"I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive." — Solomon Burke

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.