Economy
Mapping the Black and Latino Student Loan Debt Crisis
The rapper Dee-1’s newest music video celebrates finally getting Sallie Mae off his back. But it’s middle-class black and Latino families who are struggling the most to repay student loans.
Some musicians score a record deal and immediately buy a luxurious home, a fancy ride, or some other status-symbol indicator. When the New Orleans-based rapper Dee-1 signed with RCA in 2013, he decided to pay off his student loans. Indeed, in his new video “Sallie Mae Back,” Dee-1 boasts that instead of buying a Mercedes Maybach with his recording contract advance, he burned off his college note.