Monday 20 May 2013

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money matters: check out this winning hip-hop video


“Money, money, money, money all around. Gotta stack that money, this is how it’s going down.” This is the chorus of the music video “Time is Money,” in whih Syretha Shirley, a high school sophomore from Las Vegas, raps about checks, credit and debt.

Ms. Shirley, 16, is the winner of the Money Matters Music Mogul contest, sponsored by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Charles Schwab Foundation.

The contest was held late last year to promote a teenage financial-education program that the Schwab foundation supports at Boys & Girls Clubs nationwide. Teenagers were asked to submit song lyrics that reflect “financial fitness” themes from the course. The songs were performed using background beats provided by a music producer, Kevin Cates, who is known as Khao.

check out the the original article from New York TImes, written by Ann Carrns

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