I GET MONEY

Meet Aliko Dangote: The richest nigga on Earth.
(Sorry Oprah, but he's gotcha, bitch. Word to Dave Chappelle.)

With a net worth of $3.3 billion, Aliko is #344 on Forbes' list of the world's billionaires (Harpo is #462), and officially THE RICHEST BLACK PERSON IN THE WORLD.

That's right, nigga -- he's the king.

What Harpo does with multimedia -- you know, OWNING the show, the magazine, the production company and everything else -- Brotha Aliko does with natural resources. Through his company The Dangote Group, he both hustles the basics -- namely: salt, pasta, cement, sugar, flour, textiles, bags, land, freight, gas and oil -- and handles their manufacture, packaging and distribution all over the country of Nigeria. His sugar refinery is the most capitalized company on the Nigerian stock market (country translation: that shit worth a LOT of fuckin' money, mayne), and he owns the country's biggest cement production plant.

Last year he wasn't even on Forbes' billionaire list, now he's that dude -- Nigeria's first billionaire and the richest Brotha on Earth. That's what you call movin' on up.



This is Patrice Motsepe. With $2.4 billion, Patrice is #503 on that Forbes list.

Patrice, an ex-lawyer, now gets money with metal. His mining conglomerate, African Rainbow Minerals, has interests in precious metals (like platinum), iron, nickel and others. He's also on his Bob Johnson/Jay-Z shit as owner of the Premier Soccer League's Mamelodi Sundowns. This is also his debut on the billionaires list.

All that's fine and good, but, to me, what's really special about Patrice's achievement is that he's the first Black billionaire of South Africa.

If you don't know about South Africa's past, do a little research and I guarantee it'll piss you off. South Africa is the home of apartheid, which is basically racism on steroids.

The Civil Rights era aint got shit on apartheid. Under apartheid, all South Africans were classified by the government as either white, black (African) or colored, with ALL preferential treatment going to the whites. Under apartheid, any protest against or support of the repeal of any race laws could REALLY get you fucked up. In 1960, a group of Blacks refused to carry the required pass books, so the government declared a state of emergency that lasted 156 days and left 69 people dead. Anyone could be detained without a hearing for up to six months, and if you even made it to trial for one of the bogus charges they could book you for, you could get the fuckin' death sentence. That shit was no joke.

For added emphasis, peep this:


If you can't understand this chart, ask somebody to explain it to you. I aint got the time.

Anyway, for Patrice to touch so much money in a place that sent cool-ass Nelson Mandela to prison for 27 years just for Martin Luther King'n it is a pretty big deal to me.

Plus, for me, it's good to see Black folk from the Motherland actually touching money in the Motherland. TD Jakes, Jay-Z and Oprah can take their riches over there, but I like the fact that Brothas who've been in Africa their whole lives can get it where they live.

So, there you have it. In just one year, the number of super-stanky rich Blacks has both doubled and gone intercontinental as native Africans Aliko Dangote and Patrice Motsepe join Harpo and the Bobcat in the BBC (Billionaire Blacks Club).



Sorry for my long-windedness, but I wanted y'all to know about this, since I know that it'll never be on TV. Unless TVone reports it, that is. (They're the shit.)