Thursday, September 10, 2009
Music news Financial planning with Killer Mike
Posted by Ben Westhoff on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Killer Mike began his XXL blog residency this week, and his first entry is a doozy. Entitled “Money Over Everything,” it speaks to some of the same themes as his track, “The Devil Is A Lie.” You know, the part where he instructs anyone who “lucks up upon 50 grand” to invest in some real estate. (That spoken interlude is absent from the above video for some reason, but I posted it anyway because it’s awesome.)
“Say you make 100k a year, the old money model says you can afford a home that is worth the value of 2 and 1 half years of work. That’s 250k. That’s a couple grand every month for 20 or 30 years or so. Basically you become a slave to the house you “own”, cant miss a day of work, can’t retire, sure as hell can’t quit! As dope as it is to own a good looking home, when will you get to enjoy it and the people you bought it for (your family)?”
Sure, he loses the scent a few times, such as in a confusing digression about Paris Hilton: “She gave up an inheritance and earned her own money (1 itty bitty titty flash at a time) so she could LIVE.” But for the most part he makes a point that’s rarely heard in mainstream rap — that pursuing money for its own sake is a bogus way to live. “I got $$$ to make!” he concludes. “But $ don’t make me.”
Should he ever stop rapping, dude clearly has a future in pop psychology and financial self-help seminars.
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