At first glance I thought Raekwon’s call to Jay-Z and Kanye West to drop 100k in the hood was kind of silly until I realized that totally fits their mythology about getting and spending money. Especially the Jay-Z American Gangster mythology.
January 21, 2008
This is funny coming from Rae. Deeper in this interview I was reading how he says he has no money to give the way the bigger dogs can. But, I was just listening to Tash’s “Rap Life” and Rae semi-seriously says “let’s go in on a basketball team” or something to the effect.
I see where he’s coming from with the 100K statement, but at the same time I find it a little hard to believe he’s scrapin’ for cash when Rock the Bells probably made him a nice sum over the past few years.
You never know what kind of financial demands they have behind the scenes.
But I don’t take rappers’ lyrical claims that seriously anymore either cause they’re all entertainers at the end of the day.