BirdMan BMFing

Reminder: It's The Rapper's Money Not Yours

By Tha Office
February 18, 2011 | 4:12pm

The other day, I had the privilege of interviewing Bryan "Birdman" Williams for this website. One of my questions was how he spent the $1 million he won betting on the Green Bay Packers to win the Super Bowl. Without any hesitation Weezy's father said he bought a Maybach (click here to read the whole story).

Admittedly, when I posed the question about what he did with his money to Baby, I gently asked if one of the things he did was give it to charity. That's when he gave me the Maybach answer. But no judgment here. Far as I'm concerned the man is free to do with his money what he wants and, in his defense, who knows what other ways he spends the money we don't hear about it? But as was expected, ridicule towards Baby's purchase started pouring in via Twitter and other social outlets.

A similar thing happened a couple of weeks ago when a news clip of Rick Ross, Diddy, and Pharrell spread on the Internet. In the clip, the reporter says the three artists threw out nearly $1 million in cash at the King of Diamonds strip club. Not a day had gone by before posts were being written and random folks on my own Twitter timeline accosted the men for their actions, citing all the different good causes the money could have gone towards.

Now paint me some sort of superficial jerk who cares nothing about the world's problems, but honestly, if I had $1 million in disposable income, I'm pretty sure getting a Maybach or a night at one of the world's best strip clubs would be at the top of my list of things to do. Would I give any of it to a good cause? Sure. Whatever I had left could go to a good cause, but the first good cause I'm going to support is myself. Why? It's my money, and I earned it.

But the reality is, this is probably why a higher power has never and might not ever bestow upon me a cool mil.