Speaker 1: My League Books has how the knowledge you want. My
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Speaker 1: want to read my leak Buks. Welcome to Malik's Bookshelf,
Speaker 1: bringing a world together with books, culture and community. Hi,
Speaker 1: my name is Malik Mohammed, your host of Malik's Bookshelf. Well,
Speaker 1: we're on episode fifteen. This is an important episode. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you why. It's my birthday week. When I
Speaker 1: when I hit my birthday March four, it's the whole week.
Speaker 1: I'm celebrating the whole week. So this episode comes out
Speaker 1: during my birthday week. So I'm excited to bring this
Speaker 1: episode for it. And it's a little different this week
Speaker 1: because my whole episode is wrapped up in inspiration, book,
Speaker 1: we view, community, and culture. It's just wrapped up into
Speaker 1: all of the elements that I typically have on my podcast.
Speaker 1: The title of this episode is the Nipcy Hustle Effect,
Speaker 1: and so during this episode, I'm gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: different books that were on the Nipsey Hustle reading list.
Speaker 1: The five books that I'm going to highlight emphasize is
Speaker 1: The Out of War by son Zoo, Think and Grow
Speaker 1: Rich by Dennis Kimball, The forty eight Laws of Power
Speaker 1: by Robert green Powered Nomics by Dr Claul Anderson, and
Speaker 1: The Spook Who Set By the Door by Rob mcgreenland.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna highlight those five books. And as a
Speaker 1: result of me talking about those books, I'm really doing
Speaker 1: book we views. So I'm gonna bring forth all of
Speaker 1: the inspiration, the community, culture, and the book review all
Speaker 1: wrapped up as I talked about the Nipsey Hustle Transferformation
Speaker 1: Table at Malik Books and all the books, not all,
Speaker 1: but some of the books that are on the list.
Speaker 1: Because this list has inspired so many generation generation asked
Speaker 1: my generation and the millennials have been inspired by the
Speaker 1: books that Nipsey Hustle read, and so I thought that
Speaker 1: this episode for this week should I should talk about
Speaker 1: Nipsey Hustle and the effect that he had on our
Speaker 1: lives and in the community. So stay tuned for the
Speaker 1: Nipsey Hustle Effect. I want to talk about somebody that's
Speaker 1: near and dear to me personally and to the community.
Speaker 1: That Malik Books exists. He recommended books because he read books,
Speaker 1: and he used books because he wanted to uplift his
Speaker 1: community and the people around him, and his recommended reading lists.
Speaker 1: It's one of the hottest and most celebrated reading lists
Speaker 1: I have at Malik Books and around this country. Now,
Speaker 1: this person also created businesses and he wanted to uplift
Speaker 1: the community. And even though he made millions of dollars,
Speaker 1: he didn't leave the community. He still wanted to use
Speaker 1: his knowledge, his wisdom, and his understanding to make a difference.
Speaker 1: So he was not only an artist, a ropper, a businessman,
Speaker 1: but he was an activist. I'm talking about Nipsey Hustle
Speaker 1: and the Nipsey Hustle reading List is available at Malik
Speaker 1: Books because his books are powerful, empowering and uplifting. I've
Speaker 1: personally read a lot of these books on the list
Speaker 1: years ago. But the Nipsey Hustle Ready List transformed nis
Speaker 1: Hustle's life and will separated Nipsey Hustle from other artists
Speaker 1: is the fact that he shared his recommended reading list
Speaker 1: to his fans, to his friends and to the community.
Speaker 1: And we have that recommended reading list right here at
Speaker 1: Malik Books. So I thought I should talk about the
Speaker 1: Transformation table at Malik Books. The Nipsey Hustle reading lists.
