Ya’ll don’t know hustle. Ya’ll don’t know hustle until you’ve phoned/emailed 5 different editors in the same day with the same pitch, get one of them to bite, finally deliver on this grandiose idea you had, only to have it edited into something completely different by said editor, then have to wait four times as long to get paid for it as it took to turn around…and you’re smiling the whole way cuz you got to eat doing something you’d do for free (or have done for free…sometimes not intentionally).
The above is taken from a MySpace blog post of Jerry L. Barrow, the former editor-in-chief of Scratch Magazine who interviewed none other than Vida Guerra for the cover of this month’s KING. You either love the grind or you don’t make it through. Period.
- Slav for Hip-Hop FIles
That sums it up perfectly, boss.
This game is like trying to get with a gold digger. She’ll take you for as long as you wanna ride, but you only get broke off just enough to keep falling for the sweets.
I guess the game’s been just sweet enough for a lot of us.
Bitter sweet more like it, lol. But when you overstand the game, you either place big bets or walk out, no matter what.
People like Jerry Barrow, Thomas Golianopolis (not CQ’d) and others are my heroes for stickin’ it out despite counting numerous L’s. Yet still, cats like Bakari Kitwana and Selwyn Hinds have taken things in a direction that I can appreciate as well (Rap Sessions is aight with me overall, I snicker at it partly cuz i’m jealous, to be perfectly frank).
The next generation gotta take it up a notch and not on these cats’ back or at their expense. Our work is cut out for us.