NaS dishes out SCHOLARSHIP MONEY to reach minorities how to Code vol. Nas Won

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Real Gs move in silence
Shoutout to the god for this. Doing something GOOD for the community. Has his own venture capital investing company. Doing big things while staying under the radar. :pimp: :pimp:

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_gr..._is_dishing_out_scholarship_money_so_you.html

It's quickly becoming the No. 1 choice for 20-something and 30-something career changers who are fed up with their current gigs and want to learn a valuable skill quickly.

Coding—also called programming or software engineering—is the go-to field for these types of transitions. Coders learn how to build websites, apps and the digital products and programs that companies use to carry out their operations. Three-month training boot camps have been popping up all over the nation and are churning out coders who can immediately command a $90,000 salary (or more).

As with most careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), African-American, Latino and female software engineers are sparse. So Nas, alongside corporate heavy hitters like Microsoft and Google, is doling out scholarship money to people hoping to attend General Assembly—a coding school with locations in New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, London and Washington, D.C.

"This is the start of what hopefully will be a contribution to what will be a more diverse and accessible community worldwide,” Jake Schwartz, General Assembly CEO, told Betabeat during an interview.

Each of the donors is tackling an underrepresented group in STEM.

Nas' venture capital firm, Queensbridge Venture Partners (yes, the kid has an investment company; he's invested in companies like Lyft and Dropbox), is funding scholarships for African Americans and Latinos with the Opportunity Fund. Google is donating scholarship money for women. Microsoft and a veterans-advocacy group called Hirepurpose are funding scholarships for vets.

Biggie once said that "real G's move in silence," and Nas rarely broadcasts his investments and other projects he's involved in, but this partnership needs all the bells and whistles it can get. Software engineering is a great opportunity for career changers, people who didn't go to college and even reformed convicts. Shout-out to Nasty Nas and his venture capital group.

Queensbridge Venture Partners—how appropriate.
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KingKoopa said:
Yet your the first one to bring up his name
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You can have a thread about Jay without Nas mentions.

Nas will forever be linked to Jay.

Hov won.

Bust them suds on yo face.
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Jay bum *** wouldn't do anything like this
Ol snake in the grass
Leeching off other folks to stay relevant lookin boy
 
How can it be his firm if he's just a partner....

and not even the most wealthy partner either?

http://qbvp.com/our-team/

https://www.shawncartersf.com/scholarship-fund/

jay's work seems more legit.....but you didn't know he's BEEN giving out scholarships huh...
 The Shawn Carter Foundation was established in 2003 as a 501c3 public charity (“Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund”) by Shawn Carter and his mother, Gloria Carter.
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real G's move in silence?
 
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KingdomFlatbush said:
This will be in Music soon enough
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What makes yall think this belongs in the music section? This is about business and finance. That's the problem with a lot of these young kids today, B. They think they know it all when they still wet behind the ears, pa. OGs like NaS are the ones who set the format for the young cats today to use as their stomping grounds. Cats need to respect the OGs that made it possible for them to make the moves theyre making now, pa
 
I came in here just to see FlyNy be FlyNy and I wasn't disappointed.




FlyNY said:
This isn't about music
This is about finance
Nas is a financial MOGUL
And he dropped outta 8th grade
If you ask me, Nas Won
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FlyNY said:
pa. OGs like NaS are the ones who set the format for the young cats today to use as their stomping grounds. Cats need to respect the OGs that =
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FlyNY said:
Cats love to bring hockey sticks to the beach.

Bringing someone completely irrelevant to a relevant situation
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