Speaker 1: Now some of those books powerful. We have a book
Speaker 1: called The Out of Ward that's on that list, The
Speaker 1: Art of War. This book was written thousands of thousands
Speaker 1: of years ago, but it offers military strategies, strategies that
Speaker 1: you can use in your life right now, how to
Speaker 1: overcome the issues that you're dealing with. But whether in
Speaker 1: your relationship, the community, or on your job. That's an
Speaker 1: excellent book by Sun Zoo, The Art of War. If
Speaker 1: you haven't read the Art of War, they recommend this
Speaker 1: in militaries and business. A lot of CEOs have ready listen,
Speaker 1: this world. You gotta not to know how to navigate
Speaker 1: in and out of this world. You gotta know how
Speaker 1: to overcome obstacle. There is no situation, environment or um
Speaker 1: industry where you don't have to overcome obstacles. That's just
Speaker 1: a reality. And every flower has insects, right, no matter
Speaker 1: how beautiful the flower is, it still has insects around it.
Speaker 1: What as a force against the beauty. So all I'm saying, look,
Speaker 1: and you flowers out the deal will wind storms, but
Speaker 1: they still bloom and they're still become beautiful. And that's
Speaker 1: just how life is. No matter what obstacles did you
Speaker 1: have to deal with, you gotta learn how to overcome
Speaker 1: in their books to give you strategy, such as so
Speaker 1: Who's the art of War? Now? Another book on that
Speaker 1: list is called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
Speaker 1: Excellent book. Excellent book. I personally like Thinking, Grow Rich
Speaker 1: a Black Choice by Dennis Kimble, because that book, you know,
Speaker 1: is interpreted and written in a way where you can
Speaker 1: relate if you're a black person. So that's why I
Speaker 1: like that book, because, like you know, in each community,
Speaker 1: we have our own language, and we have our own
Speaker 1: you know. Um just basically we have our own way
Speaker 1: of looking at things and seeing things. Because you know,
Speaker 1: like two people can see the same thing, and they
Speaker 1: can they just see it different because of their lifestyle
Speaker 1: and how they was raised. And so it's impossible for
Speaker 1: everybody to see things the same way. You know, So
Speaker 1: if two people see the same thing, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: two different versions. Why because the way he was raised,
Speaker 1: the way you see the world, the way you see yourself,
Speaker 1: all of that is gonna factory and it's just the
Speaker 1: way it is. And so that's why I just like
Speaker 1: to think of grow with your black Choice because Dennis
Speaker 1: Kimbo wasn't you know, he's the CEO executive. He was
Speaker 1: a writer for Black Enterprise magazine and he's done so
Speaker 1: many other things, but his background is just business. And
Speaker 1: that book he took the pioneering Napoleon Hill Can Grow
Speaker 1: Rich and he just you know, put a twist on
Speaker 1: it called The Black Choice. Anyway, moving on now the
Speaker 1: forty eight Laws of Power by Robert Green, that's part
Speaker 1: of the Nipsey Hustle reading list. That's a powerful book.
Speaker 1: Now Robert Green goes all over the country, all over
Speaker 1: the world. He talks about strategies to did you have
Speaker 1: to deal with to overcome whatever? You know you have
Speaker 1: to deal with in business? You know, a lot of
Speaker 1: these jobs to the high powered. Hey man, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure. You're dealing with a lot of people
Speaker 1: and a lot of pressure, and you gotta know how
Speaker 1: to manage that and how to deal with that. I
Speaker 1: ran before they a loss of power. Guess what he
Speaker 1: said he said to take away from that book was
Speaker 1: never act like you're smarter than your boss. Never act
Speaker 1: like you're smarter than your boss. So the forty eight
Speaker 1: Lives of Power, you know, that's one of our hottest
Speaker 1: selling books at Malik Books. We always are reordering for
Speaker 1: the Loss of Power by Robert Green. Now he wrote
Speaker 1: a lot of other books, you know, because so you
Speaker 1: can also check out those, But the forty eight Laws
Speaker 1: of Powered by Robert Green that's on the Nipsey has
Speaker 1: read Listen now one of the books is nearrative to
Speaker 1: me that I always promo. You know, people ask me
Speaker 1: all the time, what's the one of your most favorite
Speaker 1: books or the favorite books you know you're gonna have many?
