Friday, March 28th, 2008
Making It Rain on Them Hoes
Posted by Bossip Staff
Aliko Dangote, who is from Nigeria, and Patrice Motsepe form South Africa, is making it rain on hoes. It was recently reported in the latest issue of Forbes they both have billion dollar stacks. Aliko’s stacks come from the creation of an international sugar company and Patrice’s is from mining in South Africa.
Fuck basketball, trying to pick up a mic, or Flavor Flavin’ for white folks, get your mind right, your business mind that is.
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That’s a good look for the Brothers! We need more of these stories.
I admire these men….
These Are the type of people I want to surround myself with….
Intelligent,Ambitious Individuals.
Its also inspiring because their afican,nigerian,ect…
Nigerians are *****ing money makers. Go Motherland!
Phambili ngomzabalazo!
AMEN BOSSIP! You damn *****ing straight! Get your ***** into school, and not just that low-paying criminal justice, social work, education, sociology stuff neither. Get the technology, science and math skills and you can go anywhere on this planet and live large. My advisor tried to steer my buddies and I into teaching, social work and criminal justice, but we were too smart for that game and opted in for Engineering and Medicine.
I agree, most of my friends have enrolled their children into after school tutoring for math and science. I did the same for my two children and now both are straight A scholars with universities practically throwing scholarships at them.
@ jASON – YOU HAVE A GOOD HEAD ON YOUR SHOULDERS
Nigeria stand up!
admiring men who exploit their people and pay them next to nothing, thats great.
maybe they can use that money to feed all the starving kids there.
Jay-Z will never be on this BILLIONAIRE list…
Make that money… my african brotha! Power to the people. (showing fist)
@ Jason
I am studying medicine… I will be going to university in 2 years to complete my studies! I am enjoying the high school life now…
Actually… I am doing the sciences now… not studying medicine, YET!
I ADMIRE their ambition……
PHAMBILI NAWO SBALI
Before anybody is giving up props to these brothas, did anyone even notice that it said one makes their money mining in South Africa?
Wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The mining industry claims lives high above the national average. And that is in the US! Imagine the mining conditions in South Africa. Many, many have died in the diamond mines. Many, many miners make next to nothing. I haven’t personally researched THIS man, but he would be standing alone if his mining business treats its workers fairly and pays them a living wage.
Bossip it dont matter how you make it, it’s what you do with it that matters. If a kid gets a degree in business before going to the pros, with a salary of 350 mil for 5 years, you should be able to buy several countries in less than 10. Step ya game *****es….
That’s so sexy and hot .She is so pretty .I love her style.I saw her always dating in millonaire dating site”W e a l t h y L o v i n g . c o m”.Dose she had searched her new love in this site?Dose she really has a new baby?
Love them. I was so impressed. I thought Motsepe might be married to a white chick, but she is a beautiful sister. Love it !
More proof that…
Yes We Can!
id like to know about the working conditions of their employees… make sure they are not on that blood diamond type isht before i praise ‘em.
i’m glad i’m not the only one who read this and was like wtf? the mining industry is built on the backs of super exploited workers. why would i PRAISE a man who is responsible for the deaths and exploitation of african people?
in case you didn’t know, mining is also partly responsible for the spread of AIDS in African women. bc men are away from home for long periods of time, they’re more likely to engage in (unprotected) sex w/sex trade workers and then return home to have (unprotected) sex w/their wives. *sigh* i love the hilarity of bossip, but this gets a serious side eye…
Please from a Nigerian Journalist, I attended Dangote’s media party in 2006 he has at his all gl***** house for Journalists. Three babies for three baby mamas and all his money did not come from sugar Bossip. He invested the money Sanni Abacha, Nigeria’s late dictator gave him for bogus contracts. Abacha looted $650million from the government and hooked up his supporters with millions. Dangote’s dirty money was well invested and he started a cement company, sugar, juices, pasta, everything has his name on there. At 50, he is not married and not happy about that.
some ladies on the site sugarmommymeet.com are just looking for a sugarbaby like them.
Bossip ya’ll heard i will be on yr 2020 forbes african billionire list
Ok so do either of them have room for another wife? Holla at ya girl. PLEASE.
