Leave the Stringer Bells on TV, Romeo.

As some people know, I am in grad school getting my master’s degree. I like obtaining knowledge whether in school or out of school. So this morning I was catching up on some work and run across this clip from Romeo and his group call College Boyz, and this is what he said.

(An Ace Note: Romeo, isn't that the reason your father wanted you to get an education and expand the business? That is why Bow Wow clowned you when you were young. You were privileged.)

….and somewhere all the black leaders are rolling in their graves and the Sonnys are saying “WTF.”

The reason for the Sonnys saying that is the best dialogue from “A Bronx Tale” with Lorenzo, Calogero’s father and also Lorenzo and Calogero.

This is something I have learned from criminal minded people when I was young. There are two different worlds, the business and the streets and you can’t mix them together. What some young black people don’t understand is that business world game is another side of game than the streets. In the college world, the consequences are not within the business side until you get into a job. The power is within a pen in the business world. Gangsters don’t use pens unless they are stabbing you with it. The business side is not for the weak mentally just like the streets are not for weak physically. VSB had a blog on what gangsters don’t do which is a great read. Just look at the difference between Stringer Bell and Marlo Stanfied. Stringer Bell was going to college and is the educated one in the streets where the game is the belly of the beast in Baltimore. Stringer found out that the business world people can in the words of Maurice Levy “rain make” you. Stringer ended up dead by trying to be the smart one. Marlo, on the other hand, just use what he had with no college in mind. He ended up becoming a businessman at the end, but his name in the streets was torch as weak.

So to these young people that listens to Romeo and other rapper that feed you a line with BS. Let me refresh this quote from the Ace himself.

“There is difference between streets smarts and book smarts. Street smart is good for the physical while book smarts is good for the mental.”

Do you feel that there are “original gangsters” in colleges? Do you feel that there is price you pay in the street by leaving them if you are “gangster?”