Speaker 1: No one really can narrow down to one book. We
Speaker 1: learned from many other books. Whatever it is that you're
Speaker 1: striving for, like what they are different books that you
Speaker 1: have to read in order to achieve. So, but the
Speaker 1: one book that I know that I think this empowering, inspiring, motivating,
Speaker 1: uplifting is Powernomics by Dr Claude Anderson. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: he's a doctor, but I know he's an educator. But
Speaker 1: Claude Anderson who wrote Power Nomics, the National Plan to
Speaker 1: Empower Black America and why listen, I'm a black man
Speaker 1: in America. Yeah, and at one time and it might
Speaker 1: be still today, the black man is the most endangerous
Speaker 1: species in America. So this is why I got the
Speaker 1: emphasize who and what I am because we're stigmatized here
Speaker 1: in America. Yes, we have have come, we've made achievements,
Speaker 1: we have excelled. It don't change the fight. That black
Speaker 1: men are incarcerated at the most highest rate in America
Speaker 1: and that the black man isn't a dangerous species in America.
Speaker 1: So I can't shy away from that reality. I've had
Speaker 1: my experiences pledging in college, being poured over, calling the
Speaker 1: in word for no reason. So the Power Nomics the
Speaker 1: National Plan to empower Black America. It's important because money
Speaker 1: runs the world, and we need to learn how to
Speaker 1: pour money together to solve some of these problems that
Speaker 1: we don't have to back the government or no one else.
Speaker 1: If we just pull as black people money together to
Speaker 1: fund our projects and our dreams and our goals and
Speaker 1: build a generation of change. And that can be done
Speaker 1: without the hand the hand being held out because we
Speaker 1: have one point five trillion dollars already, So let's pull
Speaker 1: that together, find a way to unite and pull the
Speaker 1: money together so that we can do for itself instead
Speaker 1: of the hand being held out. If things we can
Speaker 1: do without always acting government and other people. But there's
Speaker 1: things that we need to do. We see people come
Speaker 1: rich every day on the Powerball just paying two dollars
Speaker 1: because there's so many people, someone wins a billion dollars.
Speaker 1: At what point in time are we gonna learn that
Speaker 1: All we need to do is trust each other and
Speaker 1: pull our money, resources, intellect and build a reality right
Speaker 1: here in America. And we can do that. And that's
Speaker 1: what this book, Powering Nomics is all about, is what
Speaker 1: we can do right now the National Plan to empower
Speaker 1: Black America, and we can do that right now. We
Speaker 1: must do that right now. We have to do this
Speaker 1: right now, and we need to stop playing and do
Speaker 1: for us right now. It's a saying that I came across.
Speaker 1: What it says, uh do for yourself. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: remember why I'm talking on this podcast. I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 1: I got so many thoughts that's flowing in my head.
Speaker 1: Because you can't ask others to do for you what
Speaker 1: you could do for yourself. That's what I wanted to say.
Speaker 1: You're asking people to do for you what you already
Speaker 1: can do for yourself. Were lacking money one point five
Speaker 1: three and dollars come through the black man and woman's
Speaker 1: hands in America. That's not crumbs, but it's not The
Speaker 1: money is what you do with the money. And until
Speaker 1: you pull this money together and use it as a
Speaker 1: tool to elevate and enhance your community and your people,
Speaker 1: that it's all gonna be self centered. You're just gonna
Speaker 1: go out and buy the fancy cars, and you can
Speaker 1: do that, but you also can use some of that money.
Speaker 1: Because I in forty million black people gave twenty dollars
Speaker 1: a month and a Black Fund and put about twelve
Speaker 1: proven black people over the board. Of that money, Guess
Speaker 1: what every month you could raise eight hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: I think that's around twelve billion dollars a year. How
Speaker 1: much good in the hood and twelve million dollars do
Speaker 1: for you? We could build schools, factories, We could do
Speaker 1: so much with twelve billion dollars every year on our own.