Damn people hating on these brothas without even knowing what is up with them. Even Kemi ain’t giving the Nigerian brotha credit for growing the money that he was given however fraudulently. I’m sure every billionaire on that list got some dirt on them on the way to the top.
nigerians all d way baby !!! …@ kemi sit ur dumb ***** down …
BEYONCE WILL BE ON THAT LIST SOON
@ Mandela – uwabheke ama haterz
Phambili le South(ern) Africa!!
@the haters….what do you know besides tasting those sour grapes all the time – learn to congratulate your own. You think all the white people got rich by being *****le …shoo
LOL@Bird – was thinking the same thing but nah my parents would disown me….even at this ripe old age
ok guys..let me set the record straight.Dangote made his money legally.Yes,he may have gotten help from Abacha but damn, when you go to IFC with valid docuemnts showing how much cement you have imported into the country over three years and all of america’s 401k is invested in a cement factory built at $1billion with no penny of his, give him credit.Job well done.I just got back from Nigeria and a cement company the largest in Africa and second largest in the world, respect the brother and ***** all the haters.Okay!!!
get that money,if you put your mind to it, it can be done.it will be plenty more blacks on that list soon
good …now the world get to realise africa is more than the images on cnn
Getting your business mind right is right Bossip. That’s why I’m a fan of Lebron. I don’t even like basketball, but that ***** is building the hell out of his personal brand. From Nike to Sprite to his media molding. He was one of the first athletes to get a portion of their endorsement contract remuneration in the form of equity.
That’s how really wealth is built… through equity.
Aliko Dangote is from my country, and that is not all what he does.
He does other things like sphagetti, i think rice, nylon bags, and a lot more.
Y’all are awesome. It doesn’t matter how shady the money is or how many people got beat down for the man to get it, it’s all OK just as long as he’s black. Get them stacks, rain on hoes, Whitey did it first, so we can be evil and it’s cool.
Oh, I forgot. We were slaves once, so it’s all cool…
Mars Blackmon
Do you have any evidence that these brothas did something dirty to gain their wealth? Do you think that it is impossible for them to just be great businessmen? Would you be happier if they were a$$ed out in the hood talking about, “W*****up yo?”
I am sooo proud of Dangote. Its nice to see a Nigerian getting good press for once. As a nigerian I am Proud. Apparently he is worth $16 billion, that is $15 billion more than Forbes declared. Whatever the casem, he is stacking and he has the most humble kids as well…..Well done to him!!!
Which one would you hit????
Kemi you are a hater! Aliko does not have three daughters by different women…. his daughters are from his ex wife Zainab!
I used to date Aliko many years ago, he is a cool guy.
I am from Ghana, and I fly into Lagos all the time… ( just a thirty minute flight) Aliko is doing some real big things.
WOW, ppl are hating sooo hard! Agreeing with another comment, people in business aren’t “holier than thou” just watch the do*****entary “corporations.” We live in a capitalist world so we’re going to have people making ends meet, people in the middle, and people balling out because they created an empire…get over it.
AND don’t sit here and say “well it’s one thing and make the money and another to use it to help people.” You don’t know what that man does with his money, what organization/foundation he might have set up to give back to his community, and LASTLY you can’t expect him to be god and give away 1/2 his fortune. *****ody’s running after your favorite entertainers BEYONCE and JAY-Z hounding them about how they give back…excuse me, except for when they went to SA to install 10 water pumps…
Co-signing with Bossip, some of us in America DO need to step our game up. I studied abroad in South Africa last semester and some people really are ballin out! ***** basketball and shuck and jiving for the man, there are BILLIONS to be made!!!
You said it Sharifa!
Boot get your facts right, I attend Aliko’s media party yearly. 2006 and 2007 being latest. He has 3 kids by 3 different women. You American prostitutes are the ones that mess up the picture. Zainab was never married to Dangote. She had one of his 3 kids! I attended his 50th birthday last year and on his bio/profile you can read about his life. Google a few Nigerian papers and you should still catch some with his bio. A complete and more detailed Wikipedia profile is coming.Is that why they call you “BOOT?”
