The rise of Kanye West

NADCP 21st Annual Training
Conference June 1-4, 2016
Anaheim, California
P.O. Wallace Green, LICDC
(216) 664-3287
[email protected]
Bias
Sensitive
History
Likes
Heritage
than you
haven’t been
paying
attention!!
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Interventions that presume that a client is
in the action stage work if the client is in
the action stage
Interventions geared for action are
doomed if the client is not in the action
stage and will create a very difficult case
DiClemente, C. C. (2003). Addiction and change: How addictions develop and
addicted
persons recover. New York: Guilford Press
Prochaska, J.O., & DiClemente, C.C. (1982). Transtheoretical therapy: Toward a
more
integrative model of change. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 19,
276- 288.
Empathy
Skills
Skills
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Buster Rhyme apologies
to Arab Americans for
using Muslim prayer in,
‘Arab Money’
Steven Spielberg falls out
with Michael Jackson
over lyrics, in son, ‘They
don’t Really Care About
Us’. He would eventually
change the lyrics
Jerry Heller enraged for
racial content of Ice
Cube’s song, No Vaseline
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Jadikis has to remove
lyrics to the song 'Why?‘
that stated, ‘Why did
George Bush knock down
those buildings?’
Ice -T removed Cop Killer
from his Album with
Body Count
Rick Ross would be
dropped by Reebok for
lyrics which talked about
date rape
Would Drake who is half
Jewish, ever refer to
himself, or other Jewish
Americans as K_____?
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… and gone absolutely nowhere!
Jay-Z is an emeritus figure head; no longer relevant
 Now bigger outside of Hip Hop
Puffy has been relegated to vodka salesmen (Cîroc)
Dr. Dre scored big with the Beats Headphone buy out
from Apple; dwarfing anything he ever did in Hip Hop
50 Cent has declared bankruptcy
Lil’ Wayne is suing his (fake) Daddy, Brian ‘Birdman’
Williams after finally figuring out he has been ripping
him off all these years
Rick Ross has been indicted for pistol whipping his
grounds keeper
The golden age of gangsta rap is clearly in the rearview
mirror
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The rise of Kanye West
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The fist multi platinum commercial rapper from the
gangsta era that did not fit the gangsta image, or come
from a challenging background
 This opened the door for Drake
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Drake; currently the number one selling rapper
who does not fit the gangsta rap image
The Imus controversy would spark a content
debate
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This would be the last time women would attempt to
gain respect in commercial hip hop
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50 Cent, after crushing the Terror Squad, JaRul, and Murder Inc., would lose three very
public battles against
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Kanye West – for most album sales
Rick Ross – for being a ‘fake’ gangsta
And losing a law suit against Rick Ross’ ex girlfriend
would cause him to declare bankruptcy in 2016
This would mark a seismic shift in a culture
were authenticity is everything, the Fake, name
jacking pranksta Rick Ross unseated the ‘Real’
gangsta, 50 cent
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Commercial Hip Hop continues to grind
out the same braggadocio, money
spending, strip club attending, hyper
sexual, ‘I live the live you wish you
could’ lyrics devoid of most, if not all
reality.
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Verbally Promise to:
Dominate many women
Dominate situations
Dominate other men
Be Fearless – Criminal Activity
Risk it all at any moment
No regard for any consequences
Street Cred
Time Magazine Sunday August 21, 2005 – Kanye West
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The first time Kanye West asked the folks at Roc-A-Fella
records to let him rap, there was an uncomfortable silence.
As a producer, West had churned out hits for Roc-A-Fella's
intimidating trio of stars--Jay-Z, Cam'ron and Beanie Siegel-and earned praise for his great ear and tireless ethic. But in
2002 the idea that someone like West could be a successful
rapper was faintly absurd. "Kanye wore a pink shirt with
the collar sticking up and Gucci loafers," recalls Damon
Dash, then Roc-A-Fella CEO. "It was obvious we were not
from the same place or cut from the same cloth." Says Jay-Z:
"We all grew up street guys who had to do whatever we
had to do to get by. Then there's Kanye, who to my
knowledge has never hustled a day in his life. I didn't see
how it could work."
