Imploring people not to be a baller or rapper is odd when the White House regularly hosts championship sports teams and uses stories of rappers like Jay-Z to campaign on the American Dream. When your hometown Mayor, who is former White House Chief of Staff, decides over 100 million in taxpayer money should be given to a private university to build a sports stadium while closing high schools across Chicago because money needs to be saved, maybe the graduates at Bowie State (which isn’t a hotbed of rapping or NBA players) aren’t the ones who need their priorities checked.