Fifi, nice comment at least we Nigerians are getting good press. We all call it dirty money because any Nigerian out there knows what Abacha did with out taxpayer millions. So many Nigerian billionaires made money that way.
Femi, how old were you during the Abacha regime? 2 years old? Excuse me! So you just came back from Nigeria. Does Dangote do any Philantropy work? NO! He throws parties all the time and the media parties are so we could write good things about him. *****ody likes the media over there. I may be in Canada but check out my website and my last name may signal to you that I am a former Governor’s daughter. I am the Chief foreign correspondent for RADIO NIGERIA INTERNATIONAL (North America)aside from my freelancing for Canada’s leading TV station. I’m not hear to brag at Bossip but GET THE FACTS right! I care less if Dangote is reading but it is the truth. If your money is dirty and turned it clean, you are still trailed.
Is Diddy’s money from the crack money him and Biggie made in the past to start Bad Boy? That was the question I was asked last night on a Canadian radio talk show? Who knows, who cares but he has invested it well if it’s true is all I said.
As for Dangote, we know the truth.
BIRD, he has room for a wife. He is single. Go for it girl! LOL!
Rotex, I did mention everything he does. Pasta, juices and all.
Wanna know more info about my stupid hating self?
We are in Canada
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I’m on the set of Luda’s new movie. Looks like Toronto beats Hollyweird!
Thanks BOSSIP! FOR CAUSING ALL THE CONTROVERSY…..It’s all good!
Bossip, please get the story straight about Akon and country music, he is not the first black artist to do country music. For years black artists have been doing country, Gladys Knight, Lionel Richie, wrong country music, and I know there are two older black men who are superstars in the genre, and there is a black girl now, doing country music.
BOSSIP YOU IGNORANT IDIOTS, MINING AND SUGAR?
ARE YOU @#&@#(@ STUPID YOU DUMB MORONS, THESE INDUSTRIES EXPLOIT WORKERS AND ARE WORSE THAN SWEAT SHOPS.
#@(&@#(& STUPID IDIOTS
YES. GET YER BUSINESS MIND RIGHT.
kemi is a big fat liar. dangote’s hard earned cash is NOT abacha loot. he has had 2 wives and yes knows a lot of politicians (as a matter of fact he sent every northern governor juices, pasta and some of his other products during their inauguration… he makes a point of knowing these people!). he comes from one of the wealthiest west african families (Dan Tata) and has diversified his portfolio to make the most money. his workers get paid salaries similar to other nigerian workers in the industry and work under similar conditions (that are not bad).
just because ur father embezzled most of ur state’s money does not mean Dangote has done the same. It is HIS money, so he can use or GIVE it as he pleases whereas ur theiving father stole OUR money. Where the hell is EFCC when u need them???
PS: i was born and bred in naij and lived through the Abacha years. 100% northern nigerian. don’t come here and chat ur bs. like Dangote is really goin to say in a media party that his money is Abacha loot. shut up. u know everything about every nigerian becoz u work for radio nigeria in canada? do u know how ridiculous u sound. just shut up and save us from ur stupidity.
Wow, nigerians are everywhere nowadays, even on this blogsite. Wat up Naija people?!
