Yo Gotti Reveals JAY-Z Inspired Him To Go Back To College To Grow His $100M Empire

[King Poetic]

Good for him

 

[Iceson Beckford]

Imagine being upset cuz a dude decided he actually wanted to go to college and learn.

These guys complain in every thread about Rap being destructive yet want to down rappers going to college or trying to offer information about finances etc


Not sure what they want from them to be honest

 

[winb83]

Imagine being upset cuz a dude decided he actually wanted to go to college and learn.

Gotti can do whatever he wants. We don't need these fluff pieces written about college. Him going to college is his business but when they write a piece about a celebrity that can just cut a check going to college it helps spread a narrative about college that is mostly not the full picture. For the young kid that's approaching senior year in high school they should be given all the facts about college not just that positive it's an education that will better you fluff talk.

There are plenty of people that went to college and got out crippled with debt and fukked for decades paying it back. His experience doing this isn't the average one.

 

[Insensitive]

College was great.
I learned a gang of shyt and it increased my salary by $25k

I got no complaints about my education.
And I'm still able to pay down my education, invest regularly and my networth is >$150k.

Education is worth it.
I disagree heavily with anyone who says college is bullshyt.
It changed my fukking life.

 

[Sad Bunny]

There are plenty of people that went to college and got out crippled with debt and fukked for decades paying it back. His experience doing this isn't the average one.

That is a choice. They should have used their brains before they took loans.

 

[Sad Bunny]

College was great.
I learned a gang of shyt and it increased my salary by $25k

I got no complaints about my education.
And I'm still able to pay down my education, invest regularly and my networth is >$150k.

Education is worth it.
I disagree heavily with anyone who says college is bullshyt.
It changed my fukking life.

Me too.

I know so many people who went to college that are more successful than those that didn’t

Education is key for the average person

 

[Insensitive]

On the topic of college and whether or not it's worth it:

An education is TAKEN not GIVEN.

So the people who went to school and feel it didn't give back what they wanted
IMO, those people didn't go for the right reasons.
Anyone who has seen my posts over the years knows I was trying hard as fukk to finish
a B.S. in Comp. Sci, switched to Eng then eventually went down another path.

IF I wasn't focused on trying to change my life through education and instead
trying to "make a way" reading books and working shytty low wage jobs while
going through whatever else I was going through, I would've crashed out.
I'm certain of it.

I went to a small, cheap, not even remotely fancy Private University (much later)
prior to that I gained an education in a trade at a community college.

If I tried any other avenue, I really feel I would've been dead/in jail.

Cause before I was touching bread, I was getting to the end of my rope
and that "being good" shyt was no longer enticing.

 

[threattonature]

We’ve seen how many rich people that came from uneducated backgrounds that lost all their money quicker than they made it. They go into rooms and get finessed cause they’ve never read anything other than an IG post.

It’s not only about sitting through exams, it’s about being well versed in the language and connecting with/learning from people.

Unlike a Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, his family and friends are not really highly educated at the world’s best institutions.

Hating on the least educated group promoting education is wild, who do you work for

Not to mention all the accountants, managers, lawyers and record company executives who love to speak bullshyt to artists who know no better while robbing them blind. By going to college and learning yourself you are in turn making yourself A LOT of money. For every manager you don't have to pay to negotiate for you that's percentages of every dollar you earn that you are no longer paying out. Yes you can try to learn it yourself, but by going to college he gives himself a mentor as well that he can run his thoughts through when he doesn't fully understand something. That's a huge part of learning. When self-taught there is a big possibility of misinterpreting something that you are learning or misapplying what you've learned.

 

[threattonature]

Gotti can do whatever he wants. We don't need these fluff pieces written about college. Him going to college is his business but when they write a piece about a celebrity that can just cut a check going to college it helps spread a narrative about college that is mostly not the full picture. For the young kid that's approaching senior year in high school they should be given all the facts about college not just that positive it's an education that will better you fluff talk.

There are plenty of people that went to college and got out crippled with debt and fukked for decades paying it back. His experience doing this isn't the average one.

No what kids need to be taught is how to use college. Kids need to be taught that to make the most use of the education part of college. Too many go wanting to party and see the school part as an afterthought. I know way too many people who went in and got useless degrees, didn't network, didn't put in the work to go along with the degree (myself included) who then graduated bytching that college is useless.

I saw the difference my senior year. I went to a big university. Most of my courses once I got into the degree courses were small intimate courses. For all your talk about lectures, every lecture course of mine had 1 or 2 breakout sessions to go along with that lecture. Also those professors had office hours for the one on one sessions you spoke about lacking. I was the student that barely went to half my classes. Never built relationships with my professors or answered questions in class. Senior year I finally started doing those things and all of a sudden professors took an interest in me. I got presented with opportunities for internships and studying abroad from those professors.

