CBX Daily 6/23/2025

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CultureBanx Team
June 23, 2025

Today, trading slip-ups are bringing investors to tears, but let’s start with how pitch decks are going platinum, fueled by rap pioneers…

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How Hip-Hop’s Formula Became The New VC Pitch Deck

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For decades, hip-hop artists have turned pain into poetry, struggle into style, and now, lyrics into liquidity. A new generation of rap moguls and artists are flipping the wealth script by investing in technology, transforming their cultural capital into venture capital. This isn’t just a business trend for music icons like Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Nas, among others, it’s a power shift, where ownership and innovation are becoming the bars that really matter.

Simple Trading Mistakes That Could Be Destroying Your Portfolio

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Stock Ticker symbols can be confusing to the novice investor, especially when there are thousands of companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges. People are making mistakes left and right when buying shares and they are paying for it heavily in transaction fees and embarrassment when they have to undo the trades.

Forget Tradition, Gen Zs Are Changing Luxury One Item At A Time

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You'd be surprised, or not if you found out that Gen Zs would rather spend their money on experiences rather than material things. The luxury market shifting was not on anyone's bingo card but neither was the Covid-19 pandemic which caused the total global luxury market to shrink by 20–22% to and losing approximately $1.15 trillion, returning to levels seen in 2015. And while the market is still recovering, the young generation have their priorities set and would rather spend on real estate, luxury cars, private jets and collectibles.

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Meta, in a bid to enhance business tools is injecting ads into WhatsApp. Do you feel like this is innovation where users can get targeted ads or is it another profit-making scheme?

A. “Corporate Greed” by Brandon McKagan – This isn’t about features, it’s about squeezing every last cent from a platform people trusted to be ad-free
B. “Privacy” by Chris Brown – They sold us privacy, then crept in through the back door. What’s sacred if even our messages are up for sale?
C. “Mask Off” by Future – We say we value privacy, but keep trading it for ease. Maybe the ads just show us who we really are

What are your thoughts on this? Tune in next Tuesday to see which jam captures the prevailing sentiment!

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AI Layoffs Hit Hard & Workers Bear The Brunt of The Automation Surge  

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The robots are here and handing out pink slips. Companies are embracing artificial intelligence to slash costs and increase efficiency, triggering widespread layoffs across industries, specifically in tech. No longer a distant threat, but today's reality, impacting real lives and communities. Analysts warn that 30% of U.S. jobs could be automated by 2030, indicating that Black and Brown employees, often concentrated in vulnerable roles, will bear a heavy burden.

Can Tariffs Mute Trap Beats And Trade Deals?

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Behind every hit beat is a studio full of gear, and this gear that often comes from overseas. As tariffs hit musical instruments, audio interfaces, mics, and MIDI controllers made in China, Black indie musicians may pay the price of protectionism.

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