There is more to black success than ghetto stories | Matthew Ryder

Focusing on 'rags to riches' narratives of successful black people misses the point. How they stay at the top is far more interestingThe latest piece on Jay-Z in Saturday's Guardian, The boy from the hood who made good, illustrates how incomplete the wider conversation about black success still is. For those of us who have followed Jay-Z's career since 1996, the intriguing thing about him is not that he had a childhood punctuated by poverty, drugs and guns. In fact, that is a pretty common rap s...

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