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Questlove recalled his late manager Richard Nichols predicting, after 50 Cent’s rise, that there would eventually be a shift away from gangsta rap, a theory he felt was proven when Kanye West’s Graduation went head-to-head with 50’s Curtis in 2007.
Vince Staples offered a much sharper interpretation of that moment:
“I just thought all the white people picked Kanye up, and they put 50 down. It’s like a toy. It’s like, they wanna play with Kanye now. They don’t wanna play with 50 no more.”
Vince said it felt like the industry was essentially saying: “This is our version of a Negro that we like. We don’t like the gangster Negro anymore… Let’s get the nigga in the backpack.”
His larger point: Black audiences didn’t necessarily decide they had to choose between 50 and Kanye. In Vince’s view, the industry decided which version of Blackness it wanted to market next.
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How to destroy a beloved brand.
Step 1: Put a soulless, data-driven consultant who has never even seen a basketball court or a running track up close in charge.
Step 2: He goes direct! And increase profits while destroying the retail distribution system and betraying a multitude of 20-year-long partnerships.
Step 3: Motivated and innovative competitors like On Running and Hoka rush to fill the distribution gap Nike left by abandoning its trusted partners.
Step 4: Not satisfied, he fires all the stupid creative people who can't prove any of their ideas work with hard data. What could they possibly know?
Step 5: Celebrate when milking the brand for every last cent works for about 18 months, even though the data quickly show a disaster is looming.
Step 6: OMG? Wut?
Step 7: Fire the old CEO and bring in a new one who's been with the brand since day one. He tries his best, but just too much damage was done.
Step 8: Get delisted... Go down in history as the greatest example of data-driven idiots destroying one of the most successful creative brands of all time.
The end.
- Exposed Grizzlies owner for selling drones to Russia
- Exposed The clippers and Kawhi Leonard
- Now is about to expose the Dodgers and Trump
Forever good in my books
The Club 520 podcast couldn’t stop LAUGHING while going back and forth with fans during call-ins 💀🤣🤣
B Hen wasn’t sure what gender one of the callers even was 😭👀
“I was a little confused at first, I ain’t gonna lie. I had to wait to hear your voice. I didn’t want to say the wrong thing.”