ok these guys are worth billions but they have such mad crazy poverty in their respective countries…interesting hand over some of them billions to your people in need over there. build some schools and hospitals and maybe oprah wont have to run over there helping those people out and she can help the people in her own backyard out…wow
ZAINAB, WELL SAID, I COULD NOT AGREE WITH YOU MORE. I ALSO GREW UP IN THE NORTH AND KEMI IS OBVIOUSLY LIVING IN A WORLD THAT HAS BEEN FABRICATED BY SOME DANGOTE HATERS. I DONT KNOW HOW YOU CAN CLAIM TO BE SO UP TO DATE ON THE HAPPENINGS ON NIGERIA WHEN YOU ARE ALL THE WAY IN CANADA FOR ONE. AND SECOND WHICH BILLIONAIRE ON THE FORBES LIST DIDNT MAKE THEIR MONEY IN SOME SHADY WAY. EVEN THE ALMIGHTY BILL GATES WHO IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PHILANTHROPISTS SUPPOSEDLY STOLE THE ALL SO POPULAR WINDOWS INTERFACE FROM HIS RIVALS. SO Y DONT U CALL HIM OUT TOO. NOT THAT I SUPPORT THAT BUT YOU HAVE TO GIVE THESE MEN THEIR PROPS FOR BEING RECOGNISED FOR THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS FROM A PART OF WORLD THAT HAS NOT HAD ANYTHING POSITIVE ATTIRIBUTED TO IT IN A LONG TIME. ABI IS IT THAT EASY TO STACK $3 BILLION. KEMI U REALLY NEED TO STOP THE HATE AND LOSE THAT **********NESS THAT IS LINGERING IN YOU. WHY DONT YOU PUT YOUR FATHER ON BLAST LIKE YOU DID DANGOTE IF YOU ARE TRULLY A JOURNALIST. BETTER YET GIVE US YOUR LAST NAME AND LETS RESEARCH YOUR FATHER. STUIPID NIGERIANS ALWAYS PUTTING DOWN THEIR OWN. 9JA 4 LIFE AND PLS WE DONT WANT YOUR KIND THE ANYMORE.
One of Forbes former research *****ysts actually admitted that Forbes had been racially biased in the past. They did not want and had not been giving Blacks of any race this kind of acknowledgment.
Now if they could only use some of that money to rebuild some of the run down countries on that continent that would be great, instead of looking down on Black Americans and what we do. None the less still proud of theses guys.
YES, they have their billions. NO, the media won’t tell us everything that is going on. YES, they haved to give back to the community, so *****yze that! I’m not even from there, and I would make a conscious descision to give back. I WOULD BE TOO SCARED (BY THE PEOPLE) NOT TO!
Mars Blackmon
Y’all are awesome. It doesn’t matter how shady the money is or how many people got beat down for the man to get it, it’s all OK just as long as he’s black. Get them stacks, rain on hoes, Whitey did it first, so we can be evil and it’s cool.
Oh, I forgot. We were slaves once, so it’s all cool…
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Bird
Mars Blackmon
Do you have any evidence that these brothas did something dirty to gain their wealth? Do you think that it is impossible for them to just be great businessmen? Would you be happier if they were a$$ed out in the hood talking about, “W*****up yo?”
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Alot of you african-americans need to get a clue. The fact that in your country, most of you choose to either, sing/rap, act, shake ya booty, play sport, do drugs or just commit any other crime to get by DOES NOT mean that blcks everywhere else are the same.
This Dangote dude is nothing new. He s not the only Naija billionaire. I’m sure that there was some shady goings on and I will not excuse them. I’ve seen way too much corruption to do that. So to the Kemi that was moaning (why don’t you go investigate your dad) and the others who were attacking her, you all need to get serious.
And I’m LMAO at the af-americans on here who are all going: wow, go on brotha, we need to set our business minds straight, etc, GET A *****ING LIFE. So does it take seeing a billionaire before you know that you should get a decent education. Is Oprah not enough for you. Or is it because she is a female, that you af-american men do not consider her enough of an inspiration.
The idiots that are saying that they should give some billions to african countries. Do you tell Bill Gates to give away his wealth to the poor in America? Fools!
I am an American and I visited Nigeria a month ago. I actually visited Dangote’s cement company and it is m*****ive. I was quite impressed and I took lots of pictures. The conveyer belt alone stretches 60 kilometers about(100 miles) It really cheered me up after being robbed twice by the local government while rough riding through Nigeria. Nigerians are awesome though and I am so happy to be married to one. I continue to pray for the motherland as I pray for America.
Here’s a little information I read about Dangote. The info is a little dated, so he has already achieved some of the goals mentioned.
Born in Kano, reputed for its groundnut pyramids, to Mohammed Dangote, a business *****ociate of Alh*****an Dantata, and Hajiya Mariya Sanusi Dantata, Alh*****an’s grand daughter. This rich business background provided the launching pad for Dangote. He started out understudying his uncle, Sanusi Dantata before setting up his own business in the late 1970s with a loan from his uncle. Dangote moved from Kano to Lagos where he parti*****ted in the m*****ive importation and sale of cement needed for the country’s development. Having cut his business teeth here and made his seed money, Dangote has never looked back till date. From his Osborne Road office in Ikoyi, Lagos, he directs a business that has diversified from its early concentration on commodity trading into banking, agriculture manufacturing, textile and transportation.