Read more:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1096
499,00.html#ixzz0wA1SOZLD
Time Magazine Sunday August 21, 2005 – Kanye West
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Statistics consistently show that 70% of hip-hop is
consumed by young white audiences, but a century of
anecdotal evidence is similarly irrefutable: white kids
think it's cool to be black, which means the other 30%
sets the trends and runs the show. With the market
mired in thuggery, African-American consumers'
could choose to: a) propagate a nasty stereotype of
themselves for white kids to pin their libidinous
fantasies on; b) not care; c) start patronizing the
danger-free, supernice, superboring rappers at the
liberal humanist fringe; or d) give up.
Read more:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,10964993,00.html#ixzz0wA8pnVgz
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The music
Lust
 Gluttony
 Greed,
 Sloth,
 Wrath,
 Envy,
 Pride
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The music
Lust
 Gluttony
 Greed,
 Sloth,
 Wrath,
 Envy,
 Pride
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Family
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Raising children
Women
Education
Hustling
Spirituality
Getting high
Brotherhood
Employment
Career
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Gangs / Click
Respect
Quaddy Goon, age 10
Lil’ Poopy, age 9
Albert, age 6
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A form of popular culture that started in
the African American inner-city areas
(Bronx), characterized by rap music,
graffiti art, and break dancing. MCing,
DJing, spit boxing, fashion, slang and
style are also important elements of hip
hop. The term has since come to be a
synonym for hip hop music and rap to
mainstream audiences.
The 4 elements: Rap, DJ, Grafitti, Dance,
later; knowledge
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Cultural Training Institute, prepared by Victoria Winbush. (1996).
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Family
Education
Career
Spirituality
Security
Freedom
Health
Property
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Tennis Shoes
Clothes
Cars
Rims
Music
Sex (risky)
Getting high / drunk
Being ‘cool’
Women / Men
Tattoos
Jewelry
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Props
Fads
Welfare
Crime ‘Hit a Lick’
prison
Slang
Respect / ‘Props’
Gangs
Working a ‘job’
Hustle / quick
money
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The prison industrial complex
has a history of being exploited
as a tool of oppression going
back to the Civil War
87 Years Following the Civil war
The criminal justice system has
ALWAYS been used as a tool of
oppression!
We have bee trying to fix it for
200 year!
You can wait on it, or figure out
how to stay away from it
Fix your economics!!
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The 13th
“Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude shall exist within the
United States, or any place subject to
their jurisdiction.”
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“Except as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted.”
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40 years old
Over 1,000,000,000,000.00 Spent
Millions of low end offences / felonies
Very few kingpins
40 years later
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Drugs are as plentiful, more potent and as easy to
obtain as ever before
We are victimizing poor, uneducated and
mentally ill people
The Southern Strategy
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Clients find drive when they recognize they are
being pimped!
No one likes to be used
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The Senate passed a bill today (March 10, 2016) to help the
growing epidemic of heroin and painkiller abuse. Sponsored
by New Hampshire Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Jeanne
Shaheen (D-N.H.) will focus on the following:
•Establish grant programs to help state and local
governments improve education and treatment for drug
abuse
•Encourage medical providers to reduce unnecessary
prescriptions
•Commit resources to help veterans deal with addiction
•Give local law enforcement and mental health officials
tools to lower the death rate from overdoses
•Provide states with incentives to make naloxone, which can
counteract overdoses, more widely available by offering
liability protections to officials who distribute it
Passed 94-1
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In a prison siting experience in Texas, for example,
the town of Abilene offered an incentive package of
over $4 million to the state. The package included a
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316-acre site for the prison, as well as over 1,100 acres of
farmland adjacent to the facility, capable of generating
$500,000 in cotton per year.
Town officials also proposed to build roads into
the facility and to provide housing for
administrators and corrections officers.
Use of a private plane and hangar for state
officials, computers, and upgrades to the
communications and
public works infrastructure were also promised.
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Political vote
Economic vote
Time vote
 What
are you
electing to do
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Drug abuse
Loose license
DUS
Child Support
D.V.
Insert
head
here:
Is Mr. Walker a Criminal?
