When most people hear the word hustler, they may be thinking about a rapper or the magazine but let's think outside of the box for a minute.
What about the rich folks who nickel and dime to get ahead? What about those who lie their ass off to make money?
Well here's 5 modern day hustlers, who got ahead using any means necessary.
5. Alex Rodriguez 
The economy was sliding, people were already starting to lose jobs, yet A-Rod managed to scam the Yankees for $300 Million. This is from a guy who never comes in the clutch, and is always trying to people to like him.
Since he's been on the Yankees, they have yet to make a World Series appearance andl banked $300 Million. While he was hustling the Yanks, he was also hustling his wife with Madonna and strippers in Canada.
4. Al Sharpton 
This guy has to be up there with some pretty effed up people, when it comes to hustling. Before he was stabbed (and consequently, toned himself down), he was a fireball. Anytime there was a racial issue, bet your family, Reverend Al Sharpton was going to be there.
He hustled his way to the minds of hundreds of African Americans, who thought he was doing a good thing by backing them up. In turn. he was just causing unnecessary violence like, the death of an innocent Jewish man in 1991 after another Jewish driver hit and killed a black child.
Although he's toned down from his screaming days, he still opens his mouth every chance he gets, thus hustling his way to the minds of the people and media, some 20 plus years later.
3. Bill Gates 
When you talk about hustlers, this man has to be up there. Dude decided the hell with college, dropped out and started to write cheaper software to undercut, then powerhouse, IBM. It didn't end there. As Microsoft was taking off, he deliberately created applications that needed to be "updated" every year to make more dough.
If that's not hustling, then what is?
2. Oprah Winfrey 
Although she is one of the most famous and marketable females in the world, she's still a hustler. You know why? Because she has women all over the world believing that she's one of them, the every day Jane, dealing with life's problems. Wanna know that truth, OPRAH AIN'T!
If she was, then she'd be at home, sitting in front of the television while making lunch for the kids, wondering how to pass the day. I don't see her doing that shit.
1. And the number one hustler (drum roll please)....
George W. Bush. 
This guy, playing dumb, not only got reelected as President, but convinced an entire nation, and parts of the world, that going into Iraq was justified because they had weapons of mass destruction. Of course, we all know there were no such weapons, yet Bush got what he wanted.
In the process, he and his buddies made billions of dollars through rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. The biggest hustler of our time. I can hear Rick Ross,
Every day I'm hustlin' coming out of Bush's dashboard.
Do you agree, these 5 people are our modern day hustlers? If not then, who do you have in mind?
Comments (7)
I was thinking Osama.
why is Bill Gates not second to Bush?
Oprah's picture has to be from like a Wax museum or something. Her face is just too chiseled looking...
lmao i sooo agree on all of them.
and ughh i hate al sharpton... i'm blak and i hate racism but he takes it to a whole other level. it's like shut up guy!!
oprah can suck on my nonexistent nuts. i don't like her.
I also thought Gates would come in second. That is an awesome picture of A-Rod btw.
Al sharpton takes everything too far. that dude has to just shut up! all he does is yell.