How many days has it been? 29? Ahhh damn! Guess who we have on today??? DO you see that sly, seductive gaze? Awwww yeah, it's none other than the INFAMOUS Nick Brown. He is the CEO/co-owner of Cover Me LLC (a safe sex promotions company), a poet and a natural born comedian! I think this is the interview I've been waiting on because Nick is crazzzzyyyyyy and I love him for it! Check him out on facebook (Nick Brown) because he doesn't have a twitter BOOOOOO!
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4!> Do you feel like the recession is over?
HELL NO! The recession is in full swing. But what’s crazy about the recession is what
it’s affecting. It’s not just the housing market, or milk being outrageously priced; service
has gotten bad. People are responding to their own life situations and the peope that get
hit the hardest are people in the service industry. As a result, I believe, it’s reflective in
their attitudes and the amt. of positivity I feel while out at restaurants and in stores. I
used to worry about people following me around stores for stealing and now the attitude
is, “They don’t pay me enough.”
It’s the long-term effects of this new mindset that really scares me. I know America will
pull out of this economic crisis, but what will be the repercussions for our society? I
think the great depression taught people fiscal responsibility. This recession seems to be
doing the opposite. It’s teaching our kids that no matter how bad you mess up, someone
will bail you out. Unfortunately that’s not true. No one becomes a billionaire without
hard work and mistakes. But if you’re not going to learn from your mistakes, you are
destined to repeat the same ones over and over again.
5!> What steps do minorities need to take to create a better community for our children?
First and foremost, BEAT THEM BADASS KIDS! I don’t know how we got away from
beating our children, but it’s ridiculous. I always say, if you bought a dog and it shit on
your floor you wouldn’t tell it to go sit in the corner? Why have we removed discipline
from our households? The worst part about it all is during this transition away from
physically disciplining our children we also empowered them. People began believing
everything that children say. Evidentally forgetting that kids lie about everything! So
now what happens is even the support systems that were created 100’s of years ago, i.e.
school and teachers, are no longer allies in the war.
I’ve worked with kids for most of my life and I recognized the problem the first time I discussed a child’s behavior with a parent and that parent fell for the classic, “But my teacher doesn’t like me.” Now all of a sudden her child’s behavior was no longer the issue. We were arguing about whether or not I liked her child or not. I didn’t, but that wasn’t the point. The point was and is that authority doesn’t have the same power it once had. Old school values have been replaced with a laze faire attitude, a “Not my child” mindset. We have to get involved in our children’s lives again. Praise them when they do well, and punish them when they do bad. This is how the world will treat them, and it’s a parent’s job to prepare their child for the world.
8!> Who in your life has pushed you the hardest concerning your dreams?
Def my mother, she was my first “first reader”. I have a poem that speaks about the true
satisfaction for any artist is not completing a project, but it’s in the reactions of the people
that see it or hear it or read it. My mom was my first muse. She has always supported
me as an artist and as a man. I wouldn’t be anything without her. Like most parents she
would tell me as a child that I could be anything that I wanted to be when I grew up, but
she said it with so much conviction and honesty that I believed her with all myself. I
imagine this is how Barack Obama’s Mother made him feel.
10!> What do you feel about the influence the entertainment industry has on children and adults alike?
The 80’s. Why the 80’s? I mean as someone who grew up in the 80’s I can’t imagine
why anyone would ever go back to that? Outside of that…skinny jeans?...sorry, anyway,
I think that music has always influenced the youth of America and that’s not the problem.
The problem is the messages being delivered and the manner in which they are being
delivered. Even those who are successful in the entertainment industry stay away from
information that can really benefit the youth.
For example, you’d be surprised how many really successful artists graduated from college. No one is talking about the real blueprint to success. It’s unfortunate but we seem as a culture to still be working under the Willy Lynch philosophies. Kids don’t know or understand this and just begin immulating who and what they like, someone should take the time to explain it to them and they’re not going to listen to me.
12!> Do you believe that college or higher education is necessary to be successful?
I believe hard work, knowledge and the willingness to learn are the keys to success. I
think that college teaches you those skills. So is it necessary, no. But if no one else is
teaching you these keys, then college is really the only place you can learn and practice
these skills daily.
21!> Today more than ever, it is becoming increasingly important to generate your own revenue and income because of the slim pickings in the job market. What would you as an entrepreneur tell someone looking to make their passion a career??
Preparation is the key. Prepare to be broke, and hungry, and cold. Prepare to work hard,
and prepare for failures. I’ve found that as an entrepreneur we face more challenges than
most people and it’s those challenges and how we deal with them that will determine our
success. Two sayings that have always stuck with me my entire life, both were given to
me by football coaches; “If it were easy everyone would do it.” And “If I told you I’d
give you a million dollars for being on time then you wouldn’t be a sec late. As a matter
of fact you’d be early” Both of these sayings have stuck with me because they speak
to your dedication to things.
No one wants a boss, or have to go to work everyday, or clock in, deal with the bs, but being your own boss isn’t any easier, if it was, everybody would do it. In respect to the other saying, I know I’ll make a million dollars one day, but unlike the way society perception of making a million it doesn’t come all at once. It’s a daily process. So when I wake up in the morning I get to work because I would if someone was going to give me a million for it, but since they’re not I have to work on taking it.
19!>How do you feel about the word negro being on the 2010 census?
They should have used the word Nigger, then maybe more minorities would have filled
it out. We can’t get caught up in words and titles, what we need to do is correct our
behavior. Strive for better, and teach our children what the definition of negro is, instead
of getting into an uproar about it. I refuse to be sucked into the argument about “titles”
call me what you want, just do it to my face so I can correct you if you’re wrong, but
people are going to call you whatever they want to behind closed doors.
Don’t be a negro, or a nigger, or a nigga and some people will see that and react accordingly, and some won’t. That’s not what our lives are about. That’s not what the census was about.
Let’s as a race top getting distracted by the frivolous and begin to focus on building our
community to the point where we can set the rules and write the census questions. Could
you imagine if one of the options for race was “cracker”? LOL
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