

“Dream Chasers Sports and Entertainment Summit is to bring together some of the biggest names in both sports and entertainment to discuss everything from chasing dreams successfully to what it takes to make it in the industry as an athlete, musician, entrepreneur and business executive,†its website says. ( It’s not.)īut for a culture so inspired and influenced so heavily by sports and entertainment, I can’t help but think this is a brilliant start.


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I’d personally be more impressed if this event was free for the community. The event counts Meek Mill, Rick Ross, the NBA’s Dion Waiters, Thaddeus Young and Lou Williams as panelists. It’s why what he’s doing with his Dreamchasers Summit on August 30 at Temple University’s Liacouras Center is so intriguing. And in a way that they aren’t listening to anyone else. Taking in the scene at the Meek Mill listening party Wale concert I thought back to the summer of 2012 and the way the addictive, faux-reverence of the artist’s Key Wane-produced Amen had become a bluesy anthem in the central Brooklyn neighborhood where I lived. People are listening to this man, I thought. The song went on and on like that, until its bass-heavy climax, where Meek Mill (born Robert Williams) proceeds to rap 32-or-so more relentless, angst-ridden bars, each more furious than the next. If you want it you gotta see it with a clear-eyed view It was time to marry the game and I said, “Yeah, I do” See my dreams unfold, nightmares come true In the back of the paddy wagon, cuffs locked on wrists In a matter of time I spent on some locked up s. So I had to grind like that to shine like this
