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The story of Kanye West's Forbes billion-dollar list barely four years after being in a $53M debt. Credits to Joe Pompliano, Forbes, CNBC & Kanye's Twitter handle . How did Kanye West negotiate his way out of debts to become a billionaire? Believe you not, four years back he was in a debt and this is how he bailed himself out becoming the second hip hop artist to be on Forbes' billion-dollar list after Jay-z. THE STORY In 2007, Kanye West found himself on a flight with Nike CEO Mark Parker. Sensing an opportunity, Kanye took out a sketchpad and started drawing shoe designs for Parker to review. By the time they landed, Kanye had Parker's word the two would design a shoe together. Nike CEO Mark Parker put Kanye West and the legendary Tinker Hatfield, the original designer of the Air Jordan, in a room to collaborate. By mid-2008, Kanye was wearing prototypes of his Nike Air Yeezy in public. The official release of the Air Yeezy came in April 2009. Along with the initi...

The lyrics to the song "It Is Well With My Soul" were written by Horatio Spafford. In the late 1870s, Horatio was a successful Christian attorney and real estate investor, by all standards he was very wealthy before tragedy after tragedy struck.                                              In 1871, he lost a fortune in the great Chicago fire, while still recovering from the loss, his beloved four-year-old son died of scarlet fever. To cool things down, he decided to take his family for a vacation. So he sent his wife and four daughters on a ship to England, where they would accompany his friend, the famous evangelist D. L. Moody, on his next crusade. Since he had a lot of work to do, he sent his family and decided to follow them later. However, while crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the ship was involved in a terrible collision and sunk. All his four daughters perished am...

Let me tell you something about God's grace.  Ever wondered why some mighty preachers, gospel artists, motivation speakers, etc., who used to run the airwaves, no longer do so? Ever wondered why a gospel artist, who would step on a stage and the masses go crazy can longer even attract 1000 views for their really good music?  Even wondered why your favorite motivational speakers literary receive no attention like they used to? And that preacher who would literary command the whole nation to touch radio for prayers and a huge % of households would follow - can no longer even attract the same? A preacher who would their church full to capacity forcing the need for more services, can no longer witness such? So they resort to staging miracles to get hold of the members? And this too does not because day in day out they are exposed? This is because . . . When God releases his Grace upon your life, everything you touch turns into gold.  Now, our failure is when we receive these ...

  GUCCIO GUCCI: Do you know the journey walked by Guccio Gucci, to reward the world with GUCCI?  Let us take a walk But first, the brand Gucci, is one of the most sort after iconic fashion brands in the world, credits to Guccio Gucci who sacrificed it all - and now his generations will never know poverty! Before 1921, Italian, Mr. Gucci being an energetic teen, traveled to France and London where he worked at the prestigious Savoy Hotel as a lift attendant, and it was during this time that he observed the style and elegance of many wealthy and famous people. In particular, he took note of the beautiful luggage styles that he saw.  On his return to Italy, at 40 years old, he joined his father in his leather goods making business, armed with his overseas exposure, he brought in new ideas in his father's leather goods business, making a collection of high-quality goods.  In 1921, he set up up the first Gucci shop was founded in Florence Italy, and it is from here that t...

  THE WEIRD KANYE INTERVIEW ANSWERS - Recreated! Never saw them? Here! So we all know that Hip Hop Mogul who is now a Christian Kanye West, is one of the most difficult people to handle during an interview? And if you manage, he will give you the unexpected-expected answers that will crack you up? So one day, Vogue Magazine was doing their 73 questions with Kanye's wife Kim in their palatial home - and they would drop a few questions to him and of course, he would answer what he wanted... Below is a recollection of what viewers made of the interview - Interviewer: Kanye what's the best thing about being black? Kanye: The Color Vogue: What is the story behind this house? Kanye: It was built Interviewer: Kanye, what’s the best part about being alive? Kanye: Not being dead. Interviewer: So Kanye what’s the best part about showering? Kanye: The water Hey Kanye, what's the best thing about your kids? Kanye: Their dad Interviewer: “Kanye what’s the best part about being a dad Ka...

