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Did you know that 50 years ago, Berry Gordy founded Motown Records with an eight-hundred-dollar bank loan? Today, Berry Gordy has a net worth of about $350 million.

Gordy is a living example of a man who created something out of nothing, and is laughing all the way to the bank. He even out-lived Michael Jackson, the youngest artist on the roster.

I’m sad to say that everyone on the team did not collect. It’s a fact that Florence Ballard aka “Flo” was forced to apply for welfare. (For those of you who don’t know, Flo was an original member of “The Supremes”…ask Diana Ross.) Flo died at the age of 32, with three children — ON WELFARE. Flo is reported to have suffered from chronic depression — I wonder why? She was diagnosed with coronary thrombosis, and apparently didn’t have the money for health care. Her death is said to be “one of rock’s greatest tragedies.

Motown Records was the home for major black acts including, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, The King of Pop – Michael Jackson, and my friend the Late Rick James.

At a time when racism was prominent throughout American culture, Motown’s music bonded blacks and whites across the country. The Detroit-based musical enterprise also opened up lanes between Europeans and black music. As a result, music was forever changed.

By 1980, Gordy agreed to just $61 million from MCA in return for Motown Records and its long priceless list of musical art from the greats. That’s just $6 million dollars more than what David Bowe received for his publishing. What an a$$hole!!! Apparently Gordy had no respect for the artists on his roster. And, we as black people often ask ourselves why we don’t get anywhere. I’ll tell you. It’s because of people like Berry Gordy, who drain our spirits, souls and talents and sell it for silver.

Sound familiar Puffy? These people are no heroes to me. Know why? Because they’re a bunch of soul-sucking vampires. Don’t you agree?

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