At the SXSW Education Conference in Austin March 4, i will participate in a panel, ”Saving America’s Black Boys.” i will discuss how social media communities like Global 14 create opportunities for emerging entrepreneurs to succeed. The panel occurs at the Austin Hilton Downtown Salon E at 3:00 p.m. More about the panel here: http://goo.gl/TAcqx
Jennifer Phillips
@JD Will you be out there during the music week?
Jon
How can you talk about saving black boys, when you were just on The Breakfast Club talking about you’re a young dude in the industry (bruh, you are 40+ years old!), in response, really you were making an excuse for behavior, to a question about your former relationship? You are a 40+ year old man, and you have pictures on instagram of you passed out in Vegas from a long night of drinking. You still talk about “big booty hoes”. Popping bottles, strip clubs, and partying all the time are still top priorities in your life. I mean, i’m here for our young black boys getting all the guidance they can in order to grow into manhood, but your life still seems stuck in boyhood. It’s all love on my end, i’ve been a fan since “inside out is wiggidy wiggidy wack!”, but it just seems like mixed messages. Before anyone can teach these boys to be entrepreneurs they must first be thought how to be men, and to leave childish behaviors in childhood. There are a lot of our young brothers who have been successful in the entertainment industry, but they find themselves in bad situations or lose all they have worked for b/c they get older chronologically, but not mentally.
JD
@nycj LAST TIME I CHECK WE ALL LIVE DIFFERENT LIVES,THE WAY I FEEL I CAN HELP YOUNG MEN IS TO LET THEM KNOW,GET A DREAM AND FOLLOW IT, YES MY LIFE IS FILLED WITH ALL KINDA COLORFUL THINGS, BUT I NEVER LET NONE OF THAT DISTRACT ME FROM DOING WHAT I GOTTA DO AND SET OUT TO DO, AND THATS WHAT MATTERS
LATASHA LEE
I will definitely be there to show my support! You rock!!
Jon
@JD Believe me when I say that I absolutely respect the things you has done professionally. I mean, to say that you have had success would be the understatement of the century; you have surpassed what most people deem to be successful. I was simply saying that these young Black boys need to be lead by example. They can’t be thought to only be men professionally, but in their everyday life not make that transition from childhood to adulthood. A lot of these brothers have built their brands through the entertainment industry, but a lot of them also lost so much of what they have built, because they never matured. JD, you’ve been in the business for a very long time, you know there are some of your peers who wished they could get back all those 1’s the threw at Magic City, and that money they spent on women who have absolutely nothing going for themselves except trying to hook a a rapper or a baller. I’m sure they enjoyed the life, and nothing’s wrong with living it up, but if you are in the club throwing 1’s at age 25, and you’re still in that club at age 35, there is a lack of growth there. We love showing these young boys the success that the hard work brought, but we don’t show them the downfalls that comes with lacking maturity when they have acquired the wealth. Of course, some of you in the industry get lucky and have the means to live recklessly your entire lives, but it doesn’t work out that way for most of these dudes.