Forty-five years ago, Negro Teenagers on Chicago’s South and West sides attached strings and ropes to doorknobs planting the seeds for a potential billion-dollar music, entertainment, fashion, and dance behemoth. Do not start counting any dollars soon, and perhaps not at all. Largely because, the industry is not organized and has been infiltrated by non sanctioned confederates with the business ethics of a jackleg preachers. Worst, various cliques continue to waste a billion dollar opportunity feuding over egos, greed, and etiquette, rather than regulating an industry that reeks in duplicity, and fraud.




