Saturday, October 29, 2011

J-Zone Book Excerpt: When Rappers Are Forced To Get Day Jobs -2011

Here's another excerpt from Root for the Villain: Rap, Bullsh*t, and a Celebration of Failure.

Wall Street is occupied. Your college degree is a laminated dustpan; now you need a Ph.D. to put holes in donuts. Becky with the million dollar Master's degree in education is teaching alright...teaching the new girl at the bar how to make Tequila Sunrises. So where does that put a former rap artist? At one point in time, I made a living doing what I loved (being a musician). Today, I'm being told to get a respectable haircut and dress "business casual" to do no business and casually answer phones. When Yale graduates can't find work, you know rappers whose careers went kaput are in trouble!

Gotta laugh to keep from crying...or launch a new search engine (MC Hammer)...or juice a woman for money to record a comeback album (Tim Dog). But whatever you do, don't fall into the dead end job world like I did. It's a cold, cold (albeit hilarious) world.

Click here to read the full excerpt: http://www.egotripland.com/j-zone-book-excerpt-3-back-on-the-plantation-when-rappers-get-day-jobs/

Pre-orders for the book on Amazon, Create Space, and directly through me (with the super-limited audio book on cassette tape) officially start next week!

Side note: If you really can't wait that long, you can pre-order it on Amazon now. Just type Root for the Villain in the search engine for books. You didn't hear that from me, though.

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