Essay About Wiz Khalifa

Kanye West, born June 8, 1977, is a world renown rapper, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. among the most acclaimed musicians of the 21st century, and is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 32 million albums and 100 million digital downloads worldwide. He has won a total of 21 Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all time. (Kyles, 2013)

The real name of Lil Boosie is Torrence Hatch and he is known by another name professionally Boosie Badazz. He is born on 14th November 1982. He is an American rapper and right now his net worth is around $4 million.

He makes his money in various ways. Besides selling drugs through his gang, he also runs three buildings. He would allow people who were known as squatters to stay in the building when it was cold out. They were allowed to hang out in the stairwells and the gang provided them protection for a little bit of money. The gang was always finding ways like this to collect money. They would allow prostitutes to come and live there and some of them would do business there but they also had a fee to pay. Anyone who J.T. allowed to stay in his buildings without a lease would get taxed on their earnings for whatever type of business they were doing. But in return the Black Kings would provide them with protection. Venkatesh learned a lot about the gang’s hierarchy and J.T.’s “business plans.” Early in their relationship, J.T. explained the structure to making money in the drug game to Sudhir while he planned his move to running the Robert Taylor homes. He calls the Robert Taylor homes “easy money” because of how convenient the location was for white people to drive over. He also says he would go from making thirty thousand dollars a year to seventy-five thousand dollars or maybe even a hundred thousand a year (towards the end of the book J.T. is making somewhere around two hundred thousand dollars a year). This is where J.T. begins to explain the ladder of moving up in the gang and how he wants to move up. Throughout the book Venkatesh

Shaq has a net worth of $350 million. He was born Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal on March 6, 1972 in Newark, New Jersey. Shaq grew up with his mother and step-father, not knowing his biological father. He is a former basketball player and rapper. He has received his MBA from University of Phoenix, and Ed.D. at Barry University, and his Bachelor's from Louisana State University,with whom he played college basketball on their team for three years from 1989-1992, when he left early to play in the National Basketball Association.

Kanye West also known as "Yeezy" is American rapper, fashion disaster, and also music producer. People may say that Mr. West is our youth of today voice. He has made a tremendous mark in the music and fashion industry. As we all know Mr. West is known for having his moments. It is safe to say that he has the best and top “omg” Moments, such as interrupting Taylor Swift at the VMA’s. Kanye in the begging when he first came on the hip hop scene was this calm, joyful, his music in my eyes was the most different music out at the time, just because he wasn’t rapping about what everyone else was. Kanye was one of those joyful guys, everybody wanted him on his record or produce it. Then a tragic event occurred where his mom died. After then you see

It would be the time spent in prison that would transform Malcolm and change him from a career criminal to the activist he would later be known as. He visited the prison library and read books on religion, philosophy, and history. He read and copied the entire dictionary acquiring the skills that would make him a powerful public speaker. He dedicated his time in prison to his own personal development and through his brother Reginald learned of the organization known as the Nation of Islam or the Black Muslims. The Nation of Islam is an Islamic religious organization founded by its leader Elijah Muhammad which promoted Black separatism from whites culturally, physically, politically and psychologically. Malcolm began to follow the preachings of Muhammad and practiced the religion devoutly, giving up drug use, alcohol consumption, as well as eating pork.

Now since he’s in the NFL he signed a 9.50 million dollar contract with the Falcons. In the league he has become the 2nd most wide receiver to YDS (1,409) and the 1st in the NFL in REC YDS

During his early years he dropped out of high school and was a drug dealer for some years. He was good friends with Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. They started making songs for their new album that was called “Boyz-N-The Hood”. In 1987 they made another album that was called “Straight Outta Compton” that album

Sean "Puffy" Combs has established himself as one of the biggest names in hip-hop (Heal). Combs a Harlem native whose father was killed when he was only 3 years old, rose from the mean streets to the top of the music business (AP wire, March 18). "It is true that he started from scratch, and I don't think that because he was arrested, people will stop buying his albums (AP wire, March 18). Before pursuing his career as a vocalist, Combs was a business-minded Howard University student and an intern at Andre Harrell's Uptown Records. Combs soon became the A&R representative for Uptown. He then began producing for soon to be mega-stars Mary J. Blige, Heavy D., and Jodeci to name a few. After being let go

Mark Cuban has been successful all throughout his life. Mark is known for his ownership for the NBA’S Dallas Mavericks and for his popular in the tv show Shark Tank. Born in Pittsburgh on July 31, 1958, though typically he had a middle-class childhood. Cuban’s father worked in a car upholstery shop for about half a century and his grandfather had migrated down from Russia, and to feed his family he would sell any kind of merchandise he could get ahold of to feed his family he had. Through his early stages in life he took after his grandfather’s footsteps selling things so he could make money for himself, he earned his money in high school by mainly becoming a stamp and coin salesman. Cuban’s positive attitude was over the top in the classroom as he studied psychology at the University Of Pittsburgh then entirely skipped his senior year to be fully enrolled as a full time college student, after his freshman year Cuban then transferred to the University of Indiana, to pay for his tuition in college he did it on his own by

Kanye had an intellectually challenging upbringing and was raised in a middle-class home. He was the only child of an English literature professor mother, and his father who was an award-winning photojournalist and an active Black Panther member. Before Kanye’s superstar days, he was just an ordinary kid from Chicago, Illinois striving to become a successful artist. He was attending the Chicago State University and was taking art classes at the American Academy of Art but decided to drop out to place all of his attention on his career in music. Kanye’s journey in music began by producing songs for local rap artists. Kanye obtained his first big break in 2001, producing songs for Jay-Z’s double-platinum selling album The Blueprint. In the early

After nearly 2 years, the two parties seem to have reached a settlement. Lil Wayne agrees to

Do you ever just wonder if there is a rapper that dose not do drugs? Well to answer your question.There is and he is a fairly new rapper and one of my favorite rappers at the moment.

Russel signed LL Cool J, a talent that has gone on to host awards shows, star in major television shows including NCIS and movie The Last Holiday.(IMDB) LL also released the first album that had ever been released by the growing label. It’s worth noting that LL’s career started with Russell at the helm, another way that Russell’s impact will outlast him. Russell’s impact will also outlast him in the form of the Def Comedy Jam, a comedy show which featured some of the future stars of the comedy world, starts including: Martin Lawrence, Mike Epps, and Sommore. Each of those starts have gone on star in TV shows in Movies, each of those starts can credit their start to Def Comedy Jam and Russel Simmons, a producer on the show and the head of Def Jam Records. Russel has also produced TV shows and movies such as Run’s House, a show staring his brother’s family, and the Nutty Professor.

Admittedly, the priceless works of art, homes, helicopters and other things he buys are out of the reach of the average person. He has taken consumerism to a new level, and has gained wide acclaim as a result of it. Gone are the days when the fastest runner, the best speller or the most talented golfer were the icons of the culture. Today, those with the biggest and most expensive toys win, or so it seems. In the modern society, the only time that talented athletes are revered is when they are seen in commercials using the latest cellular telephone or smiling on a box of sugar coated cereal.