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Funny how filthy rich pop star celebrities are trying to cash in on this. The same decadent people who think nothing of wearing a $30,000 designer outfit just once to some celebrity ceremony pretending to be against money and rich people.
Exactly -- and I heard Ben and Jerry of the very expensive ice cream company were joining in. It's like free advertisement or something, they are hardly non-Capitalists and their ice cream isn't exactly the most affordable on the shelf.
So many good answers from you on Kanye West. But nothing this guy does or says anymore surprises me, does it you. Power for the course, yes i can see him at OWS.
Today is the day Kanye went on down to join the 99% (of which he’s not a part, despite having taken out loans recently) at Occupy Wall Street. He wore plaid. Givenchy plaid.
The rapper paired his $355 shirt with what we believe are Balmain jeans, as well as man bracelets and the Yeezy-not-Weezy necklace he debuted at his Paris fashion show. The internet also reports Kanye was sporting a gold grill, but we know those are just his (permanent) gold and diamond crowns.
Yeah it's like Matt Damon standing up for teachers just because his mom is one. I would have said to Matt.......hey buddy if you think teaching is so honorable and you think they should be paid such and such why don't you quit your little lavish Hollywood bubble lifestyle and become one? I'm so sick of these pompous athletes and Hollywood celebrities having anything to do or say regarding the politics of this country and the middle class. They all live on another planet.
Like Chris Rock said, "there are no wealthy Black people in America, but there are some rich ones!" Wealth is generational and cannot be completely blown during a Vegas trip and a four day weekend. But you can easily throw away millions of dollars in this time span. Rich people can fritter away all of their money in a matter of months. Hollywood stars and pro athletes do it all the time. These people have to pay astronomically high taxes that often pile up because these people are too busy living the good life to pay the IRS millions of dollars every year. Many of the big-time celebrities of yesteryears are flat broke and in financial shambles in today. R&B superstar Bobby Brown made 30 million in 1989, but was homeless and crashing on couches a couple years ago. Watch any VH1 Behind The Music and see how fast overnight millionaires blow their riches. Approximately 78% of retired NFL players are broke and financially stressed after retirement.
Nouveau rich rap stars like Kanye with a few millions can easily lose that money fast if he neglects paying the IRS, knocks up some video hoochies, puts a 30 man entourage on the payroll or develops some expensive drug habits. MC Hammer was the first rapper to go Diamond with the long-standing best selling rap album of all time with 1990's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em and he went flat broke. Super Hip Hop producer token White guy Scott Storch was one of the highest paid men in the music business not that long ago back in 2006 until he blew almost his entire net worth of 70 million dollars in the span of a few months on massive amounts of cocaine, yachts, private jets, luxury cars and high profile gold diggers like Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan. Now, that guy is a broke forgotten has-been non-factor who can't pay his huge amounts of back taxes or child support let alone even afford to move his mother out of a run-down $80,000 shack of a house.
You don't think that can't happen to Mr. West? Well West is worth exactly what Storch was worth at 70 mil before he burned through all of his cash in 3-6 months. 70 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions the truly wealthy are holding.
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Occupy hypocrisy rallying around 'the rich'
