"Good morning, look at the valedictorian scared of the future while I hop in the DeLorean."
-Kanye West
While dropping my son off to school and perusing the market for some hour and fifteen minutes I listened to the entire Kanye West Graduation album. Not that I haven't before, it's one of my favorite albums of all time, but I had been in a particularly lousy mood for the past few weeks. Feeling confident but at the same time stuck. Feeling like I'm so close but so far away. Watching others people success feeling like it's undeserved like, "damn these n*ggas that much better than me?" Little Touch The Sky for you. Really, I see why Kanye is so angry when he doesn't when an award that he feels he deserves. He produced The Blue Print. I mean, that says enough. This a very talented individual who sometimes gets looked over by factory made pop stars He doesn't do it in the best way, but I understand his frustration. I'm a humble person, believe me I am, but when you know that you're destined for something bigger, something greater...When you have a talent so organic and all the processed material is getting picked up, it's enough to doubt whether its worth it.
While dropping my son off to school and perusing the market for some hour and fifteen minutes I listened to the entire Kanye West Graduation album. Not that I haven't before, it's one of my favorite albums of all time, but I had been in a particularly lousy mood for the past few weeks. Feeling confident but at the same time stuck. Feeling like I'm so close but so far away. Watching others people success feeling like it's undeserved like, "damn these n*ggas that much better than me?" Little Touch The Sky for you. Really, I see why Kanye is so angry when he doesn't when an award that he feels he deserves. He produced The Blue Print. I mean, that says enough. This a very talented individual who sometimes gets looked over by factory made pop stars He doesn't do it in the best way, but I understand his frustration. I'm a humble person, believe me I am, but when you know that you're destined for something bigger, something greater...When you have a talent so organic and all the processed material is getting picked up, it's enough to doubt whether its worth it.
I had a conversation with a friend earlier this week who says at a business seminar she attended someone said something around the lines you'll be poor if you do it for the art. Boy don't I know. After abandoning my previous brand Rich Harlots, I lost followers, customers, and money. I even tried to reconcile the brand by selling the jewelry wholesale only, but my heart wasn't in it. I'm more motivated by doing something I love rather than money. Does that make me foolish? Maybe. I could definitely be doing a lot more things right now to make money. But does that mean. Put my dreams on hold?
Then you have those who don't quite get "it." I know that everybody isn't going to get it. I get that. What I don't get is why. Why are so many people scared to learn? Scared to be inspired by something other than what everybody else is inspired by. Attracted to all things tawdry and cheap with no originality. Destined to become metaphoric linemen for the rest of their lives- style wise at least.
I guess what I got from the lyric excerpt I from "Good Morning," is that you have those have "excelled" book wise but don't exactly have that game plan, that drive and ambition needed to move forward. Valedictorians are the head of their classes, but are the least successful in the future. Resting on their success in the past thinking it'll carry them well in the future. I never was the valedictorian in fact, I'm a real live college dropout. The DeLoreon, it's not real it's a dream, it might be far fetched even, but I'm going to hop in that bitch anyway.
