Woman who quit 80K a year NBA job to become a rapper, is now homeless

[Guvnor]

She failed cause she didn’t have a plan, only a dream. Serves her ass right

Facts, those who fail to plan also plan to fail.

She should have kept the job and did the rapping shyt on the side.

 

[Serious]

Anybody feeling sorry for her is likely someone who is stiil very young minded and out of touch with REALITY.

As much as I want to feel sad for her, there's a lot of homeless and jobless black people in LA. At some point there was a spiral out of control and rejection of the system. The pursuit of chasing their dreams had to start somewhere.

It's not wrong to chasing your dream, you're bound to take an L, but you most certainly have to be focused on bouncing back. With that said, you have to be realistic, everybody and they mama are trying be a rapper / actor in LA, very few people will make it....

 

[daboywonder2002]

i get the message she is saying but you have to have a plan. If you making 80 k a year why not invest in your own studio or maybe studio time. Save your money so you have a nice cushion when you do move. It's no guarantee that you will be able to land another job

 

[Rekkapryde]

2018 version of the rapper, Boss

Detroit members could tell you the full story, but early 90s female rapper talking all this "i was homeless, i hustled" talk............and got exposed on some mc gusto shyt

Spoiler: fukk free world.... 313

A perfect snapshot of these suicidal values comes from 24-year-old Lichelle "Boss" Laws, one of the fastest-rising female rappers in the country.

Laws' rap is vulgar, graphic and incendiary. She curses violently, incessantly, brags about her collection of automatic weapons, drinks malt liquor from 40-ounce bottles, and talks about her desire to kill people.

Laws talks often about her tough life on the streets. Last week she told the Wall Street Journal that she has sold drugs and hung out with the Bloods street gang. She also says she spent time in the joint.

She didn't. In fact, quite the opposite.

Lichelle Laws grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Detroit. Her father, a retired auto worker, used to take the family out to dinners, movies and plays. Occasionally he'd drive through the rough part of town to emphasize the importance of getting a good education. Lichelle went to private schools, studied ballet and piano, and went to church.

While in college, she got turned on to rap music by a friend. They formed a group and performed at campus gigs. But when she and a friend moved out to L.A. to try and make it big, things changed.

"I tried the straight-up, nice girl approach," she said. "It didn't work."

Laws started "dressing down" in gang garb, writing explicitly violent and sexual rap lyrics. Lichelle claimed that during this period she was living on the streets, but her mom told the Journal that the family always sent their daughter money. "Lichelle could have stayed at the Embassy Suites with all of the money we were sending her," she said.

Lichelle is now with a record label owned by Sony. She struts around on stage during concerts bellowing "I don't give a (expletive) about none of y'all!" that is

Boss was fake?????

Album was hard as hell though

 

[jwonder]

I would laugh, but I can't see anybody being that stupid. I seriously think she is mentally ill. I hope she can get some help.

 

[jwonder]

2018 version of the rapper, Boss

Detroit members could tell you the full story, but early 90s female rapper talking all this "i was homeless, i hustled" talk............and got exposed on some mc gusto shyt

Spoiler: fukk free world.... 313

A perfect snapshot of these suicidal values comes from 24-year-old Lichelle "Boss" Laws, one of the fastest-rising female rappers in the country.

Laws' rap is vulgar, graphic and incendiary. She curses violently, incessantly, brags about her collection of automatic weapons, drinks malt liquor from 40-ounce bottles, and talks about her desire to kill people.

Laws talks often about her tough life on the streets. Last week she told the Wall Street Journal that she has sold drugs and hung out with the Bloods street gang. She also says she spent time in the joint.

She didn't. In fact, quite the opposite.

Lichelle Laws grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Detroit. Her father, a retired auto worker, used to take the family out to dinners, movies and plays. Occasionally he'd drive through the rough part of town to emphasize the importance of getting a good education. Lichelle went to private schools, studied ballet and piano, and went to church.

While in college, she got turned on to rap music by a friend. They formed a group and performed at campus gigs. But when she and a friend moved out to L.A. to try and make it big, things changed.

"I tried the straight-up, nice girl approach," she said. "It didn't work."

Laws started "dressing down" in gang garb, writing explicitly violent and sexual rap lyrics. Lichelle claimed that during this period she was living on the streets, but her mom told the Journal that the family always sent their daughter money. "Lichelle could have stayed at the Embassy Suites with all of the money we were sending her," she said.

Lichelle is now with a record label owned by Sony. She struts around on stage during concerts bellowing "I don't give a (expletive) about none of y'all!" that is

Here's the funny part. She was exposed, but she let many know how easy it is to infiltrate hood life even if you never lived it. And had a few hits on top of it.

 

[jwonder]

Boss was fake?????

