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It's quite possible that Hip-Hop is gonna create 4 Billionaires, let that sink in for the Music and culture they said wasn't shit โ๐พ #HipHopForever
NFL is bad. These games are actually bad. I hope people donโt think this is entertainment lol this is just bad football.
Monday Night Football
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NFL pass defense gotta do better or the DBs in todayโs NFL are just not that good.
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Pfizer paid John Legend. The World Health Organization paid Lady Gaga. From there the confirmed list runs through musicians, athletes, networks, studios, leagues and household-name anchors. Who else can put that many voices on the same script at once?
#BigPharma #Pfizer #MelK
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๐ฏ He has 3 3 peats in his career. The only rapper to accomplish this.
90โs - Illmatic, It Was Written, I AM
00โs - Stillmatic, Lost Tapes, Godโs Son
20โs - KD2, Magic, KD3
Also Distant Relatives & Life Is Good sprinkled in during the 2010โs
#Stillmatic #Godson #TheLostTapes are 3 of @Nas best albums. Iโm talking HIGH on the list of Nas albums. Very high.
In the 90โs, he gave us a 3 piece classic with #Illmatic, #iAm & #ItWasWrittenโand in the 2000โs he came with another 3 piece classic with the 3 aforementioned albums.
No rapper on planet Earth has ever done this. I feel itโs necessary to say because for some stupid reason, yโall shit on Nasir Jones name WAYYY TOO MUCH on here as if he ainโt who he is.
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The Homestead Act gave away 270 million acres to white settlers โ essentially free.
Black Americans were excluded.
That land is worth TRILLIONS today.
You didn't start behind because of bad choices. They gave away the starting line.
Build your own. Own equity. Start now.
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50 Cent reveals Ghost was almost killed off years earlier in Power
50 Cent: I didnโt mind killing Kanan when the time came. It got awkward for the writer, for the showrunner, because she felt like it was registering as a 50 Cent show instead of her show.
It also was friction between her and Omari, because he was feeling like he was the lead and the star of the show. Omari wouldโve died, Ghost must die. He wouldโve died when Kanan died, she planned to kill Omariโs character off right there. Iโm like, โNah.โ I could feel how the general public was feeling, and I knew that was not the right decision.
She said, โIf he doesnโt die, something has to happen. Something big has to happen.โ Iโm like, โMe. Kill my character. I got other shit to do. I could go be 50 Cent, and then I donโt have to be here anymore.โ
Interviewer: Do you agree with them killing Ghost?
50 Cent: I wouldnโt have killed him, that shit could still be running if it was running right now. It was creatively a decision that she made because she was not feeling him no more.
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Jack Dorsey bought Jay-Z's Tidal for $297M. Everyone knows that number.
The SEC filing says he paid $233M. For 86.8% of a company worth less than half its 2017 price.
16 artists launched it as "owners." The paperwork names exactly 1 of them, and gives him a board seat.
A press release is not a filing. ๐งต
Money talks, and he's giving you the keys to getting to the bag. ๐ฐ
Some gems are too good to keep to yourself. Dame Dash is sitting down for a real, unfiltered fireside chat at the BET Experience FanFest and you're invited. Come through June 26โ27. Secure your spot at betexperience.com and watch the full episode of #TheJasonLeeShow on YouTube now! #BETX
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Soon youโll understand the error of your ways.
Said it back in 2008 and 2016 Democrats will be scared for a generation if they donโt electโฆ
HILLARY RODHAMโฆ๐คท๐พโโ๏ธ
#BernieBros
#DumboDems
#bozoliberals
Now we here.
Would you believe me if I told that in 2016 this eloquent, educated Black man said HRC & Trump were the same?
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C.E.O ๐ retweeted
A white woman thought she had the perfect argument against reparations... how can Black people prove their lineage if they donโt even know who their dad is ๐ญ One sentence. Two myths. Both destroyed by actual history and federal data ๐ The US
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โWhatโs the difference between a good NBA player and a great one as we sit here in 2026?โ - @JabariJYoung @Forbes @ForbesBLK
I answer below:
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MAGA farmers bitching and moaning about their losses means nothing. Trump fucked them over during his first term and they voted for him again cuz daddy was gonna get rid of DEI and โillegals.โ #DemsUnited
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The Kanye comeback is producing the most cleanly split market response in modern entertainment history.
U.S. side: Two sold-out SoFi Stadium shows. $33 million in ticket revenue across two nights. $18 million from a single Friday show, one of the highest-grossing single concerts ever. "Bully" debuts at #2 on Billboard 200 with 152,000 units. Spotify and RapCaviar feature him on top playlists. Live Nation is booking the tour through August across India, Turkey, the Netherlands, France, Spain, and Portugal.
U.K. side: Wireless Festival announces him as headliner for all three nights. Within days, Pepsi pulls its sponsorship. Diageo (Guinness, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Johnnie Walker) pulls its sponsorship. The Prime Minister publicly condemns the booking. Campaign Against Antisemitism calls for a travel ban. Liberal Democrat leader calls it "extremely serious."
Same artist. Same week. Same album cycle. One market is pricing in the apology. The other is pricing in the pattern.
In January, he took out a full-page Wall Street Journal ad titled "To Those I've Hurt," attributed everything to bipolar disorder and a frontal lobe injury from his 2002 car crash. The ADL's response was telling: the apology is "long overdue" but "doesn't automatically undo" the years of antisemitic behavior.
The financial math tells you where this is actually heading. In October 2022, he lost Adidas ($1.5B in net worth gone overnight), Gap, Balenciaga, Vogue, his talent agency, and his lawyer in the span of about 72 hours. Forbes dropped him from $2B to $400M. Three and a half years later, he's pulling $33M from two shows and selling $20 merch on Yeezy.com.
He rebuilt the revenue without rebuilding the corporate infrastructure. No brand deals. No equity partnerships. Direct-to-consumer everything. The concert math and streaming numbers prove the audience never left. The sponsor math proves the institutions did.
That's the actual story here. The consumer market and the corporate market have permanently forked on the same person.
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