brand mascot.

 

[Henri Christophe]

that whole be a boss or you’re a loser culture has a hold on the black community

No it doesnt

Almost 100% of us are workers

There is no dominating culture of business among black people similar to other groups like the jews and chinese

 

[Elim Garak]

Depends on the individual. Nothing wrong with taking chances trying to become a boss and perusing your dreams. However if you aren't capable of being realistic about your life at the same time that's a problem.

 

[ThatTruth777]

you think that interview was that dam influential?

 

[big bun]

Dame knows what he is talking about…people just hate his delivery.

 

[Henri Christophe]

I feel like alot of people in the thread are exaggerating

Yall make it seem like black men are out here feverishly starting enterprises and embracing Dame's message

Nothing has changed since the interview dropped.... nikkas still doing the same old shyt we always been doing.... which is nothing special.

the interview was a cool moment.... and thats it..... nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Prodyson]

Dame knows what he is talking about…people just hate his delivery.

Dame is the guy who knows lot but doesn’t know as much as thinks and his arrogance clouds his judgement.

Any logical person can understand the idea that working a 9-5 doesn’t make you less of a man. It’s how you manage what you have and your strategy for success that matters. He has determined that the only right way is the way he sees it. That’s foolish. Everyone can’t be an entrepreneur and everyone who can be an entrepreneur can’t just front the money themselves, legally.

Where did Dame, Jay and Biggs get the money to start Rocafella? Exactly

The man who knows something knows that he knows nothing at all, as Erykah once said.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Dame is the guy who knows lot but doesn’t know as much as thinks and his arrogance clouds his judgement.

Any logical person can understand the idea that working a 9-5 doesn’t make you less of a man. It’s how you manage what you have and your strategy for success that matters. He has determined that the only right way is the way he sees it. That’s foolish. Everyone can’t be an entrepreneur and everyone who can be an entrepreneur can’t just front the money themselves, legally.

Where did Dame, Jay and Biggs get the money to start Rocafella? Exactly

The man who knows something knows that he knows nothing at all, as Erykah once said.

Jay, Biggs and Dame used all of their hustling money to start the label and STILL needed a major to come in because they knew it would be impossible to even get funds to market these albums. So they’ve always been workers.

Dame might have been the boss of his little kingdom but some CAC somewhere at the label was signing off on his budgets and release dates. Eventually they got tired of his antics and told Jay something that he probably never believed: he can do it by himself.

And it was true. Jay never realized that there’s TONS of more than qualified people who could put him in places he never imagined. Dame wasn’t needed and was behaving like a hypeman with too big of a battery in his back.

If Dame was this talented boss he portrayed then he would’ve bought out his partners before Def Jam bought the other half of the label it didn’t own. Then he would’ve had leverage. But he needed the money the same way Biggs and Jay did.

 

[semicko82]

The ironic part is DJ Envy and Charlemagne are more successful as employees than Dame being a boss.

This is coming from someone who agreed with the speech

 

[Complexion]

They leveled up after that conversation. Dame shook them out of the employee mindset with his "Can you give your son a job here?" speech and thats what made them branch out into other income streams.

Dames message of empowerment/owning something is very strong but a lot of people want to front and shine without considering the grind it takes to truly be a boss. That and not everyone is cut out for that life as its all about accountability and handling the bumps as you float along.

That and he launched an iconic smiley which has been remixed infinitely...

 

[Wild self]

I feel like alot of people in the thread are exaggerating

Yall make it seem like black men are out here feverishly starting enterprises and embracing Dame's message

Nothing has changed since the interview dropped.... nikkas still doing the same old shyt we always been doing.... which is nothing special.

the interview was a cool moment.... and thats it..... nothing more, nothing less.

A lot of brehs since 2015 been on the entrepreneurial wave and even if they still have a 9-5, they make their own business as a secondary income for emergencies.