Album was hard as hell though

Phonier than a 4 dollar bill. But I aint mad at her. These so called hood mofos couldn't even tell. The story was a friend from back in the day exposed her because she got some notoriety and started making money.

But seriously this should tell you how remedial hood mentality is. All you got to do is act the part, believe some of the dumb ideology and rest falls in place. Very sad.

 

[panopticon]

She's the prime example of someone who can't cut it in the corporate world. And this isn't a knock on her because I get it, but she's the type I think about when some of these coli brehs talk their shyt about what everyone else should be doing - which generally involves following a specific (corporate) path. People like her tend to feel stifled and claustrophobic in more controlled environments and don't function well. And when forced to be there they end up being a drag on your team and force you to pick up the slack.

That said, being a full grown woman with a degree and a solid position in a highly competitive field leads me to believe this is more so related to mental illness than anything else. The fact that she made it as far as she did in her career and then dropped everything to basically follow a pipe dream says a lot. I heard some of her music and tbh it wasn't bad (from what I remember), but a smart - SANE - woman would've used her position and relative closeness to athletes, agents and other power players to gain traction in the entertainment industry in her SPARE time. Pursuing music doesn't take all day - most people have real jobs to pay the bills - and she would've been better off keeping her day job while trying to grow a following by night. Which should've been easy enough if she's the go-getter she claims to be.

I want to second everything you said here.

This is clearly mental illness at work.

Not schizophrenia or anything that severe, but probably long-term anxiety and depression that she found herself unable to manage while also working 80 hours a week.

There was plenty of energy left over for her to deal with the daily pain while she was in school and still be considered a "go-getter."

But as soon as she was put in a position where her ability to recuperate and recharge was limited / nonexistent, she ran.

I'll bet she's never been diagnosed and has always thought that whatever's going on in her head is just the way life is.

Medication could help turn this around pretty quickly. I hope she runs into someone out there who can see what's going on and points her in the right direction.

 

[Lamar Givens]

Thread is full of assembly line worker mentality brehs who were taught well by the American educational system that teaches people to be obedient to the state and not find happiness in life according to your dreams/goals/desires.

Same reason why 90% of these brehs will not be the next millionaire/billionaire because they believe in doing it the way Masa Uncle Sam tells them.

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

A lot of SIGNED producers & writers I know have Publishing Deals & still have day jobs to maintain inbetween checks. The checks are extremely nice extra money but getting paid once or twice a year with no guarantee a record you contributed to will even be placed, its sometimes wise to keep something steady until you become a Benny Blanco or Mike Will.

There was a girl some years back who was signed to Pharrell & worked at Wal-Mart until a steady stream of checks started coming in & she still kept it Part-Time just in case.

 

[Gothboi J]

Her music on her page is dope.. Really dope

But this is the troll era.... .

She gonna need to come with more than just some hot tracks LOL... We need some troll game... We need some thot shyt... We need some ignorance

You can't quit your job in 2018 to rap unless youre willing to go full blown troll like Cardi B or 69

U don't need to troll but u gotta have an image that can sell. Whether it's drugs or whatever

 

[Cabbage Patch]

It seems people are getting the timeline of events confused. The job she had for two weeks came way after she quit her NBA sales career. From what I understand, she quite the NBA job, dabbled in music, bullshytted, struck out and went broke THEN joined the accounting firm only to quit two weeks later.

That's not better. That's worse.

 

[BaldingSoHard]

I applaud her for keeping it real and documenting her struggles on a public platform. Most mawfakkas only put up their highlight reel.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Phonier than a 4 dollar bill. But I aint mad at her. These so called hood mofos couldn't even tell. The story was a friend from back in the day exposed her because she got some notoriety and started making money.

But seriously this should tell you how remedial hood mentality is. All you got to do is act the part, believe some of the dumb ideology and rest falls in place. Very sad.

This has nothing to do with hood mentality... the hood already knew her background.... shyt was entertainment.....

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Thread is full of assembly line worker mentality brehs who were taught well by the American educational system that teaches people to be obedient to the state and not find happiness in life according to your dreams/goals/desires.

Same reason why 90% of these brehs will not be the next millionaire/billionaire because they believe in doing it the way Masa Uncle Sam tells them.

yes... because we actually would take making 80k a year vs leaping into the rap game and becoming homeless, makes us slaves and hard workers for the white man



here's a new age idea... before you leap blindly into a profession, even if you THINK it'll make you happy, do some research.. look into how much it pays, can you afford to support this dream, if you can't, what other ways you gonna bring in money, what about bills and living, did you save your 80k a year so you can take a few years off... do you have a back up plan? could you push yourself while also opening a label in case it doesn't work out?


just blindly saying "i'm gonna quit my job cause doing ________ seems to make me happy" will have you unhappy and broke on the streets... case and point.. and then you'd just be another black person, poor, bringing us the fukk down.