Today, grammy winning song writer and one of the fiercest EMCEEs to ever grip a mic just got sentenced to 3 months in a federal prison for not filing her taxes on time.  The singer had to pay $1,006,500.00 from her 5yr career earning up to approximatley 2.3 million dollars.  The sista actually paid $970.000.00 which leaves $36,500.00 left.  So the government continued to put her on trial and tacked on an additional $60,000 for shits and giggles.  That's FUCKED UP.  But that could either be a good thing or a bad thing.  I personally believe her new deal with Sony orchestrated it so she could have something to write about.  Come on now...37g's!  I hope she destroys the industry with her next album.  Y'all forgot?  This sista had many male performers scared to step to a mic.  At one time she was the standard.  That cannot be said for a lot of these so-called artists of today but Lauryn Hill was Queen of the mountain at one time for a long time.  I said it once and I'll say it again, this is where literacy kicks in.  Y'all know I'm an advocate of literacy & what it means.  It's estimated that this sista's music earned 600 million dollars but she received 2.3 million.  Check the facts.

       "Someone did the math, and it came to around $600 million," she said. "And I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know." That was a statement she made to the press.

Young, Fabulous, and Self-Employed! What a slogan right? Well that's exactly what I thought when I came across a website that adorned that very name. I soon learned that it was a magazine geared toward promoting the entrepreneurial spirit and helping go getters realize their dreams. 

Anyone who has embarked on this journey has most likely experienced anxiety over a key component of that mission, the dreaded "F" word. Finances! Even to the most savvy business person, I have no doubt it can be the source of much stress. However, I am learning that it does not have to be that way at all. With preparation and a lot of hard work, one can equip themselves with the knowledge to overcome this critical obstacle. Below is an article I pulled from Young, Fabulous, and Self-Employed Mag: