I have been thinking of this for quite sometime. Being a huge fan and active member of Hip Hop - through many of its ups and downs, and once being an Analyst - I started seeing trends through the culture.

If you are a hustler, you need to know trends. You need to know what effects those trends. The top investors in the world know what elements effect their stocks or companies. They know things that are going to happen 10 years later. I’m not saying they are the new breed of Nostradamus, but they simply know how to read numbers, stats, and human psychology.

Now let’s apply this to Hip Hop. For awhile, I was a hip hop hippie. I wasn’t doped up, but I did listen to a lot of records. From Iron Butterfly to George Clinton to Miles Davis to John Coltrane to Beatles to Rakim to Roxanne to Pharcyde to Roots to Soldier Boy. I am a bonified music junkie and I still haven’t taken out the needle and kicked the habit.
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