Metamorphosis ㊣

It’s not about sitting behind the same desks and doing work the same way as the people that preceded you did.The goal is to take what you’ve learnt about the world from your life—and what you’ve learnt about integrity and success,fairness and competition—and use it to remake the corporate world.®

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★Throw-Back★

Before the beef between Jay Z & Nas was squashed this photograph was probably the only record of them together.Taken around 97.

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I feel like we—rappers, DJs, producers—were able to smuggle some of the magic from the dying civilization of the 60s' & 70s' out in our music and use it to build a new world.

We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift:

We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves. That was part of the ethos of that time and place, and it got built in to the culture we created.

Rap took the remnants of a dying society and created something new. Our fathers were gone, usually because they just bounced, but we took their old records and used them to build something fresh.

Excepts from Jay Z's Decoded...

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●HUSTLER'S●CREED●

The key to success is believing in the quality of your own product enough to make people do business with you on your terms.

Great product is the ultimate advantage in competition, not how big your office building is or how deep your pockets are or who you know.

In the end it all comes down to having a great product and the hustle to move it.

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Casino stands out as one of my favourite flicks of all time.Robert De Niro, portrays the character of Sam (Ace) Rothstein a professional gambler who is contracted to be a front man for the mob in the management of a casino.

During the height of his managerial career, Sam meets his future wife, Ginger, (played by Sharon Stone) While Sam pays for her lifestyle and vices, she maintains a relationship with her former boyfriend who happens to be a con man.

There's a quote from the movie that caught my ear as Sam narrates the sad story of his broken relationship with his estranged wife.

Ace Rothstein: [voice-over] 

"When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? And for a while, I believed, that's the kind of love I had. "

The insight from this statement leads me to ask the question, is it possible to find a woman who's both trustworthy and beautiful because essentially when there's no trust there's no point. Its a question I ask myself every time I'm entering a relationship or contemplating one and effectively that is my elimination criterion. I play this little scene in my head every-time.


I guess you've gotta take a plunge and wet your beak to find out but as I've observed.Finding that one trustworthy woman is like hunting a Unicorn. The pursuit of a mythical elusive creature.As King Solomon Said: 

"While I was still searching but not finding--I found one virtuous [upright] man among a thousand, but not one virtuous [upright] woman among them all ."

I guess we'll never know, Its a zero sum game, gotta roll the dice and hope for the best.

1998 NBA Finals - Utah Jazz Vs. Chicago Bulls - Game 6