CBx Vibe: “How Much a Dollar Cost?” Kendrick Lamar
CBx Vibe: “Banned From TV” Noreaga & Big Pun
CBX Vibe: “Controlla” Drake
CBx Vibe: “How Much a Dollar Cost?” Kendrick Lamar
CBx Vibe: “The Next Movement” The Roots
CBx Vibe: “Industry Baby” Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow
CBx Vibe: “Banned From TV” Noreaga & Big Pun
CBX Vibe: “Recession Proof” You Gotti
You can now add Tariq Trotter, more notably known as Black Thought, the lead MC of The Roots, to the growing list of influential people entering the venture capital space. He joins other notable musicians such as Nas, QueensBridge Ventures Partners, Jay Z, Marcy Ventures Partners and professional athletes such as Kevin Durant and Serena Williams, who are now using their financial and cultural capital to provide funding for Black entrepreneurs. He is now a General Partner with Impellent Ventures, a $10.5 million fund aiming to raise $50 million.
CBx Vibe: “The Next Movement” The Roots
The pay gap between white influencers and BIPOC alone is an unmerited 29%, and there is no reason for this discrepancy beyond tokenism that suited the corporate agenda in 2020. Additionally, no business seeks to be labelled as ‘siding’ with social media platforms who are practicing shadow banning of non-white creators. Black creators know their gravitas, and yet are continually having their value undermined, leading to them to cancel the same social media platforms who are dependent on their content to fuel growth with the influencer marketing sector expected to reach $15 billion by 2022.
CBx Vibe: “Dang!” Mac Miller & Anderson.Paak
The second largest U.S. wireless carrier, T-Mobile (TMUS +0.96%), has agreed to pay $350 million to settle multiple class-action suits. This all stems from a data breach disclosed last year affecting around 53 million customers personal data. When it comes to data breaches they are often more problematic for people of color living on fixed or low incomes, therefore mitigating widespread damage from this data breach to these communities is imperative for T-Mobile to restore consumer confidence.
CBX Vibe: “Protection” Logiq
Homeownership is an important step to bridging the racial wealth divide. If Black homeownership matched white homeownership, Black wealth would increase by almost $40,000, bridging racial wealth inequality by about 30%. With current mortgage rates the highest they have been since 2008, and the number of homes for sale nationally plummeting, an alternative path to homeownership may be leasing to own your future home.
CBx Vibe: “Energy” Big K.R.I.T.