Dangote made his name in commodity trading especially sugar importation into Nigeria which he admits he controls over 60 percent today. Given the heavy demand by Nigeria’s soft drink industry, breweries and confectionery industries for sugar, he makes a kill by doing volume business and gaining advantages to undercut competitors. Dispelling rumours of his cornering the market with the connivance of government support, he says it is an open market but because of his enormous investment in the business and his transport haulage business, he can distribute his sugar faster, cheaper and at a uniform prize nationwide which the competition cannot match. Dangote is reputed to have good investments even in foreign-based sugar refineries that supply him.
His business interest spans the export and import business. He exports cashew nuts, cotton, cocoa, millet ad textile. His extensive network enables him to source these commodities not only in Nigeria but the entire west coast of Africa where he is increasingly becoming a visible player. He also exports fish. Interestingly, he started out importing fish but when the local market proved difficult and less profitable, he diverted his supplies to the export market.
Dangote also imports and sells rice, vegetable oil, and cement. He employs similar strategies in the distribution of these commodities as in the sugar business. In December 1996, Dangote says, in response to a mandate from government, he imported and sold so much rice that the local market crashed by almost 80 percent. Right from the 1980s, Dangote decided to move from being just a successful commodity dealer to a more rounded entrepreneur with solid investments in finance and manufacturing. his style was acquisition and buying into existing companies.
He started out with Dangote General Textile Product which he acquired form its former owners thereby establishing control over the source of his trade. In 1993, he acquired controlling shares in the Lagos-based Nigerian Textile Mills. He invested enormous resources in re-capitalising, refurbishing its machinery and restructuring its management. And within a few years, he turned it from a loss maker back to its days of good profits. Looking beyond just making and exporting textile materials, the Dangote Group is exploring opportunities to manufacture jeans materials for the export market. Even in Sugar, Dangote currently has a joint venture with Pakistanis to set up a refinery in Nigeria to locally make sugar to cap his years of sugar business. Dangote bought 40 percent shares of the Nigerian Salt Company to broaden his investment portfolio and has three directors on the company’s board to oversee his interest there. With this pep, National Salt is expected to become a strong contender for control of Nigeria’s salt market.
with all the riches(diamonds, gold) in Africa- every damn African should be a billionaire…why only two?
This comment is some bull***** Corynne, we are going to expose you.
“***** basketball, trying to pick up a mic, or Flavor Flavin’ for white folks, get your mind right, your business mind that is”
@ quick lick
Your name is very stimulating… lol
Bossip is owned by David Hauslaib, a stupid white guy and is now edited by a stupid white woman named he hired named Corynne Steindler. Don’t listen to ***** this website says.
@ Truth
For real? May I ask how you found that out?????????
So who is Henny?…. Henny without any *****e.
@ The Truth
Are you a Bossip staff who got fired?
I think Bossip is owned by white people too….90% of their ***** is pure condescension towards black people.
nigerians uh huh we get it!@TRUTH if bossip is white owned all crdibility is lost..but then the source was white owned,XXL,BET all the major record labels and distributor…they control the way we view our selfs in the words of 2pac pay attention or become a victim in a white man’s world!!!
KEMI DONT YOU HAVE SOME SCRIPTS TO WRITE? YOU GET TIME JUST TO BADMOUTH YOUR KIND?WHY COS YOUR PAPA MONEY DONE DRY AFTER SENDING YOU TO CANADA?GET REAL APPRECIATE AND YOU SHALL GET YOURS.
szo, there is no such thing as the white mans world. Only white man america/white mans europe. No one anywhere else lives with white folk as the majorit so please quit that white mans world bul*****.
Good on them, always good to see people moving up.
And to all you Nigerians fighting over a man like he’s your daddy.lmao…Hope Dangote is paying you for the comments. Every business man has dirt hidden somewhere, and Dangote probably has alot…So cool it.