Also when it comes to college there is tons of money out there to help pay for it if you put in the work. Too many people are too lazy (including my kids) to fill out all those applications and to grind and find the money before even starting college.

So the education kids need is not to blanketly tell them to go to college, but instead how to make the most out of college and that what they put in to it is what they get out of it. You can't just go and expecting the degree will do the leg work for them.

 

[re'up]

Jay learned a lot from the Def Jam president days. All those execs around. And the one who helped him back in the late 90's. John McNeill.

I am sure he told Gotti that because that's what he was told, and either did, or wishes he did.

it's also just a way to connect with weird old white men in the corporate world. Or people from anywhere who went to UCLA. They love to hear stories like that. "oh my sons at UCLA, oh my granddaughter just graudated. "Have you met the dean, I'll introduce you"

 

[re'up]

No what kids need to be taught is how to use college. Kids need to be taught that to make the most use of the education part of college. Too many go wanting to party and see the school part as an afterthought. I know way too many people who went in and got useless degrees, didn't network, didn't put in the work to go along with the degree (myself included) who then graduated bytching that college is useless.

I saw the difference my senior year. I went to a big university. Most of my courses once I got into the degree courses were small intimate courses. For all your talk about lectures, every lecture course of mine had 1 or 2 breakout sessions to go along with that lecture. Also those professors had office hours for the one on one sessions you spoke about lacking. I was the student that barely went to half my classes. Never built relationships with my professors or answered questions in class. Senior year I finally started doing those things and all of a sudden professors took an interest in me. I got presented with opportunities for internships and studying abroad from those professors.

Also when it comes to college there is tons of money out there to help pay for it if you put in the work. Too many people are too lazy (including my kids) to fill out all those applications and to grind and find the money before even starting college.

So the education kids need is not to blanketly tell them to go to college, but instead how to make the most out of college and that what they put in to it is what they get out of it. You can't just go and expecting the degree will do the leg work for them.

This is true, but you also have LEARN that part from someone, the idea of interpersonal relationships and how to cultivate them. That's a skill in itself. That can be sharpened, or developed, like other skills.

I had no idea how the "system" worked as a teenager. I had no idea about any of that. Eventually, I learned, but there's a price for learning too late. Like you are saying, you barely kind of got it at the last minute, but there is a probably an alternate version where you just missed it.

 

[King_Kamala61]

How can a nikka that never went to college inspire you to go to college?

That’s like saying Kobe inspired me to play football

Jay prolly mentioned college could well round him out. Or Jay could say, "I wished I went to college cause Idda gained more much quicker"

 

[King_Kamala61]

All I know is if you got the money, you should invest in all phases including fine art...Black fine art to be exact. It would be nice to build black artists up from black money before other races buy into the black artists. That way you can generate black generational heirlooms.

 

[King_Kamala61]

College was great.
I learned a gang of shyt and it increased my salary by $25k

I got no complaints about my education.
And I'm still able to pay down my education, invest regularly and my networth is >$150k.

Education is worth it.
I disagree heavily with anyone who says college is bullshyt.
It changed my fukking life.

College education has helped me with my art endeavors. The rest is just growing pains

 

[Gritsngravy]

On the topic of college and whether or not it's worth it:

An education is TAKEN not GIVEN.

So the people who went to school and feel it didn't give back what they wanted
IMO, those people didn't go for the right reasons.
Anyone who has seen my posts over the years knows I was trying hard as fukk to finish
a B.S. in Comp. Sci, switched to Eng then eventually went down another path.

IF I wasn't focused on trying to change my life through education and instead
trying to "make a way" reading books and working shytty low wage jobs while
going through whatever else I was going through, I would've crashed out.
I'm certain of it.

I went to a small, cheap, not even remotely fancy Private University (much later)
prior to that I gained an education in a trade at a community college.

If I tried any other avenue, I really feel I would've been dead/in jail.

Cause before I was touching bread, I was getting to the end of my rope
and that "being good" shyt was no longer enticing.

When I hear people say college was bullshyt and makes me think, were they not choosing they own classes, did they not have the hunger to learn, was they not somewhat proactive in trying to figure out what they wanted to do

I feel like all that shyt really helps the grind if college and stops a person from crashing out, but if someone went to school with the mentality that I going to take the easiest classes possible to graduate after the gave up on some shyt they thought was hard then of course college will seem like bullshyt cause they didn’t challenge themselves in accomplishing something