“It’s OK to talk about issues, be vulnerable and fail. “It used to be how tough you are and how many women you could bag,” he said. He sees The Marathon Book Club as a microcosm of those conversations.įor so long there has been a warped understanding of manhood, Drakeford said. In L.A., Davis says he has been hearing more discussions about mental health in the barbershop and about toxic masculinity in the locker room. And Charlamagne tha God talks therapy, trauma and anxiety with some of hip-hop’s biggest stars on his nationally syndicated radio show, “The Breakfast Club.” Kanye West has shared his struggles with bipolar disorder. His honesty spawned the hashtag #YouGoodMan to encourage black men to talk about their mental health. In 2016, Kid Cudi opened up on social media about his battle with depression. But recently there has been a shift that has coincided with the maturation of hip-hop. Yet because of a host of social and economic barriers, including religion, cultural misgivings, a lack of access to healthcare and a systemic bias among providers, black men are significantly less likely than any other demographic group to seek mental health treatment, according to Washington University researchers and the National Alliance on Mental Illness.įor years, black men rarely discussed mental health, even among themselves. Trauma, whether from racism or from witnessing or being the victim of crime, is often a daily reality for many black men, according to a 2018 study from researchers at Washington University in St. A fledgling rapper, Eric Holder, 29, has been indicted on one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder and other charges. Police have described the shooting as the culmination of a personal dispute. plans that were cut short when Hussle was gunned down outside his store in broad daylight on March 31. These books all educated and empowered Hussle - to release albums, start a record label and hire people with felony records to work at his shop, Slauson Tees, which later became The Marathon Clothing Store.Īll of those were steps in a larger plan to revitalize his Crenshaw district in South L.A. Last year the store sold 150 copies of “Sacred Woman,” a self-help book about healing a woman’s spirit, up from 27 in 2018 67 copies of “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” up from 20 copies the prior year and 30 copies of “The Way of the Superior Man,” up from a single copy the year before. Now, patrons come to Eso Won with Hussle’s reading list in hand, and the books he revered are flying off the shelves. He was a truth seeker and a truth speaker.” “We inspired each other to be better versions of ourselves. “We read a lot of books together,” she said in between sniffs. Lauren London, Hussle’s longtime love and life partner, told The Times days after his death that he would sit in bed with headphones listening to books for hours. In the business book “The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing,” Hussle found the inspiration for his life-is-a-marathon-not-a-sprint mantra that he later simplified into just “The Marathon.” In the decades-old “The Way of the Superior Man,” he said he learned how to harness his power as a black man. Hussle found that the tools he needed to realize his dreams were inside books.įrom the branding tome “Contagious: Why Things Catch On,” he got the idea to charge $100 for his mixtape, which caught the eye of Jay-Z. a real asset so I can take care of my people.” “But I’d rather invest in some real estate. “All of that is cool for the image,” said Hussle, then 21 years old and resembling a young Snoop Dogg.
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