Speaker 1: With money we already have, can buy land right here
Speaker 1: in America, build schools right here in America, build factories, jobs,
Speaker 1: a community right here in America. We can do that
Speaker 1: because we already have the money, but we have to
Speaker 1: unite the money. Nipsey Hustle didn't graduate from high school,
Speaker 1: he didn't graduate from college, but he was educated, know how,
Speaker 1: self educated. So even if you was dealt with a
Speaker 1: hand that you didn't like, and even if you was
Speaker 1: dealt with conditions you didn't like, like violence and games
Speaker 1: that you're growing up around, don't mean you can't change
Speaker 1: your reality. Don't mean you can't change your condition. Is
Speaker 1: it hard, yeah, is it difficult, Yeah, But that's just
Speaker 1: the hand you deal with. Nipsey Hustle hand was he
Speaker 1: was build to hand, and he changed it and believed
Speaker 1: and use what he learned to try to help other people.
Speaker 1: We feel like that's what we do here at Malague Books.
Speaker 1: We book octivis. We use books to help our community.
Speaker 1: We use books that help change people lives. We use
Speaker 1: books to make a difference. We book activis. I've been
Speaker 1: serving this community since books. I love it now. We
Speaker 1: got the bookmobile out and hitting schools, hitting community organizations, festivals, churches.
Speaker 1: We're on the road. We're taking the show to them.
Speaker 1: But Nipsey Hustle h had a love for books, had
Speaker 1: a love for reading. He changed his life by reading books.
Speaker 1: He changed his life by reading books. He read books
Speaker 1: on the Black Panthers. He read books about the black
Speaker 1: man in America. He wanted to use books to unite
Speaker 1: our people. He wanted to use what he learned in
Speaker 1: books to unite our people, not run from my people.
Speaker 1: He wanted to transform the community. Bye by the block
Speaker 1: was one of his slogans. Bye by the block. Don't
Speaker 1: have to buy everything, just buy the block at a time.
Speaker 1: You know, you know the old saying, you takes a
Speaker 1: village to raise the child. Everyone bring a brick. Hey,
Speaker 1: we take one brick, build a house. Pass it on.
Speaker 1: Everybody bring another brick, build a house, pass it on.
Speaker 1: So we got books. Um you on, Youie Newton, sold
Speaker 1: on ice, you know, solid dad, brothers. Um the story
Speaker 1: of Youie Newton. Um. The Spook who Sat by the
Speaker 1: Door by Sam Greenley. All right, now let me tell
Speaker 1: you about that book Spook who sat the door, because
Speaker 1: what I heard in the streets, what I heard, Oh
Speaker 1: before I get to the spook who sat beside the door,
Speaker 1: you know, if you had had some spirituality, he even
Speaker 1: you know, talked about the book Enoch that he read.
Speaker 1: He talked about the book Reached Dad, Poor Dad, you know,
Speaker 1: Seize the Time by Uie Newton Guerrilla Market because he
Speaker 1: wanted the brand his business and take marathon continues to
Speaker 1: another level. How are you gonna do that? If you
Speaker 1: don't got the knowledge, better read it or talk to somebody.
Speaker 1: So he understood the technology, it's the future, so he
Speaker 1: opened up you know, a workspace technology and so forth.
Speaker 1: But get him back to The Spook Who Sat Beside
Speaker 1: the Door by Sam Greenley. Well, I heard in the
Speaker 1: streets was that book was supposed to be the next
Speaker 1: um album that he was gonna come out with. That
Speaker 1: it was gonna be that time, or that's what I
Speaker 1: heard in the streets. Now, Um, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's accurate, but I do no nipsey as are recommended.