  JAY Z POWER DEAL MOVES Last few days of million-dollar Jay Z deals. When Jay Z rapped in 2005, "I'm not a 'Business-Man'! I'm a Business... man! Let me handle my business, damn!" Most of us thought this was just one of the rapper's music lyrics. NO! We were all wrong. Picture this, in 2019, Jay Z became the first hip hop artist to be declared a dollar billionaire by Forbes. He was worth $1B. The only other hip hop artist to reach a dollar billionaire status was Kanye West in 2020, he was worth $1.3B HEAR THIS: In the last few days, Jay Z has surprised the world with magnificent business deal moves. I bet Forbes Magazine's editorial team has not been sleeping as the rapper has been significantly accumulating wealth and cashing in on the dollars. Over the last few days, the rapper struck deals to sell his boutique music streaming service Tidal and half of his champagne brand Armand de Brignac as below. Tidal: • Majority stake acquired by Jack Dorsey’s...

PROTECT YOUR HUSTLE - Learn to be Positively selfish! If you are trained in some unique skills say designing some good wears, doormats, clothing, sandals, etc and that is the hustle that feeds you, it is okay to be "Selfish" whenever anyone comes to you to train them. Have you ever seen coca-cola share their formula? They were founded on 29th January1892, over 120 years later, no one knows the formula for their syrup that makes sodas across the world. Again, did you know that there’s quite possibly no fast-food item that’s quite as mythical as Colonel Harland Sanders’ Original Recipe fried chicken, which has served as the cornerstone of KFC’s menu since the recipe was perfected in 1940 The recipe, comprising of a blend of 11 herbs and spices is one of the most tightly guarded trade secrets in the restaurant industry. This recipe is locked inside a vault at KFC’s headquarters in Louisville. Hear this, even KFC’s head chef, Bob Das, revealed in a past interview that he doesn’t ...

IDDRIS SANDU, THE ULTIMATE 23 years old Tech GENIUS! Describe as t he digital architect changing the landscape of tech, Ghanian born Iddris Sandu's teen life will shock you. Look at the profile of a man who declined an offer to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology twice in order to be a change agent for African-American culture. At age 13, he was an accomplished programmer, he was discovered in a library by a designer from Google who got him an internship at the Tech Company. He was reading texts about the theory of relativity and studying the German industrial designer Dieter Rams. At age 14, his name had already begun making rounds in the tech and political cycles he designed an app to help students at his high school find their classrooms easily. Here he received Presidential Scholar Award from President Barack Obama. At age 15, he was hired by Twitter to do data analytics. At age 16, Instagram hired him At age 17-18, he was a consultant for Snapchat At age 19, Ub...

DR. OLUYINKA O. OLUTOYE, MD, Ph.D .: Is a Nigerian Physician, who carried out a delicate surgery on a 23 weeks old foetus who was removed from the mother’s womb, operated upon, and returned to the womb to heal and continue to grow until the baby girl was born at 36 weeks healthy and naturally. Baby Lynlee Hope suffered from a tumor known as Sacrococcygeal Teratoma. According to CNN, in 2016, Margaret Boemer went in for a routine ultrasound at 16 weeks that revealed a rare birth defect. At 23 weeks, she and her baby, named LynLee, underwent a five-hour fetal surgery. Dr. Olunyinka and Dr. Darrell Cass, co-led a team of 21 doctors to remove a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a large tumor from the baby’s tailbone. To safely remove the tumor, the surgical duo removed the baby from the uterus for 20 minutes. Then, they placed LynLee back into the womb for the remainder of the gestation period, after which she was born healthily. Following his role in a groundbreaking surgery, Olutoye was appoint...

TERESA WANJIKU NJOROGE:  Beyond the bars, Never Again! Teresa served time between 2009 - 2011 at the Langata Women Maximum Security Prison accompanied by her then one-year-old daughter. Her first-hand experience of prison, the desperate plight of the women and girls she met behind bars, and the revolving door of crime and poverty she witnessed inspired her to devote her life to the equipping, empowering, and preparation of imprisoned women for the precarious journey of reintegration into society. After her release, she met with the Director of Rehabilitation and Welfare of the Kenya Prisons Service in 2013, and here the magical Clean Start Kenya was born. This is an organization, that works with women and children impacted by the criminal justice system to help them restore dignity and hope for successful reintegration into society. But here is the story Up to 2008, she is a normal banker, a city working lady who wakes up every morning to beat the traffic to her place of work. ...