Venita McCollum
Venita McCollum
Venita McCollum was born on January 14, 1968 in Gary, Indiana in the late 60's, she is an entrepreneur, business woman, and the mother of famed hip hop artist Lil Yachty.
Personal Life
Venita McCollum
Venita is the mother of Miles P. McCollum, otherwise known as Lil Yachty. Her life has been an excursion of hardships and she has depended on her confidence and wealth of experience to overcome life's hindrances.
Career
In 2016, Venita left Corporate America to work for her child, as his private concern manager, helping and exhorting him with extending his essence and brand. [15]
Also, in her job as Chief Executive Officer of Audience Connect Global Inc, an intuitive portable and web stage, Venita gave us a sneak top in to her own life as a style symbol and design influencer through "In the Closet with V."
Venita McCollum teases her design and style skills on Raisingarapper.com.
Venita McCollum Drops Debut Book 'Raising A Rapper'
Raising A Rapper
Lil Yachty's mother's first book, "Raising a Rapper", is being hailed as a handbook for guardians raising children with dreams in Media outlets. It even dives into monetary and lawful issues. McCollum said in a public statement:
"There is this conviction that all rappers originate from destitution, and this basically isn't the situation,"
Lil Yachty is a platinum-selling, Grammy-selected artist on the forceful Quality Control label, he explained his success:
"I generally realized this would be my story, in any event, when I was working at McDonald's by-day and systems administration with specialists around evening time," Yachty included. "You can't persuade any other person that it'll work for you until you persuade yourself. At the point when I strolled over the phase to graduate, I had an arrangement, and my mother had another arrangement. Be that as it may, it is extremely unlikely I could have truly begun without her ready—I wasn't even mature enough to sign arrangements independent from anyone else at that point."
Raising a Rapper
Venita McCollum, discharges her bit by bit control titled "Raising a Rapper", on the best way to bring youngsters up in the amusement world.
Venita McCollum know some things about bringing a youngster up in the music business, as her child Lil Yachty, began his vocation at 16 years of age. Despite the fact that their relationship hasn't been great, and McCollum isn't announcing her new book as blue print to being a mother, the exercises she shares all through the excursion are important. [16]
"He's generally so steady in all that I do.
I'm so honored God made me his mother!
He cherishes me and everyone around him!
I never thought in a million years, I would work for my kid!
We have had our mom child challenges.
I have made them exercises learned!
Their is no blue print to being a mother!,"
states Venita McCollum.
She aims to help with her Raising a Rapper book:
"Let me start by saying my whole reason for putting the book out was because I wanted to dismiss some of the stereotypes on artists and rappers.
A lot of times, people think all rappers come from poverty, they’re uneducated, or they come from uneducated parents.
We were sort of the opposite and in a way we had a Cinderella story.
I sent my son to Alabama State to become a college student and it didn’t work for him. I wanted to share my story. In sharing my story, it was important for me to be informative, inspirational, and motivating. I wanted to give those parents out there some information. When I got the announcement from my son that he didn’t want to go to college, I didn’t have a blueprint. I wanted to make a small blueprint for those parents who were going to come up that road behind me."