Speaker 1: The Spook who Sat Beside the Door in that book
Speaker 1: by Sam Greenland, it's an old book. It was written
Speaker 1: a while ago. But it's the main factor of that
Speaker 1: book is the fact that the guy, the character was
Speaker 1: trained by the CIA and the Intelligence Agency of America
Speaker 1: and the knowledge that he learned he wanted he brought
Speaker 1: back to his community to use it in order to
Speaker 1: empower his community. And that's to me what it's the
Speaker 1: meeting potatoes of the spookl set beside the door. That
Speaker 1: the information that you learned, and some of us clandestine,
Speaker 1: but you we work in every major industry in America
Speaker 1: and we those are resources, the knowledge that you learned.
Speaker 1: So why not use that too enhanced the community to
Speaker 1: uplift the community, to embellish and elevate the community. And
Speaker 1: we need more people to do things like that that
Speaker 1: have that intelligence, that has that knowledge that works in
Speaker 1: them hype profile positions in America. Why not bring that
Speaker 1: information to your hood, to your community, to your neighborhood
Speaker 1: and elevate, don't run from it. That's what the book
Speaker 1: the spook who said beside the Door, The main takeaway
Speaker 1: and plot of that book is we work in every
Speaker 1: major corporation and industry in America. We need to use
Speaker 1: that as a as a as a toold to elevate
Speaker 1: our people. That's what we need to do. We have
Speaker 1: a duty. We have a duty to do that. You
Speaker 1: have a duty, whether you agree with it or not.
Speaker 1: Things are not gonna get no better until we take
Speaker 1: control over our destiny and our reality. And it takes
Speaker 1: people who are highly intelligent to step up and help
Speaker 1: the people that we complain about all day and all
Speaker 1: night nothing gonna change. And just talking about what's going
Speaker 1: on in the hood, in the in the black on
Speaker 1: black crime and all the lack of jobs in the community,
Speaker 1: and the teenage obesity and pregnancy in the community, and
Speaker 1: all the poor health that goes on the community. Ain't
Speaker 1: nothing that gonna change if the people who got the
Speaker 1: degrees from Harvard, Yale and all the other major colleges
Speaker 1: universities are not gonna use that knowledge that they have
Speaker 1: in their positions to bring back that and build for self,
Speaker 1: to build the community up. We here, We are here,
Speaker 1: and we're part of this nation, and therefore we all
Speaker 1: have a duty to do something to make our communities
Speaker 1: and neighborhoods better, not run from it. If she hustle
Speaker 1: didn't run from it. So the book the Spook who
Speaker 1: set by the Door, what's kind of like our Nipsy
Speaker 1: was making his moves simply because he was finding knowledge
Speaker 1: and bringing it back. He was filing ideas he wants,
Speaker 1: elevating his hood, elevating his community, elevating the people around
Speaker 1: him to make moves in order to bring about a
Speaker 1: better reality in our community. WHOA So I'm speaking from
Speaker 1: the heart, and I'm speaking with passion. I'm speaking from
Speaker 1: you know, no script. This is what I think, feel
Speaker 1: and believe. So thank you for listening to Malik's Bookshelf.
Speaker 1: And I think this episode, I ain't came up with
Speaker 1: a title yet, but it got to be something with
Speaker 1: Nipsey on it, because that's that that was the inspiration
Speaker 1: for this, you know, this podcast today, for this episode
Speaker 1: today is you know, and the things that I was
Speaker 1: talking about, he came from an arty, came from the
Speaker 1: passion you know books. You know, my Nipsey Hustle transformation table.
Speaker 1: So that's what I have for this episode today, the
Speaker 1: Nipsey Hustle experience, the Nipsey Hustle effect. I like that,
Speaker 1: the Nipsey Hustle effect. That's what I think that this
Speaker 1: episode should be called, the Nipsey Hustle Effect. I hope
Speaker 1: you enjoyed it. Thank you. Come check out Malik's books
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