"It's all about the Benjamins"
That was the headline of a story on our local front today about some hip-hop personalities talking to college students about personal finance.
It confused at least two readers who wrote me about it. One said:
I read that story two times in its entirely and for the life of me I cannot find a reference to what the Benjamins is/are or otherwise. I feel like I must be missing something when the headline has nothing to do with the story. Am I wrong, or am I missing something on this? Could it be you put the wrong headline with this story?
I looked it up in my Webster's dictionary and the meaning of the singular is "benzoin" or the tribe in ancient Israel if it is capitalized. I looked up benzoin and it tells me its is an acid compound used as an antiseptic. Spell check apparently did not understand Benjamins either.
Well. Benjamins are $100 dollar bills, of course, referring to the Founding Father whose image is on the bills. It was also the name of a 2002 movie starring Ice Cube and Eva Mendes. And it's the name of a Puff Daddy song.
What? You think that's not the paper's demographic?
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When I saw the hed I thought it was about the financial scandal of the former chancellor.
While you are linkin' to P-Diddy lyrics, I gotta' throw in a shout to the best rap ever from that crew:
Verse Three: Notorious B.I.G.
Uhh, uhhh
B.I.G., P-O, P-P-A
No info, for the, DEA
Federal agents mad cause I'm flagrant
Tap my cell, and the phone in the basement
My team supreme, stay clean
Triple beam lyrical dream, I be that
cat you see at all events bent
Gats in holsters girls on shoulders
Playboy, I told ya, bein mice to me
Bruise too much, I lose, too much
Step on stage the girls boo too much
I guess it's cause you run with lame dudes too much
Me lose my touch, never that
If I did, ain't no problem to get the gat
Where the true players at?
Throw your Rollies in the sky
Wave em side to side and keep your hands high
While I give your girl the eye, player please
Lyrically, niggaz see, B.I.G.
be flossin jig on the cover of Fortune
Five double oh, here's my phone number
Your man ain't got to know, I got to go
Got the flow down pizat, platinum plus
Like thizat, dangerous
on trizack, leave your ass blizzack
Posted on September 9, 2007 7:48 PM