YAY. GOOD TO SEE A FELLOW NIGERIAN ON FORBES. THERE ARE A LOT OF CORRUPT PPLE BUT I WILL NOT ACCUSE DANGOTE SINCE ALL I KNOW ABOUT HIM IS THE BUSINESS ASPECT.
BTW, I THOUGHY FERNANDEZ WAS THE RICHEST NIGERIAN? WELL GOOD TO SEE PPLE COMING UP.
ANYWAY TO U IGNORANT IDIDOTS ON THIS BOARD. THERE ARE A LOT OF WELL-TO-DO AFRICANS ESPECIALLY IN COUNTRIES LIKE NIGERIA AND GHANA. WE NIGERIANS HAVE THIS SPECIAL MONEY-MAKING ABILITY THAT HELPS US TO MAKE MONEY QUICKLY (FROM SCRATCH) WHEREVER WE GO! WE ARE BALLIN. HEHEHEHE
TO THE FOOLS SAYING HE SHOULD GIVE AWAY IS WEALTH TO HELP OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES, I ASK WHY? WHAT DO U KNOW OF HIS PRESENT PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS? WILL U SAY THE SAME TO PPLE LIKE BILL GATES, WARREN BUFFET ETC?
WE NIGERIANS AND OTHER AFRICANS KNOW THE VALUE OF EDUCATION +HARD WORK +DETERMINATION. WE KNOW THAT BALLIN/RAPPING/SPORTS ARE NOT ONLY ROUTES TO SUCCESS. HOW ABOUT BLACK PPLE IN THE WESTERN WORLD BEGAN USING THEIR BRAINS. U HAVE MORE ACCESS TO THINGS THAT COULD HELP U SUCCEED. LOOK AT ALL THE FREE EDUCATION. IF IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES, EDUCATION WAS MADE FREE AND AS ACCESSIBLE AS IT IS IN WESTERN COUNTRIES, U WOULD BE SEEING EVEN MORE AFRICANS ON FORBES!
That’s Why, Me & My Patnaz want to get down in USA, We young, We Black, We motivated and I Know that with a lil bit of courage & chance we can learn how to do bigger bizness, bigger things…make bigger money off of it! Umma Show yall How some French West Indian fellaz can do it Big up in dem States. In fu*kin France, You can go to school for a very long time by studyin some big stuff, long enuff to get ya graduation around 28years old & and still can get no Job or fu*kin around in some supermarket or get on ya bike, delivering pizzas then gettin beat down by cops cuz you was smokin ganja with your Homies tryna relax & forget about that stupid day you’ve had:) . I aint hatin on dem jobs (gotta get that money money!:)but i do believe that every Black People can do Better Things(betta than dem *****fu*kin “You Know Who”)…I Hate France> Y’all have to say it with me> JE DETESTE LA FRANCE, C’EST UN PAYS DE MERDE now French cl***** is over…
@ KEMI,
U MAKE A GOOD POINT BUT AS UR DADDY WAS A POLITICIAN, WAS HE HONEST? COS POLITICIANS ARE THE MOST CORRUPT PPLE IN NAIJA AND ARE THE ROOT CAUSE (AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED) OR ATLEATS THE ONES CAUSING THESE PROBLEMS TO PERSIST IN NIGERIA
Big Ups to Patrice and Aliko! Africa is where its at!!!!
south africa stand up! patrice is the *****!…go home boy! amandla awethu!!!!!!!!!
This side of the Atlantic, the latest Ebony has an article about Africans that’re using their intellect and talent to make worthwhile contributions to society. So pleased to see that – it covers entrepreneurs, inventors, authors, fashion designers and more. Wonderful stuff!
A thought :There’s really no need for black Africans and black Americans to disagree and put one another down. How about trying to understand one another better, sharing ideas and thoughts on how to take a more positive path and doling out the compliments as well as any (constructive) criticism.
Yes, indeed. Yes we can!!
Patrice is well eduacated, law and *****.He is from a rich backound though, its a misconception to think there are no “super-rich” blacks in Africa who made their money in a clean, neo-liberal capitalist way.
As far as giving back, this brotha got a soccer team in the S.A. premier league. Its like the Chelsea F.C of african football. So forget about Him balling, he makes plenty of young ballers.