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2007 – OC
1997 – Peel tires noise- plate display
1999 -no license seat belt
1997 -OC
1999 -DUS failure to stop 6 pts accident
2000 –Drunk and disorderly
2000 -failure to comply rec opp seatbelt
2000 – DUS / opp stop sign / seat belt
2001 – DUS seatbelt
2002 –Assault
2004 -no DL stop sign –seat belt
2005 –resisting arrest
2005 – Slow speed
2005 -muffler exhaust noise
2006 -RSP
2007 – Turning at intersection
2007 – Signal change
2005- OVI
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2000 - drug abuse. Drug
abuse,
traffic in drugs,
2002 – drug abuse
2007 -drug abuse
2012 -theft
1999 -false information
1999 -playing sounds
2000 -playing sounds
2000 -playing sounds
2006 -sounds
2006 -sounds
2006 – Playing sounds
2012 -sounds
2013 -RSP, criminal tools
2014 -drug abuse marijuana
2014 -DV
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Who’s behind bars?
Addicts
 Mentally ill
 Irresponsible adults (Boyz)
 Oh, and a few criminals
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The principle or force by which animals and
plants are maintained in the performance of
their functions
Liberty
• Freedom from external restraint or
compulsion
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Pleasure – sensual gratification
Webster’s 3rd New International Unabridged Dictionary, 1964
Happiness is the general term denoting
enjoyment of or pleasurable satisfaction… such
pleasures are not to be despised in a world full
of pain. But happiness…[is]… a different sort of
thing. [It] comes to be through a fulfillment that
reaches the depths of our being – one that is an
adjustment of our whole being with the
conditions of our existence – John Dewey
Webster’s 3rd New International Unabridged Dictionary, 1964
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Pleasure – sensual gratification
Webster’s 3rd New International Unabridged Dictionary, 1964
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Death
Slavery – In the pursuit of
Sensual gratification: How something
looks, feels, sounds – no learning (Hip
Hop Style)
Sensual satisfaction before learned
happiness = confusion of the two
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What will
guarantee that?
 Looks
 Attitude
 Knowledge
 Skill
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Can you bring value
to the situation?
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The ‘right now’ check
Starts within
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Starting with Step 4
Action –
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Worth of self – 12 Steps
Worth of community rather that victim of it.
 Becoming economically viable
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Justice come through the 12 steps
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Self Justice prevents self abuse just like the
constitution
Justice comes through Economic viability more
so than non-systemic protest
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David Edgerton and James McLamore,
purchased the company and renamed it Burger
King
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As Bob Lord writes in Other Words, “The net
worth of just 400 billionaires, a group that could fit
into a high school gym, is on par with the
collective wealth of more than 14 million AfricanAmerican households. Both groups possess some
$2 trillion, about three percent of our national net
worth of $77 trillion.” The only U.S. AfricanAmerican on the Forbes 400 list is Oprah Winfrey,
who has a net worth of $2.9 billion, placing her
184th on the list. She is one of 7 Black billionaires
in the whole world. - See more at:
http://inequality.org/wealth-400-billionaireswealth-41-millionafricanamericans/#sthash.PAuQ4USn.dpuf
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Drafting a goal sheet
Who do you have contact with?
 How helpful can they be towards you
achieving your goal?
 What can you do to improve their help
factor?
 Who can you add to your circle?
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You become part
of the lion’s plan
“I can’t wait till
I’m off
probation!”
Lion has a right
to eat!
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“Should I take the
high road or the low
road?”
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Films/ Videos
 The House I Live in - Documentary 1hr 48 min. by
Eugene Jerecki
 Billions behind Bars – YouTube 43 min
 Prison State – Frontline production 1 hr. 23 min.
 http://video.pbs.org/video/2365235229/
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Young Jeezy Documentary, A Hustlerz Ambition 42
min Daily Motion
 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp4jxm_young-
jeezy-a-hustlerz-ambition-documentary_music
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Jay – Z Words of Wisdom 5min. 42 sec.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f7tX5hHpcw
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Tavis Smiley Guest – Jay Z 2min. 53 sec.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YcSuHNCCVY